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Responsive Design is Not the Only Good Answer
We are big believers in the importance of mobile devices. But I am troubled by the degree to which responsive design is preached as the only modern approach. Just as clients (who generally don't know what it means) sometimes ask for "HTML5", they are now asking for "a responsive design" when what they need is a low-cost way to have a good mobile site. There's more than one way to skin that cat.
Recently, StatCounter, an analytics service that also publishes browser statistics, announced that the 1024-pixel-wide screen had lost its spot as the most common resolution, with 1366 × 768 taking the crown (thanks to the prevalence of netbooks).
In response, .net magazine published an article titled Browser screen resolution stats rile devs, quoting Jeffrey Zeldman as saying, "The most popular size is every size. If you're not thinking in a mobile-first, content-first way, if you're not planning an adaptive or responsive redesign, if you still think we have a standard canvas that 'everybody' uses, and if you can't feel the hot breath of mobile singeing the hairs on the back of your neck, you don't deserve to be a designer, or a consultant, or whatever these people think they are."
I'm a great fan of Jeffrey's (see the short interview I did with him a year ago). His religious fervor about web standards made a great contribution to the web design world, and the various Apart enterprises he leads (A List Apart, An Event Apart, and A Book Apart) all produce great stuff.
Is Responsive Design the Only True Path?
On this topic, however, I must disagree with Jeffrey and the other members of the "every site should use responsive design" club.
First, statistics are just statistics, and it is interesting and useful to know what the most common display size is. To attack the creators of the statistics is just silly.
More significantly, responsive design is not the only thoughtful approach to supporting mobile devices. I don't disagree, of course, that there's an increasingly broad range of devices and screen sizes, and that quality websites should adapt appropriately.
There is a very different character to a website on a phone-size screen, however, vs. a tablet or desktop screen. With so much less real estate, you need to think differently about how you lay out content, and about what you put on each page. It's also important to think about the different needs of people who are on the go, even though people also use their phones when they are sitting on their couch.
To think of phones and desktop screens as part of a continuum, as responsive design requires, unnecessarily constrains the design of the phone experience. There are cases where this works fine, but many others where it creates more pain than it alleviates.
There is no single answer for every context. For the kinds of sites we create, which are typically midrange projects with lots of content, we have come to prefer having one set of HTML pages for phones, and another set for tablets and desktops.
With this approach, we can better optimize the phone experience, for a variety of reasons:
- We can think from scratch about how to optimize the phone and desktop/tablet experience, without the constraint of deriving one from the other.
- We can use different CSS and JavaScript frameworks for the mobile experience. For example, we find jQuery Mobile to be a great framework for building effective mobile sites quickly, but we wouldn't use it for a desktop site.
- We can easily provide different versions of text, where appropriate. The home-page intro for a mobile site, for example, should be much shorter than the corresponding thing on a desktop site.
- Since we store most content in a database, it is easy to use the same content on both the mobile and the desktop sites, yet use different HTML markup where appropriate.
We've incorporated device detection into our server-side code, so we can easily deliver one set of pages to desktop/tablet devices and another to mobile phones. (This can also be done in JavaScript if you don't have access to modifying the server configuration.)
Another benefit of this approach is that it allows us to serve customers who don't want to redo their desktop site right now, but want a better mobile experience. Adding a jQuery Mobile site for mobile is much easier that trying to make an existing, fixed-width design into a responsive design. "Mobile First" can be a great strategy when you can do it, but for the majority of our projects, it just doesn't match the clients' situation and priorities.
So I find myself agreeing with Jakob Nielsen, in this case; his recent post Mobile Site vs. Full Site argues for this approach from a user experience perspective.
Does "Most Common Screen Size" Matter?
Absolutely. In some cases, such as for a photo site with a big grid of thumbnails, having a fluid page design that fills all of the available space offers a compelling benefit. But for most sites, it is difficult to create a layout that works well for a very wide window, because line lengths become too long, the relationships between text and graphics get out of whack, and there often just isn't enough content available to fill the width.
It therefore makes sense, for most sites, to pick a maximum width. Today, most sites have chosen something around 1000 pixels, because of the prevalence of 1024-pixel-wide screens. The data now suggests that increasing this to 1300 pixels or so may make sense. You can design for 1920-pixels-wide if you want to optimize the experience for that 5% of the users, but for most sites it just isn't worth it—it typically won't deliver a better user experience than a fixed-width page.
For a fixed-width site, the minimum width and the maximum width are the same. This remains a reasonable approach if your budget is small; there's no getting away from the reality that creating a comparable-quality fluid or responsive design is more work, and it may not yield much near-term benefit.
A better approach, however, is to use responsive design to enable your "desktop" layout to adapt to a modest range of widths, perhaps 768 to 1350 pixels.
Dealing with Tablets
If you don't depend on hover events and keep your click targets large and far apart, this same design will work well for tablets. Or, you may want to use responsive design (i.e., media queries) to adapt the design for touch-screen devices, so you can make your click targets smaller than your touch targets.
Mobile sites must, of course, use fluid designs, so they can adapt to phones with different screen sizes and to landscape and portrait orientations. This does not require responsive design techniques, since the range of sizes is modest. (Phone screens aren't going to get much bigger, because you need to be able to hold a phone in one hand.)
Small (7-inch) tablets, such as the Kindle Fire, occupy a borderland that is extra work to serve optimally. We typically serve all tablets with the desktop site, but there is an argument that 7-inch tablets would do better with the mobile site. If using responsive design for the desktop/tablet site, it may be worth adding another breakpoint to deliver an optimized design for small tablets.
The Best of Both Worlds
With a responsive design covering the tablet/desktop range, and a separate design for phones, you have the best of both worlds: true optimization for phones, and good support for a wide range of tablets and desktops.
