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Pity the poor neophyte wandering through the world of wine-and-food matching.
Searching for advice on this subject leaves him pulled in two directions: One camp supports picking whatever he likes, as long as it makes him happy. The other has a different tone entirely, emphasizing hard-and-fast rules.
The fear of doing something wrong tends to win out, and, therefore, we still have many drinkers who think they must rely on classic matches. There are some good pairing ideas embodied in the classics, but some awful ones as well. If you're going to go classic, it's best to go skeptically; look at each one, try to understand how it became a classic and then leave open the possibility of personal good sense trumping the traditional rules.
Before embarking on this journey, it is best to bone up on what I call "The Principles," the things that stand behind both good classic matches and good spontaneous ones. Many food-and-wine matching problems, in fact, come from ignorance of The Principles. Rank beginners think that color-coding is a key element in making a match—ergo, the hordes of white-with-fish, red-with-meat robots. Rise a step up the sophistication ladder, and they start viewing varietal matching as the essence of the game. Chardonnay with lobster. Cabernet with lamb. Zinfandel with barbecue, and on and on, never stopping to think where the wine is made or how the food is prepared. Even more evolved matchers cross the border into the harmony of flavors. If a dish has cilantro in it, they're headed toward a grassy Sauvignon Blanc. If a dish has black pepper in it, they're headed toward a spicy Shiraz. This approach is better, but still leaves out the things that really matter.
The Principles are based on the perceptions that register on your tongue, and on your tongue alone. For it is the interplay of salty, sour, sweet and bitter that makes or breaks a wine-and-food match.
I'm not advocating that you doctor your food to disguise bad wines, or vice versa. Just for the sake of illustration: Does that salad have a sour dressing? No problem—drink a wine with it that is itself too sour, and the wine will taste delicious, richer, fruitier and sweeter. Is that California Chardonnay so sweet it tastes like pineapple juice, ruining your grilled swordfish? No problem—garnish the fish with some sweet mango and red pepper salsa, and the wine will taste drier, more complex, perfectly matched. Among the four tongue sensations, like often goes well with like—except when good matches are made by the contrast of opposites (such as sour and salty).
Color doesn't count. Flavor subtleties, mostly detected by the nose, don't count much either. Certain wine elements, such as fruit, alcohol, oak and tannin, do count, but only in terms of the way they interact with the basic taste sensations on the tongue.
With The Principles firmly in mind, let's test some matches and see if they make any sense.
True Classics
To be a true classic, as far as I'm concerned, a match has to be reliable. The food and wine go well together effortlessly, over and over again.
Smoked salmon with off-dry German Riesling
I've heard Hugh Johnson call this match "the banker"; it is as classic, and as reliable as you can get. All kinds of smoked salmon work well, as do all kinds of off-dry German Rieslings (in fact, drier styles and sweeter styles of German Riesling often work well too). The key is the refreshing interplay between the acidity of German wine and the saltiness of smoked salmon; the latter element also plays brilliantly off of the wine's fruity sweetness. Another contributing factor is wines' low alcohol content: Salty food can taste unpleasant next to 13 percent-alcohol table wines, but wines like these, in the 8-10 percent range, are always harmonious.
Tomato-sauced pasta with Piedmontese Barbera
The outstanding element in any tomato sauce, from the matcher's point of view, is the natural acidity in the tomatoes. It is a quality that makes many, many red wines that are supposed to go with pasta taste clumsy, hot, sweeter and less elegant than they really are. Find, however, a red wine that always features bright acidity, and you've got it made. Such a one is Barbera, produced from the grape of the same name, in Piedmont, where the wine may be labeled Barbera d'Alba, Barbera d'Asti or Barbera di Monferrato. There are other Barberas in the world, but the Piedmontese wines have great acids, even when the producer goes the nontraditional route and puts the wine in new oak.
Garlic sausage with Beaujolais Nouveau
This combination, so popular around Lyon, works because the relatively low alcohol content of this wine doesn't amplify the saltiness of the sausage, and because the acidity in Beaujolais Nouveau cuts through the sausage's fat. Both of those desirables—taming of salt and taming of fat—are helped along further by the wine's abundant fruit, which lowers the impression of salt and covers up the presence of fat.
Roquefort and Sauternes
This classic match owes its status to one factor only: The wine's sweetness serves as a perfect foil to the saltiness of the cheese, refreshing the palate mightily, preparing it for the next rush of salt. The cool temperature of the wine also helps in this regard. And the wine's richness is a perfect mate for the richness of the cheese; they stand side by side in a decadently unctuous way.
Problematic Classics
Now, there are some matches the classic texts guide you toward that can, on occasion, work out well—but you really have to know what you're doing in order to make them work.
Steak and Merlot
I'm not counting out steak and Merlot; it can be quite good, in fact. But you have to juggle a number of factors. The Classicists are always going on and on about rich, velvety beef, and its "natural" companion, a velvety, rich Merlot. There are many problems here. First of all, as anyone who has ever tasted a cheap Pomerol will tell you, Merlot isn't always velvety and rich. But even if it were, even if you could rely on Merlot to be that way, would you still want it to go with your steak? I hold to a hard-and-fast rule about red wine with meat: the rarer the steak, the older the wine should be. Rare steak clashes with fruity, powerful young red wines. Wine that seems a bit outsized on its own turns to fierce, hot, harsh, bubbling juice next to an underdone steak.
If you ever plan to have a steak that's cooked as far as medium doneness, this would be the time to do it; it will go better with your big, young Merlot. If you do have to have your steak rare (I usually do), char it well in preparation for its Merlot moment. Lastly, if at all possible, find a Merlot with age on it. The gentling that comes with age makes Merlot (or any red) so much better for rare steak. Sure, I'll take Merlot with my black-and-blue New York strip—as long as it's a 1985 Château Gazin, or some such wonder.
Raw oysters and Chablis
Who doesn't love this incredible combination—when it actually tastes incredible? The reason it works is that the crackling acidity of the wine perfectly refreshes the salinity of the oysters. On a secondary level, the match works because Chablis' earthy, flinty flavors play so well against the oysters' similar, mineral-like flavors. But there's a big red flag waving at any would-be matcher, and that flag has "modern Chablis" written all over it. Many Chablis producers don't expect buyers to put their treasures in a cellar for 5-6 years, waiting for the fruit to go away and the earthiness to emerge. It's easier for producers to focus on high-priced premier cru and grand cru Chablis, pick the grapes ripe and rich, ferment them in new oak barrels, send something out into the world far more reminiscent of New World Chardonnay than Chablis, and charge a fortune for it. In so doing, they obliterate the oyster connection. No siree, Jacques; with my fines de claires, it's villages Chablis from an older, rainier vintage or nothing (a 2001 or 2002 villages Chablis would be perfect right about now).
Lobster and Chardonnay
Textbook after textbook tells you that this is a classic match, no matter how the lobster is prepared, no matter what style Chardonnay it is. In fact, most of these rule-sympathizers imply that, because lobster is "rich," the "richer" and "bigger" the Chardonnay, the better. This always makes me wonder if they have actually tasted lobster with rich Chardonnay? In my own research on this subject, I have found that lobster is an "amplifier." That is, it makes rich wines taste richer, alcoholic wines taste higher in alcohol and sweet wines taste sweeter. To me, none of these are good things when all you're looking for is a little harmony.
In my view, lobster lovers should seek leaner, drier, crisper styles of Chardonnay, wines that can afford a little beefing up through the "lobster amplification." And, to help the process along even more, a little sweetness in the lobster dish is a good thing—it will assist in "drying up" the wine. A Thai lobster curry, for example (not too spicy-hot), plumped with the natural sweetness of coconut milk, is great with a lean Chablis, an Alto Adige Chardonnay, certain New Zealand Chardonnays and the rare California Chardonnay that's low on fruit and high in acid (such as Kistler's stellar 2004 Les Noisetiers).
Cheese and red wine
Yes, red wine with cheese is a general prescription, one that Classicists prescribe all the time, as if there's some kind of magic connection between any aged curd and any fermented red grape juice. Not so. In my experiments over the years, white wine has proven itself to be much more generally friendly to cheese than red wine has. A particularly awful match is tannic red wine with soft, slightly smelly (or very smelly) French cheeses, such as Epoisses; an ugly, bitter flavor usually arises from this match, sometimes reminiscent of tobacco that someone else has chewed. But don't throw the baby blue out with the bath water. There are two kinds of cheese that I think can be brilliant with the right red wine. The first is chèvre, particularly chèvre with some age; the drier, crumblier stuff is gorgeous with Cabernet Francs of the lighter persuasion (aged Loire chèvre with a five-year-old Chinon is heaven). The other red-loving cheese is very firm cheese, made either from cow's milk or sheep's milk. The wine that's particularly reliable with this type of cheese is a young, fruity red (try some Manchego with your next young Valpolicella, and watch the sparks fly).
New Classics
Lastly, there's a group of matches that no one was making 20 years ago, matches that are emerging as classics for a new generation. These new matches, in some cases, reflect the growing popularity of ethnic dishes that weren't well known before, or ethnic cuisines that weren't being consumed with wine. Others involve food that used to be considered verboten for wine, since many sommeliers now know that no food is off-limits to wine.
Sushi and Champagne
This is my strongest candidate for the "new classic" category because it is as delicious as it is reliable. Sure, you can tweak it—the sweeter the rice in the sushi rice, the higher the dosage should be in the Champagne—but, frankly, almost any bubbly hits the palate just right next to almost any piece of raw fish. Relatively low alcohol, relatively good acidity and the scour of the bubbles against the soft rice are some of the factors that yield success.
Artichokes and Dry Rosé
Years ago, no one would ever dare to serve wine with artichokes because all of the textbooks said that pairing artichokes and wine was a no-no. We have since come to understand that artichokes' fatal flaw was cynarin, a naturally-occurring chemical that makes anything you taste after you taste them taste considerably sweeter. I still would not serve my perfectly balanced 1961 Château Haut-Brion with an artichoke; who wants to make it taste sweet? The dry rosés in Tavel, in the south of France, are forbiddingly dry—just perfect for the artichoke. The coincidence is that this is prime artichoke country. If you serve some simple, freshly cooked artichoke hearts—or, better still, those same hearts tossed with a little olive oil and garlic—you'll be amazed at the way in which your Tavel Rosé becomes much fruitier, less austere and much more attractive.
Cheese enchiladas with New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
There's actually no need to focus on cheese enchiladas alone. Most cheesy Mexican food that's not too amped up on chilies goes beautifully with New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. This is news to us because we traditionally paired Mexican food with beer, margaritas, or, at our most daring, sangria. When upscale Mexican restaurants with serious wine lists came on the scene, people began to experiment. Then came word that good wine, really good wine, is being made in Mexico's Guadeloupe Valley, in Baja, California (with Sauvignon Blanc being the best of all, by the way). Finally, it occurred to everyone—why not drink wine with Mexican food?
You often hear Zinfandel touted as a great Mexican food wine, but I often find it a little too brawny with this sometimes chili-flecked cuisine; the Zinfandel seems like a bully just waiting to pick a fight. Crisp, fresh Sauvignon Blanc, on the other hand—with great acidity ready to cut through the cheese and creaminess, with body ready to stand up to the corn and cheese, with grassy flavor ready to echo the cilantro and capsicum—seems tailor-made for almost any non-incendiary plato mexicano you can dream up.
Tandoori chicken with Pinot Noir
Indian cuisine is also gaining popularity as a wine-friendly cuisine, and no Indian dish is more popular, or more suited to wine, than tandoori chicken. One thing that makes it work so well is its relative mildness; a good one indisputably carries the rich, spicy flavors of India, but in a much subtler way than many of the other dishes on the menu. This is a job for Pinot Noir, which I've enjoyed many times with tandoori. Now, I'm not recommending a high-priced Burgundy for this job; that degree of subtlety is likely to get washed away. But the more fruit-driven Pinots of California and Oregon combine beautifully with tandoori chicken; the wines' good acidity cuts the richness of this preparation, their fruit and spiciness line up unusually well with Indian spices, and their medium-weight textures bond with the medium weight of chicken.
Classics? Well, there are some things in this world you gotta count on. But don't count on too many matches guaranteed to work or fail. Just as there are no great wines, only great bottles of wine, so are there no great matches, only a great match on the table tonight. May there be one on yours.
David Rosengarten is the editor-in-chief of The Rosengarten Report, a monthly food-and-wine newsletter. He is also the author of five cookbooks, including Red Wine With Fish, The Dean & Deluca Cookbook and It's All American Food.


