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Real horse power on the American farm means the Suffolk draft horse. (See the Suffolk draft horse chart and horse photos in the image gallery).
Suffolk Draft Horse Farming
"Come up, gentlemen," says Jason Rutledge. The two red draft horses heave forward into their collars. The field cultivator—called a rear-end wiggler—lurches into motion.
Rutledge proceeds into the cornfield, drawn unerringly down the rows by two Suffolk Punch geldings. As each tautly muscled leg moves and plants a round hoof in the soil, it presses 1,600 pounds into the ground. A prodigiously powerful step, but delicate as these things are measured.
Rutledge holds the reins firm. "You've gotta stay in touch with a draft horse all the time," he says, and they move quietly through the cornfield while Rutledge tells them how well they're doing. Three thousand feet up on Copper Hill in the mountains south of Roanoke, Virginia, where he lives with his wife. Sally, and two youngsters, Rutledge "orders up" all of his 76 acres with these chestnut horses. It is quiet on the mountain, and the team, plodding through the cornfield, evokes idyllic memories, old photographs, times gone by.
But Rutledge will have none of that.
"I don't want to give the impression that I'm a complete eccentric," he says as the draft horses stop for a breather. "These animals have a place on the modern farm. Look down there."
Between the rows of corn the soil is soft, loose, moist. "Practically no soil compaction," Rutledge says and, satisfied he's made a point, sets off again behind the team.
An intense, muscular man of 36, Rutledge talks eloquently and often about the place of the draft horse on the farm today, especially the place of this particular kind of horse—the Suffolk Punch. Today he is one of the major breeders of this rarest of workhorses—there are fewer than 400 in the U.S., with another 200-odd in England. He owns more than 20, including a stallion and 12 brood mares. He points out that they're the only workhorses specifically bred for the farm. All the others derive from animals bred for military work—hauling knights in armor and, later, cannons.
Rutledge himself was in the military, the Navy, when he saw his first Suffolk. He was in England and saw a little boy leading a huge chestnut workhorse along a country road. Years later, he recalled the sight and felt driven to find out more about that powerful but docile horse.
What the sailor saw was a descendant of Crisp's horse of Ufford, a stallion foaled in 1768 and the foundation horse of the breed, making Suffolks among the oldest known breeds of heavy horses—certainly the breed with the oldest continuous studbook. They arose to fill the needs of farmers in the then remote area of England comprising Suffolk and Norwich counties, a region bordered on three sides by the North Sea and on the fourth by a boggy region called the Fens. For many years, there were practically no sales of the horses outside the area, so the breed remained pure—and relatively unknown.
What kind of draft horse did frugal English yeomen breed to take on the rigorous task of plowing their heavy, clay soil? For one thing, they look different, even to the untrained eye. They run true to color. They are all chestnut. The official association for these animals won't register one that isn't within some seven hues of chestnut, from gold to liver, or one that has any other color on it (except a small white blaze or star or a splash of white on the ankles or fetlocks). Compared to the Percherons and Clydesdales you've seen hauling beer wagons, these horses are smaller and rounder (hence the British word punch ). In a sense, they look friendlier.
An expert notices that they seem short of back and short of leg, with especially heavily muscled forearms and thighs. The shoulders are upright—positioned for power, not speed. Also, the forearms and thighs are comparatively longer than those of other workhorses. As a result, to extend their legs forward, Suffolks need to lift them two and a half to three degrees of angle less than another horse, a modification that promotes power and movement with less action. These are horses that aren't likely to get stuck in the mud. Too, their coats are smooth down to the hooves: no long hair near the ground to collect mud and dirt. A special advantage is that, being smaller, they eat considerably less than other breeds of heavy horses.
It was 1978 when Jason Rutledge and his wife. Sally, dreamed their "Suffolk dream" and bought a few mares from "the killer man," at the ominous place where horses stop off before becoming horse meat. One of the mares turned out to be pregnant, and two years later Jason and Sally found an Amish man who traded them a stallion for the colt.
Rutledge was born to farms and farming—he learned land lessons from his "grampaw," known as Uncle Willie and now in his 80s. "Farming's made up the majority of my income for 15 years," Rutledge says. "Hay's one of my main crops ... cabbage, tobacco. Got a little orchard, apples and some peaches." And, he adds, "I breed and sell Suffolks." He gets around $2,500 for what he calls an average purebred, but in truth, he says, "I'll take all the traffic will bear."
How powerful are the relatively small Suffolks? Rutledge takes some of his horses to pulling matches around Virginia and the surrounding states. Weighing in at about 1,600 pounds, they tend to be above the cutoff point (which is exactly 1,600 pounds), so they usually have to compete with the much larger heavyweights. So far, Rutledge's horses have not won in that class, but one of his teams has come in second, hauling 7,000 pounds of dead weight the required 26½ feet in the required time, only a few hundred pounds behind the winners.
Rutledge goes to the contests to make the breed better known. Suffolks almost disappeared in the 1950s when mechanized equipment virtually wiped workhorses off the farm altogether. Also, he confesses, those contests are "my kind of hot-rodding. You get those animals pulling 7,000 pounds, screeching along the ground ... that's a power trip."
Is it bad for the horses? "It can be, if you overdo it," says Rutledge. "Or if you don't have the right equipment." Each of his horses has its own collar, painstakingly fitted to produce the least friction on the animal's neck and shoulders—the same collar for pulling or farm work. No antiquarian, he uses specially designed nylon and leather harnesses. "Leather for where you need the harness to have a memory; nylon for give and strength." The nylon stretches, relieving the sudden shock in pulling, and it lasts longer.
Once, a woman came up to Rutledge to scold him for mistreating his horses by entering them in a pulling contest. Feisty as ever, he put his fingers in a circle on the horse's haunch. "See that?" he asked. "That's about the size of an Alpo dog food can. That's where this horse would be if he weren't out here. Do you suppose he'd rather be out here pulling and entertaining people or in the Alpo can?" Rutledge has pulled out of contests when he thought the conditions were wrong. "I don't ever want to hurt these animals." One of his Suffolks, obtained from another breeder, has a bobbed tail, a cosmetic custom that evidently makes the horses haunches look larger and more powerful. "That's just plain stupid cruelty," he explains in anger. "That's the end of their spinal column those (bleep) people cut off."
Rutledge speaks often of natural law, of every natural thing having a purpose, but has few good words to say about flies; he knows a horse without a tail suffers worse from them. He points upward to some turkey vultures circling an adjoining pasture. "See them? They eat carrion, clean up the place, sure, but did you know that anthrax bacillus can't make it through their digestive system? Everything has its role."
Weeds are a case in point. "You can't get rid of them, you can only control them." And because horses create the least amount of soil compaction, they are, to Rutledge, the best way to mechanically control weeds. Indeed, horses are a crucial aspect of all of those parts of the cycle that involve the central resource, topsoil. And Rutledge is a topsoil freak—for the very good reason that there isn't much of it on Copper Hill. Traditional moldboard plows—even though fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson invented them—are anathema, but the relatively gentle effects of cultivating fields with horses preserve topsoil against erosion.
