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This is the second generation of the Porsche Panamera, the German sports car maker's luxury saloon.
Well, Porsche refers to it as a saloon, but strictly speaking, it's a five-door coupe with a hatchback to access the boot.
All-new from the ground up, it now offers an even more rounded blend of high-performance driver enjoyment and luxury saloon comfort, enhanced by a sophisticated array of cutting-edge on-board and chassis technology.
Porsche has even improved the way it looks – though still not a classic beauty, the second-generation Panamera's styling is far less heavy-handed than before, especially around the rear, where there is now a more homogenous resemblance to the trademark Porsche 911 range.
It's a difficult car to pigeonhole meaning its rivals are as diverse as the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe, the Maserati Quattroporte and Mercedes-Benz CLS. It will also appeal to those who want a luxury car but want to avoid the almost-default choice of the Mercedes S-Class.
The redesign has also made it much roomier on the inside – especially for passengers travelling in the rear – while the new structure is lighter, stronger and more versatile than before, allowing not only for the Executive long-wheelbase versions, but also a shooting brake-style estate variant, likely to be called the Panamera Sport Turismo.
The engine line-up closely resembles the original Panamera's but with a new range of powerplants again in petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid choices.
At the less expensive end of the range a turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 turbo petrol engine drives the rear wheels, on the Panamera and Panamera 4 models. The 4 will crack the 0-62mph time in 5.3 seconds, so it's no slouch.
Both the 4S and the 4S Diesel four-wheel drive have twin-turbo motors: a 2.9-litre V6 with 440hp for the petrol and a 4.0-litre V8 for the diesel, producing 422hp.
The same 2.9-litre engine features in the E-Hybrid versions, although the electrical assistance sees power rise to 462hp. Porsche claims up to 31 miles of electric-only driving with an official fuel efficiency of 113.0mpg.
Crowning the range is the Turbo – its 4.0-litre engine musters 550hp, enough for a 190mph top speed.
All Panameras have an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, under Porsche's now-familiar PDK branding. There's no manual option.
New technology for the latest Panamera includes a driver assistance system called InnoDrive, a much-improved multimedia system, and a three-chamber air suspension package for even better ride quality.
Plus, there is rear-wheel steering for greater agility and stability, and a more efficient electro-mechanical active anti-roll stabilisation in place of the previous hydraulic set-up.
They are also completely integrated into a new system called Porsche 4D Chassis Control that comes as standard.
Porsche 4D Chassis Control coordinates all of the driving tech into one holistic package, giving the Panamera remarkably fleet-footed responses – especially for a car that is over five metres long.
Read the full Porsche Panamera saloon review to find out if it really does combine sports car dynamics with luxury saloon opulence.


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Poland unveils new space strategy, eyes space spending hike
by Jarosław Adamowski October 12, 2016 January 23, 2023
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government has unveiled the country's first space strategy, indicating the increased emphasis which is to be placed on developing Poland's space efforts and industry by the current cabinet.
The document recognizes that currently, Poland allocates a minor share of its annual gross domestic product (GDP) to the space sector, at 0.01 percent, compared with Germany's 0.05 percent or France's 0.1 percent. However, the strategy vows to lead to an increase in spending, as the country's "space industry is one of the sectors which allow to re-focus the Polish economy to a larger extent to knowledge, innovation and technological development, away from low manufacturing costs."
Space projects on the rise
The strategy sets the goal of building Poland's first satellite. What is noteworthy, the document also recognizes that Poland exceeds all the Scandinavian countries and Eastern European members of the European Union regarding the amount of space-related research and development (R&D) projects that are financed by funds from the European Commission, with 108 such projects.
The document was drafted by the Polish Ministry of Economic Development as part of the ministry's Plan for Responsible Development which aims to enable a shift in the country's economy. Under the strategy, Poland is to transform itself from one of Europe's top locations for outsourcing activities and assembly plants to a regional technology hub driven by innovation and high-skilled specialists.
Monika Ociepka, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Economic Development, told Space News that the main aim of the government's strategy is to develop a new model for the Polish economy that would rely on new technologies.
"One of the industries which currently is not very developed in Poland but could significantly contribute to achieving this aim is the space sector," Ociepka said.
According to the spokesperson, Polish space industry players are active in the tenders held by the European Space Agency, and local companies have shown increased interest in establishing partnerships with entities from other EU member states to jointly offer their equipment and services to the agency.
"We should aim to establish such cooperation with the leaders of Europe's space industry, such as France, Germany, Italy and the U.K., but also other countries for whom Poland, with its economic potential, could be an equal partner, such as Spain and the Scandinavian countries," Ociepka said. Poland could also tighten its space ties with those "countries whose potential complements Poland's capacities, such as Luxembourg and Ukraine, or whose experiences and requirements are similar to ours, such as Romania and the Czech Republic."
The spokesperson also pointed that Poland's first scientific research satellites, developed under the Lew and Hevelius projects, were made as part of the BRITE project which was jointly carried out by space institutions from Austria, Canada and Poland.
"We cannot limit our bilateral [space] cooperation to European countries, but, for obvious reasons, such contacts should be mostly developed in Europe," Ociepka said.
Tagged: Europe, Poland
Jarosław Adamowski
Jarosław Adamowski is a Warsaw, Poland-based correspondent for SpaceNews. He has written for Defense News, the Guardian, the Independent, the Jerusalem Post, and the Prague Post. More by Jarosław Adamowski

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Site of Protonation of Alkyl- and Aryl-Hydrazines Probed by 14N, 15N and 13C NMR Relaxation and Quantum Chemical Calculations
The protonation site of some alkyl-(MeNHNH2 and Me2NNH2) and aryl-(ArNHNH2, Ar = Ph, 4-OMeC6H4, 4-NO2C6H4) hydrazines has been investigated in water, methanol, and dimethyl sulfoxide as solvents by measuring the change in the relaxation rate of N-14, N-15, and C-13 between the neutral and protonated forms. The relative stability of the two protonated forms was also investigated theoretically by means of semiempirical and ab initio calculations. The preferred protonation site of 1,1-dimethylhydrazine is the alkylated nitrogen, whereas methylhydrazine may also undergo protonation at the unsubstituted nitrogen. Phenylhydrazine and 4-nitrophenylhydrazine are protonated at the primary amine nitrogen, whereas 4-methoxyphenylhydrazine undergoes protonation at both nitrogens.
Titolo: Site of Protonation of Alkyl- and Aryl-Hydrazines Probed by 14N, 15N and 13C NMR Relaxation and Quantum Chemical Calculations
BAGNO, ALESSANDRO
MENNA, ENZO
MEZZINA E.
SCORRANO, GIANFRANCO
SPINELLI D.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. A, MOLECULES, SPECTROSCOPY, KINETICS, ENVIRONMENT, & GENERAL THEORY
Abstract: The protonation site of some alkyl-(MeNHNH2 and Me2NNH2) and aryl-(ArNHNH2, Ar = Ph, 4-OMeC6H4, 4-NO2C6H4) hydrazines has been investigated in water, methanol, and dimethyl sulfoxide as solvents by measuring the change in the relaxation rate of N-14, N-15, and C-13 between the neutral and protonated forms. The relative stability of the two protonated forms was also investigated theoretically by means of semiempirical and ab initio calculations. The preferred protonation site of 1,1-dimethylhydrazine is the alkylated nitrogen, whereas methylhydrazine may also undergo protonation at the unsubstituted nitrogen. Phenylhydrazine and 4-nitrophenylhydrazine are protonated at the primary amine nitrogen, whereas 4-methoxyphenylhydrazine undergoes protonation at both nitrogens.
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I had the privilege of working with one of New Zealand's top nutritionist Lauren Parsons, designing the interior of her first book called 'Real Food Less Fuss'.
This stunning book has such valuable information and the most amazing recipes.
We also designed tea towels with some of the quotes from the book and I also worked on her retailer information.
If you would like to see more of what's inside this book you can purchase it here or at selected Paper Plus stores.
designing the interior of her first book called 'real food less fuss'.
I also designed tea towels with some of the quotes from the book and I also worked on her retailer information.


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Тосканка (Ворсменское) — озеро в Павловском районе Нижегородской области. Расположено в Ворсменской карстовой котловине в русле реки Кишма около города Ворсма.

В Тосканку с юга впадает река Кишма, а с востока — Суринь.

На одном из островов озера расположен Свято-Троицкий Островоезерский монастырь.

Озеро является памятником природы регионального значения.

26 апреля 2012 года из-за разрушения плотины из озера ушла большая часть воды. Однако позже плотина была восстановлена и озеро снова наполнено до прежнего уровня.

