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Black Orchid
Laura Burke
Strategic Book Publishing (2012)
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/13)
"Black Orchid" by Laura Burke is set in Watch Hill. Watch Hill has always been a peaceful little fishing village on an island in Connecticut. Many of the residents tend to live there during the warmer months and move back to the mainland during the winter. Most of them know each other very well and are friendly. Of course, there are always some exceptions. The peacefulness of the village is shattered when black orchid blooms start washing ashore. Appearing to come from a mysterious stranger on a small boat, the residents quickly discover that they are deadly. When touched by human hand, a reaction occurs that can quickly lead to death if not treated immediately.
Wayne Minor is the first one to discover one of the mysterious black orchids. Fortunately, he is wearing gloves when he picks it up. Excited about the uniqueness of the black color, he calls in an expert to find out more about this unique flower. The expert isn't so lucky and quickly becomes ill. Not realizing that the orchid is responsible for this, a tragedy occurs. As Wayne continues to research this flower, he soon discovers that it has been altered by man. Trying to figure out why some would want to cause harm to the residents of this friendly little town gets this mystery going. At first it seems to be a case of evil revenge, but as law enforcement people from off the island become involved, it quickly becomes apparent that the situation is extremely complicated.
I really enjoyed reading this mystery, "Black Orchid" by Laura Burke. I found the premise behind the altered orchids to be fascinating. I believe that other readers will as well. I also enjoyed trying to figure out who was behind this travesty, and why they were doing what they were doing. As the bodies piled up, the mystery became extremely suspenseful and I stayed up past my bedtime to keep reading. The grand finale results in a total surprise and I believe that mystery fans will really appreciate the twists and turns that the story takes them on to be able to arrive at the grand finale when all of the questions are answered.


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Bambrey Announces Retirement as Athletics Directorby Brent Harris • February 2, 2011 Share:
Dr. Thomas E. Bambrey, Wabash College Director of Athletics, has announced his plans to retire from that position at the end of the academic year.
Bambrey, a 1968 graduate of Wabash, was named athletics director in May of 2008 after serving for 11 years as his alma mater's Dean of Students.
"Throughout his life, Tom Bambrey has shown his love for and dedication to Wabash," President Patrick E. White said. "He has long been a diligent student of Wabash history and lore and has helped further the great Wabash traditions of student empowerment, the Gentleman's Rule, and the highest standards of athletic achievement.
"At his heart Tom is a teacher, and he has taught all of us what it means to be Wabash. In conversation, public presentation, leadership, action, and his way of being in the world, he has shown us the highest imagination of what Wabash has been and could be and has communicated that to colleagues, students, coaches, and faculty, not to mention your humble president. Tom Bambrey has been to me a most valuable coach and teacher of Wabash, and I will always be grateful for his guidance and friendship."
A native of Pennsylvania, he was a three-year letterman for Coach J. Owen Huntsman's track and field team when he was an undergraduate.
After teaching and coaching at Southmoreland High School in Western Pennsylvania, Bambrey earned a graduate fellowship at the University of Denver, where he earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in English Literature.
"Much of the credit for the current success of our athletics program, both on the field and in the classroom, can be traced to the staff Tom hired as dean of students and his subsequent leadership of that staff as athletics director, " current Dean of Students Mike Raters '85 said. "The love affair Tom has had with the College, from his first moments here as a student through today, is remarkable."
Wabash undertook two athletics facilities construction projects during Bambrey's tenure at the College. The Allen Athletics and Recreation Center building and renovation was dedicated in 2001. Shortly after Bambrey was named athletics director, Wabash began work on new baseball and soccer stadiums along with intramural and practice fields as part of a $6.2 million outdoor facilities renovation. That project will be completed this fall.
Bambrey currently serves as the sports liaison for North Coast Athletic Conference football coaches.
Bambrey was a professor and administrator at the University of Denver from 1976 through 1992. From 1984 through 1989 he served as Associate Dean of the College at Denver, and from 1989 through 1992 he served as Dean of Student Life and Director of the Honors Program.
Bambrey left Denver in 1993 to become Dean of Student Life and Co-Curricular Education at St. Lawrence University in New York, where he worked until his appointment as Dean of Students at Wabash College in 1997.
Bambrey will retire from the College on June 30, 2011. An immediate search will begin for his replacement.


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The new North Carolina Military Affairs Commission now has three members from Craven County with Gov. Pat McCrory�s Monday announcement of his final appointment.
The new North Carolina Military Affairs Commission now has three members from Craven County with Gov. Pat McCrory�s Monday announcement of his final appointment.
Francis P. �Frank� Bottorff, a retired Marine Corps colonel and former Cherry Point Air Station commander, has been tapped to fill the 21st voting seat on the commission, which was authorized by state law to replace the former Advisory Commission on Military Affairs.
The new commission already included two members from Craven County: Sonny Roberts and Cresswell Elmore. Its first meeting was Sept. 10 at the N.C. Department of Transportation in Raleigh led by Chairman Mabry �Bud� Martin of Forsyth County, a retired Army National Guard brigadier general.
Bottorff was stationed at Cherry Point four times, including his command from July 2006 through August 2009, when he oversaw the arrival of two new helicopter squadrons and personnel growth.
He moved on to work in planning, strategy and government external relations for Marine Corps Installations East at Camp Lejeune and to retirement to civilian life.
Roberts, of New Bern, is one of five N.C. Senate appointees. He was named chairman of the Base Sustainability Committee. It is one of the commission�s four committees; others focus on economy, legislation and quality of life. The Base Sustainability Committee is expected to deal with state efforts to protect military bases from any military realignment and closure (BRAC) effort.
Roberts, recipient of both the Marine Corps Public Service Award by former Commandant James T. Conway and an N.C. Senate certificate honoring him for 30 years of service and dedication to the Marines and service members of North Carolina, served on the Military Growth Task Force and is presently a member of Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow.
A 10-year member of the former commission, Roberts is active in Greater New Bern Chamber of Commerce and co-chairman of its New Bern Military Alliance. He is also on the Swiss Bear Board of Directors, Havelock Chamber of Commerce, and a member and former president of N.C. Eastern Aviation Heritage Foundation.
Elmore, retired General Dynamics Information Technology vice president and now a defense industry consultant and a New Bern resident, is one of the five N.C. House of Representatives appointees to the commission.
Elmore spent more than 25 years as a Naval Air System Command civilian employee, beginning as a logistics manager for the E-2C Hawkeye program and became assistant program manager for the V-22 logistics and ultimately served as assistant program executive for air anti-submarine warfare assault and special mission logistics.
He retired from Fleet Readiness Center South East in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2001, with awards including Superior and Meritorious Civilian Service Medals. He worked with General Dynamics until 2012.
The commission is expected to meet at least four times a year and is required to report twice annually to both the governor and the General Assembly.
Three Craven County men named to state military commission
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The Spartans still cling to the eighth and final berth for the A-Sun tournament despite losing two to Mercer
USC Upstate's grasp on the final spot of the upcoming Atlantic Sun Conference baseball tournament is slipping.
The Spartans dropped a doubleheader Friday to Mercer, 7-2 and 12-5, at Harley Park and, combined with Lipscomb's 6-4 win against Stetson, holds the eighth and final spot by just one game. Only nine teams are eligible — Northern Kentucky is still in a transition period into the league — and USC Upstate is now in serious danger of being the one left out.
