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"I like to think about the life of wine (...) How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks (...) And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline."
~Maya (Virginia Madsen) in "Sideways"
As part of St. James Adult Community Education, the Stray Cat Coffee House hosted a wine tasting July 9.
Brochures were available, wineries throughout the state sent bottles, and--if people really fancied a particular wine--the Stray Cat will stock it and/or the St. James Liquor Store will order bottles of it.
Some of the wineries represented were: Alex Bailey Vineyard & Winery (Hastings), Saint Croix Vineyards (Stillwater), Carlos Creek Winery (Alexandria), Glacial Ridge Winery (Spicer), Forest Edge Winery (Laporte), Cannon River Winery (Cannon Falls), Wine Haven Winery & Vineyards (Chisago City), and Buffalo Rock Winery (Buffalo).
This was Margaret Maire's first time coordinating a wine tasting event, but she loves wine, and said, "It's hard in a small town to come up with new ideas for classes people would like." There's no point in offering classes people won't attend.
She started working on this event last fall, and her personal favorite wines are dry reds--despite the fact she initially disdained them. But, they're an acquired taste, she eventually discovered.
In addition to the wine, there also were appetizers available, and a variety of olive oils to sample with house-made bread--Maire brought one of the oils back from Italy. She's fortunate to travel often--making a habit of trying new wines and other culinary delights at each of her stops--and bringing back what she can. She certainly looked the part July 9, wearing a shirt decorated with wine glasses, and even a pair of filled wineglass earrings.
Curt Mackey was the resident oenophile July 9, and he said he became heavily interested in wines about eight years ago.
"I was always a beer drinker; my wife (Corinne) didn't believe I would ever drink wine," he said. "If you would've told me 10 years ago I'd be drinking wine, I would've bet you $10,000 (I wouldn't). I never would've imagined I'd be drinking wine."
Now, however, "It's our passion," he said. "Our bucket list is to hit every winery in the state."
Though he and his wife have visited about 70 percent of Minnesota's wineries, new ones keep springing up every year, he said. So, to accomplish the goal of hitting them all, "I need to drive faster, drink faster, or live longer."
They'd visited all but two of the wineries on the July 9 set list, but they don't limit themselves only to Minnesota wineries, he said. They have favorites in Wisconsin and even North Dakota--which no one is mistaking for Napa Valley.
Still, Mackey said good wine can be found anywhere, not just in California.
"We are very fortunate in Minnesota, we have very good wines," he said. "The University of Minnesota has done an excellent job; they're really amazing."
According to the school, the university formally initiated a wine grape breeding program in 1978. In 2000, they completed a state-of-the-art enology lab and research winery, and have since become recognized as one of the top wine grape programs in the United States.
They have over 12 acres of research vineyards with approximately 12,000 experimental vines, according to the university. Seedlings are produced each year using a diverse genetic base. Over 3,000 vines are planted each year and subjected to high standards of rigorous evaluation.
Currently, over 100 of the school's advanced selections are being tested, as well as over 400 cultivars and selections from other breeding programs, the school noted. Their winemakers produce over 125 wines annually.
At the school, a crack staff uses myriad instruments to evaluate all aspects of the experimental wines, including polyphenols (pigment and tannins), acidity, sugar, aroma, and flavor, the school said. The program has received Best of Class, Double Gold, and Gold awards in national and international competitions.
Another myth Mackey dispelled is that price and quality are always directly proportional. In fact, less expensive wines can be even more enjoyable than a more costly vintage.
"You can get a good wine at a cheap price," he said. "It doesn't have to be expensive."
Mackey said he advises people, "If you find a bottle you like, but three or four, (because) every year, the wines change." Vines can have an off-year, the grapes are different, etc.
He recounted the tale of a wine which he'd loved year after year. Then, one year, he tasted it, and it was lousy.
He and his wife are on friendly terms with the owners of all the local wineries, he said. "We like to go to the wineries and buy bottles there; it's a good atmosphere, and some have really good food, too."
He doesn't like any wine that is really sweet or really dry. Anything in between is alright-- whether it's red or white--and they keep two-three cases of wine at home at any given time.
When at a wine tasting, he'll usually only try about six wines, he said. "After that, your tongue is lost."
Unlike Maire, Michelle Fuller hates dry reds, preferring wines like White Zinfandel or Riesling. For the July 9 tasting, her favorites were the Black Currant from Forest Edge Winery, the Sogn Blush from Cannon River Winery, and the Deer Garden Blush from Wine Haven Winery & Vineyards.
The Deer Garden Blush is a crisp, medium-dry wine containing an extensive array of floral aromas and fruity flavors from start to finish, according to the Wine Haven. Cannon River calls the Sogn Blush sweet and fruity, and the Black Currant is an award-winning, dynamic, full-bodied red that's fruity and complex with the character of a fine Cabernet, according to Forest Edge.
Like so many others, Fuller jumped on the wine bandwagon when vino exploded in popularity.
From 2000-2007, wine consumption in America nearly doubled, while beer sales grew less than one percent over that same time period. In 2005--for the first time--a Gallup poll revealed that Americans preferred wine over beer. And, earlier this year, the U.S. passed France as the world's biggest market for wine for the first time.
In 2004, Alexander Payne's "Sideways," set in Santa Barbara County Wine Country, became a sleeper hit. The film grossed over $100 million on a $16 million budget, it was feted by critics, and everyone involved received myriad award nominations--and the film won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In the film, Paul Giamatti's character is a wine connoisseur named Miles Raymond, and he bashes Merlot while praising Pinot Noir. Years later, a study conducted by Steven S. Cuellar, an associate professor of economics at Sonoma State University and senior research economist at Sonoma Research Associates, Dan Karnowsky, president of Sonoma Research Associates, and Frederick Acosta, research associate at Sonoma Research Associates, found that after the movie's release in 2004, Pinot Noir sales increased precipitously, while Merlot sales fell.