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Озёра Нижегородской области
Павловский район (Нижегородская область)
Памятники природы Нижегородской области

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KENT, Ohio – The Cleveland State track and field team participated in its final tune-up before the upcoming Horizon League Championships Saturday, competing at the Doug Raymond Invitational hosted by Kent State.
Cleveland State's top performance in the sprint events came from Monica Johnson in the 60 Meter Hurdle prelims, as she posted a program record time of 8.93 – the first Viking to break nine seconds in the event.
Mijah Collier had Cleveland State's best finish in the 400 Meter Dash, as she placed 25th overall with a time of 59.87. Collier's time is the second fastest time in program history, while she also became just the second Viking all-time to post a sub one-minute time in the event.
Cleveland State's best individual finish came in the 800 Meter Run, as Anna Brandt placed sixth with a time of 2:15.86. Brandt's time marked the second fastest time in program history, while it also put Brandt in possession of all top-five times in the CSU Record Book in the event.
The Vikings also participated in the Mile Run, with Jessica Finley posting Cleveland State's top time of 5:27.20 to finish 33rd overall.
Cleveland State was represented in the High Jump and Long Jump events Saturday, with Hannah Gaskins finishing 16th in the high jump with a mark of 1.58 and Julianne Dorothal placing 40th in the long jump with a mark of 4.57.
The top Cleveland State 4x400 relay team placed ninth overall with a program record time of 3:58.66, marking the first time that the Vikings have posted a sub four-minute time in the event. This mark was set by the quartet of Anna Brandt, Tylar Mixon, Mijah Collier, and Hannah Gaskins, and ranks second among Horizon League teams this season.
Cleveland State will have a week off from competition before returning to action at the 2019 Horizon League Indoor Championships on Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24.


Long Island may not have the grade system based health department reports on each restaurant's door like in New York City, but there is another surefire way to tell if a restaurant cares about its storefront, kitchen, dining room and garbage areas: Their maintenance contracts.
Now, it just so happens that my dad owns one of the largest pressure cleaning companies on the eastern seaboard, American Dream Pressure Cleaning, used by a multitude of restaurants across long island and the surrounding states. His company cleans nearly every chain restaurant on the island, including Chili's, Carrabba's, Longhorn Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Friday's, Red Robin, Famous Daves, Outback Steakhouse and the list goes on. Here's where the ratings start to become clear.
These restaurants, all mapped here, are under contract with American Dream to be cleaned based on their volume. They are guaranteed to have cleaner dining rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and garbage areas in comparison to the many chains on the island that neglect to even clean their floors with more than a mop.
I'm going to be as clear as possible when I say that I'm not trying to promote his company, I simply want to open up a bridge between the restaurants that actually care for their store on the Island and those who neglect to. We need a way to have some fluidity between the kitchen and the customer – something people in NYC take for granted with their rating system. I know by means of personal accounts, business owner reactions and outright customer satisfaction that the stores American Dream encompasses are ones that I'd feel confident bringing my family, especially as a person who has seen the kitchens beforehand himself.
There have been stores I've tagged along to that had never before been cleaned by American Dream that had potatoes spread about the floor and grease caking the floor enough to skate across. Companies who do not step up to the plate so they can save a few bucks should be ashamed of themselves for letting their restaurant remain as unsanitary as they are.
This is why I want to give you the list of clean restaurants. This list may not point out every restaurant that's doing the right thing and cleaning their store using a commercial company, but it's a starting point for other companies to do the same.


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Android TV looks set for a bright future, as long as Google doesn't do a Google
Good news in general for the smart TV industry
By Ian Morris last updated 16 August 21
Good news for one of Google's products, Android TV has been enjoying some significant gains in the smart TV market. That's in spite of some earlier setbacks, including my parents' Sony TV which used the platform, and was an absolute disaster.
As is typical for Google, it has added some unnecessary confusion to the market. Android TV is the underlying platform, but it's also launched Google TV which is basically an app in its own right that ties in a number of other services, like smart recommendations using artificial intelligence. This means that it now has Google TV and Android TV but the two don't compete. Google always does this sort of thing, which is why it has somewhere between two and 356 messaging apps on the market at any given time.
It's Google's general support for products that make me worry long term. We've seen it launch numerous things over the years that simply haven't lasted. It appears, from the outside, that it isn't good at sticking with things, preferring the corporate dopamine hit of announcing some sexy new thing, before cancelling it shortly after.
Android Auto update brings back a favourite user feature – and it's about time
Android Auto could soon be getting a much-requested Tesla feature
But that aside, the figures are impressive. Half of all the TVs sold in the world will have smart features by 2026, according to FlatPanelsHD. By that same point, the US will have adoption of 90% and Europe over 80%. Right now global adoption is a shade under 40%, with the US currently at 70% and Europe at around 65%. Android TV on its own will reach 25% by 2026 according to some figures.
Android TV and it's premium overlay Google TV, are clearly needed by the market. For many manufacturers developing a new platform and then getting streaming companies to support it would be a mountain too high to scale. So turning to Google and using Android apps on your TV makes a lot of sense.
While Samsung and LG have both invested in their own smart tv platforms, companies like Sony simply haven't seemed interested in the enormity of the task. Sony may have been hurt somewhat by early crappy implementations of Android TV, which really were a nightmare. But it looks like things have settled a bit now and have helped boost Android TV to new heights.
Amazon also participates in this market, and while some people don't like it, I think FireTV equipped sets from the likes of JVC are actually decent. They're often amazing value propositions, giving access to the major streaming apps on a TV that costs just a few hundred quid.
Today's best Google Chromecast with Google TV deals
Ian has been involved in technology journalism since 2007, originally writing about AV hardware back when LCDs and plasma TVs were just gaining popularity. Nearly 15 years on, he remains as excited about how tech can make your life better. Ian is the editor of T3.com.
The Maunakea Sound Lounge combines a folding 165" 4K TV with the ultimate sonic seating system
A stunning entertainment set-up for superyachts and penthouses
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What's even greater cause for concern is that studies have shown the average attention span of humans is officially shorter than that of a goldfish — a mere 8 seconds!
Teachers are already amazing storytellers. My most memorable lessons were delivered by teachers who'd tell a story about how what they were teaching had applied in the context of their lives. In science, math, business, art, or any field of study, telling stories can improve student engagement by giving greater context to the material, helping students imagine and visualize how each lesson will relate to the real world.
Telling stories can improve student engagement by giving greater context to the material, helping them imagine and visualize how each lesson will relate to the real world.
Fortunately, today, students are more interested in stories than ever before. Consider this: Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter each have features which invite users to share their story on social media, of which more than 150 million people do every day on Instagram alone.
Though sharing a story means something different on social media than it might in the real world, taking the time to plan and share a vibrant and relevant story can help illuminate what might feel like a flat lecture or lesson.
The discussion around class participation has changed dramatically in recent years. Grading students based on their propensity to ask more questions or speak up during class has been faced with controversy, much of it due to its implication that shy or introverted students are worse off. But the truth is that many students who listen and take notes in silence are as engaged and committed to the lecture as the student who enthusiastically shoots her hand in the air when you pose a question.
"Character-based grades would reward students who contribute meaningfully to class discussion. They would value other personal characteristics such as empathy, courage, persistence, listening skills, and respect for others."
Another strategy I learned was from professor Dr. Doug Duncan at the University of Colorado. Every class, Dr. Duncan handed out a single sticky note to a student who contributed to the discussion. He would give a sticky note for any type of contribution — whether a question, an answer, or comment — and he would not give more than one sticky note to a student at a time, even if they'd spoken up more than once that class.
Comparison among peers can significantly lower self esteem and hurt a student's willingness or enthusiasm to perform at their best. That can easily happen in the classroom if students are only ever compared to one another based on grades, rather than recognition for other achievements or merits.
In Malcolm Gladwell's book, David and Goliath, Gladwell articulates the advantages a big fish has in a smaller pond. For example, a high-achieving student at a small rural college, Gladwell says, will likely fare better in her academic career than attending an Ivey League school where she will drop to the middle or bottom of the pack and become discouraged.
A strategy to reduce the implications of comparison is to bring to each lesson an opportunity for healthy competition among students that does not impact their grade but can positively impact the self-esteem of a lesser-performing student. Creatively incentivizing students to reach a personal milestone or achievement, without implicating their grade, is a great way to achieve this.
Promoting positive competition can also give way to a healthier classroom ecosystem of failure. Education is meant to arm students for a real world that exists beyond their studies; but today's students are much less prepared to face this type of failure if everything they do is worth a grade.
Failure is healthy; some of the greatest success stories have risen from experiences in which significant failure occurred or obstacles were faced. Students who believe that the best way through their academic career is to achieve the highest grade point average are missing out on the essential learning opportunity that failure provides.
The story about the sticky-note-rewarding professor exemplified healthy and competitive failure in his class. Although he gave all students a sticky note for their contribution, he was quick to challenge their input, whether right or wrong. What this strategy achieves is that students are encouraged and more likely to contribute knowing they'll be recognized for it, even if it's incorrect.
The average student uses their laptop, smartphone, tablet, or a combination of all three for everything that they do at all hours of the day. As a result, devices have crept into the classroom to help improve student engagement; but, unsurprisingly, they have also introduced many of the challenges student engagement is now up against.
Leading professor and brain-science expert, Dr. Brynn Winegard, advocates for less technology in the classroom by limiting laptop use and encouraging students to be present in class. Considering there's evidence suggesting paper note-taking is better, creatively switching to analog is one strategy to keep students engaged in a way that's different from everyone else. For example, ask students to pull out a piece of paper to brainstorm collaboratively with their peers rather than typing their ideas on a screen, or suggest students write their answer down and compare it with their neighbor's rather than using a polling app.
Using technology can certainly facilitate some learning activities, but enhancing classroom conversation and enabling creative collaboration need to stretch well beyond the boundaries of technology. Teaching students the benefits of unplugging from technology is an opportunity you shouldn't ignore.
Flipd is a classroom tool that helps teachers engage a distracted audience, while measuring unique metrics around engagement and participation.