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- Mark Levine's Debt and Enola Gay (reread, so counts as 0.5 each) [DONE]
- Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space
- C.D. Wright's Steal Away [DONE]
- John Berrymans' The Dream Songs [HALFWAY]
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies [DONE!]
While I should/maybe be proud of what I've pummeled through for this week, I'm disappointed that I'm not closer to finishing this week's goals. It is possible that I finish The Dream Songs today, but honestly: it's such a downer that my emotional ennui/depression from reading about Henry/Mr Bones is keeping me from moving as a rapid pace.
Depressing to read Berryman's Dream Songs? How surprising, Diana!
I do want to start the Bachelard--so maybe I'll take a break from sad/angry Henry and read about SPACE, which I think is a neutral topic? A girl can hope.
In other unrelated news, this week has been the blasts from the past week. And for a moment in my Berryman-induced-ennui I feared that in x number years, I wouldn't have any persons/moments for which to have future blast(s) from the past. I'm suffering from self-perceived friendlessness.
But what if it is true? I need a new narrative.

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Welcome! What a great time of year - we're coming into my favorite season~
So many photos and so little time~ This is just a first peek - please check tomorrow or Tuesday for the final look - it's promising to be worth the wait!
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The Transitional Phase
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At some point babies learn that they are individuals. D.W. Winnicott dubbed this process the "transitional phase". First, a subjective reality is constructed in partnership with the parent. The infant has an internal instinctual stimulus: hunger, and the parent magically responds to this stimulus. The infant believes they are creating the breast, it appears as the infant desires it. The illusion is created that the breast (or bottle) is "part of the infant." Hunger is an internal stimuli and so the infant first creates a subjective reality. The parent then proceeds to disillusion the infant through a slow, careful decline in responsiveness, which results in the transition between a solely subjective reality to one which includes an objective reality. At this transitional point, the infant is "becoming able to accept difference and similarity." Winnicott theorizes this experience begins with the initial activity of babies sucking their thumb and/or caressing their face with their fingers. During this time the infant begins recognizing and introducing "other-than-me" objects.
Tamara Rosenblum is a Los Angeles based artist working in video and photography. Her videos make use of Absurdist theatrical texts to explore the psychology of intimacy. She received her MFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 2013.