In addition, 856 gallons of wine were consumed in the U.S. in 2012, according to the Wine Institute. In 2002--just a decade earlier--that number was 617 million.
Like Fuller, Lori Koch was also part of the wine boom, and she's now been into wine for about a decade. She prefers dry wines, and her favorite selection at the tasting was the Mill Street Red--which Cannon River calls semi dry. Her personal favorite wine, however, is Apothic Red, and she said she "enjoys the experience of (wine tasting)--people are happy."
Also fancying the Mill Street Red was Shawna Asendorf, a longtime wine-drinker who sticks with reds. "It's fun to try new wines," she said. One of her usual favorites is the Menage a Trois California Red.
On the opposite end of the spectrum from Lori Koch was Beth Koch, who disdains dry wines. During the July 9 tasting, she preferred the semi sweet Dottie's Angel from Buffalo Rock Winery. "I like sweet wines, like a Moscato or a Riesling," she said.
Fuller said she's already been to three of the wineries represented at the July 9 tasting--Saint Croix Vineyards, Carlos Creek Winery, and Cannon River Winery. "Carlos Creek is the best experience; they know what people enjoy, because they've been doing it so long."
Ryan Anderson can be reached at randerson@stjamesnews and followed on Twitter @randerson_ryan


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Genesis, the Bible's first book, starts with a creation story that portrays God as creating the universe in six days. The 36-verse account constitutes a mini-theological treatise on divine sovereignty, not one on scientific origins. It portrays "the origination and ordering of all that is by the sovereign, initiating will of the Creator."1 It underscores the power of God's word.
Although remarkably simple, this creation story is far more sophisticated than most other ancient creation accounts. Quite noticeable is the absence of monsters being slain or gods arising from slime. There is no manual shaping of existing materials. "Instead, the divine action is simply one of speaking, of command. Yahweh's word is the power at the heart of the world's existence."2
This word is good, creating only good. The everyday experiences of the ancient peoples seemed to support the notion of dualism, the idea of perpetual conflict between the forces of good and evil. Even their perspective on creation reflects this conflict. For them duality is built into the substance of reality. Yet the theological teaching of this opening Genesis story of creation rejects duality. "It is very likely that the repeated affirmation that the work is good, said of individual works and the whole, is a denial that the evil principle of dualism is a constitutive element of creation."3 When God looks at the totality of what he made, he pronounces it collectively to be "very good." This occurs in the climactic seventh, and final, divine pronouncement (Gn 1:31). "There is no evil, only beauty in the world that God makes."4
Genesis was composed by several authors. Working independently, each one collected traditions that formed part of the consciousness of the Hebrew people and wrote his own pre-history of Israel. An editor interwove the three pre-histories into a consecutive narrative. The three authors were the Yahwist, so named because he constantly refers to God as Yahweh, the Elohist who prefers Elohim,5 and the Priestly author, who demonstrates a preoccupation with the worship of Israel.6
Modern biblical scholars have attempted to separate the writings of these three authors. They attribute the introductory creation story, which offers a day-by-day account of the creation of the universe, to the Priestly author. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep and God's spirit hovered over the water. God said, 'Let there be light', and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light 'day,' and darkness he called 'night.' Evening came and morning came: the first day" (Gn 1:1-5).7
The author does not fancy himself an astrophysicist. He does not envision billion- or million-year days or even thousand-year days, as we find in Psalm 90:4. "To you a thousand years are a single day. . . ." The Priestly author has in mind 24-hour days, because he constantly mentions evenings followed by mornings: "Evening came and morning came." He repeats this refrain six times with the six days of creation. In Judaism a day begins with sunset. This is important for Jewish holy days and for the observance of the Sabbath. "The Jewish Day of Rest always starts with the preceding evening."8
Since the Priestly author presents God as creating the universe in six calendar days, does that mean he thinks such is what literally happened? Probably not. Some Fundamentalist Christians take Genesis literally and hold that God actually did create the cosmos in six-calendar days. But this was not likely the Priestly writer's view. A Hebrew priest, he is deeply concerned about the worship of Israel. He wishes to remind the Hebrew people of their obligation, spelled out in the Commandments, to rest on the Sabbath day and worship the Lord. To dramatize this duty, he depicts God as providing the example of rest.9 Preaching a powerful, dramatic sermon, the Priestly author portrays God as working for six days, then taking a day off. "God's Sabbath is. . .the climax of the story. . . ."10
"Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array. On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he had rested after all his work of creating" (Gn 2:1-4)."11
For homiletic reasons it was important for the Priestly writer to portray God as creating the universe in six days. But did God really do so? Did the creation of the cosmos actually occur in a six-day time period? Apparently not. Current astrophysical theory teaches that some fourteen to sixteen billion years ago the sum of the energy and matter that constitutes our current universe was mind-bogglingly condensed into a ball the size of a cherry. This tiny bit of matter, therefore, had a mass equal to that of the entire universe. "The density was so great that its energy made it explode, scattering outward, spinning and crashing and expanding on and on until today."12 The universe results from that cosmic explosion, with Cro-Magnon man appearing 50,000 years ago. God did not create the universe in six calendar days — unless six days equal 15 billion years.