The Spartans will try to finish the three-game series against Mercer at 11 this morning and beat rain in the forecast. After that, three of the final six regular-season games will be against another top team in North Florida. Mercer (14-6 in league play) is ranked No. 24 in the country by Perfect Game. The Bears moved into virtual tie for first place with North Florida (12-4).
USC Upstate (8-12, 24-20) gave up five runs in the sixth inning of the first game and then blew a 4-0 lead in the second game.
Spartans pitcher David Roseboom, who sailed through the first four innings of the nightcap, hit a couple of batters with two outs in the fifth and then gave up a long, game-tying homer to Nick Backlund, who leads the league with 11.
In the sixth, Roseboom nearly escaped a two-on, nobody-out jam with a sacrifice bunt and a strikeout. But on an 0-and-2 pitch, Sasha LaGarde hit a grounder past the mound and into center field. Mercer went on to score four runs in the inning to take control.
David Teasley picked up the win in relief for Mercer. He came in during the fourth inning and went 4.1, striking out seven and not allowing a hit or a walk. The right-handed submariner improved to 8-2.
Brody Greer of USC Upstate got a hit in his final at-bat of the first game and added two hits in the second game to extend his streak to 15 games. Luke Weber from Spartanburg High School went 5-for-7 in the doubleheader.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's volleyball team defeated Emmanuel College, 30-22, 33-31, 30-26, in a NECVA New England division match on Tuesday. The win solidified the Engineers' second-place ranking in the conference and clinched a berth in the NECVA Tournament to be held March 31-April 2 at Endicott College.
Michelangelo Raimondi paced Tech (19-8, 8-1 NECVA) with a season-high 11 kills. Praveen Pamidimukkala recorded a career-high seven assisted blocks to go along with 10 kills and a team-best nine digs. Kenneth Rosche posted eight kills while Ryan Dean tallied seven kills, seven digs, and four assisted blocks. Eugene Jang contributed seven digs as Scott Pollom racked up five assisted blocks. Jordan Wan finished with 38 assists, six digs, four assisted blocks, four kills, and an ace.


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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Barry University Athletic Department celebrated its 30th Annual Awards Banquet on Tuesday, April 22 at Jungle Island in Miami. Awards were presented to athletes from every sport.
Adam Svensson was named the Athlete of the Year. The sophomore, who won the Phil Mickelson Award in 2013 as the top freshman in NCAA Division II, has produced one of the best seasons in D-II history. He has won seven of 10 tournaments entered, firing par or better in nine of 10 starts. He currently is ranked first in the country in the GolfStat Cup, signifying the top golfer among all divisions. He set Barry records this season for most wins in a season and career, lowest stroke average in a season, lowest round both by strokes and in relation to par with a 61 at the Buccaneer Invitational, and finish percentage, having beaten 96.4 percent of opponents.
The women's award was split between basketball's Tyler Hardy and Emma Onila of women's tennis.
Hardy was named the Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year, just the third Buccaneer to win the award, and was a fourth-team All-American according to Division II Bulletin. She was second in the league in both scoring (20.0 points per game) and rebounding (8.7 per game). She was seventh in field goal shooting and 10th in free throw shooting.
Onila was a doubles All-American in 2013 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and has led the Bucs to a #1 ranking this season. She carries an 8-3 mark in singles, mostly from the top flight, and a 12-2 mark in doubles. She and partner Linda Fritschken, the 2013 Barry Female Athlete of the Year, won the NCAA Division II doubles title in the fall and became the first Buccaneers in history to win the ITA Super Bowl and earn a bid to the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships.
The Professor Neill Miller Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award was given to the male and female student-athletes with the highest cumulative GPA while meeting specific criteria for academic progress and athletic participation.
Baseball senior Tyler Kellmann won on the men's side. He carries a 3.807 average in criminology. He has been the start at first base this season for the Bucs, leading the team in RBI and tying for second in homers. He had a team-best 16-game hitting streak earlier this year and reached base safely in 28 of the first 30 games.
Soccer junior Natalie Diaz was the winner on the women's side. She has a remarkable 3.975 GPA in sociology. Diaz was a starter in the defensive third for the Bucs aas they won the Sunshine State Conference regular season title and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. She contributed three goals and an assist and helped the team post the best goals against average in the conference.
Akemi Maehama of women's tennis earned the Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin Service Award. Vice-President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, she has been very active in coordinating, leading and participating in the service initiatives for the women's tennis team. In addition to working at Camillus House on a regular basis, she participated in Miami Shores Community Day, Gobble Wobble 5K, Community Fest, Light the Night Walk, the holiday party for H.A.N.D.Y., MLK Day of Service and the Buc Walk Challenge. She conducted tennis clinics for Japanese. Her biggest project was an initiative to end hunger called Food for the Poor. Food For The Poor is the largest international relief agency in the United States.
Women's tennis made it back-to-back wins of the CHAMPS/Lifeskills trophy, which had previously been dominated by softball and women's soccer. Softball finished second, while men's soccer placed third.
A list of all award winners is listed below:
Men's Soccer
Jon Samford Award (MVP)
Johnny Rodrigues
Mike Mikulin Most Inspirational
Bryan Brown
Women's Soccer
Players' Player of the Year
Lavinia Nkomo
Coach's Player of the Year
Becca Rogers
Men's Tennis
Most Outstanding Team Leadership
Leo Vivas
Most Outstanding Team Motivator
Romain Costamagna
Women's Tennis
Freshman of the Year
Anaeve Pain
Most Outstanding Player
Karina Goia
Men's Golf
Carlos Velez Sportsmanship Award
John Yu
Player of the Year
Adam Svensson
Women's Golf
Team Leadership Award
Martina Bertuccioli
Player of the Year
Nicky Ferre
Bill Reifsnider Award
Tyler Kellmann
Silver Slugger Award
Sheehan Planas-Arteaga
BADIA Award
Julie Brito
Golden Shoe Award
Kayla Ogle
Men's Basketball
Cesar Odio Award
Magne Fivelstad
Most Valuable Player
Deric Hill
Women's Basketball
Coach's Award
Colette Eule
Most Valuable Player
Tyler Hardy
Red & Black Award
Jasmine Serna
Coach's Award
Ashley Carrero
Most Improved Award
Ellen Hartman
Best Attitude Award
Jelena Momirov
Coach's Award
Marquet Houston
Athletic Training
Athletic Training Student of the Year
Stephanie Rivera
Professor Emerita Neill L. Miller Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Tyler Kellmann (Baseball)
Natalie Diaz (Soccer)
Athlete of the Year
Adam Svensson (Golf)
Tyler Hardy (Basketball)
Emma Onila (Tennis)
Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin Community Service Award
Akemi Maehama (Women's Tennis)
CHAMPS/LifeSkills Competition
First Place
Women's Tennis
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Third Place
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The Incompetent Leadership Class in a World of Hurt
It should be apparent to all by now that the Obama administration is fifth-rate at best. Perhaps any American administration in these days would be. It is stuffed with self-important folks with Ivy-league wallpaper, few competencies, and endless ambition.
Meanwhile the US was embarrassed (thankfully, for those of us fearing a world war) by Iran's recent nuclear deal with Brazil and Turkey; frozen in the headlights by the No. Korean torpedoing of the So. Korean ship; tap dancing as fast as they can to do endless U turns in Afghanistan re: Karzai; and in a daze regarding the Gulf oil disaster. There isn't a logistics expert in sight, no one with an organizing principle or maybe any principles at all. And the financial meltdown is far from over.
