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Yesterday I wrote about the Washington State Liquor Control Board (LCB) ending the 'corkage free zone' in Yakima. This popular program allowed consumers to buy wine from local wineries and drink the wine at local restaurants – provided the wine was bought the same day - without paying a corkage fee. Below is additional information from both the LCB and Washington Wine Institute (WWI) regarding the matter.
While initial indications were that Yakima's 'corkage free zone' might have come to the LCB's attention due to interest by other parties in creating a similar program elsewhere, Communications Director Brian Smith, says that the LCB was following up on the issue due to a complaint from within the industry.
In terms of the specific issue with the 'corkage free zone,' Smith states:
"The legal issue with the agreement between local wineries and local restaurants is that they were singling out specific wineries in the state of Washington rather than allowing any Washington winery.
In Yakima, the wineries are giving customers a "corkage fee pass" to take to any restaurant the winery recommends and the customer was not charged a corkage fee. This gives those restaurants an advantage over any restaurant that hasn't entered into the agreement. It also gives the participating wineries an advantage over any winery that hasn't entered into the agreement.
The state alcohol laws that govern business relationships between manufacturers (wineries), distributors and retailers (restaurants) state that manufacturers can't provide items beyond "nominal value" (money's worth). Manufacturers also can't provide any items to customers free of charge. In this case, waiving a restaurant corkage fee is providing something of significant value to a customer.
If a restaurant is not part of the agreement, they don't get the recommendation from the winery. And, the winery that isn't part of the agreement will have a corkage fee charged on their wine at the restaurant."
Jean Leonard, Director of Government Affairs, for the Washington Wine Institute disagrees with the LCB's assessment, saying:
"WWI disagrees with the LCB's interpretation that the Yakima program is a violation of "tied house" laws and we have challenged the analysis included in their enforcement letter. We are hoping to resolve this issue with the Liquor Board by clarifying that certain promotional activities are legal. We think that the restaurants' idea of voluntarily waiving a corkage fee for customers bringing in a bottle of wine is a great opportunity for restaurants and wineries."
The LCB's Smith says, "As always, we're willing to work with the Wine Institute to find a solution. The most likely solution is through the Legislature granting an exception to the law."
Stay tuned.
More on the end of Yakima's 'corkage free zone'
Yesterday I wrote about the Washington State Liquor Control Board (LCB) ending the 'corkage free zone' in Yakima. This popular program allowed consumers to buy wine from local wineries and drink the wine at local restaurants – provided the wine was bought the same day - without paying a corkage fee. Below is additional information from both the LCB and Washington Wine Institute (WWI) regarding the matter.
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Mark Maghie Says:
Sean--I posted the WWI's analysis of this issue on your FB page. It was too long to be posted here.
Many thanks Mark!
Chris Says:
This is news to me, Sean thanks for covering it. i'll read more, but my initial reaction is that this is another government action (by Olympia no less) to control and restrict a program that was mutually beneficail to the residents, businesses (both restauratns and wineries) of the Great City of Yakima. More reason to cleave the state at Snoqualmie Pass. Come on over before we build the wall.
I'm a retired 31 year employee of the WSLCB's retail division and a 40 year wine lover, consumer, and wine educator. As far as I can figure, there's nothing that prevents anyone from being involved in programs such as this if they want to be. If there's an unfair advantage for some restaurants, then let the other ones get involved. I've never been a fan of corkage fees anyway...and neither has wine aficianado Robert Parker (if you care). Many years ago while working with the LCB, I had a Parker Day-At-A-Glance calendar on my desk. The following was his entry for Sunday April 18th (I don't recall the year, but probably at least 10 years ago). I pinned it up shortly thereafter in my wine cellar. "Given the vast sums of American discretionary income that is being spent eating at restaurants (my words: Boy! has that ever changed!) a strong argument could be made that the cornerstone to increased wine consumption and awareness would be the consumption of wine at restaurants. However, most restaurants treat wine as a luxury item, marking it up an exorbitant 200 to 500 percent, thereby effectively discouraging the consumption of wine. The practice of offering wines at huge markups also serves to reinforce the mistaken notion that wine is only for the elite and the rich. The wine industry does little about this practice, being content merely to see its wines placed on a restaurant's list. But the consumer should revolt and avoid restaurants that charge exorbitant wine prices, so matter how sublime the cuisine." So...let's have an insurrection! And cheers to Jar Arcand!
Have you found a real job yet?
This isn't totally new.
CA (Sonoma/Santa Rosa area) has been doing something similar for years. Buy a bottle of wine from their list and there is no corkage on the local wine you bring in and it doesn't have to have been purchased that day.
Perhaps (hopefully) this whole affair will get the eating establishments to re-evaluate their whole corkage fee programs.
Chris, perhaps we can wrap this into my annexation plan for the 'occupied area' of the Walla Walla Valley AVA?
Anon 3:14pm, thanks for the perspective and great Parker quote.
Anon 3:52, thanks for asking. Is the Anonymous Commenters Guild hiring?
Anon 4:43, thanks for passing along the information from Sonoma/Santa Rosa. Will look into this. I would love to see corkage fees get some increased attention/pressure. It would be quite an interesting promotional idea to have Washington wine purchased the same day from a Washington winery offered corkage free at restaurants state-wide. I would expect, however, that there might be a good deal of resistance to this. Hopefully something will be able to be worked out to get the program back up and running.
Justin Says:
Sounds like there's an easy workaround. Have restaurants offer free corkage on any bottle of wine purchased at any winery that day. The great majority would be from local wineries, and participation would be open to any restaurant who cared to do so.
As far as advertising the practice at the wineries goes, that would probably have to change more than anything else. I don't know, but doubt that there is any prohibition for employees to recommend restaurants (or anything else, for that matter) by word-of-mouth to their customers. Having them know what local restaurants engage in this practice and let customers know couldn't possibly be illegal, could it?
