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As the glaciers melted, the climate warmed rapidly and the vegetation changed from open Arctic tundra to forest cover. Into this new environment came many of the animals we know today such as red deer, roe deer and wild pig as well as some that have become extinct in Britain such as wild cattle, bears, wolves and so on. Following these herds came the hunter-gatherers of the Middle Stone Age, many of whose camp sites have been found locally. These sites, which must have been used year after year, can be located by the large numbers of flint tools and waste flakes such as those found at Oakhanger.
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The changed habitat is reflected in a change in tool types used by these hunters. No longer needing large handaxes, a typical Middle Stone Age toolkit consisted of smaller flint flakes used as barbs on arrows, for saw teeth, for piercing skins, as well as scrapers, burins and a type of axe known as a tranchet. These types of tools are amongst the commonest finds from the heathlands in the Whitehill/Bordon area.
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The Younger Dryas ended around 11,500 years BP (about 9500 BC) and the Holocene, a geological epoch, began (at 11,700 calendar years BP), and continues to the present. By 8000 BC temperatures were higher than today, and birch woodlands spread rapidly. Rising sea levels caused by melting glaciers had cut Britain off from Ireland by about 12,000 years ago, whereas the land bridge between Britain and the continent lasted much longer.
The plains of Doggerland were thought to have finally been submerged around 6500 to 6000 BC, but recent evidence suggests that the bridge may have lasted until between 5800 and 5400 BC, and possibly as late as 3800 BC. The warmer climate changed the Arctic environment to one of pine, birch and alder forest; this less open landscape was less conducive to the large herds of reindeer and wild horse that had previously sustained humans.
Those animals were replaced in people's diets by pig and less social animals such as elk, red deer, roe deer, wild boar and aurochs (wild cattle), which would have required different hunting techniques. Tools changed to incorporate barbs which could snag the flesh of an animal, making it harder for it to escape alive.
Tiny microliths were developed for hafting onto harpoons and spears. Woodworking tools such as adzes appear in the archaeological record, although some flint blade types remained similar to their Palaeolithic predecessors.
The dog was domesticated because of its benefits during hunting, and the wetland environments created by the warmer weather would have been a rich source of fish and game. It is likely that these environmental changes were accompanied by social changes. Humans spread and reached the far north of Scotland during this period. Sites from the British Mesolithic include the Mendips, Star Carr in Yorkshire and Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides.
Excavations at Howick in Northumberland uncovered evidence of a large circular building dating to c. 7600 BC which is interpreted as a dwelling. A further example has also been identified at Deepcar in Sheffield, and a building dating to c. 8500 BC was discovered at the Star Carr site.
The older view of Mesolithic Britons as nomadic is now being replaced with a more complex picture of seasonal occupation or, in some cases, permanent occupation. Travel distances seem to have become shorter, typically with movement between high and low ground.
Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.
Though the Mesolithic environment was of a bounteous nature, the rising population and ancient Britons' success in exploiting it eventually led to local exhaustion of many natural resources. The remains of a Mesolithic elk found caught in a bog at Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire show that it had been wounded by hunters and escaped on three occasions, indicating hunting during the Mesolithic.
A few Neolithic monuments overlie Mesolithic sites but little continuity can be demonstrated. Farming of crops and domestic animals was adopted in Britain around 4500 BC, at least partly because of the need for reliable food sources.
Hunter-gathering ways of life would have persisted into the Neolithic at first but the increasing sophistication of material culture with the concomitant control of local resources by individual groups would have caused it to be replaced by distinct territories occupied by different tribes.
Other elements of the Neolithic such as pottery, leaf-shaped arrowheads and polished stone axes would have been adopted earlier. The climate had been warming since the later Mesolithic and continued to improve, replacing the earlier pine forests with woodland.
In 1997, DNA analysis was done on a tooth from a Mesolithic Cheddar Man from about 7150 BC whose remains were found in Gough's Cave at Cheddar Gorge. His mitochondrial DNA was of Haplogroup U5, a subclade of Haplogroup U (mtDNA) found in only 11% of modern European populations, suggesting he (and maybe his clan) had migrated to Britain from outside of Europe.


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After 5 IVF cycles, we've welcomed our baby girl Sofia to our family! Life is changing fast and we're loving every minute of joy that she has brought to our life. Was it all worth it? Oh yeah...
Friday, December 17, 2010
4 months!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Sofia!!!
Happy Birthday to you!!!
I can't believe it's been 4 months. Like I keep saying, in many ways it feels like she just got here and at the same time it feels like we've always had her.
Miss Sofia is growing and learning new things everyday. She is attempting to eat cereal, but that isn't going quiet so well...
Sofia is becoming VERY grabby. She will pull my hair right out, pull at my face, and even left quite a scratch across my cheek the other day. I honestly think that if my reflexes slow down she will be able to grab my eyeball out because she's gotten pretty close. Man is she strong! I trim her nails but they're still sharp like nails. Maybe I should trim and file...mmm...that makes sense.
She is rolling over but not very often with me because by the time I get home, it's almost time for bed and we use the sleep positioner. Russ says she's rolling over a lot though.
She sleeps A LOT! Is she alone when she does this? Not usually, but that's alright with me. We usually put her down either on her chair or in her crib at around 6. She'll sleep on her own (yes, without us right there!) until 9 or 10 or whenever she needs to eat. Then Russ feeds her and stays with her in her room where she'll sleep until 3 or 4 and then go right back to sleep until 7 or 8. Even though there are interruptions, she sleeps for 12-14 hours every night. And then she'll take good long naps during the day too. She likes her sleep, just like her momma! My mom keeps bugging me that she should be able to go 8 hours without waking up to eat. Well, she doesn't and what does she want me to do?? Most of the time, when she does wake up it's because she has gas. So the gas wakes her and then she's like "Wait...my belly is empty. What's the deal? Feed me, please!" I think she wouldn't wake up hungry if not for the gas. And she HAS slept 8 hours a few times, but it's just not the norm yet. We're getting there. And all three of us are happy with how things are going.