The signs of delusion and decay are everywhere. Any self-respecting rat should be hunting for the nearest porthole.


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Inauguration 2013: Social Media Guide
From the official app to the Twitter accounts, Scott Austin joins digits with a look at Inauguration's social media app. Photo: Apple, Inc.
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Mt Everest – Panorama of the Far Side and the Central East Face
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Francesca: Long Plus Size Dress
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We love getting design suggestions from our members, and here is another one: Our lovely plus size evening gown. Elegant, flowing, and flattering, this pattern offers loads of room for variations and fun. Depending on your design choices, you can make it dressy or casual, short or long. Enjoy!
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Thank you for finally adding plus size patterns. I'll actually be spending some time over here if there's something for me!
Sep 23, 2008, 03.44 PMby misstaken
I have a hard time buying that this model is "plus sized". She looks more like an 8-10 US.
Sep 23, 2008, 03.24 PMby anitrasb
I was sooo excited when I saw the email announcement about this dress variation. A million thanks to BurdaStyle for offering plus-size options—even if it's just one dress at a time, I'll happily take it! :)
Sep 23, 2008, 02.19 PMby hans1247
I am SO excited for this! Thanks! I love having more options in my size range. I am high "average"/Low "plus sized" and I am learning to sew specifically because stores do not sell clothes that fit well. I am still getting the knack for up sizing patterns. I will be working on this dress.
And yesm, that model is GORGEOUS! So beautiful!
Sep 23, 2008, 02.00 PMby dorion
Benedikta explained the sizing situation perfectly — thank you. Not all styles were meant for all sizes. Beyond that, the smaller size stitchers are complaining that large size patterns won't fit them? Seriously? There are, what, 4 or 5 smaller size patterns to every ONE larger size pattern.
Aug 29, 2008, 11.05 AMby ohnomysweet
I like the overall design. But, were I to make it I would lower the neckline to about mid-bust and let the chiffon cover the majority of the bust (to give it a bit of an 18th century feel) and I think I would make it a bit fuller.
Jul 24, 2008, 09.34 AMby Nicole Denson
I love this dress! I am definitely making this one! I agree with some of the other comments, I would love to see some burdA patterns in A greater range of sizes, because some of these styles are universally flattering. I really do love this Austen-esk dress I am going to make on for me, and one for my mom, and that model is gorgeous
Jul 21, 2008, 02.04 PMby denisestahl
If you print out the pattern fit to the page, what % increase do you tell the printer to set it for?——-Denise
Jun 28, 2008, 04.20 AMby artnik
I've made a 50-page PDF of this pattern in both A4 and 8.5×11 versions. I didn't follow the site's standard print-at-home tiling guidelines, but it does include printer borders and enough overlap to match all the pieces.
I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to upload it; can someone help me with that?
Jun 27, 2008, 08.16 AMby jadestar
I really like this, but do not have any copy shops near me. Is it not possible to split the patten into two separate downloads that interlink as normal once printed? Just a thought.
Jun 26, 2008, 02.42 PMby mata
Nice dress, but… this model, she is a breathtakingly beautiful woman.
Jun 26, 2008, 11.14 AMby bellamabella
i saw this and i got goosebumps. OMG im running to Mood Fabrics today after work to get started on this. as a "thick" girl , its hard finding patterns that you dont have to fuss with and look great. I CANT WAIT
Jun 26, 2008, 05.33 AMby nehmah
What happened to the comments above? Nehmah
Jun 26, 2008, 01.00 AMby das-fraulein
Those who weare smaller sizes don't have to panic, you just have to make some little changes with the Danielle dress, to get something similar to this beautiful gown (I love it! Maybe I'll make this one for my sister).
Unfortunately my English is too poor, to make a real "How to", but i can try to explain it shortly. When youre smaller bustet, princess seams are not necessary, so you don't have to change the bust part. When you don't want to have the puffed sleeves of the Danielle dress, take normal sleeves of another dress or blouse and change the pattern, until it fits. Make the skirt part of the Danielle dress longer. If you like, you can take out the pleats in the front an cut the pattern in the front and in the back at the darts/pleats. Then you have three parts in the front and in the back, which can be made wider or smaller, to shape the kind of siluette you like.
Hope, this was kinda helpful… *Sorry for my bad English :/ *
Jun 26, 2008, 12.58 AMby benedikta
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for all your comments. Of course would we would prefer to offer you all patterns in all different sizes, that would be ideal. The reason why that is not possible is because certain designs are set out to fit a curvier body type, versus other designs. That means that we don't only grade patterns up in larger sizes, we design them completely new to really work for a plus size versus a smaller size. The other reason why we only offer a certain amount of sizes on one pattern pdf is because the depiction of more than 6 – 8 sizes on one pdf becomes unclear and hard to use. As you see all these decisions are made to make the quality and usability of our patterns the best experience possible even if it means that not each of the patterns are the exact fit for every single one of you. Feel encouraged to give further feedback as in regards to what you would like to see on our site.
Jun 25, 2008, 05.01 PMby staticstasy
Yayy!!! I am happy I am not the only one! :)
Jun 25, 2008, 06.56 AMby victors
think this is a lovely dress and the fact it comes in a size i don't have to fiddle with to fit makes it all the more attractive.
Jun 25, 2008, 02.29 AMby aliish
Such great suggestions here. I myself am in a high average to low plus size and it is time consumming to up and down size a pattern. But I'm really thrilled about there being more plus size patterns and I think Polychromatin has a great idea about possibly having two downloadable patterns. Or maybe just increasing the size range of patterns. Thanks again Burda. Stay Well, ALiish
Jun 24, 2008, 11.47 PMby klaartje
I do totally agree with the above.. My first thought was … 'WOW, very sense and sensibility, i love it' until i saw the pattern sizes. I m a 8 (us size) 34 (eu size) and this one is too big to size down by myself….
xx klaartje
Jun 24, 2008, 10.23 AMby nehmah
Good suggestion, Burda. Everyone likes stylish clothes, but not everyone has the ability (even with how-to's) for up- or downsizing patterns. If a reasonable charge is added, so long as the size range was broad enough, more would buy. I've said this before; I can't see buying a pattern, no matter what the price, if I have to spend two or three hours redrafting it to fit me. It isn't just me; Francesca is for plus sizes, but many 8's, 10', and 12's (US) would find this an attractive, comfortable garment. It can't be printed at home due to length. But the Cate dress is a good pattern, with a note how to make it into a gown. The $2.00 (US) cost is fair, but it stops at 44 and I start at 50:( I know you can't please everyone, but this does seem a reasonable request. Yours truly, Nehmah
Jun 24, 2008, 08.09 AMby polychromatin
It's really nice and I grant it all members that have only a little choice for they sewing projects, but like staticstasy I'm a little bit sad that there's no new pattern I can use. I mean is it really neccesary to divide the patterns in "normal size" and "over size"? Or wouldn't it be possible to make two downloadable patterns for the two sizes? Then everyone would be happy ;)
Jun 24, 2008, 03.04 AMby marijapo
This dress is great! My hubby likes the seventh photo very much, so we both enjoyed visiting burdastyle.com. :)
Jun 23, 2008, 05.04 PMby nehmah
Does anyone have the name of a copy shop, even if they aren't in Tennessee, that will do a copy of this pattern #6024? I'd like to see the cost for the copy and shipping, or for an upload to my computer. I can't drive and the nearest shop is in Nashville, about 45 miles from here. Nehmah
Jun 23, 2008, 04.09 PMby staticstasy
Well.. I guess it's nice.. Although I can't use it..
