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|Reviews for Carry Me
| icehizzari chapter 1 . 10/31/2009
Wow... that was really good. I don't quite know how one of these stories made me cry, but that one did. I could really identify with that story...
| Rainbow35 chapter 1 . 5/7/2009
... That was so sad! D: It was nice though, it's good she died happy and peaceful, and good that that guy said he'd name the baby after her. This story was so nice and cute and sad. I probably read too many depressing stories for my own good... :) I have a friend that died... He didn't die half as dramatically though.
| fred2008 chapter 1 . 7/1/2007
man...that was a sad story in the end...actually brought a tear or two...atleast she went out in peace.
| Rei chapter 1 . 5/12/2007
I'm normally not a sentimental person, but when Takato asked the expectant father to name his child Juri if it was a girl, I started tearing up.
Maybe it's just me, but everyone's reactions to Juri's condition wasn't believable. It just seemed like they took it all in stride.
| Iniora Nackatori chapter 1 . 2/17/2007
I have no words to describe this story. It was heart-wrenching and wonderful. I'm glad she got to see Leomon one last time, though. Or maybe... more than once?
Thank you, very much for this wonderful fic.
| Neko-Chan in Wonderland chapter 1 . 8/25/2006
OMG. Sorry I'm reviewing so late, this was actually the first fanfic that I put in my favorites but... OMG I LOVE IT SO SAD SO SAD. I read it ages ago, and just remembered how much I love it and wanted to review! SO yeah.
| Yami Vizzini chapter 1 . 9/6/2005
Oh... VERY sad indeed. I knew that her recovery couldn't possibly last- never does in these stories. Anyway, definitely worth the time it takes to read it!
| Teroglahn chapter 1 . 6/11/2005
My God...
I just don't know what to say. Usually, if I read a good story, I say things like "that was beautiful" or "wonderful." This time, I really don't know what to say.
I will say that it is a beautiful story, but that would be an understatement. Your stories capture the emotions and the characters perfectly- more perfectly than I can ever do.
You are a good writer. Remember that.
| Joel chapter 1 . 6/8/2005
This is one of the saddest things i ever read. I cried a bit at the end. I have read most of your digimon stories and have to say you are one of the best writers ever. You're stories have the digimon people in character. Your stories are full of emotion.
| Nonamenonamenonameplease chapter 1 . 12/7/2004
Strange of me to submit to really old stories, huh? But that one person who said something about a sequel where Takato and Jeri meet in heaven...I never could get that off my mind the following weeks after I first left behind some commentary here.
| Alex Warlorn chapter 1 . 2/4/2004
God I just couldn't read this it was so depressing! That says something about you as a writer . . .
| N. Watanabe chapter 1 . 12/28/2003
Oh my goodness. That was an excellent story! I could feel my eyes tearing up at the end! I felt so sorry for Juri...and I don't even like her that much! That was extremely well-written. Awesome job! Kudos!
| OmnicromXR chapter 1 . 11/15/2003
Reading the last scene actually got me to cry. There isn't much that does that, believe you me. Reading something like this reminds me the reason why I like Takato so much, because he has so many faces to him. I still think its sad that the only way to make me like Juri is to put her in a role like this one though, she could have been a good character in my mind but became squandered as nothing more than a hostage and a puppet.
| KaoruKenshin4ever chapter 1 . 10/30/2003
That...was so wonderful. So sad...but like the happy sad, like your crying but you can't help but give a small smile. This was great, perfect to me.
| Mr. Pokemaster chapter 1 . 10/5/2003
Absolutely amazing writing...it almost made me cry... kind of funny how fiction can do that sometimes... Anyways, this story shows how well you manage to capture emotions in your writing. Keep up the incredible work...not much else for me to say...


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John N. Durell
John N. Durell John N. Durell, longtime Visalia resident and civic leader who advocated for a vibrant downtown Visalia against the strong forces of suburban sprawl, died Wednesday, May 28, in Anaheim, Calif. He was 92. A celebration of his life is planned for 11 a.m., Sunday, August 17th at Hall of Fame Club at Rawhide Stadium/Recreation Park, 300 N. Giddings St., Visalia. John had moved to Southern California in January 2011 to be closer to his daughter, Barbara Durell, after his wife, Dorothy "Dottie" Durell, passed away. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and dementia for several years. He and Dottie clothed generations of Visalia's children at their store on Main Street, the Merry-Go-Round, which they owned for 26 years, from 1966 to 1992. As a civic leader, John was instrumental in starting the Visalia transit bus system as a member of the citizens' transportation committee. The committee proposed and launched the system, originally known as Visalia City Coach, against significant opposition from local residents who considered Visalia too small for a bus system in the 1970s. He also served on a citizen's advisory committee to the planning commission. During his tenure, he and other members steadfastly refused to support commercial development south of Packwood Creek. John felt strongly that lifting that ban would lead to the sprawl that turned many Central Valley downtowns into virtual ghost towns in the 1970s and '80s. He was an inveterate volunteer, serving as a member of the Downtown Visalians and its president. He twice held the post of president of the Sequoia Lions Club, where he was a member for nearly 43 years. After selling the Merry-Go-Round in 1992, John joined the Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) for the Visalia Police Department, accumulating more than 10,000 hours of service. He was named VIPS Volunteer of the Year in 2003. John took pride in giving back to his community in this new way. In addition to the more mundane duties of having abandoned cars towed and inputting data at headquarters, he also regularly assisted at evening DUI checkpoints and helped out on drug raids. He enjoyed describing in detail his adventures with the police department, always careful to omit names of officers and suspects. He also was a volunteer member of Tulare County Sheriff's Department Aero Squadron for several years. In recognition of all his civic activities, John was named Grand Marshal of the 2003 Candy Cane Parade, sharing the antique car with his family - including his wife, daughter-in-law, son and grandsons. John continued to challenge himself throughout his life. He earned his private pilot's license after the age of 50 and flew regularly into his late 60s frequently taking his friends for rides around the Valley and often flying to Harris Ranch near Coalinga for lunch. He took pride in being able to pass the rigorous physical exams required for license renewal. He also earned his Associate of Arts degree from College of the Sequoias after the age of 70, having taken courses off and on for more than 20 years. John Nevin Durell was born in Belleplain, New Jersey, on November 19, 1921, to Thomas J. and Marian Durell. He grew up on a family cranberry farm, Durell & Co., which grew, packed and sold cranberries under the Durelia brand in the 1920s and '30s. As a youth growing up in the rural Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey, John, known as Willie as a kid, was an avid fisherman and hunter. His early life - and that of his brother, Henry, and sisters Virginia and Ann - was chronicled in a mystery novel written by Ann, "Holly River Secret," published in 1956. Whenever John watched himself in family films, gliding on skates and shaving the ice in hockey stops on a makeshift backyard rink - a flooded cranberry bog -- he remarked with his typical understatement: "I guess I was a pretty good skater." Once, during a routine checkup, his doctor, after looking at an X-ray, asked him if had broken his leg when he was younger. John remembered his leg had hurt a lot after a skating session more than 50 years earlier but he hadn't told his parents for fear they would put a stop to his skating. Living on a farm, John learned to drive at the age of eight or nine and could handle a tractor before he was 10. When asked about the most remarkable technological advancements during his lifetime, he recalled his first encounter with an automatic shift car. An automobile salesman drove the car to the farm hoping to make a sale. John marveled at the car's floorboard, with only two pedals, and the absence of a lever to shift gears. He found it magical. In almost 80 years of driving, he never received a ticket. Once he was stopped for an illegal lane change on Noble Avenue, but he fought the ticket in court and was successful in having it dismissed. John attended Belleplain High School and graduated from Blair Academy in central New Jersey in 1939, where he had played varsity baseball. He was offered a tryout with the Philadelphia Athletics at age 16, but turned it down because his parents thought he was too young. He entered
Princeton University
in 1939 but left to enlist in the U.S.
after Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. He served with an Army Air Corps (which later became the Air Force) bomber squadron in Britain until the end of the war. His commanding officer in Britain was the actor Jimmy Stewart, who retired as an Air Force major general. John met his future wife, Dorothy Meyerson, while they both worked at Western Electric in New Jersey. They married in March 22, 1947, at the Marlboro Inn in Montclair, New Jersey. Shortly after their marriage, they settled in Pacific Grove, Calif., where John worked at the local Montgomery Ward store. Their first son, Thomas, was born in 1949, followed several years later by Robert and then Barbara. Montgomery Ward was John's employer for 17 years. He started as a clerk and worked his way up to various manager positions. He moved frequently for the company, working in numerous California cities - San Luis Obispo, National City, San Bernardino and Madera. He grew weary of transfers and decided when he moved to Visalia in 1964 that it was where he wanted to settle. In Visalia, he held several jobs - managing the Auto Center for JC Penney, selling cars and then life insurance for Westland Life - before buying the Merry-Go-Round. During his years of transfers with Montgomery Ward, John told his family that if he ever returned to the San Joaquin Valley, he would put in a swimming pool. Within a year of purchasing his first home in a then-new suburb of south Visalia in 1964, he signed a contract to do just that: build an in-ground pool, complete with diving board and slide. The backyard pool, the first in his cul-de-sac near Whitendale Avenue and Mooney Boulevard, became the center of his leisure hours. Almost every weekend from late April to mid-September he could be found barbecuing for family, friends and neighbors. The pool also was the place where many neighborhood children and, later, his grandsons learned to swim. John was a lifelong baseball fan. He followed the then-California Angels almost from their inception in the early 1960s. His second-favorite team was whichever one was playing against the New York Yankees. John and Dottie were the longest season-ticket holders (they first bought season tickets in 1964) to games at Recreation Park in Visalia, through its many name and Major League-affiliation changes. With seats right behind home plate, the park became a center of their social life for many years and they delighted in seeing young ball players go on to excel in the Majors
Published in Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Adv-Register on June 21, 2014

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text: Boy. The minute i saw him on the show, i thought, "this man just came from the bar." His actions were too uncharacteristic of him. Also, watching tuesday's show was a surprise. I thought there were going to be celeb guests instead they put the light on adoption and the foster care system. I can see that as being Rosie's idea, that was extremely kind of her.


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Hi All,
I have been working my honey jar for about 2 weeks now but the honey has solidified.
I have a fairly good wax coverage on the jar and wondered what I should do, as shaking the jar no longer mixes the ingredients. After each candle goes out I shake the jar, but it is practically solid now.
Should I warm the jar to loosen the honey at the risk of melting the wax buildup?
So what I am asking I suppose is, what is more important the was buildup or the ability the mix all the ingredients on a regular basis?
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anything former cia agents does is suspect.....they're like FOX, always bringing the wrong shyt up to make money. why act like an ignorant a-hole.<quoted text>
Two former CIA officials have admitted to creating a fake video in which intelligence officers dressed up as Osama Bin Laden and his cronies in an effort to defame the terrorist leader throughout the middle east.
The details are outlined in a Washington Post article by investigative reporter and former Army Intelligence case officer Jeff Stein.
because its all bs!!! open your eyes our enemy is the evil that rules
VA Senate Panel Again Kills Gun Show Loophole Bill
There are 279 comments on the NBC29 Charlottesville story from Jan 30, 2013, titled VA Senate Panel Again Kills Gun Show Loophole Bill. In it, NBC29 Charlottesville reports that:A Virginia Senate committee has again killed legislation to close the so-called "gun show loophole." The Courts of Justice Committee voted 11-3 to reject the measure Monday.
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#167 Feb 14, 2013
Some of those old Vietnam vets faced way scary things and endured pain that you can't even imagine, you a@@, and unlike over half of our elected officials answered the call of duty when called upon. When you speak of Vietnam vets or any war vets I would suggest you show some respect.
#168 Feb 16, 2013
Shhhhh, your admitting to ignorance are you no child left behind
#170 Feb 16, 2013
I respect vets but not the one i posted that to
#172 Feb 18, 2013
you never respected Vets.....stop the lying.
#173 Feb 18, 2013
Crawl back under your rock with the original mc and whitney uncle ben
Since: Aug 10
#179 Feb 18, 2013
Absolutely amazing how far these threads degenerate.....
#180 Feb 18, 2013
just like bill o'rielly would say...."caution: this is the no-spin zone." can't handle it, proceed elsewhere governor.