Biggest 4 month event? Well, today (right NOW!), Sofia is at her babysitters house! Alone! Meaning neither her momma or daddy are there with her! Russ brought her by this morning for a little trial run because she's starting there on Jan. 3. He went and hung out for a while and then left! Ahhh!! It's been a little over an hour that she's been on her own. And I know she's fine. But I keep thinking that if she gets upset and we're not there, what will she do? She doesn't cry hardly at all, but what if she does now because she's with strangers?? They'll think it's normal because babies cry...but not OUR baby! I can't remember the last time she cried during the day...sometimes she does at night if we're not fast enough with the bottle.
She's going to be OK. Take a deep breath.
Let's look at some recent pictures of her, shall we? That won't help me take my mind off of it, but who cares? =)
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What a cutie! My daughter also sleeps 12-14 hours a night. Actually, pretty regularly she sleeps 14 hours a night. I asked her pediatrician about it and she said it was fine. I hope the transition goes well next year. It is a hard transition to make but I've heard it gets better with time (I'm on week three and struggling a lot, but I hope it will be better after the holidays). Good luck!ReplyDelete
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She is just adorable! Happy 4 months, Sofia! I think the sleeping thing is perfectly normal. Ours nap for 2.5 hours in the morning, another 2.5 in the early afternoon, 45 minutes before dinner then down at 7:15pm til 10pm dreamfeed (totally asleep for it) and stay asleep til 6 to 7:30am (depending on the baby). I think for her age that is totally normal! One thing with the rice cereal -- our kids get physical therapy and the therapist said make sure we don't just deposit the food on the roof of her mouth but to press down with the spoon on their tongues because it triggers them to begin to push it back towards their throat the way they're supposed to. Maybe it will help?ReplyDelete
What a cutie! I she likes her new babysitter. Sofia sounds like a very good baby that will be easy to care for.ReplyDelete
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A relatively large portion of software development time is not spent on writing, running, debugging or even designing code, but waiting for it to finish compiling. This is usually seen as necessary evil and accepted as an unfortunate fact of life. This is a shame, because spending some time optimizing the build system can yield quite dramatic productivity gains.
Suppose a build system takes some thirty seconds to run for even trivial changes. This means that even in theory you can do at most two changes a minute. In practice the rate is a lot lower. If the build step takes only a few seconds, trying out new code becomes a lot faster. It is easier to stay in the zone when you don't have to pause every so often to wait for your tools to finish doing their thing.
Making fundamental changes in the code often triggers a complete rebuild. If this takes an hour or more (there are code bases that take 10+ hours to build), people try to avoid fundamental changes as much as possible. This causes loss of flexibility. It becomes very tempting to just do a band-aid tweak rather than thoroughly fix the issue at hand. If the entire rebuild could be done in five to ten minutes, this issue would become moot.
In order to make things fast, we first have to understand what is happening when C/C++ software is compiled. The steps are roughly as follows:
- Configuration
- Build tool startup
- Dependency checking
- Compilation
- Linking
We will now look at each step in more detail focusing on how they can be made faster.
This is the first step when starting to build. Usually means running a configure script or CMake, Gyp, SCons or some other tool. This can take anything from one second to several minutes for very large Autotools-based configure scripts.
This step happens relatively rarely. It only needs to be run when changing configurations or changing the build configuration. Short of changing build systems, there is not much to be done to make this step faster.
Build tool startup
This is what happens when you run make or click on the build icon on an IDE (which is usually an alias for make). The build tool binary starts and reads its configuration files as well as the build configuration, which are usually the same thing.
Depending on build complexity and size, this can take anywhere from a fraction of a second to several seconds. By itself this would not be so bad. Unfortunately most make-based build systems cause make to be invocated tens to hundreds of times for every single build. Usually this is caused by recursive use of make (which is bad).
It should be noted that the reason Make is so slow is not an implementation bug. The syntax of Makefiles has some quirks that make a really fast implementation all but impossible. This problem is even more noticeable when combined with the next step.
Dependency checking
Once the build tool has read its configuration, it has to determine what files have changed and which ones need to be recompiled. The configuration files contain a directed acyclic graph describing the build dependencies. This graph is usually built during the configure step. Suppose we have a file called SomeClass.cc which contains this line of code:
#include "OtherClass.hh"
This means that whenever OtherClass.hh changes, the build system needs to rebuild SomeClass.cc. Usually this is done by comparing the timestamp of SomeClass.o against OtherClass.hh. If the object file is older than the source file or any header it includes, the source file is rebuilt.
Build tool startup time and the dependency scanner are run on every single build. Their combined runtime determines the lower bound on the edit-compile-debug cycle. For small projects this time is usually a few seconds or so. This is tolerable.
The problem is that Make scales terribly to large projects. As an example, running Make on the codebase of the Clang compiler with no changes takes over half a minute, even if everything is in cache. The sad truth is that in practice large projects can not be built fast with Make. They will be slow and there's nothing that can be done about it.
There are alternatives to Make. The fastest of them is Ninja, which was built by Google engineers for Chromium. When run on the same Clang code as above it finishes in one second. The difference is even bigger when building Chromium. This is a massive boost in productivity, it's one of those things that make the difference between tolerable and pleasant.
If you are using CMake or Gyp to build, just switch to their Ninja backends. You don't have to change anything in the build files themselves, just enjoy the speed boost. Ninja is not packaged on most distributions, though, so you might have to install it yourself.
If you are using Autotools, you are forever married to Make. This is because the syntax of autotools is defined in terms of Make. There is no way to separate the two without a backwards compatibility breaking complete rewrite. What this means in practice is that Autotool build systems are slow by design, and can never be made fast.
At this point we finally invoke the compiler. Cutting some corners, here are the approximate steps taken.
- Merging includes
- Parsing the code
- Code generation/optimization
Let's look at these one at a time. The explanations given below are not 100% accurate descriptions of what happens inside the compiler. They have been simplified to emphasize the facets important to this discussion. For a more thorough description, have a look at any compiler textbook.
The first step joins all source code in use into one clump. What happens is that whenever the compiler finds an include statement like #include "somefile.h", it finds that particular source file and replaces the #include with the full contents of that file. If that file contained other #includes, they are inserted recursively. The end result is one big self-contained source file.
The next step is parsing. This means analyzing the source file, splitting it into tokens and building an abstract syntax tree. This step translates the human understandable source code into a computer understandable unambiguous format. It is what allows the compiler to understand what the user wants the code to do.
Code generation takes the syntax tree and transforms it into machine code sequences called object code. This code is almost ready to run on a CPU.
