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An abnormal gait is a dysfunctional walking pattern. It typically occurs due to biomechanical problems win the feet and ankles. In a normal gait, the feet both spend roughly an equal amount of time in contact with the ground. Many patients complain of a painful (antalgic) gait. This type of gait is usually due to a foot or ankle injury. The patient avoids bearing weight on the injured foot, resulting in an altered gait with shorter strides and an inequality in the amount of time each foot spends in contact with the ground (with the injured foot on the ground less). A high steppage gait is a walking pattern characterized by bending the knee more than is normal while walking. Patients do this to compensate for weak anterior compartment muscles, which can cause their foot to drop or slap onto the ground. If you have an abnormal gait, it is strongly suggested that you see a podiatrist for diagnosis and treatment.
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Biomechanics in Podiatry
Podiatric biomechanics is a particular sector of specialty podiatry with licensed practitioners who are trained to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the foot, ankle and lower leg. Biomechanics deals with the forces that act against the body, causing an interference with the biological structures. It focuses on the movement of the ankle, the foot and the forces that interact with them.
A History of Biomechanics
- Biomechanics dates back to the BC era in Egypt where evidence of professional foot care has been recorded.
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Windows XP and its predecessors have long offered a text-mode menu for selecting which operating system to boot. The available operating systems are learnt from entries in the BOOT.INI file. Each entry provides a title, a path and options. The menu ordinarily shows only the titles. Provision exists, however, to reveal extra detail in the boot menu and even to edit the selected operating system's options before proceeding with the boot. As so often, Microsoft seems to have left this potentially useful facility undocumented.
When booting a machine on which a Windows NT version is installed (prior to Windows Vista), the NT bootstrap loader (NTLDR) may offer a text-mode menu of installed operating systems and of configurations in which to start them. The possibilities are learnt from entries in the [operating systems] section of a BOOT.INI file. Each entry takes one line of the file and can provide a title, a path and options.
The menu lists the operating systems by their titles, one per line. One title is displayed in reverse video as a highlight to denote that it is the current selection. The user changes the current selection by pressing the Up, Down, Home and End keys, and accepts the current selection by pressing Enter (or by letting a configurable timeout expire).
The menu ordinarily shows nothing of the path or options for any operating system, except that some few options of special significance to the loader are indicated indirectly by appending to the title a qualifying description (such as "debugger enabled") in square brackets.
NTLDR has two undocumented enhancements of the boot menu. One is an action to take at boot time to reveal the path and options. The other, which (unfortunately) requires advance preparation, is to allow editing of the options before proceeding with the boot.
To be shown the path and options for the installed operating systems, type unsupporteddebug while the menu is displayed. Your typing will be blind: there is no feedback on the display until you have pressed all the necessary keys. The result is a new display area beneath the list of available operating systems. The title, path and options for the current selection are shown there, and are updated whenever the current selection changes.
Once you put the boot menu into this unsupported debug mode, be careful about pressing F5 or F8. These keys take you to the Windows Advanced Options Menu, as usual, but if you cancel this menu, thinking to return to the boot menu, you will trigger a coding error. The consequences vary with the NTLDR version, depending on the precise arrangement of local variables on the stack. When the boot menu is redrawn, the text at the top may be corrupt or the NTLDR may crash.
As well as letting you see the title, path and options for each of the installed operating systems, your blind typing of unsupporteddebug may allow you to edit the options for whatever operating system you eventually choose to start. If BOOT.INI has been prepared in advance so that at least one entry in the [operating systems] section satisfies at least one of four properties (listed below, under the heading Restriction), then when you accept the current selection from the menu, the loader will clear the display, show the title, path and options for the selected system, and prompt you to "Enter new load options".
Editing is basic, as if in overwrite mode with no facility to toggle to an insert mode. A cursor is simulated by showing one character in reverse video. The Left, Right, Home and End keys move the cursor. Keys that correspond to an ASCII character between space and the lower-case z cause that character to overwrite whatever character was already at the cursor. The Insert key inserts one space at the cursor, so that each character at and to the right of the cursor moves one column further right. The Delete key deletes the character at the cursor, so that each character to the right of the cursor moves one column left. The Backspace key deletes the character to the left of the cursor, so that each character at and to the right of the cursor moves one column left.
This facility has somewhat limited value in practice because it must be prepared in advance. It is activated only if at least one of the installed operating systems has at least one of the following properties (in which the path and options are case-insensitive):
What might have been a valuable use for this facility is missed because of these constraints. Imagine that kernel-mode debugging is wanted for finding why some computer will not start, but the computer is the possession of an ordinary user and its BOOT.INI file on the local hard disk has no entry that would enable debugging. Among the available strategies is to boot an operating system from another device, as with MS-DOS from a floppy disk or the Windows Recovery Console from a CD, then edit the BOOT.INI on the hard disk before rebooting from the hard disk. Another is to boot from the hard disk as normal but press F5 or F8 for the Windows Advanced Options Menu: the effect of the Debugging Mode option in this menu is essentially to add a /debug option, so that Windows will then start with default connection parameters for kernel-mode debugging. Plainly better would be to boot from the hard disk but have some way to specify your ideal connection parameters. You would get exactly this from the unsupporteddebug facility, but only if the problem machine is already prepared.
This note is based on inspection of the NTLDR from Windows XP Service Pack 1a. However, perusal of earlier Windows versions for a revision of this article in 2007 has shown that the features described above date from at least the original Windows 2000 and continue at least until Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (as does, incidentally, the coding error).
The boot sequence has been reworked for Windows Vista and the particulars given above are inapplicable. However, the intention to these enhancements is accommodated by the new coding, and is even improved. At the Windows Boot Manager menu, while the current selection corresponds to an installation of Windows Vista or later, press F10 to be taken to the Edit Boot Options menu.


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Pogonomyrmex desertorum
|Pogonomyrmex desertorum
|Scientific classification
|Species group:
|P. desertorum
|Binomial name
|Pogonomyrmex desertorum
Wheeler, W.M., 1902
This is a species of seed harvesters (individual and group forager) with small nest populations (few hundreds?). They are very docile ants. They nest in sandy areas, or even gravel soils, with a small mound surrounding the nest entrance. Flights occur in June and July. During the mating flights, sexuals search for the highest object in an area, which in its typical habitat is usually the myrmecologist! It can be a very interesting experience, and additionally the females can deliver a painful sting. (Mackay and Mackay 2002)
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Cole (1968) - In the eastern part of its range, Pogonomyrmex desertorum is pale ferrugineous red; the pronotal rugae are delicate and comparatively sparse so that the highly shining surface is well revealed; and the posterior corners of the head are strongly shining and free of sculpture. This combination of characters defines the "typical" desertorum as it occurs in western Texas and in comparable areas of Mexico. With westward progression there is a gradual intensification and some addition of pronotal rugae, so that smaller areas of the shining body surface are exposed. Coincident with this transition is a deepening of body color and a reduction in extent of the smooth and shining corners of the head. In the extreme western portion of the range of destertorum, the pronotal rugae are more numerous and coarser; and the cephalic rugae have encroached for such a considerable distance into the posterior corners of the head that some workers of a nest series may have these parts almost completely covered with very fine rugae which are sufficiently dense to obscure almost entirely the shining surface. These features, together with a rather deep ferrugineous red hue, prevail in collections from stations near Gila Bend, Arizona, and Needles, California.
