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9.17: Local Winds
How can they stand up?
When you try to walk against a 20 mile an hour wind it's not easy. Just standing up is like walking really fast!
Local Winds
Local winds result from air moving between small low and high pressure systems. High and low pressure cells are created by a variety of conditions. Some local winds have very important effects on the weather and climate of some regions.
Land and Sea Breezes
Since water has a very high specific heat, it maintains its temperature well. So water heats and cools more slowly than land. If there is a large temperature difference between the surface of the sea (or a large lake) and the land next to it, high and low pressure regions form. This creates local winds.
- Sea breezes blow from the cooler ocean over the warmer land in summer. Where is the high pressure zone and where is the low pressure zone? (Figure below). Sea breezes blow at about 10 to 20 km (6 to 12 miles) per hour and lower air temperature much as 5 to 10oC (9 to 18oF).
- Land breezes blow from the land to the sea in winter. Where is the high pressure zone and where is the low pressure zone? Some warmer air from the ocean rises and then sinks on land, causing the temperature over the land to become warmer.
How do sea and land breezes moderate coastal climates?
Land and sea breezes create the pleasant climate for which Southern California is known. The effect of land and sea breezes are felt only about 50 to 100 km (30 to 60 miles) inland. This same cooling and warming effect occurs to a smaller degree during day and night, because land warms and cools faster than the ocean.
Monsoon Winds
Monsoon winds are larger scale versions of land and sea breezes; they blow from the sea onto the land in summer and from the land onto the sea in winter. Monsoon winds occur where very hot summer lands are next to the sea. Thunderstorms are common during monsoons (Figure below).
In the southwestern United States relatively cool moist air sucked in from the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California meets air that has been heated by scorching desert temperatures.
The most important monsoon in the world occurs each year over the Indian subcontinent. More than two billion residents of India and southeastern Asia depend on monsoon rains for their drinking and irrigation water. Back in the days of sailing ships, seasonal shifts in the monsoon winds carried goods back and forth between India and Africa.
Mountain and Valley Breezes
Temperature differences between mountains and valleys create mountain and valley breezes. During the day, air on mountain slopes is heated more than air at the same elevation over an adjacent valley. As the day progresses, warm air rises and draws the cool air up from the valley, creating a valley breeze. At night the mountain slopes cool more quickly than the nearby valley, which causes a mountain breeze to flow downhill.
Katabatic Winds
Katabatic winds move up and down slopes, but they are stronger mountain and valley breezes. Katabatic winds form over a high land area, like a high plateau. The plateau is usually surrounded on almost all sides by mountains. In winter, the plateau grows cold. The air above the plateau grows cold and sinks down from the plateau through gaps in the mountains. Wind speeds depend on the difference in air pressure over the plateau and over the surroundings. Katabatic winds form over many continental areas. Extremely cold katabatic winds blow over Antarctica and Greenland.
Chinook Winds (Foehn Winds)
Chinook winds (or Foehn winds) develop when air is forced up over a mountain range. This takes place, for example, when the westerly winds bring air from the Pacific Ocean over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. As the relatively warm, moist air rises over the windward side of the mountains, it cools and contracts. If the air is humid, it may form clouds and drop rain or snow. When the air sinks on the leeward side of the mountains, it forms a high pressure zone. The windward side of a mountain range is the side that receives the wind; the leeward side is the side where air sinks.
The descending air warms and creates strong, dry winds. Chinook winds can raise temperatures more than 20oC (36oF) in an hour and they rapidly decrease humidity. Snow on the leeward side of the mountain melts quickly. If precipitation falls as the air rises over the mountains, the air will be dry as it sinks on the leeward size. This dry, sinking air causes a rainshadow effect (Figure below), which creates many of the world's deserts.
As air rises over a mountain it cools and loses moisture, then warms by compression on the leeward side. The resulting warm and dry winds are Chinook winds. The leeward side of the mountain experiences rainshadow effect.
Santa Ana Winds
Santa Ana winds are created in the late fall and winter when the Great Basin east of the Sierra Nevada cools, creating a high pressure zone. The high pressure forces winds downhill and in a clockwise direction (because of Coriolis). The air pressure rises, so temperature rises and humidity falls. The winds blow across the Southwestern deserts and then race downhill and westward toward the ocean. Air is forced through canyons cutting the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains. (Figure below).
The winds are especially fast through Santa Ana Canyon, for which they are named. Santa Ana winds blow dust and smoke westward over the Pacific from Southern California.
The Santa Ana winds often arrive at the end of California's long summer drought season. The hot, dry winds dry out the landscape even more. If a fire starts, it can spread quickly, causing large-scale devastation (Figure below).
In October 2007, Santa Ana winds fueled many fires that together burned 426,000 acres of wild land and more than 1,500 homes in Southern California.
Desert Winds
High summer temperatures on the desert create high winds, which are often associated with monsoon storms. Desert winds pick up dust because there is not as much vegetation to hold down the dirt and sand. (Figure below). A haboob forms in the downdrafts on the front of a thunderstorm.
A haboob in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona.
Dust devils, also called whirlwinds, form as the ground becomes so hot that the air above it heats and rises. Air flows into the low pressure and begins to spin. Dust devils are small and short-lived, but they may cause damage.
- Water has high specific heat, so its temperature changes very slowly relative to the temperature of the land. This is the reason for sea and land breezes and monsoon winds.
- The cause of all of these winds is the differential heating of Earth's surface, whether it's due to the difference in water and land, the difference with altitude, or something else.
- Winds blow up and down slope, on and off land and sea, through deserts or over mountain passes.
Use these resources to answer the questions that follow.
1. What are Chinook winds?
2. Where do Chinook winds occur?
3. Explain how Chinook winds work.
4. What are the Santa Ana winds?
5. Where do the Santa Ana winds occur?
6. What causes the Santa Ana winds?
7. Explain how the Santa Ana winds affects the weather.
8. What can be caused by the Santa Ana winds?
1. How does the high specific heat of water result in the formation of sea and land breezes?
2. Describe the conditions that lead to Santa Ana winds.
3. How do Chinook winds lead to rainshadow effect?
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The Gear Engineering and Manufacturing System (GEMS) is a collection of software programs that work together over a network. This technology allows the new Gleason WINDOWS® based bevel-gear design software (CAGE™, G-AGE™, and Summary Manager) running on engineering workstations to communicate and exchange information with software running on Gleason machines. The system is expandable and is designed to use the customer's existing TCP/IP compatible network.
Key Features & Benefits
- Provides multiple closed loop network solutions
- Eliminates redundant data entry and reduces input errors
- Eliminates the need for floppy disk data transfer or manual input from hard copy print-outs
- Allows for Remote Document Control of production data
- Creates synergy between engineering and shop floor operations
- Uses server-based relational databases
- Uses customer's existing TCP/IP capable computer networks
- Expandable and scalable architecture
- Foundation for future enhancements
GEMS - Gleason TeleServices (Remote Diagnostics)
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This test measures the level of protein C in your blood. Protein C helps your blood clot normally.
If you have too little protein C, called a protein C deficiency, it means that your blood may clot too much. Problems with blood clotting can be quite serious and possibly fatal if a blood clot reaches the lungs, a condition called pulmonary embolism.
Having too much protein C may not let your blood clot well. You may be at risk for bleeding.
Protein C deficiency is an inherited condition. It can cause mild or severe symptoms. About one in 500 people has a mild protein C deficiency, and about one in 4 million babies is born with a severe protein C deficiency.
Even people with mild protein C deficiency are at risk for serious blood clots that can be caused by:
Being pregnant
Having surgery
Getting older
Not moving around frequently
You might have this test if you:
Had a blood clot in the past
Have a family member with a protein C deficiency
Have a family member with a blood clotting disorder
Have blood that does not clot normally
Your doctor may look for any other abnormalities in your blood that could explain your blood clotting problems.