Each one of these steps can be slow. Let's look at ways to make them faster.
Faster #includes
Including by itself is not slow, slowness comes from the cascade effect. Including even one other file causes everything included in it to be included as well. In the worst case every single source file depends on every header file. This means that touching any header file causes the recompilation of every source file whether they use that particular header's contents or not.
Cutting down on interdependencies is straightforward. Only #include those headers that you actually use. In addition, header files must not include any other header files if at all possible. The main tool for this is called forward declaration. Basically what it means is that instead of having a header file that looks like this:
#include "SomeClass.hh" class MyClass { SomeClass s; };
You have this:
class SomeClass; class MyClass { SomeClass *s; }
Because the definition of SomeClass is not know, you have to use pointers or references to it in the header.
Remember that #including MyClass.hh would have caused SomeClass.hh and all its #includes to be added to the original source file. Now they aren't, so the compiler's work has been reduced. We also don't have to recompile the users of MyClass if SomeClass changes. Cutting the dependency chain like this everywhere in the code base can have a major effect in build time, especially when combined with the next step. For a more detailed analysis including measurements and code, see here.
Faster parsing
The most popular C++ libraries, STL and Boost, are implemented as header only libraries. That is, they don't have a dynamically linkable library but rather the code is generated anew into every binary file that uses them. Compared to most C++ code, STL and Boost are complex. Really, really complex. In fact they are most likely the hardest pieces of code a C++ compiler has to compile. Boost is often used as a stress test on C++ compilers, because it is so difficult to compile.
It is not an exaggeration to say that for most C++ code using STL, parsing the STL headers is up to 10 times slower than parsing all the rest. This leads to massively slow build times because of class headers like this:
#include <vector> class SomeClass { private: vector<int> numbers; public: ... };
As we learned in the previous chapter, this means that every single file that includes this header must parse STL's vector definition, which is an internal implementation detail of SomeClass and even if they would not use vector themselves. Add some other class include that uses a map, one for unordered_map, a few Boost includes and what do you end up with? A code base where compiling any file requires parsing all of STL and possibly Boost. This is a factor of 3-10 slowdown on compile times.
Getting around this is relatively simple, though takes a bit of work. It is known as the pImpl idiom. One way of achieving it is this:
---header--- struct someClassPrivate; class SomeClass { private: someClassPrivate *p; }; ---- implementation --- #include <vector> struct someClassPrivate { vector<int> numbers; }; SomeClass::SomeClass() { p = new someClassPrivate; } SomeClass::~SomeClass() { delete p; }
Now the dependency chain is cut and users of SomeClass don't have to parse vector. As an added bonus the vector can be changed to a map or anything else without needing to recompile files that use SomeClass.
Faster code generation
Code generation is mostly an implementation detail of the compiler, and there's not much that can be done about it. There are a few ways to make it faster, though.
Optimizing code is slow. In every day development all optimizations should be disabled. Most build systems do this by default, but Autotools builds optimized binaries by default. In addition to being slow, this makes debugging a massive pain, because most of the time trying to print the value of some variable just prints out "value optimised out".
Making Autotools build non-optimised binaries is relatively straightforward. You just have to run configure like this: ./configure CFLAGS='O0 -g' CXXFLAGS='-O0 -g'. Unfortunately many people mangle their autotools cflags in config files so the above command might not work. In this case the only fix is to inspect all autotools config files and fix them yourself.
The other trick is about reducing the amount of generated code. If two different source files use vector<int>, the compiler has to generate the complete vector code in both of them. During linking (discussed in the next chapter) one of them is just discarded. There is a way to tell the compiler not to generate the code in the other file using a technique that was introduced in C++0x called extern templates. They are used like this.
file A: #include <vector> template class std::vector<int>; void func() { std::vector<int> numbers; } file B: #include <vector> extern template class std::vector<int>; void func2() { std::vector<int> idList; }
This instructs the compiler not to generate vector code when compiling file B. The linker makes it use the code generated in file A.
Build speedup tools
CCache is an application that stores compiled object code into a global cache. If the same code is compiled again with the same compiler flags, it grabs the object file from the cache rather than running the compiler. If you have to recompile the same code multiple times, CCache may offer noticeable speedups.
A tool often mentioned alongside CCache is DistCC, which increases parallelism by spreading the build to many different machines. If you have a monster machine it may be worth it. On regular laptop/desktop machines the speed gains are minor (it might even be slower).
Precompiled headers
Precompiled headers is a feature of some C++ compilers that basically serializes the in-memory representation of parsed code into a binary file. This can then be read back directly to memory instead of reparsing the header file when used again. This is a feature that can provide massive speedups.
Out of all the speedup tricks listed in this post, this has by far the biggest payoff. It turns the massively slow STL includes into, effectively, no-ops.
So why is it not used anywhere?
Mostly it comes down to poor toolchain support. Precompiled headers are fickle beasts. For example with GCC they only work between two different compilation units if the compiler switches are exactly the same. Most people don't know that precompiled headers exist, and those that do don't want to deal with getting all the details right.
CMake does not have direct support for them. There are a few modules floating around the Internet, but I have not tested them myself. Autotools is extremely precompiled header hostile, because its syntax allows for wacky and dynamic alterations of compiler flags.
Faster Linking
When the compiler compiles a file and comes to a function call that is somewhere outside the current file, such as in the standard library or some other source file, it effectively writes a placeholder saying "at this point jump to function X". The linker takes all these different compiled files and connects the jump points to their actual locations. When linking is done, the binary is ready to use.
Linking is surprisingly slow. It can easily take minutes on relatively large applications. As an extreme case, linking the Chromium browser on ARM takes 3 gigs of RAM and takes 18 hours.
Yes, hours.
The main reason for this is that the standard GNU linker is quite slow. Fortunately there is a new, faster linker called Gold. It is not the default linker yet, but hopefully it will be soon. In the mean time you can install and use it manually.
A different way of making linking faster is to simply cut down on these symbols using a technique called symbol visibility. The gist of it is that you hide all non-public symbols from the list of exported symbols. This means less work and memory use for the linker, which makes it faster.
Contrary to popular belief, compiling C++ is not actually all that slow. The STL is slow and most build tools used to compile C++ are slow. However there are faster tools and ways to mitigate the slow parts of the language.
