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Writing nonspecific articles sitting in a fully AC cabin is totally different from writing a travel article after full day wandering in the unknown places; is well known to everybody. But question here is that, do they have the winning edge?
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In the late Eighties and Nineties a generation of Antipodean winemakers, who cut their teeth on squeaky clean wines made in super sanitary wineries, flew over to the Old World, bringing their revolutionary techniques to flush out the murky corners and clean up the 'traditional' approach in many a French cuverie.
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One of the more recent to spread his wings is François Millet. François has been modestly and meticulously making wine from some of the greatest terroir in the Côte de Nuit, putting in a lifetime's work for Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé in Chambolle.
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He is a precise winemaker, focused on the details, something appreciated by Paul Pujol of Prophet's Rock Vineyard in Central Otago, New Zealand. François's son Julien went New Zealand to gain experience working at Prophet's Rock in 2013 and François and his wife Michelle went over to visit him a couple of times. The two families – from Chambolle and Central Otago – struck up a friendship.
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And of course the tantalising 'hook' which enticed François from Chambolle to other side of the world was the chance to interpret a totally different and fascinating terroir.
So what about that terroir?
Over to François, "Bendigo lies above a lake. The location has glacial terraces and this vineyard is on the highest terrace at 300-400m with a North exposure. Frost is an issue, but less so at this altitude. We are surrounded by two mountains. Here we are just beginning to get into the New Zealand Alps which reach 1500m, while on the other side of the river the Pisa Mountains climb to 1900m. The Pisa Mountains offer protection from the rainfall. This puts the area in a rain shadow, with rainfall of only 300mm. It is much wetter between the Alps and the Tasman Sea."
"We have a schist soil degraded to clay and limestone, but not a maritime limestone as in Burgundy. Under 40cm of top soil, which is a mix of schist, clay and humus, there is 70-80cm layer of this degraded chalk or more accurately 'pedogenic lime'. The vineyard was planted in 2000 with Pinot Noir clone 777 grafted on 3309 rootstock. The vineyard is now (in 2019) certified as organic."
There are many different blocks within the estate and François was invited to chose a parcel. Together with Paul they tasted wine from all the blocks and François says he chose the most elegant, fresh and balanced. This would usually become part of a blend.
So how does this very Burgundian of winemakers handle his Kiwi Pinot? "My approach is empathy," remarks François, "following the wine and not to think I know it all."
The use of SO2 is very low. "I feel the more you add, the further you get away from the land and the more you emphasise the variety character. I do not want that."
"There is a cool pre-fermentation at the temperature of picking. The fruit is quite cool for it is picked in the morning at 10-15 degrees. It is all de-stemmed. I wait for fermentation – just 'watering' the top, waiting for the native yeast to start. When it's fermenting I do just one punch down, just to observe what happens. I make the punch down at at a density of 1010 – not too late as there is more extraction when there is too much alcohol. For the second vintage (2016) I did just one punch down as well. Just one punch down is a big step up in terms of extraction. I knew the wines of the area, so I thought it was good to have one, but then I knew it was enough. Watering for the rest of the fermentation and one splashing (to introduce some air). The time I leave it after fermentation and before pressing is a matter of taste. Not more than one week before pressing it. 20-25 days or so."
François uses one third new oak, Allier from Rémond. The MLF is postponed to the spring. "It gets cool at the end of the season so it's not a problem. The first racking is cask to cask with a little SO2. We take the fine lees and there is much more clarity and purity after the first racking. Today people seem frightened of racking, but if you rack this way, barrel to barrel, the wines are really happy and there is no stress. The wines do not age more quickly and thanks to the fine lees we keep, the wines are more complex."
"Then to prepare for bottling we remove the lees and maybe do a fining. Only if it's a necessity. It may be necessary in order to to create a harmony between the wood and the fruit. These elements can be opposed and this is a challenge you cannot control, like child taking its own path. So then we would do an egg white fining… using the powder, (not the traditional real egg whites), as it's much more specific and targeted to each barrel. Each cask is a different decision. We use 5g per 228l – there is no point below 3g, but not above 5g. It's not about 'fixing' something, but to give the wine a harmony… to enhance the quality."
"It spends about 18 months in barrel as we feel the ageing really begins after the MLF. The true evolution happens then. The cold is 'feeding' the wines… this is just my feeling. The process involves more than colour and stability – the mineral spine, something much more subtle. It makes a difference if the MLF is before or after the winter. The wine which does the MLF in the spring always has more definition."
"Precision in the job is so important."
The first vintage was 2015. These are elegant, fine textured wines. I find an engaging vibrancy the common thread in the three vintages of Cuvée Aux Antipodes. It is the exuberance, which is most striking.
*Cuvée Aux Antipodes 2017
Elegant, fruity and expressive. It has zesty acidity and tight edge with a fine and long line onto the finish. I like the floral and spice high tones and the vibrancy. This is my favourite.
"The character of blood orange,' says Francois. "You do not get this if you over extract."
The vintage conditions were quite mixed. François's recollections of the vintage conditions are below.
