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by Michael Lin — Thursday, April 10, 2008, 11:30 AM EDT
Asetek Low Cost Liquid Cooling (LCLC) System
Introduction & Specifications Design & Construction Functionality & Installation Test Setup & Methodology Test Results Performance Summary & Conclusion
Introduction & Specifications
Water cooling has traditionally been considered an extreme solution, pursued by enthusiasts looking for the best cooling performance to squeeze every last drop of performance from their systems. For a long time this wasn't far from the truth and you were unlikely to find a water cooling setup that wasn't hooked up to an overclocked rig. However, in recent years watercooling has become ever more mainstream as evidenced by the number of manufacturers producing entry-level kits. These kits often provide ease of installation and operation at the expense of performance and cost. They also eliminate much of the knowledge barrier to entry to water cooling.
Since the early DIY days, water cooling has come a long way in terms of accessibility and exposure, but there are still many issues which prevent it from ousting traditional air coolers in the mainstream chip cooling market. Compared to air cooling, water cooling requires more maintenance and it's harder to install since most water cooling systems have over twice as many parts as an air cooling system, which generally only consists of a heatsink and fan. Many retail water cooling system kits also come unassembled to some degree which further complicates installation and opens up more chances for incorrect installation and user error.
While pre-assembled and all-in-one kits have done a lot to alleviate these problems, the increased accessibility often comes at the sacrifice of performance and they don't really address the largest problem with water cooling; the high cost. A competent water cooling system will usually cost from $150-$300 while a top-end heatsink and fan with somewhat comparable performance can be bought for only $70. The combination of high cost, increased need for maintenance and the do-it-yourself nature of water cooling is often too much for non-enthusiasts who tend to avoid it in preference for turn-key solutions, and who can blame them? It is for many of these same reasons that OEMs have not caught on to the idea of water cooling. The additional costs involved as well as the prospect of potential maintenance issues have caused many users and OEMs alike to avoid watercooling despite the numerous advantages.
Asetek saw an opportunity to address some of these issues and help bring watercooling further into the mainstream. They hope to do this with their simply named Low-Cost Liquid Cooling system (LCLC).
3D model of an Asetek LCLC system configured for dual CPU and dual GPU coolers
The LCLC may resemble other water cooling setups but it provides many features that set it apart from the pack. Asetek has attempted to address nearly all of the traditional disadvantages of water cooling compared to air cooling. It is a completely sealed system, which means it comes completely pre-assembled. This eliminates issues of assembly error and makes installation simpler. A non-toxic, non-flammable liquid and plastic tubing is used in lieu of silicone to eliminate evaporation issues, which means the system will not require refilling, reducing maintenance. This also makes a reservoir unnecessary, which makes the system simpler. To further simplify the system, the pump and cold plate (a.k.a. water block) have been integrated together into a single unit.
This means a basic LCLC configuration only consists of a pump/block unit and radiator (with cooling fan) connected by plastic tubing. This makes the LCLC significantly simpler and smaller than traditional water cooling systems and it also means it is small enough to easily accommodate just about any mATX case that can mount a 80mm, 92mm or 120mm exterior-access fan.
Socket Types: Intel Socket 775, AMD Socket AM2
Pump: Asetek proprietary AC/DC hybrid technology with high-precision ceramic bearings
Materials: Low permeable plastics for housing and hoses
Liquid: Nontoxic, nonflammable liquid that does not expand with changes in temperature
Heat Exchangers (available sizes):
Supports select NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards (optional)
Supports multi-CPU and multi-GPU configurations
Lifetime: 50,000 [MTTF]
Noise Level: <28 dBA
System Performance: Rth 0.13 °C / W3
Cold plate performance: Rth 0.06 °C / W3
Compliance: UL, CE, RoHS. Shock and vibration according to IEC 60068
Application range: storage -40°C / 70°C, operation 5°C / 35°C
Rated voltage/power: 12VDC / 2.5W
Tests: 100% helium leakage testing
The LCLC is not a new product. We first caught wind of it way back at IDF 2006. The LCLC was originally designed for use by OEMs, which is likely why you haven't heard much about it since then. Another reason is that only recently in the last half year has it gained significant traction. The first big success came when HP integrated the LCLC into their superb Blackbird 002 gaming system. HP currently offers the LCLC in two different configurations in the Blackbird 002 LC and LCi models. We also found the LCLC under the hood of the Maingear Ephex during our review although that option does not seem to be offered by Maingear anymore. Late last year, the LCLC also started showing up at computer hardware retail websites so we thought it was high time that we got one in the labs for a full review.
