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The big story in Washington wine earlier this month was eight Walla Walla wineries cited by the state Liquor Control Board for selling alcohol to minors. By the end of last week details had emerged that the Liquor Control Board had erringly allowed minors to be in possession of alcohol for an extended period during the compliance checks. Charges against three of the eight wineries were subsequently reduced to a written warning due to the error.
Our story begins with a message dated January 21st from LCB Captain Jennifer Dzubay informing wineries that compliance checks would be coming in the next two months. The message stated, "All compliance checks will be conducted with a youthful appearing minor operative, ages 18 to 20 years of age, using their valid WA state drivers license." The message also included a link to a video on responsible liquor sales. This warning is, I should note, generous on the part of the LCB. Imagine a police officer emailing you and saying "By the way, just wanted to let you know that I'm setting up speed traps on I5 this morning!" Wineries ignore messages from the LCB at their own peril.
During subsequent compliance checks in Walla Walla, 8 of 14 wineries were cited for selling alcohol to a minor (the compliance rate statewide was said to be an uninspiring 76%). However, in three of these cases, the minors involved entered the establishments with previously purchased liquor in hand.
One person working at one of the businesses involved, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated that a young couple entered the tasting room during the afternoon. After initially planning to ask for identification, he noticed that they were carrying a bottle of wine from a nearby winery and decided not to ask for ID. He subsequently sold the couple a bottle of wine. Shortly thereafter an LCB agent arrived and issued a citation. The person said of the LCB officer, "He writes me the ticket, and I ask him how it is legal for a minor to be in possession of alcohol and used as a prop in the sting. He was unable to give me a direct response."
According to the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Note: Requires subscription) the protocol during compliance checks is for the minors involved to bring the purchased alcohol directly to an LCB agent who subsequently issues a citation. This failed to occur in this case as the minors visited multiple establishments in close proximity.
After details of the compliance checks emerged (see a story in the Tri-City Herald here and a post by Paul Gregutt here; the story was also picked up by the Associated Press), a backlash ensued with some stating that allowing minors to bring alcohol into an establishment was deceptive. (I would agree but to use the old X-Files adage, 'Trust No One!') After a review, the LCB subsequently reduced the citations against the three wineries where this occurred to warnings.
Make no mistake. Selling alcohol to minors is a serious issue and checking for compliance is one of the LCB's mandates. However, allowing minors to be in possession of alcohol subsequent to the compliance checks is also a serious mistake. Isn't keeping alcohol out of the hands of minors the entire purpose of these checks? By allowing this mistake to occur the LCB both damaged its own reputation and potentially the reputations of the wineries in question. Let's hope none of these wineries are in a litigious mood.
Surely this is a 'teachable moment' for all involved. While the LCB should be commended for realizing a significant error occurred, reducing the charges was realistically the least it could do. Lest it look hypocritical, the warnings should be dropped as well.
Liquor Control Board gets caught in its own web during compliance checks
The big story in Washington wine earlier this month was eight Walla Walla wineries cited by the state Liquor Control Board for selling alcohol to minors. By the end of last week details had emerged that the Liquor Control Board had erringly allowed minors to be in possession of alcohol for an extended period during the compliance checks. Charges against three of the eight wineries were subsequently reduced to a written warning due to the error.
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Catie Says:
Good job Sean, as always. Now to stop the insanity ahead of time, just in case you get enthusiastic readers wanting to lecture the wineries of Walla Walla (Believe me the Walla Walla haters of Walla walla wine ran rampant through Facebook regarding the same posts, and like parrots, the majority posted, "The law says you are suppose to card everyone ...") The law does not say purveyors of alcohol must card everyone.
Here is what the WSLCB says and each individual company will set a policy on asking for ID. http://liq.wa.gov/publications/enforcement/licensee_briefing/BeerWineSpecialtyShop.pdf
The crazy thing is that if you have a few years behind the tasting room bar, you begin to understand patterns and one of those patterns is that generally you rarely see the underage trying to buy wine. First of all: it is expensive. Beer at the local 7/11 is cheaper and easier to obtain. Second: The underage is looking for quanity and not quality. In quanity you cannot mix a good bottle of wine in a spodie and it expect it to taste decent like you can a cheap bottle of vodka.Typically? Chances are pretty great the only underage people we see in these businesses are those the WSLCB has sent in. Cheers!