Cuvée Aux Antipodes 2016
Lighter elegant and crunchy. Pure, high toned. Red fruit. Peppercorn. Fresh and zesty. Straight, snappy tannins, crispness and crunch. Grassier note on the finish. A cooler vintage is evident in this lighter, slimmer wine which is coming forward more quickly, but is none-the-less delicious.
Cuvée Aux Antipodes 2015
This is rich and well structured with a velvet texture and good depth. Juicy dark, black fruit. Seductive and fuller bodied. The finish is richer, but streamed with a freshness and vigour.
François remarks on the vintages:
"For each vintage 2015, 2016 and 2017 there was a spring frost. Even a summer frost in 2017 (!) but hopefully not at Prophet's Rock vineyards."
"2015 was very dry and hot at the end of the season. That explains the dark fruits and spices of the wine."
"2016 was much cooler and we see that with the red fruits, raspberries and fresh violets mineral vintage. The flow of a river."
"2017 was even cooler but the skin ripeness was built slowly but surely. This reminds me the vintage 1993 in Burgundy where we had the same phenomenon."


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While numerous Robin Hood movies have been made, my dad steadfastly refuses to watch them. "There's only one Robin Hood," he says. He's talking about Errol Flynn, of course, and this 1938 classic.
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The good guys are good. The bad guys are bad. There are loads of action, and even passion. Classic Hollywood. Dad's right. There is only one Robin Hood.
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Corps Island Dredged Material Plans on Display
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking public comments on plans to unload 500,000 cubic yards of dredged material from Corps Island, near river mile 799 of the Upper Mississippi River.
The project would involve unloading dredged material from Corps Island, a temporary placement site within the Corps' 9-Foot Navigation Channel Maintenance Management Plan.
According to USACE, the unload would ensure continued utilization of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Navigation Channel.
"The process by which dredged material would be removed from Corps Island, and where it would be placed or used, would be decided by the awarded contractor," USACE said in their release.
This project requires a review of environmental effects under the National Environmental Policy Act.
A copy of the draft Environmental Assessment with a finding of no significant impact was coordinated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state resource agencies prior to posting of the public notice, said USACE.
The public review and comment period on the draft Environmental Assessment ends May 7.


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Seeking to expand the area of cooperation and take the economic engagement to a new level, the Petroleum Secretaries of India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold bilateral talks in New Delhi on March 23.
A high-level delegation, led by Pakistan's Petroleum and Natural Resources Secretary Mohammad Ejaz, will be in New Delhi from March 23 to 25 to hold talks on ways to facilitate trade in petroleum products and petrochemicals between the two nations. Both the sides are also likely to decide on putting in place a new conduit, mostly the pipeline method, for transportation of these products.
Officials in the Petroleum Ministry said that Pakistan was learnt to have already given its go-ahead for transportation of petrochemicals through the land route laden in trucks. However, the Indian side, particularly the oil companies, which had been pushing for opening of the land route for transportation of petrochemicals, is yet to respond to the situation positively.
Both sides are also likely to hold talks on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, including transit fee for wheeling of gas through this pipeline en route to India.
The Pakistan delegation will also take part in the Asia Gas Summit being held in the Capital from March 23. The summit will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both the sides are likely to exchange information on various technical issues during the bilateral meeting and also place various proposals for petroleum trade for consideration.
India has already offered to export petrol, diesel and other petroleum products to Pakistan and there is already a talk of building of pipeline from the Mathura, Panipat and Bhatinda refineries for transporting petroleum products. Pakistan's existing refining capacity meets only half its total domestic requirement. On the other hand, India now exports almost one-fourth of its 185 million-tonne capacity.
While Pakistan allowed import of diesel from India, it still bans import of petrol and other petroleum products. None of the Indian refiners has, however, been able to export diesel to Pakistan as it gets the fuel at discounted price from Gulf nations such as Kuwait.


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Auditions for Precious Little Talent November 27th
apital T is excited to announce auditions for its next production Precious Little Talent by Ella Hickson. Â We are having open casting for all 3 roles. Â All actors will be paid.
Auditions will be held Sunday November 27th from 2-5pm.
Joey – Female – 24 years old – British Accent
Joey's got a first-class college degree, 20k worth of debt and works in a pub. Shunned by the world, rejected by her estranged father, she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young American…
Sam – Male – 19 years old
The idealistic young American that Joey falls in love with. Â He currently is George's caregiver, but has big plans for his future.
George – Male 50-60 years old – British Accent
Joey's father and Sam's employer. Â A former world class academic who is suffering from early onset dementia.
About the Play
Precious Little Talent is the story of two 20-somethings graduating into a world that's sold them down the river. Londoner Joey's got a first class degree, 20K worth of debt and works in a pub. It's Christmas and she flees to New York in a bid to find comfort with her estranged father. Just as the world seems to have shunned her, so will he. Yet in the face of such rejection, world-weary Joey falls in love with an idealistic young American and learns what it is to have hope in the future.
Rehearsal Dates and Performance
Rehearsal will begin in December with performances in the last two weeks of January and the first weekend of February.
We anticipate working around actor's holiday plans.