You might think that this is more work and more expensive than covering the entire range with a responsive design, but we have found that generally not to be the case. The narrower the range of sizes you are worrying about for the responsive design, the easier it is to do a first-rate job.
Mobile (i.e., phone) sites are, in many ways, easier to build than desktop sites, when you build them separately. All the pages are much simpler. And because the sites need to be more functional than design-driven, frameworks and libraries can take you a long way quickly. We can build an effective mobile site using jQuery Mobile in less time than it would take to extend a responsive design to cover mobile phones as well. The end result is a better user experience at a lower cost.
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We are back from Minnesota and since you all loved our last behind the scenes video we did another one! It was a cold day in Florida, 48 degrees! Brr! While Kelly is busy with his cotillion class, Hunter and I are off to run errands.
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Senior striker finds the net for game-winners
Being a striker, by design, means you have the chance to score meaningful goals. Bethlehem senior striker Kevin Piccolino certainly confounded Suburban Council opponents throughout the regular season.
"I want to feel like an enemy," Piccolino said.
Piccolino's penchant for scoring crucial goals was never more evident than in two encounters against Shenendehowa.
On Sept. 10, Piccolino scored on a penalty shot to propel the Eagles to a 1-0 victory. The teams met again in the Section II Class AA final. Piccolino's tally in the shootout decided things and powered Bethlehem into the state playoffs.
"He has a knack for scoring big goals — game-winning goals," Bethlehem coach Phil Ridgway said. "Kevin has probably had the best year he has ever had. He has come along and he is finishing."
After tallying seven goals as a junior, Piccolino tops the Eagles in goals with 16 to go along with three assists.
"Scoring is great, but someone has to pass me the ball," Piccolino said. "It is really a credit to the rest of the guys."
The next challenge for Piccolino and the Eagles (17-2-1), ranked No. 3 in the state, comes in the form of top-ranked Fairport (18-1-1) in the state Class AA semifinals Saturday at Middletown High School. Game time is 4 p.m.
"I thought we could win sectionals, but to get this far is amazing," Piccolino said.
Piccolino is correct in that his teammates have done a fabulous job of setting him up for quality chances, but the senior has also expanded his skill set and become quite adept at putting the ball in the back of the net.
During the offseason, Ridgway asked Piccolino to focus on a couple of areas in order to enhance his game.
"For me, it was to work on his finishing and his foot skills. He's done both really well," Ridgway said. "The style that we play with him being the No. 9, the center forward, is the way we shape our team and he just gets the ball. He has more opportunities this year and, with his skill maturation, has displayed the ability to finish."
In addition to club soccer, Piccolino said countless summer sessions working out with teammates at the town park proved invaluable.
Piccolino started with soccer at the age of three. He also briefly played baseball, but found there was not enough movement in the game for his liking.
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A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges to make limited use of racial preferences to ensure a diverse student body. But in a ruling due this month, the court is widely expected to roll back that decision. Such an outcome would shift attention more toward a less constitutionally controversial practice: giving a boost to socio-economically disadvantaged students, regardless of race.
In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity � race or class?
A decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the focus on race as a barrier, upholding the right of colleges to make limited use of racial preferences to ensure a diverse student body. But in a ruling due this month, the court is widely expected to roll back that decision. Such an outcome would shift attention more toward a less constitutionally controversial practice: giving a boost to socio-economically disadvantaged students, regardless of race.
If that happens, it would reflect more than just a more conservative makeup of the justices. Over the past decade, clogged social mobility and rising economic inequality have shifted the conversation on campuses and in the country as a whole.
As a barrier to opportunity, class is getting more attention, while race is fading.
�The cultural zeitgeist has changed,� said Peter Sacks, author of the book Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education.
�The Great Recession really exacerbated the vast and growing inequalities between rich and poor in America,� he said. �Talking openly about class has been taboo,� he added, but in recent years the evidence of widening inequality has mounted and it�s become �OK for the so-called 99 percent to talk about the 99 percent.�
The shift is perceptible in a range of ways:
� ?You can see it in polling, like surveys from the Pew Research Center, which shows the percentage of Americans who feel racial discrimination is the chief impediment to black progress is falling, from 37 percent in 1995 to 23 percent in 2012.
Polling on affirmative action varies widely depending on how questions are phrased, but an ABC News/ Washington Post poll released on Wednesday showed strong feelings about using race in college admissions: Only 22 percent of Americans support letting universities consider applicants� race as a factor, and 76 percent oppose the practice. The proportions supporting racial preferences were similar for blacks (19 percent) and Latinos (29 percent) as for whites (20 percent).
� ?You can read it in the tone of recent opinion pieces penned even by left-leaning academics and columnists, whose support for racial preferences has eroded under a mountain of evidence that quality higher education is tilting further toward the already-wealthy.
� ?You can hear it, too � in conversations on elite college campuses, where the dearth of low-income students is replacing race as a topic of debate, and in the words of the first black president, who has said there�s no good reason his own daughters should benefit from racial preferences when they apply to college.
The shifting debate has painted supporters of race-based affirmative action into a difficult corner. Most agree the barriers to low-income students are a serious problem that should be addressed, and of course, many minority students are also low-income.
But they acknowledge widening income inequality has made it harder to make their case that special attention to race remains justified.
A report released on Thursday by the Lumina Foundation underscored the large and persistent achievement gaps between races in the United States: Nearly 60 percent of Asian adults have a college degree, compared with 43 percent of whites but only 27 percent of blacks and 19 percent of Latinos.
More alarming are the numbers for those between 25 and 29 � an indicator of recent trends. Whites and Asians are doing better than their parents. Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans are doing worse. That�s a problem for everyone, said Lumina president and CEO Jamie Merisotis.