Many things may affect your lab test results. These include the method each lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your health care provider.
A normal level of protein C in the blood is between 70 and 140 percent. Lower-than-normal readings may mean that you have a protein C deficiency.
A lower-than-normal level of protein C may be caused by:
Blood-thinning drugs, such as warfarin
Kidney problems
Deficiency in vitamin K
Inherited protein C deficiency
Condition that causes the blood to clot too much, called consumptive coagulopathy
The test requires a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Taking a blood sample with a needle carries risks that include bleeding, infection, bruising, or feeling dizzy. When the needle pricks your arm, you may feel a slight stinging sensation or pain. Afterward, the site may be slightly sore.
Taking certain medications may affect your test results. If you take a drug called stanozol or oral contraceptives, you may have a higher-than-normal level of protein C in your blood.
Your doctor will tell you if you need to stop taking any of your normal medications on the day of the test. Ask your doctor whether you should avoid eating or drinking anything for several hours before the test. Be sure your doctor knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illicit drugs you may use.


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Seven Habits That Will Make You a Better Guitarist
05. Take Lessons: As a guitar instructor by trade, I am clearly biased, but the most obvious and productive thing any guitarist can do to improve their playing is to take lessons. While there is an ever-expanding universe of Internet resources, books, instructional videos, etc., available, nothing can compare to the one-on-one interaction with the expertise of a skilled guitar teacher. A teacher will identify your strengths and weaknesses, sharpening your skills and eliminating your flaws. A good teacher also will help you save time in your development by helping you sift through all of the information out there and lead you on the right path toward quickly realizing your goals as a guitarist.
Guitar teachers get paid to make you better, and spending the money will make you take your study seriously. Every story of a "self taught" guitarist still involves some part where they learned a lot from someone they knew who was more proficient and knowledgeable than them who helped shape their development, and even the extremely educated and virtuosic Randy Rhoads (who was a guitar teacher himself) was known to seek out guitar teachers whenever he had available time while making history touring and recording with Ozzy Osbourne, so break out of your rut, accelerate the evolution of your playing to the next level and get some lessons!
06. Focus your practice time: We've all heard stories of guitarists with marathon 12-hour or daily three-hour practice sessions, but for most guitarists, a tight, focused 10 to 30 minutes of consistent daily practice will prove more efficient. There is a difference in "practice" and "playing" time, and oftentimes the two get confused.
Practice should involve (after warming up) maintenance exercises to keep up your chops and emphasize your strengths, and focused work on specific goals that deal with integrating new knowledge and technique. Keeping the time spent on practice to an intelligent minimum, breaking up the topics to be addressed into small chunks, will help avoid wasted effort and will leave time to play.
In an ideal world, we'd all have three to six or more solid hours each day to spend with a guitar in hand, but for most of you reading this, the time you have available is substantially less. Oftentimes, setting out to practice for an extended period of time becomes a chore for some, and then the practice gets put off if something else comes up. Planning for at least 10 minutes of consistent daily practice time isn't much of a chore for anyone, and if you get into the habit, you'll find that you find ways to make more time to practice more.
Break up your practice regimen into skill sets and techniques, practice them daily, and then use them more efficiently when you're playing. Let a guitar teacher mentor you through the process of designing a suitable practice routine for your schedule, or do your best assessing yourself and create your own. They key is consistency and brief, yet physically and mentally intense sessions.
Twenty minutes every day of truly focused practice is tremendously more conducive to development than a two-hour session every once in a while. And if you keep up with a reasonable, steady schedule, you'll find that those occasions when you have time for an all-day practice session are all the more fruitful for it.
More importantly, keeping a consistent, intense practice regimen will leave all of your other free "guitar time" available for jamming, improvising, recording and experimenting, all of the while being able to do so with your skills at the highest possible level.
07. Track Your Progress The growth of any guitarist can be greatly improved by the simple awareness of the development of that growth. As you develop the discipline to be learning and practicing on a daily basis, it is extremely important to keep a log or diary of the process of your improvement in order to further maximize growth. The easiest way to do this is to keep a consistent log of your daily routine.
While this may seem a bit obsessive, you'll find that keeping track of your daily practice will help you focus future practice sessions, maintain and continue awareness of steady progress, and also locate particularly fruitful practice phases in your past that can be replicated and upgraded when you feel your growth has stalled.
Create your own daily "workout log" or click, save and use the example below:
Scott Marano has dedicated his life to the study of the guitar, honing his chops at the Berklee College of Music under the tutelage of Jon Finn and Joe Stump and working as an accomplished guitarist, performer, songwriter and in-demand instructor. In 2007, Scott developed the Guitar Strength program to inspire and provide accelerated education to guitarists of all ages and in all styles through state-of-the-art private guitar lessons in his home state of Rhode Island and globally via Skype. Visit Scott and learn more at www.GuitarStrength.com.


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Charming studio near rue Mouffetard
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|Rue du Puits de l'Ermite, 75005 Paris, France
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3rd floor without elevator.
The 5th arrondissement is the oldest district of Paris: it encompasses the largest part of the Quartier latin, built by the Romans during the Antiquity. It is located on the left bank, at the edge of the Seine river. During May 1968, the Quartier latin was a center of the student revolt. Nowadays, the 5th arrondissement is above all an intellectual and university area; an area of editors and booksellers as well as schools and universities.
One of the most famous monuments of Paris, the Pantheon, that honours great figures in French History, is located in this district. You can also visit the Jardin des Plantes with its numerous buildings and green spaces, visit the Natural History museum within it, then go have a mint tea at the Grande Mosquee of Paris before exploring the Arenes de Lutece.
Thanks to its mainly student population, the 5th arrondissement is one of the most lively areas of Paris. The well-known rue Mouffetard and the area around are full of restaurants and cafes, but still manage to remain authentic and keep a very pleasant spirit of "village". Shopping lovers will not be disappointed either, since the 5th is also the district of the boulevard Saint-Michel and of a part of the boulevard Saint-Germain, where most major brands have a store.
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Reviews of this property
We had a wonderful time in Paris for 4 days!
The studio was near a metro station and 15-20 minute walk from the river, in a quiet area. In a 3 minute walk there is a street with bistros and bars. The flat was warm and friendly. Clean and comfortable. The wifi was accessible. There were kitchen utensils and microwave, a boiler for hot water, a hoover , a hairdryer and an iron fo the clothes.
However, there was discoloration in a corner of the ceiling near the bathroom and inside and there was no curtain in the bathroom. No TV.
I would suggest this flat for a young couple, but not for people who would stay many hours inside the flat.
Nice mini-flat provided with everything we needed for a 4 days holiday in a couple. Very good site in the city. Clean and confortable. Very parisienne. Owner so kind. Mario
The apartment's location is marvelous, situated in a small quiet street, a few minutes to the next Metro, a twenty minutes walk to the Boulevards ST. Michel and ST.Germain. But this exhausts the positive aspects.
The apartment is advertised as a charming studio. My husband and I had difficulties to see the charm in the mold we encountered in the bathtub corner; the discoloration in the ceiling, likely the result from a leak in the apartment above; the lack of any space on the table for two normal plates – the small existing table is taken up by a microwave oven for which there is no room in the kitchen – ; no kettle for boiling water; and most annoyingly in the digital age, the lack of reliable access to WiFi. Trying to connect to the Internet during the day was a lottery game with an approximate chance of success of less than 30% and during the evening with a zero chance. After inquiring with the owner, she offered as explanation that the apartment is in an old building (how many residential buildings in the center of Paris are new?) and yes, that there is a problem with the company providing Internet services. It seemed that she had made no efforts to resolve the problem. Whether the excellent location of the studio represents a worthwhile trade-off to these charming attributes is left to the judgement of the potential renter. For us, it did not.