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Just as farmers are beginning to collect their harvests in the northern hemisphere, I am just starting my garden in our backyard in Cuba.
A few months back, the summer heat and frequent rainstorms decimated what I'd tried to grow last spring. Since then, the unforgiving Caribbean sun has made it almost impossible to start anything — seedlings would just wilt in the heat. (Our produce in the summer is limited to mostly avocados and mangoes; thankfully we like both!) Still even in October, a garden could be in peril. A hurricane could strike, as one recently just hit eastern Cuba, several hundred miles away from us. But I'm taking my chances, because I am craving kale and arugula like crazy.
I've taken my first real stab at gardening since moving to Cuba. Previously, I have lived in apartments and townhouses with almost zero green space in crowded cities. I had no idea what I was missing. I never thought I could adjust to the suburbs, but here I am, in a big house with a backyard. There is something less dismal about the Cuban suburbs (at least mine), as compared to the ones I've experienced in the U.S. For one thing, neighbors tend to be out and about, on the sidewalks in front of their homes, chatting with each other on a regular basis. And the new entrepreneurship wave that's hit Cuba means that many of my neighbors have opened businesses in their garages and living rooms. Next door to my house is a popular pastry shop; just a block away, my barber has created a beauty salon out of her front yard; a new British pub selling pints of Guinness along with ropa vieja operates just down the street.
Our backyard is an oasis from all this activity, even if it's just about a sixth of an acre. It's a jungle filled with trees and plants that provide plenty of shade. Two palm trees tower over one side of our yard. My kids are often outside with squirt guns or in our kiddie pool. Often, the neighborhood cats (pets shared amongst families in our community) that our kids have named "China" and "Donkey" stroll through, hoping to score some leftovers of my cooking. A frangipani tree shades our driveway and drops beautiful white and pink flowers on the windshield of my car.
The backyard doesn't just provide beauty — it also provides us with automatic nourishment. From May to August, mangoes drop from two enormous trees that tower above our two-story house. Avocados also appear around the same time, giving us endless bowls of guacamole. (The only problem is the lack of tortilla chips.) Throughout the year, every couple of months, our backyard bequeaths us with an enormous bunch of bananas, maybe 30 or 40 that ripen at the same time, making batches of banana bread a necessary task. The coconuts present the biggest challenge — they can be deadly, should one fall and hit someone underneath, so friends occasionally shimmy up the trunk to smack them down. We grate the flesh from the coconuts and bake it to add to my granola (recipe to come). Also a certain kind of green grows on vines over one fence of our house. The Cubans call is "espinaca" but it's not the spinach with which I am familiar. An American friend who hails from the south happened to visit one afternoon and told me that it was malobar spinach. It is thick and a little slimy but delicious when sautéed quickly over high heat for a couple of minutes and makes a good bed of greens to go with my Cuban roast chicken and some mashed potatoes.
Now that the weather is cooler, I am restarting my garden, to supplement the bounty our backyard is already giving us. I'm being ambitious this season. In addition to kale and arugula, we are also planting cauliflower, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloup, basil, and mint. One recent Sunday afternoon, while my husband was kiteboarding and I was home with the kids, we started the seeds in plastic yogurt cups. (As I've written in previous posts, I dislike store-bought yogurt, but I buy it occasionally because my kids love it, plus, I can repurpose the containers.) My kids helped for a little while, but soon got bored of shoveling the dirt, and turned their attention to the Little Mermaid in Spanish, which was playing on my computer. No matter; how can I expect them to get into gardening so young, when it took me almost 40 years? Maybe in a few months' time, when the plants began to bear little red cherry tomatoes and juicy melons, they'll change their minds. But there's a lot to do before then; I'm scrambling to find good soil, new containers, and possibly a professional gardener who can help with all that's hopefully about to come up.


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I am currently on the Atkins diet, phase 1, and I am loving it! During the first phase I am restricted to about 20g of net carbohydrates* per day. This muffin has only 2g of net carbs! This works really well for my body since carbs are difficult for me to digest anyways. Here is a quick recipe for a "muffin" using ground flax seed instead of flour. I adapted it from a recipe on the Atkins website.
- 4 Tbsp 100% Ground flaxseed with mixed berries
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder (double acting)
- 1 tsp Splenda, Truvia, or other sugar substitute
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp freshly ground nutmeg, optional
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger, optional
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp unsalted butter (melt for 10 seconds in microwave)
- Combine dry ingredients (flax, sugar substitute and seasonings) in a 1-cup glass measuring cup or microwave safe mug.
- Add egg and stir to combine. Stir in butter.
- Microwave for 1 minute.
- Run a thin spatula or knife around the edge to loosen the muffin and serve on a plate with butter, cream cheese, or creme fraiche.
Nutritional information:
235 calories, 2.1g net carbs, 12.4g protein, 17.6g fat, 9.4g fiber
*Net carbs are calculated by subtracting fiber from total carbs