Actually, they just might — depending on perspective. This conclusion can be drawn from Einstein's teaching on relativity, according to physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder, author of The Science of God, the authority behind the remainder of this article.13 In 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of relativity, according to which gravity and velocity alter the rate at which time passes. This theory has now been upgraded to the law of relativity because it has been tested and verified on thousands of occasions. It can be applied to the story of creation.14
When scientists today attempt to determine the universe's age, they calculate backwards from the present, thinking in terms of Earth time as experienced. They obtain a figure of roughly 15 billion years.15 This number is correct but not absolute. Normally, the Bible uses the Earth time perspective, but not for creation, Schroeder suggests. "The Bible's clock before Adam is not. . .tied to any one location. It. . .looks forward in time from the creation, encompassing the entire universe, a universal clock tuned to the cosmic radiation at the moment when matter formed. That cosmic timepiece, as observed today, ticks a million million times more slowly than at its inception. The million millionfold stretching of radiation. . .caused that million-million-to-one ratio in this perception of time."16
According to Schroeder, the passage of one minute on the cosmic clock is equivalent to a million times a million minutes of Earth time. At that rate the 120 million calendar years during which dinosaurs ruled the Earth are reducible to one hour on the cosmic clock. Likewise, the age of the universe is reducible to six days. "In terms of days and years and millennia, this stretching of the cosmic perception of time by a factor of a million million, the division of 15 billion years by a million million reduces those 15 billion years to six days."17
What does this mean? "Genesis and science are both correct. When one asks if six days or 15 billion years have passed before the appearance of humankind, the answer is 'yes.'" So says Schroeder.18
Dr. Gerald Schroeder taught several years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after earning three physics degrees there, including the Ph.D. Currently, he teaches at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Reaching the conclusion that six calendar days equals approximately 15 billion years requires a deeper understanding of the universe than routine experience conveys.
To illustrate, consider how fast you are traveling as you read this article. If you are at the equator, you are moving 1,000 miles per hour. Why? Because the Earth is roughly 24,000 miles in circumference there and spins completely around every 24 hours. If you are in the United States, where the Earth's circumference is smaller, you might be traveling only 800 miles per hour. More, depending on your exact location.
But that is only one dimension of your current traveling. The Earth not only spins, it travels continuously around the sun, completing one journey in roughly 365 days. To achieve that, it needs to move 20 miles per second or 72,000 miles per hour. How does it feel to be moving that fast?
There is more. "[T]he entire solar system. . .is hurtling around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, at 10 times that speed."19 That means we are racing through space at 720,000 miles per hour. And you felt motionless in your chair.
A deep understanding of our physical universe teaches us, contrary to appearance, that everything is relative except the speed at which light travels: 180,000 miles per second. Weight, for example, is relative. A man weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh 25 pounds on the moon and hypothetically (burning hot!), 4,500 pounds on the sun. Why? Because gravity on the moon is one sixth as strong as it is on the Earth, but on the sun 30 times stronger.
Time is relative. "Just as gravity affects the weight of mass, it also affects the flow of time, but at a much less dramatic rate."20 That is why someone of Einstein's intellect was needed to uncover this law of nature. The greater the gravity, the slower time passes. A year on the sun is 67 Earth seconds longer than one on Earth. This can be determined by checking waves of light coming from the sun. They pass by a tiny bit more slowly than identical light waves generated on Earth. While the sun-generated waves travel at the same speed as Earth ones, the space between their peaks is longer.21 Hence, they pass a given point less frequently. This is critical because the universe has its own clock. The frequency of light waves22 generated, light pulsations, are its clock.23
If gravity affects the passage of time, so does velocity. Time passes more slowly in a place experiencing higher velocity than in one experiencing lower velocity. As a result the duration between heartbeats, or the time it takes for a tomato to ripen, in a high gravity or high velocity environment is longer than it is in a low gravity or low velocity environment. "These differences in time's passage are known as time dilation."24
Because of time dilation, six days can equal 15 billion years. Looking backward toward the Big Bang from today's 2009 vantage point, one realizes that the farther back one goes, i.e., the closer to the moment of the Big Bang, the faster the "ticks" of the cosmic clock are generated. Light/radiation waves shrink as the universe becomes smaller and smaller. Eventually the ticks cannot be separated. They just blur together. Counting them up mentally one realizes that 10 to 20 billion years have elapsed from our vantage point between the present moment and the Big Bang. But, from the perspective of the Big Bang looking outward and forward, only six days have passed. We are now in the seventh.
Looking outward and forward, the "ticks" of the cosmic clock were "heard" less and less frequently. As the light/radiation waves became more "diffused" or "dilated," elongated with the expansion of the universe,25 their peaks drifted farther apart. If one could add them up from the Big Bang perspective, one would notice that only six days have passed.
Whereas the duration of day one of creation (post Big Bang), 2014 Earth perspective, is about eight billion years, successive days are smaller. Day two is about four billion years, day three about two billion, etc. Together, the six days of creation equal approximately 15 or 16 billion years.26
It is easy to claim that 15 billion years equals six days. But, how do we really know? Dr. Schroeder explains that when the building blocks of matter first appeared, the moment of quark confinement, 0.00001 seconds after the Big Bang, the universe was extremely small: about a million million times more dimunitive than it is today. Since that time, radiation "has been stretched a million-millionfold. . . .That stretching of the light waves has slowed the frequency of the cosmic clock — expanded the perceived time between ticks of that clock — by a million million."27
What scientific proof is there that light/radiation waves have stretched a million million times? There is laboratory evidence. When physicists contrast the currently measurable temperature of the universe in the black of space with the known temperature at which the building blocks of the universe, protons and neutrons were formed (the moment of quark confinement) through highly advanced lab experiments, they observe that the black of space, at minus 270 degrees Celsius, is a million times a million cooler. Since there is a correspondence between temperature and radiation frequency, they conclude that the radiation waves in the dark of space are stretched out approximately a million million times.28
The radiation in question here is Cosmic Background Radiation (C.B.R.), which constitutes the ultimate clock of the cosmos.29 Its light has been preserved in the universe since its origin in the Big Bang and is a remnant or echo of the Big Bang. It currently "fills the entire universe, unrelated to any particular source. . ."30 such as stars.