I think one of the most important lessons to learn here is that the best way to deal with the WSLCB is to operate under their radar. Towards that goal, not advertising programs such as this in print is probably wise; they need to be operated more on a level of 'well, this is just our local custom, and such and such restaurants do so, and you kinda have to be in the know to know about it.' If Wine World has taught us anything, it's that advertising your wine program is a great way to attract government attention.
Clive Says:
Sad to hear this I love the program, I like the under-handed work around that Justin proposes. Also, don't go work at the Anonymous Commenters Guild. I had a cousin who worked there, he said all his co-workers were assholes.
Chris Says:
Why should a program as neat and obviously good as this one need to be under the radar? I first visited Santiago's a Mexican place on Yakima avenue due to a large banner out front saying Corkage Free Zone. I love that banner and hope to find one. It will become my side panel for my truck. We may be yokels but not allowing or advertising a good program because someone complained is completely stupid.
If you can't tell my blood is boiling on this issue. I'll read some more and post my first blog of 2011 in a day or 2. I'm fairly certain I'll get myself in trouble with a political rant.
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Hi John,
I must say that it didn't escape my attention that these specific rules would have been abolished if 1100 passed - and also that the Washington Wine Institute did not support 1100. An excellent example of the negative impacts of the tied house laws. I should also say that I agree with you, although also not a lawyer, that the LCB's interpretation of the law seems correct. A negative consequence perhaps of the laws but an interaction they were intended to prevent.
Thanks as always for your thoughts.
Marty Clubb Says:
John's remarks above about Jean Leonard are a disgrace to the Washington wine industry. They are untrue, unwarranted, and highly misleading. Unfortunately John is following in the footsteps of another FWWS Board member who recently blogged something similar. In truth Jean, working on behalf of the Washington Wine Institute has accomplished incredible things for this industry in the last ten years. Her ability to continue to make such accomplishments will be undermined by naive commentary like I just read above.
Marty Clubb
Owner/L'Ecole No 41
President/Washington Wine Institute
Jeff Sully Says:
I am very disheartened to see such unwarranted attacks such as those shown by John Morgan. I have had a chance to see Jean Leonard fighting for all of us as winery members. Her successes are such that her credibility with the legislature is unquestioned. If the folks at FWWS would stop spreading this maliciousness and untruths, they would realize that this industry is healthy, and that the Institute is working tirelessly on all industry members' behalf. Shame on the Board of FWWS. Show some maturity.
Lloyd Anderson Says:
Part 1
Today, I learned a new word on Twitter (thank you David Voth)…Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
I, too, am dismayed and disappointed by the constant negativity from an organization that purports to be the bastion of this state's family owned wineries (Family Wineries of Washington State). It is obvious to me that 2 or 3 of its board members have launched a particularly vitriolic diatribe against the Washington Wine Institute, its member wineries and Jean Leonard, its Director of Governmental Operations in particular.
Continued in Part 2
Lloyd Anderson Says:
Part 2
Rome wasn't built in a day and no single day will advance an accord that we all seek. Positive change can only be effected by advancing an honest dialog among those concerned; the legislature, the regulatory agencies and our industry. To that end, Jean Leonard has been a stalwart workhorse with our best interests truly in mind. Furthermore, and more importantly, she has earned the respect and admiration of everyone concerned with our issues (except, apparently, the FWWS).
What is this organization and who stands behind it advancing divisiveness toward our industry? I do not! It seems that anyone and everyone who attended its organizational meeting became founding members. Yet, when asked directly, my "member" friends disavow any ties to its charter, its goals and especially its methodology. Why are your names still on the membership list?
Oh, and for Jean and the WWI board, it's time to be an Ilunga!
Lloyd Anderson, Co-owner & Winemaker, Walter Dacon Wines
All, I removed the comment (two parts) from John Morgan at Lost River Winery at his request.


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Carolyn Krause focuses on one of my favorite subjects, the historical Graphite Reactor and medical isotopes generated there.
"If at some time a heavenly angel should ask what the Laboratory in the hills of East Tennessee did to enlarge man's life and make it better, I daresay the production of radioisotopes for scientific research and medical treatment will surely rate as a candidate for first place." — Alvin Weinberg, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1955-1973.
The late Art Rupp would agree. He was especially proud of the Lab's isotope development program, which he helped create and then led.
However, in an interview in 2003 with Steve Stow for the ORNL Oral History Project, he said the isotope program started at the Lab's Graphite Reactor, which was built in 1943, had not received the recognition it deserves, either locally or nationally.
In its heyday, the program separated, purified, promoted, packaged and scheduled the delivery of radioisotopes. The isotopes shipped from Oak Ridge to hospitals were used to diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases, prolonging lives. Other isotopes were useful for industry, agriculture and research.
Also, separation work in the program provided chemical proof for the existence of Element 61 in the periodic table. Henry Moseley, the brilliant English physicist who was killed at the age of 27 in World War I, confirmed in 1914 the 1902 prediction that an element with this atomic number exists.
Radioactive forms of various elements, called radioisotopes, were produced in and isolated from the spent uranium fuel of the Graphite Reactor. This Oak Ridge facility was the world's first continuously operated nuclear reactor. It enabled researchers to demonstrate that gram quantities of plutonium-239 could be produced in a reactor and separated from the spent uranium fuel.
Researchers created other radioisotopes, such as radioactive phosphorus, by immersing a nonradioactive target material, such as melted sulfur in aluminum cans, in the sea of neutrons inside the reactor.
Under John Gillette's stewardship, the program made up to 12,000 shipments of isotopes a year — or 104,000 shipments between 1946 and 1957.
The first radioisotope produced and shipped from a reactor — the Graphite Reactor — was carbon-14. It was sent in 1946 to a hospital in St. Louis for cancer research.
Rupp, a chemical engineer trained at Purdue University where he was once president of the poetry club, noted New York City's Rockefeller Center has a statue of Prometheus, but Oak Ridge does not. Why is this important?