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After the Apocalypse, the Stalliongrad Metro shelters what remains of ponydom from the mutant, radiation-infested wastes of the surface world. Lockbox, born in the Metro, has always been a rather private pony who liked to collect things, particularly things that remind him of the time before. When his home station comes under threat, a promise spurs him onto a quest to preserve the ramshackle remains of pony civilization, but can he find a reason to save what remains amid the violence, corruption, and depravity of the Metro?
My Little Metro is an incomplete fanfic on FiMFiction.net by RedSquirrel456. It is a crossover between the popular My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animation series, and the videogames Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the grimdark side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality. The story was last updated in mid-2014 and has since been marked "On Hiatus."
My Little Metro provides examples of the following tropes:
- After the End: Set decades after a horrible war involving magical nukes has destroyed and poisoned the surface of Equestria (and presumably the rest of the planet).
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Warden (a magical mind-altering expy of Adolf Hitler) and his mooks, and by extension likely the rest of the New Lunar Republic administration.
- Anti-Hero: Lockbox, who often lampshades the irony that he seems to keep murdering ponies for the sake of saving ponies.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Expected in-universe when Lockbox challenges Steel Crescent to single combat for the freedom of Sidewinder. Averted when Lockbox actually wins, to the shock of nearly everypony present.
- Eldritch Location: Many places in the Metro, besides being filled with unworldly anomolies and mutants, have their own strange properties, such as a tunnel that extends much longer than the physical space between stations should allow.
- Enemy Mine: Many alliances are forged in the name of mutual survival, notably Ruby Red and Lockbox sliding back and forth between Teeth-Clenched Teamwork and Friendly Enemy.
- Giant Spiders: Although the spiderbugs aren't necessarily "giant", they can still reach the size of a full-grown pony and clog entire metro tunnels in thick web.
- Grey and Gray Morality: While not quite on the far hopeless side of Idealism vs Cynicism, this trope is extremely prevalent. Nearly everypony in the Metro is willing to do anything it takes, up to and including murder, to stay one step ahead.
- Have We Met?: When Lockbox helps kill a bandit patrol, their leader Ruby Red swears to find and kill him, but doesn't get a good look before he escapes. Later when he's captured in an unrelated event, she notes he seems familiar, but can't place why.
- Hearing Voices: Lockbox is particularly haunted by what seems to be the thoughts and voices of the Dark Ones.
- Made of Iron: Even with magical healing in effect, Lockbox and many of his companions should be dead multiple times over. Often lampshaded by other ponies, noting that whatever Lockbox is trying to accomplish must be supernaturally important.
- Nightmare Dreams: These haunt Lockbox very often, ramping up the intensity to undiluted Nightmare Fuel levels after he unintentionally enables the horrific assassination of Sweet Dreams. May yet overlap with Your Worst Nightmare, depending on how future events play out. The poor guy does get a break with at least two partial erotic dreams. Unfortunately the first is prematurely interrupted, and the second goes horribly wrong.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Employed many times by ponies all over the metro to enforce subservience. Ruby Red's methods are noteworthy for being particularly vicious.
- The Nondescript: Nopony, in addition to his black armor and omnipresent tinted gasmask, seems to have the ability to blend in and appear wherever he wants, with no questions asked or anyone wondering where he came from. His name of choice also makes talking about him difficult.I groaned and shoved him away, wincing as my injuries twinged. "Nevermind, we need to find a way out of here and Nopony said the Diamond Dogs would help."
"Who?" he asked.
"Nopony," I said, only realizing how crazy I sounded when he looked at me like I'd grown a second head.
- Not Always Evil: A tearjerking example when Bric-à-brac, one of Ruby Red's bandit henchmen, nobly and voluntarily sacrifices himself for sake of helping Lockbox's mission.
- Pinball Protagonist: While far from being a Useless Protagonist, Lockbox often falls into this. He has the overreaching goal of saving his home station from the Dark Ones, but continuously gets roped into dangerous schemes and errands. To his credit, Lockbo usually manages to turn these situations to his advantage, getting ever-closer to Ponyopolis with each tangent.
- Punch-Clock Villain: While almost all have committed some horrible atrocity in the name of survival or power, most ponies aren't outright evil, but simply doing the bidding of more powerful ponies.
- Rising Conflict: Nearly every couple chapters. Many side missions end up failing or being forgotten for sake of sheer survival, and some are intentionally abandoned to get closer to the final goal, but are always replaced with newer and more urgent issues.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: The stance taken by the fanatical New Lunar Republic, which enslaves "undesirable" ponies for grunt work and mining gems, while regaling in the stronger more useful ponies with grand visions of a future Utopia. See also A Nazi by Any Other Name.
- You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: Used almost word for word by Sidewinder to Lockbox after a vision of the as-yet unknown pony haunting his dreams.


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Plastic pollution, especially due to single use plastics such as polythene bags, cutlery, and bottles is a catastrophe to human health and to the planet in general—we all are quite acquainted with this fact. But seldom do we know the exact reasons why these things are harmful. Across our blog journey, we have gone deep into plastic pollution or plastic bottle pollution, it's strange and almost eerie consequences, and what those entitle for our and the planet's future. Here's one another. This time we dig deep into why plastic bottles are so harmful for the environment, straight and to the point. This is a compilation of its notoriety across its entire life cycle.