Alas, the wslcb, change is slow! Coming soon there next sting! Grocery store tasting, now they are only allowed to pour 4-1oz. tastes but now the mior in question will be a 2 year old in a grocery cart with the soccer mom sampling wine! Shame on us introducing the evils of alcohol to babies! See the kids cant come near the sampling venue.......and on and on wslcb
I just took my MAST class last night. The statistics are staggering on underage drinking involving wine. 1%!
So why are they investing tax dollars to harrass wineries.. Its clear its simply for revenue. Their tactics go way beyond entrapment to achieve their goal. All charges should be dropped and a clear message sent to LCB. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
This situation involved mistakes yes... The tactics to achieve their goal is what's questionable. Obviously a level of education should be stepped up for miseries and LCB. Shouldn't they been working with wineries rather than against them. Don't they help pay for their jobs?
All wineries should protest for future protection against this clear harassment!
celese Says:
This sting was unfair and below the belt. These wineries are trying hard to succeed. They are small generating little production. Why would they risk anything for an under age sale...no they would NOT.
Brad Says:
Agree with Catie and all of the above. Who's under age that goes wine tasting?? This was a witch hunt for money. The LCB should be ashamed.
This also goes to that other topic and there great phone survey on there lcb stores before the holidays! Survey so full of holes! horrible waste of our tax dollars


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How To Develop Foreign Markets In 1784 an American ship, the Empress of China, sailed out of New York har-bor bound for Canton with a cargo of tar, turpentine, ginseng, brandy; and wine. She traded these for lea and silk, and returned home 15 months later flush with the discovery of a rich new market for American exports. Lured by-high profits and undeterred by the long, arduous voyage, other ships soon followed, and within four years American trading vessels represented a third of all foreign traffic in Canton. The China trade of the early 1800s carried only a small share of U.S. ex-ports, yet it exemplifies the crucial place that foreign trade once held in American commerce and the excite-ment it was capable of kindling. Today, with the 1978 trade deficit weighing in at a record $28.5 billion, we would do well to revive some of our forefathers' hardheaded enthusiasm. Speaking at an annual meeting of the National Chamber of Commerce this spring, Commerce Secretary |uanita Kreps warned, "The United States can no longer consider its economic future as independent of the rest of the world We are now more dependent than ever on export markets as a source of growth for our industry, and on foreign sources of supply for need-ed raw materials." She also declared that international trade will be central to U.S. economic survival in the 1980s. Strengthening our export position means reversing a trend that has been building for the past twenty years. Since l%0, U.S. exports have grown only about halt as fast as total world trade. From 18.2 percent of world by FREDRIC L. BLANK/Partner, Atlanta A trade in I960, U.S. exports declined to 10.7 percent in 1977. True, the picture has been somewhat distorted by spi-raling oil prices in the 1970s; however, U.S. trade share had already slipped to 15.4 percent in 1970, before oil prices started to climb. What's more, other non-oil exporters have fared well, de-spite the oil price rise. Japan, Western Europe, and such advanced develop-ing countries as Brazil and Korea have preserved or increased their export share in the face of higher energy costs, and also managed to achieve export growth close to or exceeding the growth of world trade. Various reasons for the U.S.'s declin-ing export position have been bandied about: cheaper labor abroad, export subsidies paid by foreign govern-ments, lower standards of quality that make foreign products less expensive to produce, and the historically over-valued dollar. At one time these rea-sons may have been valid. Today, however, I believe there is a subtler and more pervasive reason that we have fallen behind. It goes beyond even our chronic dependence on im-ported oil and comes down to our basic attitudes about exporting. The U.S. does not think of itself as an exporting nation. For us, exporting is an afterthought. Surrounded by the biggest and richest home market in the world, U.S. companies do not feel they need foreign sales in order to expand and grow. Nor has the United States, fortified by a wealth of natural re-sources, had to depend on exports for its economic survival, as many coun-tries do. Thus foreign trade has ranked low on the list of national priorities, with government policies offering little aid, and many obstacles, to would-be exporters. Industry and government must share the responsibility for turning this situation around and so, to a lesser degree, must the professional people (accountants, lawyers, bankers and others) who advise business leaders. In a variety of ways, the private, public, and professional sectors must begin now to stimulate export growth. Industry: a Four-Part Strategy The first step for industry is to start looking at the positive side of export-ing. Admittedly, selling in export mar-kets involves complications that selling in the U.S. does not. However, it sometimes seems that U.S. business-men concentrate so much on potential problems that they forget the oppor-tunities. Out of an estimated 300,000 manufacturing firms in this country, only 25,000 are exporters. Just 250 companies, most of them large cor-porations, produce 80 percent of U.S. exports. Fear of excessive paperwork, cum-bersome financing and shipping ar-rangements, and all the unknowns of doing business in a foreign land too often outweigh the profit motive and prevent any realistic assessment of a company's chance of success as an exporter. Thus, many companies that could do well in foreign markets never try to sell their products abroad and so, in a sense, cheat themselves of potential profits and growth. Our "export inertia" shows up in the 43
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Geoff Parling plucks a lineout during training © Getty Images
England second-row Geoff Parling looks set for his first start in the national jersey against Wales on Saturday in one of three changes.