Since: Feb 10
#183 Feb 19, 2013
In 2011,
195,000 deaths from medical errors
32,367 people died in car accidents
1694 people were murdered by knives
726 died by hands or feet
496 died by clubs or hammers
12,565 deaths by guns,(7,804 suicides)
323 by rifles of ANY KIND
And idiots like Bloomberg, Feinstein, Biden and Obama want to ban semi-automatic rifles???
Almost as bad as having nop-show nothead in Congress.
#184 Feb 20, 2013
one death from guns is still too much....most are preventable.
Since: Aug 10
#185 Feb 20, 2013
Yes, because the rest of the deaths on that list were completely 100% unavoidable, and not as important because something other than a gun was the cause of death.*rolls eyes*
#186 Feb 20, 2013
thanks for the comment....good day
#187 Feb 20, 2013
Yes, those deaths were avoidable. If people didn't try to commit crimes, people wouldn't be killed as a result. If someone tries to break into my home, their death will be unavoidable. That is a promise, no need for a trial, judge, or jury. Justice will already be done. All they have to do to avoid this, is to not try to do the crime.
#188 Feb 20, 2013
Another old fat white guy boasting about how bad he is. Geat a life. Hold on to YOURSELF if need to feel good.
#189 Feb 20, 2013
So what are you going to do if someone breaks into your home since you don't trust the police and believe guns are evil
#190 Feb 20, 2013
First and foremost I don't live in a world of paranoia and fear. But regardless, those who espouse the gun nut mentality do so only as a substitute for failings of a small mind and a smaller self image. The only way for them to compensate is to grab on to something that makes them feel like a man, a gun. All the rest is horse hockey. Stuff happens, if someone has a bead on your arse its over.
#191 Feb 20, 2013
Nice spew. Now please answer the question. If someone breaks into your home what are you goin to do since you don't trust the police and believe firearms are evil?
#193 Feb 21, 2013
"Gun Nut Mentality"? So, you are saying that people who collect guns, instead of anything else are nuts? You sre saying that anybody who participates in the competitive sport of shooting is a nut? You say that anybody who plans to protect his family is a nut? Funny thing is that all men might be created equal, however, in the real world some people are older, weaker and not as strong as others and they need to feel secure, also. Being a retired police officer and having seen how some older people lived their last years in fear because their neighborhood and they were trapped in a house they could not afford to leave, I made the concious decision to be ready to protect me and mine.
Remember. when crime is seconds from happening the police are only minutes away.
Since: Aug 10
#194 Feb 21, 2013
So what you're saying is that preparing for something that is possible, but not likely, is living "in a world of paranoia and fear"? I ask you....do you pay for insurance of any type??
And you're saying that you'd rather not even TRY to defend yourself (and your family) at all if something horrible DID happen because "if someone had a bead on your arse its over"? If the odds were a million to one that I could save myself or my family in the event of a violent break-in (or other).........I'd still TRY. You call me paranoid and afraid....I call you unprepared and spineless.
I don't mean that to be an insult......I just see it as fact because you choose to put your head in the sand and then accuse everyone else of being the nut.
#195 Feb 21, 2013
i don't care who you are....killing someone justifiably or not will drive one into depression or some other kind of emoitonal/mental disorder. why spend the rest of your life regretting that fateful choice. theres nothing like peace of mind for the long haul.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – October 9, 2007 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) shipped FIFA Soccer 08 to stores throughout North America today on all platforms, providing sports fans with a soccer videogame experience that matches the complexity, finesse and beauty of the real-world game. Further extending the season for players on the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, next month, EA SPORTS will offer a free downloadable feature update* to FIFA Soccer 08 called Be A Pro: Online Team Play that will enable ten people anywhere in the world to connect online to play a single match of FIFA Soccer 08.
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With the launch of FIFA Soccer 08 on PLAYSTATION®3, soccer fans and gamers can now kick-off their campaign to show off their gaming skills on the global stage as the online tournament of the fourth annual FIFA Interactive World Cup begins on PLAYSTATION®Network. The online leg will run parallel to numerous live qualifier events across the globe from October '07 through April '08. The tournament is the world's only officially FIFA sanctioned global soccer gaming competition and delivers all the excitement of being on the real FIFA World Cup soccer pitch. It will culminate in the Grand Final in the Sony Centre in Berlin in May 2008 and will see the winner walk away with an invitation to the FIFA World Player Gala 2008 and USD $20,000 in prize money. For official rules and to register and keep track of your ranking on the FIFA Interactive World Cup leaderboard, go to www.FIFA.com/FIWC.
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I wasted my whole morning on this? =/
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I brushed the hair of all her my little ponies set to surprise her. She saw it and was not impressed, she had her own ideas of how they should look.
So I spent more time on the ponies with her help, and this is what we got.Next time I'll ask her to do it with me the first time!
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by Silver Member on May. 26, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Do you use the doll/pony hair detangler? You just mix liquid fabric softener with water in a spray bottle, spray in and brush. It works wonders!
She does lmao! And a bun tail! XD
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Does Fluttershy have pigtails? lol.
She turned 4 last week. And thank you!
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That is so cute. How old is she?
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by Silver Member on May. 26, 2013 at 2:40 PM
My girls youngest loves ponies and Monster high dolls. I help make them clothes and brush their hair. Lots of fun.
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Kyrgyzstan: Internal displacement in brief
As of December 2012
As of the end of 2012, up to 164,000 people were still internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan as a result of ethnic violence that broke out in June 2010. The increase in the figure from 2011 was due to new information. Around 300,000 people were internally displaced in 2010 when the south of the country was engulfed in four days of intense violence between its two main ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
Both groups suffered killings, torture and sexual assault, the widespread destruction of residential, commercial and state property, and mass looting. The violence, which led to significant population displacements from the cities of Osh and JalalAbad, flared two months after President Kurmanbek Bakiev was overthrown at the end of 10 days of social unrest in the capital Bishkek. The political turmoil surrounding Bakiev's removal and the poor response of the security services, along with economic hardship and the activities of organised crime groups, all contributed to the outbreak of the violence in June 2010.
The security situation in southern Kyrgyzstan remained precarious throughout 2012, despite measures put in place to promote inter-ethnic tolerance. Mutual mistrust both between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks and towards the authorities continued to be compounded by the lack of rule of law and by social exclusion. Disaffected Uzbeks claim the Kyrgyz majority has marginalised them by forcing them out of public and professional life.
The main perpetrators of the June 2010 violence have still not been brought to justice, and those found guilty of involvement have for the most part been ethnic Uzbeks.