This is an update on Fedora's response to CVE-2014-0160 (aka "Heartbleed"). This is a critical security vulnerability that requires your immediate attention.
or with your graphical package manager.
(This is included in the yum-utils package.) Restart all listed programs until the output of needs-restarting is empty.
The Fedora Cloud images linked at https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora#cloud have been recreated with the updated packages preinstalled.
Fixes have been applied to servers used in Fedora infrastructure and we are investigating any further remediation which may be necessary.
Special thanks to Robert Mayr, Kévin Raymond, Dennis Gilmore, Matthew Miller, Paul Frields, Major Hayden, Kurt Seifried, Kevin Fenzi, William Brown, Nick Bebout, Adam Williamson, Joachim Backes, Pádraig Brady, Lokesh Mandvekar, David Strauss, Joop Braak, Michael Cronenworth, Till Maas, Luke Macken, and others for effort in making these updates available quickly.
I was eagerly waiting for this upgrade. A lot of thanks!
I guess the question is, how do I know for sure vulnerability. reading at http://heartbleed.com/ they suggest 1.0.1g is the level folks need to be at.
Thx for the tip, I also had the same question. Another question I have is: how often do Fedora maintainers update *important* packages like this one? I realize the answer may vary, but I'd feel slightly more secure if it were more often than not.
fedora really needs to move to 1.0.1g. I realize rh has patched 1.0.1e, but many of our customers are following the general advice not to connect to any openssl < 1.0.1g. This is a real pain, given all the paranoia around, many people aren't interested in a discussion about patches, some even have now a corporate policy.
Of course, the new version might introduce new flaws. Fun all around. Use rpm -q --changelog openssl | less to see the changelog, where it is clearly noted that the vulnerability is patched.
But most importantly, you're really talking to the wrong people in comments here; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049231 is the tracking bug (although, a huge amount of chatter there will just be distracting to the package maintainer rather than helpful, so don't overdo it)….


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Soneva Fushi Resort & Spa
About Soneva Fushi Resort & Spa, Maldives
The epitome of barefoot luxury, guests' shoes are even taken away when they reach this resort. In a stunning location in the remote Baa Atoll, Soneva Fushi has access to some of the best dive spots in the world and offers a rare exclusivity in this tropical part of the world, on one of the Maldives largest islands.
A dream resort for anyone wanting to escape urban living and explore the natural world, this was the first Robinson Crusoe style, desert island hideaway in the Maldives and has set high standards for those following it.
Designed with minimal impact on the environment, rooms are hidden in the jungle-esque trees, each with their very own exquisite garden and private stretch of beach.
65 Villas (many with private sea water pools)
Located on the edge of a turquoise lagoon
Great for couples, honeymooners and families
Barefoot luxury in the jungle and on the beach, here you have the best of both worlds as you explore the natural wonder that is the Maldives. Soneva Fushi Resort & Spa is the ultimate way to detach from urban living and is brimming with activities for everyone to enjoy.
Located on the uninhabited island of Kunfunadhoo on the Baa Atoll, luxurious Soneva Fushi is a 25 minute scenic sea plane flight from the capital of the Maldives, Male.
As you would expect from somewhere with 65 villas, there is a large range in the accommodation on offer, from one bedroom bungalows, to two bedroom villas with a natural sea pool. Varying in luxury and amenities, they are all sustainable and have the same type of feel, like a home from home nestled into the trees. Cosy yet cool, each one has its own little stretch of private beach and a bathroom opening out onto a private garden. Pillows are plush and cotton sheets are crisp, then added little touches make each one equally as special. 13 of the accommodations have their very own pool, and all of these have a Mr (or Mrs) Friday to attend to your each and every need. Villa features include Wi-Fi, a safe, minibar, tea & coffee making facilities and a TV, as well as a CD player and DVD player.
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Kate Middleton Goes Into Labor, Royal Baby No. 2 on the Way!
Royal Baby No. 2 is on the way, as Kate Middleton has gone into early stages of labor after missing her due date byan entire week!
The Duchess of Cambridge arrived with her husband at St. Mary's Hospital in London at 6 a.m. local time on Saturday, May 2, and was taken to the facility's private Lindo Wing where she will give birth.
Before the Duchess even went into labor, crowds had already began to gather in the cold weather outside and across the street from the hospital, with some royal family fans camping out for over a week for a chance to witness history.
In a show of kindness, Will and Kate sent out a sweet gesture to their admirers on Tuesday, by having coffee, pastries and croissants delivered to the hungry, excited campers.
Those swept up in the second round of the royal baby craze have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new-born Will and Kate first announced they were expecting on Sept. 8.
The only people who have been waiting longer are the royal couple themselves, who have been preparing for their second child for months. Kate wrapped up all her official public appearances at the end of March, and since then, the couple have been getting ready for the big day.
While it seems like all of England will be turning out for a chance to see the exciting new addition to the family, there's one important person who won't be able to attend: Prince Harry.
Will's younger brother just left for Australia, and has an official tour of New Zealand that will keep him from seeing his new niece or nephew until the middle of May.
While the royal couple have not yet divulged the gender of their baby-to-be, many are hoping -- and even betting -- that the couple will welcome a daughter.
The couple's first child, Prince George, who turns two on July 22, was the subject of the first royal baby craze that swept the world in 2013.