Perfect stay in this very well furnished studio, nice and very comfortable. Moreover, very quiet area.
Our hostess was very friendly during our exchange of emails and provided us with great kindness all the necessary information.
Séjour parfait dans ce studio très bien aménagé, joli et très confortable. De plus, zone très tranquille.
Notre hôtesse s'est montrée très aimable lors de nos échanges de mails et nous a donné avec beaucoup de gentillesse toutes les informations nécessaires.
All perfect !! Central, metro two steps and easy to organize with catherine
Todo perfecto!! Centrico, el metro a dos pasos y facil de organizarnos con catherine
There were wonderful 4 days in Paris. A beautiful fine rooms. Just the right thing to experience Paris. Absolutely good and nicely located. Even something different than in the hotel. Toll was the coffee machine for the first coffee morgentlichen. The small kitchen and bathroom with tub were also practical. I would want to stay there much longer. Our hostess was very uncomplicated and reliable, it has everything worked smoothly. I would like to come back. Merci beaucoup Catherine.
Es waren wundervolle 4 Tage in Paris. Ein wunderschönes feines Zimmer. Genau das richtige um Paris zu erleben. Absolut gut und schön gelegen. Auch mal was anderes als im Hotel. Toll war die Kaffeemaschine für den morgentlichen ersten Kaffee. Die kleine Küche und das Bad mit Badewanne waren ebenfalls praktisch. Ich hätte wesentlich länger dort bleiben wollen. Unsere Gastgeberin war sehr unkompliziert zuverlässig und es hat alles reibungslos geklappt. Ich möchte gerne wiederkommen. Merci beaucoup Catherine.
Studio charming, very quiet, quite in line with the description.
Studio charmant, très calme, tout à fait en lien avec la description.
The apartment was what we expected (except for the glass door of the cabinet is replaced by a skimpy curtain)
But what was worst of all was that we had access in any moment of our stay. The password and network name were on a note in the microwave and was very unclear what the key and what the name of the network. We call to your contact Catherine thousand times and it was a situation of powerlessness apagado..fue great because neceditábsmos visit to our Internet. We got in contact with Wimdu to fix or change our apartment and were asking us to send them a Mail for change ...... how we were going to send mail if we did not have wifi!
Finally, we managed to contact the hostess and told us he was out of Paris and that the network was broken ... and a number of contradictory things we thought everything was a lie. That has wifi. Anyway, in the end it did not get bitter but the trip was very frustrante..Carherine a zero hostess although the apartment is OK. You can not deceive people.
El apartamento era lo que nos esperábamos (a excepción de la puerta de cristales del armario está sustituida por una cortina bastante cutre)
Pero lo que fue peor de todo fue que no tuvimos wifi en ningún momento de nuestra estancia. La clave y nombre de la red estaban en una nota en el microondas y estaba muy poco claro cuál era la clave y cuál el nombre de la red. Llamamos al teléfono de contacto de Catherine mil veces y lo tenía apagado..fue una situación de impotencia muy grande porque para nuestra visita neceditábsmos internet. Nos pusimos en contacto con Wimdu para solucionarlo o cambiarnos de apartamento y nos pedían que les mandáramos un Mail para el cambio......¡cómo íbamos a mandar Mail si no teníamos wifi!
En fin, conseguimos ponernos en contacto con la anfitriona y nos dijo que estaba fuera de París y que la red estaba estropeada...y una serie de cosas contradictorias por las que pensamos que todo era mentira. Que no tiene wifi. En fin, al final esto no consiguió amargarnos el viaje pero si fue muy frustrante..Carherine un cero como anfitriona aunque el apartamento esté bien. No se puede engañar así a la gente.
Simply Loved this place, I still have dreams of the location and the space a year later. My wife and I talk about it all the time. The space is not really large but where is really large in this region of the world. There are places to eat as well as a nice strip of restaurants and markets close by. We utilize a near by supermarket almost daily (the American in us) and even stopped by Staples to get some printing done. The metro access was perfect complete with two stops in very close walking distance. The host was great and we were able to do everything via text and she was very accommodating although we missed our train to Paris. I would suggest this space to couples and single folks who want an authentic stay in Paris.
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Colin Macduff blew off part of his middle finger in a gun accident. He then made himself a prosthetic finger from bicycle parts.
He is so pleased with his new finger that he is selling them to other finger amputees and is hoping to give one to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is also a middle finger amputee.
"How hysterical would that be to give a politician the finger and get away with it?" Macduff asked ABCNews.com.
Macduff, 41, from Olympia, Wash., wasn't laughing when he shot his finger off with a shotgun in 2009.
When he asked his doctor about prosthetic options, the doctor told him that he would not need a prosthetic and simply needed to get used to it. Unsatisfied, Macduff found a prosthetic company he liked, but they told him he would need to have his finger further amputated to fit the prosthetic's design.
Macduff, a former welder and bike rider at a bicycle shop with a degree in computer aided drafting and design, refused to become accustomed to life without a finger.
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As soon as he was able to, Macduff started cutting into a pair of bicycle handle bars in his garage. Eight hours later, he emerged with the prototype of his bio-mechanical finger prosthetic.
The former Navy man, who did three tours in the Gulf, had been unemployed before his accident. Macduff said his idea of designing the finger was a retraining of his earlier design education, as well as a way of coping with his amputation.
"It was very therapeutic for me," Macduff said.
The finger has three parts. Using leftover parts from the bicycle shop, Macduff created the ring where the prosthetic sits on the amputation, and the cage which goes over and protects the amputated digit. He used a bike's rear derailleur hanger for the tip, which simulates a normal finger tip.
Nearly four years later, Macduff's prosthetic finger design is available for other finger amputees. His former employer saw his design was worth patenting and helped guide him through the process of getting a provisional patent in 2012.
Macduff's company, RCM Enterprise, makes use of a manufacturer with 3D printing to create full, partial, and thumb prosthetics which evolved from metal bicycle parts to medical grade plastic.
"I've got about seven fingers out there," Macduff said.
The process takes 10 to 12 weeks, beginning with patients placing their hands on a copy machine and sending the scans to Macduff to work with. "Each finger is customized to each amputation," Macduff said. "Even if they don't have insurance, we'll work with them and set up a payment plan."
RELATED: Community Rallies to Raise Money for Nine-Month-Old's Prosthetic Arms
The prices range from $5,500 for a partial finger to $9,500 for a thumb.
"When an amputee loses their finger, they're going through an extreme emotional loss," Macduff said. "This is giving people hope back, functionality. We're putting people back to work."
Macduff is now working on a design that will allow amputees to use his prosthetic on touch screens.
Unemployment is no longer a concern for Macduff who runs his company with his wife.
"I'm hoping this year to get back into riding and have a little more of a life. All the hard work is done," he said.


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Thread: Algae Question
Algae Question
I have no problem admitting this - I am an aquarium n00b. My 5 gallon, freshwater tank was given to me as a 39th birthday gift (symbolic of a celebration of life, before I hit the big four-oh?). My 5 gallon tank has been populated with 5 small Glofish. Cute critters. They have brought me many smiles in the month-or-so I have had them.
Just in the past 2 or 3 days, I have noticed a sudden explosion of algae clinging to the sides of my tank and on the aquarium gravel lining the bottom of my tank. After reading some of the threads, around this (very informative) forum, the most interesting of threads ended in a battle of the egos that forced the thread to be closed. Sadly, this happened before a good solution was reached. So, I'm hoping to reopen the topic, but with the difference of me admitting that I don't know much about these things, therefore, I am more open to suggestions than the original thread's author. In short, I need help and I am willing to accept it!