�Narrowing these gaps is a matter of economic and social collective self-interest,� he said.
But other numbers in the same report revealed how profoundly family income determines how far you go in school: Four-fifths of 24-year-olds from families in the top quarter of income have college degrees, compared with just 1 in 10 in the bottom quarter.
�We continue to struggle with racial discrimination in this country, but class has become a far larger impediment to a person�s life chances than race,� said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and a prominent advocate for replacing race-based affirmative action with class-conscious measures.
Kahlenberg believes that with some creativity, colleges can use class-based affirmative action to ensure racial diversity. However, the broader consensus is that replacing race-based preferences with class-based efforts would cause minority enrollment to fall.
�Low-income will not replace diversity,� said Ted Spencer, admissions director at the University of Michigan, which won the right to use race as an admissions factor in the 2003 Supreme Court case but later lost it in a voter referendum. Michigan�s numbers of minority students have not fully recovered.
But Spencer emphasized the court�s justification for race-based affirmative action has never been only about minorities, or about rectifying society-wide discrimination, or about pitting racial barriers against class ones.
Rather, the court�s justification was educational � that all students benefit from a racially diverse student body. If the court rules as expected, he�s worried they�ll have few options.
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Across the US, pioneer vintners are growing grapes and making wine within the limits of cities. Though San Francisco may be the reigning urban winemaking capital with a total of 16 wineries, NYC is gaining stride, capturing the wine world's attention with its one city vineyard and two independent wineries (SF has no vineyards, and all the wines are made at one custom crush facility). Here's an inside look at grape growing in the Big Apple.
The Trailblazers
On the 47-acre Queens County Farm, Operations Manager Gary Mitchell planted just under two acres of grape vines in 2004, creating the first modern vineyard in New York City. In 2006, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were harvested, and 436 cases of Queens County Farm Winery's red blend, Adriance (named after the Dutch family that built the farmhouse), was made. In 2007, Chardonnay was ready and joined the reds. In each year, about twice as many grapes were purchased from small growers to make up the vintage. Now, 2008 is in fermenting tanks at Premium Wine Group in Mattituck, Long Island, where the wine is made, aged and bottled. Once a retail license is approved, the wines will be sold only at QCFM.
At Red Hook Winery in Brooklyn, grapes from Long Island are trucked to the facility for crushing, fermenting, ageing and bottling under the Red Hook Winery label. The brainchild of Mark Snyder, owner of the wine distributor Angels' Share Wines, Red Hook employs two iconic California wine makers, Robert Foley (Foley Estates) and Abe Schoener (Scholium Project), each of whom works with half of the grapes. Snyder says he wanted to create an industrial craft in Brooklyn and help build an interest and a buzz about Long Island wines. Total first year (2008) production of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Gewurztramner, Viognier, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot wines was 400-500 cases, with only a few cases of each wine made. When the wines are ready, they will be sold to local restaurants and wine stores. To contact, email email@example.com.


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Ever read about someone in a magazine and feel the need to visit their burial place? Yep, me too. Such was the case with Julia Force. I read about her in the Summer 2010 edition of Georgia Backroads magazine. A great article by Gaynie G. Guy and Hugh T. Harrington entitled "Julia Force: Victorian Murderess" told of a crime that had the whole nation following along to find out Julia's fate.
In February 1893, Julia Force shot and killed her two sisters, Florence and Minnie, in Atlanta, GA. She was subsequently tried for murder. Julia was not convicted, however, by reason of insanity. She spent the rest of her life in the Georgia Lunatic Asylum located at Milledgeville, GA, where she died 30 March 1916. As to whether or not Julia was truly insane is debatable.
During her time at Milledgeville, Julia befriended a matron of the women's building named Johnanna Mitchell Darnell. ("Sent to Milledgeville," maybe with a raised eyebrow, is all anyone has to say around here, and the meaning is crystal clear, even to this day.) Mrs. Darnell was a granddaughter of former Georgia governor David B. Mitchell. She arranged for herself and Julia to be buried upon their respective deaths in Governor Mitchell's plot at Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville.
Though the slab is unmarked, it is easy to pick out Julia's grave. She is closest to the base of the magnolia tree in the Mitchell lot. Her grave is also now marked by a number 42. This is because she is mentioned in Memory Hill's walking tour brochure as a point of interest.
I wonder if Governor Mitchell could ever have imagined that a murderess would be laid to rest less than six feet from his remains almost 80 years after his death.
Some additional notes:
· If you are interested in learning more about the saga of Julia Force, please follow along a series of posts containing transcriptions of newspaper articles of the time at the Your Peachy Past blog. I posted the first entry this morning.
· Central State Hospital (the name it is currently known by) in Milledgeville, Georgia was founded in 1842. As briefly touched upon, it is still active and a well-known facility to this day.
· Memory Hill Cemetery has a fabulous online presence. You can search their database of burials and download the walking tour brochure.
· Lastly, Julia's murdered sisters were laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta.
15 March 2011
To the Asylum Goes the Murderess Julia Force (Tombstone Tuesday)
Posted by Stephanie Lincecum at 4:04 PM
Labels: Crime and Criminals, Force, Tombstone Tuesday
Amateur historian, avid reader, genealogist, lover of cemeteries, scrapbooker, and stitcher. Budding photographer, baker, gardener, and DIYer.
3 comments:
- Taphophile said...
Georgia Backroads is a great little magazine! Thanks for highlighting this story.
- March 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Hugh said...
I'm delighted that you enjoyed the article on Julia Force. Also pleased that you like the Memory Hill website and walking tour. And, I agree that Georgia Backroads is a great little magazine.
- May 4, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- S. Lincecum said...
Thank-you for stopping by, Hugh!