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Future of Flight
The 150-foot video screen lifted, the hangar doors parted, the light shone in and Gulfstream made history—again. Just a few minutes removed from publicly acknowledging the existence of a development program for two all-new aircraft—the Gulfstream G500 and the Gulfstream G600—Gulfstream introduced the G500 in a dramatic powered rollout, with the first aircraft of its kind taxiing into position outside the same facility that houses its new production line.
Aircraft manufacturers typically debut products as "paper airplanes," showing drawings, computer-generated renderings or scale models as stand-ins for the actual jet. Occasionally, plane makers will drop a curtain to show the new aircraft or use a tug to pull it out in front of an audience. The all-new G500 amazed everyone when it met the world under its own power—not that those in attendance could tell the Pratt & Whitney Canada engines were running.
"With the applause, you couldn't hear them," says Larry Flynn, president, Gulfstream Aerospace. "They run very, very quiet."
The launch event for the G500 and its sister aircraft, the G600, made noise of another sort when it revealed not just one but two industry-changing aircraft that will certainly make their mark in business aviation history.
The perfectly timed and choreographed launch event delighted the 2,500 customers, prospects, dignitaries industry analysts, media members and Gulfstream employees in attendance on October 14, 2014, and the two clean-sheet aircraft wowed those inside the industry.
The consensus was the G500 and G600 represent an aviation rennaissance.
"These new airplanes reflect the optimal combination of form, function and efficiency with wide cabins, advanced technology flight decks and high-speed performance," says Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of Gulfstream's parent company, General Dynamics.
Anticipation is sure to build in the months to come. The same G500 that strutted across the ramp at the launch event will complete its historic first flight this year. The first delivery is scheduled for early 2018. The G600 will come to market approximately a year later. In the meantime, Gulfstream's aeronautical engineers will perform more than 20,000 test hours on the aircraft systems in the company's Research and Development Center.
"Even before the G500 we saw at the launch event was built, it was a very mature aircraft," says Dan Nale, senior vice president, Programs, Engineering and Test, Gulfstream. "By the time we start deliveries, these aircraft will already be top performers."
The clean-sheet approach to the design of the all-new G500 and G600 included a clean slate for the cabin. Just as optimization was the theme for the airframe, flexibility was the focus for the interior.
Optimized Aircraft
The Gulfstream fleet expands to eight aircraft with the addition of the all-new G500 and G600. The new jets fill niches in business aviation's most respected lineup, offering unique combinations of speed and range with next generation flight decks and cabin environments.
The design for the G500 and G600 is the product of an optimization philosophy. Gulfstream's Advanced Technology Customer Advisory Team, a group of Gulfstream operators who meet twice a year to offer feedback and ideas on products in development, urged the company to create aircraft with different mission ranges while maintaining the Gulfstream jet experience.
"They weren't looking for replacements; they were looking for more choices," Flynn says. "We strive to give customers what they ask for, then optimize the aircraft for what they need."
The optimization efforts stretched from the nose to the tail and wingtip to wingtip. The fuselage keeps the Gulfstream G650's ovoid-shaped, not perfectly round design, for ample shoulder space and headroom. The clean wing and T-tail are aerodynamically engineered to provide a blend of range, speed, fuel efficiency, and takeoff and landing performance, as are the Pratt & Whitney Canada 800 Series engines.
Together, the components that make up the airframe produce real-life time machines. The G500 and G600 cruise at up to Mach 0.90 and fly a top speed of Mach 0.925, shifting the aviation paradigm. Customers base their cruise speed on range and how fast they can fly for each mission, meaning the ability to fly faster and farther for long-range travel is extremely appealing, says Scott Neal, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Gulfstream.
"Our customers are using speed for every mission," Neal says.
Optimization means operators of the new aircraft won't sacrifice range to travel at high speeds. The G500 will fly 3,800 nautical miles/7,038 kilometers at Mach 0.90, enough to travel from Miami to São Paulo. The G600, meanwhile, can cover 4,800 nautical miles/8,890 kilometers, or the distance between Los Angeles and London, at that speed.
Performance, says Neal, is where the new aircraft really shine.
"We have a very long-term development strategy," Neal says. "Cabin volume, range and speed were the design drivers, and our combination of those will be matched by no other aircraft."
Focus on the Cabin
The clean-sheet approach to the design of the all-new G500 and G600 included a clean slate for the cabin. Just as optimization was the theme for the airframe, flexibility was the focus for the interior.
Customers demand options in cabin experiences. Large-cabin, long-range aircraft are as likely to be purchased by individuals as corporations. So Gulfstream's completions engineers developed multiple distinct seating configurations, from traditional club seating and conference table settings to a media area and, in the case of the G600, a stateroom.
With three living areas in the G500 and up to four in the G600, customers can mix and match those seating configurations during the outfitting process. This creates "literally hundreds of floorplans," says William Gay, director, Completion Planning, Gulfstream.
Gulfstream built a full-scale G600 cabin mock-up as a preview for customers. Based on the G600 specifications, the mock-up demonstrates Gulfstream craftsmanship and features 14 large panoramic windows. The company also constructed two additional living area concepts—the media room and stateroom—to display alongside the cabin mock-up at the 2014 National Business Aviation Association Convention & Exhibition.
The interior static display succeeded in evoking an "emotional connection," says Cindy Halsey, vice president, Completion Planning and Design, Gulfstream.
"We are providing a lifestyle, not just an aircraft," she says.
Yet style and functionality alone don't equate to cabin bliss. Gulfstream incorporated its renowned interior environment features into the design for the G500 and G600 to create what Gay calls "the best cabin experience in business aviation."
The panoramic windows provide abundant natural light, and travelers breathe only 100 percent fresh air replenished every two minutes while airborne. The cabin is pressurized to less than 3,300 feet/1,006 meters at the initial cruise altitude of 41,000 feet/12,497 meters, reducing the impact of jet lag.
Acoustically, the cabin is as quiet as that of a luxury automobile traveling at highway speeds, even when the aircraft is streaking between destinations at Mach 0.90. The new aircraft will be equipped with numerous other amenities, including state-of-the-art communications and entertainment options.
"These new airplanes reflect the optimal combination of form, function and efficiency with wide cabins, advanced technology flight decks, and high-speed performance."
Intelligent, Immersive Integration
Innovation is a Gulfstream hallmark going back to the development of the Gulfstream I in the 1950s. Nowhere is that ingenuity more apparent in the new aircraft than the flight deck.
Gulfstream introduced flight computers, the integrated digital cockpit and the Enhanced Vision System to business aviation. The company's engineers again revolutionized flight deck technology in developing the all-new G500 and G600.
The Gulfstream Symmetry Flight Deck™ changes the way pilots aviate, navigate and communicate. Industry firsts such as active control sidesticks and touch-screen controllers work with a next-generation fly-by-wire system, known as Intelligence-by-Wire™, and leverage Phase-of-Flight™ technology.
"The flight deck is mind-blowing," says Michael McCauley, a pilot, aviation executive and ATCAT member. "When you get into a cockpit that is this different but is easy to use and promotes that kind of work flow … wow."
The active control sidesticks were the difference makers in the flight deck design process. Active sidesticks, long a feature in military fighters but never before used in civil aircraft, mimic the operation of the traditional pedestal-mounted yokes. When one pilot makes a course adjustment by moving one sidestick, the other pilot feels or sees his or her sidestick move accordingly. Such active controls help prevent pilots from inadvertently fighting each other for control of the aircraft, as can be an issue in other aircraft that use sidesticks that are not digitally linked.
"They had to be active before we would consider putting them in our aircraft," Neal says.
The sidesticks were designed for comfort and safety. The controller is mounted on the outboard armrest where a pilot's hand naturally rests. And the absence of a control column means more space in the aircraft's flight deck, even allowing for foldaway work desks for the pilots.
The active control sidesticks drew high praise from aviation journalists. Veteran pilot Fred George, Aviation Week's aircraft evaluation specialist, spent time in the G500 cockpit flight simulator and wrote simply, "I'm sold."
The touch-screen avionics controllers, meanwhile, were tailored to reduce the time it takes to prepare an aircraft to fly. Most business aircraft flight decks are full of switches and dials and require 20 minutes or more of preflight checks and adjustments. Gulfstream engineers set an ambitious benchmark for the G500 and G600: 10 minutes or less. Such a significant change called for significant measures, and touch-screen tablet technology and smart software provided the opportunity for a major overhaul. The Symmetry Flight Deck features 70 percent fewer switches than the typical business aircraft cockpit and the avionics software provides a structured task list for greater efficiency.
Once in the air, the touch-screen controllers employ Phase-of-Flight technology. The system structures avionics input options to match only the tasks appropriate to that point in the mission. Phase-of-Flight also filters out input errors to enhance safety.
Gulfstream's smart technology extends beyond the flight deck of the G500 and G600. The aircraft will be the first wired with a Data Concentration Network, an advanced data delivery infrastructure that acts like an aircraft's central nervous system. The DCN collects data and makes that information available to systems around the airframe for better aircraft trend monitoring, reduced power consumption and simplified wiring.
The DCN significantly reduces cables and parts as well as the size of the cabin radio racks for a lighter and more spacious aircraft.
Building a Better Aircraft
Some industry-changing products are conceived and developed in a residential garage. The all-new G500 and G600 required roomier confines.
Gulfstream constructed two manufacturing buildings specifically for the new aircraft. Both are Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) certified. The facilities are located adjacent to each other on the Savannah, Georgia, campus and were organized to maximize efficiency and leverage Lean production methods.
The buildings are assembly plants, one for the wing and tail, or empennage, and the other for the airframe. Both are equipped with state-of-the-art robotics and three-dimensional modeling design geared to produce parts.
The real epicenter of the ingenuity behind the G500 and G600, however, is located a mile away from the manufacturing buildings in a state-of-the-art test facility.
Several labs and mock-ups enable systems to be thoroughly evaluated and tested in a controlled environment prior to the assembly of a new aircraft. Gulfstream first incorporated an Integration Test Facility, or ITF, during development of the Gulfstream GV in the 1990s.
New labs and systems have been added to the ITFs for development of subsequent aircraft, and the test facility for the G500 and G600 is the most advanced yet.
And for the first time, the engineers, scientists and technicians involved in the development of the aircraft work in the same building as the labs.
"The facility allows us to remove all the excuses," Nale says. "The efficiencies happen in real time. We take all the production specs and put them into the labs and test them."
The finished product guarantees to deliver tomorrow's flight experience today. One of the two G500 launch customers, Qatar Airways' Akbar Al Baker, sums up what promises to make the G500 and G600 so desirable to owners.
"We base our decisions on innovation, engineering advancements, performance enhancements and design elements," Al Baker says. "The G500 is truly at the top of its league in the business jet industry and fits the service promise we have committed to deliver on."
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art journal/
I have not been working in my art journal on a daily basis because I decided at the end of August that striving to be creative every day in whatever way I could, might work better for me instead of doing one thing. See this post for more on this. Since then, I have done a number of different things daily -at least some little creative thing, but I did miss my art journal. So, this is what happened over the past few days. It allowed me to create, which I needed to do and it allowed me to journal my thoughts and share them with you, which was important to me. Click to enlarge.
I sprayed Adirondack washes on in butterscotch, lettuce + denim, then I sprayed with plain water. This journal is filled with watercolor paper so it accepts all this wet media readily.
I love the patterns that were made by the spraying + diluting with water.
Then I sat down and wrote. That was what I wanted to do and it felt good.
Within my journaling I wanted to include the not good news, the bad news about my dad's health -his cancer. We received it this past weekend when he went to the hospital.
Thank you to all my friends for their support and love.


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Cosmetics maker Avon Products (AVP) reported a surprise quarterly loss and a 16% drop in revenue as demand fell further in Brazil and China.
Shares of the pioneer of the direct-selling business model fell more than 4% in premarket trading on Thursday.
Avon is trying to reverse a more than four-year decline in sales by selling non-performing businesses, cutting jobs and making new investments in its supply chain.
In March, Avon sold 80% of its North America business to investor Cerberus Capital for $170 million.
In the first quarter, sales across all its markets fell with South Latin America, its biggest, declining 28%.
Sales in Brazil were hurt by taxes levied on cosmetics beginning 2015, which made Avon's products more expensive. In China sales were impacted by fewer representatives selling its products, the company said.
Avon's total revenue fell to $1.31 billion. On a constant dollar basis, revenue rose 2%.
The net loss attributable to the company widened to $165.9 million, or 38 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31 from $147.3 million, or 33 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, Avon reported a loss of 7 cents per share.
Analysts on average had expected earnings of 2 cents per share and revenue of $1.29 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.