Here is where I am at - in the thread that caught my attention (the one that was prematurely closed), it was pretty well determined that the underlying cause of the access algae was, likely, too much light. My tank was likely receiving too much light, too. The aquarium light would be on from roughly 8:00 AM until 11:00 PM, with the aquarium room being completely dark from 11:00 PM until 8:00 AM, the next morning. I have turned the aquarium light off, allowing just the room's ambient light to be the only light. With 5 Glofish being the only residents in a 5 gallon tank, I don't BELIEVE the tank is over-populated, but I could be wrong, on that. What do you think? Are there any other algae-causing factors I might consider, that I have not mentioned, yet?
With the previous paragraph hoping to get to the bottom of the algae issue, this paragraph focuses on what to do about it? How would you recommend cleaning the existing algae? Algae eater? Just let it run its course? Complete water change?
I am your audience. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated... and I am looking forward to learning a thing, or three...
You are wrong. Your glofish are genetically engineered zebra danios, a species that likes to stretch it's fins http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/danio-rerio/
A 5 gallon is generally considered a shrimp tank or something for a betta. It's difficult to keep stable.
Anywya... algae happen because there's too much unused nutrients and too much light. Nutrients are dealt with by water changes (I'm assuming the tank is unplanted). Too much light is a matter of putting a timer on the lights. 2 blocks of 4-5 hours with a break in between is usually best.
Adding an algae eater is a common newbie reaction but since that adds waste, it will only make things worse.
Hope this helps.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
So, I assume that, by saying, "You are wrong", you are referring to... the number of Glofish? If that's the case, then the people at PetSmart really led us down the wrong road. We were told that, yes, they are engineered from Zebra fish, and that they are schooling fish and love company. They said a 5-gallon tank should have, at the very LEAST 10 Glofish, because they love the company. We decided to start with 5 and see how they were. They do not seem cramped, in the least, or strapped for personal space. Whether the number of fish have something to do with the amount of algae, then yikes... I'd hate to see what it would be like with TEN of the things, in the tank! Makes me wonder if the PetSmart employee knew anything about the fish he was selling, or if he was just trying to up the sale price...?
As for light, the problem didn't seem to happen, until we introduced a black light, as a background light. Not knowing much about algae and what effects it, is there any history or evidence to suggest that it grows more in black light conditions? It is possible that the timing between the algae explosion and the purchase of the black light is coincidental, but I figured I would throw that out there, just to cover all bases.
Other than that, yes - thank you for your post. Gives me some good information to go on!
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If I were you and wanted to keep those fish, I'd invest in a larger tank (like at least 20gal) to accommodate those fish which will hopefully grow to about 1 1/2 - 2" apiece. If you want to keep the smaller tank, I'd return those glofish & replace them with a betta or shrimp or something along those lines.
In addition, may I suggest you read up on cycling (and water parameters) and get yourself a liquid test kit - a genuinely interested fish keeper will have one of these to make sure your water stays hospitable for your fish.
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That's actually almost the main reason why I am violently against these fish. Not the fact that they're engineered (although I could debate that as well) but the fact they're sold like that.
Yes, danio like to swim, they really do. A 60cm is stretching things, an 80cm wide is loads better. Spent some time here and you'll notice that shop staff being wrong is not rare.
You can scrape algae which moves the problem.
The blacklight... interesting. Those things are more towards the uv spectrum which algae love but they also tend to be low power affairs. Id call it coincidence.
You're avoiding the question about your filtration.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
Didn't know I was avoiding anything. Read through the thread to see if I missed a question on filtration, didn't see any.
We do have filtration. It was actually the first thing we checked. I expected to find the filter in as good of shape as a coal miner's lungs. Surprisingly, the filter looked close to new. But, just to make sure our "T"s were dotted and our "eyes" were crossed, we changed it out. We also double-checked to make sure the filter was working, in the first place. It looks to be moving water through, as expected.
As for the possibility of over-feeding... that is a pretty good possibility. The only one that I can think of, really (other than the possibility of too much light). Perhaps, it's even a combination of the two - overfeeding and too much light. Luckily, it sounds like both are very easy things to resolve. Feeding is a simple measure of just paying more attention to the "how much food" to "how much is eaten in a minute or two" ratio. The lighting issue sounds like it's as easy as an inexpensive timer that can grabbed at the local Wal-Mart. The question of black light and the encouragement of algae growth remains open and probably worth doing a little search through the "interwebs" to see if there's anything out there on the topic. It might be an interesting read!
Meanwhile, my wife just told me that we have a 50-gallon tank, in storage. Me thinks 5 Glofish would have some nicely stretched fins in that baby. I think I know what tomorrow holds, in terms of fun projects!
Oh... that actually brings up a question about a point that was hinted at, previously (it was stated that a 5-gallon tank was hard to get stable). Are there any special considerations for a 50-gallon, in terms of a stable environment? I want to make sure my fish are nice and comfy, as well as healthy. And... is it actually easier to maintain a stable 50-gallon than it is a stable 5-gallon? If so, I'm all for it!
Larger tanks are typically easier to maintain healthy and stable water parameters provided you have proper filtration and a good maintenance routine.
A 50 gallon tank is a good size. You could set it up and complete a fishless cycle on it before moving your fish into it
Water are your water parameters on the current tank and what type of filter do you have on it?If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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50g is FAR easier.
With 10 times the water it is harder to knock out of balance [NOT impossible :-P] & changes tend to be more gradual.
It's FAR easier to add too much salt to a teaspoon of soup than an entire pot of soup, Know what I mean?
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
I'll be honest with you - I'm completely new to this. As such, I don't have what would probably be considered the proper tools... such as the basics to test water parameters. Something I intend to remedy, as a priority. Once I get my test kit, I'll be sure to post the parameters. When I say I'm a "n00b", I mean that I'm greener than the Crayola crayon, by the same name (maybe even greener than the algae, in question). As for the filter, it came with the kit (tank, heater, filter, lid, and light bulb). I tried to find some sort of maker's mark on the filter and even the tank, itself, but could not find one. My wife probably knows, as she is the one that bought the entire kit. At this time, though, she is in bed... won't get to ask her, until she gets home from work, tomorrow. Sorry I wasn't more helpful, with any of that! But, not all is lost. You actually gave me another idea of the tools to get my hands on.
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Boston Newsome continues to be the driving force for the Bulldogs' offense, and it was his three touchdowns that put New Albany back in the win column, defeating Pontotoc, 21-14.
The Bulldogs trailed 14-7 entering the fourth quarter after Reid Tackett had an interception return for a touchdown for Pontotoc. Newsome would score from two-yards out to tie the game, and after holding Pontotoc on its ensuing drive, marched down the field once more for the senior's third score with nine seconds remaining.
"It feels really great, but I have to give the credit to my offensive line," Newsome said. "They got me where I need to go, and I have to give it to the fullback, O.J. Hardin. He blocked for me really well and played great in the backfield."
"The offensive line and O.J. Hardin just kept pounding away to help Boston get those yards, and Spencer (Day) did a heck of a job," NAHS head coach Ron Price said. "He took a shot by our sideline, and his shoulder was hurting him really bad. His teammates saw him in pain but continuing to fight, and they kept fighting for him. They came together at that point. I'm very proud of our team and their character and proud they were able to win this ballgame."
Neither team could take advantage of early turnovers, and the Bulldogs could not score on its first two possessions in the red zone. Newsome broke the scoreless tie at the 10:15 mark in the second quarter, giving the Bulldogs the 7-0 lead.
"We had a lot of opportunities to get the ball in the end zone in the beginning, but we basically shot our foot off, and we didn't make the play when it was there for us," Price said.
A turnover by Pontotoc in the second quarter eventually set up a field goal attempt for New Albany, but the Bulldogs failed on the fake attempt and maintained the 7-0 lead at the half.