Production Phase
Plastic bottles surprisingly are a menace to all natural resources we have been depending on for ages, the resources on which our entire civilizations are hinged on. Production of plastic water bottles consumes around 17 million barrels of oil each year. To put that into perspective, that oil amount is sufficient to fill one million cars a year.
A fun to do tip— Take a plastic bottle and fill it 1/4th with water! Yes, that's the amount of oil that went into manufacturing that bottle.
It takes about 3 times the amount of water to make a water plastic bottle than it takes to completely fill it. And, it requires about 2000 times more energy to churn up a bottle of water than actually to provide tap water. Amazing, isn't it?
Consumption Status
With every passing second, a million plastic water bottles are opened globally. Each day, just in the US alone, 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away or carelessly dumped that ends up in landfills or as litter, severely polluting the environment for years. Note—plastic is actually not biodegradable.
Taken the annual perspective, 35 billion empty bottles are dumped, among which a mere 10 percent are recycled. It's a scenario that's simply devastating until you realize. Just throwing away 'one' harmless bottle on the streets is sure not so 'harmless' anymore, right?
The After-use Scenario
As much as 80 percent of the bottles thrown worldwide end up in landfills where it takes eons to decompose, this amounts to hundreds of millions of tons in weight. Research says that discarded plastic bottles leach harmful toxins into the soil (We already have a blog on it) that can cause a wide variety of health issues, even if we for a moment ignore the fact that the dumping land almost becomes unfit for productive usage.
For oceans, the impact simply can't be measured in words. Billions of tons of plastic are coagulating oceans and all life in it for years now. Plastic constitutes about 90 percent of all the surface pollutants on the oceans—approximately 40,000 pieces of plastic per square mile! By 2050, studies estimate that plastic trash in oceans would outweigh the entire marine life; not to mention that the giant plastic trash's slow poisoning would make the oceans water gradually unfit for life thriving.
What can we do?
As we have emphasized again and again, being aware is not the answer to combat plastic pollution or plastic bottle pollution against the environment. We have blown past that time now. It's time to take actions. Let go off the habit to use plastic items, use alternatives, practice in cooperating with public sector offices to recycle those disposable plastics you have, and lastly do your bit in inspiring others to do all these—spread the message as fast as you can. If you are concerned about spending a few extra bucks, just stop for a moment and think which is more important to you. Is it money or the life of this planet? Time to take a firm stand against the global extinction catalyst—plastic.
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The UC Irvine (UCI) branch of the UCLA-UCI Alpha Stem Cell Clinic (ASCC) provides a centralized infrastructure from which to work with UCI faculty and staff to enhance stem cell clinical research and activities at UCI. The UCI branch of the UCLA-UCI Alpha Stem Cell Clinic:
The UCLA-UCI Alpha Stem Cell Clinic provides the necessary infrastructure, and medical and operational expertise to effectively and efficiently drive novel stem cell therapies to clinical trials and ultimately change clinical practice. To accomplish our mission, we are working to achieve the following five goals:
You may be eligible to take part in one of the many clinical trials underway at the UCI branch of the UCLA-UCI Alpha Clinic. By participating in a clinical trial, patients have access to leading-edge treatments and therapies long before they are available to the general public.
The more you know about clinical trials, the better informed you will be when deciding whether to participate in a specific trial. Learn more about clinical trials below.
A clinical trial is a medical research study in which patient volunteers test a new medical approach to determine whether it is safe and effective. Some clinical trials study a stem cell/drug, a medical device or a new way of doing surgery. Others test new ways to prevent disease, diagnose disease, improve quality of life, or help people with manage difficult psychological and social issues.
During a clinical trial, more information is gathered about a new treatment, its risks and how well it may work. Patients who take part in clinical trials also have an opportunity to help scientists learn - how the disease grows, how it acts and what influences its growth and spread. Many of the approaches that doctors use to treat disease today are available only because of clinical trials.
These trials represent the earliest step in testing new treatments in humans. In a phase 0 trial, a very small dose of a chemical or biologic agent is given to a small number of people (approximately 10-15) to gather preliminary information about how the agent is processed by the body (pharmacokinetics) and how the agent affects the body (pharmacodynamics). Because the agents are given in such small amounts, no information is obtained about their safety or effectiveness. Phase 0 trials are also called micro-dosing studies, exploratory Investigational New Drug (IND) trials, or early phase I trials. The people who take part in these trials usually have advanced disease, and no known, effective treatment options are available to them.
These trials are conducted mainly to evaluate the safety of chemical or biologic agents or other types of interventions (e.g., a new stem cell dosage). They help determine the maximum dose that can be given safely (also known as the maximum tolerated dose) and whether an intervention causes harmful side effects. Phase I trials enroll small numbers of people (20 or more) who have advanced disease that cannot be treated effectively with standard (usual) treatments or for which no standard treatment exists. Although evaluating the effectiveness of interventions is not a primary goal of these trials, doctors do look for evidence that the interventions might be useful as treatments.
These trials test the effectiveness of interventions in people who have a specific type of disease. They also continue to look at the safety of interventions. Phase II trials usually enroll fewer than 100 people but may include as many as 300. The people who participate in phase II trials may or may not have been treated previously with standard therapy for their disease. If a person has been treated previously, their eligibility to participate in a specific trial may depend on the type and amount of prior treatment they received. Although phase II trials can give some indication of whether or not an intervention works, they are almost never designed to show whether an intervention is better than standard therapy.