It takes about 50 years to create an inch of topsoil, he points out, and weeds themselves play an important role—if the farmer adapts to their cycles. In the first place, some—like morning-glory and ragweed—are actually good for corn. But they also demand crop rotation. The first year, Rutledge says, after a field is freshly tilled from sod, you can get away with one cultivation. The second year you need to cultivate twice; the third, three times. Then the handwriting is on the wall. Let it go fallow. "Those weeds will grow up and down, and their roots will help bring nutrients up to the topsoil." And in the natural course of crop rotation, planting a field to pasture not only helps the land, but it grows the fuel needed for the horses.
Meanwhile, the horses are producing manure. "Manure isn't good for anything until you compost it. Then you've really got something." And once you reintroduce the workhorse into the equation, you are into a different kind of agricultural economics altogether. It's nearly impossible to assign certain costs of horses to any traditional (or recently traditional) category of farm economics. Take manure. Once you have the horses in the barn, Rutledge says, you've got to get the manure out of there. Is that a health-maintenance cost (like keeping a tractor greased)? When you take it out to the field, is that a transportation cost (the horses are going out there anyway)? And once it's spread on the field, is that a fertilization cost or a waste disposal cost or what? A horse is no perpetual motion machine, of course, and it may be more labor intensive. But if it does a significantly better job, Rutledge says, it pays for itself.
He's the first to point out a horse's limits. "For heavy tillage, a tractor is more efficient. But for most of the rest, on a small farm, horses will do the work and add value to the land. That's what I call appropriate technology." They become most efficient in extreme situations—and Rutledge shares the biblical wisdom of all farmers that an extreme is always around the corner. In times of drought or in times of heavy rains, the horse is at its very best, even for the occasional odd job. Rutledge speaks self-deprecatingly about the time he got a truck seriously mired thanks to a lapse in attention. The tractor was useless in the deep mud, but one of his Suffolks hauled the truck onto dry ground in minutes.
Furthermore, he points out, "you can use a horse on any land where it can stand up. A horse does fine on land that's got over a 12% slope. Use a tractor there and you can end up field pizza." Toward the end of a day, Rutledge hitches up a team of two-year-olds to a large wooden sled he built. "These boys don't know nuthin'," he says. "They're the equivalent of two 15-year-old kids."
Nevertheless, under Rutledge's guidance, they proceed with what could pass for horse wisdom along the edge of a field. Grinning, Rutledge scoops something up from the ground and holds it up. It's a wren's nest, made in part with chestnut colored hair. "See, it's a rare Suffolkbird nest."
Further along, beside a forested slope, are a dozen mammoth logs. "Sally counted the rings on that big oak. It's 158 years old. These boys hauled it out of there—up the slope—without any trouble." He stops to examine the slightly disturbed ground where the logs had been pulled out of the forest. "Horses are best for selective logging," he says, and indeed they are still widely used for that purpose. "Logging roads and big skidders just wreck the forest, especially in hilly country."
Thunderclouds begin to unfurl in the west, and the sun drops down. On the way back to the barn, Rutledge stops the horses every few yards and hops off the sled to collect the quartz rocks that dot the pasture.
As he tosses the large rocks on the sled, he summarizes his case for the workhorse. "They create fertilizer, not pollution. When you use horses, you get to keep what you made. You grow your own fuel. And a horse appreciates in value. They get better each year for nine years, then they level off till they're about 12. That's a lot different from a tractor. Soon as you get a tractor out of the sales room, you've lost money. And you don't ever get up in the morning and go into the barn and find a little baby tractor there, do you?"
He pauses and leans one elbow on a chestnut haunch. The sky begins to sprinkle lightly.
"These horses," he says. "They can be part of the job of stewardship. They'll leave this land better off than when I came here. We don't need any more mining of the soil. And they're one way of getting back to an old idea. It's called independence."
Back on the sled, Jason Rutledge and his young team set off toward the barn. He tells them what a good job they've done, and a visitor realizes another benefit Rutledge derives from his horses. Out in the fields, working in the quiet of his mountaintop— "playing with his horses," as his wife cheerfully puts it—he is never alone during the long day of the farmer.
Jake Page lives and writes in Waterford, Virginia. His latest project is a book about the Navajo, which will be published by Abrams.
The Draft Horse: The Farmer's Friend
The Suffolk is the only draft horse bred for farm work.
1. It has a docile temperament and a great willingness to work.
2. The short back and legs give the horse a good build for pulling.
3. Shoulders are upright—positioned for power, not speed.
4. Forearm and thigh muscles are especially long and strong.
5. An efficient keeper, it does more work on less feed.
6. The smooth coat on the legs doesn't collect dirt and mud.


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The Federal Aviation Administration expanded last week's warnings of flight delays at major airports due to furloughs of air traffic controllers, prompting a legal challenge from industry and pilots groups along with skepticism from Republicans in Congress who backed sequestration.
On Sunday, "there were approximately 400 delays in the system attributable to staffing reductions resulting from the furlough," the FAA said in a statement Monday. "The FAA is implementing traffic management initiatives at airports and facilities around the country. Travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays that will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather-related issues."
Areas hardest hit, the FAA said, include New York City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Jacksonville and Los Angeles. "Controllers will space planes farther apart so they can manage traffic with current staff, which will lead to delays at airports including New York's La Guardia Airport," the statement added. "The FAA is working with the airlines throughout the day to try and minimize delays for travelers."
FAA's website now features an interactive map
Meanwhile, the industry group Airlines for America on Friday took the legal step of filing a motion for a stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, seeking a 30-day delay in the furloughs and legislation for a long-term preventative measure. President and CEO Nicholas Calio said the agency has greater flexibility to avoid the cuts than it acknowledges. "The math simply does not work, and it is irresponsible to suggest that a 10 percent reduction of air traffic control hours should mean 40 percent fewer flights can arrive on time," Calio said. "It's unjust, unnecessary and completely irresponsible."
Other industry groups backed the suit, including the Air Line Pilots Association, International. "This is a unique situation," said its president Capt. Lee Moak. " Our entire aviation system will struggle to maintain normality due to furloughs of these essential workers. The economic viability of our country depends on this mode of transportation; everyone will be affected."
The groups were joined by the Regional Airline Association, which said in a statement that "the impact on our industry sector, especially our 160 million annual passengers, cannot be overstated." Regional airlines operate at least a quarter of the flights at each of the 14 airports FAA has identified for high operational delays, it said, "and at four of the eight most impacted airports, regionals fly more than one half the daily flights: Chicago O'Hare (64 percent), Minneapolis-St. Paul (54 percent), New York LaGuardia (52 percent) and Newark Liberty (51 percent)."
Airlines for America has set up a Web-based campaign (www.DontGroundAmerica.com), that asks airline customers, employees, families and friends to write to President Obama, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta to end the furloughs immediately.
One such letter was written on Friday by the Alexandria, Va.-based Global Business Travel Association, warning of lost jobs and cancelled business conferences. "GBTA clearly understands the requirements of sequestration," wrote the group's executive director Michael McCormick. "But we are very much alarmed by the list of airports and the expected delays. With Hartsfield-Jackson expected to see maximum delays of 210 minutes and Chicago O'Hare close behind, the impacted airports is a veritable hit list on the business travel industry. This policy will produce missed connections and widespread flight cancellations. If these disruptions unfold as predicted, business travelers will stay home, severely impacting not only the travel industry but the economy overall. It is just that simple."