It constitutes scientific proof that the Bible is "literally" correct. Looking forward and outward from the moment of creation, the universe was created in six days. In portraying God as creating the universe in six days, the Priestly author may not have intended to issue a scientifically accurate statement. Yet, it would seem that, in a certain sense, he did.31
2 Bernard Cooke, Power and the Spirit of God (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 128.
3 John L. McKenzie, A Theology of the Old Testament (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday 1974), p. 189.
4 Richard J. Clifford and Roland E. Murphy, "Genesis," in The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, ed. Raymond E. Brown, et al. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1990), p. 11.
5 In his creation story, the Priestly author also uses the name "Elohim." "Elohim is the supreme ruler of the world, not merely the private god of a small group of people." H. Keith Beebe, The Old Testament: An Introduction to Its Literary, Historical, and Religious Traditions (Belmont, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing, 1970), p. 367.
6 The Priestly account may have been the last of the three Genesis pre-histories to be written, finalized perhaps "in the 5th century B.C. when Israel was re-established in Canaan following the Exile." Cf. Bebe, p. 117. The Priestly creation story is replete with sonorous refrains and stately rhythms, suggesting many years of liturgical usage. It shows "intense theological reflection over a period of many generations." Cf. Anderson, p. 426.
7 Alexander Jones, gen. ed. The Jerusalem Bible, New York: Doubleday, 1966. All my Scripture quotations are taken from this version.
8 Leo Trepp, Judaism: Development and Life (Belmont, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing, 1966), p. 157. "Traditionally the Sabbath is ushered in at sunset." Ibid., p. 158.
9 "God keeps the sabbath, establishing the divine order that Israel will observe by its sabbath. This day is hallowed because God made it so." Cf. Clifford, "Genesis," p. 11. "The arrangement, evidently artificial, of the picture of creation as six days of work (for eight works) with a seventh-day rest is simply an imaginative way of expressing the fact that the Sabbath observance also is willed by God." Cf. Edward Lovely and Howard Sorenson, "Creation: In the Bible," New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C.: Gale, 2003), vol. 4, p. 340. The Jewish people must repeatedly consecrate their lives to God and do so by regular worship on the day of rest. Pope John Paul II writes: "Genesis gives us the first 'gospel of work.' We should imitate God in working and resting, created as we are in the image of God." Cf. On Human Work: Laborem Exercens, No. 25; in John Paul II, The Encyclicals in Everyday Language, ed. Joseph Donders (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1996), p. 67.
10 Clifford, "Genesis," p. 10.
11 By portraying God as resting on the seventh day, consistent with the institution of the Sabbath that occurs during the Mosaic period, the Priestly author suggests that the many days of human life are meaningful. They are "embraced within God's purpose, not only for Israel but for all mankind. God claims this one segment of time as holy, and thereby endows all time with ultimate meaning." Cf. Anderson, p. 429.
12 Michael Barnes, In the Presence of Mystery, 3rd ed. (Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, 2003), p. 72.
13 Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom (New York: The Free Press, 1997), p. 47.
14 Biochemist Professor Michael J. Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, writes on the jacket of Schroeder's book: "Using Einstein's theory of relativity, Schroeder demonstrates the surprising compatibility of the ancient universe revealed by science with the six-day creation timetable of Genesis."
15 The universe is anywhere between 10 and 20 billion years old. Cf. Schroeder, Science, p. 42.
16 Ibid., p. 58
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., p. 44.
20 Ibid., p. 48.
21 Ibid., p. 50 "Waves of sunlight reaching the Earth are stretched longer by 2.12 parts in a million relative to similar light waves generated on Earth. That stretching of the light waves means that the rate at which they reach us is lowered by 2.12 parts per million. . . . The 2.12 parts per million equals 67 seconds per year. . . ."
22 "[V]isible light is only one particular band of wavelengths in a nearly infinite range of electromagnetic radiations all of which travel at the same speed: the speed of light (c = 300 million meters per second in a vacuum)." Ibid. p. 52. Light can be viewed as both particles and waves. The wave aspect of light allows scientists to measure time over cosmic distances.
23 The clock of the universe is the light of the universe. Each wave of light is a tick of the cosmic clock. The frequencies of light waves are the timepieces of the universe. Ibid., p. 50.
24 Ibid., p. 47.
25 The universe has stretched out enormously since the Big Bang, mind-bogglingly so. This carries with it implications for the cosmic clock. "Waves of radiation that have propagated in space since the early universe have been stretched, expanded, by the same proportion that the universe has expanded. For example, as the universe doubled in size, the distance between wave crests (and hence the time between ticks of its clock) also doubled as the wave was stretched by the expanding space. For that clock, time would be passing at half the original rate." Ibid., p. 54.
26 Ibid., p. 66-69.
27 Ibid., p. 57.
28 "We know the temperature and hence the frequency of radiation energy in the universe at quark confinement. It is not a value extrapolated or estimated from conditions in the distant past or far out in space. It is measured right here on Earth in the most advanced physics laboratories and corresponds to a temperature approximately a million million times hotter than the current 3 degrees K black of space. That radiant energy had a frequency a million million times greater than the radiation of today's cosmic background radiation." Ibid., p. 57. Elsewhere Schroeder writes: "The frigid (-270 degrees Celsius) cosmic background radiation observed in all directions of the sky is the stretched radiation left from the immense heat of the big bang when the universe was tiny." Ibid., p. 54.