Continued impunity for the crimes committed and a lack of reparation for the victims of the violence continue to constitute significant obstacles to the remaining IDPs achieving durable solutions to their displacement. Feelings of insecurity have already prompted further migration and may lead to future violence and displacement.
Emergency reconstruction of the 2,000 homes severely damaged or destroyed in the 2010 violence was completed by the end of that year. Additional rooms were added to these homes in 2012 with further international funding. Ownership of the reconstructed homes has been registered in Jalal-Abad, but in Osh the process of assigning tenure has been delayed.
The State Department for Reconstruction and Development agreed to implement a simplified ownership registration process in May 2012, and by the end of the year 1,059 reconstructed houses in Osh had been registered, leaving 595 properties still to be processed. The lack of ownership registration leaves some IDPs who have returned to their places of origin with insufficient security of tenure and exposes them to the risk of expropriation or eviction without recourse.
Some of the homes reconstructed for IDPs have been expropriated and demolished by the authorities in Osh to make way for urban development. In May, the local administration passed a resolution to widen a street on which a number of IDPs' homes had been rebuilt following the June 2010 violence. More than 20 residential properties and several business premises were demolished in the process, of which three were houses reconstructed with assistance from international organisations. According to international observers, the expropriation process did not meet international standards, particularly in relation to consultation, clarity of process and transparency. More importantly for the affected IDPs, the reconstruction of their homes was unsustainable, impeding their progress towards a durable solution to their displacement.
Kyrgyzstan is a pilot country for the UN Secretary General's Framework on Ending Displacement in the Aftermath of Conflict, and at the end of the year UN agencies began discussing the procedure for putting the initiative into action. As part of the process, UNHCR and UNDP will lead the design and implementation of a strategy on durable solutions to forced displacement in cooperation with the national authorities. This, along with the implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2012-2016, offers opportunities to address IDPs' outstanding needs related to their displacement in a sustainable manner.
The Kyrgyz government has put measures in place to improve how the judiciary operates and strengthen the protection of minorities, but a comprehensive and progressive reconciliation plan is needed to address the various causes of 2010 conflict and ensure security and justice for all. Such a plan would restore confidence and ensure that current work on the reintegration of IDPs and the achievement of durable solutions is sustainable.
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Lady Gaga took time out from her world tour to enjoy a safari trip in South Africa this week.
The pop superstar took her Born This Way Ball shows to the country for a gig in Johannesburg on Friday and an upcoming concert in Cape Town on Monday.
She arrived in South Africa several days before her first show, and she made the most of her time by heading off on a special safari trip to see a pride of lions in the wild.
Gaga documented her trip in a series of posts on her Twitter page, sharing photos of her adventures with fans.
She writes, "Safari picture: in this photo I'm about 10 feet from 13 lions, 2 cubs. I spent about 30 minutes w (with) them and took a nap!… The lion pride even woke up at one point and let us come closer… & yes I cut a hole in my bush hat so my pony (tail) could stick out. Safari Barbie."


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Who doesn't like little sandy feet, well at least on the beach and not walking across my wooden floors. The kiddos actually hate the sand so we rarely go an play at the beach even though it's less than a mile from our house, they'd rather just keep their shoes on and hang out on the swings near by but with some coaxing they agreed to take this photo for me if there was a trip to the ice cream shop afterwards.
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Acquisition of the Volumetric Data Set
The flow studied was a turbulent boundary layer with a Reynolds number based on momentum thickness of 700. The experiment was done on a flat plate in a water channel facility. The flow was seeded from two dye slots with disodium fluorescein dye. The dye was illuminated using an innovative laser scanning apparatus developed during the course of this research. The scanner sweeps twenty parallel laser sheets at high speed through a region of the boundary layer. Up to 1700 sequential volumes, each consisting of 20 laser sheets, can be acquired during one experiment. The imaged laser sheets are digitized and stored, and can be rendered in software from any angle. The rendering algorithm includes parallax, transparency and depth-cueing. Pairs of views corresponding to binocular vision can be combined to construct stereoscopic visualizations of the data set. These stereoscopic images can be displayed as a time series, in the form of a 3-D movie. The figure below shows the experimental setup used to gather the data set.


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Shares finish on a 19-month high
The Australian share market has hit 19-month highs on the last full day of trading for 2012, buoyed by gains among resources stocks.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index rose 23.3 points to close at 4671.3, its highest close since June 2, 2011. The broader All Ordinaries index closed 23.9 points - 0.5 per cent - better at 4685.3.
The ASX200 is on track to post gains of about 15 per cent for the year, its biggest rise since a 31 per cent recovery in 2009 after the 2008 slump.
Despite much talk about the fiscal cliff and how it would impact on stocks, Commsec market analyst Steve Daghlian said the Australian market is taking its own lead.
''It is quite impressive but volumes are extremely light so despite the gains it can't be taken too seriously,'' he said.
Local miners were supported by robust gains in spot iron ore prices, which have climbed to eight-month highs at $139.40. Among the big miners, BHP is 1.1 per cent higher to $37.40, Rio Tinto is 1.7 per cent higher to $66.53 and Fortescue is 2.4 per cent higher to $4.64.
US stocks edged lower but recovered some ground in the last hour of trade on reports that leaders would meet this weekend after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had earlier a compromise was unlikely before the January 1 deadline.
The White House and Congress have until New Year's Eve to reach a compromise on how to avert the fiscal cliff, a year-end crisis that could lead to stiff tax hikes and drastic budget cuts that might halt growth.
While the cliff talks continued to dominate market sentiment, no-one really knew what the result would be despite several weeks of optimism, said IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu.
''No-one really knows what's going on to be honest, everyone is just responding or reacting to these headlines for now,'' he said.
Other anlysts said the effects of the fiscal cliff debate could rattle on in to the new year.
''That is going to be an influential factor for how we are going to start 2013,'' said Bruce McLeary, analyst at Burrell & Co in Brisbane.
''If an agreement doesn't go through there could be some weakness,'' Mr McLeary said.
Stocks in the retail space were mixed following yesterday's gains on reports suggesting strong and possibly record high Boxing Day sales.
JB Hi-Fi was 9 cents, or 0.9 per cent, higher at $10.35, Myer was two cents firmer at $2.15 and David Jones also advanced two cents to $2.43.