Keys including this Species
United States: western Texas, southern New Mexico, southern Arizona. Mexico: northern Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Durange, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora.
Latitudinal Distribution Pattern
Latitudinal Range: 35.7025° to 17.881419°.
- Source: AntMaps
Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Nearctic Region: United States (type locality).
Neotropical Region: Mexico.
Distribution based on AntMaps
Distribution based on AntWeb specimens
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Countries Occupied
|Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
Chihuahuan Desert in rocky or sandy soils, including dunes. (Mackay and Mackay 2002)
The ants nest in sand or very sandy soil in open areas and construct circular craters of the same material. The workers move slowly, forage on trails at a steady gait, and frequently have the gaster turned downward as though they were laying a chemical trail. When disturbed at the nest they retreat and crawl beneath covering material if available. They are extremely docile; I have never been able to elicit an attack response. In fact, desertorum is probably the most inoffensive species of all North American members of its subgenus. (Cole 1968)
|Owned by Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Images from AntWeb
|Worker. Specimen code casent0005707. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.
|Owned by UCDC, Davis, CA, USA.
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- desertorum. Pogonomyrmex desertorum Wheeler, W.M. 1902c: 387 (w.) U.S.A. Cole, 1968: 67 (q.m.); Taber, Cokendolpher & Francke, 1988: 51 (k.). Senior synonym of ferrugineus: Cole, 1968: 65.
- ferrugineus. Pogonomyrmex desertorum var. ferrugineus Olsen, 1934: 506 (w.) U.S.A. Subspecies of desertorum: Creighton, 1950a: 124. Junior synonym of desertorum: Cole, 1968: 65.
Type Material
- Syntype, workers, Presidio, Texas, United States, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Creighton Coll..
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Cole (1968) - HL 1.37-2.01 mm, HW 1.38-2.16 mm, CI 100.7-107.5, SL 1.10-1.45 mm, SI 67.1-79.7, EL 0.38-0.46 mm, EW 0.23-0.27 mm, OI 22.8-27.8, WL 1.60-2.28 mm, PNL 0.42-0.57 mm, PNW 0.30-0.53 mm, PPL 0.38-0.46 mm, PPW 0.49-0.65 mm.
Mandible as shown in Pl. III, Fig. 14; teeth short, blunt, robust; apical tooth distinctly longer than subapical; first four basal teeth subequal in length, ultimate basal tooth a little shorter and narrower than or subequal to penultimate basal and not set off from the broadly convex basal mandibular margin.
Base of antennal scape as illustrated in Pl. IV, Fig. 16; curvature of shaft rather strong, even, confined mostly to basal half; shaft rather strongly constricted and somewhat flattened along strongest part of bend. Basal enlargement considerably reduced (as compared with that of barbatus), trumpet-shaped; superior declivity long, somewhat concave, not steep; apex of superior lobe acute; superior and inferior lobes subequal in size. Lip moderately thick, curved distad, not so massive as that of barbatus or apache, not bipartite. Longitudinal peripheral carina weak or absent. Point faint or absent. Basal flange straight, thin, continuing to apex of superior lobe. Basal impression moderately developed.
Cephalic rugae longitudinal, very dense, very fine, very closely spaced, producing a silky luster; interrugal spaces subopaque or somewhat shining, finely punctate, the punctures in single rows. Posterior corners of head mostly smooth and shining, sometimes faintly striate.
Contour, in lateral view, of thorax, petiole, and post petiole as shown in Pl. V, Fig. 3; epinotum armed with a pair of well-developed, rather slender spines which are generally long, but may be short or of medium length, notably broader basally than apically, sharp. Petiolar peduncle with a strong, rather blunt, spinelike, ventral process continued posteriorly as a translucent longitudinal carina, the two bearing 3 to 5 prominent, ventrally directed hairs. Anterior declivity of peliolar node meeting the peduncle at a weak, generally well-rounded angle; dorsum of petiolar node weakly convex. Ventral process of postpetiole weak, blunt. Contour, in dorsal view, of petiolar and postpetiolar nodes as illustrated in Pl. VII, Fig. 22. Thoracic rugae less delicate and less closely spaced than of pronotum and mesonotum, transverse elsewhere; finer and more closely spaced on propleura; interrugal spaces finely punctate or reticulate, subopaque or shining. Petiolar node finely punctate and transversely, unevenly striate or rugulose; interrugal spaces somewhat shining. Postpetiolar node densely and finely punctate, faintly and irregularly striate on posterior portion, the surface slightly shining. Gaster finely shagreened, smooth, shining.
Body color varying from pale ferrugineous red with or without a darker gaster to dark ferrugineous red with posterior margin of each gastric segment strongly infuscated.
Cole (1968) - HL 1.71-2.01 mm, HW 1.94-2.13 mm. CI 113.1-120.9, SL 1.14-1.60 mm, SI 58.7-65.9, EL 0.46-0.53 mm, EW 0.30-0.38 mm. OI 26.3-26.9, WL 2.55-3.19 mm, PNL 0.38-0.53 mm, PNW 0.53-0.66 mm, PPL 0.53-0.56 rum, PPW 0.84-0.95 mm.
Conformation of base of antennal scape similar to that of worker. Cephalic rugae delicate, dense, closely spaced, not at all diverging toward posterior corners of head; interrugal spaces shining, very faintly and finely punctate; posterior corners of head smooth and shining.
Pronotum with delicate, irregularly spaced, rather dense striae; rugae on scutum dense, fine, closely spaced, longitudinal; scutellum with sparse, fine, longitudinal striae, mostly limited to lateral portions, midregion very smooth and shining; meso- and meta thoracic pleura with dense, fine, longitudinal rugulae; epinotum with rugae transverse, irregularly and somewhat more widely spaced; interrugal spaces shining, faintly and finely punctate. Epinotum armed with a pair of short, sharp spines that are much broader basally than apically. Anterior declivity of petiolar node meeting peduncle at a broad angle; apex of node blunt, the dorsum, in lateral view, broadly convex; petiolar peduncle with a prominent, angulate, longitudinally elongate, ventral process which bears 8 to 10 moderately long, straight, slender, ventrally directed hairs; dorsum of petiolar node with a few, sparse, uneven rugae with a transverse trend, the surface moderately shining, very finely punctate. Ventral process of post petiole weakly developed. Postpetiolar node rather smooth and shining, finely punctate, bearing sparse, irregular, transverse rugulae restricted to posterior portion. Gaster without perceptible sculpture at a magnification of 90X.