29 "Its wave frequency is the rate at which the cosmic clock ticks." Ibid., p. 61. "CBR frequency forms the basis of cosmic proper time. . . ." Ibid., p. 53.
30 Ibid., p. 53
31 Romano Guardini tries to convey the idea of eternity. He points out that mechanical or clock time is different from the time experienced or not experienced in the living out of momentous or rapturous events. He states that if the unfolding of an endless series of events were compressed into a flash and all the timeless moments of great content were intensified so that all activities were simultaneous and no boredom was ever able to enter, then one would have eternity. "Eternity, then, would be a state of life in which nothing just passes by, but all is simultaneously present in which there is no succession of moments and events, but simultaneous happening only, yet which on account of the momentousness of the content and the intensity and perfection of experience precludes tedium." Cf. Romano Guardini: The Last Things, trans. Charlotte Forsyth and Grace Bronhan (New York: Pantheon Books, 1954), p. 104. Just as Guardini's reflections provide a little insight into eternity, though not much, so Schroeder's underscoring of the relativity of time also perhaps offers a little light.
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SAN JOSE — An electrical fire critically burned two men early Saturday as they were hooking up power to a circuit panel, firefighters said.
San Jose firefighters were dispatched at 9 a.m. to the scene at 71 Daggett Drive near Montague Expressway and North First Street to a report of two men unconscious after a flash fire, said San Jose fire Capt. Reggie Williams.
The men had been doing some electrical work on the property, connecting the main building to the electrical panel, Williams said.
"Some kind of flash fire occurred at the electrical box," Williams said. "I don't know if they crossed wires or what. It set both of the workers on fire. They were able to exit the immediate location and roll around on the ground to put the fire out."
When firefighters arrived, they found one of the men on the ground and the other walking around, Williams said. Both men suffered first- and second-degree burns on more than 30 percent of their bodies, he said. They were taken to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center burn unit in critical condition, he said.
There was no damage to the building other than to the electrical box, and no other injuries, Williams said. The men were not identified.
San Jose police, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and the California division of Occupational Safety and Health were called in to investigate, Williams said.
Biotechnology company Finesse Solutions LLC announced in June 2009 that it was moving from Santa Clara to that San Jose address as part of a business expansion. But company representatives could not be reached for comment Saturday, and it was unclear whether the men were working for Finesse.
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Robin Blandford necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Decisions For Heroes is a rescue team management web application. Users will include teams of Mountain Rescue, Search & Rescue, Lifeboats, Coast Guard, K9 Search etc.
We need a logo / brand.
Decisions For Heroes
Website http://www.decisionsforheroes.com
The product line is "Decisions", we will have variations, e.g. Decisions For Heroes, Decisions For Adventurers, Decisions For Builders, Decisions For Drivers, Decisions For Miners. etc.
You can think of us like a combination of 37Signals Basecamp and Google Analytics for "DANGER!". We help rescue teams plan their training, equipment, roster, members qualifications. We log their incidents and produce their paperwork for them. We then take all that data and analyse it to try and discover trends and patterns. No matter what the product is, our brand would look great on "the side of a helicopter" or on a rescuers helmet, or the side of a jeep, or "on a mobile handset".
The logo should ONLY use the word "Decisions". The products will all feature the same logo but we may change a colour, or add a line underneath for each. Not a worry at this point, but do not use the "For Heroes" in the logo, yet it should embody that feeling.
See these 3 posts of mine (and comments), as I explored the concept, tried a few drafts, but never found it.
In this final one, I really liked the 'D', but never found a way to make it irreverent enough. It's too corporate. I tried 'wings' like a hero, but was too AirForce.
I will be featuring the winning design (and process) on my blog. The commenter's you see there will be encouraged to help me vote on theprocess here.
This is the closest I got to really liking something
Here's some imagery to get you thinking of locations:
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- Flickr Set of local teamI use Adobe Photoshop and want to be able to edit the final version in it. This is to enable me to customise colours or taglines for different product models. I know my way around - and would like the file as a vector still in layers. Cheers!
- Only say "Decisions" (leave out "for heroes" as explained above). This logo should be very adaptable but say the following.- Irreverent
- Anti-Enterprise
- Simple
- not-complicated
- easy
- friendly
- we're human
- approachable.
- yet still... lots of Data/professional/accurate/safe-bet/great service.
- Used mainly on web, but suitable for multiple mediums... vehicle stickers, helmet stickers, etc.
- Web/print logo can have gradients/multi-colour, but it should be possible to print in B&W. Should be possible to work on light & dark backgrounds.
- Very simple design that looks great very small (e.g. icon) without the text. Can be 'cut out'.
- I like the font Diavlo book/medium as it shows precision, but I'm not stuck on it.
- Bold. Bright.
- OOoooooomph! (oomph and vision!)Brands I like include Virgin and the way they have all their sub brands. Virgin's brand embody a lot of the same things as I would like to see in mine, including the ability to adapt to other industries.
- corporate
- enterprise
- banking
- complicated
- football crest
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- cliche / stereotypes
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DARWIN, Australia (AP) — A 26-year-old birthday party goer has been snatched by a 5-meter (16-foot) crocodile while swimming in a notorious habitat of the dangerous reptiles, police said on Sunday.
The man, whose name has not been released, was celebrating a friend's 30th birthday on Saturday at the Mary River Wilderness Retreat, an Outback tourist destination 70 miles (110 kilometers) southeast of the Northern Territory capital Darwin, the victim's hometown, Senior Sergeant Geoff Bahnert said.
