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Fall 2007
Award Winning Quality You Can Count On
The consistent, award-winning quality that you've come to expect from Winexpert brands has once again been recognized by judges at WineMaker Magazine's International Wine competition. At the 2007 competition, wines made with Selection, Vintners Reserve, World Vineyard and Island Mist brands were awarded a total of 227 medals.
This builds on the success enjoyed in 2006 when 183 medals were won. Some of the highlights of this year's competition are:
- All varieties offered in Selection Estate Series received a medal with Castellina Supertuscan, Stags Leap District Merlot, and Montagnac Vieux Chateau d'Oc each receiving a gold medal.
- Every variety offered in Limited Edition from 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 vintages received a medal.
- 11 Selection International varieties received a total of 51 medals including gold medals for South African Pinotage, Italian Amarone, Italian Montepulciano.
- Four varieties offered under the World Vineyard brand received medals.
- Wines made with Spéciale wine kits received a total of 19 medals including Best of Show Sparkling for our "New Millennium" sparkling wine and gold medals for Port, Riesling Icewine style and Dry Sherry.
- The refreshing wine-based Island Mist varieties received a total of 20 medals including gold medals for Mango Citrus Symphony, Wildberry Shiraz, and Exotic Fruits White Zinfandel.
For detailed information on all the awards won by Winexpert products, please visit www.winexpert.com or consult your Winexpert product guide.
Taste the success! And let your Winexpert Authorized Retailer help you choose your next award winning wine kit.
From The Vineyards of: Chile
When you look at a map of South America, Chile may seem like the very essence of isolation, with the Andes to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atacama desert to the north and Antarctica to the south.
But it is this isolation which makes Chilean wines so special. These natural geographic barriers form a defense against disease, while the vineyards are cooled by air from the cold Humboldt current from the Pacific Ocean and the Andes. The day-night temperature variation is quite wide and plays a huge factor in the clarity of fruit flavours. These conditions allow Chile to produce crisp and balanced white wines and high quality, fruity red wines from the world's most popular grape varietals.
Chile produces superb Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay. These fruit- forward wines are making the rest of the wine world sit up and take notice. Discover the magic of an unlikely wine growing region with a visit to your Winexpert authorized retailer today. Winexpert offers several superb Chilean varieties including our newest addition, Selection International Chilean Pinot Noir.
Planning Your Holiday Party
With the Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year entertaining season just around the corner, it's a great time to start planning your parties, and that all-important consideration, wine serving!
The amount of wine you will need depends on what type of party you will be hosting. If it is a sit-down type dinner party you should count one glass per person before dinner, one to two with dinner, and a half glass after dinner or as a dessert wine. This is just an average and takes into consideration that some will drink a little more, and some, including the drivers, will drink less. Of course it goes without saying that you should also have plenty of non-alcoholic beverages on hand also. If your party is an informal gathering with hors d'oeuvres, snacks, etc, an average of two glasses per person is good if you are serving other beverages, and three per person if not.
So, how many bottles do you need? You get about five normal glasses of wine per bottle, so it's easy to figure it out from there based on the above averages, but keep a couple of extra bottles ready just to be safe.
As for glassware, since you will likely be serving both reds and whites it's a good idea to just use all-purpose wine glasses. It's perfectly acceptable to expect your guests to re-use their glasses for the evening rather than using new glasses for each wine, so provide them with wine charms to help them identify their glass.
A great holiday favourite wine drink is mulled wine, sometimes also known as spiced wine. This traditional beverage is served warm, punch-style and has been around for hundreds of years. Here is the recipe used for the mulled wine in the famous scene from the movie "It's A Wonderful Life":
Mulled Wine
2 bottles Selection Estate Single Vineyard Shiraz
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
4 sticks cinnamon
5 whole cloves
1 orange
1 lemon
Zest the fruit, avoiding the white pith. Put this, the sugar, cinnamon and cloves into the water. Bring this to a slow boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add in the actual orange and lemon fruit part, sliced up. Warm this on very low heat for 30 minutes (do NOT boil). Add the wine for the last 20 minutes. Run through a strainer and serve from a punch bowl, warm, not hot.
Introducing the New Winexpert.com
At Winexpert, we believe that making wine isn't just something you do; it's something that is a part of your lifestyle. With today's connected society, people want to learn more about the product they are making. This is why Winexpert has redeveloped its Web site.
Visit the new winexpert.com and you will find recipes that use your favourite varietal wine styles; food and wine pairings with our most popular products, and the opportunity to share your favourite wine recipes and pairings with the rest of the world. Unsure of the best wine to choose? Why not try our new "Search by Flavour" tool, which will allow you to select the sweetness, body and oak that best suits your palate and the see all the wines in our line-up that match your preferences.
While you're there, why not pop over to read thoughts from the true Wine Expert, Tim Vandergrift, on Timswineblog.com. Here Tim will be talking about a wide variety of his favourite topics, from toothpaste for wine drinkers to wine enjoyment
ideas, to helpful tips and discoveries he's made while making his own wine.