- May 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM
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LA Motor Show 2012: Porsche Cayman
It's Los Angles Motor Show time, and we've already brought you the first big reveal – the Jaguar XFR-S. But luckily the next reveal wasn't too far away and this is the one we've been really eager for – the new Porsche Cayman.
The previous Cayman suffered from pretty poor sales compared to the Boxster and 911, which was surprising given how incredible they were to drive. Add in the extra practicality of the hatchback rear and they were a very compelling package. Why that never translated into big sale is beyond us, but it's something Porsche is hoping to remedy with this all-new 2013 model. Still very much a Boxster coupe, the new Cayman aims to remove that nametag by offering a more complete package than before.
On the styling front, the new model is certainly a looker – taking the already stunning lines of the new Boxster and sculpting a sleek coupe roofline onto it. The rear hatch and glass come back further than before, giving a more traditional coupe profile, though we're glad they stopped it where they did – any further back and it could have drifted into Panamera territory. You still get the powerful rear haunches though, one of the best elements of the previous model's styling. Up front there is a new bumper with larger intakes to distinguish it from the Boxster while at the rear there is the same integrated pop-up spoiler that blends into the rear lights. The rear spoiler extends to a steeper angle than the Boxster to account for the changed aerodynamics.
The power plants are the same units as in the Boxster, but tuned for a little more power to account for the slight increase in weight over the convertible. The 2.7 litre flat six gets 10 bhp more taking it to 275 bhp, along with 214 lb/ft of torque. This enables the base Cayman to sprint from 0 – 62 mph in 5.7 seconds onto a top speed of 165 mph. The 3.4 litre unit jumps to 325 bhp and 273 lb/ft, meaning a drop to 5.0 seconds for the 0 – 62 mph dash and a top speed of 175 mph.
The new Cayman is 35 mm longer than the predecessor, along with 10 mm lower which should help lower the centre of gravity and improve the handling even more. Given how well the new Boxster drives we can't wait to see how the new Cayman steers, we're expecting big things. An extra bonus is the fact that the new Cayman weighs around 40 kg lighter than the old model, thanks to extra use of aluminium in the body. On a practical level the new Cayman manages to have 150 litres of luggage space in the nose along with a further 162 litres in the space above the engine, under the hatchback. This means that the Cayman actually has more luggage space than the 911, if you discount the rear seats of the bigger car.
This all comes together to make us ponder – why would you need the 911? The Cayman S will provide more than adequate performance, if the old model is anything to go by will handle better than the 911 and is significantly cheaper. We think the Cayman is no longer the 911's poorer brother, and if you really don't need those rear seats could be the sports car to have in 2013.
The Cayman 2.7 starts at £39,694, which is £500 less than the current model, while the 3.4 S costs £48,783. Both models go on sale in early 2013.
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In re the Marriage of KIM LENORE ROSENFELD and MARK P. GROSS. LENORE DRESCHER, Appellant,v.MARK P. GROSS, Respondent.
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Drescher Law Firm, Robert E. Drescher; Law Offices of Herb Fox and Herb Fox for Appellant.
Brot & Gross, Ronald F. Brot, Marie A. Lamolinara; Barbakow & Ribet and Claudia Ribet for Respondent.
With the dissolution of their marriage in 2001, Lenore Drescher (formerly known as Kim Lenore Rosenfeld) and Mark P. Gross executed a marital settlement agreement wherein they stipulated to equally pay for the future college expenses of their three minor children. The agreement was incorporated into the judgment of dissolution and child support and spousal support were ordered as set forth in the agreement.
Eleven years later their daughter enrolled in the University of Missouri and began incurring significant expenses. Drescher sought a modification of the
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judgment, asserting she had become permanently disabled with an income of less than $23, 000 a year, while Gross's income had increased to over $400, 000. The trial court denied Drescher's request for modification, concluding it lacked jurisdiction to modify the judgment with respect to college expenses because the marital settlement agreement did not refer to the obligation as "child support." Drescher appeals from this order.
In this appeal, we must decide whether parents may contractually limit the court's jurisdiction to modify an adult child support order made pursuant to the parents' agreement under Family Code[1] section 3587. We conclude parents may do so. In contrast to the court's broad jurisdiction to order minor child support, which is rooted in parents' law-imposed duty to support their children until adulthood, the court's jurisdiction to order adult child support under section 3587 derives entirely from the parents' agreement to pay adult support, and the statute grants the court limited authority to "make a support order to effectuate the agreement." Consistent with this grant of limited authority, in section 3651, the Legislature expressly made the court's general authority to modify a support order "subject to" section 3587. Interpreting the statutes together within the broader statutory framework, we conclude, as a matter of first impression, that the "subject to" clause in section 3651 means an order for adult child support, when authorized exclusively by the parents' agreement under section 3587, may be made non-modifiable by the parents' express and specific agreement to restrict the court's jurisdiction.
Though we hold parents may contract to restrict the court's jurisdiction to modify an adult child support order in this limited circumstance, we conclude the parties' marital settlement agreement in this case did not limit the court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, we reverse the order and remand the matter to the trial court with directions to consider whether the college expense support obligation should be modified.
1. The Marital Settlement Agreement and Judgment
Drescher and Gross were married in 1987 and separated in 2001. There are three children from the marriage: Joshua, born in 1992; Lila, born in 1994; and Noah, born in 1997.
In June 2001, the parties executed a Marital Settlement Agreement (MSA). At the time, the parties were both employed as attorneys earning six-figure incomes.