Color varying from a rather uniform, light to dark, ferrugineous red.
Cole (1968) - HL 1.33-1.48 mm, HW 1.60-1.80 mm, CI 120.3-121.3, SL 0.65-0.66 mm, SI 36.9-40.6, EL 0.45-0.61, mm, EW 0.30-0.34 mm, OI 33.8-4l.2, WL 2.37-2.67 mm, PNL 0.49-0.57 mm, PNW 0.61-0.72 mm, PPL 0.49-0.53 mm, PPW 0.81-0.95 mm.
Mandible as shown in Pl. VIII, Fig. 13; characterized by a rather poorly defined, oblique, masticatory margin which meets the basal margin at a pronounced, even convexity; entire composite margin, from base of blade to basalmost tooth, evenly and broadly convex; distal portion of apical margin straight, proximal part distinctly concave; masticatory margin with a broad, subacute tooth and 4 irregular, poorly defined additional teeth. Cephalic rugae very fine, closely spaced, dense, becoming sparser and more widely spaced on vertex, fading out on occiput, subcrescentic above the eyes, absent from occipital corners which are smooth and shining and bear small piligerous punctures; interrugal spaces of head smooth, shining, without punctures.
Entire thorax mostly very smooth and shining; scutum with faint, sparse striae limited chiefly to posterior portion where they converge medioposteriorly; mesothoracic sternites with numerous, fine, irregular, broken, longitudinal striae; mesothoracic epimera with a few, distinct, elongate foveae. Epinotum armed with a pair of very weak tubercles. Petiole and post petiole very smooth and shining; sides of petiolar node with sparse, elongate, piligerous foveae. Gaster very smooth and shining, not shagreened. Paramere as shown in Pl. X, Fig. 13 and Pl. XI, Fig. 14.
Head and thorax deep brownish black; petiole, post petiole, and especially the gaster much lighter.
- 2n = 32 (USA) (Taber et al., 1988).
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Located along the braided routes of the historic Camino Real (the Royal Road) which skirts the Rio Grande, Belen remains the hub for two major rail lines. To this day, an average of 70 trains travel through Belen every 24-hour period. In 1901, to capitalize on the railway traffic, the Fred Harvey Company built one of the sixteen Harvey Houses it would build in New Mexico. Belen's Harvey House provided lunch and dining facilities in close proximity to the tracks. The Harvey House was bustling with railroad crews well into the twentieth century's fourth decade and served as a social center for the community until its closure shortly after World War II ended.
Four years after the war to end all wars, Pete and Eligia Torres launched Pete's Cafe across the street and acequia from the old Harvey House. Though neither had any restaurant experience, they delighted travelers and railway employees with their cafe–even though the Torres family didn't begin serving New Mexican cuisine for about twenty years when local traffic surpassed train traffic.
With more than sixty years of serving the community of Belen, Pete's continues to thrive because it operates under a simple philosophy: Not the best because it's the oldest; it's the oldest because it's the best. For nearly six decades, Pete's has held steadfast to three strong commitments, the first based on the belief that chile is basic to New Mexico. Pete's celebrates the growing, harvesting and preparation of chile in the family home across generations. That chile is prevalent in the menu. Surprisingly, it's not chile grown in the Belen area, but from a farm in Hatch which has been providing some of the very best chile in New Mexico for years.
The second commitment centers around authenticity. The chile Pete's selects is prepared fresh daily. Great care is taken to ensure the use of fresh ingredients, proper cooking time and temperature and strict adherence to to time-tested recipes. The green chile, in particular, is better (by far) than any green chile served in the Duke City where green chile serves as mere plate decoration in some restaurants–it has minimal flavor and no piquancy.
The third and most important commitment is the striving to ensure consistency in the flavor of each and every meal served daily. Pete's wants to provide their loyal patrons with the same delicious taste they have come to expect over the years.
My first visit to Pete's Cafe was in 1979 when at a mere 30 years old it was already very well established as perhaps the most popular restaurant in Belen. Today, as the city's oldest restaurant, it is practically venerated. Pete's Cafe is a local institution! Over the years Pete's has grown from a one-room diner with a capacity of forty to a sprawling restaurant that can accommodate 140 patrons in several tastefully decorated, art-filled dining rooms.
The front room includes exposed red brick with green foliage reaching skyward toward skylights that bring in New Mexico's sun. A large dining room beyond the kitchen has a unique latilla ceiling while a north-facing room includes stained glass windows. Every dining room features either or both woven tapestries and framed paintings or prints. Just above the fireplace on an east-facing dining room is a framed picture of Pete Torres, who passed on to his eternal reward in 1977. Eligia's photograph is at his right.
Married four years when the restaurant opened in 1949, Eligia has remained a constant presence from the onset. She still comes to work every day and serves as the restaurant's official chile tester, ensuring the consistency and authenticity that defines Pete's commitments to their patrons. Eligia's daughter Theresa Padilla and her husband Alfred work hand-in-hand with her.
Being restaurateurs is part and parcel of the Torres pedigree. Pete, Jr. and his wife Hortencia founded Teofilo's restaurant in Los Lunas. Teofilo's is situated in a yawning hacienda registered as a State Landmark. Eligia's grandson Japhen Torres opened the Zia Cafe, a New Mexican restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park area. All indications are that Chicagoans love Zia's sopaipillas and salsa. They darned well should! After all, the Zia Cafe has a long and proud heritage defined by commitment to chile, authenticity and consistency.
Around Belen, locals recite one of the mottos for which Pete's is known–Pete's Cafe: beef or bean, red or green. New Mexicans know this is in reference to with what your burritos or sopaipillas are stuffed as well as how they are topped.
Shortly after you're seated, a basket of crisp chips and a small porcelain ramekin of fiery salsa make it to your table. The salsa is a rich red jalapeno based salsa with a bite to it. A re-serving of salsa is complementary. After that there's a small charge. Even better than the salsa is Pete's chile con queso which I rate up there with the con queso at El Bruno's in Cuba. Pete's con queso is made from a blend of Cheddar and Velveeta cheeses, jalapenos and other ingredients, some of which we were unable to discern, perhaps even caramelized onions. In any case, it is quite good!
The menu includes all the New Mexican favorites, but what distinguishes them from other restaurants is the red and green chile, both of which have an earthy, fresh flavor and plenty of heat. Unlike at lesser New Mexican restaurants, Pete's red chile isn't overwhelmed by thickening agents such as corn starch. It's pure, unadulterated red chile that impresses itself on your taste buds and memory. The green chile is perhaps even more piquant.