The element discovered in Oak Ridge was named after Prometheus, the titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to mankind.
In 1945, Jacob Marinsky, Lawrence Glendenin and Charles Coryell isolated the new element in a hot cell after separating rare earths from radioactive fission products. They were members of George Boyd's group, which pioneered the use of ion-exchange chromatography for separating radioisotopes.
Employing a spectroscopic method, they identified Element 61, the only radioactive rare-earth metal. Coryell's wife, Grace Marie, proposed the name promethium for the new element — a suggestion accepted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
"Promethium is an element that does not exist naturally on Earth," Rupp told Stow. Like technetium, it occurs only as a byproduct of fission. Promethium has been identified in the spectrum of a star in the Andromeda galaxy. Promethium made on Earth is used for atomic batteries in missiles and spacecraft.
"Its discovery in Oak Ridge is something that has just been forgotten," Rupp said.
Rupp was involved in separating the first milligram of plutonium from the first uranium slugs removed from the Graphite Reactor. The goal was to capture laboratory quantities of plutonium for testing. Plutonium is a highly toxic, man-made element heavier than uranium.
Universities using accelerators had produced only micrograms of plutonium. (A microgram is a thousandth of a milligram. One ounce equals 28,350 milligrams.)
After a separations system of tanks and centrifuges was built, Rupp and Irwin Higgins used lanthanum fluoride as a "precipitate" to pick up plutonium and carry it away from uranium in a spinning centrifuge.
"The last bits of plutonium we massaged out of the centrifuge using big heavy gloves over our hands," Rupp said. "Health physicists now would consider that action a horror.
"We got all the precipitate out and separated the plutonium from the lanthanum fluoride over an ion-exchange column. In the small amount of green liquid that came out was, I believe, the very first milligram of plutonium that had ever been separated from uranium."
This small step led to the construction of large reactors in Hanford, Wash. They produced enough plutonium for the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II in 1945.
"We handled hundreds of thousands of curies of radioactivity of all kinds over 30 years," Rupp said. "As far as I know, we never had a serious accident. I'm quite proud of that."
And despite the potential dangers of his work environment, Rupp lived into his mid-80s. Many believe he met a heavenly angel upon his death in 2005.
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Disciplined agile delivery is an evolutionary (iterative and incremental) approach which regularly produces high quality solutions in a cost effective and timely manner via a risk and value driven life cycle. It is performed in a highly collaborative, disciplined, and self-organizing manner within an appropriate governance framework, with active stakeholder participation to ensure that the team understands and addresses the changing needs of its stakeholders to maximize business value provided. Disciplined agile delivery teams provide repeatable results by adopting just the right amount of ceremony for the situation which they face.
Let's explore the key points in this definition:
- Full delivery life cycle. Disciplined agile delivery processes have life cycles which are serial in the large and iterative in the small. Minimally they have a release rhythm which recognizes the need for start up/inception activities, construction activities, and deployment/transition activities. Better yet, they include explicit phases as well. It is very important to note that these are not the traditional waterfall phases – requirements, analysis, design, and so on – but instead different "seasons" of a project. The point is that we need to look beyond agile software development and consider the full complexities of solution delivery. Adopting a full delivery life cycle, not just a construction life cycle, is arguably the "zeroth" agile scaling factor.
- Evolutionary. Agile strategies are both iterative and incremental in nature. Iterative means that you are working in a non-serial manner, on any given day you may do some requirements analysis, some testing, some programming, some design, some more testing, and so on. Incremental means that you add new functionality and working code to the most recent build, until such time as the stakeholder determines there is enough value to release the product.
- Regularly produces high quality solutions. Agilists are said to be quality focused. They prefer to test often and early, and the more disciplined ones even take a test-first approach where they will write a single test and the just enough production code to fulfill that test (then they iterate). Many agile developers have adopted the practice of refactoring, which is a technique where you make simple changes to your code or schema which improves its quality without changing its semantics. Adoption of these sorts of quality techniques seems to work – it appears that agile teams are more likely to deliver high quality systems than traditional teams (according to the DDJ 2008 Project Success survey). Within IBM we take it one step further and focus on consumability, which encompasses quality and other features such as ease of deployment and system performance. Furthermore, although some agile methods promote the concept of producing "potentially shippable software" on a regular basis, disciplined agile delivery teams produce solutions: a portion of which may be software, a portion of which may be hardware, and a portion of which will be the manner in which the system is used.
- Cost effective and timely manner. Agile teams prefer to implement functionality in priority order [http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/prioritizedRequirements.htm], with the priority being defined by their stakeholders (or a representative thereof). Working in priority order enables agile teams to maximize the return on investment (ROI) because they are working on the high-value functionality as defined by their stakeholders, thereby increasing cost effectiveness. Agile teams also prefer to produce potentially shippable solutions each iteration (an iteration is a time-box, typically 2-4 weeks in length), enabling their stakeholders to determine when they wish to have a release delivered to them and thereby improving timeliness. Short iterations reduce the feedback cycle, improving the chance that agile teams will discover problems early (they "fail fast") and thereby enable them to address the problems when they're still reasonably inexpensive to do so. The DDJ 2008 Project Success survey found that agile teams are in fact more likely to deliver good ROI than traditional teams and more likely to deliver in a timely manner.
- Value driven life cycle. One result of building a potentially shippable solution every iteration is that agile teams produce concrete value in a consistent and visible manner throughout the life cycle.
- Risk and value driven life cycle. Core agile processes are very clear about the need to produce visible value in the form of working software on a regular basis throughout the life cycle. Disciplined agile delivery processes take it one step further and actively mitigate risk early in the life cycle – during project start up you should come to stakeholder concurrence regarding the project's scope, thereby reducing significant business risk, and prove the architecture by building a working skeleton of your system, thereby significantly reducing technical risk. They also help with transition to agile, allowing traditional funding models to use these milestones before moving to the finer grained iteration based funding that agile allows.