The new winexpert.com will continue to grow with new features, tips and articles. If there is anything that you would like to see on winexpert.com just drop us a line at email@example.com.
Ask The Expert
I've heard that there are 'fortified' wine kits out there that make things like Sherry, Port and Icewine. Does this mean I have to add Brandy to these kits to make them?
Signed, Sherry Sweet
Dear Sherry,
Winexpert makes a line of dessert and aperitif wines called Selection Spéciale. While many commercial dessert wines are fortified with added alcohol, it isn't necessary with our Port or Sherry—they ferment to approximately 17% ABV, which is pretty much just what a rich, sweet dessert wine deserves. However, some people like the character of added Brandy and put it in anyway—it does boost the alcohol and make for a slightly more heady wine. In addition to Tawny Port, sweet and dry Sherry and Riesling Icewine style, Winexpert Selection Spéciale kits are available in Cabernet Franc Icewine style, New Millennium Sparkling wine, port and more. Selection Spéciale kits make 15 - 750ml bottles at once, and they age (and taste) just like the commercial varieties they represent.
Brandied but Unbowed,
The Winexpert
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Two new varieties to tantalize your palate
Winexpert is excited to announce two more premium quality varietals that are sure to be future award winners!
Selection Estate Crushendo South Australian Single Vineyard Shiraz
Conundrum Vineyards is on the Murray River, which meanders for thousands of kilometers through sun-drenched plains and sloping hillsides of South Australia. Beautiful Gobelet-trained Shiraz vines bask in the warm days (tempered by the cool nights of the river valley) making perfectly balanced, intensely rich grapes.
Winexpert South Australian Crushendo Shiraz is a bold wine, deep ruby purple in colour with a deep, dark plum and blackberry showing subtle accents of chocolate. Rich, lush and complex, the soft black fruit combines with a hint of black pepper spiciness that follows through with a firm, tannic finish with toasty vanilla and a hint of spice.
Available late September '07.
Selection International Series Chilean Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir, the famous red grape of Burgundy, tends to make expensive wines that blend fruit and savoury complexity.
Outside of France, pinot noir is now grown successfully in California, Oregon, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and thanks in part to the movie "Sideways" it has seen a major resurgence across the globe in recent years.
Winexpert's Selection International Series Chilean Pinot Noir is a bright ruby colour with delicate aromas of red berry flavours. Medium bodied and supple with a hint of herbiness, the mouth feel is very elegant with soft tannins and a subtle oak finish. Vibrant and food friendly, this wine is excellent with salmon, roast beef and lamb.
Available mid-October '07.
Visit your Winexpert Authorized Retailer for more details on when you can start making these two fantastic wines.
Wine Trends "Take Note"
People have documented their love of wine from the days of cave art, the early scriptures to modern internet "blogs". Whatever your speed of technology; pen to paper or finger to keyboard, journaling your experiences is a trend on the rise.
A great journal can help you re-experience a wine event with your friends and family, reconfirm a favourite taste, varietal or wine characteristic. A journal can help you manage your wine cellar by making key notes of your wines as they age and uncovering the complexities of your wines, thereby identifying your passion for wine making and the wine lifestyle. A wine journal need not be anything expensive or complicated; from the Blackberry inspired "Tasting Buddy" to a bookstore blank journal, there are also journals made specifically for tasting wines.
Whatever your choice, it is a great way to capture your experience and reference some great memories.
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So, the country Throwdown Tour has come to an end. Our last show was about a week ago at Fontanel Mansion in Nashville, and to tell the truth, I really wish it would have just kept on going all summer. It has been such an awesome ride.
One of my favorite parts of the tour was getting to watch the other artists perform and learning the words to all of their songs. Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins, Josh Thompson, Sunny Sweeney, Florida Georgia Line, Eric Paslay, the Maggie Rose Band, and of course my partners on the Bluebird Cafe Stage, Carly Pearce and Channing Wilson.
I cried behind my gas station sunglasses during our last Bluebird Set, just thinking about how much fun we have had and how I'm gonna hate not seeing all these incredible people every weekend.
After spending the past two months basically tailgating in a parking lot while waiting to play, I find myself wanting to open the hatch of my truck and just sit out there and drink a beer from time two time… lol. Not too bad of a pastime it turns out. Seriously though, it is good to be home and I'm gonna be writing like crazy over the next couple of months and I will be out on the road again soon, coming to a city near you.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who came out and hung around all day in the blistering heat and sometimes rain, to see the show. It was such a great opportunity to get to play for ya'll, especially in such an intimate setting under the bluebird tent. I also want to thank Sarah Baer and everyone on the Throwdown crew for making me feel like a part of your family !
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Results: Golvokin scores KO in Monte Carlo
Gennady Golovkin did what was expected against Nobuhiro Ishida, and Denis Grachev, Edwin Rodriguez, and Sergey Rabchenko scored wins today in Monte Carlo.
Gennady Golovkin did what was expected against Nobuhiro Ishida, and Denis Grachev, Edwin Rodriguez, and Sergey Rabchenko scored wins today in Monte Carlo.