Enchiladas are one of the entrees in which the true measure of a chile is revealed. Pete's blue corn tortilla enchiladas, rolled and stuffed with beef then topped with a fried egg let that chile sing. No one single ingredient dominates this entree though the red chile is definitely the star. The enchilada dinner plate is served with beans you'll want to take home with you. The great news is that you can–Pete's sells bags of locally grown beans. The only detractor from an otherwise outstanding enchilada dinner is the lettuce and tomato garnish piled atop the enchiladas. I've had smaller dinner salads.
Still another entree in which the measure of a great red chile can be taken is carne adovada. Pete's rendition ranks up there with the carne adovada at Perea's Tijuana Bar in Corrales, Mary & Tito's in Albuquerque and at La Choza in Santa Fe as the best we've had. There's porcine perfection in Pete's carne adovada. Each cube is fork tender and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Unlike some carne adovada, it retains its moistness and every single cube seems to be from the very best part of the pork roast. This is the stuff of legend!
Stuffed sopaipillas are yet another specialty at Pete's. The stuffed sopaipilla plate–two stuffed sopaipillas engorged with your choice of fillings (beans, beef, etc.) and topped with red or green chile (or both)–is big enough to share, but you probably won't want to. This is a dish you'll want to savor slowly as it showcases the wondrous chile which is slathered on generously. It bears repeating that the green chile is some of the very best in the state. It's got those qualities which will remind you that chile is a fruit with just a hint of sweetness amidst the piquancy. The red chile is incendiary.
Another worthy platform for the chile is huevos rancheros which are not just for breakfast any more. At Pete's, the huevos rancheros start with corn tortillas topped with eggs, ground beef, cheese and of course, two eggs prepared the way you want them. These are traditional New Mexican style huevos rancheros the way they've been prepared for generations. Huevos rancheros, by the way, have in recent years become a national craze, albeit often served with nouveau ingredients New Mexicans might find wholly inauthentic.
The menu has a line-up of a la carte items as well as dinner combinations and dinner plates. All combination plates and enchilada dinners include two sopaipillas. Pete's sopaipillas have earned the reputation as the very best in Valencia county. That's a contention with which you'll agree. They're light, flaky, puffy and wonderful.
A la carte tacos are a bargain at under two dollars a piece for generously stuffed shells bursting at the seams with beans and beef. Once you get past the garnish, there's much deliciousness there.
There's a lot of deliciousness in Pete's desserts, too. Sweet-tooth offerings include the house specialty, a coconut cream or pineapple cream pie, both under two dollars a slice. There's also walnut and carrot cake, Italian cream cake, Pete's famous Adobe pie (Oreo cookie crust filled with coffee ice cream), ice cream, natillas and flan.
Natillas have been prepared in New Mexico for hundreds of years and Pete's has the recipe down pat. Pete's natillas are creamy and waist-expanding rich. The coconut cream pie is easily two inches thick courtesy of a fluffy meringue which has just a hint of caramelization. The coconut portion is Gilligan's Island worthy. It's rich, creamy and not overly sweet.
While many people seem to consider Los Lunas and Belen solely as "bedroom communities" for wage-earners in Albuquerque, they should also consider them as dining destinations. With restaurants on par or better than can be found in the Duke City–restaurants such as Pete's Cafe in Belen and Benny's Mexican Kitchen in Los Lunas–Valencia County is on the culinary map.
Pete's Cafe
105 N. 1st Street
Belen, New Mexico
(505) 864-4811
LATEST VISIT: 1 April 2011
1st VISIT: 27 October 2007
BEST BET: Enchiladas, Carne Adovada, Tacos, Natillas, Sopaipillas, Tortillas, Bean Stuffed Sopaipillas, Huevos Ranchero, Coconut Cream Pie


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SAN LUIS OBISPO – A minimum-security inmate who walked away from the Chimney Incident Base Camp in San Luis Obispo, located near the community of San Luis Obispo, in San Luis Obispo County, was apprehended within hours.
Inmate Jose A. Paredes, 25, was last seen in his assigned Base Camp area on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, at around 3:40 a.m. during a routine security check. The Chimney Incident Base Camp staff discovered Paredes missing, then searched the inmate tent area and surrounding Base Camp perimeter. Paredes was not located. All local law enforcement agencies and the California Highway Patrol were notified and assisted in the search.
Paredes was apprehended at 10:09 a.m. by officers from the Cuesta College Police Department, who discovered him hiding near the campus soccer field. He was taken into custody without incident, and has been returned to CDCR custody.
Paredes was committed to CDCR from Los Angeles County to serve a two-year sentence for first-degree burglary. He was scheduled to be released to parole supervision in May 2017.
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Captain's Fury is the fourth book in the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher. The book starts two years on from where the Cursor's Fury ended.
I mentioned in my previous post that the last 100 pages of Cursor's Fury was exiting. Captain's Fury makes the previous book seem tame in comparison. It's like a juggernaut ramming into your head for 600 pages. I felt physically drained by the end of it. Totally cool.


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The President and Quanta, CC Leug hoped that this year, and in the same way he has done Acer, Lenovo,
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Hewlett Packard and BenQ, both Apple and Sony will handle the production of a Netbook during 2009, giving wings to rumors that Apple intends to present Such a device, despite statements by Steve Jobs, who said "are looking into this market segment."
Statements made to Taiwan Headlines, Quanta are facing as the current economic crisis. E lmercado of Nebook company, Taiwan has had to reduce its previous estimates in the expected growth of 10% of the market for Netbook for the fourth quarter. The revised figures for the company to reduce the rate of growth of these devices in an arc variable between 5 and 0% during the last quarter of 2008. These data are better than those of its competitors, who are worse off economically for its incursions into this market segment.
However, the company hopes that during the first quarter of 2009 improved sales of these devices.
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expected declines in sales of computers are almost all manufacturers considering the design and manufacture low-cost laptops? commonly known as netbooks? as a way to revive the market in coming years. A NETBOOK making the concept of a laptop to a smaller.
NETBOOK A typical screen has a less than 10-inch (diagonal), has no optical disk, and works with the Intel Atom processor. Most use Windows XP or a Linux distribution of free software. Most weighed 1.3 kilos or even less. For the consumer, however, the real appeal comes with the price, as many start at a level as low as 300 euros.
Computer manufacturers are aware that low prices may open a new market among the buyers who have been waiting to purchase a new computer accounts do while trying to overcome the current economic environment.
"We're trying to give a twist to the category of computer," said John New, manager of global product marketing for Dell. "We believe that the new prices and features are attractive to a large NETBOOK, especially parents looking to buy a computer for their children."
Dell launched its first NETBOOK, the Inspiron Mini 9 inches (photo), on September 4, and New said that part of the reason we entered this market is because such devices make it economically feasible.
"With laptops, prices have fallen, but these products were not designed to compete with current prices," said New "But what are netbooks. They are designed to achieve certain levels of price from its initial conception."