- Highly collaborative. People build systems, and the primary determinant of success on a development project is the individuals and the way that they work together. Agile teams strive to work closely together and effectively as possible. This is a characteristic that applies to both engineers on the team, as well as their leadership.
- Disciplined. Agile software development requires greater discipline on the part of practitioners that what is typically required by traditional approaches.
- Self organizing. This means that the people who do the work also plan and estimate the work.
- Self-organization within an appropriate governance framework. Self-organization leads to more realistic plans and estimates which are more acceptable to the people implementing them. At the same time these self-organizing teams must work within an appropriate governance framework which reflects the needs of their overall organizational environment. An "appropriate governance framework" explicitly enables disciplined agile delivery teams to effectively leverage a common infrastructure, to follow organizational conventions, and to work towards organizational goals. The point is that project teams, regardless of the delivery paradigm they are following, need to work within the governance framework of their organization. More importantly, effective governance programs should make it desirable to do so. Our experience is that traditional, command-and-control approaches to governance where senior management explicitly tells teams what to do and how to do it don't work very well with agile delivery teams. We've also found that lean development governance, an approach which is based on collaboration and enablement, is far more effective in practice. Good governance increases the chance that agile delivery teams will build systems which fit into your overall organizational environment, instead of yet another stand-alone system which increases your overall maintenance burden and data quality problems.
- Active stakeholder participation. Agile teams work closely with their stakeholders, who include end users, managers of end users, the people paying for the project, enterprise architects, support staff, operations stuff, and many more. Within IBM we distinguish between four categories of stakeholder: principles/sponsors, partners (business partners and others), end users, and insiders These stakeholders, or their representatives (product owners in Scrum, or on-site customers in Extreme Programming, or a resident stakeholder in scaling situations), are expected to provide information and make decisions in a timely manner.
- Changing needs of stakeholders. As a project progresses your stakeholders will gain a better understanding of what they want, particularly if you're showing them working software on a regular basis, and will change their "requirements" as a result. Changes in the business environment, or changes in organization priority, will also motivate changes to the requirements. There is a clear need for agile requirements change management [http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/changeManagement.htm] on modern IT projects.
- Repeatable results. Stakeholders are rarely interested in how you delivered a solution but instead in what you delivered. In particular, they are often interested in having a solution which meets their actual needs, in spending their money wisely, in a high-quality solution, and in something which is delivered in a timely manner. In other words, they're interested in repeatable results, not repeatable processes.
- Right amount of ceremony for the situation. Agile approaches minimize ceremony in favor of delivering concrete value in the form of working software, but that doesn't mean they do away with ceremony completely. Agile teams will still hold reviews, when it makes sense to do so. DDJ's 2008 Modeling and Documentation Survey found that agile teams will still produce deliverable documentation, such as operations manuals and user manuals, and furthermore are just as likely to do so as traditional teams. The DDJ September 2009 State of the IT Union survey found that the quality of the documentation delivered by agile teams was just as good as that delivered by traditional teams, although iterative teams (e.g. RUP teams) did better than both agile and traditional.
Suggested reading:
- The Agile System Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)
- The Agile Scaling Model (ASM): Adapting Agile Methods for Complex Environments (an IBM Rational white paper)
- The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) home page


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As someone with high self-confidence, you feel quite comfortable interacting with other people. Indeed, you find the company of others very stimulating and enjoy meeting new people. Your relaxed demeanor in groups makes people around you comfortable too. Perhaps because you feel comfortable talking about yourself, others tend to enjoy being around you and perceive you as socially competent.
The confidence that helps you feel comfortable talking to people also spills into your own personal beliefs about yourself. Although you have several strengths, it's likely that you also acknowledge and accept your weaknesses. But unlike some people, you take full responsibility for your actions—you rarely regret things you've done in the past and are not embarrassed easily.
Perhaps the defining feature that sets you apart from most people is the exceptionally high standards that you set for yourself. Your competence in social gatherings as well as at work should provide ample evidence for this. With these characteristics, it's very likely that people come to you for advice and generally think of you as someone with leader-like qualities.
Family Orientation
As someone who respects family values, you tend to enjoy the company of family-members and are open to living a domestic life. If you have children already, you enjoy spending time with them very much and work hard to be a good parent, but may occasionally wish to "cut-loose" and let your true colors show. If you don't have children, you probably desire having a family sometime in the distant future. Although you occasionally enjoy cooking at home, you also like going to restaurants. This has the potential to create added stress as you transition into parenthood.
You are attracted to the idea of having a family and may be willing to work hard to achieve this, although not necessarily any time soon. This conflict is illustrated by the fact that you don't mind doing things around the house—like cooking and entertaining guests—on the one hand. But, on the other hand, you also like going to restaurants and parties. It's possible that in time you might prefer spending time at home more because you won't feel like you're missing anything when you don't go out.
One aspect of yourself that makes you likely to become more family oriented is that you generally know how to manage your frustrations and work well on your own. This means that you have some of the basic ingredients to enjoy family life. Maintaining a tidy home, keeping a well-stocked kitchen, and making sure the kids are safe is a tough job. So attending to these things, while also taking care of yourself, may prove somewhat difficult for you.
The self-control personality dimension captures the way in which a person regulates and directs him or herself. Being low in self-control can be both good and bad. Occasionally people may be compelled to follow their intuitions and give in to their temptations, and your degree of self-control makes this likely to happen more often than not. This can be good in circumstances where being relaxed and open are important. However, in situations where it is necessary to be focused and careful, you might find that you do or say things that may be inappropriate.
As someone who exerts little control over your actions, you may find that you commit social blunders that might offend other people and get yourself in trouble. For example, if you're given responsibility to work on a project that requires close attention to detail, you may be likely to overlook important details because you have difficulty staying focused. Consequently, you might feel more comfortable delegating such tasks to other people who are more detail oriented. Being able to recognize such characteristics in yourself and having more detail-oriented people do such tasks could be an effective way to manage your own stress level.