"I thought they would rush hard from the outside and Eathen (Rainey) could reach around to the outside and get to the end zone. I thought it was worth a shot to take it to the end zone. We probably should have let him kick the field goal knowing what we know now, but we were willing to take the chance there."
Deonte Dilworth tied the game in the third quarter, breaking free for the long touchdown run, and both teams traded turnovers before Tackett's interception return late in the quarter made it 14-7 in favor of the Warriors. The loss is the second straight for the Warriors, and the Bulldogs' defense held the Pontotoc offense to its lowest point total so far this year.
"When we struggled on offense, the defense stepped up and made the plays they needed to and got a couple of big turnovers," Price said. "I'm just proud of our guys for not giving up; they just kept fighting and trying to find ways to win the game."
The win over Pontotoc is the second in three years, and the Bulldogs now look ahead to next week's game at Amory.
"It feels great to win against Pontotoc," Newsome said. "They're a great team, we're a great team, but we came out with the win."
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ECOSOC: Innovating humanitarian response
On 17 July, the second high-level panel of the 2013 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment will explore how humanitarian organizations can seize the opportunities presented by new technologies to innovate and improve their response to disasters.
On 5 December 2012, Typhoon Bopha struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. More than 1,900 people were killed or are still missing. The storm – 2012's deadliest – affected an estimated 6 million people and devastated infrastructure across eastern and central parts of the island. Bridges, roads and buildings were destroyed, and access to affected communities – a tough proposition at the best of times – was incredibly difficult.
It was clear that information from affected areas would be hard to come by. But it was available. People across the affected area were sharing their experiences with each other through social media.
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Imogen Wall was working in OCHA's Manila office as the storm approached. She remembers watching people in affected areas tweet about their experiences, and she remembers feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information that was coming in.
"I was watching hundreds and hundreds of tweets come in that included pictures and video, and I realised how crucial this information could be," she recalls. "But there was no way that we could capture and analyse it. So we reached out to the Digital Humanitarian Network."
The Digital Humanitarian Network is a group of professional volunteers who are on standby to support humanitarian organisations respond to disasters.
The team searched for tweets about the storm and identified pictures and videos that showed damage and flooding. Their task was made easier by the fact that the Philippines Government had taken the unusual step of designating a hashtag for the storm. They then set about locating, verifying and categorizing the content, culling any re-tweets or updates that failed to add anything new.
"Within 10 hours of activation, over 20,000 tweets were analysed and reduced to about 122 unique entries," explained Liz Marasco, who works in the OCHA Information Management Unit in the Philippines.
"In a disaster, we can't do anything without information, so finding ways to garner the necessary data in order to tailor how we respond is critical."
Within 36 hours the Digital Humanitarian Network had produced a digital map based on the data they had gleaned from social media with links to images and videos of flooding and damage.
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Patrick Meier led the Digital Humanitarian Network team involved in the Mindanao response. He is proud of what the team achieved, but is also aware of how the response could be improved.
"We were given 12 hours to produce the map," he says. "But we spent half of that time customizing the platform and getting it set up."
Another concern, says Meier, was the fact that to take part in the digital response, volunteers needed to be familiar with a specific platform. This meant that some qualified people could not be involved.
He is now working on turning the experience of Typhoon Bopha into a tool that can be used by humanitarian organizations to aid future disaster response. The tool is based on an approach known as micro-mapping, whereby volunteers will be able to categorize, verify and geo-tag information with a simple click of a mouse, rather than by using a cumbersome and complicated programme or platform.
"The idea is to democratise digital volunteerism," he says.
"We tried something experimental during typhoon Bopha," he continues. "Now we're trying to take what we learned and make sure that next time we can do it properly rather than being reactive."
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The Hall of Fame, which will induct its inaugural class with a ceremony and concert this Sunday, February 26 at 7 pm at the Met in Pawtucket, aims to remedy the situation.
The eight inductees exemplify the sweep of the state's influence on popular music. Jazz great Dave McKenna and opera star Eileen Farrell get the nod, as do R&B stars Roomful of Blues and classic rockers John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band.
Roomful and Beaver Brown will perform on Sunday; there will also be a tribute to McKenna and an all-star jam (tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door). And concertgoers will get a peek at mock-ups of what will become permanent displays for the inductees in the hallways of the Hope Artiste Village complex, which houses the Met and a slew of artists and entrepreneurs.
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Zinfandel - A California Favorite
updated: Feb 09, 2013, 3:00 PM
By Marc Liberts
January 27, 2013
On Sunday January 27, 2013 I attended the BYOB Wine & Dine event held at Max's Restaurant & Cucina
in Santa Barbara. The theme of event was California Zinfandel, and the featured speaker was Donald
Thiessen from Stacked Stone Cellars.
As always, the event started out with assorted paired cheeses from C'est Cheese which were enjoyed
with the wine that everyone brought to share. There were approximately 40 bottles of California
Zinfandel brought by the guests which provided a good example of the regional variations in the
Zinfandel wines.
The meal started with Kalamata Olive & Sweet Onion Flatbread with Sundried Tomato-Roasted Garlic-
Pine Nut Pesto. The main course was a Hearty Lamb Moussaka with Potato-Cauliflower Mash & Peas in a
Shallot-Balsamic Reduction. The dessert featured a Dark Chocolate Cherry Mousse with Florentine
Cookie. All paired very nicely with the Zinfandel wines from Stacked Stone Cellars that Donald Thiessen
shared with us.
Mr. Thiessen gave two talks during the meal to introduce himself and to talk about his wines. He has
been in Paso Robles for 37 years, and has used all his expendable capital and converted it to liquid
assets. In his words "converting his green into red". He states that his style is different than most
because he is a 'small fish in a big pond'.
In discussing the Paso Robles region, Thiessen stated that Italian immigrants came to the region by boat
and landed in Morrow Bay, bringing Zinfandel cuttings with them. The origin of Zinfandel is not very
clear, but is believed to come from the Island of Havar in the country of Croatia. It was taken to Italy and
is called Primitivo there. When it arrived in Paso Robles, it was renamed Zinfandel. He stated that 60% of
all the fruit grown in Paso Robles is shipped to Napa. And he further stated that 50% of all the wines
made in Napa are from Paso Robles fruit, because quality wine comes from the vineyard, not necessarily
the winery. Paso Robles is the largest AVA in the world. Not only is it the largest area, it also has more
Rhone varietals planted then the Rhone Valley itself. Small guys like him are being creative in blending
and producing very high quality wines.
His claimed that his farm is organic, bio-dynamic, and sustainable, but he also admitted that he does
not pay the fess to the proper authorities who do the certifications. He hand pricks his fruit from his
estate vineyard which is head pruned and a dry farmed vineyard. He does a whole-berry fermentation
process and all his wines are cold soaked with extended maceration and blended with a little petite
He is proud to make handcrafted wines in the 'Old World' style. His Zinfandel wines are barrel aged for
2 years and spend another 6 months in the bottle before he releases them for sale. He states his wines
are best after 10 years of age in the bottle, and his wines are designed to be aged for very long periods
of time. He talked about the fact that most people don't age wine at all, but he advises consumers to
buy a case of wine they like and try one bottle every year until it gets perfect.
I had a chance to interview Tom Rustin, the Ranch Manager of Stacked Stone Cellars before the event.
QUESTION: Please help us get to know you better. What is your history in wine making? What inspires
your wine making? Who are your wine mentors?