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A Study in Charlotte
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The first book in a witty, suspenseful new series about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter.
Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited… (more)
Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices—and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends.
But when a student they both have a history with dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.
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Blockchain as a Service
By Trevor Eddolls
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IBM and Microsoft are leading the development and usage of Blockchain as a Service (BaaS), but what is it, and why should we care? In a way, blockchain is the respectable face of bitcoins – the well-known cryptocurrency. According to Wikipedia: "Blockchains are secure by design and an example of a distributed computing system with high byzantine fault tolerance. Decentralized consensus can therefore be achieved with a blockchain. This makes blockchains suitable for the recording of events, medical records, and other records management activities, identity management, transaction processing, and proving data provenance." That means it's capable of tracking other types of data in private blockchain networks in addition to money. Sounds pretty good!
Wikipedia also tells us: "A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block. By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data – once recorded, the data in a block cannot be altered retroactively. Through the use of a peer-to-peer network and a distributed timestamping server, a blockchain database is managed autonomously. Blockchains are 'an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. The ledger itself can also be programmed to trigger transactions automatically.'"
To make the most of this technology, IBM recently launched Blockchain-as-a-Service. IBM Blockchain is a public cloud service for the building of "tailor-made blockchain solutions" on the IBM Cloud. According to Marie Wieck, general manager for the new BaaS unit: "IBM's blockchain services are built on IBM's High Security Business Network and designed for organizations that require blockchain networks that are trusted, open, and ready for business." Jerry Cuomo, VP of blockchain technology, said IBM is offering a set of cloud services to help customers create, deploy, and manage blockchain networks. This fits in with IBM's broader strategy to offer a wide range of cloud services to its customers. IBM gave the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project a large part of its blockchain code last year.
Because IBM Blockchain is a public cloud service, customers can use it to build secure blockchain networks. Based on the Hyperledger Fabric Version 1.0 from The Linux Foundation, the BaaS will sit on IBM's "High Security Business Network", which, IBM assures us, includes full-stack security implementations, including secure service containers and tamper-responsive hardware security modules.
IBM Blockchain for Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 is now available through a beta program on IBM Bluemix. Hyperledger Fabric is also available on Docker Hub as an IBM-certified image available for download at no cost.
Microsoft has also been adding BaaS modules to Azure, its cloud-computing platform. Although both systems are superficially similar, Microsoft's BaaS is designed to work with a range of protocols, particularly the ethereum blockchain. Microsoft is a founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Amazon also has blockchains running on its cloud services.
Assuming that the security is a as good as people hope, and assuming the blocks can be accessed from anywhere in the world, blockchains offer a great way for sharing information – for example patient or client records – in a way that can be controlled and audited. The use of timestamps makes it possible to see when the records were updated.
I'm sure that we are going to hear more about blockchains, and not just as a way of transferring money.
Trevor Eddolls has been an IBM Champion since 2009. Trevor started his company, iTech-Ed Ltd, in 2004. He chairs the Virtual IMS and Virtual CICS user groups. He's editorial director for the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook.
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AG asked to investigate sexual misconduct allegations against high school baseball player
Updated May 08, 2020; Posted May 07, 2020
By John Beauge | Special to PennLive
WILLIAMSPORT – The Lycoming County district attorney has asked the state attorney general to investigate alleged sexual misconduct by a Williamsport Area High School baseball player in 2018.
District Attorney Ryan C. Gardner Thursday said he did so to provide all parties involved the assurance of impartiality and to avoid the potential of any conflict.
The appearance of impartiality was severely compromised by joint investigative efforts by the school administration and his office before he was elected, he said.
The incident that sparked allegations of a cover-up took place in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in late March 2018 when the high school baseball team was there for a tournament.
According to then chief county detective William Weber, a player with no pants on sat on the face of a sleeping player while another player videoed the act.
The school district claims the matter was fully investigated and proper discipline was imposed but privacy laws prevent it from providing details.
Myrtle Beach police also conducted a probe and was provided material from the Lycoming County investigation. But it chose not to file charges.
Within the first two weeks of taking office in January, Gardner said he and newly appointed chief detective Michael Simpler met with the mother of the alleged victim.
At the conclusion of that meeting it was impressed upon the mother that no further action would be undertaken unless she made her son available for a face-to-face interview, Gardner said.
Simpler attempted since then to contact the mother without success, he said.
However, an attorney retained by the mother on behalf of her son claims the boy will be made available for a face-to-face interview, Gardner said.
"Unfortunately, COVID-19 has significantly hampered the efforts to conduct the face-to-face interview of the juvenile," he said.
The office in the interim has confirmed the following, he said:
A video depicting criminal sexual misconduct does exist and has been viewed in Pennsylvania.
Because the sexual misconduct occurred in South Carolina, any criminal charges for the act itself must be filed there.
Follow-up interviews of other alleged victims and their parents did not reveal any additional criminal misconduct.
Gardner made note the incident has drawn intense scrutiny by the media and public.
Ryan Lee Miller, the baseball coach in 2018, has sued Todd Bartley, general manager of Fox Sports Williamsport, and other entities for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Bartley has been persistent in alleging facts related to the Myrtle Beach incident have been covered up.
He has posted a series of 14 articles on the station's website under the title "A Baseball Story in the Birthplace of Little League Baseball" detailing what he claims to have uncovered.
At least one of the articles it was alleged Miller was arrested in Myrtle Beach as the perpetrator of a domestic assault with his girlfriend.
The truth, the suit claims, is Miller called authorities after he and two other coaches saw an altercation and went to the female victim's aid.


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Pew Research: Parent Engagement With Libraries Remains High
By Catherine A. Cardno on May 3, 2013 12:35 PM | No comments
Cross-posted from the K-12 Parents and the Public blog, by Michele Molnar.
Even in an era when more parents than ever have easy access to information at home via technology, they find libraries to be important, according to a study by The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released May 1.
Pew researchers conducted interviews with 584 parents of children under 18 late last year, and found that:
94 percent say libraries are important for their children;
84 percent indicate a major reason is that libraries help inculcate their children's love of reading and books; and,
81 percent say libraries provide their children with information and resources not available at home.
Kathryn Zickuhr, research analyst at the Pew Internet Project, believes parents' connections to libraries are particularly impressive given parents' higher rates of ownership--compared to other adults--of techno-tools like smartphones, computers, and tablets. Still, libraries are relevant for information-gathering and different kinds of sources for children's homework. "Many parents said the atmosphere at the library, and having staff available to help with research, are other reasons they bring their children to the library," she said.
"Lower-income parents are more likely to say they've used the library's internet or computers than families with higher incomes," said Zickuhr, of her and her associates' findings in the study entitled, "Parents, Children, Libraries and Reading." Of the parents whose children went to the library in the past 12 months, 37 percent went to use the internet. Of those, 43 percent were ages 12-17.
In addition to borrowing books, which is the main reason children went to the library, more than half (55 percent) went to do schoolwork. Among children ages 12 to 17, that is the reason 77 percent went to the library.
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Margaret Bernstein writes that the rave reviews libraries receive suggest "that some parents respect the library even more than they do their child's school. And that puts libraries in a position of real influence, one they can wield to prod parents to get more involved in their child's academic success."
Zickhur said that among those surveyed, "a big priority of parents [is that] libraries should definitely coordinate more with schools. In focus groups, parents said they wish the libraries would coordinate more with schools-- to make sure enough copies of books on required reading lists are available, or for homework, and so tutors could help with what students are studying,"
For its part, the American Library Association, through its Association for Library Service to Children, offers an online repository of successful cooperative partnerships between school and public libraries.
Pew's full study is available here.


A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt Thursday issued two bench warrants directing the Rivers State Police Commissioner to immediately arrest and produce a former Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly and Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Tonye Cole's Campaign Organisation, Chidi Lloyd, to appear before it for attempted murder.
This is coming as the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has raised the alarm that it has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike, and his aides to blackmail the party.
Justice Chinwendu Nwogu of the Rivers State High Court 19 issued the two bench warrants following the absence of Lloyd and his counsels at the court.
The court ordered that Lloyd be detained at the Port Harcourt Federal Prisons and be produced in court on January 10, 2019 to take his plea on the attempted murder trial.
The former majority leader was expected to take his plea in Charge No: PH/692CR/2018 – The State V. Chidi Llyod and Charge No: PH/693 CR/2018 – The State V. Chidi Llyod.
Lloyd's lawyers were in court on Wednesday on the same cases when their objection was dismissed. Yesterday, the same counsel appeared and registered their names before the court, only to disappear when the case was mentioned.
Addressing journalists after the court sitting, Counsel to the Rivers State Government, Chief Godwin Obla (SAN), stated that the state is ready for the expeditious trial of the former lawmaker.
He said: "The defendant's absence was not excused at all. On the basis of that, we applied for bench warrants to be issued for the two different cases to compel the appearance of the defendant in court on the next adjourned date of January 10, 2019.
Also, APC State Chairman, Mr. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, was absent in court to take his plea in his second murder trial before Hon. Justice Joy Akpughunum.
Meanwhile, the APC in the state has said it has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike, and his aides to blackmail APC, Chief Chidi Lloyd, and Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree.
A statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chris Finebone, said, "the plot which was hatched and being perfected in the office of the Chief of Staff, Emeka Woke, involves the printing of APC logo on T-shirts and handing same to select Neighbourhood Watch recruits who will go to carry out protests and violence in some predetermined local government areas to give the impression that such protests are being carried out by APC youths over the ongoing persecution of Lloyd and Flag-Amachree by the state government.
He stated that the APC has no reason to embark on any exercise that will engender violence in Rivers State.
"Any matters concerning Lloyd, Flag-Amachree and indeed any other member of APC remain matters that will in due time be dispensed with by the court of law and not by any other means irrespective of the obvious sinister intentions of those behind such matters," he said.