Low self-control may diminish your effectiveness at work. Acting too relaxed can make it difficult for you to focus on projects that require organized sequences of steps or stages. Thus, your ability to accomplish may be inconsistent. Indeed, it's possible that you might be criticized periodically for being unreliable or unable to "stay within the lines." Nonetheless, you may still experience many short-lived pleasures and never be thought of as boring.
As someone moderate in openness, you have an appreciation for art and nature, but are also down to earth and realistic. On the one hand, it's likely that you are fond of music and art, and on the other hand, enjoy and appreciate things that have a clear point and some sort of practical utility.
Additionally, you have a certain degree of awareness of your own emotions; that is, you tend to notice when you're feeling a particular way and take those feelings into account when making decisions.
You tend to think in both abstract ways—in terms of metaphors—and logically. Therefore, in your work and free time, you enjoy activities that get your "creative juices" flowing, but are also able to keep your mind on the primary objective of the task at hand.
Your tendency to be both open-minded, yet realistic is generally quite advantageous. For instance, when there are no clear rules about how to approach a particular problem, your openness makes it easy for you to identify new ways to solve problems that might not be very obvious to people that are not as open as you are. However, because you are also realistic-minded, you are able follow-rules quite easily. This combination makes it easy for you to excel in your work because you are able to "think outside the box" while still being able to keep your eyes on "the big picture."
Easygoingness refers to one's ability to relax. Based on your score, you appear to "take things as they come" and enjoy having a good time. However, being high in easygoingness also has the potential to produce stress in a number of ways. For example, you may find it difficult to complete tasks thoroughly and efficiently. In this way, being high in easygoingness cannot only make your life difficult, but also the lives of the people around you. Another potential problem with being too high in easygoingness is that it can provide you with gratification in the short-term, but in the long-term provide undesirable consequences.
High easygoingness, even when not seriously destructive, may also diminish your effectiveness at work, for example. You may find it aversive and difficult to put in all the effort that may sometimes be needed to effectively accomplish certain tasks. For this reason, your colleagues might view you as forgetful and unfocused.
How does your personality affect your love life?
Given the strong degree of confidence that you have, it's no surprise that you get along well with most people. Indeed, it's self-confidence that allows people to feel comfortable interacting with others without feeling insecure and vulnerable. For this reason, you shouldn't have much difficulty in romance, at least not initially. Your social skills will likely help relieve any anxiety your romantic partners might have on those first few dates. However, over time, the high standards that you have for yourself could potentially frustrate your partner.
Because you respect family values but appreciate a good night out on the town, you probably get along well with people that are different from you. For this reason, you would probably be quite content in a romantic relationship with someone who shares your same values on these issues. Being in a relationship with someone who enjoys going out to parties and staying-up late at night might be fun, at least initially; yet it's likely that you will find this tiring over time. Thus, it might be easier and more satisfying for you to develop a long-lasting relationship with a person who enjoys both spending time at home and going out to eat.
As someone who is more relaxed than most people, you likely get along with most people quite well. Chances are that your friends and colleagues perceive you as lively, fun to be with, and good-humored. When it comes to romance, you'll likely be attracted to most people. However, your free-spirited nature might make being in a relationship with a person that is more rigid than you difficult because you might perceive the person as being too uptight and controlling.
Your openness probably makes it easy for you to respect and appreciate people that are different from you. However, you may become frustrated with people that are too unconventional or traditional. Therefore, you may be happiest in serious relationships with people that share both your open-mindedness and realistic nature.


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Yann Tiersen Announces New York Performance
Lauded French composer and multi instrumentalist Yann Tiersen has announced a very special concert event for October 8th in New York City. The performance will occur at The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture and feature Tiersen accompanied by a full orchestra, interpreting music from throughout his remarkable career including his soundtrack to the beloved film Amelie. The evening will also include songs from Tiersen's upcoming North American debut Dust Lane which showcases a new and distinctly modern side of Tiersen.
Tiersen is renown for merging experimental aspects of classical with flourishes of folk and the bristling energy of post punk. His soundtrack to Amelie and constantly evolving live shows, including an extraordinary set at this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival, have continued to attract an expanding and dedicated fan base. Tiersen's first ever US release Dust Lane will be released by Anti- Records on October 12, 2010, and charts a bold new musical course incorporating vintage electronics and lush choral textures into a joyful cinematic soundscape. Mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros) the end result is soaring and undeniably inspirational soundtrack to the moments of a listener's life.
Yann Tiersen with orchestra
Friday, October 8 - 8:00pm
The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West)
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Keeping Poynette Winters Interesting Since 1875
Curling is a great fall, winter, and spring activity that organizes communities in many ways. More so than in many team sports, good sportsmanship is an integral part of curling. The sport is equally strategic and social. Everybody involved in the Poynette Curling Club welcomes newcomers to the game.


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Please join Deven and Anya from September 4–6, 2015 as we celebrate our wedding in France.
Photography by Julia Robbs
Deven's Story
Deven Chopra was born in Mumbai and spent much of his life in Hong Kong, moving to Paris at the age of 18 to study fine art at the École des Beaux-Arts. His work is known for blurring the line between technology and art and has been selected for display at exhibitions in Paris, Shanghai, and New York.
Anya's Story
Anya Pillai grew up in the Bay Area, spending much of her childhood in Palo Alto and Cupertino. She studied at Harvard and worked in New York for two years before going to get her MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and Singapore. Today, she works as an associate at Washburne Ventures in London.
Our Relationship
We met in 2009, at a backpacker hostel in Amsterdam. We hit it off immediately, bonding over our love of Gauguin and jazz. We had a magical time together in France during Anya's first year at grad school, and we both knew it was time. We were engaged in March 2014, and now we're getting married!