ANSWER: Every weekend owner and winemaker Donald Thiessen personally welcomes you to the winery
as he pours for you his award wining wine. He is known as the "character" around town and will surely
have you in stitches with his cowboy style and humor. He enjoys making new friends, listening to live
music, trips to the lake, and sharing his fine wine. Donald grew up on an avocado ranch in Ventura and
moved to the Paso Robles area 35 years ago with his family. His dream was to find a place to raise his
children and become an active part of a small, growing community. Paso was the perfect place! Over the
years he raised two children, developed Peachy Canyon Woodworks and Thiessen Construction, and
became a well-known cowboy in town. Stacked Stone Cellars began in 1998 when owner, Donald
Thiessen, united his love of fine craftsmanship with a love of wine. Stacked Stone Cellars produces small
quantities of hand crafted wine. Donald named his "liquid assets" after the elaborate stacked stone
landscaping adorning the winery grounds and estate vineyard.
QUESTION: Why do you think Zinfandel is so popular? What characteristics does it have that people like
so much? Why do you like it?
ANSWER: Zinfandel is the state grape, proclaimed by our Governor. It was the first grape to be grown in
California some 140 years ago. The first bonded winery in California was right on the Central Coast.
Zinfandel appeals to a wide range of consumers because of its many facets. They can have a wonderful
bouquet, bright fruit up front, big jammy body's, with lush finishes. We like producing the Zinfandel
grape because of its heritage her on the Central Coast. Our estate vineyard produces low yields of highly
concentrated, jammy, and intense Zinfandel fruit. The vines are sustainably dry farmed and head pruned
on the west side Paso Robles, where the soils are rich in minerals and nutrients. The soil is calcareous
and siliceous composed of shale, mudstone, siltstone and limestone providing the optimum terroir for
Zinfandel. The estate fruit is gently harvested to produce our flagship and award wining wine the "Zin
QUESTION: What do you think about screw-cap enclosures for wine? Some California wineries have
embraced them, some have started using them, and some refuse to use them. What do you think?
ANSWER: Screw-caps are fine for some wines and for some winery's. We believe that they work best for
large production facilities. The cost for screw cap machinery or to out source the bottling to another
facility take's away from our hand crafted style of making wine.
QUESTION: Who are your favorite Zinfandel producers other than Stacked Stone?
ANSWER: There are many excellent wine makers that make Zinfandel. We feel like the best area to grow
and produce the Zinfandel grape is on the west side Paso. We don't get enough of a chance to taste
them all so it's not fair to pick out one or another.
QUESTION: What wines will you be bringing to the event? Please provide a brief commentary on each
wine that you are bringing to the event.
ANSWER: Here are the wines: 2011 Rosetta: 100% Zinfandel Rose` to be poured at the reception. The
Rosetta is rich, ripe and full of tropical fruits. Aromatics of melon and citrus, with flavors of fresh
strawberries, balanced acidity and a lingering finish. 2009 Zin Stone: 80% Estate Zinfandel and 20% Petit
Syrah - to be poured with the appetizer. 2010 Zin Stone: 80% Estate Zinfandel and 20% Petit Syrah - to
be poured with the entree. Our head pruned, dry farmed Zinfandels offers small clusters of grapes
packed with intense flavor and color from the minerals and nutrients of our estate soil. Rich &
voluptuous. The bold red cherry and jammy raspberry fruit is accented with generous white pepper,
cocoa, and caramel notes that roll through the lush finish.
Overall, I am not a lover of Zinfandel wines. I think I purchased one bottle of Zinfandel to eat with a
steak dinner a few years ago and regretted it. I usually only purchase Zinfandel if I have to, and I don't
really collect it. I have a hard time differentiating Zinfandel wines. To me, they all taste very similar. I
can taste the differences between cool weather Zinfandels from Sonoma and Dry Creek versus Paso
Robles, and I usually prefer the bigger and more fruity wines from Paso Robles. I enjoyed both the 2009
and 2010 Zin Stone wines from Stacked Stone Cellars. I didn't care for the Rose at all. Mr. Thiessen is
the kind of guy you hope you get to sit next to if you are stuck on an airplane or seated with at your
dinner table on a long cruise vacation.
Finally, I did a mini blind California Zinfandel tasting during the initial portion of the event where
everyone gets to try everyone else's wines. I had 6 California Zinfandel wines I had obtained over the
years pitted against each other. The Kirkland wine from Costco took a respectable 2nd place! Special
thanks to BevMo! for giving me the bags for my blind tasting and being very cool and nice about it.
WINE #1 - BOGLE VINEYARDS, 2010 Zinfandel, California (2 VOTES)
WINE #2 - KIRKLAND, 2010 Zinfandel, Sonoma County (4 VOTES)
WINE #3 - SEGHESIO, 2011 Zinfandel, Sonoma County (1 VOTE)
WINE #4 - EPOCH ESTATE WINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Paderewski Vineyard, Paso Robles (8 VOTES)
WINE #5 - TACKITT FAMILY VINEYARDS, 2009 Zinfandel, Paso Robles, Swiss Collina (2 VOTES)
WINE #6 - FOUR VINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Biker, Paso Robles (2 VOTES)
WINE #4 - EPOCH ESTATE WINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Paso Robles
WINE #2 - KIRKLAND, 2010 Zinfandel, Sonoma County (well done Costco!)
1. STACKED STONE CELLARS, Rosetta, 2011 Rose, Paso Robles - anxious and astringent. Not a favorite -
81 points.
2. BOGLE VINEYARDS, 2010 Zinfandel, California - light and pruny. Nothing special - 83 points.
3. KIRKLAND, 2010 Zinfandel, Sonoma County - plush with good density and grip. Pleasant - 87 points.
4. SEGHESIO, 2011 Zinfandel, Sonoma County - nice fullness and richness with interesting cool weather
notes of herbs and spices - 89 points.
5. EPOCH ESTATE WINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Paderewski Vineyard, Paso Robles - Good richness and depth
with big well defined fruit and character - 91 points.
6. PADEREWSKI, 1993 Zinfandel, 3rd Annual Winemaker's Collaborative Blend, Paso Robles - old and
delicious with life still left in it - 90 points.
7. J DUSI, 2009 Zinfandel, Dante Dusi Vineyard, Paso Robles - tangy and ripe with strong dark fruit - 88
8. HECKLER PASS WINERY, 2005 Zinfandel, Santa Clara Valley - Band-aid smell and taste, probably
contaminated with Brettanomyces. Unacceptable - 71 points.
9. TACKITT FAMILY VINEYARDS, 2009 Zinfandel, Paso Robles, Swiss Collina - nice ripe fruit with good
balance. Enjoyable - 89 points.
10. FOUR VINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Biker, Paso Robles - Plump and round with big ripe fruit. Strong and
enjoyable - 89 points.
11. DANIEL GEHRS, 2009 Zinfandel, Russian River Valley - woody and nearly nutty featuring almond
notes. Too strange to recommend - 81 points.
12. WILD HORSE, 2009 Zinfandel, Unbridled, Paso Robles - Rich and robust with very ripe fruit notes and
decent balance. 90 points.
13. SIN ZIN, 2009 Zinfandel, Alexander Valley - Smelled and tasted like burned matches. Flinty and
unpleasant - 72 points.
14. RENWOOD, 2010 Zinfandel, Amador County, Premier Old Vine Zinfandel - Zingy and overt with fun
fruit but lacking definition - 85 points.
15. DANCING LADY, 2009 Zinfandel, Della Costa Family Vineyard, Alexander Valley - nice and balanced
with well-behaved fruit - 89 points.
16. RED SOLES WINERY, 2010 Zinfandel, Lover Boy Ranch Vineyard, Paso Robles - Balanced and nice with
big fruit and good acid. Good and fun and nice - 90 points.
17. RAVENSWOOD, 2010 Zinfandel, California - Husky and big with unruly and inattentive behavior but
fun - 85 points.
18. DRY CREEK VINEYARD, 2009 Zinfandel, Old Vine, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County - Cottony and
seedy on the palate with good everything else behind those defects - 86 points.