A 'Super Four' tournament has been set for the March 30 card in Monaco headlined by Golovkin-Ishida, featuring Edwin Rodriguez, Zsolt Erdei, Denis Grachev, and Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna.
American boxing fans are always looking for the Next Big Thing, so which young US fighters could break through in 2013 and turn some heads?
Edwin Rodriguez called out former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik following Rodriguez's September 29 win on HBO, and Pavlik doesn't sound too interested in the idea.
Max Kellerman of HBO discusses varying boxing topics in a terrific, in-depth interview, including Donaire-Nishioka, Rios-Alvarado, Chavez Jr-Martinez rematch, Adrien Broner, and much more.
Edwin Rodriguez, Vic Darchinyan, and Antonin Decarie picked up wins on the Saturday night HBO Boxing After Dark from Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Edwin Rodriguez was too big, too strong, and too much for Jason Escalera in the HBO Boxing After Dark main event from Foxwoods.
Edwin Rodriguez faces Jason Escalera in tonight's main event, plus Luis Del Valle vs Vic Darchinyan and Alex Perez vs Antonin Decarie.
Tonight's HBO Boxing After Dark from Foxwoods is a tripleheader featuring a super middleweight main event between Edwin Rodriguez and Jason Escalera.


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Planting colorful bloomers is a surefire way to make your yard feel more welcoming. Use bold, bright hues to create a big impact even if you don't have a lot of space.
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Fairy Tail Re Deluxe Complete Retelling that follows the series with Lisanna alive and a main with Team Natsu. Spoilers to Anime/Manga. Friendship!NaLu/Li, Gray/Juvia, Erza/Jellal
Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green: Back to Kanto A Post Unova Saga Story. Many ships plus Ash/Hilda. Spoilers to Best Wishes 1 and 2 and Black and White
Pokemon Best Wishes Remix: Black and White A complete rewrite of the Best Wishes series. Ash/Misty/Hilda and Gary/Leaf. Spoilers to all of Black and White 1 and 2 and Best Wishes.
I am a proud Othelloshipper (Ash K./Satoshi/Hilda/Touko)
There was a lot of filler early on and in the middle. Episodes about Cottonee, Buffalo, the one taking pictures of the deer, etc.
The belief that Unova has little filler because it moved faster is nonsense...we're still not at the league and Japan is approaching its 100th episode.
Unova Fillers off the Top of my Head:
All of the Episodes between Meowth Joining and Leaving the Group: Purrlion, Dream Thief, Bearic
Detective Cilian (Audino) and its sequels
Zen-Mode Monkies in the Clock Tower
Pokemon Musical Episode
The Deino Episode
Cottonee in Love
Afro Episode
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Cyber, I need to complete the fillers list. I only see the Cottonee, Elgyem, Audono (detective), Maractus, seasonal Sawsbuck and Bouffalant as absolute fillers. Is very probable that the Darmanitan (debut), Gothitelle (Bridge), Litwick Mansion, Purrloin, Gothita (Katharine).
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And not only that, Hoenn has a technical draw with Sinnoh (has some debatable episodes in the two sagas) although Sinnoh has 60 more episodes than Hoenn (yes, I count the fillers one time).
Unova has a lot of episodes that did little besides show a 1 minute TR scenes.
I hope the filler saga we're about to get involves N and his men and the Final Battle with Team Rocket. (Maybe Team Plasma will follow Team Rocket to Kanto)
Maybe Ash will go back to Kanto bringing Iris and Cilan with him to introduce to them to his old friends such as Brock, Misty, and May & Max, and Ash will head to northern where the Tree of Beginning was located to find N and challenge him and the sages who look after him! This will be like the Battle Frontier only this with the Sages and it'll probably be much quicker than in Battle Frontier if Gen VI would release fall 2013. Meanwhile Team Rocket will pursue Ash and Pikachu and this will be the Real final battle that will bring The End of Team Rocket.
What was the main purpose of that Tempest Mission that said it would be The end of Team Rocket?
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in my opinion, thefillers in dp, ag and os were good (not amazing, but still good) however quite a lot of the BW fillers bored me to death. its kinda predictable at times.
but then there are some amazing fillers like the litwick mansion, bouffalant, mistalton tower and the pyramid fillers. they were amazing
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Yes, and that's one of the main reasons it's my favorite 2 seasons.
Only if they did tournaments like that tag team one back in D/P towards the end of the series, now that'd be fun.
Ash fan. Luffy fan. Gintoki fan-Gintama.
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A rough-and-tumble, unpretentious town full of pickup trucks whose radio dials are programmed with country-and-western stations, Farmington sits in the heart of the Four Corners region (so called because four different states intersect here at one point). Archaeological, recreational, and scenic wonders are within easy driving distance, and its reasonable prices and friendly ways make it an ideal base for exploring the area. (Farmington is also big for the energy biz and major summertime events like the Connie Mack World Series and the National High School Rodeo finals; book ahead accordingly.)