Using them takes a bit of elbow grease, but the benefits are undeniable. Faster build times lead to happier developers, more agility and, eventually, better code.


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As a single female that has been active as a swinger it can be challenging to date. When you think of dating someone you usually think of first….where do I find single guys? There are a lot of sites out on the World Wide Web that are FREE, and those that are quite EXPENSIVE! And of course there are your local clubs and bars that always seem to have quit the pickin.
I first started going to the bars and after about 6 months or so I decided that it isn't for me because I would never meet anyone with good quality at a bar when either one of us would be stumbling around with another shot in our hands. So I asked myself, do I really want to be in a relationship with someone that is a regular at a bar when I hardly drink at all? Then I tried the dating sites. WOW! I never knew how many fakes and flakes and cheaters there are online until recently. I belong to one site that I finally determined must be all computer generated profiles or all men that are too scared to get out of the house and actually meet someone in person. But when I joined the swingerlifestyle I found a totally different element of people all together and was fascinated by the kindness I found in most people there. Of course I was dating someone at that time when I first joined but soon after that I became theelusive Single Female.
That was something I had never thought was a highly sought after commodity. Was I the Unicorn? I didn't think so since I was still so new to everything but quickly started to find my niche and try new things. I will say that I do not think I am a unicorn even though I have shared that intimate partnership with another couple on several occasions. Since I do enjoy the swinger lifestyle and all it has to offer this is where my dilemma started. I tried dating vanillas and LS's single men and found that vanilla men don't think like we do. They have a problem with the threesome, or the act of seeing you go down on someone else. They don't see it as a turn on like we might. I was oddly shocked at this because I thought all men thought that! LOL So then I swore off dating all vanillas, but the problem there was I was slowly finding out that the single men in the swinger lifestyle were not looking for someone to date but just a partner to have benefits with. Which is great for some, but it was still not quit what I was looking for either. I also found that some men in the swinger lifestyle are not always as honest and I have found out there are a lot of cheating husbands. Luckily I do have radar for this.
So where does this leave us? What do I need to do now to find what I am looking for? I have decided that with my particular wants and desires I am leaving the swinger lifestyle out of the topic of conversation with all men at first and want to get to know them and see if they are someone I might want a 2nd date with. As I date and meet and still learn new things about myself and what I am looking for I will keep you up to date on how the dating is going.
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Crown molding is installed at the juncture of the wall and the ceiling. Although it looks like a hefty piece of wood, most crown molding is relatively thin material. The secret of its appearance is the way it is installed. Rather than being a solid block nailed into the corner, crown moldings are installed on the diagonal between the wall and ceiling -- there is nothing in the corner. Moldings installed this way are said to be sprung into place.
The tricky part about installing crown molding is cutting the joints. Because the molding is installed at an angle, it cannot be cut lying flat in an ordinary miter box; as you make the cuts, you must hold the molding at an angle. To cut crown molding flat, you need a compound miter saw.
About 4 hours for a regular room with four straight walls
Tape measure, framing square, miter box or miter saw, hammer, nail set, coping saw, utility knife
Measuring and laying out, driving nails, crosscutting moldings, mitering moldings, making coped joints
Walls and ceiling should be finished and painted, molding can be prefinished
Crown molding, 8d finishing nails, wood for blocking
Step 1
Determine how far out from the wall the edge of the molding will fall. Place a piece of the crown inside a framing square to find this measurement. Mark this distance on the ceiling near the corners and at several points along the length of the wall.
Step 2
Starting with the wall opposite the door, cut the molding to length with square cuts on both ends. Hold it in place and nail it first to the wall studs with 8d nails, then to the ceiling joists
Step 3
If the wall runs parallel to the ceiling joists, there may be no framingmembers in position to nail the molding to the ceiling. In this situation, cut some triangular nailing blocks to attach to the wall studs. Size the blocks to allow a 1/4-inch gap between the block and the back of the crown.
Step 4
The second piece of crown is cut square on one end and coped on the other. To cut the cope, start with an inside miter cut. Hold the crown in your miter box upside down (as if the base of the box were the ceiling and the fence were the wall) and backwards (if the cope is on the right end of the piece, the cut will be on the left as the piece rests in the miter box).
Step 5
Create the cope by sawing along the intersection of the miter cut and the face of the profile. Angle the saw slightly so the joint is undercut. Test the fit against a piece of scrap molding and fine-tune the piece with a utility knife. Nail the piece in place as before. Proceed around the room, making square cuts on one end and coped cuts on the other end of each piece. Make coped cuts on both ends of the last piece.
Step 6
For outside miters, the pieces also are held in the saw upside down and backwards, but the cut is angled in the opposite direction. To get a tighter fit in both outside and inside corners, flex and twist the pieces slightly before driving in the nails closest to the joint.
Installing Plaster-Faced Crown Molding
In the heyday of the plasterer's craft, elaborate crown moldings in fine homes often were cast in place from plaster rather than made of wood. Today, thanks to a new molding material, you can create the same effect with less skill than it takes to install wood molding. This new material has a lightweight core of expanded polystyrene -- the same material used to make a plastic foam cup. The polystyrene comes coated with gypsum plaster, so you really are getting a plaster surface.The good news for do-it-yourselfers is that the molding is attached to the wall with any lightweight sandable joint compound. No nails are needed and joints with gaps up to 1/8 inch are easy to fill with the same joint compound used to install the molding. Also, inside miter joints are used instead of coped joints. Cut the molding with a miter box or miter saw and finish it with the same paint you use on the other trim in the room
Step 1
Cut the molding as you would wood molding, except make miter cuts instead of copes for inside corners. Use a putty knife to apply a 3/8-inch-wide swath of sandable joint compound to the top and bottom edges of the crown.
Step 2
Step 3
To join two pieces in a straight run, use a butt joint. Wherever one piece ofmolding joins another, coat the adjoining face of the second piece with joint compound before you press it into place. Use a damp sponge to wipe off any excess that squeezes out.
Step 4
What If ... You Need to End Crown Molding Without a Wall?
You may need to end a run of crown molding without turning a corner or stopping at a wall. If so, stop the molding with a triangular return piece. To cut this piece, place a scrap of crown upside down in the chop saw or miter box and make an inside miter cut. Then set the saw to 90 degrees, align the blade to the point where the miter ends at the back of the molding, and cut off the triangle. Attach the return piece with yellow carpenter's glue. Use masking tape to hold the piece in place until the glue sets.