On Capitol Hill, a top aide to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent out a Twitter item saying the FAA was making the furloughs as painful as possible. That charge was denied on Monday by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.


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This small butterfly is characteristic of southern chalk and limestone grassland but occurs in a variety of other open habitats as far north as north Wales and Yorkshire. It is a close relative of the Northern Brown Argus, which is restricted to Scotland and northern England.
The adults have a silvery appearance as they fly low to the ground and they stop frequently either to perch or feed on flowers. They may be confused with Common Blue females, which also have brown upperwings but usually with some blue at the base. It is also very similar to Northern Brown Argus which usually has no orange spots on forewing.
The butterfly spread rapidly in the mid-1990s but lost ground in the last three years of the twentieth century.
Size and Family
- Family: Blues
- Size: Small
- Wing Span Range (male to female): 29mm
Conservation status
- Butterfly Conservation priority: Low
- European status: Not threatened
Caterpillar Foodplants
Common Rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium) is used almost exclusively on calcareous grasslands. In other habitats it uses annual foodplants, mainly Dove's-foot Crane's-bill (Geranium molle) and Common Stork'-bill (Erodium cicutarium). There are also recent reports of egg-laying on Cut-leaved Crane's-bill (G. dissectum), Meadow Crane's-bill (G. pratense), and Hedgerow Crane's-bill (G. pyrenaicum).
The main habitats are chalk and limestone grassland. However, the butterfly can occur in a range of habitats with disturbed soils including coastal grassland and dunes, woodland clearings, heathland, disused railway lines and road verges.
- Countries: England, Wales
- Widespread in southern and central England as far north as Yorkshire. Less common and mainly coastal in Wales and south-west England.
- Distribution Trend Since 1970's = +16%.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please put your tray tables and seats in theirupright positions, and fasten your seat belt as we approach for landing.How many times have you heard this phrase? For those who spend more timein the air than on the ground, this may have become one of thoseannoying phrases you hear in your sleep. For those who have never beenon a plane, this is the final announcement made before an aircraft islanded.
Unfortunately while cruising around in your super Chevy, accidents dohappen. There are no lines of communication with anyone outside of yourdomain, no announcement to tell you, "You are about to get in anaccident--better fasten your seatbelt." While wearing a seat belt hasbecome the law in most states across the nation, people still refuse tobuckle-up.
Try this on for size. While at the drag strip or local roundy-roundtrack, racers strap in with certified harnesses pulled tight - ensuringthat if an accident occurs they will greatly reduce the chances ofinjury. Thinking it over, it is far more probable that you willencounter an accident and possible injury on the streets of Your Town,USA.
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Welp, you know you've arrived when someone sends you an envelope filled with suspicious white powder, and I don't mean cocaine. An envelope addressed to Khloe Kardashian was sent to CBS studio, where the X-Factor is taped. It contained some suspicious white powder. The FBI was called in to investigate! And thankfully the powder was found to be harmless.
This is the third time some sicko mailed an envelope with white powder to CBS studio. The other two times the envelopes were addressed to Bristol Palin -- and both times it was just harmless talcum powder. No word on whether these creepy letters are coming from the same knucklehead.
But you know what? I'd like to have a few words with the white powder sender(s). I have a few questions I'd like to ask.
1. Really, white powder? Fake anthrax? How 2001 of you.
2. Don't you know? All celebs have assistants open up all of their mail for them. Geez, you really thought Khloe would just be hanging out at the studio with a letter opener, waiting for your "ooh, suspicious white powder!" envelope to arrive?
3. How dumb are you?
4. Your big target is the Kardashian everyone LIKES? Can you even tell the Kardashian girls apart or is it all just one big mass of glossy dark hair and platform shoes to you?
5. You think hosting X-Factor is so easy, why don't you try it yourself? Oh that's right, you can't because you're a white-powder-sending, nose-picking nobody.
6. Do you seriously have nothing better to do with your time? Can't we interest you in some hobbies? You know, stamp collecting isn't that different.
7. Do you seriously think the FBI doesn't have better things to do, for that matter?
8. When was the last time you changed out of those sweat pants?
What kind of person do you imagine would send Khloe Kardashian a fake anthrax letter?
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UPDATED: State Of The Union 2013: From One Night Stand to Committed Relationship
Feb 11, 2013, 03:46 ET
No Labels' Problem Solvers Grows to 42 Republicans & Democrats as Members Don "Stop Fighting, Start Fixing" Pins at State of the Union
After Last Year's Push to Get Members to Sit Together at State of the Union, Problem Solvers Say Now It's Time to Work Together
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forty congressional Democrats and Republicans are preparing to proudly tout their membership in No Labels' "problem solvers" group by wearing the group's "Stop Fighting, Start Fixing" lapel pin at President Obama's State of the Union address. The gesture marks a significant step toward more substantive cooperation in Congress one year after No Labels led the charge to convince more than 200 members to sit with members of the other party at the SOTU.
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The problem solvers comprise a group of congressional Democrats and Republicans who have agreed to meet regularly to build trust across the aisle. First announced at No Labels' Meeting to Make America Work! on January 14, the problem solvers have already held their first meeting and have managed to recruit a dozen additional colleagues. The group will be working to convince more colleagues to "get pinned" in the days before the State of the Union and aims to have 70 or more members by year-end.
"Wearing this pin is a statement that we've got to do a lot more than sit together. We've got to work together," said No Labels Honorary Co-Chair Sen. Joe Manchin. "The 'problem solvers' is quite literally the only forum in DC where Democrats and Republicans can sit across from one another to discuss issues and forge solutions. I'm wearing this pin to the State of the Union because I think the 'problem solvers' can play a big role in breaking the gridlock in this town and because I want more of my colleagues to join."
"Members from opposing parties increasingly don't know or talk with one another," added No Labels Honorary Co-Chair Gov. Jon Huntsman. "Schedules are packed when in DC and at home, leaving precious little time to build relationships across the aisle. The 'problem solvers' provides a crucial opportunity to open up the lines of communication."
"I look forward to joining my colleagues in wearing the 'Stop Fighting, Start Fixing' pin at the State of the Union address. We all agree that Washington is broken and that America's future is threatened by hyper-partisanship and gridlock. These pins are a sign that we don't have to abandon our principles. We just have to commit to problem solving and getting something done," said Sen. Dean Heller.
"There is no ideological litmus test to join this group," said No Labels Co-Founder Bill Galston. "We welcome everyone – left, right and everything in between – so long as they are willing to collaborate with one another to seek shared success for America. This new attitude is what No Labels is all about, and we are excited to see so many members publicly embrace it at this year's State of the Union."
No Labels is working aggressively with the current crop of 'problem solvers' to actively recruit new members to the group and today sent invitation letters to all members of Congress. Click here to see the letter.