Jun 23, 2008, 02.10 PMby katiebones
i love this! I've been lusting after dresses like this in jane austen movies, can't wait to try it out!
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Professor Cynthia Wachtell uncovers Melville, Twain, Hawthorne, Whitman, and others opposing war
In War No More Cynthia Wachtell offers an important, new interpretation of American antiwar writing and reveals the shared antiwar impulse of some of the giants of American literature. Voicing their opposition to war's brutality, absurdity, inhumanity, and irrationality, these authors gained favor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the implications of modern warfare became increasingly evident.
War No More is a landmark study, the most important work on war writing to have emerged in many years.
—John Stauffer, Chair of History of America Civilization and Professor of English at Harvard University
* 2011 Connecticut Book Awards - Finalist in non-fiction
* 2010 New England Book Festival - Honorable mention in non-fiction
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To the riders who watched the CTA board vote last week to cut their bus route so the agency could beef up service in other areas, consider the plight of Little Village.
In 1997, the CTA eliminated a bus route that traveled along 31st Street because the route saw low ridership. The line was one of 10 bus routes cut in an attempt to save the agency $25 million a year. At the time, officials said alternative service was available.
But the residents of Little Village didn't see it that way. They wrote letters and held community meetings and contacted their local officials to have service restored. They even debated running their own shuttle to get residents to their jobs or nearby rail stations.
Three years ago, federal funding was approved for bus service along 31st Street, but the CTA was unable to match the grant with $1 million.
Finally, Little Village residents saw their bus service restored—two weeks ago. And only on a temporary basis.
The CTA said it will study the route, an extension of the 35th Street bus that now operates along 31st Street between Kedzie and Cicero avenues, for six months. The cost of the six-month trial is $600,000.
That's exactly how much money the CTA is saving annually by eliminating the No. 145 Wilson/Michigan Express, which was one of more than a dozen routes that saw total or partial elimination.
Again, CTA said alternative service—the No. 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express, which will see more service—is sufficient for riders of the No. 145, which runs along the lakefront between the Ravenswood Metra station and the LaSalle Street Metra station.
Again, residents wrote letters and contacted their aldermen. They crowded into a room for one community meeting earlier this month and delivered impassioned pleas to save their bus—which with 6,600 weekday riders, certainly doesn't suffer from low ridership. The No. 145 sees more riders than about two-thirds of the CTA's bus routes.
And though the CTA said it received more than 400 comments from riders, many asking the agency not to cut the No. 145 or eliminate some of the service of the No. 11 Lincoln Avenue bus route, all six board members present voted for the bus cuts. (The seventh board member, Jacquelyne Grimshaw, was not present for the vote.)
Before voting, some board members said it was not an easy decision to make. The comments, the petitions, the presence at meetings wasn't enough to sway even one board member to vote against the proposal, which takes effect in mid-December.
Perhaps if North Siders keep trying to push for the service, as Little Village residents have done, they too, will see their service restored. Let's just hope it doesn't take another 15 years.
Art of the deal
The CTA is seeking artists to create works for seven Red Line stations currently undergoing rehabilitation. The agency is hosting two community meetings about the project, which has an Oct. 10 deadline for submissions.
The meetings will be held 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, at the Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway; and 7 p.m. Thursday at United Church of Rogers Park, 1545 W. Morse Ave.
Meanwhile, Art on Track, an annual event that features an art gallery on a moving CTA train, will be held 5-10 p.m. Saturday on the Blue Line between the Logan Square and UIC-Halsted stops. Tickets are available for $10 at artontrack.eventbrite.com.
A weekly dispatch from a CTA station of note
This week: Pulaski Pink Line
This stop, in North Lawndale, features blue-and-red mosaics with quotes from famous African-Americans such as poet Haki Madhubuti and boxer Muhammad Ali, but not all signs in the station were worth looking at Monday morning. That's when Going Public noticed two of the electronic displays on the platform were not working. Perhaps it's a sign that maintenance needs to visit this station.
Next up: Bryn Mawr Red Line
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Amanda Seyfried: 'Mean Girls' is My Best Work!
Amanda Seyfried totes around a Rudsak coat while arriving at the LAX Airport after attending the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday (January 24) in Los Angeles.
The 27-year-old actress recently chatted with Indiewire about her new film Lovelace and how she looks back on her role in Mean Girls.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Amanda Seyfried
"I've just worked a long time. I've gotten a lot of cool opportunities here and there and I've made some good choices with the help of my amazing team," Amanda shared.
Amanda added, "I was with them since I was 16. It all feels right; it feels good. I still look back at Mean Girls as my best work."
FYI: Amanda is wearing The Frye Company's Engineer 8R boots.


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It was a clear Moonless sky, perfect for me to get out of town and snap a few images of our Milky Way Galaxy, which Sky and Telescope has chosen one for their online readers photo section, which is cool. Traveled for about 30 minutes, far from the city lights to a little back country road. So I pull off the main road onto a dirt road that disappeared about 20 yards in, thought this will do, got out of the car and set up my equipment. The Milky Way was a sight, beyond description. As I was taking pictures cars coming up to my spot would slow down thinking I was a cop, once they found out I wasn't they honked their horns, I thought this can't be good, gonna make some people a little upset, Hey whatta gonna do.
I was thinking to myself as I was admiring the utter magnificence of our home galaxy, the people driving by don't know and don't care what's going on, traveling to and fro, while the cosmos is just above them. Whenever I look at the stars I think there is so much we don't understand, example, did you know that we still haven't mapped the entire Milky Way yet, they are saying that there are still areas of the Milky Way that if where on a map would have to say, "There be dragons here". Well when you think about it, it's like trying to map a forest when you're in the midst of it, hard to do.
Some fun facts about our Milky Way.
All the stars we see in the night sky are from our Milky Way, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200-400 billion of them.
Our Milky Way is around 100,000 light years in diameter and 16,000 light years thick.
Dust and non-luminous matter is the reason for the dark rifts in the above images, which block the starlight from the stars behind it from reaching us.
Our Sun orbits the center of the galaxy, which by the way takes 200 million years.
Since it's birth, the Sun has orbited the center of our Milky Way only 20 times.
Our Milky Way Galaxy was formed around 13 billion years ago, the result of a large collapsing ball of gas and dust.
The Milky Way is part of a local group of galaxies of which Andromeda is a part of.
The Andromeda Galaxy is moving towards us at a speed of 1,800 km per minute, impact in 3 billion years, not to worry, the Sun will have fried us by then, not to worry, we will attain Class III civilization by then if we don't destroy ourselves first and will have started to populate other planets in the galaxy, but first we have to get to Mars, which I have already bought property on, being the forward thinker I am.
I'll leave you now with an animated gif of one of my Milky Way images.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Our Milky Way Galaxy
36 comments:
- Susanne49 said...
What a great post again, Bob! Thank you!
And you are right, why to worry about being destroyed by the moving towards us Milky Way - in 2012 is anyway everything ending here on earth... right? :-)
- August 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Texas Travelers said...
Enjoyed this post. Most people have no clue. Wonders abound everywhere.
- August 4, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Oswegan said...
I love views of the milky way. especially when out camping away from the city lights.