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Harvey Updyke, the University of Alabama football fan accused of poisoning oak trees on the Auburn University campus, pleaded guilty in court Friday and will serve six months in county jail.
After his release, Updyke will serve five years of probation. During that time, he will be banned from all Auburn University property and is forbidden from attending any collegiate sporting events for five years.
He must abide to a 7 p.m. curfew and will not be allowed to speak to the media, according to the plea agreement.
Updyke pleaded guilty to criminal damage of an agriculture facility, a felony.
He was sentenced to three years in jail, with all but six months suspended, according to the plea agreement filed in Elmore County Circuit Court at 4:25 p.m. Friday. He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
Prosecutors dropped two counts of first-degree criminal mischief, one count of damaging property at an agricultural facility and two counts of desecration of a venerated object in exchange for the guilty plea.


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An Atheistic Ethic
Since I have argued against the Christian ethic in several places, then I need to spell out my alternative, and I will. In the first place, I want an ethic that is based upon some solid evidence about who we are as human beings and why we act the way we do. Any kind of ethic that tells us to do that which we are incapable of doing, is too idealistic and guilt producing to be helpful to guide us as human beings. Such an ethic, in my opinion, demands that we behave non-humanly. I think the Christian personal ethic does just this, as one example. We are not divine beings. We're human beings. The Christian ethic demands complete selflessness, although it doesn't deny Christians ought to have self-respect as God's redeemed creatures. Still, Christians are to "die daily" with Paul, take up their crosses and follow Jesus. Self-denial, self-sacrifice, and self-discipline seem to be the hallmarks of the personal Christian ethic in its most basic and fundamental sense. They are to have sacrificial agape love for everyone, although, Augustine argued that Christians are obligated to have this kind of love for the closest of kin first, then their community, then their culture and then finally to those outside their culture. That is, they have a primary duty to love the people closest to them, but they should love everyone. This means showing people mercy, and giving people the needed justice they deserve, depending upon the duty we have to each person as he is related to us. According to Christian teaching, the Holy Spirit, the divine paraclete, helps the believers to fulfill the demands of agape love.
There is more to the Christian view, of course, including the killing of heretics, and the beating of slaves. ;-) Still, it's entirely unrealistic to expect people to have agape love toward people just as Jesus did (if we presume with them that Jesus is their idealistic model). It fosters guilt. It cannot be done, even with the Holy Spirit's help (presuming there is such a being). Plus there is strong evidence down through the centuries that the Holy Spirit has not properly done his job well among professing Christians (the only kind of Christian we see). ;-)
Furthermore, the Christian ethic is based upon a motivation that must be judged from the Christian perspective to be a completely ill-founded and unethical. The threat is hell, however conceived. Think of it this way, if there is no hell and everyone will be rewarded equally in heaven when we die, then Christians would not need to try to live the Christian ethic, and I doubt many of them would care to do so at that point, especially when they want to do something they know is against "God's will." Christians might want to claim they obey because it's "the right thing to do," but just ask them one question on this. Ask them if they would rape, steal and kill if God told them to do so, lest they will be cast in hell forever. If they would obey God and rape, steal and kill, then their basic motivation is to obey because of the fear of hell. However, if they would not obey God by doing these things, then they do not obey God simply because obeying God is the right thing to do. [Q.E.D.]
Christians will claim God would never command them to do these things, but in fact the God of the Bible did do this. Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son. Would YOU obey God if he told YOU to do so? A female captive in war was forced to be an Israelite man's wife (Deuteronomy 21:10-14). If a virgin who was pledged to be married was raped, she was to be stoned along with her rapist (Deuteronomy 22:23-24), while if a virgin who was not pledged to be married was raped, she was supposed to marry her attacker (Deuteronomy 22:28-29), not to mention the pleasure of "dashing of children against rocks," and genocide itself. More to the point, the fear of hell is not a good Christian basis for being ethical. It would place the obedience to God on the same par with obeying a robber who has a gun pointed at your head.
In conclusion, I argue that I want an ethic that is based upon some solid evidence about who we are as human beings and why we act the way we do. The Christian ethic is practically impossible to obey, and the motivation for obeying must be judged to be based upon rational self-interest, which is basically the same ethic I will be arguing for later, without the barbaric divine commands.
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libvirt is a virtualization API and a daemon for managing virtual machines (VMs) -- remote or locally, using multiple virtualization back-ends (QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox, Xen, etc).
- 1 Installing
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Usage
- 4 Remote access to libvirt
- 5 Bridged Networking
For servers you need the following packages from the official Arch Linux repositories:
- libvirt
- urlgrabber (required by virtinst)
- qemu-kvm (optional if not using KVM)
- dnsmasq (optional)
- bridge-utils (optional)
For GUI management tools, you also need all of the following from the official Arch Linux repositories:
Building libvirt for Xen
The PKGBUILD for both libvirt-gitAUR in the AUR and libvirt in the official repositories currently disables Xen support with the
--without-xen flag during the make process. If you want to use libvirt for managing Xen, you will need to grab the whole file set to enable Xen support and build your own libvirt package using the Arch Build System. Furthermore, you need to make sure you have libxenctrlAUR installed. If xenAUR is installed, you don't need to install libxenctrlAUR.
The alternative XenAPI driver is lacking a package at the moment? (2010-05-23, friesoft)
Run daemon
Start the libvirtd daemon and add
libvirtd to your DAEMONS array so it starts automatically on boot.
It seems like you have to start
dbus and
avahi-daemon before starting
mdns_adv = 0 in
To allow a non-root user to manage virtual machines, you need to create the following file (for polkit >= 0.107 only):
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.libvirt.unix.manage" && subject.user == "<replace with user name>") { return polkit.Result.YES; } });
Alternatively, you can grant only the monitoring rights with
For more information, see the libvirt wiki.