These trials compare the effectiveness of a new intervention, or new use of an existing intervention, with the current standard of care (usual treatment) for a particular disease. Phase III trials also examine how the side effects of the new intervention compare with those of the usual treatment. If the new intervention is more effective than the usual treatment and/or is easier to tolerate, it may become the new standard of care.
Phase III trials usually involve large groups of people (100 to several thousand), who are randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups, or "trial arms": 1) a control group, in which everyone in the group receives usual treatment for their disease, or 2) an investigational or experimental group, in which everyone in the group receives the new intervention or new use of an existing intervention. The trial participants are assigned to their individual groups by random assignment, or randomization. Randomization helps ensure that the groups have similar characteristics. This balance is necessary so the researchers can have confidence that any differences they observe in how the two groups respond to the treatments they receive are due to the treatments and not to other differences between the groups.
Randomization is usually done by a computer program to ensure that human choices do not influence the assignment to groups. The trial participants cannot request to be in a particular group, and the researchers cannot influence how people are assigned to the groups. Usually, neither the participants nor their doctors know what treatment the participants are receiving.
People who participate in phase III trials may or may not have been treated previously. If they have been treated previously, their eligibility to participate in a specific trial may depend on the type and the amount of prior treatment they received.
In most cases, an intervention will move into phase III testing only after it has shown promise in phase I and phase II trials.
These trials study a treatment after the FDA has approved it. Phase IV trials evaluate the side effects, risks, and benefits of a drug or other therapy over a long period of time and in a larger number of people than in phase III trials. Thousands of people are involved in a phase IV trial, and randomization is generally not used.
The Alpha Clinics Network funded through CIRM has one unifying goal: to accelerate the development and delivery of stem cell therapies to patients. Only three alpha clinic stem cell sites have been funded through CIRM: UCLA-UCI, UCSD and City of Hope.
The key to the Alpha Stem Cell Clinics Network's success is its ability to leverage the strengths of each individual clinic—so that together they form an efficient, scalable and sustainable network that will attract and conduct high-quality clinical trials. The clinics support both CIRM-funded and non CIRM-funded clinical trials by academic or industry sponsors. Browse the list of ongoing trials at Alpha Clinic Network Studies.
The Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine is home to the only CIRM-funded stem cell clinic in Orange County - the UCLA-UCI Alpha Stem Cell Clinic.
Here, the best and brightest physician scientists deliver promising stem cell therapies to patients in clinical trials for debilitating diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa - a blinding eye disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, ALS, Alzheimer's disease, and much more.
These stem cell trials are the outgrowth of groundbreaking research performed at academic research centers like UCI. The Stem Cell Research Center is on the cusp of harnessing the amazing potential of stem cell therapies for many other afflictions including, Huntington's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, newly diagnosed glioblastoma, critical limb ischemia, type 1 diabetes, spinal cord injury, ovarian cancer, and more.
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Thank you in advance for any help that I receive here!
Just a reminder, I am a beginner so my apologies if I use terms incorrectly.
In Jan 2017, I was about $83,000 in debt ($23k car, $60k student loans).
I have paid down the bad debt, built an emergency fund, and started saving capital to start investing (stocks and RE).
Here are some details of my situation and questions:
Emergency Fund: Yes - 6 Months Expenses
Debt: $47,000 Rental Mortgage - Home Valued at $130,000
Tax Filing Status: Single (but I am engaged so that could change soon)
Tax Rate: 22-24% Federal Tax Rate depending on the year
State of Residence: Ohio
Age: 30
Desired Assets Allocation: 80% Stocks / 20% Bonds
Current Portfolio: Low Five Figures (~20,000k in Roth IRA)
Current Retirement Assets:
Roth IRA at Royal Alliance
3% AMRMX (.610 expense ratio)
10% ANEFX (.770 expense ratio)
80% GWPCX (1.500 expense ratio)
7% SMCWX (1.080 expense ratio)
These accounts also have 5%+ Load and 5%+ Sales Charge.
New Annual Contributions:
- Maxing out Roth IRA
- Should have an additional $30,000 - $50,000 to invest if income level stays the same.
- Using the 3 Fund Portfolio approach, I am considering these two funds to start with:
Are these acceptable?
I see mixed reviews on these accounts with the zero fees, why is that?
- What fund would you suggest I search in regards to bonds being that I am currently self-employed with no 401k?
- As a business owner (no employees), would you suggest that I open a solo 401k, SEP IRA, or even both?
- What is the best type of account to hold bonds in?
- What is the best strategy to determine asset allocation inside the three different accounts (brokerage, 401k, Roth IRA, SEP, etc)?
- With $100,000 to invest, should I Dollar Cost Average into the market or send it all in?
I appreciate your time!


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Monday, November 9, 2009
4 comments:
- Ruthann said...
You guys are all gorgeous! Mary Poppins is a MUST SEE! It was one of our favorites in New York!
- November 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Michelle said...
How fun. I love the theatre. Glad they all enjoyed it.