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I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We have been very busy and I have not found time to be able to get to the computer, but it seems as though things are slowing down a little bit. Chelsea made some wonderful gifts for Christmas this year that I wanted to share with you.
We went to a pillowcase workshop for 4-H several months ago and Chelsea learned how to sew a really cute pillowcase. She made two more of these at home and gave them to Nick and Alex for Christmas. She also read the book Sewing for Dummies and sewed a table runner and lapkins and gave them to my mom and dad (not pictured.)
For the last several months Chelsea has been working on improving her knitting. The best book we could find for beginning knitters was an Usborne Book called How to Knit. There were several different projects that were very doable for a young girl with no other instruction ( I have never learned how to knit myself.) From this book she made a scarf for daddy, a cell phone case for me, and two little monster toys for Anthony and Christian. Christian loves his and kisses it every time he picks it up. Chelsea worked very hard on all of these gifts and I am very proud of what a great job she did.


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The Pope has appointed the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, as Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, following the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien.
Cardinal O'Brien stepped down on Monday (25 February) following allegations that he had behaved "inappropriately" towards three serving priests and a former priest. Archbishop Tartaglia will lead the diocese until a permanent appointment is made.
Tartaglia said: "These are painful and distressing times for the archdiocese. I also feel pained and distressed.
"With the grace of God, I will do my very best to oversee and govern the archdiocese until the appointment of a new archbishop. I ask for your prayers."
Archbishop Tartaglia attracted criticism across the political and religious spectrum in July 2012 when he suggested that the death from pancreatitis of gay Labour MP David Cairns, a former Catholic priest, was connected to his sexual orientation.
The Archbishop later met Mr Cairn's partner and said he was "sorry for any hurt" that had resulted from his comments.


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US foreign policy: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Today, I have heard one of the most chilling programmes on the radio for a very long time. I used to work in a local radio station, and I listen to the wireless all the time, as I hardly watch much TV, apart from the news and Still Game.
It was a long day at work today, and I finished about 19.45h. On the way back, I realised that Hecklers, the new Radio 4 debate program was on. Excellent, I thought: long day in the office, but a pleasurable drive back from Edinburgh to Glasgow listening to informed opinions and intelligent debate.
But the proposer of tonight's programme was one of the most dangerous and deluded people I have ever heard on the BBC.
Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argues that
it would be better to have a war with Iran than to allow its government to
develop nuclear weapons. He debates the issues with a panel of hecklers,
including George Galloway, in front of an audience at Chatham House in London.
This individual argued, in his soft American tone and paused, affable, if slightly irritating speech, that it would be in the best interests of the West to go to war against Iran rather than to allow that country to develop nuclear weapons. Patrick Clawson is deputy director for research of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. More info on the interesting views espoused by Mr Clawson here…
Don't want to go into a tangent here... but Near East? I always thought it was Far East but never mind...
After a few minutes listening to his disparaging arguments I started to feel sick. My legs were trembling. Listening to that man gave me the creeps. I was listening to a man advocating going to war against Iran as a pre-emptive step to bring stability to the region.
Now, where have we heard this line of argument before?
Although the program is called Hecklers, it is nothing of the sort. The proposer has three slots in which he can develop his argument and the 'hecklers' (panellists) are not allowed to interrupt during the first 3 minutes or so of each slot. Then a bell goes off and the panel guests are allowed to raise questions. Today, George Galloway MP was always the first to speak up after the bell rang.
Whatever one thinks of Mr Galloway and his politics and media persona, it is undeniable that the man is a great orator, and one of the few MPs in Parliament willing to challenge the establishment. If only there were a few more like him, perhaps this country would not be now fighting a pointless and illegal war based on false "intelligence". As much as I disagree with the majority of Gorgeous George's politics, today he was top notch. He tore apart every one of the arguments put forward by Mr Clawson.
I recommend that you set aside about 1 hour of your time to listen to the program via the BBC Radio 4 website.
It shows to what extent American foreign policy is the cause, rather than the cure, for most of the ills in the Middle East and the Gulf region. For Mr Clawson, it is quite alright that Israel already has nuclear weapons pointing at Iran and other states, and that we (as in the US and the UK) are supplying conventional and nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The former is a theocracy where women are second class citizens. The regime in Saudi Arabia is probably the most tyrannical in the region, and certainly the least accountable to the population. As for Pakistan, it is a breeding ground for Al-Qaida terrorists, and a country divided between a secular or moderate population and the mullahs supporting Islam fundamentalism. What happens if the latter ever get into power and get control of the nuclear weapons supplied by the US and the UK?
Exactly this is what happened a few decades ago. In order to overthrow the Soviets from Afghanistan, the US financed and supplied the Mujaidins with training and conventional weapons. Once the Soviets were expelled from the region, they turned against the US and the West. These are the origins of Al-Qaida: US finance and training. The US trained and armed Osama Bin Laden. That is the result of US foreign policy.
You may be too young to remember: Iran was a democracy a long time ago. However, its leaders did not yield to US and UK foreign policy so the US&UK instigated a coup after Iran's elected government renationalised the oil industry; then the Shah took over and instituted a dictatorial regime. Read more about Operation Ajax in the Wikipedia. Yes, we (the US and the UK) instigated a coup against a democratically elected government to get control of Iranian oil.
The people of Iran rebelled, both the secular moderates (yes, there was a Communist Party in Iran...) and the Islamists joined forces and they did overthrow the dictator; sadly, the radical Islamists won the internal battle for government control. Then they turned against the US and against the West.
Remember the Iran/Iraq war of the '80s. Well, guess what: Saddam Hussein was supported by the West and supplied with the conventional and chemical weapons he used in the bloody war against Iran. We (US and UK) supplied Saddam Hussein and his regime with weapons. A few years later, the US and the UK bombarded Iraq, causing mass civilian casualties but without deposing the dictator. In 2003, we then have the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition and the country is now is a much worst state, on the brink of civil war and engulfed in sectarian violence, than it was with Saddam in power. And now the Iraqis are turning against the US and the West.
Do you see a pattern emerging?
You can read all this and much, much more in the extraordinary, priceless, colossal book "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East" by Robert Fisk.
Admittedly, I have not yet started reading the book. A certain master degree thesis on Credit Default Swaps is taking a lot of my spare time –about 1 year and 4 months to be exact.
So you can imagine my anger when this very dangerous man was arguing live on BBC radio 4, the moral and cultural backbone of Britain, that a US strike against Iran would somehow encourage middle-class Iranians to rebel and overthrow the tyrannical dictatorship of the Council of Guardians. It was frightening.
However "imperfect" (a word he constantly used to refer to the Non-Proliferation Treaty) the Iranian electoral system is, at least people can and do vote. The same cannot be said of Saudi Arabia, apparently the West's ally in the region, with its total disregard for human rights and lack of any progress towards democracy or a more equal society for men and women.
He also said that an attack against Iran would prevent the NPT from becoming irrelevant, even though there are "imperfections" (i.e: non-compliance) in the system. He said something along the lines of "I would hate to lose that imperfect instrument in the pursuit of the perfect instrument". In other words: it is ok for the UK, the US, France, Israel, India, Russia and others to violate the terms and the spirit of the NPT, but not for Iran. Some hypothetical, yet-to-happen, imperfection is punished by war; current imperfections are ignored. To say this smacks of double standards would be an understatement.
We are told that Iran, according to Mr Clawson, is an "irrational player", behaving according to an "apocalyptic theocratic view" of the world. At this point I almost choked on my chocolate bar. Is it not the President of the United States who had claimed that God had given him permission to go to war in order to prevent the threat of an Iraqi attack against the West? To me that sounds pretty much like an irrational player with a theocratic apocalyptic view of the world.
No nation has behaved more irrationally in the Middle East than the US. Supporting and arming some dictatorships; going to war against others; and doing both with some, as in Iraq. Yet, Mr Clawson, and the US political establishment, either Democrats or Republicans, are in complete denial about the havoc, mayhem and suffering US foreign policy has created around the world, especially in the Middle East.
The last point put forward by Mr Clawson is beyond surreal. He argues that an US-led attack against Iran would unite Iranians in blaming their own government for developing nuclear weapons and thus provoking a crisis. This popular rebellion would result in the Iranian regime engaging (i.e: yielding to US foreign policy) with the West. For someone who claims to be an expert in the Middle East, this is surely a joke.
But the warmongering lunatic goes on: according to him, an attack against Iran should not mean a land invasion of the country, but rather targeted, high-precision attacks against military objectives. Have we not heard this before? Yes, we have. As recently as 2003, when the US-UK coalition targeted attacks against Iraqi military infrastructure resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the destruction of hospitals. I also remember a certain aspirin factory in Sudan that was targeted with a combination of intelligence and high-precision weaponry.
Mr Clawson also argued that not only Iran's population would rebel against their elected leadership following a US attack, but also that Iran's neighbours would rise to the challenge and support US action too. This is the world of fantasy inhabited by the neocon revolutionaries in the US.
This last point was absolutely demolished by all panellists. One by one, audience members and panellists reduced Mr Clawson "lightweight argument"(quote from a former correspondent of the FT in Tehran) to what they are: absolute warmongering shite. The only voice of support came from, wait for it... an US Embassy employee.
Priceless if it was not so depressing.
What is scary about this man and his ilk is their level of delusion; their disregard for the facts about the Middle East, and the loss of human life; their arrogant ignorance of the damage US foreign policy has caused in the region in the last 40 years, 20 years or even since the ill-conceived invasion of Iraq. As with the Iraqi non-existent weapons of mass destruction, an enemy is created and the threat is hyped up in the friendly press, and thus war is justified. Their irrational minds see no flaw in this perverse logic, despite its disastrous consequences in Iraq, or in Iran decades ago.
War is still another option in the US foreign policy toolkit and the neocons have not learnt anything. And now they want to start another war against Iran. History will not be kind to these despicable people.
And the question for us in Britain is: what will PM Gordon Brown do? Will he be America's lap dog like former PM Blair, or will he have an "ethical foreign policy", as New Labour promised in 1997? I am not sure I want to know.
Next week, Hecklers will hopefully be less frightening and distressing. Tax specialist Richard Murphy argues at the free market Institute of Economic Affairs that Britain should stop trying to woo the foreign super rich with tax breaks.