The Leicester lock is understood to have been promoted into the starting side to run the lineout in place of Tom Palmer, who was last night axed from the squad. Scrum-half Lee Dickson and number eight Ben Morgan are also preparing to make their full debuts at Twickenham after impressive performances off the bench against Scotland and Italy.
But England interim coach Stuart Lancaster is ready to resist the temptation to thrust Manu Tuilagi, Toby Flood and Courtney Lawes straight into the starting side. All three are set to be named on the bench when Lancaster confirms his line-up to tackle the Triple Crown-chasing Welsh tomorrow morning.
Parling toured with England to Australia in 2010 but he returned home with a neck problem and then suffered a succession of knee injuries which kept him out of England contention until this season. The bearded 28-year-old came off the bench in England's victories over Scotland and Italy, replacing Palmer on both occasions, and he is expected to pack down with Mouritz Botha on Saturday.
Palmer is perhaps a victim of England failing to enjoy the lineout solidity they would have liked over the opening two rounds of the championship.
"We were nine from 11 in Scotland and 14 from 17 in Italy, with sleet all over the ball against a very competent Italian pack," said forwards coach Graham Rowntree. "Not all of it was clean so I am looking to improve our delivery and certainly the tempo at which we go about our line-out."
Lawes would provide the second-row cover after overcoming a knee injury while Tuilagi and Flood are also set to be used as impact replacements.
All three are in England's matchday 22 for the first time this tournament but Lancaster is preparing to stick by his all-Saracens starting midfield of Owen Farrell and Brad Barritt outside Charlie Hodgson. Dickson and Morgan have been in line for a promotion since their game-changing impact against Italy in Rome last week, when both players injected a much-needed tempo into England's performance.
Ben Youngs has been struggling for form and is set to be named on the bench while Phil Dowson will cover all three back-row positions following Morgan's promotion. Harlequins full-back Mike Brown and centre Jordan Turner-Hall have also dropped out of England's 22-man squad and will be available for Aviva Premiership action this weekend.
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Google Inc. took big steps to improve the competitiveness of its mobile offerings on Tuesday, heating up the already fierce battle for supremacy in the smart phone and tablet spaces.
Most notably, the Mountain View Internet giant used the first morning of its San Francisco developer conference to show off new music and movie services that could narrow — but won't likely close — the considerable lead that Apple Inc. currently enjoys in compelling media options for the devices.
Google winked at its duel with the Cupertino technology giant at the beginning of the keynote presentation at the Google I/O conference in Moscone Center, displaying an image of its mobile logo, the Android, tossing an Apple into its mouth.
"We're all doing really amazing work and I think each team inspires the other to do better," said Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering at Google, saying they were having "a little bit of fun." "It's great to do battle for the hearts and minds of developers and I think everyone wins."
In the latest skirmish, the company confirmed the stories that began to trickle out late Monday, by unveiling Music Beta by Google. The service will allow consumers to store up to 20,000 songs online and easily stream them to their computer or mobile devices that run on its Android operating software.