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Famous Rare Frog Dies, Sending Species to Extinction
Kristin Falzon
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The last known member of a rare tree frog species died last week at the Atlanta Botanical Garden causing many to fear his species is now extinct.
The male Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog, staff nicknamed "Toughie," was found dead in his enclosure during a routine daily inspection Sept. 26. They believe he was about 12 years old.
Toughie was the last known surviving member of its species until its death in September 2016.Brian Gratwicke / Flickr
Toughie was found during a 2005 frog rescue mission by the Atlanta Botanical Garden and Zoo Atlanta. He was one of many frogs scientists raced to collect as the deadly chytrid fungus closed in on central Panama.
"It was likened to just rescuing things from a burning house," Mark Mandica, who is head of the Amphibian Foundation and worked with Toughie for seven years, told National Geographic.
Toughie's species, unknown to scientists at the time, was formally described three years later by Zoo Atlanta herpetology curator Joseph Mendelson III as Ecnomiohyla rabborum. He named the frog, the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog, for conservationists George and Mary Rabb.
The species was found in a very small area at an elevation where the fungus proved especially deadly. National Geographic reports field studies suggest up to 85 percent of all the amphibians in that area were wiped out, and it's unlikely that any of his kind survived in the wild.
"Science had a very short window to learn about the species in the wild before this disease struck the only known locality for the frog and the species vanished," Mary Pat Matheson, president and CEO of Atlanta Botanical Garden, told The Atlantic Journal-Constitution.
The only other Rabbs' frog known in captivity died at Zoo Atlanta in 2012, and that one was also a male.
The staff at the Atlanta Botanical Garden tried to save the species and successfully bred Toughie with a female, Matheson said, but the tadpoles did not survive.
Toughie had quite a following, according to garden staff, and he definitely left his mark on the world.
"A lot of attention had been paid to him in captivity, so he even has his own Wikipedia page," Mandica said.
Last year, his image was even projected onto St. Peter's Basilica, and his call—captured by Mandica in 2014—played so that the world could see and hear him, National Geographic reported. He also met race car drivers and movie directors.
will be lost over the next century, so we are on pace to create a mass extinction."
The study's author, John Alroy at Macquarie University in Australia, looked at salamanders, snakes and lizards, but "he found that frogs seemed to be the most vulnerable to extinction—the results suggested that more than 3 percent of all frog species have disappeared, largely since the 1970s," according to The Washington Post.
So what's causing these mass extinctions? While Alroy said there is a tendency to "focus very strongly on the potential future impacts of climate change, specifically," he said we shouldn't point the finger solely at climate change.
"I'm not saying we should stop looking at climate change," he said. "I'm saying there should be additional focus on other causal factors like habitat destruction and invasive species in particular."
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Q: Contour linewidths not changing I am using the clabel function to draw contour lines on a contour plot. I have the following relevant piece of code, for which I keep getting the error message: The following kwargs were not used by contour: 'linewidth'.
The current output has contours with a large line width that I would like to reduce. Why is this not working? Is there anything that looks wrong?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.colors as colors

from matplotlib import gridspec#, ticker
X=np.loadtxt("x.txt")
Y=np.loadtxt("y.txt")
Z2=np.loadtxt("z2.txt")

extent = [X[0], X[-1], Y[0], Y[-1]]
zmin = min(np.amin(Z2))
zmax = max(np.amax(Z2))

clev = np.arange(zmin,zmax,0.0005)
cax=ax.contourf(X,Y,Z2,clev)
cax=ax.imshow(Z2, vmin = zmin, vmax = zmax, aspect='auto',
          origin="lower", extent=extent, alpha=0.5)

contours = plt.contour(X, Y, Z2, 2, linewidth=0.001, colors='black')
plt.clabel(contours, inline=True, fontsize=8)