The launch of the Asus EeePC last year has been seen as the main catalyst for the sector. According to Display Search NPD Group, less than one million netbooks were sold globally in 2007, but it is expected that this figure rises to more than 14 million by the end of this year.
These numbers are similar to other predictions. IT hardware analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein predicts that sales of the NETBOOK pass 35 million units in 2012, when the segment is about one third of the total sales of laptops.
"The netbooks are a new category in the PC market, with developers betting that many users to share power for the small and very low price," Sacconaghi wrote in a report on December 9.
The technology firm IDC also lifted its prediction on netbooks. Bob O'Donnell, vice president of clients and displays at IDC, estimates that 11.6 million will be sold worldwide this year, rising to 21.5 million in 2009 and reaching 42 million in 2012.
Johan Jacobs, director of Display Search for NPD, said that the market for netbooks is ready for a dramatic growth in the short term due to low prices and capabilities of the machines that make them better than the more traditional laptops.
"It is predicted that demand will grow rapidly in coming years," said Jacobs, citing "a variety of sources, including early buyers, consumers and businesses looking for a smaller portable or secondary to his laptop as well as new customers in emerging markets. "
The seller star
According to Diaply Search, Acer was the star of netbooks seller during the fourth quarter of 2008, with 2.15 million units and 38.3 percent of the market.
Asus was in second place with 1.7 million netbooks and 30.3 percent of the market. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Micro-Star rounded out the top five global sellers.
None of these manufacturers has released sales forecasts for its line of netbooks, but these companies are listed as a category for growth. Display Search lists HP as the company laptops star in the world, followed by Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Asus.
To attract more customers, computer manufacturers are taking steps that will allow consumers to build their netbooks to accommodate their needs and styles. Dell offers nine different colors, HP sells one designed by Vivienne Tam that target women.
"We see this as an evolutionary category of laptops," said Ted Clark, vice president and general manager of global laptops and HP's personal systems. "Part of our strategy is to provide something new and dedicated to consumers."
The portability of these devices do good for basic office programs and its ability to connect wirelessly to the Internet is a good selling point.
However, the final decision to buy NETBOOK would be based on the price. The prices of netbooks vary from 300 euros 900A Asus EE PC with 4GB hard drive and a solid state, available at Best Buy, until the HP Vivienne Tam starts at 699 dollars.
And almost all prices of netbooks may increase after making changes to the memory and hard drives.
Some weak points
But even some who sell netbooks recognize that the aircraft had some problems and are not for everyone.
"This kind of product is designed to provide mobility and price," said New Dell. "They are focusing on Web appliances, but we are trying to inform the client that netbooks are not good for everything."
Matthew Wilkins, an analyst for iSuppli, said the shift to a NETBOOK is given by its low price, and are designed for specific computational operations.
"There is a limit to what can be used," said Wilkins. "They are designed to offer a basic experience of mobile computing, such as Internet browsing, e-mail and creating documents. They are not designed to run advanced applications and high-performance games."
There is another category of highest range of portable devices known as "ultra". Because these netbooks are also small and low weight, but offer (almost) the same performance as a normal laptop.
For example, the Sony Vaio TT offers an Intel Core 2 Duo and a Blu-Ray player with a 11-inch screen at a price higher than 2 thousand dollars. Apple has its own ultraportable, the MacBook Air, which is priced even above the basic range of laptops that are considered "normal."
The right market
Owing to technological limitations, the debate focuses on the netbooks in the markets in which computers find their greatest success.
At UBS, analyst Maynard Um said that netbooks are "in the right place at the right time for now," but that future opportunities may depend on different segments of the computer market.
Um said that large companies will probably not remain in the line of netbooks due to problems of performance and safety equipment. As such, mobile workers not to maintain their current laptop, or upgrade to models with all the features.
"While the vendors and shops continue to offer fully functional laptops for 100 dollars more, we believe that the market for netbooks could be limited in the long term," Um said in a research report.
However, Um believes NETBOOK will be popular with consumers, who will see these devices as secondary to their computers at home mainframes. And it adds the issue of how much impact could have sales of portable netbooks on their cousins.
"We suspect that some netbooks cannibalize sales of the portable as the price and performance between the two is shortened," said analyst Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets in a research report.
Apple, for its part, has shown no interest at present in this category of computers and when Steve Jobs was asked at the session of questions and answers with the press after the presentation of the latest range of laptops on October 14, only Apple said that this study behaves as the market for these computers and that "they have some great ideas for this segment, if you decide to make a NETBOOK.


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It is a case of good news, bad news for hoteliers.
As COVID-19 infections drop, the share of vaccinated individuals rises, and governments lift public health protocols, local inns have less and less room.
"We are excited to see people come back," said Lisa Nordstrom, general manager of the Sidney Pier Hotel & Spa. "It's giving everybody a really positive feeling we are heading in the right direction."
But this shift is also contributing to a shortage of labour in the accommodation sector.
"It's definitely a challenge for all positions," said Nordstrom. "As a team, we certainly help out in all departments with whatever is required. That's just the type of team that we are."
Nick Coates, general manager of the Victoria Airport Travelodge located at the other end of Beacon Avenue, can sing that same tune.
"I have a severe labour shortage — too many vacancies and not enough people to fill them," he said.
Labour appears especially short in the kitchen, a condition that preceded the pandemic. "COVID-19 has exacerbated it," he said. "We also have openings at our front desk, in our housekeeping department, in our maintenance department — all of the above. And I know from speaking with my counterparts, that everybody is in the same boat."
Coates said his hotel started advertising for these positions in March, hoping restrictions would start lifting. "Regardless if they weren't, we knew that the business in the summertime would be a little bit busier than what it is in the middle of winter or fall, " he said. "So we have been advertising for five months – we haven't been able to fill those positions."
Coates points to several possible reasons for the labour shortage. "It is just a theory, but myself and a lot of other business leaders think that the government programs like the (Canada Emergency Response Benefit) and the extended employment benefits have kept some people from looking for work."
The hospitality industry also relies on local post-secondary students, but remote learning has meant that many out-of-town students might have stayed, well, out of town.
A possible remedy is attracting labour from other parts of Canada or even beyond. "But again, to come and live on the coast here, it is a daunting proposition for some folks, just because the cost of living is so much higher out here and that is directly related to housing," Coates said.
Local leaders have in the past also raised concerns about transportation options to the Saanich Peninsula from other parts of Greater Victoria.
Coates said the shortage has forced the business to operate with fewer people. A complimentary shuttle for visitors that have would run otherwise remains stalled and the pub part of the hotel is running on reduced hours. "We are only open six days a week right now because I don't have enough staff to operate my full potential hours."
Not surprisingly, he is concerned about what will happen when cross-border travel resumes.