The following members of Congress will be wearing the orange lapel pin at the State of the Union:
Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK)
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV)
Sen. Angus King (I-ME)*
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)
Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA)
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL)
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI)
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN)
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)*
Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R-TN)
Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY)
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY)
Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA)
Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY)
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT)
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA)
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA)
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-IA)
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA)
Rep. David McKinley (R-WV)*
Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME)
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL)
Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY)
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA)
Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI)
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI)
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)
Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI)
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA)
Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT)
(*starred members are new additions)
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Tips To Ensure Your Big Day Is Perfect
You are planning your big day. Tons of time and effort goes into this process and the end result had better be good. So how do you make that happen and still keep your sanity along the way? The answer is quite easy and that is to read along and we will provide some wedding planning tips that can really help anyone to make it to the big day.
Do not forget to learn about how you will handle tax reporting for your business. Reporting taxes for a business is much more complicated than filing taxes for yourself. You might need to hire a tax accountant to sort out what you have to do in the first year that you are filing as a business, just to make sure that it is done correctly.
If you are planning an outdoor wedding you will need to consider the possibility of bad weather. If you do not have a backup plan, this could ruin your wedding and inconvenience all of your guests who are attending. Always prepare for the worst on important occasions.
When the wedding has ended, you will most likely receive gifts from the people who have attended. Make sure that during this time, you and your spouse are together so that you can both show the appreciation that is deserved. Thank everyone regardless of what type of present they give you.
You should try to create a wedding that is extremely personal by having elements which encompass you, your fiance, and the relationship between you two. Think about your time together and find a theme which matches it.
An outdoor wedding has its own natural beauty but you should still check on the place where your wedding will be held right before your wedding. Check to make sure that the grass has been mowed, leaves have been raked, and it is clear of debris. If you notice something that you do not like, make sure it is taken care of before your wedding day.
For the woman who is about to get married, don't skimp on the dress. This is your day to shine, to look the most beautiful you have ever looked before, and to be decorated with unending compliments. So go buy that expensive dress you have always dreamed of wearing on your wedding day.
Skip having guests throw confetti at your wedding as it makes a mess and isn't good for the environment, nor will you like picking it out of your hair. Instead, give your guests a noisemaker with the date of your wedding and your names on it to take home as an inexpensive keepsake.
Make sure that you never plan your bachelor or bachelorette parties the day before the wedding. There may be a lot of drinking at these parties, and the last thing that you will want to do is ruin the day of your wedding because you are not fully functional. Have a calm day right before your wedding.
It is okay to let loose at your wedding reception. Many people take their wedding day too serious and do not remember it is supposed to be a joyous occasion. When this happens, they look back at their special day with unpleasant memories. Laugh with your guests, and dance to upbeat music.
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KDE Art: digiKam Contest, Icon Marathon, KDE Logo Worldwide
The KDE artist community has been busy recently. The winners of the digiKam contest have been announced, kde-look.org has had a major update and the KDE logo is on a worldwide tour. Coming soon are The First Annual Icon Marathon, a completely new and improved KDE Artist website and introducing Kollaboration, where your art meets their code! Read on for details.
Improved KDE-Look and KDE-Apps
Frank has updated the server and software behind KDE-Look.org and KDE-Apps.org. The new server is faster and sports much more capacity. The new software has several improvements over the old version. The core is completely rewritten in PHP 5 for more speed and flexibility and a new caching system is reducing the MySQL load. The new frontend features are:
The new categories include:
digiKam Contest
The winners from the digiKam contest are... Skeezo and Frodrigo. Skeezo and Frodrigo will both be receiving a 256MB memory card and a t-shirt from Revelinux Gear.
Superimpose Template - Rose-Rose
They submitted the bulk of the new Superimpose Templates that will make creating images with digiKam even more fun! Thanks goes out to all who were involved. digiKam is still accepting Superimpose Templates for their next release, please e-mail your images to the digiKam mailing-list. For a detailed explanation of how to make Superimpose Templates see the contest rules.
Superimpose Template - Tux Party
Icon Marathon
Have you ever wanted to see your artwork in the official KDE? Now here is your chance with The First Annual KDE Icon Marathon! At the request of the Appeal project the marathon is now scheduled for May. The challenge will soon go out to all artists to make as many new KDE icons as possible in a two month period. As a side note our contests have attracted some pretty generous sponsors, which means juicy prizes!
Special note to KDE developers: this is the time to look over your apps and see if you have any missing icons. Please email your icon requests to the kde-artists mailing list and include as much detail as possible.
The marathon will take place on the new KDE Artists website which will be debuting very soon. This will also mark the roll-out of Kollaboration where your art meets their code! If you have ever wanted to see your window decoration or other art work in a working application Kalloboration will help that and more. This all started last year with a discussion on KDE-Look which lead to Theobroma and landy's Kollaboration proposal to the KDE community at large. We have all worked very hard to bring this new concept to life. Looking out for Kollaboration on the new KDE Artists website.
KDE Logo Worldwide
Last but not least our new KDE logo is going on a voyage around the world. Visit KDE Everywhere to see its travel pictures and add your own.
bring art into the heart of KDE
the KDE art community is so vibrant these days. and with people like Theobroma and Frank enabling it with these websites and initiatives to help bring artists and developers together, future releases of KDE are only going to look that much beautiful, and done right will also help make it more usable.
i was lucky enough to get a sneak preview and tour of the new artist's web site and ... WOW ... it's nice. great work Janet!
these are all important steps, IMHO, to bring art closer to the core of KDE so as to allow people with artistic talent and skills to bring their passions to bear as much as the coders do.
now ...... to go take some pictures of KDE at the Calgary Tower and the Olympic ski jumps =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: bring art into the heart of KDE
yes, it's so amazing to see so many artists with such enthusiasm! My own KDE-Edu programs KLettres and KHangMan will have a great new look while being also improved in usability for 3.5. Today I got for KLettres sounds for the Luganda language which is an African language. Thus I requested my dedicated artist Danny an African background to match this :-) See how worldwide KDE is known, used and improved by contributors!
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: bring art into the heart of KDE
The improvements in the artwork since I've been involved in KDE is remarkable. Kudos to those who have built a community of artists.
By Derek Kite at Sat, 2005/04/16 - 5:00am
The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
Since 2 years KRec is not practical for doing Large Audio Recording, and it is the only KDE's Recording tool...
I'm using Slackware 10.1 and KDE 3.4, Still I feel that KRec is just useless for Audio Recording except for a REAL stupid user.
Why, you would ask!?
This is why:
Can't you do Direct-to-Disk mp3 or ogg encoding like SOX!!!
2. WASTAGE OF Precious TIME:
3. Confusing Interface:
Look, You may be a great programmer/developer, and you are developing using the greatest technology (arts) but definitely you are not wise enough to understand what an application is supposed to do:
1. Getting things done!!! [ this is where you're stuck!!! by my own way]
Thank you! and I really wish and hope that you make KRec USABLE for Novice-to-Average users!!! And my sincere apologies for any bad feelings!!!
Yours Friendly,
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
Did you consider to file a bugreport or contact the author of krec about hour concerns?
By ac at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
looks like your talking to meeee ??? why ? i am just a normal reader of kdenews :-( i dont know your post wasted my PRECIOUS time :>
By chris at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
One word
Unfortunately development stalled but even in this state
By m. at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
Look, you may be great at ranting about an application in a completely unrelated web forum, but you are definitely not wise enough to understand what a user of free software is supposed to do:
1. Be grateful that someone else but his/her time and effort into an application and was willing to give it to you for free.