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The parties' financial support obligations are set forth in Paragraph IV of the MSA, under the heading "FAMILY SUPPORT, " and the specific obligations are detailed in subparagraphs A through D. The MSA refers to the financial obligations set forth in subparagraph A as "non-modifiable, non-taxable family support, " while the obligations set forth in subparagraphs B and C are referred to as "additional child support." Subparagraph D, the most pertinent to this appeal, does not contain a similar specific reference to "family support" or "child support." Subparagraph D provides: "D. Each party shall be responsible for payment of one-half (½) of all costs incurred on behalf of each minor child, for undergraduate California state college or university expenses, trade or other school or schools' costs incurred by such minor child, or other schools approved by the parties, so long as such minor child is ...
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Innovative retailer C. Wonder has deployed 15-20 Apple iPod Touch devices per store, each equipped with Verifone's PAYware Mobile Enterprise for mobile checkout, using Verifone GlobalBay Mobile POS, increasing the points of payment and volume of payment transactions.
NEW YORK (NRF Expo 2012 - Booth 1459 and 1635) -- Customers are no longer at the mercy of traditional cash register lines in the new C. Wonder brand of women's retail stores introduced last fall. Instead, C. Wonder sales associates are able to assist shoppers with checkout anywhere in the store using an iPod Touch. This exceptional retail deployment of mobile-only checkout is the result of a customized mobile point of sale (mPOS) solution from Verifone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) that decreases wait lines and eliminates cumbersome POS software and costly cash registers. C. Wonder's storewide mPOS execution expedites payment transactions and advances shopping to a new level of personal service.
Verifone announced today that its Verifone GlobalBay Mobile POS and PAYware Mobile Enterprise solutions are being operated in C. Wonder's stores as part of the retailer's core focus: customer service at the most individual level.
Founded by investor and entrepreneur J. Christopher Burch, C. Wonder opened its flagship Manhattan store in October 2011, followed by three additional stores in New York and New Jersey with plans to expand in another 15 locations by the end of 2012. Verifone's GlobalBay solution is designed for seamless activation of mPOS at every new store.
"C. Wonder is applying technology solutions to redefine 21st Century retail, including the unexpected benefit of not waiting in a long line at a traditional cash register," said Mattias Douhan, vice president of IT for C. Wonder. "Mobile point of sale frees up associates to assist shoppers at any place in the store where they are inspired to make a purchase."
The mobile retail solution is also cost-effective because stores of this size typically rely on three to four fixed registers; but C. Wonder has deployed 15-20 Apple iPod Touch devices per store, each equipped with Verifone's PAYware Mobile Enterprise, increasing the points of payment and the volume of payment transactions. This represents a savings on hardware and expands selling space that would otherwise be occupied by registers.
An associate uses an Apple iPod Touch running the Verifone GlobalBay app and equipped with Verifone's PCI-approved PAYware Mobile Enterprise, which accepts card swipes, instantly encrypts the data and also enables quick and efficient bar code scanning.
By hosting an entirely mobile POS sales floor, C. Wonder avoided the traditional POS software that retailers deploy and instead integrated directly to a custom ERP system modified from the Jeeves Universal flexible standard ERP solution. This approach provides real-time information for management through C. Wonder's centrally hosted ERP system as associates assist customers anywhere in the store.
"C. Wonder is on the cutting edge of retail transformation and Verifone's GlobalBay mobile retail applications, security software and hardware are helping to make shopping a more enjoyable, more fulfilling experience," said Jennifer Miles, Verifone executive vice president, North America.
[NOTE TO EDITORS: Matt Douhan, VP & CIO of J. Christopher Capital and C. Wonder, and Paul Hoffman, VP of Business Development & Strategy with J. Christopher Capital, will provide a detailed overview of their deployment including hardware, software and security as well as impacts on their store format during a panel discussion at the National Retail Federation's 101st Annual Convention & EXPO on Monday, January 16, from 4:45-5:15 p.m. in Room 3D04. For more information go to http://events.nrf.com/annual2012/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?SessionID=1733]
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About C. Wonder C. Wonder offers women's clothing, footwear, jewelry and accessories; housewares and home decor, personal electronics, great gifts, and delightful surprises at every turn. Our design teams create a wide-ranging assortment of beautiful, versatile and spirited products for all areas of our customer's life. Our stores offer unexpected touches at every turn: rich interior furnishings; personal fitting room settings; embroidery and engraving on select products; an open door return policy; and payment transactions anywhere in the store.
C. Wonder is one of several lifestyle and consumer products brands being developed by J. Christopher Burch, founder and CEO of J. Christopher Capital, an entrepreneur and active investor across a wide range of industries for nearly thirty years. Mr. Burch has been a strategic investor in multiple technology and luxury brands, including Aliph (Jawbone), NextJump, PowerMat, Voss Water and Tory Burch. For your daily dose of wonder visit us at www.cwonder.com.
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The University of Texas PRC developed It's Your Game…Keep it Real, a classroom and computer-based sex education program for middle school students. The curriculum is intended to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In 2010, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy included It's Your Game in a list of effective programs, and it is one of 36 teen pregnancy prevention programs eligible for federal funds.
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- Clinical Interests
- Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Gastroenterology
- Medical Education
- MBBS, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research
- MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
- Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology
- Foreign Languages
- Tamil
- Hindi
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Danvers: The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care
- Insurances Accepted
- Aetna Health Inc.
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
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- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
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- Well Sense Pediatrics
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Research & Publications
- Research Summary
My research is focused on the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. I am involved in studies that are aimed to better understand the risk factors (including diet and environment) for developing Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. This will help us better understand the pathogenesis of these conditions which will eventually lead to novel treatments. I am also conducting clinical research that examines the course of disease and response to various therapies with the aim of developing predictive models that can be used both to inform about disease course as well the likelihood of response to specific therapy. I am interested in novel tools to monitor disease activity and identify complications. I participate in clinical trials related to inflammatory bowel diseases. I am also involved in various research projects using large datasets to determine patterns of care and outcome as they relate to gastroenterology.