- August 4, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Don said...
You must feel so good when you see photos like the ones you posted and know that you and your gear did that! Those photos rival anything I have seen, including scenes from Battlestar Galactica.
Kidding aside, excellent post!
- August 4, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Drowsey Monkey said...
Excellent post :) And fabulous photos. Living in the city I don't get to see all those stars, I need to get out of town and look up more.
- August 4, 2008 at 5:46 PM
- Ruth said...
Now I'm a blathering idiot swimming in that incomprehensible information, mouth hanging open. Your images are fantastic, and I love hearing about how people react to you out there. Be careful though.
Thanks for reminding me how incredible this place it.
- August 4, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Susanne, I keep on forgetting about 2012, I even had someone at work just the other day telling me it was all over in 2012,lol.\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 7:59 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Troy, so true.\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks for dropping by oswegan, camping and the Milky Way, an excellent combo.\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 8:06 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol fellow BSG fan, Thanks Don, it felt pretty good, was quite surprised the difference getting out of town did to the final product, I was actually amazed I took them,lol.
The city lights just take away so much of the night sky, too bad.\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks drowsey monkey, pictures even awesome ones like mine,lol, just don't do the Milky Way justice, it is so in your face huge in real life, if you ever get the chance, you gotta get out of town and look up.\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 8:14 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Ruth, I know, always in the back of my mind, I have the door to my car part open, and a plan of escape just in case.\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Marvin the Martian said...
Lovely pictures!
I can't believe that you bought Martian land from humans. ;-) What will the Martians say about that?
- August 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, and thanks marvin,\m/\m/
- August 4, 2008 at 9:38 PM
- Nature Nut /JJ Loch said...
FANTASTIC images of the Milky Way, Bob. I was thrilled to find it glows in the sky right above our house on clear nights. We're right underneath a beautiful part of the band. :D I never noticed it when we lived in the city.
- August 5, 2008 at 8:13 AM
- Swubird said...
Unbelievable shots of the Milky Way. My Queen even took a look, and it's hard to get her in front of the computer.
Love your work.
Happy stargazing
- August 5, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks JJ, you are so lucky to be living in an area where you can see it without having to travel anywhere, like you said, can't see it at all in the city.\m/\m/
- August 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Lol, thanks swubird glad you guys liked the images.\m/\m/
- August 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great pictures Bob! I put up a couple of new moon photos, not the greatest, but they are alright.
- August 5, 2008 at 2:18 PM
- Will said...
When we were just camping, my son asked me a couple of questions about the Milky Way. One was "Are all the stars we see in the Milky Way? I told him I thought so, but knew just who to ask. Here I am back in civilization and the first post I read here answers the question. Weird kind of cosmic coincidence, I guess.
- August 5, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- Carole said...
Great shots Bob, wow wonderful very interesting post.
- August 5, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Jared, I'll have to get over and take a look.\m/
- August 5, 2008 at 11:54 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Hey glad to be of service Will, too cool that it happened that way.\m/\m/
- August 5, 2008 at 11:55 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks and thanks for dropping by Carole.\m/
- August 5, 2008 at 11:56 PM
- Sherer said...
Wow bob, what a beautiful pictures..... And yes i do believe we will find dragons.
That great to be able to drive 30 minutes and have a view like that. For us about 45 will give us the milky way - but not in the glory like that. Then death valley which is spectacular is about 1 hour 30 away. But well worth the drive.
I had a great view of the lagoon nebula last night. Beautiful. Have you ever been able to get a good image of that one?
- August 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks Jesse, wow, Death Valley, I bet you get great views there, it would be worth the trip.
No I haven't imaged the Lagoon yet, but it is on my hit list, major problem with light pollution where I live, very hard to get good deepsky images, it is a beautiful nebula.
- August 6, 2008 at 7:10 PM
- kml said...
Bob, I have never seen such magnificent images of our galaxy! It was worth the drive - they are beautiful, and I am glad we have you to share them with us!
- August 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- AngelBaby said...
Wow! Another amazing post, you did it again. I loved the pictures, really beautiful. I love looking at the stars and wondering if we will ever figure out how it all started, let alone map the Milky Way. I think we will figure out a way to survive, so don't worry about it, OK?
Love and Blessings,
- August 6, 2008 at 11:58 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
thanks Kathy, glad you liked them.\m/\m/
- August 7, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Bob Johnson said...
Thanks AngelBaby, glad you liked the post.\m/\m/
- August 7, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- Priyank said...
Wow Bob, one of your finest posts I think. Its not easy to mix information, humor and knowledge together. Indeed, looking at the stars makes me wonder about the little things we are so preoccupied with.
- August 13, 2008 at 11:46 PM
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I would appreciate if a staff member here at blackholesandastrostuff.blogspot.com could post it.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:22 PM
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- October 16, 2010 at 9:10 PM
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- December 10, 2010 at 4:50 AM
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Boldly Empowers the Digital Artist
So I've been playing around with Adobe's lateset version of Photoshop that will be coming out in the next month, CS5, and I have to say that I think it represents a bold, dramatic and fundamental shift in digital art creation. I've been using Photoshop for many years now but this version has blown me away like none that I've ever seen.
The new version has lots of cool new toys and tools for photographers, which I'll get into, but for me by far the most significant achievement in this new version is that it has for the first time made painting available to the photographer.
I've wanted to paint for years, but have never had the talent with a physical paint brush. I've tried various software solutions to paint digitally and never have they done what I want. Usually painting effects in digital imaging software come out more as cheesy filters, routinely and uniformly applied over an entire image, resulting in something that feels more like a faux painting than a painting. But with Photoshop CS5's new painting module, you have a new unprecedented amount of control over painting and brushes and can manually now paint over a photograph and turn it into the most realistic version of an actual painting I've ever seen.
I can't wait to see what people end up doing with the painting module in the new Photoshop. Yesterday I uploaded my first "painting" to Flickr (above). It's very crude and rough and I only spent about 10 minutes on it, but I think you get the idea with what is possible. I'm really looking forward to trying to replicate more photorealism with some of my neon sign photographs especially. The other two images in this post of the reclining nude and neon Kodak sign are also paintings made from photographs of mine.
So more than anything the painting tools and their total realistic representation blew me away in Photoshop CS5. I'm impressed big time. I was so impressed with that new feature that I hardly had time to really dig into more of the new tools for the photographer.
So what else is new for the photographer in CS5?
1. HDR, HDR, HDR. Now I'm not really an HDR photographer (yet), but Photoshop CS5 has new HDR functionality allowing you to combine multiple exposures to create hyper-realistic photos. Now I've tried HDR before in both Photoshop as well as other software packages and could never really get the hang of it. It seemed super hard to work with. It feels much easier in Photoshop CS5. CS5 also brings you the ability to create a HDR like photo from a single photograph rather than multiple exposures by using HDR Toning which mimics the HDR look in photos.
2. Much cleaner removal of unwanted elements in your photos. In the past if I wanted to remove something from a photo it was very difficult. Painstaking. It was tough with the tools to get all of the nuance of color around an image, the little halo left behind, etc. Now Photoshop has what they call "content-aware fill options".
Basically when you remove something it automatically analyzes the surrounding area to replace perfectly what was around that content. It looks at the lighting, tone, sharpness, and essentially dynamically rebuilds what should have been there. It can even handle complex patterns where someone is standing in front of something like a wall or something with an intricate design. Adobe showed me an example where they actually remove a guy from in front of a wall. You'd never have known he was ever there.