The libraries and play lists are automatically updated across devices, and recently played or selected songs are stored on the hardware, enabling playback without an Internet connection.
"You can stop worrying about where you songs are and start enjoying your music," said Paul Joyce, Google product manager.
Music Beta, which offers far more online storage than the closer to 1,000-song service Amazon debuted in March, launched on Tuesday as a free invite-only product in the U.S. Google said it will roll out more widely in the months ahead, but it did not commit to keeping it free.
Critically, the company didn't announce a corresponding music store, as it's failed to strike licensing partnerships with any of the major music labels so far, despite months of negotiations.
"Unfortunately, a couple of the major labels were only interested in doing (a deal) on terms that were unreasonable and unsustainable," said Jamie Rosenberg, director of digital content for Android. "That won't stop us from moving forward with those who are interested in partnering."
Apple already sells music and movies through its popular iTunes platform, and is expected to announce a similar service for online storage in the months ahead, with the cooperation of music labels.
That should make for a more seamless buying and storage experience by, among other things, automatically replicating a customer's existing digital library online. In contrast, users of Google's service will be left to upload their own songs, which will often take a considerable amount of bandwidth and time.
Google also added a movie rental service for Android devices on Tuesday, allowing users to stream or download full-length feature films on their phones or tablets for prices starting at $1.99. The company is offering thousands of recent titles from major studios, including Inception, The King's Speech, The Green Hornet and Despicable Me.
The service dovetails with one announced on Monday by YouTube, a Google subsidiary. It began rolling out to some owners of the Xoom tablet on Tuesday, and will become available on devices that run on the recent versions of Android software (2.2 and above) in the weeks ahead.
Easy access to high-quality content has become a critical differentiator on mobile devices. Apple already features a huge store of music and video that is easy downloadable to its devices. It also boasts a large and growing selection of slick apps for magazines, newspapers, gaming, television and movies.
Google has generally struggled to lure the same caliber and quantity of apps, which is one of the major reasons it throws the I/O event.
Content companies in particular have proven a thorny problem for Google, in part likely due to its rocky history with book publishers, record labels, cable companies, news organizations and movie studios. Various of its services or initiatives, including YouTube, Google Books, Google News and Google TV, have managed to rub each of those groups the wrong way at one time or another.
Relations have improved in recent years, as evidenced by the movie rental deal, but some content company executives still express skepticism about partnering with the company.
Google's history with content firms has probably "acted as an impediment," said Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "Most content companies do not see Google as an enable of their revenue-generating services."
Launching the so-called cloud-based, or online, music service without the cooperation of record labels could reinforce that perception. Labels have already suggested they may legally challenge Amazon's similar storage service.
Rosenberg, however, stressed the service is fully legal and is designed to store music that users have purchased the rights to use.
"In any industry comprised of large companies and multiple constituencies, there are some that will be on the leading edge of innovation and some that will be more conservative," he said. "What you've seen with what were doing in movies is a collection of partners that believe in the power of the media in the cloud model."
Separately on Tuesday, Google announced a number of initiatives aimed at reducing what's known as fragmentation, or the spread of different versions of its Android software across various manufactures and devices. This makes it more difficult for developers of applications and hardware to create new products for devices, and can frustrate consumers looking for a common experience and access to the latest products.
Among other things, the company said that the next version of its software, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, would work on both tablets and smart phones. It's expected to come out during the fourth quarter of this year.
Google also introduced Android Open Accessory, an effort to create a set of common standards for developers looking to build hardware accessories for Android devices. In one application of the idea, dubbed Google at Home, phones, tablets and new Android gizmos can be used as controls for household lights, stereos and appliances, often built by third parties.
This too is an area where Apple has managed to create a sizable lead. The company has inspired a thriving sub-industry focused on building the speakers, keyboards and even grill thermometers that make its devices more powerful, attractive and versatile.
These peripherals can create a virtuous cycle for device and software makers, developing new uses for the products and locking users into specific platforms through their own outlays of cash.
"The ability to pick up any of these devices and have instant control over everything in your home, makes you more invested in the Android ecosystem," Golvin said. "If they can make those things work smoothly together, then it's (more competition) for the Apple platform."