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The sale will run from today through August 22nd.
All titles are offered signed and personalized if you wish; shipping in US is included in the listed price. I'm going to sell each book for less than cover price plus $6.00 hardcover.
Again SHIPPING IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICES BELOW.
To purchase a book or books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve, and the total you expect to pay. If you're not a member of LJ you can still post, making sure you provide your name and contact info if you're posting "anonymously" (ie without an account).
Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served. I may have other titles that I can't reach easily so if there's something you want but don't see listed, ask. I may have some (not YBFH #1).
I will comment to let you know your order has been received and that the book is available, and to tell you what you owe. The address for money is datlow at datlow dot com. Please wait for my comment before sending money.
When paying, please include your real name, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form. When you pay, please make the payment "personal" so that neither of us get charged. Also, let me know if you want me to personally inscribe or just sign your books.
I will accept checks but you will have to wait until the check clears before I send books. If someone wants to mail me a check I'll give you my mailing address when the time comes.
Most if not all the books are out of print either completely or in the editions I'm offering. I am not intentionally selling any books/editions that are currently available in bookstores selling new books on or off-line.
****For anyone who lives overseas but is attending ChiCON at the end of the month -if you want a specific title I can bring it with me.
I still want to sell more of my OOP titles, partly to clean extras out of my apartment and partly to finish paying for the DSLR I've just (finally) bought. There are a few additions to what I posted in early August.
For those of you on facebook (which this automatically posts to) please come over to my lj page if you're interested.
The books are all anthologies I've edited and they are either out of print or hard to acquire.
I may have other titles than those I list so if there's something OP that you're interested in I may have a few copies. (no copies of YBFH #1).
All titles are offered signed and personalized; shipping in US only is included in the listed price. I sell at cover price rounded up plus $4.00 for mass market paperbacks/$6.00 trade paperbacks and trade hardcovers within the US.
I'm really sorry but No foreign purchases this time as I ended up paying $35 to mail a hc of YBFH (3 lbs) to someone in Australia.
To purchase a book or books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve, and the total you expect to pay.
Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will comment to let you know your order has been received and that book is available, and to tell you what you owe. The address for money is datlow at datlow dot com. Please wait for my comment before sending money.
When paying, please include your real name, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form. When you pay, please make the payment "personal" so that neither of us get charged.
Inferno (Tor) HC $25 one copy (available at "bargain" price on amazon, which I assume means remaindered with a mark) This is a non-remaindered new copy and lists at $25.95.
and will do so until the end of the month. However, I will be out of town from tomorrow through the 25th and only online intermittently.
I may be bringing some of the paperbacks with me to Renovation to sell if I have room in my luggage (I'll note those as gone on the original post).
There were three titles on reserve for someone how said she would pay by December 24th. She did not, so those books are now again available. (they were books from the "mythic series" edited by me and Terri).
As anyone who has ever been to my apartment knows, I always have too many books --other people's and my own, in piles all over the place. In order to at least diminish the piles of my own books I'm offering some for sale.
The sale will run until December 31st (my birthday). I will mail out your books as soon as I can get to the post office.
All titles are offered signed and personalized; shipping in US is included in the listed price. I sell at cover price rounded up plus $4.00 for mass market paperbacks/$6.00 trade paperbacks and trade hardcovers within the US.
For shipping outside the United States, please add an additional $8.00 per book to the listed price. This covers the cost of packaging and postage. The additional postage per foreign `book ($14 a book) is a result of discovering how much it costs to ship books to Australia. Three books cost more than $43! Sorry.
There are a few items listed that will sell for more than cover price, because they are OOP or not easily available through second-hand dealers.
When paying, please include your real name, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form. When you pay, please make the payment "personal" so that neither of us get charged. For any foreign sales, you'll have to pay the extra paypal charge (which isn't very much on a book).
(this idea and template stolen from matociquala--why didn't I think of it, because I'm stoopid).
Also, if something is sold out, I might have a few extra copies laying around (at the top of my shelves or in a hidden pile) so again, please ask.