The Navajo gave the name Totah ("Among the Waters") to the land around what is now Farmington, which lies at the confluence of three rivers—the Animas, La Plata, and San Juan. For travelers and locals the presence of these flowing waters gives welcome respite from the surrounding region's dry mesas. Homesteaders began planting farms and orchards on the fertile land in 1879, and the "farming town" eventually became Farmington.
The agricultural economy shifted to one based on oil and gas in the early 1920s, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle tied to the fluctuation of fuel prices. Diversification didn't come until the past decade or so, when Farmington began promoting its historic past with more gusto. Even more revitalizing overall—though it's had a mixed effect on the fortunes of the historic Downtown—was the creation of a regional shopping center, which swells the population by thousands on weekends. People from miles around make their weekly or monthly trip to town to stock up on supplies.
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Parents asked the School Board to consider changing the way GPAs are determined for accelerated eighth-graders.
Two parents asked the Hamilton School Board to consider changing the way grade point averages are determined.
During the public comment period at Monday's meeting, they asked that the grade earned in high school mathematics classes taken by accelerated eighth-graders do not affect class rank.
Since the issue was not on the agenda, the board could not discuss the matter, according to the board meeting highlights.
What do you think? Vote in our poll and discuss the issue in the comments.
Mike B
10:19 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Of course it should count. If you're not ready for the class, then take the regular one.
When I took AP classes in High School I think the scale was moved up by one so an A was a 5 instead of a 4 or something like that as a bonus because the class was harder. I don't recall if a B was a 4 instead of a 3 or how that worked but it was definitely bumped up.
Sue Taylor
8:26 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
These kids are in 8th grade, NOT high school. The classes should not be on their high school transcript. Even if they got an A in the class, the way the GPA is calculated, it gives them additional credits and lowers their GPAs. Kids in this situation once in high school can take the identical classes as their classmates and get the identical grades, but their GPAs will be lower because of the extra credits.
Steve Becker
6:24 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
These parents were only asking that the classes taken in 8th grade be taken off the high school transcript. Not change the calculation of high school GPA. The 8th grade classes affect high school GPA negatively, once the kids start taking AP classes. So, essentially, the students are being penalized for being accelerated.
Sussex Resident
11:02 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
I'm glad to see everyone agrees, GPA should NOT be calculated differently for accelerated eighth grade students. The district should change its policy so classes taken by eighth graders are NOT figured into High School GPA. While GPA calculation would still be weighted, which doesn't really make any sense to me, at least the accelerated kids would not be penalized for being fast-tracked in Math.
12:23 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
If a TMS student takes a HHS class and the grade does not count toward the HHS GPA, then the class should NOT count to the number of credits needed for graduation. I doubt those who raised this issue thought of that.
Sussex Resident
4:08 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I don't think these kids need to worry about the number of credits required for graduation. These are kids that continue with math throughout high school. When they run out of HHS math classes, these kids are sent to U.W. Waukesha for advanced Calculus courses. Interestingly, these classes are counted toward their GPA, but not weighted on a 5-point scale, like AP classes.
7:49 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
The point was that these classes are likely required for graduation, and if the grade does not count toward the GPA, the class should not count to graduation.
Sussex Resident
9:17 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
Point taken, but there are no "required" math classes at HHS. The graduation requirement is 2 credits of math. The most "basic" requirement is Algebra and Geometry, but these kids never take high school Algebra. They are fast-tracked into Algebra in 7th grade and take Geometry and Advanced Algebra in 8th grade. Some of these kids are already taking Calculus in their Sophomore year.
Mike B
12:06 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
OK, then this article was badly written and didn't explain the actual issue very well.
Courses you take in 8th grade should have nothing to do with your High School GPA, Transcript, or anything else since you're not in High School when you take them. They should be counted towards your 8th grade GPA and 8th grade class rankings since that's where you took them.
When you're in HS, then you can take college AP classes which count towards your HS GPA and such since you're in HS when you take them.
john segundus
8:12 am on Saturday, March 9, 2013
being a AP honor scholar, a former member of NHS, and having been in "accelerated" or "honors" classes since kindergarten, allow me to say that the "harder" classes are on a completely different level than "regular" classes. Advanced students should receive a boost in GPA--it is only fair. said students are doing far more work than their counterparts. however, what i would really like to see is tougher "regular" classes. apparently, the non-honors kids do not learn how to properly apply blooms taxonomy (according to my close friends, who were not in the honors program at hamilton). i realize that not everyone is intelligent, but i believe that it is abhorrent to not even challenge the non-honors kids. they end up getting away with an 'A' for doing sub-standard work. this is why there is this huge inequality with college graduates these days: the ones who find work and the ones who do not. If your child merely slides by without challenging him or herself--do you honestly believe that he or she will find a decent occupation nowadays?
I wish that the best teachers: Malmon, Figueroa, Dorgan, Stuesser, etc. would be consulted in this. perhaps they would be able to figure out a plan to help the non-honors kids get up to par with their competitors. especially with all of the labor outsourcing occurring in the field.


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Forward gazing: Mega trends according to Frost & Sullivan – and the end of the world as we know it
If there is one lesson that should be learned from the last 15 years, it is that the future rarely pans out as people expected.