Bank shares also gained ground following falls for three of the four majors on Thursday.
The Commonwealth Bank gained 13 cents to $62.25, Westpac lifted 17 cents to $26.27, ANZ closed nine cents higher at $25.00 and NAB rose by seven cents for the second day in a row, closing at $25.02.
National turnover was light with 874.6 million securities worth $1.53 billion changing hands, with 491 stocks up, 323 down and 338 unchanged.
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An Eastbourne resident has asked for a 'sense of decency' to be restored to Langney Cemetery as it has become overgrown and messy.
Denise Craig visited the graveyard behind Eastbourne Crematorium last week and was shocked by the state in which she found it, with grass more than a foot tall in some areas.
She said, "My parents' ashes were interred there some years ago and we visit regularly to tend their grave and indeed spend quiet, thoughtful times. However, on visiting the cemetery a couple of days ago we were totally appalled at the "field" before us.
"I chatted to a fellow mourner who visits the cemetery frequently and she said she had never seen it in such a disgusting state. The grass and weeds were nearly a foot tall. You could hardly see some of the graves. There were three gardeners on site at the time, strimming one of the grassed areas and all that was left behind was a heavy blanket of cut hay completely obliterating everything.
"The lady I spoke to said she, like others in the town, pay hefty community tax and indeed accepted that certain cutbacks had to be made, but surely the deceased in that cemetery and those that continue to mourn them can be shown some common decency by making it a more respectful area."
A spokesperson for Eastbourne Borough Council said, "Due to unusually heavy rain earlier this year, we were unable to start cutting the grass on time because it was simply too waterlogged. In addition to this, we have enjoyed a spell of very warm weather so the grass has grown very fast.
"In order to avoid damaging gravestones we do not use lawnmowers around graves and instead use strimmers. As these do not have in-built collection facilities like lawnmowers, there are likely to be grass cuttings left on the ground.
"We are working hard to cut the grass as quickly as we can and extra resources have been earmarked to help speed up the process. Grass cutting is covered as part of contract operations across Langney and Ocklynge cemeteries and the crematorium, which cost £192,0000 a year. The grounds maintenance budget has not been reduced in the last 12 years. We apologise for any upset caused and we are committed to rectifying the situation."


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Finished my 10th box of Enbrel last Thursday. Twenty weeks later I am still doing quite well, but I noticed with a spike in stress my skin has done worse. Today I am quite agitated by some things that are going on at work. When life gets this way my skin certainly does break out.
The Enbrel itself, I'm afraid, won't be enough to suppress the psoriasis. I would love to taper off the Neoral. Maybe I'll try anyway with the sun out more of the day now. DST will also allow me to get home and get some sunlight.


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As with The-Last-Days-of-Disco, the glitterball that was analogue TV has stopped spinning and, in the very worst form of collateral-damage, the music stopped for Ceefax too - RIP British Technology.
For those of you who literally thought that Ceefax ended when John Travolta's flairs were replaced by Don Johnson's shoulder-pads, this British, televisual-wonder miraculously survived up to the end of October 2012. For anyone unfamiliar with the pleasures of trying to look-up the football scores via Ceefax on a teak-effect, Grundig television, while waiting for Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks to finish wrestling on World-of-Sport (another long-gone British institution), it is - or rather was - a bit like a cross between Miscosoft DOS and Space Invaders, with bright colours and clunky graphics that loaded so slowly you had time boil-a-kettle between pages ... .. which was actually a cleverly-built-in, British design feature.
As Sir Michael Caine would say - "Now, not a lot of people know that", but Ceefax's design origins date-back to the late 1960s and its original name was 'Beebfax' ... .. created by lab-coated BBC engineers in an ingenious use of license-payers' money, the system was the world's first teletext information service ... it was Sky News before we had Sky News and the internet before we had internet ... .. in fact, in the pre-broadband days of dial-up, it was actually quicker to turn your telly on and type-in 101 for news, than it was to boot-up your PC and then wait interminably for the internet to load. Incredibly, people also used Ceefax to 'watch' sports such as football, tennis and even Grand Prix racing ... .. now that sounds like a fun evening - pass the Blue Nun !!
And it wasn't only Britain's precursor to 'internet-enabled-television' (40 years ahead-of-time) that bit-the-dust. October also saw Carbodies of Coventry fall into administration, as well as Comet (like Rumbelows and other household names before it) and even The Famous - a sort of Are-You-Being-Served 'meanswear' shop in Cheltenham that has been going since 1896 and which still operated one of those Victorian 'vacuum tube' systems, that sent your money off to some unseen cashier's office, via little containers that scuttled along miles of pipe like Derby Day rats. Chr*st - even copies of Hansard aren't being given to MPs anymore, who now have to read-up on Parliamentary debates via the interweb.
For those of us now unable to look-up 'Carbodies' on Ceefax, this is the company that has been making London taxis since they stopped being 'Austins' back in the early 70s. Already part-owned by the Chinese and now possibly never-to-return, the Government should nationalise this once-proud company, preserving a national institution and saving jobs in the process - why pay these skilled men and woman to be on-the-dole, when they could be churning-out iconic Black Cabs for the enjoyment of Londoners and tourists for many years to come ?? As it is, one-in-three new taxis bought in London this year are Mercedes 'Vitos' ... .. if there was ever an example of Britain winning-the-war-and losing-the-peace (World War 2 that is - for those of you not on Cefax), then this is it ... .. Boris - please do something about this travesty while Cameron dithers and before our London taxis go the way of red phone boxes and Routemaster buses.
And while Cameron dithers, Hague slithers - literally ... .. as his Foreign Office have just paid £10,000.oo to have a - thankfully long dead - 20ft snake re-stuffed, so it can be displayed in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library ... .. I wonder what the newly unemployed of Carbodies will make of that, while the Government refuse state aid. Even the Russians are re-investing in their car industry, in the shape of their iconic, ZIL limousines, that used to ferry Russian dignitaries since the days of Brezhnev in the Soviet era and which are now being brought-in-from-the-cold to replace the ubiquitous Mercedes ... .. seeing as we don't make any British cars any more, maybe Putin can lend one to Call-Me-Dave.