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Q: xslt transforms utf-8 characters to a different encoding This problem is occurring intermittently, that is I have performed many xslt transformation without this problem, then it suddenly appeared during my latest xslt transformation.
I have a large number of html input files with a structure similar to the following a.html:

5

address

əˈdres,ˈaˌdres

...

When I check the encoding of the input files I get the following result:
file -I a.html
a.html: text/html; charset=utf-8

I transform the html files with an xslt similar to the following a.xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()" >
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="div[@class='a']" >
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*|node()" />
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I use a script similar to the following a.sh:
#!/bin/bash
xsltproc --html a.xslt a.html > b.html

A more complete bash script is the following:
#!/bin/bash
xsltproc --html a.xslt a.html \
| hxnormalize -x -l 1024 \
| sed '/^$/d' \
> b.html

And I obtain the following result b.html:

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In fact my output contains a few upside-down question marks that I cannot copy and paste here. Please see picture below

The input characters that belong to the UTF-8 character set have been transformed into something else.
When I check the encoding of the file b.html I get the following result:
file -I b.html
b.html: text/html; charset=utf-8

How can I prevent an xslt transformation to change my characters from one encoding to another?
UPDATE 1
By removing the option "--html" from the xsltproc command, the problem is resolved. However I am still not sure why.
#!/bin/bash
xsltproc a.xslt a.html > b.html

UPDATE 2
It seems that the input file is interpreted as ASCII or ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. I have inserted the following header in the input a.html:

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html">

However the output b.html is still the same.
UPDATE 3
I have update a.xslt to the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Please notice the different xsl:output line
This creates b.html with the same problem but the first line gives the following html declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

Perhaps behind here there is the reason why ASCII or ISO-8859-1 is used to interpret the input file.

A: SOLUTION
xsltproc picks up the file encoding of HTML input files from the META Content-Type header. When such a header is not present it might assume the file encoding incorrectly and butcher the file while reading it.
I have inserted the following header in the input a.html:

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

And I have run the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
xsltproc --html a.xslt a.html > b.html

The xslt a.xslt is the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
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Eminent Nigerian leaders have continued to express sadness over the news of the passing on of former head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, who died in Lagos yesterday, at the age of 85.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who expressed profound sadness over the news of his death, in an issued statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, extended his deepest condolences to Chief Shonekan's wife, Margaret, his loved ones, as well as the government and people of Ogun State.
The President noted that the Late Shonekan demonstrated to all that the love for country and commitment to her development, peace and unity transcended the trappings of office and the transient nature of political power.
The President prayed that the memory of the departed Head of Government would remain a blessing to Nigeria even as he found perfect peace with Almighty God.
Also, in a condolence message to the Shonekan family and the Government of Ogun State, former President Goodluck Jonathan described him as "an elder statesman, well-loved for his sincerity and sense of purpose."
Similarly, former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, described Shonekan's death as shocking. Babangida stated this in a press statement he personally signed and made available to the newsmen in Minna.
On his part, former Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters to the late former President Shehu Shagari, Tanko Yakasai, has said that the death of Chief Shonekan was sad to the county.
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Q: Variable not defined in while loop in python? I am trying to write a simple program in python to read command line arguments and print a final word based on the arguments. If there is any argument of the form "-f=" then the  will go to the front of the final printed word. Similarly for "-e=" the text goes to the back and if there is -caps as an argument then the final printed word will all be uppercase. I do a while loop to scan through the arguments and check for these flags. The full code is:
import sys
i=1
while i<len(sys.argv):
    frnt_wrd = None
    lst_wrd = None
    arg_1 = str(sys.argv[i])
    if arg_1.startswith('-f='):
        front = arg_1.split('=')
        frnt_wrd = front[1]