3. Puppet Wrap. Because you are the puppet master, right? It's hard for me to explain puppet wrap exactly. But basically you can reshape objects in a frame, actually recompose a subject. See Adobe's example of the elephant's trunk.
4. Automatic lens correction. I don't really use this, but the new Photoshop can now correct lens distortion better, correcting the three most common lens-based errors: geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting.
5. Along with Photoshop CS5 comes the new camera RAW 6 plug in. This is the same camera RAW plug in that is presently being tested with the Lightroom 3, beta 2. Most significantly, Adobe has taken noise reduction to a new level with Camera RAW 6. I am amazed at how effortlessly and easily Adobe removes the noise from even the highest shot ISO images. Of all the things I've been playing around with in the Lightroom beta right now, this is by far the most significant improvement for me personally.
My only gripe about the noise reduction capabilities in the new camera RAW is that the results of your noise reduction (and sharpening) are only visible if you view at actual size 1:1. I wish that Adobe would render full sized view options with the actual results of noise reduction and sharpening instead of making you have to zoom in all the time — at least this is the case in Lightroom 3 Beta 2.
6. Adobe added a new mini bridge module for Photoshop. Now you no longer have to switch back and forth between Bridge and Photoshop to look at your photos from an organizational standpoint. Simply use the mini-bridge view from within Photoshop.
It should be noted that with Photoshop CS5 Adobe also introduced over three dozen new little productivity saving changes, features, shortcuts, etc. There are new features like cropping with a rule of thirds overlay, one click straightening, the ability to do better and easier conversions from color to black and white with tints to get tinted monochrome images and others.
Adobe also introduced some new tools to build 3D graphics with Photoshop. I can't imagine using these personally, but if you do create graphics, this will be a nice new tool as well.
As always, you can easily use Lightroom as your first pass photo application and then use the Photo > Edit In > menu in Lightroom to bring the adjusted photo right into Photoshop to do your final finishing on it where wanted/needed.
Overall I'm *extremely impressed with the new version of Photoshop. While I do 95% of my processing of my images in Lightroom and usually only go into Photoshop for touching things up, it still is a must have application for my own workflow. More significantly going forward though, I will definitely be using Photoshop *much* more to keep up with my new hobby of painting my photographs. I'm also looking forward to exploring HDR a bit more and all of the other improvements that the new Photoshop brings to the table.
Hats off to the Photoshop team on the best version of Photoshop yet!
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More acres in the hands of fewer growers. That pretty much describes the Georgia tobacco production situation for 2005, according to J. Michael Moore, University of Georgia Extension tobacco specialist.
While the state's agricultural statistics service is predicting a relatively small drop in Georgia tobacco acres this year — from 23,500 to 19,000 — Moore says only about half of the approximately 1,000 growers who planted tobacco in 2004 will plant again this year. And, he adds, the predicted acres for 2005 is questionable.
"The numbers are very fuzzy," he says. "There's no required reporting anywhere of contracted pounds. The only information you can get is word-of-mouth, and I'm not sure how much stock to put into that. It's a guess."
This will be a transitional year for Georgia tobacco producers, says Moore. This past fall, the federal government ended the tobacco quota program that began in the 1930s. The program helped farmers receive consistent prices and guaranteed a steady supply for U.S. tobacco companies.
Tobacco companies are scheduled to pay growers about $10 billion in compensation over the next 10 years in the form of a quota buyout. The buyout and uncertain future have prompted many Georgia growers to exit tobacco production, says Moore.
"There's also a lot of uncertainty and concern because we're now faced with late decisions on contracts, resulting in the late seeding of beds and delayed orders for greenhouse plants. All of this meant that our plant situation was tight to begin with. Now, we've had 12 inches of rain in a two-week period, and only a few growers have been able to get into their fields," said Moore in mid-April.
Transplanting is running behind, says Moore, certainly behind the April 7 cutoff date for reducing the incidence of tomato spotted wilt virus in tobacco. At a time when more than half of Georgia's crop usually has been planted, only 5 percent had been planted, he says. The planting window normally is March 20 to April 20.
Those farmers who still grow tobacco now contract their crop directly with the tobacco companies, says Moore, and many are disgruntled with this year's offerings. "Companies didn't offer the contracts until late, and growers were not pleased, especially with the Reynolds and Universal contracts. They were very low. Also, the Reynolds contract requires dropping one-third of the leaves on the bottom part of the plant onto the ground, and not harvesting them. This reduces yields by about 20 percent and reduces the overall value of the crop by about 15 percent, according to North Carolina data," he says.
The average price for tobacco last year was $1.85 per pound while contracts this year are about 35 to 40 cents less, he says. This is near the break-even level for many growers.
Growers do expect to receive buyout checks by the end of September, says Moore. But in the meantime, there's no ready capital to pay operating expenses. "We have a good number of growers who have retired, and some who have turned their operations over to family members. There doesn't appear to be another crop that's directly replacing tobacco. Some growers are in limbo, and they're not sure what they'll be doing."
Some growers have said that they'll sit out this year and possibly grow tobacco again next year, but Moore doesn't think that's likely. "I believe once a grower has sat out for a year, he probably won't come back. Many growers have sold barns and other equipment needed for producing tobacco."
But it's still too early, he says, to count out Georgia tobacco growers. Once the U.S. tobacco industry settles from this transition year, the companies may want a more stable supply that's closer to home, and they'll increase their contracts with U.S. farmers, says Moore.
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Author and 1998 Kimball High School graduate Gwen Anderson will visit the Kimball Library on Saturday, Nov. 9, at 10:00 a.m.
Gwen was a normal teacher, married for just over two years, when her personal storm broke. Gwen was diagnosed with breast cancer and faced an unexpected divorce. She found herself dealing with cancer treatments and divorce while struggling to keep her home, job, and sanity.
A longtime keeper of journals, she shares her quiet inner struggles in her book titled, My Three Lumps: Surviving Breast Cancer and Divorce Simultaneously at Age 28 hoping to inspire others in similar situations.
Gwen is happily remarried and lives in Central Minnesota with her husband and their daughter.
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At this time, genealogy-specific apps do not appear to be available for the Kindle Fire. I expect that will change in the coming weeks. In the meantime, Kindle Fire users have access to all of their favorite web sites, such as Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, FindAGrave (and for me, about 300 more). The sites appear just as you are used to seeing them, just on a 7" screen. However, you can turn the device to landscape mode or use your fingers to make the type on the page appear larger. This technique does not work on mobile-enhanced pages. Bottom line is that once I have become accustomed to managing my viewing space, I am able to read any web site fairly easily.
|The Home Screen of the Kindle Fire
Books, documents and apps apear
on a virtual bookshelf with most recent first.
Access to the internet also means that I have access to all of the files in my Dropbox folder whenever I have WiFi access.
As with the Kindle 3 that I've been using for more than a year, the Kindle Fire also serves as a large capacity USB drive. I'm able to transfer files to my Kindle Fire via drag and drop.
I recently created an Adobe PDF file of my ancestors from Family Tree Maker, so I dragged and dropped it into the documents folder of my Kindle Fire. It's nice to have some of those reports and other resources available if you're on a spur of the moment library or cemetery trip and don't have your mountain of paper with you.