With sadly ironic timing, just as Britain turns-off the information-superhighway of the 1970s from our small screens, our American cousins are introducing more small screens that you can shake-a-stick-at. Yes, Microsoft's Surface takes-on Apple's iPad range and Google's Nexus and Amazon's Kindle and and and - seeing which one shall come-out-on-top this Christmas (sorry - 'Winterval') shall be fascinating ... .. although, if you live in India, £21 for an 'Aakash' tablet has got to be worth-a-punt - even if its processing power is still slower than a Texas Instruments calculator.
In other internet related news, Louise Mensch has been having a spat with the Labour Party over Austin Mitchell's "be a good wife" taunts on Twitter, while Queen Sophia of Spain is suing an internet dating web-site (for married people) that has used her image to promote their 'services' ... .. and Good Luck to her, as everyone should - and in fact does - have the right to control the use of their image on the internet, particularly where exploited for commercial purposes and false-endorsements.
Although the past month hasn't exactly put the Great back into Britain, when it comes to out-doing the technological advances of the Americans, the Chinese and the Russians - and in the words of Corporal Jones - we really do know how to "Stick-It-Up-Em" ... .. forget your Commie limos and your iPod minis, Britain is heading full-steam-ahead into the 21st Century - literally ... .. for the first time in half-a-century, London Underground has secretly been running steam trains on the Tube late-at-night. Well, one steam train actually and for testing ahead of the 150th anniversary of the 'Metropolitan Railway', otherwise known as the Underground. The first-ever 'Tube' train departed from Paddington on the 9th of January 1863 and, to celebrate the anniversary of the event, an 1898 steam locomotive (that was also used to celebrate the centenary back in 1963), will be running from Padders to Farringdon with no less than 5 carriages in-tow and with tickets available for sale to the public ... .. who needs National Express when you can take the Hogwart's Express ?!
And no round-up would be complete without a brief mention of the men and, er, men of the Roundabout Appreciation Society, whose members organise day-trips to places like Milton Keynes and Swindon's famous 'Magic Roundabout' (really), complete with anoraks and Tupperware lunches ... .. perhaps unsurprisingly, this group of die-hards was set-up by a bloke called 'Kevin' - although, hugely surprisingly, this was following the success of a photo-calendar of 'The Roundabouts of Redditch', which sold 100,000 copies !! Their Wikipedia entry says that they are "trying to attract more women members" (Good Luck Fellas) and maybe we can turn their undoubted enthusiasm to good use by asking them to set-up a much needed Ceefax Appreciation Society ... .. Roundabouts AND Ceefax - they'll be beating-the-women-off-with-a-stick !!


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Nepal PM says he would take first political visit to IndiaAugust 27th, 2008 - 10:07 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, August 27 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday said he would go to India for his first political visit after taking charge of the PM office.
He further clarified that his China visit was not of political nature as he had gone there to take part in Olympics closing ceremony.
Dahal tried to clear up the speculations regarding his going to China as his maiden foreign tour, as there is a tradition of visiting India first by a newly elected Nepali Prime Minister.
According to Kantipur, he said that India should not take his China visit otherwise as it was not political.
Addressing a press conference, Dahal said his China visit has added a new dimension to the bilateral relations between Nepal and her northern neighbour and his China visit was an achievement for Nepal .
The Prime Minister left for China with an 11-member team including his wife Sita, Communication Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Foreign Secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya and personal doctor Damodar Gajurel on Saturday to attend the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
In Beijing , he met with the Chinese President and the Chinese Prime Minister during his three-day visit. (ANI)
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EVERYONE in room 21 was eager to put oobleck to the test.
Before we did anything, we had to do record our notes just like scientists do when they undertake experiments. All the bookwork was about materials for the experiment;
our hypothesis - which is what we predict will happen;
the method - what steps we took;
observations - what was the reaction.
Right after that, we had talked about the method.
For this experiment you will need:
1-2 cups Cornflour or cornstarch
1/2 - 1 cup Water
Food colouring or dye
Our teacher put the cornflour into three large cups and grouped the six teams into 3 teams of two.
This was the method we used:
Step 1. Tip the cornflour in the container, then add food colouring.
Step 2. After that pour some water on the combination, slowly.
Step 3. Mix altogether.
Someone from each table had poured the water on the cornstarch and dye, as soon as the water tipped in, the dye activated. Everyone on the table just dug right into mixing it with their hands. Their was a lot of noises like "EWWW" or "THAT FEELS WEIRD".
We had different colours of oobleck on each of the tables. The oobleck felt semi solid and semi liquid, this is because the cornstarch reacted to the water differently. The cornstarch has viscosity that changes the way it feels. When we punch the oobleck it turns hard and into a solid and when we touched it gently it stuck to our hands and was liquid like.
If our team picked a dark coloured dye for the oobleck, the dye would stain our hands for a long time. Some students who picked dark blue, their hands looked like smurfs!! When we had to pack up, it was really messy as the oobleck was also on the tables and not just in the tray. We were excited and all talking together about the texture and how the oobleck constantly changed. Oobleck was everywhere.
All in all it was a really fun and hands on experiment to try out together as a classroom. He Waka eke noa!!! What a great experience!
Maybe you want to try it sometime?


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*madmaster* replied to KournikovaBug's topic in Customizing WindowsThis could help http://www.windows-unattended.de/content/view/78/98/ but its in german so you need to translate the page with the http://world.altavista.com/ site or search on http://unattended.msfn.org/ for somthing similar. haVE fun *madmaster*
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*madmaster* posted a topic in Windows Tips 'n' TweaksHi, my Problem is that the Quick launch bar disappears as soon as the explorer gests restarted. Probably it is a registry tweak that prevents the explorer from keeping the information about the Quick launch bar. I would be very glad if someone had an idea how to change the problem in a system and in the registry tweak in the installation. Thanks very much in advance. Here the .reg File -> HERE <- or -> HERE <- havE fun *madmaster*
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*madmaster* posted a topic in XPlodeI have worked on my XPlode.xml file for a while and tryed everything but it is still not working correct. The thing that does work is the reset in the end. But I do not see the GFX and nothing is installed. I would be very grateful if someone is able to correct the mistakes in the file. My version is 4.1.50226.868 haVE fun *madmaster*
thanks very much 4 the help.
If I use the old version will it work or whats exactly wrong with the syntax ? I have read the manual already ...