    elif arg_1.startswith('-e='):
        last = arg_1.split('=')
        lst_wrd = last[1]

    if arg_1.startswith('-caps'):
        caps = True

    else:
        word = arg_1
    i+=1
print (front)
print (frnt_wrd)

I had a couple of if statements later on to print out the word based on whether frnt_wrd and lst_wrd were not equal to None (i.e. a value had been assigned to them) but nothing was printing out. To check the problem I did:
print (front)
print (frnt_wrd)

and the output actually gives me front as the desired array (when there is an argument of the form "-f=" but returns frnt_wrd as None even though I defined:
frnt_wrd = front[1]

When I type exactly this line outside of the while loop it actually works but why is it not defining the frnt_wrd inside the while loop?
Edit: The full code giving me frnt_wrd as None is above. What else do you need?
I would like to learn how to do it with while and without argparse. I need to understand why I am defining a variable and it is not defining.
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A: The problem is that you reset frnt_word and lst_word to None each time through the loop, so you're overwriting the value that was set by a previous argument. You should just initialize them before the loop.
frnt_word = None
lst_word = None
caps = False
word = None
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
    optarr = arg.split("=")
    if optarr[0] == "-f":
        frnt_word = optarr[1]
    elif optarr[0] == "-e":
        lst_word = optarr[1]
    elif optarr[0] == "-caps":
        caps = True
    else:
        word = arg