By unbelievable at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
I am still trying to record a 30 minute radio broadcast with KRec (I started a couple of hours ago) and I understand the emotion behind what you said, though I must say it seems a little blunt.
I was aware of the shortcomings of KRec before I started (from gossip around the net) but it is the only game in town, that I can find. Though there are many problems with it, at least it is getting the job done. Perhaps later when I get some spare time I might have a look at the code and see if I can find solutions to my problems.
To your list of things that would be nice to improve I would add the apparent limit of 10 minutes recording time I keep bumping into. That makes the time taken to export the 10 minutes to .wav before starting the next part VERY tedious indeed. Another thing you didn't mention was that it doesn't always save your recording, even if it thinks it has. I have two empty .krec files to prove it.
If I could have got Realrekord to work at all then believe me, I would not be struggling with KRec, but there it is. Thank goodness for KRec.
By Richard Bollinger at Sun, 2005/05/08 - 5:00am
Re: The WORST KDE Application of All Time: KREC
heard of Audacity?
you are the very STUPID user as stated in your post.
By the_killer at Sat, 2006/10/07 - 5:00am
I would like to see more people helping on openclipart.org especially there is need for a PHP/PERL guru. But even more SVG-cliparts are very welcome.
By MaX at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: openclipart.org
Year, I whould like to see a nice small KDE-ClipartBrowser for the openclipart.org cliparts.
By Susi at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: openclipart.org
seems wise to wait until Milestone 18, unless their document management system in Milestone 13 has a sane web service API.
perhaps some of their users could even recommend that they start providing a GetHotNewStuff feed =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: openclipart.org
It looks like there aren't any KDE people involved in that projekt. I think it would be wise to have some there, so that e.g. GetHotNewStuff or kde-look.org is direct integreted into the document management system.
By MaX at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: openclipart.org
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2005/04/16 - 5:00am
Re: openclipart.org
For people that are lazy, heres a link to Aaron's post
By Sam Weber at Sat, 2005/04/16 - 5:00am
Sorry, but what's the point of KDE Everywhere? I wouldn't mind seeing pictures from KDE where it featured in events or conferences, but taking a photo of a KDE logo somewhere in the world just isn't interesting and looks pretty stupid in my opinion (I don't mean to be harsh, but it does look really silly). :-S
By Bob at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: Why?
I guess you shouldn't take everything so serious. It's just fun. If you don't like it, don't participate.
Sounds easy, doesn't it??
By ac at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Why "Why?" ?
I was about to post a picture of me wearing nothing but a KDE logo, but I take it this won't be appreciated anymore :( I dare not offend the BOB! The horror!
By Max Howell at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: Why?
Somehow I have to agree. Yes, it's rather stupid if proposed that way.
What I'd find amusing would be doing some "KDE warchalking". Just what people do with wireless, but pointing to kde users/companies. Now that would be fun to go anywhere on this world and see a chalked wall saying "kde users inside" or "kde business!"
By ~~ at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: Why?
it's called having fun. some of us enjoy it. you don't have to, though, and that's totally cool. you don't have to look at them or add a picture of your own; you can ignore it completely and imagine that it doesn't exist. that way those of us who get a chuckle out of it can go on having our fun, too =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: Why?
Point well delivered. The choice of words was good too.
By charles at Fri, 2005/04/15 - 5:00am
Re: Why?
To be fair to me, I didn't say you should get rid of it, I asked what the point of it was (maybe there was one but I didn't know it?), offered what I think would be a similar but more interesting alternative and included "in my opinion" so I didn't sound commanding. Just because I say an idea doesn't appeal to me, doesn't mean people should start implying I don't like others having fun. :-S
By Bob at Sat, 2005/04/16 - 5:00am


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Randy Galloway is en route to the press box at Rangers Ballpark after finishing an edition of his radio sports-talk show Galloway and Company that originated from the Captain Morgan Club.
It's a long walk from the center-field area to roughly behind home plate, and people stop him along the way, high-fiving him, saying hi.
The guy operating the press-box elevator tells Galloway he liked something he wrote that day, and numerous colleagues greet him as he finds a place to settle in for an interview, one in which Galloway, a veteran of nearly 30 years of Dallas-Fort Worth radio and nearly 50 in DFW media, is the subject, not the questioner.
Galloway, a columnist for the Star-Telegram, has given — and taken — a lot of heat over the years, but it's clear from this walk that he's developed a lot of fans and friends as one of the area's longest-running sports media personalities.
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But the broadcasting part of all that is coming to an end. Galloway, 70, is retiring from ESPN Radio after he signs off his show Monday, a couple of months earlier than a previously announced year-end date.
There will be no big fanfare or special on-location party, Galloway said Wednesday night. Sure, he'll explain why he's leaving and sign off with a "goodbye." But otherwise, he said, it's just another "regular show."
Although the retirement comes at the same time that Cumulus Media will take over operations of ESPN/103.3 FM , Galloway's on-air home since 2003, he has said that the timing is a coincidence and that he was willing to work through year-end for Cumulus. (ESPN/Disney still owns the station under the local marketing agreement.)
But his lawyer told him that, because his ESPN contract was non-transferable, he could get full salary and benefits through the end of the year without being on the air, if he chose not to work for Cumulus. Galloway then decided to leave as soon as the Cumulus agreement was finalized.
"So, it just legally fell in my lap," Galloway said in his familiar gravelly drawl. "It was either, 'You can do three more months of radio, five days a week, three hours a day, or you don't have to do radio, and you'll still be paid by ESPN.' So there really wasn't a lot of decision to make."
Galloway said he has had talks with ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Conn., about being an occasional contributor to national programming. But as for the regular gig — Galloway and Company currently runs from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays on 103.3 — he's gettin' out while the gettin's good.
"I still like doing it, all these years later, but at some point, you need to retire," he said. "At some point, you gotta say, 'It's best to get out when they want you to stay, not when they want you to leave.'
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Friday December 17, 2010
Carole's Concoctions:
A Page out of Jen's Book!
I must give credit where credit is due. And, today my sister, Jennifer Murko Gower gets all the credit. Jen is the consummate concoctor and she has truly developed some of the best recipes/guides for certain dishes that I often cook. Several years ago she made a pork stew out of a leftover pork roast. I asked her for the recipe and what she gave me were some basic instructions such as: "I used cumin to taste, lots of pepper, cannellini beans, onions, garlic, carrots - whatever -WHITE WINE, of course - chicken stock and finish it off with some spinach."
And I have concocted this recipe with those instructions. But I have taken it one step further - I wrote down exactly how I did it and the amounts. So, here it is but PLEASE feel free to substitute and play - it's where all the creative fun happens!!


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I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 18.104.22.168 is available for immediate download.
The last two releases focused on:
- Getting out of DLL hell.
- Eliminate all duplicate versions of libraries (JPEG, PNG, HDF5 etc).
- Eliminate usage of any Microsoft Runtime but msvcrt90 and any instabilities caused by it.
- Providing all optional dependencies of the core plugins.
Off course the scientific and system aspects were not neglected:
- All packages updated to their latest versions.
- Numpy/Scipy now use Intel MKL.