Take the internet for example, or mobile phones, Google or Groupon – even the recession.
Some things though are predictable because they seem inevitable.
Malthus for example, couldn't see any way round the problem of population growth. He predicted mass starvation long before now as births hugely outnumbered deaths. He had not foreseen the impact of birth control, or the even more interesting trend that people have less children, the more affluent they become.
Frost & Sullivan says in its recently released Mega Trends report, that a number of Mega Cities will be built on a hub and spoke framework with population corridors linking them across the world. It can't see any other way around the desire for people to live in cities, the lack of fuel for travel, or the sustainability benefits of people living close together in small spaces. Time for a new idea perhaps?
Frost and Sullivan also predicts a reverse brain drain, as ex-citizens of emerging nations such as India, together with Europeans and Americans, will migrate to these emerging lands of opportunity.
It also predicts more electric travel, and the emergence of Innovating to Zero.
Now this is a really important one that needs to be dropped into conversations when you want to impress. This trend examines a world of zero emissions, zero accidents, zero fatalities, zero defects, zero breaches of security and carbon-neutral factories. The term Innovating to Zero will be used as a marketing tool by those companies struggling to differentiate themselves in an increasingly Sustainability conscious world.
Frost & Sullivan says it will be researching also the progress of Mega Trends in: "Smart" emerging as the new Green, Geo Socialization, Space Jam, Personal Robots, e-Mobility and New Business Models, to name a few. It paints a picture of a brave new world where sustainability shapes human, organisation and government behaviour and where wellness and well-being has a much wider definition than mere healthcare, which will include body, mind and soul.
It reveals that women empowerment will reach new heights, with one in three workers being a woman and up to 40 percent of boardrooms in some nations comprising women by 2020.
The next level of social networking, says Frost & Sullivan, will focus on geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and geotagging to enable additional social dynamics. User-submitted data with profiles and interests will be matched with location-based services to connect and co-ordinate with surrounding people or events. This type of geo-networking will drive markets, businesses and individuals to interact, advertise and promote in real time.
End of the world in 2012
There are a few things that Frost & Sullivan failed to mention, such as a mass of predictions that the world might end in 2012.
The Solstice on December 21, 2012 - precisely at 11:11 AM Universal Time - marks the completion of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar.
While some are suggesting this will be it, the Mayans believe that rather than being a linear end-point, this cycle that is closing is naturally followed by the start of a new cycle. What this new cycle has in store for humanity is a mystery that has yet to unfold...
2012 is also considered the completion of the 26,000 year Precession of the Equinoxes cycle, and some say it also signifies the end of a 104,000 year cycle.
The recent "2012" movie serves to alert a targeted 140 million people, in case they too haven't already heard the news. Followers of the Mayan religion say that the movie does a dis-service because it distorts the message of this ancient prophecy by associating it with fear and destruction, as depicted by the movie's global disaster scenario, rather than the themes of transformation and renewal the prophecy is actually based in.
"The 2012 date indeed marks the completion of this World Age Cycle. Rather than something to fear, we can understand the 2012 prophecy as signalling us that we need to awaken and realize that these times on Earth are auspicious; we are living in land-mark times in the history of our planet."
So says Eden Sky, who has devoted her life to researching and teaching the mysteries of the Ancient Maya, their prophecies, and their time science.
So how about Nasa? What do they think? They actually have a statement on their website. It says:
Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
Now if this was a sci-fi film, this is how the apocalypse story would start.
As a matter of interest, here are some other science-based predictions that didn't come true (and then read on to find some thought-provoking ones that did).
Top Ten Science-based predictions that didn't come true:
10. "The earth's crust does not move"- 19th through early 20th century accepted geological science
9. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." — Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
8. "That virus is a pussycat." — Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular-biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988
7. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
6. "Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899
5. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." — Albert Einstein, 1932
4. "Space travel is bunk." — Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth)
3. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." — Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads
2. "Stomach ulcers are caused by stress" — accepted medical diagnosis, until Dr. Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastric inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium
1. "Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F." — Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University in Time Magazine's June 24th, 1975 article Another Ice Age?
This list courtesy Andrew Watts at:
Ten predictions that did come true:
1. CCTV – as imagined by George Orwell in '1984' (1949) In one of the most famous dystopian imaginings, George Orwell plunged his character Winston into a world of paranoia and suspicion, watched over by the sinister Big Brother
2. The Internet – as imagined by Mark Twain in 'From the London Times of 1904' (1898) "The improved 'limitless-distance' telephone was presently introduced, and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues." A little bit more a stretch for this one, but back in 1898, Twain wrote of a global communications network called the telelectroscope that you could see and hear through – pretty good going for the 19th Century!