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Coinbase – NASDAQ direct listing
18:02, 13 April 2021
The most anticipated public debut of 2021 is happening tomorrow
One of the most expected public listings of 2021 will finally happen. The leading cryptocurrency exchange in the US, Coinbase, announced that it would go public via a direct listing. This method has been used by companies such as Spotify, Palantir, and Roblox. The direct listing will allow the current stockholders of Coinbase to convert their shares to make them available for trading.
Coinbase is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. that runs without an official physical headquarter. It was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. It operates in more than 100 countries, listing about 50 cryptos for trading. The company started gaining recognition for being a place where crypto enthusiasts could buy and sell digital coins. It offers an exchange platform and a digital wallet to store it in.
Based on the shares sold in private markets, some analysts value Coinbase in the range of $70 billion to $90 billion, while others go as high as $100 billion. If the last value is correct, Coinbase would be the 13th most valuable financial services company in the US, only $12 billion behind Goldman Sachs.
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Ahead of its public debut, Coinbase released its preliminary for the first quarter of 2021. Revenue came in at $1.8 billion, ninefold higher than the $190.6 million posted during the same time last year. Moreover, the number of users increased more than 30% in the past three months, bringing the total to 56 million. Monthly transactions also had an upward trajectory, reaching 6.1 million, 118% higher than the one reported at the end of 2020.
Coinbase's shares will begin trading on NASDAQ on April 14 under the ticker COIN. According to its SEC filing, Coinbase has listed 114,850,769 shares without mentioning the proposed price. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Allen & Co., and Citigroup are acting as financial advisors.
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Archive for November 4, 2015
Elixrr Meets English Fizz Producer Hoffmann and Rathbone
Christine	/ November 17, 2015 / No comments
In this video Elixrr visits Hoffmann and Rathbone on one of the last days of the 2015 harvest.
Winemaker Ulrich Hoffmann near some freshly harvested Chardonnay grapes.
After 16 years of working for a variety of topnotch wine producers across continental Europe, the US, and Southern England, Ulrich Hoffman along with wife Birgit Rathbone decided to settle down. Seeing the potential in the Southern English Sussex terroir and the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the burgeoning British wine industry proved to be too exciting a prospect to resist. Five years in, Hoffmann and Rathbone is already garnering international recognition, having recently been awarded a Decanter gold for their Blanc de Blanc.
Hoffmann and Rathbone's Decanter Gold Awarded Blanc de Blanc
A boutique producer of just 10,000 bottles, Hoffmann and Rathbone are in the enviable position of having to allocate much of their production. It's no doubt due in part to the care winemaker Ulrich Hoffmann takes in sourcing the best grapes from neighboring grape producers and ensuring that their sparklers spend enough time on the lees.
Their current range of fizz has been aged anywhere between 20 and 44 months, similar to top Champagne houses and includes a Rose Reserve (Chardonnay and Pinot Noir), a Classic Cuvee (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier) and a Blanc de Blanc (100% Chardonnay).
Check out Hoffmann and Rathbone's website for more about their selection: www.hoffmannandrathbone.co.uk.
More About English Sparkling
Top English sparkling is reminiscent of top Champagne; the bubbles are fine, the younger versions are pleasantly fruity with bright acidity that offers precision and backbone. Both sparklers are ageable and food friendly. And the soil and climate in Kent and Sussex, where most English Sparkling wines are made is similar to that of Champagne, although according to winemaker Ulrich Hoffmann, the acidity in England is a little different and may need longer time ageing in order to balance out.
British wine has been in existence, some believe for millennia going back to Roman times. The only lull in British winemaking happened over the period between WW1 and WW2 with commercial production recommencing again around the 1950s. After some experimentation with different, mostly frost resistant varietals and crossings primarily from Germany, attention turned to varietals like Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier with the thought of producing traditionally fermented sparkling wines
English Chardonnay Grapes
Although, many of those German developed varietals are still grown, close to half of all grape production today, according to the Wine Standards Branch, Food Standards Agency is made up of the Champagne varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Pioneers such as Denbies and Nytiember and a bit later Ridgeview have done a lot to put English sparkling on the map, paving the way for the likes of Hoffmann and Rathbone to come on board and make their own quality English fizz.
Over the last sixteen years, English sparklers have won a number of international competitions and there seems to be no doubt that this trend will continue. The future looks bright for English sparkling and its successes will only increase as the industry develops and knowledge of the English terroir deepens.
A Vineyard in Sussex with similar soil and climate as in Champagne.
Add Some Fizz to Your Holiday Fun
Christine	/ November 4, 2015 / No comments
The holiday season is again fast upon us and now comes the stress and indecision– what to serve? Although, there are a vast array of beverage options, for me, nothing makes a festive occasion pop more than a little fizz in the glass.
What can be better than sipping on this magical elixir with its perky bubbles that tickle the palate pleasingly? Not only are well-made versions of fizz fun to drink, but most are also very food friendly and can pair with everything from oysters to poultry ending on dessert. Of course, drinking fizz solo can be magic, too.
The Traditional Way
Some sparklers are made in the "Traditional Way" or what used to be referred to as the Méthode Champenoise, the method used to make Champagne. In Champagne, the effervescence is produced by adding a mixture of yeast, sugar and wine, known as "Liquor de Tirage" to the bottles of dry still wine. The addition of sugar and yeast causes a secondary fermentation in the bottle, which creates the bubbles.
Other Methods of Bubble Making
The Charmat Method, used notably in Prosecco and Asti production requires putting wine into tanks where it undergoes a secondary fermentation and then is later bottled under pressure.
The Transfer Method similar to the traditional method involves putting a mixture of wine, yeast and sugar (liquor de tirage) into a bottle for its secondary fermentation. The main difference between the traditional method and the transfer method is that after the wine has gone through its secondary fermentation, it is then transferred into a larger pressurized tank where the sediment is filtered out and the dosage is added. This is a cheaper process than the traditional method where each individual bottle needs to be disgorged (the sediment removed) and dosage(sugar+wine) needs to be added.
Other sparklers are made by simply injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) to a still wine, the same process used to make soda
What is Dosage?
The addition of the "Liqueur d'Expédition" is used in sparklers made using the Traditional or Transfer method and is a solution of cane or beet sugar mixed into a small amount of reserve wine. Liqueur d'Expédition is added to the wine just after disgorging, a process by which the lees are removed. The amount of sugar in the Liqueur d'Expédition or grams of sugar per liter added to the wine is referred to as dosage and determines the category of champagne, which is based on sweetness level.
Sweetness Categories
The dosage determines the sweetness level of the resulting Champagne. Bone dry "Brut Nature" or "Zero Dosage" or "Non-Dosé" styles, roughly 0-3 grams sugar, to Extra Brut at around 0-6 grams, Brut (0-15 gram residual sugar), Extra Dry or Extra Sec (12-17 g/l RS), Sec or Dry, which has perceptible sweetness (17-32 g/l RS) and at the end of the spectrum to the sweetest Demi-Sec ( 32 to 50 g/liter RS) and Doux styles more than 50 grams/liter Residual Sugar.
Non-Vintage (NV) Versus Vintage
Most sparklers are a blend of different vintages and are referred to as NV or non-vintage blends. It is common in Champagne, Cava and other regions where the traditional method is used to find sparklers made with wine from a few different vintages or over several vintages used in its blend. This adds a richness and complexity to the resulting sparkler and masks potentially weak vintages with better one. The goal of most Champagne houses is to have a style that they replicate through the years and blends over multi-vintages often allows this.
Only the best grapes are chosen for vintage sparklers and usually are sourced only in better or superior vintages depending on the producer. Vintage wines are usually aged longer than non-vintage wines, too.
Grape Varieties Used
Sparkling wines are made using a variety of grapes. Typically, Champagne from France is comprised of one or all of the three main grapes grown in the region; Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay. Although, .3% of Champagne is planted with White Arbane, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris and are among the other grapes allowed in the making of Champagne, these varietals aren't often seen in the large brands most people are familiar with.
Outside of Champagne, one can find fizzes made with all sorts of grape varietals, namely everything from Riesling, Macabeo, Xarel-lo, Glera to red varietals such as Syrah/Shiraz.
The bottom line, sparkling wines come in all flavors and sweetness levels. There is sure to be one that fits the occasion and palate of any guest.
Below are some Great examples of sparkling wine options for the upcoming holidays:
2011 Cuvee Memoire Brut Nature Blanquette de Limoux, France
It is thought by some historians that the first traditional method sparkling brut wine in the world came from Limoux, and more precisely, was discovered by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire, long before Champagne was discovered. Blanquette de Limoux is mostly (about 80% at least) made up of the traditional Mauzac grape with often a bit of Clairette, Chardonnay and/or Chenin Blanc added to the blend.
This example of Blanquette de Limoux comes from a 4th generation run family estate located by the foothills of the Pyrenees. Made from organic grapes, this sparkler has zero dosage and a blend of Mauzac and Chardonnay. The wine spends 8 months on the lees and is aged 24 months on the laths, it is a rich and minerally with some pear notes.
Montlouis Cremant de Loire NV, France
Made in the traditional way with 100% Chenin Blanc, this cremant has about 7 grams of residual sugar and exhibits lots of apple, honey dew and nectarine flavors.
Paul Berthelot Libertine NV, Champagne, France
There is something fun about Champagnes made with 100% Pinot Meunier, such as this one. Often fruit forward with red fruit flavors like juicy wild strawberries, this is just a fun wine that is somehow serious all at the same time. Coming in at around 7 grams of sugar, this is in the middle range of Brut.
Paul Berthelot Libertine NV Brut Zero, Champagne, France
This 5 generation grower Champagne producer made this Champagne by sourcing Chardonnay grapes from 35 year old vines and then leaving for a minimum of 3 years on the lees; zero dosage added. Toasty vanilla, citrus, custard with some mineral notes.
Pure Prosecco NV Veneto Spumante, Italy
Very fruity, floral, mineral peach notes. Simply yummy.
2009 Armilla MCC Avondale Paarl, South Africa
Made with 100% Biodynamic/organic Chardonny grapes, 3 years on the lees, this is a bold sparkler with ripe baked apple, quince, toasty vanilla and hazelnut flavors.
Louis Barthelemy Brut Zero Topaze NV Chardonnay, Champagne, France
Made from 20% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir, and 40% Pinot Meunier, this Champagne is a blend of mostly the 2008/09 vintage. Grapefruit, lemon with mineral notes.
Cave Jean Bourdy Cremant du Jura NV Trousseau, France
Made with 100% Trousseau grapes this wine exhibits rose petals floral notes along with juicy strawberries and raspberries along with slight oxidative quality, this has spent 4 months on the lees.
Cave Jean Bourdy Cremant du Jura NV, France
Made from 100% Chardonnay this cremant has spent 4 month on the lees. Displaying some oxidation, this sparkler has some custard, stone fruit, citrus, salty minerality characteristics.
2010 Hoffmann & Rathbone Blance de Blanc, England
Made from a boutique producer in East Sussex this Blanc de Blanc is made from 100% Chardonnay. After 4 years on the lees and 7 grams dosage this is a complex sparkler, with citrus