Unix file-based permissions
If you wish to use Unix file-based permissions to allow some non-root users to use libvirt, you can modify the configuration files.
First, you will need to create the
libvirt group and add any users you want to have access to libvirt to that group.
# groupadd libvirt # gpasswd -a [username] libvirt
Any users that are currently logged in will need to log out and log back in to update their groups. Alternatively, the user can use the following command in the shell they will be launching libvirt from to update the group:
$ newgrp libvirt
Uncomment the following lines in
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf (they are not all in the same location in the file):
#unix_sock_group = "libvirt" #unix_sock_ro_perms = "0777" #unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770" #auth_unix_ro = "none" #auth_unix_rw = "none"
unix_sock_ro_perms from
0777 to
0770 to disallow read-only access to people who are not members of the
libvirt group.
Enable KVM acceleration for QEMU
Running virtual machines with the usual QEMU emulation (i.e. without KVM)), will be painfully slow. You definitely want to enable KVM support if your CPU supports it. To find out, run the following command:
egrep --color "vmx|svm" /proc/cpuinfo
If that command generates output, then your CPU supports hardware acceleration via KVM; if that command does not generate output, then you cannot use KVM.
To enable KVM, you need to load the
kvm-amd or
kvm-intel kernel module depending on your CPU. In recent Linux kernels, these modules are loaded automatically.
If KVM is not working, you will find the following message in your
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
More info is available from the official KVM FAQ
Stopping / resuming guest at host shutdown / startup
Running guests may be suspended (or shutdown) at host shutdown automatically using the libvirt-guests service. On the other hand, at host startup, this same daemon will resume (startup) the suspended (shutdown) guests automatically. Check /etc/conf.d/libvirtd-guests for libvirt-guests options.
Installing a new VM
To create a new VM, you need some sort of installation media, which is usually a standard
.iso file. Copy it to the
/var/lib/libvirt/images/ directory (alternatively, you can create a new storage pool directory in virt-manager and copy it there).
/var/lib/libvirt/images/ by default. If you use SELinux and are having issues with virtual machines, ensure that your VMs are in that directory or ensure that you have added the correct labeling to the non-default directory that you used.
Then run
virt-manager, connect to the server, right click on the connection and choose New. Choose a name, and select Local install media. Just continue with the wizard.
On the 4th step, you may want to uncheck Allocate entire disk now -- this way you will save space when your VM is not using all of its disk. However, this can cause increased fragmentation of the disk, and you must pay attention to the total available disk space on the VM host because it is much easier to over-allocate disk space to VMs.
On the 5th step, open Advanced options and make sure that Virt Type is set to kvm. If the kvm choice is not available, see section Enable KVM acceleration for QEMU above.
Creating a storage pool in virt-manager
First, connect to an existing server. Once you are there, right click and choose Details. Go to Storage and press the + icon at the lower left. Then just follow the wizard. :)
Using VirtualBox with virt-manager
virt-manager does not let you to add any VirtualBox connections from the GUI. However, you can launch it from the command line:
virt-manager -c vbox:///system
Or if you want to manage a remote system over SSH:
virt-manager -c vbox+ssh://username@host/system
Remote access to libvirt
Using unencrypted TCP/IP socket (most simple, least secure)
listen_tls = 0 listen_tcp = 1 auth_tcp=none
It is also necessary to start the server in listening mode by editing
Using SSH
The openbsd-netcat package is needed for remote management over SSH.
To connect to the remote system using
$ virsh -c qemu+ssh://username@host/IP address/system
If something goes wrong, you can get some logs using:
$ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virsh -c qemu+ssh://username@host/IP address/system
To display the graphical console for a virtual machine:
$ virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://username@host/IP address/system myvirtualmachine
To display the virtual machine desktop management tool:
$ virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://username@host/IP address/system
Using Python
The libvirt package comes with a python2 API in
General examples are given in
Unofficial example using qemu and openssh:
#! /usr/bin/env python2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import socket import sys import libvirt if (__name__ == "__main__"): conn = libvirt.open("qemu+ssh://xxx/system") print "Trying to find node on xxx" domains = conn.listDomainsID() for domainID in domains: domConnect = conn.lookupByID(domainID) if domConnect.name() == 'xxx-node': print "Found shared node on xxx with ID " + str(domainID) domServ = domConnect break
Bridged Networking
To use physical Ethernet from your virtual machines, you have to create a bridge between your physical Ethernet device (here eth0) and the virtual Ethernet device the VM is using.
Host configuration
libvirt creates the bridge virbr0 for NAT networking, so use another name such as br0 or virbr1. You have to create a new Netcfg Profile to configure the bridge, for example (with DHCP configuration):
INTERFACE="br0" CONNECTION="bridge" DESCRIPTION="KVM Bridge connection" BRIDGE_INTERFACES="eth0" IP="dhcp" ## sets forward delay time #FWD_DELAY=0 ## sets max age of hello message #MAX_AGE=10
POST_UP="brctl stp $INTERFACE on" to the netcfg profile.
Guest configuration
Now we have to activate the bridge interface in our VMs. If have a recent Linux machine, you can use this code in the .xml file:
[...] <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> <mac address='24:42:53:21:52:49'/> <model type='virtio' /> </interface> [...]
This code activates a virtio device on the machine so, in Windows you will have to install an additional driver (you can find it here Windows KVM VirtIO drivers) or remove the line
<model type='virtio' />:
[...] <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='br0'/> <mac address='24:42:53:21:52:49'/> </interface> [...]


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zh-CN:Lenovo ThinkPad T420 This article covers the installation and configuration of Arch Linux on a Lenovo T420 laptop.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Hardware
- 3 Laptop Settings
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See also
This laptop supports UEFI as well as the traditional BIOS.
There are no issues with installing Arch Linux with the latest Archiso.
The rest of the installation process can be followed with the official install guide.