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Monday, June 10th, 6 p.m. League of Women Voters of Ashland & Bayfield Counties celebrate the 19th Amendment, voting rights "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Womens right to vote!
LWV Article for The Bottom Line June 2019
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Forward! Wisconsin - FIRSTTO RATIFY - 19th Amendment
By Jo Bailey, Member - League of Women Voters of Ashland and Bayfield Counties
Did any of you voters (or even non-voters) know that The Nineteenth Amendment (XIX) to the US Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex? It was ratified on August 18, 1920 and certified by the US Secretary of State on August 26, 1920.
Passage of the 19th Amendment is a legendary and multifaceted story. The final struggle in passage began in 1916 amid the movement's divided strategies of state vs. federal suffrage efforts and moderate vs. more militant tactics. By 1916, several states had already granted women the right to vote, beginning with Wyoming in 1889. Women in states that had passed presidential suffrage would work to pass federal suffrage.
U.S. entry into WWI produced assurance that women would work to keep up the economy running during the war. President Wilson was persuaded and pledged his support to the 19thAmendment granting the right for women to vote. The House of Representatives measure passed 304-89. Two weeks later it passed the Senate and the amendment was sent to the states for ratification.
As we approach the 100thanniversary of women's right to vote, one of our goals is to shed light on Wisconsin's role in that story. On June 10, 1919, the Wisconsin legislature cast an historic vote to ratify the 19thAmendment and became the first state to deliver a correct certificate of ratification to the State Department at Washington, D.C. (Illinois actually ratified earlier, however an error in paperwork ensured Wisconsin's place in history.)
Did you know that our Local League of Women Voters of Ashland and Bayfield Counties (LWV/ABC) has been active for over 60 years? I had the privilege to interview Lu Eckels (age 90) who helped to birth our local League in 1956. She indicated that four to five women, including herself, met to create this chapter of the League. (Lu was a Political Science major in college and felt "Government is the basis of everything." She lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Bayfield and often attends League activities. She was my mentor when I joined in 2002 and was asked to be President!) Lu has worked on voting issues for years and was chosen as Grand Dam for the Applefest Parade in 2015. Our League (LWV/ABC) is proud to have her as a member and to recognize her years of accomplishments.
In the spirit of Wisconsin leading by example, as reflected in the state's motto, we invite all Wisconsinites to join in the rallying cry, Forward! Wisconsin - FIRST TO RATIFY - 19th Amendmentin remembrance of the day Wisconsin promptly acted to grant national suffrage to women.
The League of Women Voters of Ashland and Bayfield Counties is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. Get in touch with the local League at http://www.lwvabcwi.org/or info@lwvabcwi.org.
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Monday, June 10th, 6 p.m. League of Women Voters of Ashland & Bayfield Counties celebrate the 19th Amendment, voting rights "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Womens right to vote! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TO CELEBRATE!
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In our previous newsletter we reported on the LWVWI position in support of the protection of water quality and quantity, and specifically the following verbiage: "Work to eliminate all emergency discharges or spills of untreated sewage, orwaste orpolluting materialsinto the environment that threaten public health and the environment by potentially contaminating sources of clean water for humans, wildlife habitat and fisheries."
With this position in mind,the LWV/ABC is pleased to be co-sponsoring a public forum April 15thon Ashland's sewage overflow problem.
Remember last summer when news of the Ashland City sewage overflow hit the area papers and radio stations? Remember the beach closure issued for Kreher Park Beach and the caution for Maslowski Park? Remember the big rain and subsequent flooding that was intimately linked to these events?
The spring thaw right is around the corner, and with the large amount of snow we received this winter we can once again expect some flooding. Ashland is not alone in experiencing sewage overflows; many cities around the shores of Lake Superior must discharge sewage into the Lake when their waste water treatment systems are overloaded – usually due to the infiltration of excessive rain. An increase in the frequency and intensity of rain storms is predicted for our area given a changing climate. Thus, it seems likely that we will be facing sewage overflows in the future. It is incumbent on all of us to fully understand the problem and try to correct it.
The LWV/ABC, together with the City of Ashland, the Ashland County Extension, the Ashland County Land & Water Conservation Department, and the Chequamegon Citizen Climate Lobby will bring several speakers to delve more deeply into the overflow issue. Valerie Damstra (MaryGriggsBurke Centerfor Freshwater Innovation) will describe the extent and ecological effects of overflows around the Lake Superior Basin; Eric DeVenecia (Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources; DNR) will explain the state regulations and the DNR's role in enforcement; City of Ashland staff will detail the causes of the recent overflows and explain how the waste water treatment system works; and MaryJo Gingras (Ashland Co. Land & Water Conservation Dept.) will offer suggestions of actions individuals can take to minimize their impact on the waste water treatment system.