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Predicted Arsenal lineup to face Stoke City, Mustafi to start
Arsenal will look to continue their fine start to the campaign when they take on Mark Hughes' Stoke City at the Bet365 Stadium. Stoke has not always been a happy hunting ground for the Gunners, but they came up triumphs last weekend with a fine 4-1 victory. Arsene Wenger is likely to make numerous changes to his starting lineup following a thrilling 4-3 comeback win over Leicester City in the curtain raiser.
Formation: 3-4-2-1
Petr Cech is an undoubted starter for the Gunners. The former Czech international could be put at blame for the opening Leicester goal, but it will take much more than that for David Opsina to displace him.
Rob Holding had a miserable night at the Emirates. The Englishman will most certainly be dropped in favour of Per Mertesacker, who could be accompanied by compatriot Shkodran Mustafi and Nacho Monreal in the back three.
As weird as it may sound, Hector Bellerin could be benched for the Stoke trip as he looked out of pace at right wing-back versus Leicester. Oxlade-Chamberlain could be shifted to the right wing-back position, thus enabling Sead Kolasinac to play in his preferred left wing-back spot.
Mohamed Elneny is a definite candidate to drop to the bench on Saturday with Aaron Ramsey likely to start alongside Granit Xhaka following his cameo appearance against Leicester which included a vital goal.
Danny Welbeck put in a real shift with his pace against the Foxes, and he will play the support role alongside Mesut Ozil. Alexandre Lacazette scored just 94 seconds into his Gunners debut, and he will be expected to provide a performance with Olivier Giroud knocking on the door.
Arsenal ended their seven-year winless streak at Stoke with a thumping 4-1 win last year, and I am backing them to continue this run. Should things go pear-shaped, Arsenal could turn to Giroud to provide the physical presence upfront.
Stoke City 0 – 2 Arsenal
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Lone Justice: This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983
By Joseph Kyle • February 7, 2014
Country-punk rockers Lone Justice's brief existence produced two fine albums, established lead singer Maria McKee's career, and helped to define the country-punk and nascent "alt.country" genres. This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983 is a rare recording from the band's early years. Shortly after signing to Geffen, the band went into friend and notable session bassist David Vaught's studio and recorded their set in a quick, live to tape session.
As a result, this is an extremely scorching set; rough, raw, and raucous, it shows a band at the peak of its power. The set is comprised of a handful of covers (the Johnny Carter/June Cash classic "Jackson," Merle Haggard's "Working Man's Blues," and George Jones' "Nothing Can Stop My Loving You), several originals, such as the gospel rock of "Soul, Soup, and Salvation," "Cactus Rose," "The Grapes of Wrath," and takes on traditional songs "Rattlesnake Mama" and "This World Is Not My Home."
For such an influential band, This Is Lone Justice is a welcome rarity and a gem of a release, allowing the listener to peek inside and experience a fine, underrated country-rock band.
Tagged as: 1983, Alt.Country, Country Punk, Lone Justice, Maria McKee, Omnivore Recordings
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How Wavves spent 2009 treading the line between DIY garage hero and spoilt ungrateful waster
Nathan Williams discussed his new, big-sounding 'King of The Beach' album
Words by Stuart Stubbs Photos by Gabriel Green
An hour before we meet Wavves for the second time, Nathan Williams updates his Facebook status to read, 'I hate everyone and everything… No exceptions!'. This is bad for two reasons – 1.) We most definitely fall into the 'everyone and everything' category, and 2.) The last time we met Williams, we hardly hit it off.
Back then (in March '09), Wavves were a duo whilst on the road, completed by drummer Ryan Ulsh. Neither of them were the sharing type. Slouched backstage before a London show, they mumbled their way through our line of questioning, managing a shrug every now and then to let us know they weren't paralysed from the neck down. 'Sulky', you could have called them; 'unimpressed' was perhaps even made for that precise moment in time. The truth is that hardly anyone 'hit it off' with Wavves back then, but last year was a very strange time for the San Diego boy who picked up a guitar to save himself from working the till at American Apparel.
Williams is a dude in the truest sense of the word. A 23-year-old Californian with a love for weed, skateboarding and Nintendo, his slack garage pop completes the package of stoner kid into all things rad. And stoner kids that play bedroom-produced lo-fi garage, as we all know, are the darlings of buzz-blogs and hip media. The baby-faced Williams went as far as being dubbed 'this century's Kurt Cobain' – the saviour of US indie. Only he didn't deliver 'Bleach', he gave us 'Wavves' – a woozy, half-effort of a debut album, dipped in heavy reverb to cover the fact that Williams wasn't all that superior to others reviving hazy, hissy beach music. Furthermore, the 'new Kurt' began behaving more and more petulantly, not just I-dunno-ing his way through interviews but clanking his way through shows with little visible effort.
He and Ulsh parted ways following what is now considered Wavves' most infamous stand, at Primavera Sound 2009. Fed up with his singer's insults to the crowd, and reluctance to play more than a handful of improvised chord patterns, Ulsh poured a pint of beer on Williams and left the stage. The following day, Nathan admitted he was addicted to alcohol, and that his drugs of choice that evening had been Ecstasy, Valium and Xanax. Wavves had gone from anonymous dropout to Pitchfork poster-boy to villain of the year in the space of seven months, and many would-be-fans had washed their hands of him. We certainly had, not so much for Primavera or the moody, teenage veneer, but for the disappointing album, which had seemed so promising when we first heard 'So Bored'. But if 2009 needed to happen to give us Wavves' third album (his second was a virtual carbon copy of his first, called 'Wavvves'), then so be it, because 'King Of The Beach' is one hell of a U-turn.
With Nathan William's new Facebook status sixty minutes old, we find him, new bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes backstage at Cargo, Shoreditch. They've driven here from France and have slept for two hours. All three of them are sat surprisingly upright (no slouching here) along the same wall of their dressing room, because the small, hot, closet-like space pretty much demands it. They've one beer left in their ice bucket and they've run out of weed for the first time in as long as any of them can remember. Despite all this, the new incarnation of Wavves appear relaxed, happy and willing to chat. Very willing. They babble on, easily distracted by each other and making up comically recurring untruths, like what year it is and Nathan's actual age (it fluctuates over the next hour but ends up being approximately twelve). It's like playing ADHD Chat Roulette with real people – as soon as we start talking about Men In Black II, we're done; we've clicked 'next'.
"Can you believe that the douche from Muse's dad is in The Tornados?" is one sudden, off-point train of thought from Billy. "The Saturdays!? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" goes an outburst from Nathan. Our discussion therefore plays out: question; relevant answer neatly given over the next thirty seconds or less; five minutes of reign-free, lawless chatter; laughter to end. If nothing else, it's a lot more fun than a huff and a shrug.
"The new album sounds about five hundred pounds heavier than the previous two," says Stephen, who, along with Billy, had his fair share of garage infamy when Jay Reatard sacked the pair of them shortly before his premature death in January of this year.
"Oh, more than that!" challenges Nathan. "Six hundred?"
"I weigh two forty," says Billy.
Stephen: "Well, I don't weigh three hundred! C'mon man!"
Billy: "Okay. I weigh five, these are a slim hundred each."
"I know that you're, like, four twenty," says Nathan to his drummer "and Stephen, you're like six sixty. I'm an even twelve pounds."
Stephen: "You're twelve years of age."
"I just fattened up the drums," finishes off Billy in time for a bout of laughter. "Nathan played with his little scrawny wrists and I've got these fat tomahawks."
There's a valid point in amongst all the weight deliberation. 'King Of The Beach' is a far less puney record than anything Nathan came up with in his mum's garage. Even the Phil Spector-ish, sleigh bell-rattling 'When Will You Come' sounds like it's been on the protein shakes, and it's probably Wavves' most mellow track yet. Billy is clearly a more powerful drummer and Stephen increases the number of instruments heard by a third. Nathan appears to have fallen for an extra beastly distortion pedal that he uses as sparingly as Kurt Cobain, stomping from clean and jangling to loud and grungy on most songs.
"Before we went into the studio I said I wanted to make my 'Nevermind'," says Nathan "but the only reason I said that was because instead of a thin, trashcan sounding record like the first two, I wanted to make something full and big and studio sounding, like 'Nevermind' is. Y'know, when you've got a million dollar studio in front of you, you'd be stupid not to use it. I can make another record at my mum's house anytime. She's not going to turn me away."
"We had no time to figure out what we wanted it to sound like," adds Billy "so we were like, 'Nathan, what do you want it to sound like?' and the quickest, easiest way to be like, 'I want it to sound big' was to say, 'I want it to sound like Nirvana!'. It's easy for retards, older guys like us. I'm forty four! I don't know who Take On The Radio is, or The Fly Boys, or The Run By Sandies. I don't know these guys! I like Iron Butterfly! I like Jethro Tull!"
"The Run By Sandies is not one of your favourites," interrupts Nathan.
"I learnt that from this guy," says Billy, pointing back at his singer.
Nathan: "But you mean the Drive By Truckers."
Billy and Stephen are the kind of stoner double act you usually find goofing their way through a Kevin Smith movie, constantly talking about pot and getting high. They've played together for years and are funny, sarcastic and self-deprecating, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. They joke that they're using Nathan to make money on more than one occasion but are unshakably loyal in reality, defending him when the prickly subject of Primavera eventually crops up, or any other topic that could be seen as a criticism.
"Nathan's our meal ticket, to say the least," says Billy. "We're taking this guy for a joyride to the bank, my friend. He's a cruel boss and a cool friend."
"For some reason most adoption agencies won't let Billy and me adopt Nathan," adds Stephen "because they won't let gay couples adopt kids."
Billy: "And apparently we're not gay, they said, we're just two guys who want to make money off this kid."
Stephen: "Yeah, it's been really hard for us to exploit him."
But Wavves is a three-piece now, right?
"I dunno," says Billy. "I mean, what if Nathan hires a bunch more guys because he wants to do some other thing? I dunno. He's already threatened to replace us with hunks and body builders. He said, 'you and Stephen are fatties, I want a couple of hot, muscular beasts up there'. And we said, 'that's fine, that's fine'."
"Well, I gave them an option," says Nathan. "I said, either you guys slim down or I'm gonna get hunks."
"It's not about the slimness," protests Stephen "it's about the strength and power, man!"
Nathan: "But I do want oily hunks, who are Puerto Rican. You're not Puerto Rican."
'King Of The Beach' was recorded in very different surroundings to that of 'Wavves' and 'Wavvves', ironically marking the first time Nathan had made a record nowhere near the beach, but rather in Oxford, Mississippi. It was "horribly cold," says the singer, but a chance to record in Sweet Tea Studio (last used by Animal Collective to make 'Merriweather Post Pavilion') was too good to pass up.
"Bars close at 10 o'clock in Oxford," Billy tells us "so there really is no partying. It's like, 'oh, it's zero degrees outside and there's nowhere to go? Okay, we're gonna stay here and work on this.' We could go to the movies but the movie theatre closes at 4pm!"
Sweet Tea also came with producer Dennis Herring [Modest Mouse/The Hives] who insisted that Nathan's vocals were not to be swamped in woozy reverb this time around.
"I argued with Dennis a lot about that," says Nathan. "That was a big one. I was a little bit nervous at first and wanted to bury my vocals like before. And Dennis was like, 'no, I don't think I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna put my foot down right now'," says Nathan in a stereotypical southern twang. "But after the second song I kinda got used to it. I was a little insecure, that was my deal, but I'd never want to say that because it makes me sound like a pussy."
Billy: "I heard the dude from The Strange Boys, the first time he heard his voice without reverb at Jay Reatard's house, he cried. And other guys in the band said it's true."
On Herring's part, it was a masterstroke that's given 'King Of The Beach' its most notable departure in sound. Before, we were uncertain what Nathan was singing about, or if he could actually 'sing' at all; now, there's no question that he can, and his new songs are full of youthful exhilaration, love, defiance and a sizeable whack of self-loathing. He sings "I hate myself, man, but who's to blame / I guess I'm just fucked up, or too insane" on 'Take on The World', "I bet you laugh right behind my back!" on 'Idiot', and "My own friends hate my guts / So what? Who gives a fuck?" on 'Green Eyes'. A lot of the time these sentiments of doubt ride a wave of melodic, upbeat, pop grunge, but Nathan Williams is clearly a little hard on himself.
"Sometimes," he says "but I also talk about how awesome I am too, like on 'King Of The Beach'. Everybody always talks about, in interviews now, 'do you hate yourself?'. Well, yeah, I do. I have to hang out with these jokers all day. You'd hate yourself too!"
"Imagine squeezing blood from a stone," proposes Billy "one you know, who's like 12 years old. Imagine how I feel. I'm depressed. I want more money in cash. I mean, we're getting paid just fine, but I want him to make more money for us to take it from him. We've got this account set up…"
"I don't know anything about this," says Nathan "but they do talk about it in front of me, freely."
"It would make it awkward if Nathan acknowledged it," says Billy "and by the time you leave here he would have forgotten. We've got those Men In Black, head-clearing devices."
There's a dangerous sounding pause.
"But, errr… Men In Black II is great," says Nathan. "If we could soundtrack any movie it'd be MIB II."
Not the original?
"No," says Nathan. "Two is the alien birth scene, where the alien pukes on Will Smith."
"And I like a pre-existing relationship between the two agents," adds Billy in a pseudo-Newsnight Review tone. "Like with Batman, you don't want to know the back-story of how he met Robin and Alfred, like how Alfred killed Bruce Wayne's parents. We're actually like Nathan's Alfred. We killed his parents and now we control his bank account."
I'm not sure that's right.
"Yeah, it is," insists Billy. "Alfred killed the parents to get to the money."
"But anyway," says Nathan "I don't hate myself or anything. You just feel differently on different days when you write songs."
By that premise, Nathan must have been feeling pretty good when he wrote the album's title track – a song with a defiant hook of "You're never gonna stop me!". It sounds very much like a message to those who wrote Wavves off towards the end of last year.
"Not necessarily," says Nathan. "It's just a general statement. Sometimes that's how you feel, and we all like the motivational aspects of pop rap and southern rap in general. Like, 'Fuck you! I am the king!'. It's a very positive message. It's easy for people to get down and feel defeated and I think it's good for people to know that it doesn't matter what people think. Just do your own thing."
"My usual frame of mind is everything is going to stop me," laughs Billy "so when I hear that, I think…aahhh."
"Who'd have thought that a 14 year old would be able to teach two 44 year olds so much cool stuff?" says Nathan.
The following day Wavves are not sat along the same wall in a weed-less, hot, sleep-deprived state. They're smoking an apple bong (that's an apple packed with weed) in an east London photography studio before playing The1234Shoreditch festival. They're even more relaxed than the previous evening (apple bongs have that effect) and patiently wait to be shot by our photographer, Gabriel, one at a time.
"People just hate us," says Billy, matter-of-factly and passing the apple to his right. "They'll give us a four out of five but not say anything positive, just how fat and lazy we are. Like, how do they know how lazy we are?" he asks. "And how can we be lazy if we are always on the road?"
The knives are still out for Wavves because modern media has a collective memory like that of a learned elephant. Forgetting Nathan's rocky 2009 is going to either take a long wait of many more days and nights, someone else fucking up even more spectacularly (the smart money's on Gaga), or for 'King Of The Beach' to be followed by at least two more albums that perfectly combine the summer melodies of The Beach Boys with the adolescent aggression of 90s grunge.
"A lot of the things I did wrong are why we are where we are," says Nathan, optimistically.
"You didn't do anything wrong, dude," insists Stephen.
Nathan: "I know, but there's a right way of doing these things, or a professional way, and that just wasn't the way I did things."
"When Drake cancelled his European tour, I'm sure it was because his mum was having surgery, but even if it wasn't, he would have come up with a fake reason," says Billy. "He didn't just say, 'I don't wanna do it!'."
"I just didn't know any better," says Nathan. "Nobody had told me any of this stuff. People asked me questions and I just answered them, but I need to stop talking about drugs in interviews too, man. For my mum."
By the time we come round to discussing Primavera ('the most epic onstage meltdown a band of their small size could conjure', as Pitchfork.com dramatically put it) the subject seems as irrelevant as it no doubt is. But that doesn't stop the jolly atmosphere from frosting up a little.
Nathan inflates his cheeks, exhales and slumps sideways. Just as he's about to answer whether he remembers the show or not, Billy offers, "I wasn't even that fucked up and I don't remember it, just because it was so long ago. I've played, like, 300 shows since then."
Stephen gives a simple explanation of, "It's not significant at all", which is followed by an awkward kind of silence.
What we want to know, though, is if that episode, which was preceded by all of that expectation, excitement and criticism, was a turning point in the story of Wavves? The morning after it the band was back to being just one man, a European tour was cancelled and Nathan spent the rest of the year figuring out a new album, moving to LA and plotting a return that deserves to be the biggest comeback since John Travolta said "Royale with cheese". It must have had some affect on Nathan.
"Yeah," he says "but, like, again, I didn't record this album because some guy who writes a blog that thirteen people read said, [Nathan adopts a typical nerdy voice] 'Wavves played a bad show'."
"I'm sure the people that wrote that really negative stuff about that show have really, really good sex lives," jokes Billy "but beyond that, I'm sure they've never been in a band and played a bad show. If they were ever in a band, I'm sure all of their performances were top notch."
"I still say it wasn't a bad show," says Stephen.
Billy: "Well, who hasn't played a really embarrassing show before?"
Stephen: "Are we talking about last night's show, because Primavera doesn't exist."
It's hard to tell who's more fed up of the Primavera question – Nathan or his band of ten months who weren't involved in it. Over time it'll no doubt morph into another rock'n'roll myth, like Alice Cooper killing chickens on stage and Marilyn Manson mugging a puppy. Hell, take a look at the YouTube clip of it now and you'll see that – while a little cringy – the tale has already been blown out of proportion somewhat. But, once again, if Nathan Williams needed a scare like Primavera to create 'King Of The Beach' then so be it. He says himself that Wavves are where they are now because of everything he did last year. All we know is that at the end of 2009, in our 'Yearly Review Issue', 'Wavves' was our disappointment of the past twelve months. Now, Nathan Williams is on the cover.
Originally published in Issue 20
Wavves
Wavves has gone for a bratty Grease soundtrack on his first independent LP in a while
Wavves has stepped out of the wreckage of his major label dealings with two new songs
Wavves are doing their bit for legalising cannabis