You'll also see in the photo that I have the Kindle version of the Family Tree Sourcebook. More genealogy titles have become available for the Kindle in the past year, including books by Megan Smolenyak, George Morgan, and others. When I first got my Kindle 3 last year, only a handful of genealogy titles were available; now a search has more than 1,000 titles. Many of these are self-published eBooks and family histories. And just this month, Amy Coffin of the We Tree genealogy blog published her excellent resource for bloggers, The Big Genealogy Blog Book. Even if you don't own a Kindle device, you can order and read these books right on your computer.
As a teller of family history stories, I always have in the back of my mind the publishing of a family history ebook. Just get the information "out there" and available to other family historians. With electronic publishing so easily available, anyone can publish their genealogy books with little overhead.
I've also test driven the Kindle with Legacy Family Tree webinars. The sound and video quality is great. The wealth of instructional genealogy videos available on YouTube is at your fingertips. Anything you've accessed on the web is readily available for viewing on the Kindle Fire.
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PDF files transfer easily to the Kindle.
As I mentioned in last year's post, you can also use the Kindle to house those 800 page county histories that you find on Google books and other web sites. At 14.6 ounces, the Kindle weighs a lot less than those dusty old books. And without that "old-book" smell!
Speaking of the weight, the Kindle Fire weighs more than my Kindle 3 at 8.5 ounces. This was an adjustment, since my older model is very lightweight. Even though under a pound, I'm finding the Kindle Fire is becoming easier to hold. It's just something to get used to.
Will I be sending my Kindle 3 to the Technology Graveyard? Not anytime soon. In a future post, I will address the differences between the two devices and how there is still room for them both in my life.
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How To Taste Wine Like a Wine Professional
One of the things that I am continually struck by is how little confidence many wine drinkers have in their ability to taste wine. Comments such as, "I don't know anything about tasting — I just drink the wine," are frequent. What I think they are really saying is that they do not have the confidence to articulate what they taste. If you can taste food and describe the flavors, you can do the same with wine.
Perhaps the problem arises because we so often enjoy wine in social gatherings, where we are so focused on chatting, eating, having fun and so forth, that we don't give any thought to the wine being swallowed, so long as it is not unpleasant.
With that in mind, I thought I'd write up a quick post on how to taste wine like a wine professional. To turn the theory into practice (and fun!) I have listed four wines at the end of the post. I strongly suggest you try these or similar style wines and taste them using the techniques described below. You are sure to find lots to say about each wine.
Important first steps are to make sure the glass you are using is clean, and that you do not fill it too full. About one-third full is best.
As a professional wine educator, I have a very structured approach to tasting. But it essentially boils down to:
• What the wine looks like
• What the wine smells like
• What the wine tastes like
By evaluating these, you can draw conclusions and make certain judgments about the wine's quality, style, maturity and ageing potential. Here are the basic things you will need in order to taste wine.
What You Need
Clean, dry wineglasses
Wine, such as the suggested bottles listed at the end of this post
Your nose
Your mouth
Your eyes
1. Evaluate Appearance
The color of a wine gives us clues about the wine. To examine the color, tilt the glass away from you. Observe the color at the core, as well as at the rim.
Color can be an indicator of the wine's maturity and age, or of the grape variety. The color of white wine deepens with age, talking on a golden or amber hue. A deeper color in a white wine can also be an indicator of oak treatment. Conversely, red wines become paler with age, developing a garnet or brick colored rim. Some grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah are very thick skinned, resulting in deeply colored (often opaque) wines, while varieties such as Pinot Noir, Grenache or Gamay generally make much paler colored wines.
2. Nose the Wine
To nose a wine, gently swirl the wine around a few times in the glass. This releases the aromas and opens up the wine. Probably the most important reason to smell a wine is to check for faults and ensure that it is in good condition. A quick sniff will tell you whether the wine is flawed – corked, oxidized, or has been somehow tainted due to poor winemaking, maturation or storage conditions.
The intensity of the aromas can give you a hint about the grape variety, as well as the style. New World wines tend to be more fruit forward on the nose than their old world counterparts. More prevalent earthy, mineral notes tend to indicate an old world wine. If you get lots of overt vanilla, coffee, toastiness you can deduce that the wine has had a good whack of new oak treatment.
The characteristics of the fruit are also important. Ask yourself "what am I smelling? Is the wine fruity, floral, herbaceous, earthy? Is the fruit fresh and vibrant? Or, baked and jammy?
Another important aspect of nosing the wine is to see whether the aromas change over time in the glass. Higher quality wines will evolve and become more complex in the glass, whereas, lower-end wines stay the same at best, or dissipate.
3. Coat Your Palate
To taste a wine, take a decent sip. Swirl the wine around in your mouth, making sure it coats your whole palate. If you can, slightly purse your lips to draw in some air. Think about what you taste while you are doing this. Then you can spit or swallow.
When we taste a wine, we examine two things. Firstly, we evaluate the wine's structure. This means the acidity, the alcohol, whether the wine is dry, off dry or sweet, and in red wine, the tannin. Wines differ in their levels of acidity, alcohol, dryness and tannin. What matters most is that the wine is structurally balanced and in harmony with the fruit. For example I am sure that you have all tasted a wine of just 13% that felt hot and alcoholic, and also tasted a wine of 14.5% that, while warming was balanced.
Acidity is a very important component in wine. Acidity makes a wine refreshing, critical in our desire to take a second sip. Too much and the wine can be a bit tart, too little and you get a flabby wine. The acidity of a wine depends on both the natural acidity of the particular grape variety, and also on the climate in which it was grown. Grapes like Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling are high acid varieties, while Chardonnay is medium, and tends to lose what it has more quickly, as it ripens. As is expected, cooler climate wines generally have higher acidity than warmer climate wines.
In a red wine, tannins are important for structure. Some red wines have a lot of tannin, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas, others such as the Italian Barbera wines, are quite low in tannin. Tannins can be firm, round, gripping, smooth, ripe or even a little green depending on the grape variety, the ripeness of the grapes at harvest, and the winemaking techniques.
Next for evaluation is the fruit – its concentration on the palate and its flavor intensity. Are the flavors simple and one dimensional or layered and complex? Does the fruit have depth of flavor or is it rather dilute? Can you taste oak (toast, vanilla, spice, coffee, mocha, cedar etc) or is the wine un-oaked? Is there too much oak for the fruit or is it just right and well integrated. Judiciously used, oak adds lovely complexity to a wine.
Does the wine have length? Meaning, do the flavors persist across your palate to your back-palate / throat? Or does it seem to cut off mid-palate? Many things influence a wine's length. Perhaps, the alcohol is too high and kills the fruit? Or maybe it is a simple wine (but pleasant), which has given all it has to offer up-front?
4. Evaluate the Style
When we talk about the style of a wine, we mean, whether the wine is light-bodied or full-bodied, easy-drinking and fruity or restrained and minerally, dry, off-dry or sweet, oaked or unoaked. Is it a terroir-driven or an extracted winemaker's wine? A modern, international styled wine or more traditional and rustic? Is the wine a food wine, or best drunk as an apéritif? Is it a wine for a casual gathering or a serious wine for a special dinner party?
5. Evaluate the Quality
Quality is a relative assessment, rather than absolute. Aspects to consider when deciding on quality are whether the wine is balanced, has length, has a decent amount of fruit flavor and has non-fruit notes such as minerality or well-integrated oak that add complexity. Whether the aromas and flavors evolve is another marker. Also take into consideration the price-point. Is the wine high quality for $10 or poor quality for $50?