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If one thing can bring me out of lighting guessing retirement, its Game of Thrones. Well, not just G.O.T., but Annie shooting the cast for the fourth season (which, by the way, I just finished and is freaking amazing!!). This image, in particular, is dripping with nuance. Look how the members of House Lannister and Baratheon are positioned–no accident. Cersei in the foreground with Jaime tucked neatly behind her. Joffrey, although king, small and almost in the background. Tyrion is off the side, never quite a true part of the family. Tywin also sits smugly off to the side where he can pull strings without drawing unwanted attention. And Brienne looks on from afar, as close as she will ever get to Jaime.
Thrones drama aside, Annie delivers a gorgeous and strong image lit by only 1 light and a cooperatively clouded sun. And yes, I'm a G.O.T. nerd.
Camera: Medium format with 80mm lens set on a tripod 16 feet back. Shot at 1/125, f11, ISO 100.
Lighting: I believe Annie goes back to one of her recent favorite lighting setups here. The key light is a single Photek Softlighter at f11, handheld by an assistant, high and 8 feet to camera right. The diffused skylight fills in the shot at f5.6 (-2 stops).
Comments: While on a green juice break, Annie got Peter Dinklage talking about the upcoming season and who would inevitably be killed off. He wouldn't give specifics, but said that 2 people at today's shoot wouldn't be around for next year's. Annie tried to tickle it out of him but found Peter isn't very ticklish.


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The roots of this seed inspired the blog itself. As an ancient grain, "farro" harkens to a time when life was slower and cooking was sacred. With the hyper-convenience of modern life, many of us can only operate a microwave. Enjoying a home cooked meal is now a luxury. We at Farro aim to remedy that; to weave our food origins back into everyday life.
Our editorial scope is simple. By contextualizing each post with simple ingredient explanations and fun history facts, we hope to inspire you to create your own unique dishes. While our recipes can incorporate industrial food, we recommend sourcing locally when at all possible. Seasonal produce and free-range meats always yield the best flavor. Most of all, we believe they contribute to a healthier ecosystem and a more connected community.
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Like the T-1000 standing in a sea of Arnolds, the Galaxy Nexus is better, faster and smarter than any other Android phone on the market.
Not that current Android phones fall short in machine power. Rather, much like the androids of the silver screen, the operating system has been the weak point. Previous versions of Android have lacked some intangible spark. A human element, perhaps – a missing je ne sais quoi that has been keeping many critics and users from fully engaging with the platform.
It's a debatable point, but I'd argue that "special something" can be found in Android's biggest competitor, Apple's iOS. Siri, the voice-activated digital servant on the iPhone 4S, is a great example of a feature that marries technical prowess with a human touch: We speak to "her", not to "it."
Android, on the other hand, has always been sold on the strength of its robotic nature. Power, hardware specs and hackability were the reasons why we were supposed to buy an Android. It's not a posh concierge, it's a Swiss Army Knife.
But with the Galaxy Nexus, Google has put a little soul into the machine.
The Galaxy Nexus is a collaboration between Google and Samsung, and the device runs the purest, most "true" representation of Android 4.0 you can get your hands on.The smartphone, available Thursday for Verizon's 4G LTE network, runs Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest iteration of Google's mobile OS. To date, it's only shipping on this phone – the Galaxy Nexus is a collaboration between Google and Samsung, and the device runs the purest, most "true" representation of Android 4.0 you can get your hands on.
Ice Cream Sandwich brings a collection of subtle touches and flourishes to the OS, all of which add up to an enormous leap forward.
Gestures play a much larger role, and this goes a long way towards humanizing the interface. The settings menus inside of native applications, once only navigable via inscrutable, nested lists, are now neatly tucked off to the sides of the screens. By using your thumb to slide the screen to the side in most native apps, you can bring up (and dismiss) these hidden menus. Pinch-to-zoom is incorporated more intuitively into apps, too. In the calendar, for example, reverse-pinching on a list of the whole day's events zooms in on a specific block of hours. Touch-typing has also been revamped to receive user input more accurately.