"We are hanging on right now and that is with our occupancy levels significantly reduced from what we would be normally doing in the summer," he said. "If the border opens and we get a whole bunch of American tourists coming in here, it is going to be a struggle to accommodate them."
Nordstrom, for her part, is not sure how to deal with the labour shortage. "If I knew that, we wouldn't be in this trouble," she said.
Ultimately, the shortage will require more flexibility and efficiency, Nordstorm added, "but it has been a struggle."
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The World Cup of Housing
Unless you were living under a rock, in a cave, located in the Marianas trench, chances are you heard about the World Cup games that recently concluded in Brazil. What you might not know is that there were twelve stadiums used for the games located around the country, several of which were purpose-built and aren't slated for particular teams or uses. Rather than let these monstrous buildings deteriorate under the weight of their orphanage and redundancy, architects Axel de Stampa and Sylvain Macaux created the Casa Futebol project, which reenvisions the stadiums as housing for both sport and people.
The project proposes that 105 sq ft prefab housing modules be inserted into the cement pilings and other unused spaces in both the stadiums' interior and exterior spaces. How the modules are inserted depends on the construction of the particular stadium. The cost of building would be offset by ticket sales as people would be living in actively used stadiums (good luck making a noise complaint).
Casa Futebol is part of the 1 Week 1 Project started by de Stampa and Macaux. They dub the frequently fantastic proposals that come out of 1W1P as "spontaneous architecture." They take specific sites and propose unconventional architectural interventions that address some need–in this case providing affordable housing in stadiums with uncertain futures.
We like projects that transform un-or-underutilized spaces into insta-communities. We do wonder about the settings for some of the stadiums. At least in the States, stadiums are often on the outskirts of towns. If this were the case in some of the Brazilian stadiums, it could create insta-slums, due to their isolation from commercial centers. Then again, maybe we're overthinking it.
What do you think? Is Casa Futebol a viable solution for low-cost, mixed use living? Or is it urban planning fantasy?
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Honorary Flute Faculty
The Boston Flute Academy is honored to have had BSO flutist Fenwick Smith on our flute faculty for seven years, beginning in Fall 2010. Our students of all ages enjoyed many Master Classes and private lessons with Mr Smith, along with semester long courses for advanced players on how to take successful orchestral auditions. His insight, intelligence, thoughtful interpretations, and amazing demonstrations made a lasting impact on all our BFA teachers and students. Mr Smith has passed away but we keep this page here to honor his legacy and distinguished career.
Mr. Smith joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as second flutist in 1978, and played his final concert as a member of the Orchestra on August 27, 2006. During that time he spent five years as acting assistant principal flute of the BSO, and first flute of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Before joining the BSO, Mr. Smith was a member of the New England Woodwind Quintet, performed on Baroque flute with Boston's leading early-music ensembles, and for thirteen years was a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. Mr. Smith has also been a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1984. After thirty seasons, his annual recitals (in Jordan Hall since 1983) have become a prominent feature of Boston's concert calendar.
In later years Mr. Smith introduced to Boston audiences Lukas Foss' Renaissance Concerto, and the flute concertos of John Harbison and Christopher Rouse. His interest in bringing unusual and little-known flute music to a broader public has resulted in premiere recordings of works by Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Schulhoff, Schuller, Schoenberg, Rorem, and Reinecke.
As a former faculty member of the New England Conservatory, where he was a studio teacher and chamber music coach, Mr. Smith was the recipient of NEC's Laurence Lesser Award for Excellence in Teaching. Fenwick Smith was Visiting Professor of Flute at the University of Michigan School of Music for the academic year 1997-98, and has presented masterclasses in China, Japan, Europe, and across the United States. His presence is greatly missed. Please check out his exquisite recordings.


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This guide was heavily inspired by and shaped after similar guides provided by the CHI organizers (http://chi2020.acm.org/authors/papers/guide-to-a-successful-submission/), who deserve a great deal of thanks for providing such a thorough and rounded guide!
The main way of joining the HRI community is to submit a write-up of some new work or research you have done. It is then evaluated by a group of experts (peer review process) and, if accepted, you'll have the opportunity to present it in a short talk at the conference. Depending on the kind of work you've done, there are many different ways to get involved. This guide will give you a quick understanding of the different ways you can present your work at HRI.
The most rigorous kind of work is the Full Paper track (8 pages excluding references). It is similar to a journal publication in other fields, in terms of quality and rigor, and it is due on October 1st. These papers typically present the outcome of several months or years of hard work, and are anonymous and thoroughly peer reviewed in a two-stage process. You can submit your work under one of the four specific themes (click here for details) to ensure that you get the most qualified reviewers for your submission.
If you've been working on something you consider especially thought-provoking, controversial or methodologically unusual or risk-taking, you may want to think about writing an alt.HRI contribution, which is due on December 10th. alt.HRI subject matter often cuts across HRI themes and the discussion alt.HRI papers generate can be considered as important as the paper itself. alt.HRI papers are of similar rigor, quality and length as Full Papers (*updated* 8 pages plus references).
Workshops are a great way to find your peer group! Let's say you are interested in a specific topic, such as personal care robots for older adults or appearance design for robots — and you want to meet others with the same interest. Find a few people with similar interests at other institutions or companies, and submit a workshop proposal by October 7th. Even for startups trying to find your lead users or people pushing the boundaries of your field, workshops can be a great way to find those people. Workshops can be half or full-day, and attract about 10-25 people. They're collaborative events, about meeting new people and presenting early work in a field: if you want to teach people how to do something, then that's a Tutorial.
But there's a whole bunch of other ways to tell people about the work you've done! Read on.
Perhaps the most widely relevant is the Late-Breaking Reports track, due on December 10th. This is a chance to write up your early research (2 pages with references) and present it as a Poster at the conference. This is usually a smaller contribution than a full Paper and a great way to break into HRI.
We've also got several other venues:
- If you've done a great movie about your work, submit it to our Video category– and get a chance of winning a special prize! If you want to submit a specialized installation of some kind or want to show your robot in action, then you should submit to Demonstrations. If you're a startup looking for a place to show off your robotic system or related software: this could also be a great place for you. Both are due on December 10th.
- Our Student Design competition is an opportunity to submit novel, wacky, crazy, alternative or bizarre work which doesn't fit into any other place. It's due December 10th.
Finally, HRI is a great place to meet new people, to build your network, and, importantly, to recruit the top talents in robotics, human-machine interaction, human factors, artificial intelligence, engineering, and social and behavioral sciences. We're always looking for companies to get great visibility and show their support of cutting-edge research by Sponsoring the conference or Exhibiting their products in their own booth.


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The Electricity Directive and the Electricity Regulation are essential parts of the "Clean Energy for all Europeans" Package. A political agreement was reached between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on both files. EPEX SPOT welcomes this milestone which confirms the increasingly important role of short-term energy markets.