- November 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Suz said...
How dang fun! You guys look awesome.. as usual! I have to see Mary Poppins... just have to!
- November 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Jen Olson Brown said...
How fun! I went with a friend on Tuesday and looking at all the mother-daughters, I thought, "I really need to have a girl." Not right now necessarily, but someday. That's great you took your girls!
- November 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM
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Speedmap #67
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on 2004/02/14 23:49:25
Speedmap 67 is done! There are 6 singleplayer Quake maps here done by 4 authors! A few new faces this week, Jacek and Headthump, plus regulars Xen and Zwiffle made up some good maps this week.
The weeks theme was 'Quantity over Quality' and most mappers stuck right to it. See some little pictures and download the pack at the speedmapping site. Enjoy!
Not The Mention
#1 posted by
on 2004/02/14 23:56:27
There's another map that i was supposed to release last week, but didn't finish on time:
following the parody theme.
(guess scampie forgot ;) )
Xen's Was Cool
#2 posted by
on 2004/02/15 00:00:06
Yeah go Xen. 5 hours worth it for 10 minutes of play!
Demos For All!
#3 posted by
on 2004/02/15 00:52:17
available in both flavours!
note that i cheated on some maps. (some are obviously not beatable without them...)
and, xen! that map was awesome! i suspect you went over the timelimit slightly, but that was an awesome map! with some tweaks to gameplay (notably: more health!) and a bit more detail, this map could be really cool!
Just Played Xen's
#4 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/15 01:09:30
Nice solid looking layout, and tough as hell to beat. Mine should be beatable by strafing in the first area and encouraging infights.
#5 posted by
on 2004/02/15 01:34:55
I liked necros' map best. Maybe you should run a 'max brush count + no clone tool' theme.
Good Pack
#6 posted by
on 2004/02/15 09:19:51
Well done all - good set of maps.
sm67_headthump : HeadThump's first speedmap, so very good effort. MORE ammo next time please, I had to kill at least 25% of those monsters with my axe hehe :)
sm67_jacek & sm67_jacek2 : Good set of maps considering you haven't speedmapped before. Textures in the first map were a bit of an odd mix. Playable map though, and when I saw the 3 e1m7 bosses, I thought HELP! You were saying in the speed mapping thread could somebody kill all the monsters in you second level. I think not, as you haven't put in a weapon to kill the zombies.
sm67_zwiffle & sm67_zwiffle2 : Enjoyed these evil, evil maps. I tried to finish the second map without the RL you get from the first, and there is juuuust enough ammo. Hell of a challenge.
sm67_xen : Excellent map. With less repetition, and more detail it could be a full release.
I blew my entry this week. I started a lava map a bit like zwiffle's, but released I didn't have a clue about terran brushs. Second ettempt was quite a nice looking hanger, but the gameplay was shot. Me thinks I'll do it in advance next week :)
#7 posted by
on 2004/02/15 09:52:23
Cool map necros. Very enjoyable CS conversion.
Btw, all those speedmap maps are beatable without cheats.
I Think...
#8 posted by
on 2004/02/15 11:22:09
zwiffle's 2nd map is beatable without cheats, but i didn't have the patience to take on all the ogres with only the double shotty.
i also think zwiffle's first map is plenty beatable. if i hadn't lost health by getting hurt by my own rocket explosions, i would probably have been able to take on the last vore in close quarters, or run past it towards the exit.
headthumps map i was unable to beat regularily. had to resort to a trick jump to get past the bars to the exit.... dunno what that was all about... and yeah, more ammo. :)
jacek's maps were ok, but not very pretty... gameplay was ok, but facing 3 chthons was retarded and i immediatly put on godmode and noclip.
Aiee :S
#9 posted by
on 2004/02/15 12:46:17
There were supposed to be two more megahealths in my map but for some reason they wouldn't display! Even putting them well away from surrounding surfaces. You just have to be cautious when playing.. get some infighting going & whatnot. Thanks to those who liked it anyway :-)
Am checking necros's map & demos now
Will Do
#10 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/15 13:19:12
Necros' demo was pretty instructive feed back for me. I should have put a message at the switch and a sound at the door to let you know it is opening. The door is timed, so if you don't see it, you may not even suspect what is going on. Also, the lst test run I gave it, about a third of the monsters murdered one another, so I was under the impression the ammo was adequate.
#11 posted by
on 2004/02/15 13:29:08
You tit, there was a nailgun in the second room :D
I'll have a go at recording one on mine
#12 posted by
on 2004/02/15 14:07:44
- my map without cheats.. took longer than necros's though
- zwiffle's first map, killing everything without losing a single HP :D
I'd like to see demos of someone completing jacek's 2nd map without cheats ;-)
#13 posted by
on 2004/02/15 14:20:48
hehe, it's funny because you called me a tit. :)
i figured as much though, when i had no shells and only nails... so i cheated. :) those give commands are great! ;)
#14 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/15 15:55:20
'Last Night in Paris Was Strange' He he. Couldn't resist. My nom du online is a deriviation from a QueensRyche tune (since MindCrime is already taken). But I love Vore fights like that.