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Continuing on the theme in my last post, here's an article from earlier this month on the chemicals potentially present in women's bodies. "Pregnant Women Awash in Chemicals. Is That Bad for Baby?" Time, 1.14.11
In addition to big bellies, pregnant women are toting around dozens of chemicals, including some that have been banned for decades and others used in flame retardants, sunscreens and non-stick cookware.
"We looked at data on 163 chemicals and found that many of them are present in virtually all pregnant women," says Tracey Woodruff, director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF).
Woodruff counted the number of chemicals that pregnant women are exposed to and discovered that 43 of the 163 chemicals tracked were found in more than 99% of pregnant women.
Those chemicals included polysyllabic tongue-twisters such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), phenols, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate. Also found was benzophenone-3, an ingredient in sunscreen.
Some of the chemicals were found in concentrations that have been linked to problems with brain development in childhood and fertility concerns potential, according to Woodruff's research, which is being published today in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Woodruff crunched data on 268 pregnant women from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which collected blood and urine samples from participants in its National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004.
Bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial plastic-hardening chemical that baby bottle manufacturers have phased out in the wake of consumer protests — was found in 96% of the pregnant women. BPA, which is still used as a liner inside metal food and beverage cans, has been associated with hormonal disruption and adverse brain development.
"We should be concerned about the number of chemicals pregnant women have in their bodies and we should we taking steps to find out what the implications are for exposure to multiple chemicals," says Woodruff, who is also an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
The U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 hasn't been updated since its creation, says Woodruff, which is reason enough to demand an overhaul. The law allows chemicals to be distributed in products without first being declared safe.
"If you go into a drugstore and buy shampoo, it can have chemicals in it that could be harmful," says Woodruff. "We need to be re-examining the laws because chemicals are not being sufficiently tested and regulated." Read the rest here...
Also check out the Environmental Working Group's amazing presentation, 10 Americans.


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What is KelticTurners
KelticTurners is a browser extension that may cause different problems. Most users have no idea about how did the extension come to the browsers since they never try to install such a plugin on purpose. The truth is, such an extension can be bundled with third party freeware and shareware that added to your computer secretly as an additional tool.
KelticTurners is classified not only for the questionable promoting method, but also for the annoying ad-supporting feature. KelticTurners ads are displayed in the form of banners, boxes, pop-ups or in-text. They can be recognized due to the labels like "Brought by KelticTurners". To catch your eyes and earn pay-per-click revenue, KelticTurners will probably monitor your daily browsing and collect your information carefully. Your preferred site, recent search terms and even your position can be used by the adware to deliver targeted ads. So if you see the ads are related to your concerned information, you should not get curious and visit them, otherwise you will be redirected to unwanted programs and get more dubious additions.
In short words, this adware brings troubles more than convenience, you should take actions to remove the threat and get rid of the ads as soon as possible. Before starting, you can use a reliable scanner to see if there are other problems need to deal with.
Remove KelticTurners in correct steps
Open the browsers menus and find the add-on related options, find out the ones related to
KelticTurners and remove them
KelticTurners and remove them
A sample of Firefox extension. Do the same to other browsers.
Step 2. Remove it from web browsers.
Internet Explorer:
Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer, click the gear icon > Internet options > Advanced tab, click the Reset button > Reset Internet Explorer settings > Delete personal settings > click on Reset option > Click Close and OK to save the changes.
Mozilla Firefox:
Open Mozilla Firefox, go to the Help section > Troubleshooting Information > Select Reset Firefox and click Finish.
Google Chrome:
Click Settings > Show Advanced settings > Reset browser settings and click Reset.
Step 3. Uninstall associated programs.
Click Start button, open Control Panel to choose Programs and Feature, then find the unwanted programs in the list, right click to uninstall them.
Step 4. Clean up the registry data (This step is not necessary unless the problem comes back)
Since deleting registry data mistakenly will cause unpredictable problems including system crash, it is recommended to use a professional tool. Here take RegCure Pro as an example.
1.Click here to download RegCure Pro
2. Run the file to install this program easily.
3. Once finished, you will see the shortcut your desktop. Run it to have a scan.
4. It shows a list of problems which are needed to be fixed. Click to Fix All.
Remove KelticTurners automatically with SpyhunterRemoval steps can be complicated that are not suitable for inexperienced users. A helpful removal tool is necessary in this time. Spyhunter is recommended for its powerful functions in dealing with stubborn malware.
1. Safely download the removal tool by clicking the below icon.
2. Install this program just like common ones.
3. After the installation has been successfully completed, SpyHunter will start scanning your system automatically.
Attention please:
KelticTurners adware can not be underestimated. It can track users' Internet browsing activity as well as generating intrusive online advertisements. So you have to get rid of extensions as soon as possible you can. Quick and safe method is downloading removal tool to remove it.


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Refined By The Fire
I do all my best thinking in the shower. The sound of the water drowns out distractions and lets my mind wander as it will.
A couple of days ago, I was doing just that. I was busy wasting all kinds of water, watching it course down over my torso and around my bellybutton, and I got that strange feeling you get when something is dawning on you, and you look up and to the left and try not to lose the thread before it hits you.
And then I got an eyeful of water.
But, after I rubbed the water out of my eye, the feeling was still there, and, miraculously, it finally hit me: As we age, as our bodies change with babies and illness and surgeries and years and whatnot, we start to view them as remnants of our former selves rather than whole in their present states. We start to view our bodies as what remains from some former, better versions of them.
I have never been fond of my body. I don't mean that I have never liked it aesthetically; I mean its very existence has been bothersome. These meat suits we wear are awfully uncomfortable and demanding and prone to becoming even moreso over time. They get dirty easily and injured easily and create a lot of mess. To me, they've always seemed like pretty awful vessels to have to ferry ourselves around in for decades on end.
And then there's the sex and gender thing, which just throws a whole extra wrench into the works.
And then I also had to go and get cervical cancer and have a hysterectomy three years ago, which, while managing to save me from cancer, also managed to further screw with my already messy sense of physical coherence.
I realized that, since then, I have been subconsciously thinking of my body as the thing that remains, as though the essential and true parts of some better and younger self were gone from me. Essentially, I have been subconsciously believing that I am akin to garbage, that I am leftovers, that I am merely what remains from all that has been stripped from me over the years through the many trials that life has had to offer.
This realization led to a second, and much more important realization. There is no ideal version of our physical selves that has ever, or will ever, exist. I was no more ideal at 7 or 18 or 31 than I am now. There is no measuring stick to measure how this particular version of Schmutzie is faring against any other versions of Schmutzie. There is only this one now, this one me. The earlier versions of me — the one who was yet to be molested, the one who was yet to experience suicidal depression, the one who was yet to get cancer — are not better or more whole. They are merely different. My previous incarnations did not possess some aura of wholeness that was taken away.
I am not less good or less whole for the negative things that have happened to me.
I am changed.
We cannot necessarily alter the series of events that brings us to certain points of change, but once those things have occurred, once we have been through the fire, that is when we have possibility restored, that is when we can choose what that change will become in us. We are given such great opportunity to grow and become within ourselves in the aftermath of negative events, and it is a terrible thing to lose any of that because of the false belief that the best in any of us has been worn away.
My body is not a degraded and leftover thing. I may not fully embrace it, and it might still be a weighty meat suit to me, but it is whole. It is what it is. It belongs to no other self but me, the self who bore it through these times to find a new whole and to be spurred on to discover what that means.
Difficult times are the fire by which I am refined, and I have found my mettle in it.