The victim and another man had gone swimming across the river. The pair were swimming back when the crocodile attacked, he said.
"Several of the group in the party witnessed the male being taken in the jaws of the croc for a period of time, and then he was out of sight," Bahnert said.
"The Mary River is known worldwide to have the greatest saturation of adult saltwater crocodiles in the world. You don't swim in the Mary River," he said.
Alcohol may have played a part in the decision to swim, he said.
Police and a government crocodile management team arrived at the resort late Saturday, and an officer shot one of the largest crocodiles found in the area for the safety of searchers, he said.
It was not yet known if it was the killer crocodile.
Teams were dragging the river in search of remains, Bahnert said.
"The advice to tourists is to come, look, take photographs and stay out of the water," he added.
Crocodile numbers have exploded across Australia's tropical north since the species was protected by federal law in 1971. The crocodile population is densest in the Northern Territory and is promoted as a major tourist attraction.


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1WeddingSource needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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SpeedyTOC.com will be the leading affiliate for Goldratt Marketing Info Products. TOC stands for Theory of Constraints (TOC). Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt in his 1984 book titled The Goal, that is geared to help organizations continually achieve their goal.[1] The title comes from the contention that any manageable system is limited in achieving more of its goal by a very small number of constraints, and that there is always at least one constraint. The TOC process seeks to identify the one constraint and restructure the rest of the organization around it.
Our audience is typically CEOs of large and small businesses, consultants, teachers & professors, lawyers, doctors, mostly post graduate degree's.
The colors of our website will be dictated by our logo selection (so please pick elegant/business professional colors) We probably want to use a white background.
We are looking for a classy font - however nothing cursive.
The font should read SpeedyTOC.com
TOC "Theory of Constraints" is an overall management philosophy introduced by Dr. Goldratt in his 1984 introduced in his book "The Goal". Since the theory is based around identifying the ONE Constraint that is preventing the organization from achieving its goal - We would like to display this in our LOGO. Maybe like a chain with a BROKEN link or something. You can be creative here.
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Actually...at another forum I go to...the size limit for pictures is 300 pixels high...it seems pretty reasonable.
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The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained II
If the Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained left you wondering and questioning the unknown, then you will find The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained II even more intriguing and shocking. The stories contained in this book are more fascinating miracle and near-death experiences, the bizarre, unexplained mysteries, the unusual, and legends.
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If the Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained left you wondering and questioning the unknown, then you will find The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained II even more intriguing and shocking. The stories contained in this book are more fascinating miracle and near-death experiences, the bizarre, unexplained mysteries, the unusual, and legends. This is a collection of true account short stories.
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The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained III
Everyone loves a good mystery. This third book of the series features many incredible stories and also several photographs of images possibly from the spirit world taken by various individuals. The ghost farm, a haunted plantation, a haunted insane asylum, haunted houses and haunted woods are just a few of the stories contained in this book. This book also contains more captivating miracle and near-death experiences.
Safari Time 2
Safari Time 2 takes you on an exotic safari through Safari's Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Safari Joe's exotic zoo in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, The Oklahoma City Zoo, The Tulsa Zoo, a llama farm in Jenks, Oklahoma, and a miniature horse farm in Trenton, Texas. It features over 100 close-up color photographs (taken with a special 300 zoom lens) of different animals and baby animals too!
My Hound Dog
Dawn is nine years old and new in town. She is still trying to fit in with the girls from her school. She is invited to a slumber party by one of the girls. All of the girls at the slumber party are a year older than Dawn and play a mean joke on her at the party. They begin to bully her at school too. Dawn has a Beagle named Hound Dog that she has been training to track scents and do search and rescues.
The Forest Is Alive
The Forest is Alive is a charming fairy tale about The Enchanted Forest of Rising Moon Lake. A large white wolf named Frost is the leader of the forest. Three black wolves that are troublemakers named Dark, Dusk and Shade plan an attack on Frost to become the leaders of the forest. A little blue dragon named Sparky is practicing to breathe fire. He sets the forest on fire!
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Have you ever lived in a house that you thought was haunted? Did strange things happen all the time in the house? You are not alone. Read the true stories of individuals who have experienced these strange occurrences; some have even witnessed apparitions. Do you believe in ghosts? If you like mysteries and spooky stories you will enjoy more creepy tales of the unexplained.
Drake's Pond
Drake's Pond is a lovely story about Drake, Misty and their three ducklings that live in a beautiful park with two ponds in Whitewright, Texas. Drake is the ruler of the park. There are lots of other animals that live in the park and all around the park.
Safari Time
Safari Time takes you on a wild safari adventure through The Ft. Worth Zoo, The Dallas Zoo, The San Antonio Zoo, The Lyndon B. Johnson State Park outside of Johnson City, Texas, The Kiamichi Mountains in Oklahoma, Exotic Resort Zoo in Johnson City, Texas, animals in the wild at Fredericksburg, Texas, The Dallas Aquarium and The Corpus Christi Aquarium.
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Congo and Will is a captivating story about a Congo African Grey Parrot named Congo and a little boy named Will. The story takes place in Africa with adventure and excitement in the Congo Basin Rainforest, Congo River, and a small African village by the ocean.
Ammon The Genie
Ammon the genie is 5,000 years old, and he is buried in his genie lamp deep in the sand somewhere in the desert of Egypt. His previous master was the one that trapped him in his lamp, and he buried him in the sand. His master became angry with him because he would not do something bad that his master wanted. Almost one hundred years later, a young girl named Nile digs up his lamp from the sand, and she becomes his new master.