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Relocation to London – Settling In 'Ain't Easy!
It won't take long to settle into your new home and new life after your relocation to London. There are different stages of moving to London that you need to go through to complete the process.
It won't take long to settle into your new home and new life after your relocation to London. There are different stages of moving to London that you need to go through to complete the process.
Is London an expensive city?
Yes, you are planning your relocation to London which is undoubtedly one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Should I do some research before I arrive?
Yes, when you are moving to London you need to make sure that you're going to be able to afford living there.
Should I make a budget before relocation to London?
The Great Gorilla Runs is happening on Saturday 24 September 2011. It's 1,000 people dressed up like gorillas for a 7km fun run through the city streets to raise awareness about the plight of the 720 remaining mountain gorillas in the wild. Not only will you get to go ape for a day but you'll have the chance to really make a difference in the world. The route takes you past tourist attractions such as The Tate Modern and Tower Bridge, so if you haven't yet had the chance to explore the city after your relocation to London, you may as well do it while dressed as a gorilla for a good cause.
Autumn is one of the best times to consider your relocation to London. The tourist rush of summer is over, most schools and companies are back to business, and the weather is crisp and chilly rather than distinctly cold.
Most London relocation agents do a brisk trade at this time of the year. The beginning of autumn sees a huge demand for rental apartments in London. If you are considering a London relocation jobs package you should factor in the cost of finding a London apartment and the other hundred and one things that could put you out of pocket. While your employer will handle most of the paperwork, including visas and work permits, you need to be aware of the true cost of moving to London.
Taxes and financial planning tend to be right at the bottom of the list for people planning a relocation to London. Just because you're moving to London does not mean that you're somehow magically exempt from paying tax. Tax issues for expats can be complicated and you now fall under two tax authorities instead of just one.


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Across the country, jails are replacing in-person visits with a glitchy, expensive system called "video visitation" — think of it like Skyping in to see your incarcerated loved one, if Skype was low-resolution, difficult to install and cost as much as $1.50 a minute.
But the librarians of Brooklyn are racing to roll out a more humane solution.
The Brooklyn Public Library is planning to build its own video visitations in 12 of its locations in neighborhoods with high rates of incarceration. Unlike visitation centers at country jails, the libraries will build visitation centers that are comfortable, humane and don't charge families exorbitant fees for connecting with loved ones.
"It's an intentionally human experience," Nick Higgins, Director of Outreach Services at Brooklyn Public Library, said in a phone call. "Anything that we do in jails or marginalized communities, we want to create a sense of belonging and inclusion. How life should be."


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As it turns out, putting 100k words together in some semblance of both sequential and logical order is not an insignificant task. I suppose I realized that at the outset of my adventure, when it occurred to me way back in the Spring of 2010 that the Puddintopia exercise in laying down some random fiction wasn't actually all that random and that a fledgling novel was afoot. I wrote the first 400 some-odd words on February 2, 2010. In the intervening 18 months, I learned an awful lot about what it really takes to draft an entire novel.
To wrap up my week-long personal back-patting exercises, I thought it might be worthwhile to post about I learned. Before I do so, though, one important caveat: this is not a blog for writer's. At last count, there are apparently more aspiring writers on our little planet than actual people. Well, not really, but it's a big number. Some of those writers write about writing with the intent of helping other writers write what they want to write. Make no mistake, though, I'm not that kind of writer, this is not that kind of blog, and I'll thank you, sir, to keep your hands to yourself.
Puddintopia is about, well, a wide range of stuff, but how to be a better writer isn't included. I'm still figuring it out as I go, and as an example of that I'll happily point to the fact that it took me 18 months to write a novel when someone with experience could probably pound it out in a season or something. So, here, then, are the lessons I learned though the course of producing draft zero. If you're working on a project of your very own, these may apply, they may not. Taking advice about writing from a guy like me would be like letting a kindergartener teach you how to paint. And I'd think twice about something like that, considering they just learned how to finger-paint using the same instruments for art that they use to "dig for gold", if you catch my drift.
In other words, here are the lessons I picked up along the way. Your specific mileage may vary.
So, then, having reached the end, is this all I have to say? Well, no, because I haven't reached the end. I'm not sure there is an end. For the moment, there's still revisions and many a read-through, query letters, begging for an agent, etc, etc. Many many steps still stand before me here, even at this plateau. And what's even better is that now I get to apply my lessons again. Because I'm not done writing books, oh, no. Not by a long shot. I plan to start the next one around the first of the year. Will this one ever sell? I don't know. Maybe. But I'm not ever going to quit.
And that's lesson #1.


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A group of archaeological professionals from Italy will perform a sequence of studies in the ancient city of Estakhr, said director of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR) Mahmoud Mir-Eskandari. "The Italian group will use sophisticated equipments giving Iranian professionals the possibility to develop into familiar with high-tech tools used in this field," he added.
The joint team will dig the city for 45 days looking for plausible signs of early mosques and ancient ruins, said Mir-Eskandari. In an earlier research program, a team of Iranian and Italian experts led by Professor Pierfrancesco Callieri of the University of Bologna studied some parts of the area in 2008.
Estakhr is an antique city located five kilometers north of Persepolis which was a flourishing city during the Achaemenid era. The new team is also planning to study the Sassanid city of Bishpur and several other cities in Fars province, Mir-Eskandari noted. The ruins of Bishapur have been recently introduced to be registered on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
For more interesting topics related to archaeology, visit archaeology excavations.


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Review of The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan
Format: Paperback
Genres: Paranormal, Vampires, Circus,
Pages: 169
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date: 30/05/2000
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Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy - until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a Vampire's Assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling... the Wolf Man is waiting.
The Vampire's Assistant is book 2 of the Cirque Du Freak series, and this time we're actually part of the circus. Darren's struggling with both halves of himself - the human part that refuses to drink human blood and still wants to make friends with people, and the darker half of him that grows stronger every day. The circus is one of my favourite settings in books, so I enjoyed this one, but I do wish it had been a little longer, and more descriptive.