6. Decide If You Personally Like the Wine
Finally, beyond all this objective evaluation lies the most important taste qualifier – do I like this wine? Do I want to drink it again? As a wine consumer, you don't have to be objective, it is all about what you like to taste and drink. I have met so many wine drinkers that apologize for their tastes. You should never have to apologize for your taste preferences, but, as my great friend and mentor Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW, once said ' but be open to new experiences'. You never know what you might find!
Suggested Wines
I recently gave a small wine tasting for a group of parents in my son's class. To keep it simple I choose four wines that easily illustrated key differences. I choose two reds and two whites. One oaked and one unoaked, one New World and one Old World of each. You can do it easily at home with the following wines:
• 2007 Qupé Bien Nacido Vineyard, Y Block Chardonay, Central Coast, $16 – Forward ripe fruit, oaked, fruit driven style, medium acid.
• 2008 Grüner Veltliner "Gobelsburger," Schloss Gobelsburg, Kremstal, Austria, $16 – Restrained savory, mineral aromas and flavors, unoaked, crisp acidity, youthful
• 2004 Cape Mentelle Cabernet/Merlot, Margaret River, Australia, $20 – Deep color, ripe, forward fruit, lots of oak, ripe round tannins – showing some development
• 2008 Beaujolais "l'Ancien" VV Terres Dorées, Brun, Beaujolais, $14 – Medium color intensity earthy, terroir driven, fresh acid, pure, unoaked fruit.
Mary Gorman-McAdams, DWS, is a New York based wine educator, freelance writer and consultant. She hold the Diploma in Wine & Spirits from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET), and is a candidate in the Master of Wine Program.
(Images Flickr member feverblue licensed for use under Creative Commons; Joseph McAdams)


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HTC has generally always built excellent quality hardware and its latest flagship Android phone — the HTC One — seems to be no exception. The company has just released a short video which details some of the One's manufacturing processes and they look pretty impressive.
The video, published on HTC's global YouTube account over the weekend, features the company's creative director, Daniel Hundt, and the senior director of manufacturing and design, Jethro Liou, describing certain aspects of the manufacturing process. It's naturally a little over the top and includes way too much use of the word "seamless", but the manufacturing processes shown off actually look pretty interesting.
Among the techniques include an "electrochemical etching process" directly on the One's surface that creates a "nanomatrix structure". There's also a custom bolt cutter used to provide natural curve to the casing.
The "no gap" construction means there's no visible gaps or slits in the case design. A diamond cutter tops things off, used to create the bevelled edges around the One.
You can view the "Building the HTC One" video below. Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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Automate, integrate, optimize, and protect
Automate your systems where it makes sense. Optimize systems and integrate information for those who need it, provide context to add value, and make smarter decisions. See 416 reasons to get over any insecurity about implementing multi-layer cyber security processes and technologies.
Automate, integrate
Automated and connected enterprises are optimized for rapid value creation and supply chain integration; they are collaborative, demand driven, compliant with standards and regulations, sustainable, and secure, according to Keith Nosbusch, chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation. Connected enterprises will improve the standard of living for all, create a safer and more accessible food supply, provide more effective treatment of water and wastewater, improve energy management, and create safer and more cost-effective mining, along with affordable oil and gas production. Connected enterprises can accelerate faster than competitors, Nosbusch said.
The Internet of everything will create $14 trillion in value, and the greatest value, by sector, is in manufacturing at 27%, Cisco said. Enablers include cloud mobility, big data analytics, smart things, and security. Cisco also noted that 52% of manufacturers said they'd be using hybrid cloud configurations within 2 years. Mobility is inevitable, as 63% of businesses permit employees to bring their own mobile devices, cited Nosbusch, and, by 2015, 60% of information workers will interact via mobile devices. Enterprise are interested in big data and analytics, according to Aberdeen research, to support collaboration, 39%; to enable more fact-based decisions, 37%; and to find better ways to serve customers, 33%.
Manufacturing generates more data than any other sector, according to a McKinsey report. Even so, data historically has been trapped in assets without context. The key is to use automation to break down barriers and create actionable information, augmenting quality and energy efficiency, for a broader set of users. "Transform data to knowledge and eventually to wisdom," Nosbusch said. He said that using a unified network infrastructure for the enterprise with an integrated control architecture will better connect people for collaboration and faster problem solving. That can include, for instance, doing a better job associating alarms to particular process conditions, he noted.
Examples include King's Hawaiian, which integrates more than 11 production machines for remote monitoring of processes. Toyota has plant-wide visibility and analytics, with access to EPA data, views into root causes of lost production, and real-time access to oven temperatures, for a reduction of rework by nearly a third during one year, saving more than $300,000. For oil production equipment, remote asset monitoring and predictive modeling avoids costly breakdowns by benchmarking multiple locations to identify operating parameters outside the norm. (See related photos online.) A cement company uses active energy management controlling pump, fan, and conveyor efficiencies to see what was supposed to happen as opposed to what did happen. This provides a full picture of energy use as a controlled variable.
Get secure: 416 days average time
What damage could someone do inside your computer and control systems in 416 days? That's the average time before a cyber security breach is discovered, according to Michael Assante, advisor and director at National Board of Information Security Examiners. And worse, after discovery, some companies leave the door open longer than that, because they don't know how to approach cleaning up the mess, for a host of technology, liability, safety, shareholder, intellectual property, and other reasons. Making a dismal discovery worse for more than 90% of the breaches, a third party informed the victim of the attack. By the way, Assante said, every one of these had updated security software and followed recommended procedures.
What else should companies do? A few basic steps include scanning USB sticks upon insertion, doing a network password reset for all devices, and training, especially for system integrators, including newly available certification. Think again: "Not all threats can be thwarted, but companies need to act diligently, or they will fall prey," Assante said.
These comments came from sources at Automation Fair and associated events by Rockwell Automation in Houston during November.
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- 8 medium red potatoes washed and quartered
- 1 sweet onion sliced thin
- 1 red pepper sliced
- 1 green pepper sliced
- Mix vegetables.
- Toss with olive oil.
- Spread evenly in a 13X9 baking pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes in a pre-heated 450 degree oven.
- Remove from oven and toss with
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup Ranch dressing not dry mix
- Sprinkle with:
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- a little crumbled bacon optional
- Return to oven, now at 325 degrees, for 20 minutes or until cheese in melted and casserole is heated through.
Terri's Notes
~ Feel free to experiment with some fresh herbs and all sour cream.
~ Easy to adjust for any size family, more of some veggies, less of others, eyeball the amount of sauce. YOU CAN DO IT! And you'll be glad you did.
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What began with PRE-SAFE® more than ten years ago and continued with DISTRONIC PLUS has now evolved into a new dimension in driving: Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive – comfort and safety have now been fused. You can see it and feel it in the Mercedes-AMG GT.
Thanks to networking – our safety experts called this "sensor fusion" - the intelligent assistance systems analyse complex situations and recognise potential traffic dangers better using sensors positioned all round the vehicle.
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Amanda Wozniak needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 157 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
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Tucked along the banks of St. Croix River just north of Stillwater, Minnesota, Arcola Mills is a serene spot with a long history. From Native and European settlers, to loggers and artist communities, it offers a beautiful respite along the St. Croix. In this audio documentary, KFAI producer Bobbie Scott takes a trip back in time to learn more about the history of Arcola Mills.