Ralph Danielski, CEO of EPEX SPOT comments: "We welcome this agreement. The package confirms the growing role of short-term electricity markets to accelerate the energy transition and contribute to security of supply. Reliable and transparent electricity price signals are indispensable tools to drive clean energy investments. We also welcome new impetus given to the integration of European electricity markets and market coupling, which creates additional trading opportunities, more liquidity on wholesale markets and lower electricity prices for European consumers."
Wolfram Vogel, Director of Public & Regulatory Affairs adds: "This political deal paves the way for more competitive and integrated electricity markets. We welcome the importance given to market-based principles and the development of flexibility. EPEX SPOT has already pioneered different projects to allow industrial and individual consumers to adapt their consumption patterns on the basis of a reliable price signal. More will need to be done in the coming years to foster flexibility, and we look forward to being part of that development!"
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"Lots of winemakers want to have an easy life," says a grizzled and clearly muscular Pascal Agrapart. "Not me. I want to go work in the vineyard and I'm not asking what time it is. If the sun is shining, I'm in the vineyard, it doesn't matter what day. Weekends too. This is what you do if you work the soils. If I used a lot of chemicals, I would have much more time."
As he talks, he gestures with hands that clearly belong to a farmer — thick and callused, with dirt still under the fingernails. He's been apologizing for his English all morning, as we tromped through his grand cru vineyards in the little town of Avize, but what we've seen hasn't required much explanation. His vines are meticulously cared for, the cover crops that he grows recently turned under the soil, and the displeasure he feels about his neighbor's use of pesticides and herbicides so close to his vines quite visible on his sun-worn face.
When we finally taste his wines, the apologies cease, and he becomes much more at ease, content to let his wines do the talking. And they do.
"My great grandfather made wine in Avize," says Agrapart, who can trace his family's roots as winegrowers back to early in the 19th century. "My father, Pierre started with 4 hectares [10 acres] and during the fifties and sixties, he expanded the vineyards. I took over in 1980."
Agrapart grew up and went to school for winemaking in Avize, which is the most prominent local school for winemaking. When he took over the family domaine, the family had cobbled together 25 acres of land over 50 separate plots in the Cote des Blancs, both in and around the town of Avize, where they live, but also in neighboring villages of Oger, Cramant, Oriy, Avenay Val d'Or, Bergères les Vertus, and Mardeuil.
Agrapart is a big fan of older vines, and is content to achieve lower yields rather than replace his older plants. His vines average 40 years of age across his many small plots. He farms organically, proudly owning what appears to be the only compost pile in the town, a big (beautifully) messy pile between the vineyards that he says amuses most of his neighbors, who don't see the point.
Most people also don't see the point of including the heritage grapes of Petit Meslier and Pinot Blanc in their vineyards and wines, either, but for Agrapart that's a tradition that's worth keeping.
"I don't want to change things from what my grandfather did," says Agrapart. "Everyone else says they want to change and improve, but I don't want to change."
"My work is the work of terroir," he continues. "I work the soils to make the roots go deep because that is where the expression of the soil comes from. I make a vintage wine every year, and I think that the particularity of the vintage each year, 75% comes from the soils and the subsoils, and 25% comes from the weather and the leaves. If the roots are deep, you express the terroir."
Agrapart strongly believes in making sure his soils do not get compacted (one of his parcels is worked by, and named for his horse Venus), and do not see chemicals of any kind, except in emergencies.
"I am not certified organic because if there is an emergency I want the chance to save my fruit with a chemical treatment," he says. "I had to do that 2 years ago with the horrible rain." But such treatments are rare for Agrapart.
In keeping with his organic orientation, Agrapart also maintains a fairly strict, non-interventionist approach in the cellar. All his wines go through their initial fermentation with indigenous yeasts (including malolactic fermentation for most of his wines), and age for longer than the minimum requirements on their lees in the bottle.
"I like to keep all my parcels separate if I can during fermentation and elevage," says Agrapart. "I like to blend them later."
His blending is selective and careful, with an eye to expressing more specificity of place than is typical in Champagne. His "Les 7 Crus" is the only wine that adheres to the typical model of Champagne as a blend that spans many different sites. His other wines are always expressions of a single soil type across several similar parcels."
"If I blended all my parcels, I would have a good wine, but just a wine," he explains. "The terroir is important. Champagne comes from the soil."
Agrapart's wines have a dynamism and a distinctness to them that lends credence to his passionate interest in expressing place in a way that is fundamentally un-Champagne-like, but perhaps none so much as the electrifying oddity that is his Cuvee Experience.
He explains it like this:
"This is the only Champagne in the world that is really 100% wine."
Huh? I wonder for a moment whether he is about to leap off the deep end into some seriously dogmatic natural winemaking bullshit, but seeing my puzzled face, he smiles and patiently explains in his broken English until I understand what he is saying, and by the end I astoundingly believe him to be correct.
To understand the uniqueness of this wine, you need to understand how Champagne is made. Here's the short lesson: grapes are harvested at high acidity levels and low sugar levels, and then fermented into a still (non-sparkling) wine that is referred to as vin clair. Sometimes even at this point, winemakers add sugar to the fermentation, a process known as chaptalization, the first addition of a non-wine substance (though many add a sugar that is essentially syrup extracted and concentrated from grape must).
Once the wine is finished fermenting, winemakers usually put it into a big tank, and to this tank they add yeast and sugar. But they don't just dump packets of dry yeast into the tank. Instead they have prepared the liqueur de tirage, a smaller tank of wine, dissolved sugar, and yeast hydrated with water, which they then pour and stir into the tank of their vin clair. There's your second addition to the wine.
This yeast and sugar produce the bubbles that we all know and love through a secondary fermentation. After an appropriate amount of time, the bottles are disgorged, a process that involves ejecting the leftover yeast particles from the bottle (along with a tiny bit of the wine). Then quite often, the final addition to the wine is made in the form of liqueur de dosage, a combination of sugar and (often older, reserve) wine whose purposes include both adding complexity to the wine, as well as balancing out the high acidity of the wine. That's your third addition to the wine.
"All Champagnes, including my other wines, are between 3% and 6% something other than grape juice," reiterates Agrapart. "But not this wine."
Agrapart, perhaps in a fit of what some call madness, but what others might eventually recognize as genius, decided one day that he wanted a wine that was pure grape juice and nothing else. So he decided to try something that most winemakers would never attempt, if only because it forces them to do their two most stressful, high-labor pieces of work, at exactly the same time.
Here's how it works. Agrapart makes his vin clair the same way he always does. But then in the middle of harvest, he presses fresh grape juice from the next vintage (which naturally contains about 24 grams per liter of sugar), mixes that with his yeast, and mixes it into his vin clair, which he then bottles under a cork (rather than the usual crown cap used for the secondary fermentation). After suitable amount of aging, he disgorges the bottles by hand, and puts their final cork in, with no additional dosage whatsoever, yielding what might be called the "purest" Champagne ever made.