I mentioned in my review of Cirque Du Freak - I have read this series before but I couldn't remember a single thing that happened in this book. There's not much, Darren makes new friends, and a few enemies too. Most of the book concentrates on how Darren is adapting to Vampire life whilst at the end of the chapter irritating telling you something bad is going to happen.
Despite the irritations, I do believe that the writing has improved and I'm hoping this continues throughout the series. Mr Crepsley is as cool as ever, easily my favourite character. I do keep picturing him as Charles Dance though. I never finished this series, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it ends as I know a lot happens to Darren in the next few books!
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Haha, I love this series!ReplyDelete
My first favourite, so much love for these books and Darren Shan as an author. I really hope you like the rest :)ReplyDelete
I remember devouring this entire series in just a week, the books are so short! I loved it though :)ReplyDelete
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A recent occurrence has made me think twice about Apple's Target Disk Mode boot option. Indeed it can be a very convenient feature, but like most conveniences this one is riddled with security threats. What is most bothersome, though, is how few people realize the problems it poses — not to mention the simplicity of a solution that Apple does not provide…at least not by default.
For those of you not up to speed, most of Apple's computers allow themselves to be temporarily turned into an external hard drive simply by pressing the corresponding hot key ('T') during boot up. If the computer supports this option (most do) it will enter what is called Target Disk Mode (TDM) and allow itself to become a mass storage device and be connected to another computer via an IEEE 1394 interface (aka FireWire, i.LINK, Lynx…whatever).
Yes, this feature is convenient for transferring large amounts of data or if you need a quick makeshift external hard drive (assuming you have a male-male Firewire cable). Unfortunately, the feature also inherently bypasses the OS from ever being started on your computer allowing others access to all sorts of files that you assumed were secure by the OS's login.
How It Works
When you press the power button on your computer the first thing to come to life is the firmware (a very low level program that lives in the hardware) and it decides what happens next — whether to boot into the installed OS, boot from a CD, boot from a network drive, etc. The decision is based on multiple factors, one of which is to check for certain hot keys on the keyboard.
The Problem
The problem with this convenience is that anyone with a finger has the ability to transform your computer into a large external drive. Yeah, including that person that just walked away with your laptop while you were getting another soy latte at Star Bucks.
Some would argue that if I'm this concerned with the security of my files, that I should enable FileVault in order to encrypt every file on my hard drive. Yeah? Well, I don't think I should have to enable something that will have incredible amounts of overhead just because a back door exists that can completely circumvent the OS's login prompt.
Solution (but not really)
The solution is simple: eliminate the hot keys from influencing the firmware's decision. Welding a steel plate on top of your keyboard would work I guess, but that's not very convenient. A better idea would be to tell the firmware to not check the hot keys.
Currently, there is no way to disable these hot keys, but it turns out there is a way to password protect the firmware with some extra software. But after reading Apple documentation that states that the firmware password can be circumvented (quite easily), and that it could in fact be hazardous to your system, and that it is temperamental, I disabled it on my machine and don't recommend it. Way to fuck us over, Apple:
"WARNING: Open Firmware settings are critical. Take great care when modifying these settings and when creating a secure Open Firmware password."
"An Open Firmware password provides some protection, but it can be reset if a user has physical access to the machine and changes the physical memory configuration of the machine."
"Open Firmware password protection can be bypassed if the user changes the physical memory configuration of the machine and then resets the PRAM three times (by holding down Command, Option, P, and R keys during system startup)."
The Rant
First of all, I think that the extra Firmware Password Utility (not included in a default installation…but available from the software installation disc (/Applications/Utilities/) and online) should not be necessary. I think there should be a simple check box in the System Preferences that enables/disables whether or not the keyboard is "heard" by the firmware.
I also think that the hot keys should be disabled by default. Apple is all about an 'out of the box, ready to go' mentality so I suspect they leave the feature enabled by default because that makes it more convenient for their users to make use of the TDM functionality. We've seen this same behavior before, but I think the security threat outweighs the convenience factor. Tisk, tisk Apple.


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Camilla Huey: Artist
Camilla Huey (born 1956) is an American artist currently living and working in
New York City. Camilla has had a varied career in fashion and art with exhibitions
such as "The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry & Binding" at the
Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum and "Tandem Pursuits" at Wavehill's Glyndor
Gallery both in 2013.
She has exhibited hats to benefit the Bard Graduate Center opening "Hats: An Anthology" by Stephen Jones in 2012. Her work is also showcased in the Absolut "Ephemera" Millennium Calendar 2000. She was invited
by Ettore Sottsass to exhibit in "Memphis in Memphis" in 1984. Camilla has designed
couture for private clientele, film, theatre, opera, ballet as well as advertising and editorial. Her
work has appeared in Vogue, Blouin ArtInfo,
The New York Times & New York Magazine.
Huey currently creates portraits at The House
of Execution in New York City, and is preparing
for upcoming exhibitions to be announced.
2013 The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry & Binding,
The Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum with The New York City Historic House Trust, New York City
2013 Tandem Pursuits, Armor & Ichthyology, Wave Hill, New York City
2012 Open House New York, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York City
2011 Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, Bard Graduate Center Auction, New York City
2011 The Goddess Fortuna, Prospect.2, in collaboration with Dawn DeDeaux, New Orleans
1984 Memphis in Memphis, Brooks Art Museum, collaboration with Ettore Sottsass, Memphis
2008 The Life Ball, "Queen of The Life Ball", Amanda Lepore, Vienna, Austria
2000 Absolute Vodka Millennium "Ephemera" Calendar, Guzman Photography, New York
1996 Houston Opera, "Four Saints In Three Acts" Robert Wilson & Francesco Clemente
1996 "Where the Wild Things Are" in collaboration with Maurice Sendak, Princeton Rep Ballet
1994 Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), "The Flies: A Musical Phantasmagoria,"
composer Vladimir Tarasov, libretto, costumes and stage design by Ilya Kabakov, Brooklyn, New York
BFA, Painting and Textile Design, Memphis Academy of Arts, Memphis


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Anyhow, I have found this nifty little link that I thought I would bring your attention to while I have it. Do you see that cute little paw print in the right hand column under those stunning quilts that somebody put there? Well it takes you to a site where just clicking a button helps rescued animals get fed. I know we are all very busy people but we all have hearts in the right place, don't we? Well, since you just happen to be visiting, and hopefully you will visit again, I am making it easy for ALL of us to make a bit of a difference. A bowl of food for a hungry animal makes a HUGE difference for them. If you were so inclined as to put the same link on your blog, you can find it right on their front page.