19. EASTON, 2010 Zinfandel, Amador County - Pruny and lush but too much of a slut - 83 points.
20. OPOLO VINEYARDS, 2011 Zinfandel, Summit Creek, Paso Robles - Super ripe almost to the point of
absurdity but still fun - 85 points.
21. ORIN SWIFT, Saldo, 2010 Zinfandel, California - Plump & spicy and layered. Combines the ripeness
of Paso and the earthiness of Sonoma - a winner - 91 points.
22. PEACHY CANYON, Incredible Red, 2010 Zinfandel, Paso Robles - A touch of Brettanomyces ruined
this party - 85 points.
23. RIDGE, 2002 Zinfandel, Lytton Springs Vineyard - Nice balance and good age make this a treat - 90
24. HARASZTHY, 2009 Zinfandel, Lodi, Old Vine - Interesting eucalyptus note around ripe fruit - lacking
otherwise - 84 points.
25. QUIVIRA, 2010 Zinfandel, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County - good balance, pretty fruit, decent
oregano notes - 89 points.
26. CRANE LAKE, 2008 Zinfandel, California - metallic and thin - cheap tasting - 77 points.
27. STACKED STONE CELLARS, 2009 Zinfandel, Paso Robles, Zin Stone - Big and bold and ripe with good
balance, nice minerality, big oomph - 91 points.
28. RIDGE, 2010 Zinfandel, Benito Dusi Ranch, Paso Robles - Good ripeness, nice balance, decent herbal
notes, interesting - 90 points.
29. DRY CREEK VINEYARD, 2009 Estate Zinfandel, Spencer's Hill Vineyard, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma
County - Light and bright with great balance and verve - 91 points.
30. STACKED STONE CELLARS, 2010 Zinfandel, Paso Robles, Zin Stone - bigger and more ripe and tart
than the 2009 - fun to drink right now. Strong and bold and powerful - 92 points.
STACKED STONE CELLARS, 2010 Zinfandel, Paso Robles, Zin Stone - 92 Points.
EPOCH ESTATE WINES, 2009 Zinfandel, Paderewski Vineyard, Paso Robles - 91 points.
DRY CREEK VINEYARD, 2009 Estate Zinfandel, Spencer's Hill Vineyard, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
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Costco zin placed second in a taste test? COSTCO??? I don't know why, but I find this hilarious!
"The 2010 Kirkland zin had a bouquet quite unlike the essence of Michelin tires from the automotive department, but hinting more instead of rotisserie chicken. Guests sipped their Kirkland from red plastic cups, and 12-packs of Bounty paper towels were used to blot up the occasional spill. Free sample hors d'ouvres were dispensed at the end of each table."
I understand that Smart & Final is coming out with its own brand of chardonnay made in Oklahoma. Yum!
The Kirkland was tasted blind by all tasters.
I know, that's what makes it funny! I'll no longer feel bad about serving cheap wine to guests. If Kirkland is good enough for wine experts, Two-Buck Chuck is certainly adequate for the hooligans I hang around with. I feel very validated.
Two Buck Chuck has been around at that price for over 15 years. It makes me shudder what cost cutting measures are employed even if it is a loss leader.
Interesting discussion as always but I can't resist objecting to the claim that zinfandel is California's original wine grape. Was this a misstatement or misrecollection? Mission grapes pretty universally regarded as the first wine grape in California and are still grown in some areas. They came in with the Spanish missionaries in the early 1700's or thereabouts. Zinfandel arrived by most history in the late1800's.
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The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Ergo, it means that the total value of a good or service that possesses a network effect is roughly proportional to the square of the number of customers already owning that good or using that service.
One consequence of a network effect is that the purchase of a good by one individual indirectly benefits others who own the good - for example by purchasing a telephone a person makes other telephones more useful. This type of side-effect in a transaction is known as an externality in economics, and externalities arising from network effects are known as network externalities.
I recently came across the following articles at wikipedia:
This is an invaluable reference for those of you wondering about the origins of, for instance, IN SOVIET RUSSIA or you insensitive clod.
This recent thread has compelled me to author the following journal entry on the evils of plurality voting and the two party system...
It is a common phenomenon with our current election system (I'm in the US) that, regardless of the number of candidates, the vast majority of the vote is split between the Republican and Democratic candidates. Frequently, a third party candidate gets enough votes to alter the outcome of the election without receiving nearly enough votes to have a chance at winning.
Voters tend not to vote for third party candidates for fear of "throwing their vote away". This is a bad thing: voters don't vote for the candidate the really want, they vote instead for the major party candidate they dislike the least, whom they think might actually win. In other words, the voter's perception of a candidates ability to get votes influences the number of votes they actually get. A vicious cycle.
So, what is the result of all this? Well, we have basically two options at election time. Or, in other words, our individual contributions to the democratic process each ammount to a single bit. What, then, does our political process look like? One dimensional. You're either left wing, or right wing. There are two solutions to every problem: "the free market will solve everything", or "more government will solve everything". Issues (or their solutions, such as the open source "let people solve their own problems" solution) that are orthogonal to this political worldview get ignored (Electronic voting fraud? Reducing copyright duration?). People with complicated and nuanced political ideologies get typecast into one box or the other (i.e. "Lawrence Lessig is just another leftist"). This is much easier than actually understanding issues. It's convenient for the news media, which prefers to portray things as a simple "us versus them" conflict (they try to do this without being informative enough to offend or bore anyone -- this poor reporting is often interpretted by each side of the percieved one-dimensional political spectrum as a conspiracy by the other side), which in many ways resembles sports news coverage (all entertainment, no relevance).
What, you might ask, is my solution? Well, there's quite a few ways to elect a public official (plurality voting, borda count, instant runoff, etc...), my favorite is approval voting, whereby voters can vote for as many candidates as they like. This would allow a voter to vote for, say, both George Bush sr. and Ross Perot, or Ralph Nader and Al Gore. The voter is given many more options than they would have with plurality. It's not perfect (there is no way to distinguish between a wonderful candidate, and one you merely tolerate), but it's a very simple system, and the voter is given many more choices than they would have otherwise. chances are, two of the last three elections would have turned out different.
I don't expect a president to be elected this way any time soon, but maybe we can start small (elections for senators, mayors, high school student body presidents, slashdot polls).
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I left work that Monday and headed out of town confident that my Ultimate Frisbee summer league game scheduled for that evening would not be cancelled. League games are usually played on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, but my team (Portland Lobster Co.) had a rescheduled match against Maine Root that night because the game had already been rained out twice before. The blue sky between the clouds gave me hope during my drive from Portland to Cumberland Fairgrounds, one of the main sets of fields where the Portland Summer Ultimate League plays its games. I pulled into the parking lot and put on the pair of pinkish-orange striped bell-bottoms I had acquired in France and tugged over my head an exquisitely patterned sleeveless purple shirt. It was not my normal Frisbee attire and I realize telling you about my outlandish outfit might risk propagating the stereotype that Frisbee players are nothing but barefoot, doped-up hippies. But that evening was different. The teams had agreed to play a costume game. I tied on my cleats — yes, we wear cleats — which poked out from beneath my bell-bottoms, and ran onto the field dressed as a hippie worthy of Halloween.
There was Peter Pan and Superman and a strange, fairy-like beauty queen. As we began to play the clouds to the northwest began to darken and grow menacing, but we didn't stop. When the wind picked up and sent our Frisbees nose-diving into the ground, we played on. Not until lightning flashed on the horizon did our tenacity give way, sending us to our cars to wait out the storm over a couple beers. After 15 minutes of lightning, rain, and hail, the sky cleared and we walked back onto the fields to keep playing.
For those unfamiliar with the sport, the game's only necessity is a Frisbee — often referred to as a "disc" by Ultimate players — which makes playing cheap. Two teams of seven play on a field with two end zones, much like a football field. To begin, one team "pulls" to the other, similar to a kick-off in football. Because players can't run with the disc, the team on offense must move the disc up the field by passing to teammates. When the disc is caught in the end zone, it's a point. Games go to 15.