3. Geosynchronous Satellite – as imagined by Arthur C Clarke in 'Extra-Terrestrial Relays' Wireless World magazine (1945) Arthur C Clarke came up with one of the most astoundingly accurate predictions of our time when he postulated that a network of geosynchronous satellites that revolved at the same speed as the earth and therefore remained in the same position over it, could make global communication possible
4. The video iPod – as imagined by HG Wells in 'When The Sleeper Wakes' (1899) Wells, the writer of some of the most important books in science fiction, came up with a device that sounds almost exactly like a modern day media player such as a video iPod in his book 'When The Sleeper Wakes. His version was a flat square with a little picture that was 'very vividly coloured.' Not only were the people on the screen moving, but they were conversing with clear small voices.
5. Test-tube babies – as imagined by Aldous Huxley in 'Brave New World' (1932) Brave New World is one of the most famous glimpses into an imagined future, and author Aldous Huxley's imagination conjured up a world where the population is not born naturally but from a machine, where their genes can be perfected and the nutrition controlled
6. CD/DVD – as imagined by EE 'Doc' Smith in 'Triplanetary'. (1934) In Smith's book Triplanetary, the author talks of records surviving a noxious gas attack because they were on playable discs of platinum alloy. Although CDs and DVDs are, of course, not platinum alloy, a metallic looking storage disc is fairly prescient
7. Robot – as imagined by Karel Capek - 'Rossum's Universal Robots' (1920) There are links to mechanical servants traceable back to Greek Mythology and the legend of Pygmalion, but the first use of the word robot in its modern usage comes from Capek's play R.U.R – the root is from the Czech word 'robota' which means drudgery
8. Nanobots – as imagined by Raymond Z Gallun in 'A Menace in Minature' Astounding Stories magazine (1937) Gallun talks of 'Scarabs', a machine constructed by man which in turn constructs a replica of itself that is much smaller and so on, until you have an 'ultra-microbot. This is an idea that caught on in a major way in fiction, and work is still ongoing on a real working nanobot to this day
9. The Screensaver – as imagined by Robert Heinlein in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' (1961) Heinlein talks of a television screen 'disguised as an aquarium' in his book Stranger in a Strange land, with guppies and tetras swimming around, describing the now familiar site of a computer screen with fish floating serenely across it. Screen savers were brought in to stop an image being burnt on to a screen, and even the advent of monitors much more resistant to this problem has not really curbed their usage
10. Scuba diving – as imagined by Jules Verne in '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' (1875) Although diving gear was nothing new, even in 1875, it was then only possible through a pipe to the surface and a semi-rigid suit. Captain Nemo introduces Arronnax to a portable system of diving in which air is compressed into a tank that is then 'fixed on the back by means of braces, like a soldier's knapsack.'
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The way I remember it, it was a warm winter, though it might have been colder. I think we were wearing jackets. His difficulty in breathing had reached the point where he could not easily manage the few steps from the bedroom to the kitchen in our small apartment for a glass of water, and he asked me to help him in getting up to the clinic to see his regular doctor, who advised a brief stay in the hospital would be the most beneficial course to take. Unfortunately, the taxi left us on the other side of the building away from the entrance to Emergency, and with his stopping to catch his breath, it took us almost thirty minutes to walk around the block. They checked him quickly through triage because he was in such bad condition, but even at that point I still believed he would emerge in a week or two and we would be able to celebrate our twenty-eighth anniversary in better spirits. Two and half months later, four days after my forty-seventh birthday, in the early morning hours before they were set to move him to a hospice because as they said, they could do nothing more for him, and the morphine was no longer helping, an attendant called and asked me to come over as soon as possible, for John had passed away in his sleep.
I had spent New Year's Eve with Horacio's family watching the fireworks sizzling and bursting in the sky over Tuxtla with plenty more beers in the cooler and conviviality flowing among those in attendance like some kind of velvet stoppage. Both heartache in remembrance and soothing hope for renewal came easily in those days. My third semester as an English teacher would begin in two days, and having won an award of merit after an unremarkable start in my new career, I was looking forward to fresh, inspired classes, so perhaps overdid the celebrating as I paid for it the next day with one of the worst hangovers I had suffered in a long time. That evening, Horacio and his old friends, my new amigos were still up for drinking, but I backed out, choosing to stay home, and tried to shake off a bout of melancholia. I fell into a fitful sleep and woke from a nightmare of being unable to breathe under water. I was wearing an apparatus, but it weighed me down so heavily, I could no longer see the light from above, and then, waking in the darkened room, it took more than a few minutes to accustom myself to the gothic silence.
I was worried about turning fifty-three and associating with a group of thirty-five year olds, most of whom did not teach, rarely experimented with my language, knew nothing of my previous lifestyle, and with whom I had little or nothing in common save for the readiness to toss back a few evening beverages and put problems off to the side for a while. It was when their preferred activities seeped into daylight, and over time required fewer excuses to be happening that I began to withdraw. I could still see the need to let loose on weekends, but Monday to Friday I had an awful lot of work to do, and what with traveling up to New York now and again to visit my brother and sister, having more than once to replace equipment stolen in Mexico, and paying rent here and up there (just in case things did not work out), my small savings dwindled further. I was trying to participate in something I thought I had finished with years earlier, and though in physical appearance I did not stand out so much, on the inside I was growing weary. For the next few years I sought an answer I had forgotten I knew all along.