- GDAL was updated to the latest version and uses the up to date system libraries.
- Astropy - an astronomy oriented plugin was added.
- PyZMQ was updated to 14.0.1 and built with PGM and ZMQ_CURVE security support.
- NetCDF4 was rebuilt and now includes support OpenDAP and HDF4.
Several new and interesting plugins were introduced:
- fabric - A simple, pythonic remote execution and deployment tool.
- enaml - A Declarative DSL for building rich user interfaces in Python. Upgraded to core plugin.
- pygame - A set of python modules designed for writing games
- pytest - A mature full-featured alternative to nose. This plugin comes packed with many additional plugins (pep8, cov, flakes etc).
- Python 3.x compatibility helpers were added to the python_base plugin - enum34, faulthandler and mock.
As always this release can be downloaded from any of the mirrors. The full change log can be viewed here. Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.
Have fun!
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: The Sadowskis (also spelled "Sodowski" and "Sadosky"), Paul and Stephania ("Stella"), stand before their River Road home in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, around 1906. Mr. Sadowski had emigrated from the Polish regions of Russia in 1902, when he was twenty-five years old. He joined his brother, Peter, aged 20, and the next year his younger brother Charlie, then 15 years old, came to America. His wife-to-be, then Stella Chlemacheski, emigrated in 1903, aged 18. The couple was married in Deerfield in July, 1906, and this photograph may have been taken on the occasion of their first home together. They worked this farm in Deerfield with Paul's brothers.
This photograph comes from the Howes Brothers collection of photographs. The Howes Brothers, based in Ashfield, Massachusetts, made more than 20,000 images of New England rural life from 1890 to around 1910, offering a glimpse into the lives of people rarely visible in history.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tommy James: Draggin' the Line
WRITTEN BY Tommy James and Bob King
PERFORMED BY Tommy James
APPEARS ON Tommy James (1970); Tommy James and the Shondells Anthology (1989); other anthologies
NOTE "Draggin' the Line" reached #4 on the Billboard pop charts in August 1971 and stayed in the Top 40 for eleven weeks.
"Draggin' the Line" appeared originally on Tommy James' eponymous album, his first release after leaving the Shondells. (allmusic.com says that "Draggin' the Line" first appeared on James' album Christian of the World, but all other sources, including James himself, say otherwise.) James was a hit machine in the late 60s, with fifteen Top 40 hits (including three #1's) from 1966-69. These featured classic pop arrangements with dabs of white soul faintly reminiscent of The Rascals. As the decade wore on, touches of psychedelia appeared here and there; one song, "Crystal Blue Persuasion," is a barely concealed account of drug use.
Musically, "Draggin' the Line" is pure psychedelia. Its dreamy tempo, loping bass, and echoing chorus create a stoned ambiance augmented by puncturing horns. The use of brass is unusual in psychedelic music, but James recorded with horns for most of his career and deploys them to good effect here.
Lyrically, the song is a paean to the simple joys of life and the way that they alleviate the struggle of "Makin' a living the old hard way." For James, the pleasures of living are found in "snow and rain and bright sunshine" and even -- believe it or not "huggin' a tree." This, he sings, leads to "peace of mind" in a way that "the old hard way" cannot.
What, then, to make of the cryptic title? What does "draggin' the line" mean? James has never explained it, and passed on the opportunity to do in the liner notes to Anthology. Speculation ranges from an allusion to cocaine ("the line") to "draggin'" a cross. I suspect that it refers back to the opening lyric, with James' ominous delivery juxtaposed against the upbeat chorus singing of "peace of mind." It's as if draggin' the line and peace of mind are in eternal opposition, with the individual forced to do what he must to survive, a striving made worthwhile by appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world.
(For information on the origin of the phrase "tree hugger," click here.)
Makin' a living the old hard way
Takin' and giving day by day
I dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
My dog Sam eats purple flowers
We ain't got much but what we got's ours
We dig snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
I feel fine, I'm talkin' about peace of mind
I'm takin' my time, I'm gettin' the good sign
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Lovin' the free and feelin' spirit
Of huggin' a tree when you get near it
Diggin' the snow and rain and bright sunshine
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
I feel fine, I'm talkin' about peace of mind
I'm takin' my time, I'm gettin' the good sign
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
Draggin' the line (draggin' the line)
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- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2010 at 7:08 AM
Great song. I somehow never made the connection with this and the Shondells. It's a far cry from "Crystal Blue Persuasion", which I always thought would be a great name for a toilet bowl cleaner.ReplyDelete
I heard it earlier this week on Men of a Certain Age, the soundtrack of which is treasure trove of forgotten 70s music. I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with the song, but I loved it. After looking up via Google, I found a cheap Tommy James anthology and have been listening to it all week.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Shit... it is about DRUGS??? God, I love the song and it is about LOSERS???ReplyDelete
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells IS NOT about drug use and cherry wine IS NOT drinking. Crystal Blue Persuasion is about Jesus Christ and becoming a Christian and Cherry wine is about the blood of Christ.ReplyDelete
Source/ Tommy James himself in the youtube video "Tommy James: Behind the Crystal Blue Persuasion (Extended Interview) " He talks all about how God came to came to him. And mentions both of these songs and their meanings.
I've always taken Tommy's phrase "draggin' the line" to mean living and working at a pace slow enough ("takin' my time") to properly enjoy the simple things in life ("snow and rain and bright sunshine"); i.e., at the end of the line being dragged is an anchor (or cross, if you prefer). However, like so many popular songwriters he was an expert at "keeping things vague", to quote Joan Baez, to gain the widest possible audience - including the drug-obsessed. :) No doubt this is why he's never explained the song's title.ReplyDelete
[Btw, 'Citizen K.', I think your analysis (published on July 9, 2009) of "Substitute" by The Who is a brilliant piece of writing.]


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The state Department of Environmental Conservation is warning hikers to be on the alert for aggressive bears on a section of the Northville-Placid Trail in Hamilton County after a woman stabbed a persistent one with a knife.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is warning hikers to be on the alert for aggressive bears on a section of the Northville-Placid Trail in Hamilton County after a woman stabbed a persistent one with a knife.
The DEC has heard of several incidents of nuisance black bears between Wakely Dam and Stephens Pond in the town of Indian Lake.
In one encounter, which took place Wednesday, Sept. 18, three bears followed a woman hiking alone, according to the DEC. The woman made several attempts to scare the animals away, but they continued to follow her. One bear, in particular, got very close to the woman near Stephens Pond.
"Feeling threatened she stabbed the bear with a knife," according to a DEC statement.
The bears then fled, and the woman safely hiked to the state-run Lake Durant Campground.
On Friday, DEC wildlife staff, environmental conservation officers and the hiker walked to the section of the trail where she had the encounters, but they didn't find any sign of the animals.
DEC has posted notices at trailheads, on the DEC Adirondack Trail Information Web pages and at other locations warning hikers, campers and hunters about the aggressive bears.
The notice advises hikers to hike in groups, to make noise by doing things such as talking and clapping hands while walking, and to hike only during daylight. The notice also advises campers to secure food, trash, toiletries and other scented items.