The opacity of certain elements like the notifications area has been reduced, making the slider translucent so you can always see what's going on beneath it. The phone's contacts menu is smarter, as it now pulls info from all of your synced social apps. All this leads to fewer taps, swipes and squints.
Even Android's system-wide typeface was reimagined, giving the OS more personality. "Roboto," Android's new official font, permeates all parts of the OS. Google's Android user experience chief Matias Duarte tells Wired the font serves a dual purpose, staying "modern, yet approachable," but with mechanical forms underscored by a "cheerful demeanor."
Though they may seem like insignificant changes, these things are the meat, the true stuff of which "soul" is composed. When a device cooperates with you more fully, you develop a stronger emotional connection with it. You start to smile as you notice all the little details and flourishes.
Don't get me wrong. Android hasn't gone all soft.
Hardware-wise, the Galaxy Nexus is still a beast. Unlike the previous Nexus model, the phone's display measures a sizable 4.65 inches, one of the largest of all smartphones on the market, period.
And it's packing the requisite Android-worthy firepower, complete with 1.2-GHz dual-core processor backed by a gigabyte of RAM.
But strangely enough, it doesn't feel beastly. Almost teardrop-like in profile, the Nexus has a wide bottom that tapers as the eye moves upward, still retaining the slight plastic lip on the lower-back part of the handset. And despite its girth, the phone doesn't possess any large degree of heft, feeling airy in hand while still slim enough to slip into a tight pair of jeans.
Surface hardware is minimal, with the tooling taking a backseat to what Samsung does well: the display. Similar to last year's Nexus S, the plastic bezel wrapped around the Galaxy Nexus' screen is incredibly thin, with nearly every square inch of the phone's face devoted to fine glass construction.
More importantly, the ICS home screen just looks right on the phone's tough Gorilla Glass exterior. The newly revamped interface is replete with cool blues, metallic grays and lots of subtly swishing animated effects. Much of that enchanting vibe would be lost on an inferior display, but the 1280 x 720 Super AMOLED screen delivers all the crisp, clear image quality that makes hardcore mobile enthusiasts flock to Samsung's perfect pixels.
The Galaxy Nexus' facade is entirely button-free – virtual software keys have sprung up in their stead. They're unobtrusive, anchored modestly to the bottom of the screen, yet shiftable to the side if, say, you tilt your phone into landscape mode to take a photo.
And with the new Nexus, you're expected to be shooting a whole hell of a lot of pictures. Image captures are lightning-fast, with very little lag between hitting the button and snapping the frame.
Unfortunately, with the increase in speed comes a loss in quality. Image resolution is pretty crummy, and unless you've got a steady hand, you'll probably need to snap three or four shots to get a truly non-blurry picture. Still, I've missed countless precious moments over the years due to sluggish shutters; I'll take a slightly fuzzy photo over nothing at all any day of the week.
It's obvious that Ice Cream Sandwich is the star of this particular show, so it's smart that the hardware basically gets out the way and doesn't try to impress us with flash and flair. It works very well, and it looks great doing it, leaving the spotlight to fall on ICS.
Under that spotlight, we can see the whole of what Google is aiming for with the new Android. Visually, it's stripped down, subdued and sleek. But beneath the calm surface, there are unmeasurable intricacies, performance tweaks and tiny improvements that aim to inject a little bit of humanity into this robot's brain.
WIRED The best Android phone to date, hands down. Improvements in Ice Cream Sandwich make it much easier to use. Super AMOLED screen is bright and crisp. Cool features like Face Unlock and NFC-powered Beam take phone-based parlor tricks to a new level. Data Usage tool provides granular graphs for us OCD types to obsess over.
TIRED Some apps not fully optimized for ICS, bringing out annoying bugs. Snaps pics way faster than a Polaroid, though image quality is twice as crappy. Awesomely shiny screen makes for less-than-awesome battery life.
See Also:- Samsung Galaxy Nexus Finally Gets a Solid Release Date
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus Teardown Reveals Easily Swappable Innards
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus: A First Look at Android's Next-Gen Handset
- Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-On With Google's New Android OS
- Hacker Ports Android 'Ice Cream Sandwich' to Kindle Fire Tablet
- Asus' Quad-Core Tablet to Run Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich
- Google Unwraps Ice Cream Sandwich, the Next-Generation Android OS


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You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor or healthcare provider about your personal risk factors and/or experience with menstrual disorders. By talking openly and regularly with your healthcare provider, you can take an active role in your care.