'I'd like to see demos of someone completing jacek's 2nd map without cheats ;-)' I don't think that is likely to happen. The three boss demons raising up like that was a crapinyourpantsspactacular moment. I noticed Jacek's maps used some really colorful (esp for Quake) textures.
Necros' Map Was The
#15 posted by
on 2004/02/15 16:59:34
best of the bunch, eerie lighting and great gameplay. Nice trick with the pentagram, although I first decided to go for the Shamblers without it and when I came back the penta was gone
... Who stole my power-up?
Xen's was repetitive and really short on health in the middle and thus very hard, but still a good challenge if you're up to it. Damn those Ogres above
HeadThump's had lighting problems and annoying gameplay, especially the end part. I also didn't know what to do so I GJ into the caged area and then suddenly I stumbled into an exit. The beginning was good though, always nice to wake up next to a DBS and a Fiend. Reminds me of the old
map where you take on 3-4 angry Fiends immediately
Zwiffle's 1st looked nice but was too dark. Gameplay was OK but repetitive; spin around until all the Vores were down. This map threw me into his 2nd and I thought it was a mistake having the RL, so I restarted just to find out that I really
need the RL anyway. And a quad. And then some
... Bad gameplay here and leaky, too. Not too bad looks, though.
Jacek's both maps were hoard massacres in badly textured boxes. But both followed the theme accurately
How about the theme
Quality over Quantity
Thanks For The Comments, AquiRe
#16 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/15 17:12:28
except for shadowed area that hid the nail gun, I thought the lighting sucked too. If you decompiled it, you'll notice I took out a lot of _null points that just weren't doing it for me. I have a question for you, but it is of a technical nature, so I'm gonna put it over in the map help area. The next map for next week, I'm planning everything well in advanced before I even touch a brush.
Did Jacek's 2nd Map On The First Run Actually.
#17 posted by
on 2004/02/15 19:46:31
#18 posted by
on 2004/02/15 20:34:26
now try a 100% run.
Dang Megazoid,
#19 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/16 00:52:16
You made a liar out of me!
An Alternative...
#20 posted by
on 2004/02/16 02:39:48
...way of doing Zwiffle's first map without losing a single HP. Almost 3 times as fast as Xen. :-) I would have liked to have done it 5 seconds faster but dodging vore balls on the narrow stairs is such a pain I got fed up.
Well done everyone. These maps were quite entertaining. The 3 chthons room was a little tricky to survive, I'll admit. :-)
'Quantity Over Quality'
#21 posted by
on 2004/02/16 05:34:12
Uh HUH. As if quality has any role to play normally.
Xen's kept me going though.
#22 posted by
on 2004/02/16 07:40:53
Bleh, I wasn't going for time :-p
Managed to do it again just now in 1:19, first try.. but dammit I aint no speedrunner ;-)
Megazoid, I was actually reffering to a 100% run too btw ;-)
*is delighted at receiving the Shambler seal of approval once more* :D
#23 posted by
on 2004/02/16 14:14:55
The seal of "I don't loathe you quite as much as anyone else for making my life a misery playing these maps" :P
#24 posted by
on 2004/02/16 14:26:10
i'm still at a loss as to why you insist on playing the maps when you know you're going to hate them...
it's like turning on the radio to a pop station when you hate pop.
#25 posted by
on 2004/02/16 14:58:50
Because he secretly enjoys them. It's the same reason people don't watch homo porn when their friends are around, but then goes out and makes jokes about AIDS meaning Another Infected Dick Sucker.
#26 posted by
on 2004/02/16 14:59:06
That sounded a lot more serious than it was supposed.
He Loathes Me, He Loathes Me Not
#27 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/16 18:37:31
You can't go through life pleasing the critics (except for that amazingly wise UnderWorldfan) nor letting them set the standards for your artform or indulgent hobby (ditto the last sycophantic parenthetical statement). Take the movies for instance. Did any of the reviewers give SuperTroopers a good rating? Of course not, after all, it was a horrible piece of dumbass crap but, man, I laughed my ass off watching it.
So the lesson here, is, I hope you guys laugh your asses off (at me) playing my crappy speedmaps. Tell me how bad they suck, I could use the feedback. Whatever trips your trigger, I'm down with.
#28 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/16 22:14:03
That may have sounded more serious than it was supposed to of sounded as well. I don't completely get my own humor sometimes.
'people don't watch homo porn when their friends are around'
Reminds me of a friend I had in college. We would watch porn and he would slow down the tapes on the blowjob scenes. I would tell him, 'hey, what are you doing? Fast forward that -- she still has her clothes on.' Of course, he came out of the closest a few years ago.
Well, Okay
#29 posted by HeadTrump on 2004/02/16 22:22:44
'Of course, he came out of the closest a few years ago.'
Well, okay, the story is more interesting than that -- he spent 1800 dollars a few years back on a very convincing tranny.
#30 posted by
on 2004/02/16 23:00:47
Was his name Bobby Brown?
Oh Common
#31 posted by
on 2004/02/16 23:07:28
Whitney Houston isn't that convincing.
#32 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/17 01:13:13
If coke makes girls look like that, girls stay away from the coke!
#33 posted by HeadThump on 2004/02/17 01:14:56
I don't do crack Diana; I'm too good for crack.