A question and answer period will follow the presentations. Do you know the difference between waste water and storm water? How does what you put down your drain affect the Ashland wastewater treatment system? What can I do as a private individual to help solve the problem? Find out the answers to these questions and get your questions answered!
This event will be held at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center on April 15th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Learn about the causes of Ashland's sewage overflow and what you can do to help.
Planning is underway for a second forum, scheduled for May 20. The focus will be on planning to meet future demands on Ashland's waste water treatment system and protecting Lake Superior from dangerous sewage overflows. Watch for upcoming details.
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End Child Poverty Campaign: Poverty Reduction Goal
Our Shared Goal: The faith community believes that the people of Wisconsin need to set a goal of cutting childhood poverty in half in the next ten years. To guarantee greater equity, we also need to cut racial disparities in childhood poverty in half. These goals need to be accompanied by a commitment to evidence-based evaluation of progress.
In 2014 the Wisconsin Council of Churches, WISDOM, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (now Kids Forward) launched a dialogue on poverty with faith-based leaders and congregants across Wisconsin. Our dialogues reached several provisional conclusions:
Deepening poverty and economic inequality is a moral crisis that calls us to action. We must confront our pretension of having a level playing field while 500,000 Wisconsin adults and 250,000 Wisconsin children live in poverty.
High and rising rates of poverty are primarily a result of broader economic and social structures, not individual moral failings. Most poor children live in working families.
There is a collective moral obligation not only to assist individuals, but to change the social and economic conditions which cause poverty and racial inequities.
It is unconscionable that children are the poorest segment of our society, and that severe inequities based on race and ethnicity continue. The long term negative impacts of childhood poverty and racial inequities create intergenerational cycles that threaten us all.
Effective solutions are more likely to be adopted and succeed if we focus on finding common ground across the ideological divide, adopt evidence-based solutions from across the political spectrum, and hold ourselves collectively accountable to measurable outcomes rather than particular policies.
Our Shared Moral Obligation
We have all seen how a sense of moral responsibility and compassion can drive individual and group charitable efforts to alleviate the physical, psychological, and spiritual suffering which flow from poverty and racial disparities. These are praiseworthy acts that should be commended, at the same time we have the responsibility not only to treat the symptoms, but to transform the broader social and economic context that traps so many in poverty, beginning when they are children.
We also believe that it is essential that this work be done in relationship and partnership between those experiencing racial disparities and poverty and those living with abundance. People who endure poverty and racial inequities have unique understanding of the challenges they pose and have a critical vantage point for seeing and implementing solutions. Working in partnership is not only the right thing to do, it is the only way we will be successful.
A Fresh Approach: Accountability to Outcomes not Policies
There is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that government has an important role to play if we are to take effective action to dramatically reduce poverty. Both progressives and conservatives accept that To add your endorsement to the goal of cutting childhood poverty in half, go to: endchildpovertywi.org government is essential to creating a social and economic context where poverty is far less prevalent. Despite this seeming agreement, ideological divisions over policy create a standoff that blocks effective action.
The big idea that emerged from our discussions is that we should flip the script by holding ourselves and our elected leaders mutually accountable to outcomes, rather than support for any particular set of policies. Tracking progress towards our goals can become the organizing principle for our poverty and racial equity work going forward. This will put us in a position to invest more in policies that are working, abandon those that are not, and initiate new evidence-based policies in real time. This outcome-based approach makes it possible to include the private sector (corporations, charities, faith-based institutions, and foundations) as well as governments at all levels (federal, state and local) in the plan as contributing to measurable parts of the outcome. This approach can also make it possible for other policies not usually associated with anti-poverty efforts, like state and local economic development and tax policies, to be part of the plan with measurable contributions to the outcomes.
We have reviewed a number of poverty reduction plans that span the political spectrum, including: 1) American Enterprise Institute/ Brookings – Consensus Plan to Reduce Poverty and Restore the American Dream; 2) Community Advocates – Pathways to Ending Poverty; 3) Paul Ryan's A Better Way: Our Vision for a Confident America; 4) the UK Child Poverty Reduction target, and others. From these plans a number of common themes emerge, and based on those themes, we propose that four main strategies are adopted in Wisconsin:
Set child poverty reduction goals, equity goals, and timelines.
Develop accountability mechanisms: A robust and independent tracking and evaluation capacity, trusted by all sides, which will make clear assessments of what is working, and what needs to change. (e.g. the creation of a Legislative Child Poverty Bureau)
Implement multi-sector, evidence based strategiesat the scale capable of achieving the poverty reduction goal, including:
Employment and Income: help people get well-paying jobs;
High quality education: Increase public investment in underfunded stages of education, particularly in the early years;
Strengthening families: deepening relationships and building social capital.
Measure progressand adjust strategies as necessary.
The first major step of our public campaign will be a faith-led effort to inspire policymakers, elected officials, and other opinion leaders and stakeholders to publicly commit to a concrete ten year goal of cutting childhood poverty and racial disparities in half. We need to hold all components of Wisconsin society collectively responsible to achieving these goals. It is the moral, just, and economically sound action to take.
Robert Kraig, Executive Director, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund
Rev. Scott A. Anderson, Executive Director, Wisconsin Council of Churches
Ken Taylor, Executive Director, Kids Forward
David Liners, State Director, WISDOM
Children and Poverty...What can be done?
February 17, 2019 / Web Manager
Bottom line February 2019
By Linda Jorgenson, Board Member - League of Women Voters of Ashland & Bayfield Counties
Too many children face economic barriers to achieving their full potential. In Ashland and Bayfield Counties over 20 percent of children live in poverty. The Wisconsin End Child Poverty Campaign wants to do something about this.
On Thursday, March 7, the League of Women Voters of Ashland & Bayfield Counties (LWV/ABC) has invited John Wagner to share the experience of Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire County with organizing around this Campaign. It will be held at the Northern Great Lakes Visitors Center from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
Wagner is a retired Chief Engineer from Cray Research in Eau Claire and Chairperson of the WISDOM JONAH End Child Poverty campaign in his area. He has a PhD and PostDoc in Chemistry and a personal interest in human brain development. Describing why he has become passionate about ending child poverty Wagner states:
I strongly believe that youth represent the next generation of leaders. I have had ten years of experience teaching young adults who live in poverty (volunteer at Trinity Equine Therapy in Eau Claire, active in Gun Violence committee at First Presbyterian Church in Eau Claire, member of the Kid's First Action Group in Eau Claire, United States Soccer Federation referee, referee instructor, and assessor, and NISOA (NCAA) college referee), and keenly appreciate the difficulties they live with. This, combined with my multiple interests in modern science that informs us about how poverty affects human development, has led to my strong interest in child poverty and the impacts poverty has on adult outcomes.
This is born out in the many studies in the past twenty years which amply demonstrate that children who live in poverty are at greater risk of education challenges, health problems, lower future earnings, and shortened life expectancy. Since many Ashland and Bayfield County governments, businesses, health care agencies, churches, and civic organizations are already working hard on these problems, the LWV/ABC would like to see our counties unite with other communities around the state to press for state level action. They endorse the goal of the End Child Poverty Campaign to have the Wisconsin Legislature set a target to reduce child poverty and racial disparity by one-half in 10 years and develop the policies to make that happen. Since evidence based best practice policies show this can be done, it's just a matter of the will power to get down to work.
The forum is free and open to everyone.
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Then you can email the people who didn't come back in those first 24 hours to ask for reasons as to why they didn't return. But, more importantly, you can ask why they didn't do X, which is what you learned from the most highly retained users. There's a lot of games you can plan when you think about what've learned and start digging in that's contextual to your product.
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As we age, the skin around our eyes and mouth start forming deep lines that later turn into Wrinkles, therefore to fight back the wrinkles there are various treatments that can be used to treat the wrinkles. The skin area around the eye becomes saggier and wrinkly due to the loss of fat below the skin. As our body loses fats, the area becomes hollow and leads to fine lines, crow's feet and wrinkles.
Thermage is a non-invasive procedure, where a tool that delivers hot radio frequency is placed under or above the eye, thus with the heat frequency that passes in the Dermis skin layer it contracts the Collagen, which then tightens the skin therefore, removing the fine lines around the eye area.
The skin around the eye is wiped clean with cotton or a piece of cloth, before the treatment, once you lie down for the treatment, doctors shall apply some light cream to avoid any skin burning. The tool for the eyelid Thermage is placed under the eye through which radio frequency is delivered on the skin. The heat from the tool helps in contracting the collagen under the skin, which in turn tightens the skin surface to form a firm and smooth skin free of wrinkles.