Well, it's time for album number 2 from METAL ALLEGIANCE the band featuring Alex Skolnick, Mark Menghi, Mike Portnoy & David Ellefson. Casper got to sit and have a killer chat with Mark Menghi ins and out about this new release.
Anything that Dave Ellefson, plays on is going to be badass.
Just like Chris Is the Drumming God of Death Metal thunder, Dave is the god bass thunder.


We started our class 30 minutes earlier today because a Chinese official from UNESCO International Research and Training Center for Rural Education (INRULED) visited us and wanted to spend some time in the class before going to catch his flight in Chengdu.
We are participating in a 4 week course in ecovillage design at the UNESCO rural development center in Chengdu, China and fortunately there is a VPN connection here that allows us to "spoof" the Chinese censors and reach into Medium, Blogger, Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the otherwise banned sites, so this week I can post.
In a 10-minutes, rapid-fire informative speech, the official traced the history of sustainable movements to two influential books: Silent Spring (Wiki, 1962) and The Limits to Growth (Wiki,1972). The model of our industrial civilization is basically consuming the resources of our planet and leave us trash eventually. This is not sustainable. In March, 2018, Chinese government added in constitution "the building of an ecological civilization" to the duties and powers of the State Council (1). It's a new form of human civilization based on sustainable principles (Wiki).
How can we realize ecological civilization? He firmly believes that education and training are critical building blocks. He went on that UNESCO has laid the theory groundwork by a few profoundly influential reports: Learning to Be (1972), Learning, the Treasures within (1996), and Rethinking Education (2015) For people in the class who may become future designers or developers of ecovillages, you will have a lot of work, as one of his few ending points.


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