I took the time to read it for you and they help shelters and different causes in a few different countries, which made a difference to me, what with being in Canada. There are cute little blingy things to buy for you or your pet and they tell you exactly what the money made from that purchase goes towards. My darling little Luna (whom I rescued from next door but not a shelter) will be getting a pretty little charm (14 bowls of food) for her collar and Sulu (who was taken in so he wouldn't end up on the street... yes, some people!) will get something too if he can go for more than one week without breaking something!
The only time Sulu is not breaking something or just
generally causing a disturbance is when
he sleeps, of course, here he is sleeping on clean laundry.
generally causing a disturbance is when
he sleeps, of course, here he is sleeping on clean laundry.
If you are looking for another group in a similar vein, the simply gorgeous Mel over at L'il Bee has her own rescued pups that she regularly finds ways of supporting. There are few things in life that give back as much as a rescued animal... the initial good feeling that comes from knowing that you helped out another sentient being is far surpassed by the laughs and warm fuzzies you get daily... even from Sulu.


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My life with Mom was not always about Mom's life.
The day after Memorial Day, she and I strolled outdoors while she was arguably distraught with the landscapers who had left a mess of mulch spread across the sidewalk while sprucing up the garden beds of Arden Courts.
She simultaneously scowled at the young men, while also brandishing her trademark, I'm so sweet, smile.
Then, her eyes locked in on the benches. She marched straight for one in the sun and sat down.
In a little while, Jack wheeled outside to join us. Jack was younger than Mom, was afflicted with Parkinson's, but recalled Mom's name and remembered I was her daughter.
We filled our minutes with talk about what constituted the perfect summer day, and also, how to be on the lookout for sunburn. He told a story about his mother, seated on boat for eight hours, who never once considered she might have needed sunscreen and, only later, screeched at the mere touch of her arm.
The activities director joined us, and produced earphones and iShuffles for both Jack and Mom. The implements were part of the Music and Memory program recently instituted at Arden Courts. Mom's playlist was crammed full of Sinatra, while Jack's contained Simon and Garfunkel, and there the age difference was apparent.
After the director departed, Jack realized his iShuffle wasn't working, so he struck up a conversation with me again. Mom's headphones had been connected to my iPhone, so I let her mind spin on to the tunes on my player while Jack and I conversed.
I must admit to the difficulty of sitting with someone with Parkinson's. While Jack stumbled over his words, I wanted to jump in and finish his sentence, despite knowing that was wrong, and also frustrating for him. Numerous times, I held back, held my breath and waited for just the right word to come from his mouth and not mine.
The sun's intensity that morning had been too much for all to bear. I escorted Mom inside to the join the resident cat, and Jack came along, courtesy of the activities director.
As I tried to part ways with both Mom and Jack, Jack asked if I could stay a few more minutes. He had something he wanted to show me. I was already late and promised to track him down when I returned. In hindsight….there was always hindsight.
Jack had been an avid photographer when he was younger and less afflicted. Of all the reasons he offered for his passion, the last two stanzas of the poem stayed with me. Now, Jack and I were forever linked by art.
Still Life
He once shot photographs
of marshes in the Carolinas
– before the shaking
and stuttering –
when his hands were steady
and he could capture a still life
instead of leading one.
We are outside
on a sky blue day
breeze whispering in our ears
and the wheels of his chair
roll backwards
into a bed of irises
where the tires are stuck
in a triangular rut.
He asks, Please, help,
and for an instant
his life is immobile
caught in that moment
between harsh cold concrete
and soft landscape green.
Later, I show him a book,
The Art of Ages,
a photographic journey
in black and white
through the 20th century
of people and how they lived,
sometimes in filth,
sometimes in stealth.
I only photograph still life,
he repeats.
He wants his camera back,
won't mess with a new, old Polaroid,
and wants his computer too.
Maybe his brother will bring it,
but not his son
who he sees every six months.
He wants to know
if I have photos of my mother
when she was younger,
as Mom's head bobs into her chest
and she snores away
the perfect silence of a summer day.
Some, I tell him. I have some.
I keep mine altogether.
The words sputter from his mouth
as he pushes off toes
and his chair rolls
backwards in time.
I take photographs,
he stammers,
because I get to keep
the life I lived.


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What is DCD and the criteria for diagnosis?
How can I tell if my child may have DCD?
What are the implications of these deficits?
Is it possible to outgrow DCD?
What types of treatment options are available for children with DCD?
What is DCD and the criteria for diagnosis?
DCD encompasses a diverse spectrum of difficulties that affect a child's ability to learn and carry out coordinated motor skills. In addition to this marked impairment in the development of motor coordination, a child must also meet the following criteria for diagnosis as defined by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV):
- the impairment must significantly interfere with academic achievement or activities of daily living;
- the coordination problem is not due to a general medical condition (e.g. cerebral palsy, hemiplegia, or muscular dystrophy) and the criteria are not met for a pervasive developmental disorder;
- if mental retardation is present, the motor difficulties must be in excess of those usually associated with it.
How can I tell if my child may have DCD?
Medical practitioners, therapists, and psychologists often characterize DCD more specifically by difficulties in one or more of the following areas:
- Gross motor skill difficulties - problems performing movements that typically involve the large muscles in the body and require balance and coordination. Examples of gross motor skills are running, jumping, climbing, ball skills (throwing, catching, and kicking), as well as postural control.
- Fine motor skill difficulties - problems performing small scale movements that involve the fingers. Some examples of these types of skills are writing neatly with a pencil, tying shoelaces, and manipulating small objects such as buttons or zippers. These fine motor skills can be a large source of frustration because they require a large amount of muscle control and eye-hand coordination.
- Sensory perception and integration difficulties - problems utilizing information from the sensory systems (vision, hearing, touch, and general body awareness) to produce skillful movement. For example, a child may have problems using visual and proprioceptive information to catch a ball in the air.
- Motor planning difficulties- difficulty developing a plan to perform movements. New or highly complicated motor skills are difficult for a child to learn and perform because he or she will have trouble understanding the correct sequence of actions (what steps come in what order). Such motor planning problems are also possibly related to difficulties incorporating information from the body senses (see #3 above) and managing his or her body in space to fit the task demands.