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About Menorrhagia (Heavy Bleeding)
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Columbus's landing on the small Caribbean island of San Salvador in 1492 sparked the most dramatic and consequential migration in the history of our species: the settlement of the Americas by populations from Europe and Africa. Europeans came as soldiers, adventurers, merchants, farmers, and indentured servants. The vast majority of Africans came in chains, as labourers enslaved by Europeans. Nevertheless, enslaved Africans and their descendants were critical to the profitability of New World settlement and its ultimate success for Europeans.
Many questions remain regarding the lives of enslaved Africans. What were the lives of enslaved Africans like? How did they survive and find ways to sustain families, or in too many cases, fail to? How did their survival strategies vary over time with shifts in the Atlantic economy? How did their strategies vary with the different labour demands of crops and with the different natural environments? What strategies did enslaved individuals use to resist? And to what extent did those strategies include cultural knowledge people brought with them from Africa? Or did they create means of adapting to new conditions in the New World?
Traditionally, historians have tried to answer questions like these using documents, with varying degrees of success. While documents provide some basic information about the lives of slaves, they rarely provide insight into the questions such as those posed above because few were written from the perspective of slaves. However archaeology provides the opportunity for a more holistic understanding of these peoples' lives. The archaeological record consists of the physical traces left in and on the ground by past peoples . This material record provides insight into the daily lives of groups and individuals who were not included in or in some cases purposefully excluded from the written record.
Archaeologists have been excavating slave sites in the southern United States and Caribbean since the early 1970s because they want to give voice to enslaved people, and their families, by recovering and interpreting the material items they left behind.
Why were Africans enslaved?
The archaeology of transatlantic slavery
The St Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative
Slavery in the Caribbean
Nevis and St Kitts: the Leeward Islands
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After reports surfaced that El Niño forecasts were losing accuracy due to lack of buoy data, the National Weather Service announced plans this month to repair 70 towering buoys used to track El Niño and La Niña patterns.
The news, reported by Bloomberg, came on the heels of reports that bureaucratic barriers and budget cuts are causing the collapse of the Tropical Atmospheric Ocean Array (TAO) system, which is responsible for tracking global weather phenomena, most particularly El Niño and La Niña. The system was first deployed in 1982-1983 after a particularly bad El Niño storm caused at least $8.1 billion in worldwide damages.
"We are hopeful that we will be able to restore the TAO array to near 80 percent by the end of this year," said Susan Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the service, told Bloomberg.
TAO is an integral part of an early warning system for weather in the tropical Pacific. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it consists of approximately 70 moorings in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, which send oceanographic and meteorological data to shore in real time via the Argos satellite system. In addition to buoys, sea surface temperature is collected via satellite and ocean temperature is measured by a global network of free-floating buoys, which dive and report data every 10 days. TAO's buoy system provides real-time wind speed and direction measurements at specific locations as well as water temperature.
The array is a major component of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation Observing System, the Global Climate Observing System and the Global Ocean Observing System. Its data is also used in studies of the effects of global warming and in long range weather forecasts and seasonal weather models released by the United States and other governments. Businesses also depend on the forecasts to prepare for droughts, wildfires and floods and storms. Without these predictions there is the even potential for greater financial market volatility and loss of life.
Due to age, neglect and vandalism, nearly half the moored buoys have failed in the past two years, with the system now only operating at about 40 percent effectiveness, according to a January report in Nature.
In fact, on its homepage TAO advises users that "data dropouts since June 2012 have compromised the quality of gridded fields displayed graphically on these web pages."
El Niño is "the most important climate phenomenon on the planet, and we have blinded ourselves to it by not maintaining this array," said Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist at NOAA, told Nature. McPhaden headed the TAO project before it was transferred to NWS.
In 2012, maintaining and upgrading the buoys cost about $10 million annually. In 2013, the budget number dropped to $2 to $3 million, not enough to keep the system going, McPhaden said.
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