"If approached by a bear, do not run - stand tall, wave you(r) hands over your head and to your sides, yell and clap hands," the DEC said in statement. "If the bear doesn't move off (throw) rocks, sticks or other objects. Do not throw food or objects containing food. If attacked by a black bear, fight back. Use whatever items you have to punch, poke or club the bear."
Incidents between bears and humans that result in people getting injured from bear attacks are extremely rare.
According to the DEC, this recent pattern of behavior on the Northville-Placid Trail may be the result of the bears directly or indirectly obtaining food from other hikers in the past. The DEC is reminding people that it is illegal and dangerous to feed bears.
"Bears that obtain food from humans often become more aggressive over time and must be destroyed," according to the DEC.
The DEC is recommending that anyone who has an encounter with a nuisance bear should call DEC Dispatch at 518-891-0235 at any time of day or night to report the encounter.
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Index of articles from Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) About the SHOP Talk Bulletin
SIECUS is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization, dedicated to affirming that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life. SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
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LODI - The nation's fourth-largest wine seller, Trinchero Family Estates, plans a $300 million expansion of its winery in Lodi over the next three years, roughly doubling its wine production capacity and creating a new central bottling and distribution center.
LODI - The nation's fourth-largest wine seller, Trinchero Family Estates, plans a $300 million expansion of its winery in Lodi over the next three years, roughly doubling its wine production capacity and creating a new central bottling and distribution center.
It will also bring in about 400 new jobs once the bottling lines are installed, said Roger Trinchero, chief executive of the Napa Valley-based vintner, as he addressed about 400 growers and business leaders at Tuesday's Lodi Grape Day luncheon.
The company - whose leading brands include Sutter Home, M�nage � Trois, Trinity Oaks and the Wine Cube sold at Target - looks to grow in the next 10 years from shipments of 19.6 million cases of wine in 2012 to more than 30 million cases. Expansion of its Westside Winery off Woodbridge Road and Interstate 5 in Lodi and creating a new bottling and distribution center there for all its high-volume brands are keys to support that growth, Trinchero said.
"When finished, we believe this will be the type of facility our family and the entire Lodi community will be proud of," he said.
Pat Patrick, chief executive of the Lodi Chamber of Commerce, which co-sponsors the annual Grape Day with the University of California Cooperative Extension, welcomed the news.
"Four hundred jobs just don't come to town every day," he said. "That's a hell of a boost for the local economy."
Mark Chandler, a Lodi wine industry consultant and newly named executive director of the national trade group WineAmerica, agreed.
"Obviously, it spells a great future for the area," he said.
Although its headquarters are in St. Helena, Trinchero has a long history of buying Lodi-grown grapes, especially going back to the company's days of "runaway growth" in the 1980s due to the wild popularity of its Sutter Home White Zinfandel.
Recounting his winery's history, Trinchero noted it began fermenting small amounts of zinfandel grape juice without skins, the opposite of the usual red wine practice, in the early 1970s. Having sold out the first couple of batches, production was boosted to 2,400 gallons in 1975 when what company insiders call "the Miracle" occurred - a stalled fermentation that left the wine slightly sweet and with a soft pink hue.
"It was an instantaneous success," he said. "People loved it and began clamoring for more."
From production of 47,000 cases in 1981, Trinchero Family Estates grew shipments nearly 10-fold to 4.1 million cases in 1991.
The bulk of that growth was in white zinfandel made from Lodi grapes.
That surge also helped saved the old-vine zinfandel vineyards that are today widely renowned for red wine production, Chandler said.
Demand for fruit from those vineyards had been in decline, he said. "Were it not for Sutter Home, (the old vines) would have been plowed under and changed to another crop or another grape variety."
With the bulk of its grapes coming out of Lodi, Trinchero said the company spends millions of dollars moving grapes and wine up to its winery and bottling facilities in St. Helena. After expanding its Lodi winery, it will continue to make wine in Napa but will focus that operation solely on grapes from its coastal sources.
And consolidating all the bottling and distribution operations for its high-volume brands in Lodi will result in cost savings, helping Trinchero compete in an increasingly global wine market.
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My oldest met reality last week.
Oh, it's not that she lives in fantasy-land; believe me, I get an earful about school/friends/the-uncaring-world when she comes home every day. What I mean is that she finally met some of those people in MMOs.
I'd been cleaning around the house when I heard a scream of anguish from her. "I'll get you for this!" she yelled.
"What did your brother or sister do this time?" I called down the stairs.
"Not them! This.... this.... GUY!"
Uh-oh. I came downstairs. "What happened?"
She was moving her Elven Hunter all over a clearing, following some near max-level toon around. "I was killing this dude for a quest, and this IDIOT came and took the treasure out of the chest I was supposed to open!"
"Ah." I sat down and looked over her shoulder.
"I want to attack him so bad.... But I CAN'T!!"
"Well, you could challenge him to a duel --at least I think you can in LOTRO-- but you're L32 and he's L73. It wouldn't be a contest."
"But I am just so mad right now! I have to wait and do the whole thing again!!!"
I sighed. "Yeah, I know. You just met the ninja looter. They're one of the asshats you'll meet in MMOs."
The mini-boss respawned, and the ninja looter attacked the mini-boss before my daughter could. I swear I saw steam coming out of her ears.
"Look," I said. "LOTRO is one of the best MMOs out there for learning the game because of the community. But that doesn't mean that you won't find asshats out there in LOTRO, either. You've been playing LOTRO for over a year now, and you've only run into a few. I finally ran into my first really bad one in The Old Republic the other day. It happens."
"Yeah, but it's so not fair!"
"I agree completely. But there's nothing you can do about it right now, because he didn't do anything that you could sic the game admins on him."
She opened her mouth to retort, but I cut her off with a wave of my hand. "This is why I won't let you play WoW. You have to learn how to handle these sort of people before you play WoW, because there are a lot more of them on WoW than on some of these smaller games."
"But you play WoW!"
"Yes, and I'm a lot older. The asshattery in WoW is minor compared to other parts of the internet, and you have to learn how to handle this maturely first. It's just like my opinion on Facebook; you have to learn how to let things roll off of you, to filter them out, and not let them get to you. And believe me, there are plenty of people my age or older who have trouble with that."
She turned back to the screen, crossed her arms, and fumed.
"I didn't say you had to like it; I said you had to learn to deal with it."
"I am," she replied. "I'm imagining my hunter skewering him on the end of a flight of arrows."
I glanced up at the timer we use to limit the kids' computer activity. "Tell you what," I said as I reset the timer, "I'm not going to count the time you had to wait here to finish up your quest. This was something beyond your control, so it shouldn't count against you."
"Okay....." Her shoulders relaxed a little. "Thanks, Dad."
"You're welcome." I got up and retrieved my bottle of cleanser. "Besides, someone will eventually decide to teach him a lesson with their guildies. It happens on WoW all the time, especially on the PvP servers."
"I just wish your Rogue were on LOTRO."
"Me too, kid. Me too."
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She has my sympathy, even at my age it took a while to get used to the fact that some people's idea of fun is ruining other people's fun. I finally realized just leaving the area and ignoring was the best option I had. Lol, they really seem to hate to be ignored. Very nice on the extra time Dad!ReplyDelete
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DIRECTOR: 'Carrey IS MADE OF RUBBER'
Jim Carrey's latest director is convinced the funnyman is made of rubber after watching him fall 20 feet (six metres) onto his head only to get up as if nothing had happened.