All hardware works out of the box except the following:
Fingerprint reader
Fingerprint reader works great with fprint and PAM (installation of fingerprint-gui recommended).
See Fprint#Setup_fingerprint-gui for more information.
Some Media Keys
- See below
- Firewire
Laptop Settings
ACPI is well supported here. No obvious troubleshoots.
Unfortunately, tp_smapi is only partially supported on the Thinkpad T420. A number of features work since version 0.41. For example, the hard drive protection mechanism HDAPS now works well. See the linked wiki entry.
Some features like setting the starting threshold for charging the battery do not yet work. To control the battery charging thresholds, install the Perl script tpacpi-batAUR from the AUR.
Insert the
acpi_call kernel module by running
modprobe acpi_call
Manually set the thresholds by calling
perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v startChargeThreshold 0 40 perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v stopChargeThreshold 0 80
The example values 40 and 80 given here are in percent of the full battery capacity. Adjust them to your own needs. You may also want to write a simple
set-battery.service and enable it to set them at startup. While these values should be permanent, they will be reset any time the battery is removed.
[Unit] Description=Set battery capacity [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v stopChargeThreshold 0 80 ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/tpacpi-bat -v startChargeThreshold 0 40 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Also, if you are dual booting with Windows, you can still control the battery charging thresholds with Lenovo's Power Manager which communicates directly to the battery controller.
When using systemd, you may want to blacklist the tp_smapi module if your systemd-modules-load.service fails, as new ThinkPads handle everything over acpi.
CPU Frequency Scaling
CPU frequency scaling is fully supported with all of the available processor models with this laptop.
The thinkpad_acpi kernel module needs to be configured so user space programs can control the fan speed.
options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
The thinkfan configuration file also needs to know how to set the fan speed. Replace the default sensor settings with the following.
sensor /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
You can add or remove services by editing the
DAEMONS array in your /etc/rc.conf file. It will initially look something like this:
Or, if you are using systemd, simply type
# systemctl enable thinkfan.service
Laptop Mode Tools
No significant issues were found using Laptop Mode Tools.
Possible bug with Lenovo_ThinkPad_T420#Shutdown on Battery
tlpAUR From the AUR is an alternative tool that can replace laptop-mode-tools.
TouchPad and TrackPoint do work out of the box, but the TouchPad is way too sensitive (i.e. fast) to be usable, since it is recognized as a mouse. To fix this, install the xf86-input-synaptics package and add the following two files to your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "ThinkPad TrackPoint" MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7" Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Section "InputClass" Identifier "two finger scrolling" Driver "synaptics" MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8" Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40" Option "TapButton1" "1" EndSection
Adjust to your own needs. Read Touchpad Synaptics for more information.
To adjust the speed/sensitivity of the TrackPoint add these lines in your
/etc/rc.local script:
TPDEV=/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1 echo -n 180 > $TPDEV/speed echo -n 200 > $TPDEV/sensitivity
Possible range of values are 1-255.
NVIDIA Optimus
Bumblebee works as intended on models with NVIDIA Optimus
Optional kernel boot arguments
Using the following kernel boot parameters reduces battery drain:
i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.semaphores=1
Media Keys
Media keys that work out of the box:
- Wireless On/Off
- Backlight Brightness settings
- Thinklight
- Mute
Media Keys that Do Not work out of the box:
- Volume keys (Works out-of-the-box in Gnome)
- Microphone mute (Will most likely require a custom kernel patch)
You must find a workaround and bind the keys yourself for the rest of them.
Rebind Forward and Back keys
Keys forward and back (next to cursor keys) can be easily remapped to PageDown/PageUp.
Install xmodmap with the package xorg-server-utils
Create a
~/.Xmodmap file with content:
keysym XF86Back = Page_Up keysym XF86Forward = Page_Down
Add this line to your
~/.xinitrc to make it work:
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
You can also re-map AudioPrev (Template:Keypress) and AudioNext (Template:Keypress) to Home/End:
keysym XF86AudioNext = End keysym XF86AudioPrev = Home
Turn touchpad on and off
For some, the (Template:Keypress) key does not switch the touchpad on and off. Here is a simple keybind to add to your
~/.xbindkeysrc for keys to quickly change your touchpad state. For these to take effect, run
xbindkeysrc. This binds Template:Keypress to 'toggle the touchpad on and off'. (Tested in i3wm and xfce4, where normal Template:Keypress does not toggle the touchpad)
# Toggle the Touchpad on|off "synclient TouchpadOff=`synclient -l | grep -ce TouchpadOff.*0`" m:0x0 + c:199 XF86TouchpadToggle
Volume up/down not changing volume
Another quick keybind for
~/.xbindkeysrc to change the volume (which does not work on some DEs). Again, run
xbindkeys for these to take effect. Taken from Xbindkeys
#increase volume "amixer set Master playback 1+" m:0x0 + c:123 XF86AudioRaiseVolume
#decrase volume "amixer set Master playback 1-" m:0x0 + c:122 XF86AudioLowerVolume
Also, while the mute button works, I rebound it to interface with ALSA.
# Toggle mute "amixer set Master toggle" m:0x0 + c:121 XF86AudioMute
Shutdown on Battery
Some users have reported that the T420 was rebooting on shutdown on battery power. There have been quite a few attempts to fix this. Three are detailed here.
One way is to disable the module
ehci_hcd. See Kernel_modules#Blacklisting for more information.
Or try disable Laptop-mode.
!laptop-mode to the
DAEMONS array in
This forum post details another way to have your computer not reboot on shutdown. Turning off the
laptop-mode daemon causes battery life to suffer, so when on the move and in need of a simple way to shutdown, this seems to work better.
Hang on Reboot
This is a problem on many laptops and can be fixed by blacklisting the
e1000e kernel module.
No Backlight Controls
One user has reported that the brightness controls (fn+home, fn+end) did not work in some desktop environments. This could be fixed by adding the following kernel options:
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