#34 posted by
on 2004/02/17 05:38:18
Yup I secretly enjoy playing speedmaps AND watching homo pr0n...
...one of those I am considerably more ashamed of that the other :P.
#35 posted by Lunaran on 2004/02/22 01:03:20
I had fun. I was bored, and SM67 helped fill an hour enjoyably.
I wish I'd played Xen's last instead of Jacek's, though. :(
#36 posted by
on 2004/02/22 21:35:00
How speed can map the decently killing...
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I read Don Winslow's The Cartel a couple years back based on the recommendations of some trusted friends, even though crime fiction isn't my #1 jam. Holy hell that was an amazing book. I still think about it often. And since then, I've been meaning to read some of the author's back catalogue. But as chance would have it, Winslow's newest book visited my desk first, and so The Force became my second Winslow novel. And though more rooted in familiar genre territory than The Cartel, it's still just as incredible.
Denny Malone only ever wanted to be a good cop. And he started out that way; helping people, making himself useful, standing up for people who others stood atop of. A white cop in a predominantly black district of New York is not often seen as a hero but Malone made it his mission to appeal himself to the people. But then, like a single match that starts a wildfire, one little misstep of corruption sets Malone on a path to becoming one of the dirtiest cops in the city. Now he's a King of his streets and has allowed himself to be convinced that he is untouchable. But then he gets himself in a squeeze. The Feds have proof that he's dirty, they want him to make a deal. And on the other side of the law, he's dealing with drug lords who want his head after he stole their heroin in an effort to make a big payday.
There have been dirty cop stories and snitch thrillers before. They're common trends to revisit partly because they're based on some truth and partly because they can be tense or thrilling in some way. The Force has notes of familiarity to it, but that doesn't make it any less fantastic. This is a cop epic on the order of Serpico, The Departed, Cop Land, and Prince of the City. If you enjoyed any of those then you should find a new favorite in Winslow's The Force.
The Force feels so very much in the moment. It is a cop epic for a time when cops are viewed more cynically by more people than perhaps ever before. Police brutality and videos of cops killing unarmed black men are major subplots that make up a background (and eventually the foreground) of American justice on the edge of a knife. It is an angry piece of work, one that points an accusatory finger at police but also takes time to see the world from their point of view. It also points out the corruption and the hypocritical attitude found in the courts and D.A. offices. No one gets out looking super clean in The Force and the story is all the better for it.
I'm coming to learn that there are few real heroes in the works of Don Winslow and many bastards. Denny Malone is a complex antihero, a man who is hated, loved, feared, and honored. It's impossible to approve of everything the man does, but one can't help but end up rooting for him as the world closes in around him. Supporting characters on both sides of the law, of which there are many, are also well drawn. And the action is written in a blunt force manner which I really enjoyed.
The Force is a brilliant crime epic and I give it my strongest recommendation.
The book is now available in paperback with new interviews and insights from the author.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks was one of the wildest, most out there media tie-in novels I have ever read. Compiling notes, conspiracy theories, and mythology relating (on some level or another) to the show, it sought to tell the story of Twin Peaks between the mysterious travels of Lewis & Clark in the region all the way up to the death of Laura Palmer. Some of the book is redacted, some of it is written as if it's newly discovered notes from 100+ years ago, and a sizable portion of the book links Twin Peaks to UFO sightings (something that's not exactly at the forefront of the show's focus). Hell, Dick Nixon shows up. It's amazing. And it's bewildering. Like the best of the show which inspired it, The Secret History offers half-answers while posing brand new questions.
The Final Dossier, by comparison, is more interested in the answers.
This new novel, published after the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return's revival season (oh I hope we get more episodes eventually), takes a look at what happened between seasons 2 and 3. The book is written in the voice of season 3's Tammy Preston as a direct report to Gordon Cole. As some fans noted (and occasionally complained), the revival season didn't give us a whole lot in the way of details about what our favorite Peaks residents have been up to in the two decade gap between seasons. The Final Dossier addresses all of that, from bastard Leo Johnson's predicament at the end of season 2 to hey, where did Donna go? It also dives into some of the less explored elements of the new season, like the penthouse apartment with the box doorway to another world (?).
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Maybe we get too many answers? The Final Dossier reads as though it is trying to make sense of the Twin Peaks universe. And, to be fair, even as I love the mystery of the show, I do want to know some of the answers eventually. But too much of the book feels like it's holding my hand, explaining what the hell was up with that one part of that one episode. Like, did we really need a deeper look at the infamous Episode 8 of the new season? I liked it more as this bizarre standalone horror story where I could make my own connections. But now I know more and that's… I'm not sure how I feel about it, to be honest. Some of the wonder is diluted.
I enjoyed The Final Dossier however I took nothing from it but knowledge and understanding. That's fine, I guess, but it didn't deepen the mystery for me any. I'll say this, though: it may be worth reading for the Log Lady's chapter alone, which features beautiful, inspiring prose in the voice of one of television's most lovable weirdos.
You can buy Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier and The Secret History of Twin Peaks on hardcover. I must advise against the ebook versions, as I doubt they duplicate some of the beautiful touches that you get on the printed page. Twin Peaks: The Return is now available on Blu-ray.
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