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*madmaster* posted a topic in XPlodeHi, I have a problem with my XPlode.xml and I have no idea how to solve. There is a mistake in this file but I have no idea what it is. <XPlode4> <config> <display plugin="#XPLODE#\XPlodeGFXInstall.x4d"> <show total='6' after='2' subcount='true' /> <font face='Tahoma' antialias='true' small='8' large='12' /> <window width='440' position='8' /> <windowmode border='true' ontop='true' /> <colours> <header back='#F8FF00' fore='#F55C19' /> <footer back='#F8FF00' fore='#F55C19' /> <progress border='#F8FF00' back='#F8FF00' fore='#225626' /> <main back='#3F7841' fore='#F55C19' current='#F55C19' description='#F55C19' overlay='#FFFFFF22' /> </colours> </display> </config> <items> <item display='Windows Updates'> <execute display='Windows Media Connect...' program='%XPLODE%\HOTFIXE\wmcsetup.exe' arguments='' /> </item> <item display='Windows Einstellungen'> <registry mode="write"> display='Schreibe Patchs...' ;Bluetooth Dienst - wird zur verendung der windows internen Bluetooth software benötigt (Ab XP SP2) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\BthServ] "Start"=dword:00000004 </registry> </item> </items> </XPlode4> If some one has an idea pls tell me whats wrong with it. *madmaster*
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Changing text color/progress color in WINNTBBU.DLL
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ok it was this file I had forgotten to remove. THX 4 all your help. havE fun *madmaster*
could it be a file called FRAMEDYN.dll I insert once because it was missing into the system32\wbem\ folder ?
I have an old athlon 1,33 no 64bit support. I have in the moment no running version, but in about 2h I can post my latest boot.ini it should be a normal one, I changed nothing. haVE fun *madmaster*
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Near-ish! I'm about 45 mins away! :P
Oh you have a white one! Lovely! I wanted a white but couldn't find any 5dr ones and need the extra doors as I have kiddies.
No, the 1.4. My last one was a 1.4 and didn't really want to go lower than that. I wanted a 1.6 but they didn't have one in that colour and I wanted the colour, lol. Thanks for the welcome. :) xxxx
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yummy mummy posted a topic in New Member IntroductionsHiya all, I'm Jess from the North East! I've just upgraded my Mk6 Fiesta Zetec Climate (the love of my life and the car I passed my test in!) to a 58 plate new shape Fiesta Zetec in Hot Magenta. Not brande new but didn't really have enough pennies to splash out on a newer one. Loving the newer Fiests so far but does anyone have any tips/advice for it? My old Fiesta had temperemental gears (but it was something I just got used to) but so far I've not had any issues with these gears, quite the opposite, they seem to go in really smoothly. I'm a bit bemussed by the whole petrol cap thing, or lack of it lol I'm yet to put petrol in as the dealership put some in for me, I'm a bit nervous actually incase i arrive at the petrol station and can't do it lol It looks so different to the last one!! Anyway I'm waffling now, not really sure what else to say, thanks for taking the time to read this and um... hello! :) x


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"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance," was how John Philpot Curran put it. Sure enough, but there is vigilance and there is vigilance and the sort I am familiar with is not what people usually think of when they hear the above truth.
My own experience is that in a relatively free society such as ours, the vigilance required consist of unfailingly meeting arguments that aim to support the violation of human liberty with ones that show that the individual's right to liberty is indeed the supreme public good.
I thought of this when I came across, a while back, a book by Cornell University economist Robert H. Frank and Duke University political scientist Philip J. Cook, "The Winner-take-all Society" (The Free Press, 1995). The work argues that in our relatively free market system we sometimes encounter a phenomenon that's disturbing to some, one whereby in many fields of work a few superstars take all the money, with the bulk of the rest bunched together fighting over the left over crumbs. As they put it, "The incomes of the top 1 percent more than doubled in real terms between 1979 and 1989, a period during which the median income was roughly stable and in which bottom 20 percent of earners saw their incomes actually fall by 10 percent." Because of this the authors recommend -- you guessed it -- a drastic expansion of the system of progressive taxation. If Michael Jordan, Tom Brokaw, John Grisham, John Silber, Cyndy Crawford, Larry King, Sandra Bullock, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Barbara Cartright, Ann Rice, Michael Jackson and Arnold Schwartzenegger take home so much of the available money in their respective professions, we must not allow this to happen. We must make laws to take the money from them. This will discourage such stardom and will help us redistribute their ill-gotten gain to others whom we did not elect, by our choices in the free market, to receive our spending money. You and I are not going to be allowed to give all this money to these folks, and the few others in their class, no. Politicians and bureaucrats will be authorized, if these authors have their way, to check our choices, to correct our errors, to eliminate this egregious "market failure."
Why it this regarded a market failure? Well, because these folks aren't really more deserving than the others bunched below them. Surely Rush Limbaugh's radio rap isn't much better than that of a much lower paid local talk show host. Michael Jordan plays superbly, but not by so much as to justify all the endorsement contracts he receives. Michael Jackson performs well, but ... well, we get the idea, don't we?
I confess that some of this resonates with me a bit. I am a small time writers, my 12 books haven't brought in enough to pay the paper on which they are printed, my columns earn me a pittance compared to what George Will gets, etc., etc. I am envious, at times, of all those who live in the big cities and get exposure on the Sunday morning news programs. Even in my field of philosophy, there are stars whose popularity -- manifest in their repeated appearance on the pages of not only the most prominent and prestigious scholarly journals of national magazines and Sunday book review supplements -- are way out of proportion to their talent and achievement. They are where they are in large measure from bad habit, luck, knowing the right people, whatever, with their superior achievements probably accounting for a fraction of the rewards they reap, not just in money earned but in influence they manage to peddle.
But so what? How dare anyone suggest that this is something that others ought to check by the exercise of nothing other than coercive government intervention? It is an outrage.
I don't know if the scholars who propose this are simply morally obtuse or actually envious of the fame and fortune of a few others in their filed, Nobel Prize winners Gary Becker or Milton Friedman in economics, for example. It doesn't make any difference what motivates these people. What is clear is that they are proposing yet another phony reason to increase the power of the state over the lives of citizens in a supposedly free society.