A month before I found the group of writers, which has expanded, and to which I am still so very much attached, I pulled out and polished up my old notebooks, and decided to revive the one hobby that supplied my greatest satisfaction. There were sad and happy tales of my life in New York with John, adventurous explorations of time spent with Horacio and friends, early experiences relating to the rash, and not always wisely chosen decisions made concerning teaching in such an exotic place, and some pointless pondering only requiring a bit of plot, characters, dialogue, and setting to make it whole. By the end of the year, I was discharging a healthy flow of what I liked to think had some literary merit at a rapid clip. Acquaintances who took to calling me The Phantom, as I more and more avoided party nights, hinted they thought I was suffering from verbal diarrhea in a tongue which held no sway in these parts, and thus I might just as well have remained silent, lifted my cup in good cheer, smiling and nodding at jokes from whose punch lines I still had trouble deducing the humor. I taught English, wrote in English, dreamed in my native language, yet, though admittedly not so much as before, cavorted in Spanish. If I thought about it, I had difficulty in discerning the foreign element, so decided not to think about it much, which may have constrained me from winning any more awards from my paying job while I gleaned some recognition in the other.
I had two good classes, with an uncustomary dynamic activity and a mediocre one today, and realized how one bad apple can indeed spoil the desire to bite into any of the others in the barrel. That old adage, which is supposed to make us take heart in the bright moment, overlooking bitterness and reproach, is only true to a point. Over morning coffee, I had noted the mathematical configuration of the date, and left the house, the new house, believing I had done my numbers, could thereby count on fate's beneficence, and would glide through an uplifting afternoon. In truth, were it not for my daily coffee and cigarette break, and filling spare moments with fictionalizing my rather dreary extra-murals, I doubt I would have stayed at this for this long. I may have drifted, or may not have done, depending on how my viewpoint is affected by the uneven sunlight, but I am going to be sixty years old next April, already experience more than occasional achiness in joints of which I was formerly unaware, and predict beach retirement days, will not be interminable, filled with nothingness. There may not be so many of them.
I will wake around six-twenty, just before the alarm goes off, will trudge downstairs to prepare a large cup of coffee in the microwave as fresh-brewed is for the weekends, and will smoke one or two cigarettes while I sit and stare out at the back garden, and do absolutely nothing else for maybe a half hour—forty minutes. Then, I will shit, shower, and shave, pack a lunch in order to save a few pesos, meet up with Horacio, and he will drive us to the school. I cannot afford to maintain a car. I will have one or two good classes, smile and say something noting the time of day to about twenty-five other people, and catch a ride home somewhere between six-thirty and eight o'clock. If it's early enough, I will try to get some writing done, although I sometimes think I have just about disinterred all of the personal experience I feel comfortable putting into words. I will probably do much the same the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that for years to come if my luck holds out.
Gita, Rob and Mike, who know you as I do, have said what I would have said. Paul says 'insightful', and this makes us aware of so much, reminding and increasing our self-knowledge.
This is an insightful piece Michael and the fact that you are writing it down and
talking about it is key. I know the sense of drifting, like most of us do in
life. I'm 62 and generally happy to be where I am now (things in the past were
not great.) There was a dramatic change upon my sixtieth birthday, more so than
turning 40 or 50, that sense of now looking back in a more reflective mode and
that sixtieth seems like it was literally yesterday; it's cliché to say how
quickly they go past but it's true… at least for me. I've decided it's the
small steps taken everyday that pay off in the long run- a little will add up
to 'a body of work' or accomplishment or at least attempting it. (Can't look
back and have regrets at never trying.) Your contributions on this site and
even more so on MudJob have been a great inspiration for me to continue my
writing though I don't know where it is taking me. Oh and no- the 'beach days'
are not interminable:)
I wish I was sharing coffee and cigarettes with you right now. Beautiful job, Mud.
I've never met you but I feel I know you well, but I didn't realise until now that you were nearer to my age than I had imagined. I had imagined Stephen Torelli also to be a great deal younger until he updated his profile picture. I suppose that goes for quite a few out there. I just chicken out altogether.
"beach retirment days...interminable, filled with nothingness." This to me is a scary piece. You seem like a stranger in a strange land, the loneliest place in the world to be.
I feel as if I have been alone with you many times. This is true for nearly all you write, but the post above may be the best example of the emotion you evoke. It is most tender and conveys a sense of longing that resonates. Hope you don't mind this gush.
I just love the consideration behind this. I want to know how it occurred to you to choose these sequentials, see what you could remember of your state on those dates, and write it down. I don't have to ask how it is written with such humble brilliance - there's no answer save that it is just your gift.
Part one broke my heart. Twenty-eight years! I did the math. You were 19 when you met him.
Parts two through five speak poignantly of a stranger in a strange land and they feel deeply lonely. But they also speak to a breakthrough, which is you creating both your own writings and creating a space for others. (The achiness in the joints comes from not walking and dancing enough.)