"It's quite difficult to bottle right in the middle of harvest," says Agrapart, grinning with the acknowledged understatement. "People think I am crazy. They have a difficult time understanding everything I do, but especially this. I do not follow the logic of Champagne."
Agrapart makes a mere 600 bottles of his Cuvee Expression every year.
"I do not want to make all my wine with this process, but I want to understand my wine better, and I do it with this wine. I think if you add a lot of different things, the wine is different. And when I think about it, perhaps if you add less sugar that is better. And if you add less water, that is better."
"I make wine for me, that I like, never for marketing" says Agrapart with a shrug. "If after, the customer likes, that is good."
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NV Agrapart & Fils "Les 7 Crus" Champagne Blend, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale gold in the glass with fine bubbles, this wine smells of greengage plum and sea air. In the mouth, bright green apple, greengage plum, and sea air mix with a coarse mousse to deliver a very crisp, green, and mineral aspect on the palate. Excellent acidity and length. 90% Chardonnay, 10% Pinot Noir. 12.5% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $44 click to buy.
NV Agrapart & Fils "Terroirs" Blanc de Blancs, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Light greenish gold in the glass with very fine bubbles, this wine smells of bright apple and anjou pear. In the mouth, bright and round flavors of apple and pear and unripe berries mix with nice mineral qualities and a faint saline kick at the end. A blend of 60% from the 2010 vintage and 40% of 2011 from 4 grand cru vineyards. Average vine age of about 30 years. 100% Chardonnay. 12.5% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $50 click to buy.
NV Agrapart & Fils "Complantee" Extra Brut Champagne Blend, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale greenish-gold in color with fine bubbles, this wine smells of unripe berries, green apple, and bit of lemongrass. In the mouth, a bright voluminous mousse carries tangy flavors of berry, apple, and exotic citrus across the palate. A blend of 20% 2010 and 80% 2011 wines, made from a blend of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Blanc, Petit Meslier and Chardonnay. 12.5% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $73. click to buy.
2008 Agrapart & Fils "Mineral" Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale gold in color with fine bubbles, this wine smells of wet chalkboard, lemon pith, and sea air. In the mouth, a soft silky mousse delivers very vinous, tangy flavors of green apple, lime, and wet chalkboard all strained through a kelpy, bright, seawater. A blend of two parcels, once from Avize vinified in tank, one from Cramant vinified in barrels. Both parcels of 100% Chardonnay are from extremely chalky soils. 12.5% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $100 click to buy.
2008 Agrapart & Fils "Avizoise" Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale gold in color with fine bubbles, this wine smells of sea air and dried apples. In the mouth, the wine has an expansive, tangy quality with sour apple, grapefruit, and dried tropical fruits delivered on a wave of soft mousse. In the finish, the wine narrows to sea air and wet chalkboard and a dried chrysanthemum character that is quite fine, with a salty aftertaste. Gorgeous. 12.5% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $125 click to buy.
2008 Agrapart & Fils "Vénus Cuvee" Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale greenish-gold in color with fine bubbles, this wine smells of Fuji apples, sea air, and wet chalkboard. In the mouth wonderfully saline flavors of Fuji apple, dried apple, greengage plum, and kelp flavors have a bright tangy, juicy quality that is stunningly delicious. Delicate, balanced, and mouthwatering. 12.5% alcohol. Score: around 9.5. Cost: $190 click to buy.
NV Agrapart & Fils "Experience Cuvee '07" Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs, Avize Grand Cru, Champagne, France
Pale greenish-gold in color with very fine bubbles, this wine smells of wet chalkboard, green apple, and greengage plum with just a hint of sea air. In the mouth, deeply mineral chalky flavors of tangy green apple and greengage plum mix with sea air. Great acidity and stony length have a cistern-like resonance and depth. Mouthwatering and profoundly stony. 12.5% alcohol. Zero dosage. Score: around 9.5. Cost: $245 click to buy.


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Life as we lived it a few weeks ago has undergone a paradigm shift called "social distancing". I prefer to think of it as "distance socializing" with meaningful and caring interaction along with physical separation. During any crisis there are valuable lessons to be learned and there is nearly always an upside to every downside. Right now, Americans are going back to the basics: family, health, fitness, and meaningful communication. Our life has slowed down and we can use our extra time to speak more often with our children, spouses, friends, and loved ones. Many of us are exercising more, eating healthier, and helping one other. Americans, along with all our global friends, are strong and together we will weather the storm of COVID-19.
Staying calm, positive and attentive to folks around us are the best things we can do right now to make a difference. Now more than ever, supporting our community and helping our neighbors navigate these unusual times should be our number-one priority. Here are some ways you can support yourself, your community and your family:
- Order take out/delivered meals from local restaurants. Here is a list of restaurants that are open to serve you now.
- Buy now, use later! Purchase gift cards from your favorite restaurants, retail shops, or personal service providers. Many businesses are offering discounts on gift cards which will put some cash in their hands now when they really need it.
- Show some love and write positive reviews on a social media platforms about your favorite business owners.
- Donate blood to the Red Cross. Donating blood is an opportunity to save someone's life. Companies like Rejuvio or Vitalant will make house calls to make it easy to donate vital blood supplies.
- Donate food or cash to the local Food Bank.
- Check in on friends, neighbors, and family from a distance. Call, text, or video conference with loved ones using one of the many FREE tech apps to choose from: Skype, Zoom.us, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
- Small Business Disaster Loans apply here:
- Visit the Harrison Memorial and Park Branch libraries virtually. Listen to an audiobook, check out an ebook or listen to some music.
- National Association of Realtors resources for property owners during COVID -19.
- Read and understand the stimulus package just passed by Congress: Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which includes unprecedented provisions for independent contractors, individuals and small businesses.
- Watch this video on food safety tips.
- Click here to learn what you need to know about Unemployment benefits .
- Watch some TED talks. Here are a few of my favorites:
- How to be your best self in times of crisis: Susan David, Harvard Medical School psychologist studying emotional agility. Nikki, I would add links for each of these talks.
- The healthcare systems we must urgently fix: Bill Gates, business leader and philanthropist.
- What we can learn from China's response to the coronavirus: Gary Liu, CEO of the South China Morning Post. Add link
- The quest for the coronavirus vaccine: Seth Berkley, epidemiologist and head of GAVI, the vaccine alliance.
- How to create meaningful connection while apart: Priya Parker, author, The Art of Gathering.
14. Watch a living room concert at home hosted by Elton John to raise money and combat COVID-19. Save the date for Sunday, March 29th @ 9 PM ET.
15. Adopt a pet from SPCA Monterey and share some love with an animal that will return it, unconditionally.
Let's all think outside of our own needs and help each other! It will improve our mental health and strengthen our community. I share a final image…


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