Anna The Cockatiel
Anna, a female cockatiel, narrates this delightful children's book from the time she hatched out of her tiny white egg and popped into this world. A bully named Blue that is a Blue Quaker parrot attacks Anna and pulls out all of her pretty long tail feathers. In order to save Anna from being bullied, her owner has to find her a new home. Her owner gives her to her best friend that lives in Texas.
Secret Mystic Island
There is a powerful tropical storm, and giant waves are crashing onto Mystic Island in the middle of the sea. A large ship is torn apart by the huge storm, and items from the ship start washing up on the beach of the magical island. Mystic the mermaid lives on the island along with three other mermaids. After the storm, Mystic finds and rescues a little baby girl from the sea.
Run Wild, Run Free Again
Run Wild, Run Free Again is an inspiring story about a herd of beautiful wild horses that have lived on Mustang Island by the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. The leader of the herd of wild horses is a gorgeous white stallion named Spirit.
The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained
This book contains seventy-two true account short stories! The most comprehensive compilation of the bizarre, the unexplained, and supernatural experiences. A must read for anyone with an interest in E.S.P., life after death, ghosts, angels, or other matters not currently fully explainable by resort to the laws of science.
Thunder & Lightning
Thunder & Lightning is an endearing story about a beautiful Paint horse named Thunder, a Missouri Fox Trotter named Lightning, and an Australian Shepherd named Oreo owned by a woman named Dakota. They live at Sardis Lake in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma.
Monkey Islands
Chaz and Charo are two teenagers out for an adventure in a canoe on the Amazon River in South America. They are caught in a sudden storm, and the river begins to rage. They hold on tight and try to keep the canoe from tipping over. The canoe is traveling at a high rate of speed as they are swept down the river for many hours. The next day, the canoe hits a tree and breaks the canoe in half.
Mango & Kiwi
Mango and Kiwi is a heartwarming adventure about a Sun Conure named Mango and a sweet Double Yellow-Headed Amazon Parrot named Kiwi that likes to talk and loves to dance. Their owner Trina bought both of them at a Bird Fair in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story takes place at Keystone Lake and The Illinois River in Oklahoma. Trina has a black Chow named Smoke, a Paint horse named Splash, and several other pets.
Kahuna The Magician
Kahuna is a great magician that lives on a beautiful island in Hawaii. He performs magic shows and stunts for the local Hawaiians and the visiting tourists. He shocks the crowds with his incredible and daring stunts. Kahuna in Hawaiian means "a secret." Kahuna has a big secret that he is keeping from everyone.
Angel The Great Pyrenees
Angel The Great Pyrenees is a charming true story for children about Angel being lost in Sherman, Texas. Angel is very scared, hungry and thirsty. A dogcatcher finds her drinking out of a creek. He catches her with a large net and brings her to an animal shelter in Sherman. A nice woman comes to the shelter and adopts Angel. Angel is a gentle giant and explores her new home as she recovers from being so thin that her bones were sticking out.
Sugar's Farm
Sugar's Farm is an exciting and heartwarming story of a young girl's adventures on her farm in the country. You will meet Sugar, her animals and many wild animals too. She has a huge spotted black and white Great Dane named Giant, and a Collie named Biscuit. Sugar's father buys her two horses for her graduation from the ninth grade. She names her white horse Jewel, and she names her black horse Stud.
Molly & Magnum
Molly & Magnum is a fun and exciting adventure about Molly, a Blue-And-Gold Macaw, and her best friend, Magnum, a Great Dane. Their owner, Mindy, loves the outdoors and also loves animals. Mindy's family continues to grow with even more animals and birds. Mindy's life goes from being sad and lonely to being full of joy and happiness.
Blizzard & Snowball
Guy is walking home from school, and he witnesses someone throwing a black trash bag out the window of a speeding car. He sees that the trash bag is moving. He rushes over to the trash bag and rips it open as fast as he can. What he finds in the trash bag is shocking! There are two little Siberian Husky puppies in the bag. They are cute little balls of fur. He picks both of the puppies up and runs home with them.
Gidget, Pebbles & Nicki
This children's book is a touching true story about three little Yorkshire Terriers. Gidget gets pregnant by her sweet love, Tommy. Tommy is the smallest and cutest male Yorkie you have ever seen. A puppy gets stuck in the birth canal during labor, and Gidget has to be rushed to the animal hospital. Gidget has emergency surgery, and a tiny black puppy named Pebbles is born.
Callie The Calico Kitty
Callie narrates this sweet and adorable story of her new country life after she was adopted. The book features 38 color photographs of Callie wearing different outfits, hats and wigs! Callie learns all about country animals as she bonds with her new big brother, a black Labrador Retriever named Peanut.


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allyourentertainment needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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All Your Entertainment
Agency and Event Management.
Booking performers such as singers, dancers, bands, magicians etc.
Event management, handling venue hire, catering, light and sound etc.
80% of our business is booking acts. Our preference in regards to the logo, is to focus more on the agency and the booking of acts.
A fun looking logo with depth, possibly 3D that will look pleasing to a corporate clients eye.
We are happy to explore the options of a cool / cute character / mascot ( possibly with an entertainment feel ) open to all ideas.
Shading and depth to the logo would be preferred.
A look of luxury and exclusivity, we want to portray an image of higher value with this logo. No clip art looking logos.
We market to top companies and executives and want a logo that will exude quality and class.
Looking for a logo but you can use the " All Your Entertainment " wording alongside the logo.
Possibly some ideas regarding a character for this company. If you are to use one letter it would be " E " and all three words " all your entertainment " are equally important.
Very modern, highend. Chrome, liquid mercury, floating in space. Complex yet elegant.