What are the implications of these deficits?
As a result of their movement difficulties, it is likely that these children will avoid physical activity. In fact, several studies suggest that children with movement coordination problems do not participate in physical activity as much as typically developing children. Observational analyzes of 6- to 9-year-old children at recess found the children with DCD were less vigorously active and played less often with the large playground equipment (Bouffard et al., 1996). Anaerobic performance of children with DCD has also been found to be significantly lower than a group of matched controls (O'Beirne, Larkin & Cable, 1994). The long-term effects of low-levels of activity place these children at higher risk for problems in the motor, musculoskeletal, and cardiopulmonary systems later in life.
In addition, motor skill deficits have tremendous bearing on various other areas of everyday life. Difficulties are manifested in the classroom, in that poor fine-motor skills such as handwriting or typing will hinder academic achievement (Roussounis, Gaussen & Stratton, 1987) but, also because modern teaching methods in mathematics and science involve much more "hands on" work than ever before. Poor spatial/temporal coordination (visual-motor skills) may interfere with academic learning in more direct ways than has been seen in the past.
An increasing number of studies also confirm socio-emotional implications. Children with DCD often have low self-esteem (Shaw, Levine, & Belfer, 1982), low evaluation of their competence in academics (Rose, Larkin, & Berger, 1997), judge themselves less socially competent (Rose et al, 1997), are more introverted, and more anxious than their well coordinated peers (Schoemaker & Kalverboer, 1994). They often are the ones bullied by their peers and have more behavioral problems than matched controls (Losse et al., 1991).
Who is affected by DCD?
Approximately 6% of all school-aged children (about one child in every primary school classroom) are diagnosed with DCD (APA, 1994). However, these prevalence estimates may increase as DCD awareness becomes more widespread and actions are taken by parents and practitioners to seek treatment for children and patients affected by the disorder.
Is it possible to outgrow DCD?
Current research strongly indicates that children with motor coordination disorders do not outgrow their problems. In fact, many children experience deficits well into adolescents and even adulthood. In light of these issues and the heightened risk of complications in various other aspects of everyday life (see above), it is imperative that parents seek early diagnosis if their child demonstrates characteristics of a motor coordination or motor learning deficit. Early diagnosis and therapeutic interventions may lead to improvements in motor skill development early on, and it may also serve as a way to build a child's self-confidence and willingness to engage in physical activities throughout adolescence and adulthood.
What types of treatment options are available for children with DCD?
Children with DCD demonstrate the significant improvements from therapies that are task and context specific. Such interventions include educational skills training (i.e. handwriting or speech therapy) or teaching functional skills necessary for independence (i.e. tying shoes, buttoning clothing, etc). However, studies have not yet demonstrated that specific skill training or if other techniques focused primarily on motor aspects of skill acquisition are generalizable. Recently, the use of cognitively-based interventions designed to help children develop problem-solving strategies show greater transfer to other areas of skill development than traditional physical and occupational therapies (Miller et al., 2001).


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- Review of the evening as a whole;
- 189? Unknown, thought to be Taylor;
- 1908 Cockburn;
- 1912 Cockburn;
- 1924 Unknown;
- 1927 Cockburn;
- 1935 Cockburn (served to left side of table);
- 1935 Cockburn (served to right side of table);
- 1947 Cockburn;
- 1950 Cockburn;
- 1955 Cockburn;
- 1960 Cockburn;
- 1963 Cockburn;
- 1967 Cockburn;
- 1970 Cockburn;
- 1975 Cockburn;
- 1977 Cockburn (unofficial bottling);
- 1983 Cockburn;
- 1985 Cockburn;
- 1991 Cockburn;
- 1994 Cockburn;
- 1997 Cockburn;
- 2000 Cockburn;
- 2003 Cockburn;
- 2007 Cockburn cask sample (Touriga Nacional);
- 2007 Cockburn cask sample (Touriga Franca);
- Planning and arrangements;
- Placemats.
1947 Cockburn
Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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Tasting notes for individual Ports, with an index sorted by vintage and alphabetically.
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1947 Cockburn
Part of the large vertical of Cockburn which was held in The Crusting Pipe on Wednesday 8th October 2008. Links:
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Plain and out-of-focus capsule.
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1947 Cockburn: pale red, but fuller in colour than older wines. Then, whilst those around me were proclaiming their joy, I recorded "something odd† and "hot — rough on tongue†. Testing DRT's and NN's glasses (for which thanks are repeated) gave "long, rich, smooth, sweet, orange marmalade. Very long and lovely; ending in fruit that might be strawberry†. This was much better.
Duff glass: perhaps soap residue.
Duff glass: perhaps soap residue.
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I couldn't detect much on the nose but my note reads "Delicious. Chocolate. Immense finish"
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
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Ex-cellars. Mid red in colour, paling on the rim. Alcohol protruding on the nose over a lovely mixed spice and aniseed. Lovely sweet raisins and dried cranberries in the mouth intermingled with licorice root. Very complex in the mouth. The aftertaste is sweet, pleasant, but short. 90/100
Top Ports in 2018 (so far): Niepoort VV (1960's Bottling), Quinta do Noval Nacional 1994 and San Leonardo Very Old White (Bottled 2018)
2017 Ports of the year: Fonseca 1927 and Quinta do Noval 1927
2017 Ports of the year: Fonseca 1927 and Quinta do Noval 1927
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Miguel Côrte-Real sent AHB some of his own notes on the various vintages, some obviously drafted in advance, some from the day itself.
Miguel Côrte-Real wrote:1947
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A small vintage declared only by Cockburn's, Sandeman, Warre, Ferreira and a few more houses. Bruce Guimaraens, the late Taylor and Fonseca winemaker, considered Cockburn's '47 the best of the year.
A very small production due to a weak "birth" and some colure.
Tasting Notes
Silky, smooth and flavoury. Medium-bodied, very rich and with a long finish.
Berry, spice, red liquorice, chocolate and brown sugar flavours are enhanced by a peppery, lingering finish. Good richness. (L Murphy)
We did not declare the 1945 because the temperatures in the Douro Superior were too high (Martinez was great!)
Last minute notes
Some spices and pepper. Smooth, some chocolate notes.
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