It is perhaps worth noting that the complaint voiced by Frank and Cook applies to an era of American economic history that is hardly characterized by a national economic policy of laissez-faire. Quite the contrary -- our national economic system has become more and more managed by government. Regulation, taxation, nationalization of land, control of wages and labor relations, welfare, and the rest have never declined, either at the national or regional levels. At most there has occasionally been some decrease in the rate of the expansion of government interference. Even the current Republican House is not managing to reduce government interference and spending, only to stem the proposed increases in some very few areas.
But even if it were true that a bona fide free market has seen the emergence of something akin to the winner-take-all society, so what? If I wish to ogle two or three supermodels and thus increase their wealth beyond anything the rest in their profession earn, that is my business. Pace Mr. Obama, it's my earnings, my time, my good or ill fortune and these are for me to distribute to willing takers, not for the politicians and bureaucrats whose power Frank and Cook are so eager to rationalize.
Let us not be taken in by this somewhat novel effort to increase even more the power of the state over our lives. If some entertainers, CEOs, athletes or novelists are lucky enough to parley their talent into gigantic rewards, let it be. If this will outrage us, we will remedy it somehow. We will find peaceful, noncoercive ways that reverse the trend. We do not need the remedy of the state, even if that were likely (which it isn't since those serving in government aren't noted for their success at establishing fairness anywhere, let alone in how money is spent by government).
Frank and Cook can, of course, do some good by letting us know of the trends they wrote about. But their proposed remedy is wrong and should be rejected by anyone who has any concern for the quality of our society. Liberty does require eternal vigilance, even in the fashion to paying close attention to sophists who would give ammunition to statists to increase their power over us.
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Kung Fu Girl Riesling 2009
If you come across a wine called 'Kung Fu Girl Riesling' you can be pretty certain it is a new world wine. I first heard of it on Twitter, where every other day a random American hipster would tweet about how much they liked it. The more radical souls seem to take the Kung Fu aspect literal and share kick ass opinions such as 'Yes, bitch, I like Kung Fu girl riesling. No I don't buy it as a joke. Go fuck yourself sideways you pretentious c-word.' Clearly, a wine that attracts interest, I thought, and made a mental note to get my hands on a bottle. So, when I recently found a bottle of Kung Fu Girl in a New York wine shop for fifteen bucks, I had no choice but to go for it. Is it really as kick ass as Twitter and the label make you want to believe?
Let's start with a few words about the winemaker. Charles Smith is a bit of a rock star among the wine crowd, and that is not only because he used to managed rock bands before going into the wine business.
He is widely known for making wines the way he believes they should be made (which can include calling Europeans 'pussies', in a friendly way, of course, for being scared of wines with more than 15% alcohol) and for an equally distinct approach if it comes to marketing and labels, as you can clearly see above. Oh, and Smith was recently crowned Food & Wine Magazine's Winemaker of the Year 2009.
The Kung Fu Girl Riesling comes from the Evergreen vineyard, in Washington State's Columbia Valley. According to the website, it is 'a cooler site due to river influence, the soils are composed of clay, silt, and caliche, deposited during ice age floods. This site produces fruit with sublime mineral character and the acid balance that winemakers dream of.' So, an American single vineyard, dry Riesling - what is it like?
The colour is a pale lemon with a green tinge; not unpleasant, but hardly substantial. The nose is crisp, dominated by lime in different variations, including candy lime, and under-ripe green apple. Add a hint of pear and a little mineral.
On the tongue it is lime all over again. Lots of limey acidity gives the wine sharpness, especially in the finish, and a bit of edge. Mid-palate though it all falls a bit flat, more like a processed soda or soft drink. I have enjoyed wines with more acidity than the Kung Fu Girl, but me and my drinking companion still felt it was too much, or rather that it could have been better integrated. Having the wine with food made it better, but even so the acidity dominated the experience.
Now, if you consider the price and the audience it is marketed at I am sure many people would find it very drinkable - as Twitter seems to confirm. If the idea of drinking sprite with alcohol and Riesling acidity appeals to you (and there is nothing wrong with it) you may like this wine. We did not finish it, not because it was bad, but we could also not see much reason why we should.
Interestingly, the night before we had tasted a fantastic Mosel Riesling with really well integrated acidity and great minerality, which we loved to bits. So I leave you with what Charles Smith has to say about the 2009 Kung Fu Riesling (btw, I think it is great that he gives detailed notes on all his wines on the website):
2009 was a nearly perfect vintage in Eastern Washington. The grapes were picked in late October after a season of very long, steady, slow ripening. A very long, cold fermentation helped to bring out the maximum in true varietal character, similar to a classic "Mosel-style" Riesling. Both fermentation and aging occurred in 100% stainless steel. This vintage shows the true character and potential of this amazing vineyard. This girl truly rocks with a mineral edge, yet delivers killer fruit character expected from an awesome Riesling. Worth twice the price and from a single vineyard—perfectly 'Modernist Project.'
label looks nice though... :P
Never had a chance to try those Charles Smith wines. But I've seen the Gary V episode back then... http://tv.winelibrary.com/2008/10/01/a-very-cool-winemaker-visits-the-th...
Haaah... so! :-)
Thanks for that. Jenny and I tried this wine, along with their Viognier, at a tasting in Basel about a month ago. Pleasant enough, although our verdict was ultimately quite similar to yours. I'm sure they'll sell like hot cakes. Great branding.
I agree with you sentiments. It's very telling that you did not finish the bottle.
In a way it reminded me of the American takes on British beer styles such as IPA - initially impressive but you don't really want another one.
It's a shame because Americans can make elegant wines, you just have to hunt them out.
By Far the best wine ever
My Girlfriends and I discovered this wine in Canmore on a stagette at the greatest wine shop we started drinking it two years ago and it has become a tradition. Every friday night is kung fu night now we love it sometimes we have one bottle and other times we have a few this is our favorite and we will continue to drink it every friday night.
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I too came across this wine while on vacation in the mountains, and had several bottles with the picnic lunch we carried on our bikes this past June. It was very refreshing cooled in the cold mountain water stream we were next to, and my wife and I both enjoyed it with the roasted chicken and wild mushroom sandwiches. I might add that a really nice riesling from Washington State is Eroica from Chateau Ste Michelle. We would have brought this wine, but did not want to risk it going bad in a backpack.
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Thanks for your comment and this enticing story, Dick, even though it is likely to arouse intense envy: It seems you have found a way of enjoying white wine that cannot be bettered.