FUN WITH DICK + JANE director DEAN PARISOT feared he'd killed the actor when he lost his grip on a ceiling prop during a robbery scene and plummeted to the ground below.
He says, "Somehow he hung up there a little too long, holding onto a piece of a set, and when he fell it looked like he landed on his head.
"He's so surprisingly agile. At first I said, 'Jim please don't do that because if I kill you on the set it's really bad.' Eventually what I discovered is he's just made of rubber.
"He fell, like, 20 feet off the ceiling, looked like he landed on his head and then popped up again. He has this incredible connection with his body."


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The major storm that will bring Nor'easter-type conditions, including torrential downpours, to the tristate area on Sunday has resulted in a Flash Flood Watch being issued on Saturday.
The watch includes southern Connecticut, northeast New Jersey, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island. It is in effect from noon Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.
A Flash Flood Watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding, a very dangerous situation, the National Weather Service said in a statement, noting residents should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should flash flood warnings be issued.
The storm could dump as much as 4 inches of rainfall.
After a sunny day Saturday, the storm bringing heavy rain and gusty winds will move through the tristate region starting early Sunday morning, with showers and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight, and overnight rainfall of a half-inch possible.
A stormy Sunday, the fifth anniversary of Super Storm Sandy, will see showers and thunderstorms, with some of the storms producing heavy rain, with rainfall amounts of up to 2 inches possible during daylight hours.
Gusty winds of up to 28 miles per hour could bring down trees and cause power outages and be accompanied by flash flooding and locally severe storms.
Rain, which will be heavy at times, will continue Sunday night with another 1 to 2 inches possible.
Spotty showers will continue until around noontime Monday as the cold front passes through, bringing down temperatures. Monday's high will only be in the mid- to upper-50s with partly sunny skies in the afternoon,
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The department store debuted its major appliance showroom Aug. 26. on the upper level near the optical, portrait and salon services. The space previously housed mattresses, which have been moved to an adjacent area.
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The Best Things In Life Are Free: Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8.0
At JavaOne Tokyo, Sun announced the launch of Java Studio Enterprise 8.0, its flagship enterprise IDE. In fact there were many announcements and details shared about it, and this article is intended to make some sense out of it all, and introduce some of the news.
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The headline news has to be that the new Java Studio Enterprise 8 is now free, with a free SDN registration. In fact, Java Studio Creator has likewise been made free to anyone with an SDN membership.
Also, the Sun Application Server can also be used and deployed, even commercially, for free. In fact it has recently also been open-sourced in the form of the glassfish project.
So effectively developers can now download and use the complete Sun Java Development stack for free, for anything from simple web UIs through to full enterprise level application server deployments. Free makes a very compelling argument, as does the integration between the products (which is slick and easy).
So, it's free, but what else is new, well quite a lot actually.
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Like the early access of Java Studio Creator 2, the new Java Studio Enterprise is now built on top of the NetBeans 4.1 platform. The 4.1 platform is a big improvement over the 4.0 and earlier platforms, and it is also good that the entire Sun Java tools suite is standardized on it as a platform.
The cosmetic differences are what hit me first. Like Creator EA 2, this is a good-looking UI that makes a great first impression:
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If you have used the early access Java Studio Creator 2 you will see immediate similarities in the IDE. I like the welcome screen anyway as it gives you somewhere to go when you first fire up the IDE, but the inclusion of news from the SDN is a nice touch. An initial glance did not make it clear if this information could be obtained from a different RSS feed or not, but if it could that would certainly be a useful place to integrate the RSS bugs feed from the latest bugzilla.
The screenshot also shows the new project wizard, which gives you options about the kind of project you wish to create. Again this is familiar to NetBeans or Java Studio Creator users, the user experience is nice and consistent across these tools in general.The NetBeans 4.1 platform also brings some other advantages which will be touched on later.
New Features
There are several big new features and improvements to existing features that are worthy of note.
UML Improvements
The main focus for improvement in this release seems to be with regards to the UML features. Full UML 2.0 compliance is claimed (although the specification is still not fully set yet). Sequence diagrams are included, and incremental improvements in the other diagram types are also in evidence, both cosmetic and usability. For example, color usage features heavily in the diagramming; not a huge deal, but it adds a new dimension to UML usage of color for visualization and grouping.
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A colored class diagram (warning, do not try to simulate a power plant using this model :-) )
The UML capabilities also include import and export using XMI (mainly intended for rational integration, but XMI should be standard enough to allow other usage). Drag and drop for diagram creation and manipulation is also a useful feature (and also, dare I say, a required one these days).
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A sequence diagram (with synchronous and asynchronous messages).
Unless you have been living in a cage you will probably be aware of the superb profiling features now available in the latest profiler offering for NetBeans (it is a favorite topic in the Java blogosphere right now, for example Romain Guy, blog talks about using Eclipse and NetBeans side by side, with NetBeans being used for the excellent profiling it offers.
Anyway, this excellent Profiling module has been added to Java Studio Enterprise 8, and has even been augmented by a load testing tool which integrates with it. This works by allowing you to record an interaction session with the server, and then replaying it simultaneously from a configurable number of simulated users, allowing you to soak test a server and try to ensure deep seated hard to find threading bugs don't show up under heavy load.
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The Atlantic Monthly magazine hosted a panel discussion on "The Future of Science Journalism" at the National Press Club on March 2, 2004. The panel consisted of John Marburger, a physicist and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the President; Bernadine Healy, a past director of the National Institutes of Health and now a writer for U.S. News & World Report; Erica Goode, a science writer for the New York Times; and Kyle McSlarrow, the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy. James Fallows, the national correspondent of the Atlantic Monthly, moderated the session
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Marburger began by saying the public is deficient in knowing what science is and how it works. The public needs to see a larger picture, and journalists should explain the ambiguities and processes of science.
Healy agreed that the public needs to see the ambiguities as the new science challenges the old and see that science is a part of society. She added that the public likes science when they can relate to it. Goode said science informs all topics for journalists and that the Times is understaffed in science writers. She spoke of the collisions between science and politics (and science and religion) throughout history. She said that science makes the world better and more confusing.
McSlarrow picked up on the thoughts about the long history of interaction between science and politics. He then mentioned his displeasure with a recent (February, 2004) public letter written by the Union of Concerned Scientists and signed by many notable scientists. The letter called for regulatory and legislative action to restore scientific integrity to federal policymaking. It was a protest against what they called "the Bush administration's misuse of science." McSlarrow said the UCS did a better job in writing the statement than in doing its research.
After these initial remarks the questions and answers did not proceed in any orderly fashion, and the panelists did not all address any one issue. But the subjects discussed tended to be the relationship between science and public policy, the public's understanding of science in general and of specific events, and the role of journalism in bringing science to the public.
Panelists made the following comments:
At the end Fallows asked the audience whether they were optimistic or pessimistic. Will the public be able to comprehend and accept future scientific events? Or can we expect villagers with torches and pitchforks moving towards Frankenstein's castle? The vote ended up fifty-fifty.


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