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Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design
APA Virginia Chapter
Monday, September 24, 2018
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In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. Further, residents with low socio-economic status are often displaced from their neighborhoods as they improve. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In this webinar, author Barbara Brown Wilson of Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design (Island Press, 2018) will be joined by Sunshine Mathon and Claudette Grant (Executive Director and Community Organizer at Piedmont Housing Alliance) to talk through how community-driven design differs from traditional planning practice, and how it is happening in the redevelopment of Friendship Court in Charlottesville, VA.
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Hiking and wild camping are my thing. A couple of times a year I like to pack my rucksack and head off up to the Highlands to explore the remoter regions of Scotland. This year was no exception. Towards the end of July I caught the train to Glasgow and then a coach to the Bridge of Orchy which is just south of Fort William. The weather was pleasant, although not as nice as usual. I set out from the Bridge of Orchy, taking the West Highland Way to Fort William.
In Scotland there are no trespass laws and wild camping is permitted anywhere within reason. Mainly due to weight restrictions, I only take a bivouac sheet and a bivvy bag. I take rations but the emphasis is always on, if I can find wild food then this is a superior alternative. I started my hike towards Fort William taking a couple of days to cover the forty or so miles. I took a diversion from the West Highland Way to Glen Coe and camped there. I arrived at Fort William to torrential rain, and got a room in a back packing hostel. I decided the next day I was going to climb Ben Nevis, something I have never done. But the weather came down with no look of improvement. So the next day I caught the bus to Inverness, and from Inverness got a train to Lairg, which is in North east Scotland. Here the scenery of the Highlands is less dramatic than in the West, with low hills but I wanted to see Lairg. I had noticed on the map before I left there were a number of Stone Circles marked there. The weather had improved no end from the previous day; Fort William is known for its rain and this being the other side of the country, Lairg was less affected. The hill upon which the stone circles were mark was small and the stones themselves unimpressive. However I found a lovely place to camp and set up there for the next two days. Here sunsets were incredible, the second night's sundown being the most impressive.
After Lairg, I headed north to Thurso on the train and caught the ferry to Stromness in Orkney; there were stone circles I wanted to see on Orkney also so my adventure continued….


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Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch Review
Good performance for the price; Responsive touch screen; Large hard drive; Webcam captures bright footage
Heavy; Dull screen; Short battery life; Keyboard flexes
The Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch provides a smooth Windows 8 touch experience and a huge hard drive for an affordable price, but it's not very portable.
Though the average laptop price hovers around $500, most touch-screen systems cost quite a bit more. At just $599, Lenovo's 14-inch IdeaPad Z400 Touch provides a solid Windows 8 experience, complete with a 10-finger touch display, strong mainstream performance and a large 1TB hard drive. However, to get these features at this price, you'll have to live with some compromises. Is the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 a good buy?
Other 14-inch touch-screen-enabled notebooks like the 4.6-pound HP Envy TouchSmart 4, 4-pound Asus VivoBook S400CA, 3.6-pound Toshiba Satellite U845T-S4165 and the 4.4 pound Acer Aspire M5-481PT-6488 weigh considerably less. However, these competitive systems cost around $130 to $200 more and most don't have optical drives (with the exception of the Acer).
The IdeaPad Z400 Touch won't win any beauty contests. Made of matte ABS plastic, the laptop features a dark chocolate lid and bottom to go along with a chrome-colored deck and sides. The plain brown keyboard and single power button on the inside don't stand out, nor does the overall square shape. Though it's a solid matte texture, the lid still prominently displayed our fingerprints.
Colors stayed true at up to 45 degrees to the right or left but washed out significantly at wider viewing angles. Because of the display's modest resolution, fine details like the pores in a person's skin were harder to make out than on higher-resolution displays we've used. At 151 lux on our light meter, the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch is a little dimmer than both the Toshiba Satellite U845T (174 lux) and the thin-and-light category average (206 lux) but brighter than the Asus VivoBook S400CA (123 lux).
The screen's 10-point touch digitizer was smooth and responsive as we reached across the keyboard to touch the display. We swiped between apps, launched the Charms menu and pinched-to-zoom in applications like Bing News with ease. We were also able to draw with all 10 fingers at once in Windows Paint.
Music from the bottom-mounted speakers was loud enough to fill a large living room and reasonably accurate. When we played both the bass-heavy "Forget Me Nots" and the guitar-and-drum-centric "Shout at the Devil," sound was clear, but distant. Enabling the preloaded Dolby Home Theater v4 software made the tunes sound warmer but distorted. Placing the IdeaPad Z400 on our lap caused the music to sound muffled.
On the bright side, the keyboard has a backlight, which you can toggle on or off by hitting Fn + spacebar. Unlike some other notebooks, the backlight has only one setting, but we found it more than bright enough for any environment.
Windows 8 gestures worked smoothly, including swiping in from the right for Charms, in from the left to switch apps or down from the top to launch the app bar. However, it was too easy to accidentally launch the charms menu, because we didn't have to swipe in from the far right edge of the pad. Though the Synaptics configuration software allowed us to enable three- and four-finger flick, we were unable to successfully execute either motion.
Another app, called Lenovo Intelligent Touchpad 2.0, allowed us to enable a three- or four-finger gesture that "freezes" the screen by sliding a translucent gray layer over the desktop, which shows the date and time as well as an animation of water droplets forming and unforming. Swiping up again removes this layer, which seems a lot less useful than simply hitting Windows + L to lock one's PC.
MORE: Lenovo Best and Worst Notebook Brands 2013 Rating
Ports and Webcam
The 720p webcam took bright, detailed images even in low light. When we shot a photo of our face in our dark living room, the camera correctly brightened up our face and torso and eliminated most visual noise, though fine details like the hair on a beard were blurry. When we enabled autolighting in the bundled Lenovo YouCam software, the image got even brighter, but colors were less accurate. Under direct lighting our features were brighter and more colorful, but still a bit blurry.
The Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch stayed pleasantly cool throughout our tests. After we played a full-screen video for 15 minutes, the Z400's touchpad measured a reasonable 90 degrees, its keyboard a chilly 82 degrees and its bottom a cool 89 degrees Fahrenheit. We consider temperatures below 95 degrees comfortable.
The Lenovo IdeaPad Z400's 5,400 rpm hard drive booted Windows 8 in a mediocre 24 seconds, significantly slower than the Asus VivoBook S400CA (17 seconds), Toshiba Satellite U845T (11 seconds) or HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4 (13 seconds). The drive took a glacial 4 minutes and 21 seconds to complete the LAPTOP File Transfer test, which involves copying 4.97GB of mixed media files. That's a rate of 19.5 MBps, less than half the category average of 45 MBps and a quarter of the Toshiba Satellite U845T's 79.5 MBps rate.
This notebook handled computational tasks well. The IdeaPad Z400 Touch finished the OpenOffice Spreadsheet Macro test, in which we match 20,000 names with their addresses, in just 4 minutes and 50 seconds, much quicker than the 5-minute and 54-second category average. It took a reasonable 24 seconds to convert a 5-minute MP4 to iPod Touch format in Cyberlink Media Espresso, which is significantly faster than the 43-second category average.
The IdeaPad Z400 Touch's integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics processor was fast enough for us to view a 4K video clip downscaled to fit the 1366 x 768 display and to play a game of "World of Warcraft." On 3Mark11, a synthetic test that measures overall graphics prowess, the IdeaPad Z400 scored a modest 655, a bit lower than the 718 category average but about on par with the Toshiba Satellite U845T (673) and slightly ahead of the Asus VivoBook S400CA (559) and HP Envy TouchSmart Ultrabook 4 (570).
When we fired up "World of Warcraft" at autodetect settings, the Z400 Touch achieved a playable frame rate of 39 fps. However, when we turned up the special effects, that rate dropped to an unplayable 19.7 fps. These rates are worse than the 49 / 24 fps category averages, but similar to the Toshiba Satellite U845T (32.6 / 16.9 fps) and better than the Asus VivoBook S400CA (25 /13 fps) and HP TouchSmart Ultrabook (28 / 15 fps).
Battery Life
The Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch we reviewed is the $599 base configuration, which includes a 2.6-GHz Core i5-3320M CPU, 1TB hard drive, 6GB of RAM and integrated graphics. You can also buy the notebook with faster Core i7 processors, a higher-res 1600 x 900 screen and 8GB of RAM instead of 6GB, with prices ranging from $659 up to $949.
Software and Warranty
Lenovo PowerDVD, a version Cyberlink PowerDVD, provides a Modern UI media player for accessing photos, videos and music on your optical discs or hard drive. Cyberlink Power2Go lets you burn CDs and DVDs in its windowed interface. Photo Show is a very basic desktop photo viewer and editor that lets you browse through images and crop or rotate them; we'd rather use a full featured free editor like Paint.Net.
The system also comes with Lenovo's OneKey recovery software and a Lenovo-branded version of SugarSync's cloud service, which offers 5GB of free cloud storage and the option to pay for more. However, Microsoft SkyDrive offers 7GB for free.
Unfortunately, the IdeaPad Z400 Touch comes preloaded with a trial of McAfee Internet Security that nagged us several times to subscribe. The system also has Modern style apps for rara.com, eBay, Kindle Accuweather and Evernote, all of which you could download on your own if they didn't come as preloads.
Lenovo backs the IdeaPad Z400 Touch with a standard one-year warranty on parts and labor.
MORE: Lenovo's Tech Support Showdown Tested
If you want a lighter touch-screen system with better battery life, stronger performance and a more accurate touchpad, consider spending another $130 for the Toshiba Satellite U845T. Another good alternative is the Asus VivoBook S400CA, which costs $76 more than this IdeaPad but offers a sleeker and lighter aluminum design. However, if you want a lot of storage, performance and touch functionality for a low price, the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 is worthy of your consideration.
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37MB file enables full compatibility with Verizon's LTE network, still Android 4.4.2
Your LTE-equipped Nexus 7 should be seeing an update today that adds "Full compatibility with Verizon's 4G LTE network" — though plenty of people are using it with no issues and no update. Build KVT49L is just 37MB, and doesn't show us anything new or exciting, but we'll take any update we can get, right?
It's worth noting that this is the same compatibility certification that Verizon told us was coming "soon" back in September of last year. We're not going to pretend that we know all the details, but we do know plenty of folks who found work-arounds and have been using their LTE Nexus 7 on Verizon for quite a while.
And don't get me started on the C-block auction agreement.
Anyhoo, if you have an LTE Nexus 7, expect an update for it shortly if you haven't already received it. And for folks wanting to buy the Verizon Nexus 7, it should be available starting tomorrow.
Via: Droid Life