- Publications
View my most recent publications at PubMed
- Ananthakrishnan AN, Higuchi LM, Huang ES, Khalili H, Richter JM, Fuchs CS, Chan AT. 2012. Aspirin, Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use, and Risk for Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med 156: 350-9.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, Khalili H, Higuchi LM, Bao Y, Korzenik JR, Giovannucci EL, Richter JM, Fuchs CS, Chan AT. 2012. Higher predicted vitamin d status is associated with reduced risk of Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology 142: 482-9.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, Hur C, Juillerat P, Korzenik JR. 2011. Strategies for the prevention of postoperative recurrence in Crohn's disease: results of a decision analysis. Am J Gastroenterol 106: 2009-17.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, McGinley EL, Binion DG, Saeian K. 2011. Ambient air pollution correlates with hospitalizations for inflammatory bowel disease: an ecologic analysis. Inflamm Bowel Dis 17: 1138-45.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, McGinley EL, Binion DG. 2009. Inflammatory bowel disease in the elderly is associated with worse outcomes: a national study of hospitalizations. Inflamm Bowel Dis 15: 182-9.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, Weber LR, Knox JF, Skaros S, Emmons J, Lundeen S, Issa M, Otterson MF, Binion DG. 2008. Permanent work disability in Crohn's disease. Am J Gastroenterol 103: 154-61.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, McGinley EL, Binion DG. 2008. Excess hospitalisation burden associated with Clostridium difficile in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Gut 57: 205-10.
- Ananthakrishnan AN, Schellhase KG, Sparapani RA, Laud PW, Neuner JM. 2007. Disparities in colon cancer screening in the Medicare population. Arch Intern Med 167: 258-64.
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Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center, including clinical trials of new biologic medications, as well new minimally invasive surgical techniques, is helping expand treatment and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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Today was the third and last day at the 7th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference in Santa Clara. The day was full of demos and developer challenge announcements. Also, the winners of the Nokia X Prize Innovation Challenge were announced and rewarded.
We are truly witnessing amazing progress in the field of combining life science with mobile technology.
My focus today was on investors and their advise to health tech entrepreneurs in the crowded health tech space.
Here is top 10 take home messages straight from Silicon Valley Health Tech investors:
1. Focus on big enough health challenges and address them with new technologies.
2. Help get doctors in proper use – don't try to replace them.
3. Choose carefully what space you are in. The healthcare market is very segmented and the smaller startup you are the better you must choose your niche.
4. Revenue is the best format of funding. Customer is the best possible investor.
5. Bootstrapping forces your business to discipline.
6. Healthcare convenience is a strong selling point.
7. Consumers will drive medical community to transform.
8. Get proof of concept and evidence with a couple of customers. Without that your idea is not valuable.
9. Accelerators provide great environment, but you should vet them carefully to make sure they offer what you really need (relevant client contacts in your segment, space, mentors, funding).
10. Make sure you help customers to save money or make money. Preferably both. In the US,
improving quality alone does not rank high on the value proposition list.


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Auctions, buying land, government, buying property, open house
Becoming a landowner is at once both terrifying and exhilarating. At last, you have your own property, your own place to do with what you wish; but you also have the heavy debt and financial instability that can come with making such a large purchase. If owning property is your dream, consider purchasing from a government auction, where you can get a parcel of land for much cheaper than on just about any other market.
Why is government auctioned land so inexpensive? Primarily because the government gets it for free, from a variety of ways, and then is happy to get back whatever money they can make on it. From foreclosures to mail fraud to tax seizure, property is taken away and sold to the highest bidder every day. IRS sales (confiscated property due to inability to pay taxes), sheriff's sales (confiscated property due to refusal to pay court-mandated fines or fees), and VA and HUD sales (purchased home mortgages due to inability to pay) all sell confiscated property to interested clients to recover the amount of debt they're making up for, not necessarily to get the full market value; you could be one of the lucky bidders who purchases a property at a price way below its true worth!
Start looking for government auctions online. Many states and regions have their own pages -- government surplus, sheriff's offices, and IRS agents can let you know when auctions are being held in your area, where they are, and what properties will be sold there. Try to obtain a catalog or access to a web site where the land is listed, along with descriptions and (potentially) starting prices.
Make sure to find out when open houses and property inspections are occurring. You can obtain this information from the same place as the property listings. You'll want to attend the inspections, even if the property sounds like a delightful dream -- sometimes, it can be too good to be true. However, odds are considering that most of the properties have been confiscated because people couldn't pay for them, they won't be junky hovels or unbuildable pieces of land, so if for some reason you absolutely can't make the open house or inspection, it won't be the end of the world.
Here are some extra tips for making the most of government auctions:
Before the auction begins, determine how much you're willing to pay and make yourself a mental cap.
Make sure you have the money to buy the property, or it could end up right back on the government's auction block!
You may be able to bid online for some properties, so check ahead of time if you don't want to drive too far to the bidding site.
Another great way to get inexpensive, secondhand items? Garage sales! Check us out at GarageSaleCow.com -- we're your one-stop frugal living shop, except you will not pay for anything, not even advertising your yard sales!
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Have a long term plan for the property you are about to purchase. Buying the property is only the start and the easy part of the plan. Maintaining the property and improving it is where the real challenge lies. Compare your taxes, mortgages and other expenses with your income so you will have a clear picture of your financial status. You could then brainstorm a plan to lower those expenses like having budget cuts on your lifestyle like shopping and going out less often. In summary, planning can only bring you so far so it's up to you to execute that plan perfectly and have a little faith that it will work out well.