Part six is like a mini portrait of the artist -- sitting with coffee and smoking and staring into the middle distance, warming your engines. This is familiar: I have seen you do this at HoW in the mornings, three summers in a row. I agree with Bill Floyd: You do this writing thing very well.
It is the writer's job to make the ordinary extraordinary. You've done so here. Here's hoping all our luck holds out, for 11/12/13 and much longer.
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My friend Oscar Diaz Jr. is as proud as punch these days. The reason is, Rosie Herrera, one of his voice students, is the choreographer for The Donkey Show, now playing at the Arsht Center in downtown Miami.
Said Diaz, "I saw the show recently, choreographed by our very own multi-talented Performers Music Institute student lyric coloratura Rosie and it was so much fun."
Diaz said Herrera has studied with him for the past 11 years, "while doing outstanding work in the world of choreography."
He said Herrera has ben named as one of the top 10 modern dance choreographers in the nation. She also has a dance company — The Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre.
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This week, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Miami will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the finding of statue of Our Lady of Charity in Cuban waters. As a part of the celebration, on Wednesday, the Ermita de la Caridad Shrine will hand out free copies of the book Historia de Nuestra Senora la Virgen de la Caridad del Salvador Larrua Geudes, to representatives of Catholic schools and universities.
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According to a press release from the archdiocese, the two-volume book is a well-researched account of the 400 years of presence of Our Lady of Charity in the heart of the Cuban people, and of believers from every nation. The book took 16 years to complete.
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In December 2009, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) obtained exclusive rights to the ".post" top-level domain for the postal community from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The .post domain joins existing prominent top level domains (such as .com, .edu, and .org), along with recent additions (such as .museum, .biz, and .aero.) The .post domain is intended to provide a secure space for members of the postal community to develop and deploy digital products and services.
The .post domain is expected to be available for use by private postal operators, regulators, suppliers, vendors, trade unions, and trade associations.
By linking well-established national networks, the UPU hopes .post will allow postal operators and customers to reap the benefits of a global physical/digital network that permits postal service providers and end users to connect quickly and securely to other end users around the world.
The .post domain could be an appropriate platform for a variety of services. Common suggestions include: a global track and trace system linking the existing systems of the posts; the creation of an accessible database holding a universal and global addressing system; and a feature allowing consumers to decide whether to have an item delivered to a physical address or an electronic address.
One approach, at the core of the OIG Risk Analysis Research Center's (RARC) digital strategy paper, Expanding the Postal Platform, would be to give every postal customer an e-mail address and digital ID. The .post top level domain could be a platform to support implementation of this strategy.
The development of the .post top level domain raises a number of interesting questions:
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• Does the choice of domain name affect the quality of service provided or the effectiveness of marketing such services?
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Thanks for great Information. I'm interested in this subject.
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1. USPS may be permitted by the UPU to use .post but it has not yet been approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission. Furthermore, attempts to get into digital services have been thwarted previously or shut down once operational. USPS is going to have to fight hard to get into the digital arena again given past experience.
2. Regarding whether they should use it depends on what they plan to do with it and in what timeframe. One advantage of .post is that it will use DNSSEC from the outset, and the other domains are playing catch up which is more difficult. Theoretically, it should be a more secure platform for digital transactions and communications. USPS is going to have to convince the Postal Regulatory Commission to use .post and then get each product or service on .post approved, as well.
3. Several of us on the New Products Committee came up with a number of business ideas for .post, but fundamentally the UPU and the community of postal operators will need to answer a basic question about adoption: is .post going to be a closed system or an open one? Can someone who is not on .post communicate with another person who is on .post?
4. Most consumers are happy in their ignorance about the security of e-mail services and online transactions from providers on .com and on other domains. They put up with phishing, identity theft, etc. to an extent and accept a certain amount of risk. It's conceivable that .post could reduce such risk dramatically and possibly eliminate much of the risk, but the question is how many consumers really believe they need it?
5. We are at an interesting juncture where .post, in-person proofing and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) could all come together and present a unique opportunity for USPS. Hopefully USPS will act on the opportunity. Despite my nomination to be a lead for NSTIC for USPS, as much as I would have liked to regrettably I will not be here to see it through.
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I would have thought .ZIPS would be better?
But, then again…
Who am I????? What would I know Mr. CA @ USPS HQ!!!
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No matter how much advertising you do or whatever you promise the public to use any of the.post sites, they will never be secure. THERE is NO privacy whatsoever on the internet. Getting your mail delivered to your house or business is PRIVATE. In time there will be a terrible breach on the web site and people will realize sending the mail over the internet is not a good idea.
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This is a no-brainer. The USPS must establish and operate the usps.post subdomain. The security and identity issues are solvable.
To get things started on the right foot politically, I suggest the Congress should designate the Internet as a Post Road.
Thanks to the OIG for this blog post update, and to the chief architect for his comments. It becomes the first Tweet for a new 'DotPost' Twitter account.
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Informative one… Keep sharing
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I am not sure about privacy on the net. Is there such thing? Even your own e-mails can be hacked nowadays. But let us face the truth, using e-mails is still the easiest and fastest way to communicate other than live chatting with someone.
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