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Another market, another long weekend! Easter was busy – really busy – but our market stallholders had a great time and we had plenty of shoppers filling their market baskets, catching up with friends and enjoying a beautiful morning out.
This year Anzac Day falls on a Monday and so we have a long weekend market again. We have a fantastic list of stallholders, with some new faces as well as some returning seasonal produce. Welcome to Choclaterie Renmar and Tolpuddle Cheese for their first market with us. We also welcome back King Valley Walnuts with their new season walnuts and cold pressed walnut oil. Our fingers are crossed that Rushnot Garlic still has some stock left for our market from their last season harvest but we will have to wait and see….
We have (as we usually do) some local community stalls who are raising funds for various local projects – Mansfield Community Fund, Mansfield Swimming Club, Mansfield Steiner School and students from the Mansfield Secondary College who are off to the Alpine Leadership school in term 3. Combine this with our regular lineup and you can see that we have so much going on – what a market!
We are looking forward to the upcoming High Country Harvest next month – 10 days of fantastic food, wine, beer and cider events across the North East of Victoria. This is an annual event and we *love* the calendar of events. Mansfield is host to a number of fantastic events from a beer tasting degustation menu to a whiskey paired dinner and a cider and sausages lunch. Plenty for everyone across a range of locations.
April Stallholders (as of 21/4/2016)
- Aintree Almonds
- Boonderoo Farm – Bread & pies
- Delatite Special Occasions
- Forrest Grasses – wheatgrass tea
- Gary's veggies
- Greg's Seedlings
Howard's Free Range Eggs
- Howes Creek Farm – terrines / pate / sausages
- Jillicious – cakes and preserves
Kinglake Proteas
- King Valley Walnuts
- KNM berries
Kransky Kart
- Locheilan Cheese
- Long Lane Capers
- Mansfield Ice-cream
- Maindample Imperial Fudge
Mansfield Community Fund – cakes and catch ups
- Mansfield Secondary College – Alpine Leadership School fundraiser
- Mansfield Steiner School – falafels
- Mansfield Swimming Club – raffle
- Mojo Muesli
- Ninn's Pantry (including King Valley Dairy)
- Pasta Adele
- Plaster Painting
- Red Elk winery
- RenMar Chocolates
- Ros Ritchie Wines
- Ross Tomatoes
Rush Not garlic (TBC)
- Swanpool Native Plants
Tin Shed Cider
- The Produce Store – coffee
- Tolmie plants
Tolpuddle Cheese
- Turkish Star Bread
- Verduci Produce


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Since 2006, PAPADEROS Company has been certified by the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food for the disinsection (by heat treatment) of all packaging wood means, in accordance with ISPM 15 at its facilities in Koropi.
International Standard ISPM 15 sets the internationally recognized phytosanitary measures of Food and Agriculture Organisatioin (FAO), which are required for the elimination of the risk of introducing and spreading "quarantine pathogens", via wood packaging means.
The disinsected wood packaging means, after disinsection, are stamped with a compliance mark is globally known as "wheat stamp" and accompanied by a suitability mark.
Products that meet the requirements of ISPM 15 are the industrial products of wood (PLYWOOD, OSB, CHIPBOARD, MDF) and plastics.
During each Heat treatment process, the company is monitoring the data from which the proper application of method is documented on the basis of following parameters:
· Proper sensor positioning (mandatorily 6 to 13 sensors) and automatic heat measuring and recording.
· The type of measuring sensors and the procedure followed for the proper setting - calibration.
· Stacking details during use and treatment.
· Critical use parameters (e.g. for heat treatment the time required so that the thermometer in the coolest point of the room to record a reading >=56 C at the center of wood and maintain this temperature (for at least a period of 30 minutes) and the control method via an automatic control system of heat distribution, automatic measuring and recording temperature and time of treatment.
· Tracking system that is applied to the wood , produces and marks.
· The exceptional measures and remedies taken in case of failure or problem, in basic parameters of procedure.
· The program of sampling and dispatching suitable wood samples, wood packaging means and wood for testing in the Official State Laboratory (ETHIAGE).
PAPADEROS Company, in order to cover the constantly increasing market demand for disinsected wood packaging means and minimize delivery time in cases of urgent demand, has developed the know-how in manufacturing wood packaging means according to ISPM15, as much from materials it already has heat treated, as from industrial wood products meeting standard's requirements, (PLYWOOD,OSB, CHIPBOARD, MDF).