Need to be wiser in buying properties because these are major investments you don't want to fail. Getting attracted to a package that would let you pay monthly with a low down payment is one of the common mistakes in acquiring these. Don't ever rush things because surely, at some point, you will regret making that decision. Instead, research more about the neighborhood, the accessibility - "are there pavements in the village?," "what's the means of transportation?," "how's the financial stability of the community?," and most especially the value - "Is is depreciating?," "Is there a chance I could sell and profit from this in the future?." These are some of the questions that needed to be answered before having an investment on a government owned property.
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Boethius is not a great mathematician, and yet despite this mathematics could not have developed in the way that it did without his decisive input.
Whether by accident or design, his contribution to the development of mathematics in Europe is crucial.
Boethius was born into a great Roman family and despite being orphaned he was well educated and grew up fluent in Greek.
He may even have travelled to Athens or Alexandria and became one of the most educated men in Rome.
The Empire had fallen and Rome was ruled by the Ostrogoth, Theodoric. Boethius went to work for him, ending up as the head of his government.
Even with this demanding position, he still found time to use his language skills to translate many Greek works into Latin.
He concentrated on the works of Plato and Aristotle but also contributed two mathematical books, one of which based was on geometry and is now lost.
His other work, Arithmetic, was not an outstanding, nor original, mathematical work. It provided an abridgement of Nicomachus' work, parts of Euclid's Elements and some work derived from Ptolemy's Almagest.
But it served as the basis for the mathematics taught in monastic schools for the millennia to come.
It also ensured that mathematics was not totally forgotten as a subject in Europe and introduced medieval scholars to concepts such as Pythagorean number theory which would otherwise have been unknown.
Living during what is known as the dark ages of Europe, Boethius provides a link between the ancient world and the medieval world.
He fell out with Theodoric, perhaps over religion and was sentenced to death. While awaiting execution he wrote the Consolation of Philosophy a key medieval text before being executed in 526.


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- What's kept the Canadian rocker on the charts for three decades: arena anthems and vocal cords designed to produce pure emotion
- The album that rocketed him to fame in the US: 1983's Cuts Like a Knife
- The album that rocketed him to worldwide fame, and just celebrated it's 30th anniversary: 1984's Reckless
- Reckless stats: it sold 12 million albums, earned 11 platinum certifications and 2 gold certifications, and was the first Canadian album to sell over one million units in Canada
- Alternative title that should be considered for Reckless: Bryan Adams's Greatest Hits: Vol. 1
- Why: it landed six Top 15 singles (a feat that only Michael Jackson and Springsteen had achieved at the time)
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Richard "Ricky" Mabe is a Canadian actor. Mabe was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. He first voiced the character Willie in CINAR Animation's The Little Lulu Show and has subsequently starred frequently on various Canadian television series' and in feature films alongside Burt Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Elisha Cuthbert. He was also the voice of Timmy Tibble one of the Tibble Twins on the PBS children's animated television program Arthur, Stig in Pig City, Freddie Fay in the later season of The Kids from Room 402 and played Gideon Lustig in several episodes of Beautiful People. More recently, Mabe has been cast in such feature films as Zack and Miri Make a Porno and The Trotsky.
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Alyce Louise Grimes, 69, of Woodbury passed away on February 16, 2014. A native of Eaton Rapids, MI, she was the daughter of the late Max & Jeanette Schenepp Grimes.
She is survived by her daughters, Marjette (Jason) Kestler of Louisville, KY. and Tammerala (Richard) Barniak of Kalamazoo, MI.; brother, Kenneth (Yvonne) Grimes of Woodbury; many grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive.
Ms. Grimes was a member of the Victory Assembly of God and she was a self employed pet watcher.
Memorial services will be 2 pm Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 at Victory Assembly of God, 208 4th Ave. Murfreesboro, TN. 37128 with Bro. Tim Davis officiating.


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Hewitson Shiraz Barossa Valley Ned & Henry's 2005
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Hewitson is dedicated to producing traditionally-made, expressive wines from the great vineyards of South Australia's famous wine regions: Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and stretching to the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Geographically these regions are collectively known as The Adelaide Super Zone. This is Hewitson's backyard.
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This lovely, well respected little wine with the funky name was given 3 years of cellaring at 12 degrees Celsius. The results were more than acceptable: the wine is softer, more supple and approachable - more like Cornas. The nose is very Barossa with plum and blackberry jam - very much like we make here on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. There is also that touch of menthol or perhaps cough-drop Eucalyptus. On entry, the wine is well-balanced and perfect for drinking now since the tannins have diminished in strength. Medium to long finish. The only blemish to report is a slight lack of body for an Oz Shiraz. But good value and recommended - if you are lucky enough to find it!