Open to all ideas even if you don't follow the brief, just get creative and if is exudes class then the prize could be yours.
Demographics - high end corpoate business executives, those with enough money to throw lavish private parties, professionals aged 25- 65, educated people that like to let their hair down and when they do they demand the best of the best.
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Della, I seem to remember reading somewhere on the board (and now cannot find it!) that Caithness seconds were marked CIIG - someone else may be able to confirm this for you.
The original was design number CT40 (they stopped using design numbers in 1998) and was made in Green, Purple and Red.
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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is the fourth and culminating module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Student teams use information and resources from the other three modules in the project suite to create a 3D interactive solar exhibit to... (View More) educate others about the Sun and how SDO informs scientists about the Sun's activity, structures and features, and Earth-Sun interactions. Students then self-evaluate their team's solar exhibit. Both a teacher and student guide are included, as well as tools for students to self-direct and track project process, and record reflections and information. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This textbook chapter presents a real case study involving the the logging of an old stand forest from three perspectives, that of the environmentalists, the wood products industry, and a politician. An associated writing activity engages students... (View More) in reviewing the different viewpoints, and writing a "letter to the editor" for or against the logging of old growth forest. This is chapter 3 in the unit, A New World View, which introduces global systems science, emphasizing the concepts of environmental diversity, Earth as a system, and sustainability. The resource includes a textbook chapter, integrated hands-on and inquiry activities, links to current news articles, and a suite of pre- and post-unit assessments. A teacher's guide supports classroom use. The resource is part of Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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Harvey "Two Sheds" Blight on the Neighborhood
Let's have a look at the joys of living in suburbia, courtesy of Burbed reader PK. Thanks very much for the reminder why we should buy in the Real Bay Area, and only in the Real Bay Area.
San Mateo County orders property owner to remove two big sheds in his front yard
By Bonnie Eslinger, Daily News Staff Writer
The clock is ticking for Harvey Blight to remove two large sheds in front of his home near Menlo Park that officials say give the property a blighted look.
San Mateo County Deputy County Counsel Eugene Whitlock filed an abatement warrant Friday ordering Blight to get rid of the sheds he never received permission to build, in 30 days.
If he doesn't, the county would find someone to do the work and charge Blight for it, Whitlock said Monday, estimating that the cost could run up to $10,000.
Blight couldn't be reached for comment, but he left a voicemail message Tuesday night calling the county's move a "misuse of judicial power."
Oooh, this is gonna be good. But you know what would have been really good? A photo of the problematic portable storage. Fortunately, we have teh Google!
Um. Yeah.
Not sure that the two sheds (that would cost up to $10,000 to get rid of) were exactly worse than what was there before.
Unless the sheds were made out of the vehicles in this photo.
Let's check out the satellite photo and see if that's any better. And while we're at it, who wants to see the house?
615 11th Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(Fair Oaks)
$674,000 Trulia Estimate
2 bed
1 bath
760 sqft
Single-Family Home
Stories: 2 story
Parking: Detached Garage
Subdivision: NORTH FAIR OAKS NO 3
2 Bedrooms
Lot Size: 5,227 sqft
A/C: Central
Parking Spaces: 1
County: San Mateo
1 Bathroom
Built In 1940
Heating: Central
5 Rooms
Tax Rate Code Area: 73-023
615 11th Ave This Single-Family Home located at 615 11th Avenue, Menlo Park CA. 615 11th Ave has 2 beds, 1 bath, and approximately 760 square feet. The property has a lot size of 5,227 sqft and was built in 1940. The average listing price for similar homes for sale is $3,337,532 and the average sales price for similar recently sold homes is $687,817. 615 11th Ave is in the Fair Oaks neighborhood in Menlo Park, CA.
That's more like it. No permits, no picket fence, and plenty of pointing and yelling. Be sure to read the article for the Nazi Germany simile. Not too often that a news story gets Godwinned covering a permit issue.
Also the place is assessed for a whopping $44 grand, assuring the neighborhood that Harvey "Two Sheds" Blight isn't going anywhere.


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There is something so romantic about a floating house. Maybe it's because we imagine a sweet widower played by Tom Hanks and his precocious son living in one in Seattle. I don't know, what do you think? Anyway, I've found myself collecting images of float houses and houseboats on Pinterest lately and searching out float house designers to interview at my other gig over at Houzz. Here are five that caught my eye.
This brightly-colored houseboat has an ingenious turf roof. And yellow and blue make (grass) green. Simply charming in its simplicity and color palette.
Float houses are different than houseboats in that you don't actually drive them around the bay. They are tugged to their slips, usually in float house 'hoods and give a whole new meaning to living on the water — literal one. This one, designed by Ninebark Design Build and built by Dyna Contracting has one bedroom and one bathroom and a wonderful open living space with big views.
It was a little hard to track down much information about this house as I fell down a Pinterest rabbit hole trying to find out more, which led to nowhere. However, thanks to Google reverse search (thank you "Catfish" for helping me learn how to use that), it seems it was posted by inspiration green in a blog post. The cabin floats atop Perry Creek, near the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. I'll have to look for it this summer when I'm up there. I love the way they have created a container garden out in the middle of the water around their float home!
This amazing home in Portland, Oregon got its 15 minutes of fame on a recent episode of Portlandia. It was designed by architect Robert O'Shatz, who is a master of organic architecture. It was in the episode featuring Steve Buscemi as The Celery Guy and served as evil Bacon's house.
When I was visiting some friends who moor their boat in Georgetown, Maine last summer, I was struck by these romantic little float houses you can rent. They are towed out into the harbor at Robinhood Marina. I'd love to wake up surrounded by this beautiful place. Click here for more information on renting a snug little floating house.