One thing that sets Ultimate apart is its nonstop action: when the disc is dropped or knocked to the ground, it is an immediate turnover; defensive players shift to offense. The workout, the fluidity, and the lack of referees, whistles, and multiple downs attracts a certain type of person. But the real difference between it and Portland's other club sports comes down to the people: surely, no other Portland league can come close to the Ultimate league's size — 32 teams and an estimated 580 players by the end of this summer — or to the influence it has had on its participants.
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OK, I am not crazy but.................
I need pond snails. Not the long spiral ones or MTS. I want the true tiny pond snail. I am trying to breed the ones I have, but for some reason, they are slow. I love snails and so do my two assassins. Seriously though, I want snails in all my tanks to keep my assassins happy. I want to buy 4/6 more as soon as I have a large enough pond snail population.
Any idea how to get the pond snails to increase in numbers? I tried over feeding and just messed up the water quality. I've tried veggies and spinach, but still they aren't growing very fast.
Any one have "extras" they don't want??? I will gladly pay for them and shipping. OH, I live so far from any lfs, they are no help.
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I've got all that and they still are pokie I did buy a 10g today just for snails. Already have filter media running in the 20g so cycling won't take so long. I will put as many snails as I can in it and a few plants. Have way to many in the 20 as it is. Even bought some alge wafers for them.
I seem to remember my Mother saying "patience is a virtue". Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I am just anxious to see more snails.Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without
Buy a few live plants from PetSmart. Mine had all kinds of pond snail eggs in them.Warning; Bulldog Pleco guarding my Sons tank now..
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The Utapau clone is in both waves for some reason.
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The Utapau Clone is officially part of wave 4. It is even numbered late into that wave. There is actually nothing unusual about it's being packed in a different wave as this happens frequently with figures that get larger numbers released (and this figure, so far has more slots than Darth Vader). The only thing that could be considered unusual (if this is even unusual) is that it is added to a wave BEFORE the general release of the rest of the wave.Originally Posted by ndjedi
I wondered what was up with the numbering. It's number is dead smack in the middle of the next wave of figures.Originally Posted by Darth Cruel
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So shortly after I swore off Target forever. I walk into a Wal-Mart at 5:30 AM and find the pegs fat with Wave 3. OK there were only 3 pegs, but they were fat with two complete cases of wave 3. Of course, I now have the full wave. And I picked up the extra Scorch and Utapau Clone for my partner. Didn't have my ATM card or enough cash to get the rest for him.


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You can just imagine the fun at the housewarming for this holiday home when it was built in the 1950s. All the guests were brought over from Auckland on a chartered launch and partied on through the day and into the evening.
More than half a century later, the brick home is still impressive, having been well maintained and cherished by only two families in those six decades.
The Awaawaroa Point home was designed and built by a Mr and Mrs McCallum, with Mr McCallum rejigging a matchbox model of the house until he was happy with the design.
Not only is the home simply beautiful, but the attention to detail will impress design connoisseurs. With all materials shipped over, as there was no road access when the house was built, much of the cabinetry is built in. For instance, kitchen cupboards reveal a lazy Susan and a pull-out spice rack, below the rich red Formica benchtop with chromed edging.
Margot Robinson and Diane Hill, whose parents Keith and Clare Hattaway, bought the home off the McCallums in the mid 80s, say the design would have been ahead of its time.
They have made only minor changes, laying chequerboard lino in the kitchen and bathroom, carpet in the bedrooms and repainting interior walls. "But we wanted to keep its character," says Margot.
It's a privilege to be invited to visit this home; it feels like someone has bottled charm from another era in a time capsule. Even the journey here -10 minutes from the car ferry at Kennedy Point, about 15 to 20 from Matiatia - is a pleasure, rolling past Whakanewha Park and along Gordons Rd, passing lambs and calves, and marvelling at the clear water in the bays below.
The house sits atop a ridgeline above Awaawaroa Bay on one side, Deadmans Bay on the other. Views stretch over the island and back to the city. The house always presents at least one sheltered side no matter how hard the wind is blowing, and Margot and Diane say they follow the sun around the house, starting with breakfast on the balcony.
Inside, the front door opens to the hallway, with the main bedroom on the left, its French doors opening to the balcony. On the right are two more bedrooms, then directly in front is the kitchen. Off to the right are the distinctive yellow and black bathroom and standalone toilet plus another bedroom with bunks.
On the other side of the kitchen is the lounge and dining room, with curved walls, bay window seats, Hinuera stone fire surround, built-in mirrored shelves and doors opening to the balcony.
Sisters Diane and Margot smile as they reminisce about holidays here after their parents bought the house when they retired from farming at the bottom end of Waiheke. They tell of their Mum and her "Golden Girl" friends staying for weekends, and Diane and Margot would come over by boat and wander up the hill to join in the fun. Their mother would clear the lounge and play indoor bowls. Another time Clare set the table outside on the lawn, to enjoy a candlelight evening meal as the lights of Auckland came on. At long weekends, the bay below would fill up with boats as the sisters settled in, playing LPs and cranking up the volume on the vintage radiogram in the lounge.
For meals, they would wander down to the bay to fish. "Flounder for breakfast, snapper for dinner," says Margot.
But now Margot and Diane are selling because their father died in 1988 and their mother is in care after suffering a stroke. It's a time of letting go. "The time has come for someone else to enjoy it like we have done over the years," says Diane." It's just a magnificent piece of real estate for someone who appreciates the architecture and would enjoy it as a family home or their holiday home."


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After two weeks of mostly wonderful weather in Auckland, let's hope we can put a lid on the idea of a roof for the ASB Tennis Arena.
There are many things that the sport in this country needs but creating an all-weather arena at Stanley St should be not be a priority. It was first mooted a few years ago when redevelopments started and gained some traction last year during the awful weather that disrupted the 2012 ASB Classic.
It is a fanciful idea. If 43 other tournaments this year prosper without cover on the ATP tour, then surely our fortnight of tennis can survive. Stanley St needs some work, especially in the spectator amenities at two of the three permanent grandstands and temporary barriers to stop the wind tunnel effect would be handy.
Aside from under-usage, the central issue for Auckland Tennis should be the state of the sport - which seems to have reached crisis point. Tennis administrators need an action plan or they can watch their game, still played by hundreds of thousands of Kiwis, become a recreation rather than a sport.
While Tennis New Zealand is in charge, Auckland Tennis can't abdicate responsibility. They have the largest catchment area for players and are the most cash-rich province, mostly thanks to the two summer tournaments.
So instead of trying to raise funds for a multi-million dollar roof project (at an estimated cost of $20 million, and rising), financial and other resources should be directed towards developing players. Putting aside Marina Erakovic, neither tournament has had a creditable local presence since the days of Brett Steven and Belinda Cordwell in the 1990s.
Trying to produce world-class tennis players from these isolated islands is an extremely big ask. But it shouldn't be seen as impossible and there are things we can do to give our youngsters a fighting chance.
Tennis Australia has recently commissioned the construction of eight clay courts at Melbourne Park while Brisbane has four and Sydney two. Around 80 of the top 100 in both the men's and women's games come from Europe or South America, where clay is the dominant surface. The Australian tennis moguls don't expect to see the results of this investment for 12-15 years but have conceded they need to start now.
While we can't hope to match the mega budgets of Tennis Australia, we can do things in our own way - like negotiate some share agreements with the Australians and construct our own clay courts for use by our top juniors.


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How do you feel about the new tardy policy at MCHS?
Freshman Trey Choice: "It is good because it does gets us to class on time." Sophomore Caitlin Harjes: "It has it's flaws, but it works."
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