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The fabulous, rich, intense, full-bodied 2005 Shiraz Ned & Henry's displays extraordinary purity and nuance. The bacon fat character found in the 2004 has not yet emerged from the 2005. The 2005 appears to possess greater intensity, richness, and staying power. This wine has the potential to keep for 7-8 years. Bright and crisp, this is a distinctive style for a Barossa Shiraz that goes for nimbleness instead of power, focusing the meaty blackberry flavors through the fine tannins on the finish. Best from 2008 through 2015. 750 cases imported. -HS Deep ruby. Pungent red berry and cherry aromas show an impressive array of floral and herbal qualities, with bright minerality adding energy. Brisk and youthfully taut, with vibrant strawberry and raspberry flavors gaining sweetness with air. Finishes with silky tannins and lingering raspberry and cherry preserve flavors. This is drinking well now. ** Only 8 in Stock **
RP: 92 Points WS: 90 Points ST: 90 Points
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CPA Brian Strand is a bad dude, he stole $195,592.72 from one elderly client over the course of about 4 years, mostly ATM withdraws at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, high roller with someones cash, but there is no indication, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff report that any of the many other clients of CPA Brian Strand were effected. Brian Strand is currently in the Central Florida Reception Center (prison) 7000 H C Kelley Rd Orlando, FL. Brian Strand lost his CPA license in July 2016, Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation (
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When he got two unexpected letters in the same envelope last month, one from his Sarasota accountant and the other from another CPA firm he had never dealt with, Sandy Fishbein could have recognized the name of the guy who signed the second letter. But he didn't. He was more focused on what the heck was going on with his accountant, Brian Strand, who he says was "my trusted CPA" for well over a decade. The letters both said Strand's firm was merging with one owned by certified public accountant Joe Gruters. Strand's letter said Gruters "shares my values," and Gruters' letter said "I'm deeply honored and proud to serve you in both my CPA role and my other job as an elected member of the Florida House of Representatives." Fishbein, now more concerned, eventually got Gruters on the phone. He says Gruters kept giving him reassuring but vague statements and calling Strand a nice guy. Feeling both mistrustful and frustrated, Fishbein pushed and pushed for more information about Strand. Finally, he says, Gruters just said it. "He's in jail." Strand was on his way to prison, actually, to serve a three-year sentence. No reasonable estimate has him getting out for well over two years. Strand had kept it pretty quiet, it seems, but he lost his CPA status in 2015 when he was charged with exploiting the elderly by taking more than $100,000 from the trust accounts of a client in her 90s. The case progressed slowly. Last month, Strand pleaded no contest to that charge after he had finally paid the money back into the pilfered trust fund as part of the plea deal. The victim never knew about that payback. She died before the plea deal was done. Strand admitted to having a gambling problem, a police arrest report says. I doubt anything else could explain such a sloppy series of "misappropriations" by a CPA. How sloppy? Much of the money was taken via ATM withdrawals at various casinos.
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What do you do with your old plastic bags? They're used in all sorts of ways these days, but a new one to us is creating "plastic lumber." Would you be daring enough to add them to a pot of canola oil until they make a thick sludge and them press them in a simple form? We might be now, read more about the process this way.
Our friends over at Make tipped us off to the works of Michael Colombo, from Push The Other Button, who created this curious Instructables tutorial on repurposing your old plastic bags in a new way.
Although the original intent was to make children's blocks, we think the idea has tremendous possibility when it comes to making things such as book ends or even a tile of sorts for backsplashes. How would you put this process to use for you (assuming you're down with the small mess that's involved)?
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The flower measures approximately 4 1/4" in diameter. This flower also hails from the Korn And Korn collection. ENJOY!
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On April 26, 1986 the worst nuclear disaster in the history of the world was taking place, and no one knew. Not until high radiation levels were detected in countries outside the USSR days...
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A group of Edinburgh College students have unveiled a series of illustrative boards they created to bring Dalkeith's history to life.
The group of 11 local students from the Midlothian campus have created boards to illustrate Dalkeith's past dating back to the 1800s.
The boards detail everything from burning witches at the stake in the town centre and coal mining in Gorebridge to the building of Rosslyn Chapel.
The boards, which will form part of a historical trail in the town, will decorate unused shop fronts in the High Street and at Dalkeith Corn Exchange.
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text: The first book that puts the hearth of the American home-its many unique challenges and innovations-in its proper place in contemporary history.Thomas Jefferson once wrote that if you really want to understand the workings of a society, you have to "look into their pots" and "eat their bread." Steven Gdula gives us a view of American culture from the most popular room in the house: the kitchen. Examining the relationship between trends and innovations in the kitchen and the cultural attitudes beyond its four walls, Gdula creates a lively portrait of the last hundred years of American domestic life. The Warmest Room in the House explores food trends and technology, kitchen design, appliances and furniture, china and flatware, cookery bookery, food lit, and much more.Gdula traces the evolution of the kitchen from the back room where the work of the home happened to its place at the center of family life and entertainment today. Filled with fun facts about food trends, from Hamburger Helper to The Moosewood Cookbook, and food personalities, from Julia Child to Rachael Ray, The Warmest Room in the House is the perfect addition to any well-rounded kitchen larder.


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Give road-weary eyes a break with this spiral-bound Large Scale edition featuring all the accuracy you've come to expect from Rand McNally, only bigger. Updated atlas contains maps of every U.S. state that are 35% larger than the standard atlas version plus over 350 detailed city inset and national park maps and a comprehensive, unabridged index. Road construction and conditions contact information for every state conveniently located on map pages. Contains mileage chart showing distances between 77 North American cities and national parks with driving times map. Tough spiral binding allows the book to lay open easily.Other FeaturesRand McNally presents five of our favorite national parks big and small, east and west that showcase this country's astonishing beauty, highlight essential visitor information, and offer insightful travel tips. Tell Rand! As much as we work to keep our atlases up to date, conditions change quickly and new construction projects begin frequently. If you know of something we haven't captured in our atlas, let us know at randmcnally.com/tellrand.Tourism websites and phone numbers for every U.S. state and Canadian province on map pagesProduct DetailsISBN: 05280019635EAN: 9780528019630UPC: 070609019635SRP: $19.95PaperbackSpiral Binding264 pages Dimensions: 10.375" x 15.375"
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Drinking and Pairing Sant'Antimo with FoodThe appellation of Sant'Antimo covers roughly the same area as the Brunello di Montalcino in Southern Tuscany. The rules of this designated area were drawn up in 1996 to provide Montalcino producers an outlet for "Super-Tuscan" wines. Although any grape authorized in Tuscany may be used for Sant'Antimo, the wine most often produced is a red blend, with some percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, or Syrah blended with Brunello, the special clone of Sangiovese unique to Montalcino.
Sant'Antimo is served with various salumi and preserved meats, stewed white beans, mushrooms, polenta, pappardelle, meat ragùs, and big hunks of blood-rare Chianina, Italy's most-prized beef.
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