Before the treatment begins, the doctor shall drop in some numbing drops in your eyes just as you must have seen at the eye doctor, after which the doctor shall place in a special contact lenses that are specially designed for this purpose. The contact lenses are similar to the regular contact lenses that you wear, however it is more comfortable than the regular ones.
The tip of the tool is then placed on eyelid skin and the area to be treated, the tip passes on heat sensation that you will soon feel once the tip travels from one corner to the other. In case, you feel that the tip is too hot for the skin, then you can always inform your doctor he or she will quickly lower the heat to suit your comfort. You can always get the Eyelid Thermage done along with your forehead that will save your time and some extra cash as well.
The Thermage treatment is not only limited for the eye area, but can be beneficial for other body parts as well like the abdomen area, upper arms, thighs, buttocks. Basically any body part that you wish to tighten up with the procedure.
The best part of the treatment is that it delivers a long lasting effect on the skin, after the Eyelid Thermage treatment, you can enjoy the hassle free treatment for up to 2 years.
The procedure for the treatment is very short and can be completed within an hour or less depending on the area to be treated. As soon as the treatment is complete, you can get back to your normal work, as there are no bruises or side effects that need to be hidden unlike surgical treatments.
In addition, one need not worry about the authenticity of the treatment is it is approved by the FDA and is clinically proven safe for usage on our skin without any side effects.
The down part of the treatment is said it is not meant for everyone, but only for those who are loaded with cash i.e. with a high budget as the Thermage treatment comes expensive unlike other treatments. A single session can cost somewhere between $1000- $2500, which does not fit everyone's criteria.
In addition, the treatment is not applicable for individuals with Pacemakers or those who are pregnant, due to the radio frequency that can bring changes in the hormones, which is not safe for the pregnant women.
Even though, it is a very beneficial and clinically proven treatment that is effective, but one cannot expect to see some drastic change right after the treatment as the result is visible only after few months may 4-5 months. Thus, the Eyelid Thermage treatment is only for those who have enough time and do not have problem with the slow result on skin.
Before going in for the treatment, make sure to remove your makeup as the makeup substance can irritate your skin when the heat is delivered on your skin.
Avoid the Eyelid Thermage treatment if you have just had an eye operation, it could be dangerous for your eyesight.
Always make sure that you provide a detailed report about any health problem that you suffer, especially if you just have some eye treatments going on before the treatment.
In case you got an eye surgery before, you will need to produce an official letter from your eye doctor that you are ready for the Eyelid Thermage treatment and that your eye surgery has healed completely.
This is the wrinkle treatment for you, if you are against the surgical treatments.
Laser Skin Resurfacing– it is also a non-invaisve treatment that does not require any cutting or opening in the skin. Only a laser rays that is delivered on the Dermis skin layer removes the upper skin layer and allows Collagen formation with new cells. The laser removes the dead skin layer and gives birth to younger looking skin.
Dermal Fillers– there are various fillers that can be injected under the eye or the area affected by wrinkles. Fillers like, Collagen, Fats, Hyaluronic Acid and so on is used to inject under the hollow skin where the fat is missing due to ageing. You can choose the filler as per your requirement, for e.g. if you choose Fats then you can go for Microlipoinjection treatment, where body fat is extracted from area that have high density of fats like Thighs. Thus, a syringe is injected in thighs from where the fat is extracted and injected in the area to be treated. The fat injection continues until the skin plumps up and the hollowness vanishes. This treatment is highly used by celebrities and can be done in conjunction with other basic treatments like Liposuction and Tummy tuck.
Botox– it is the most popular treatment used by celebrities all over the globe. What Botox does is that it numbs or paralyzes the muscles that constrict and create wrinkles, you must have noticed some celebrities who do not prefer to smile much for the camera, and this is due to the muscles that have been constricted with Botox, as we know smiling too requires muscles. The Botox treatment can be given by any plastic surgeon in the clinic; it is the fastest and temporary way to get rid of fine lines around eyes, mouth, and forehead.
However, the temporary effect of Botox seems great in the beginning but with the frequent Botox treatment, your face tends to look rigid and not flexible, as it becomes to show any expressions from the face due to the tightened muscles.
As with most of the surgical treatments, you can expect some problem or side effects after few days of the treatment, but what happens is that once you get a surgery done to remove the wrinkles, then it becomes nearly impossible to the done undone later. Surgical wrinkles treatment requires cutting and opening which can cause side effects and complications in skin.
This is why most people prefer non-invasive treatments even though they might take some time to show their effects but it can always be done session after session, until a desired result is achieved. Nearly 80% of the individuals who have undergone the treatment have got their desired results after 3-4 months of the Eyelid Thermage treatment. In addition, in case, the patient feels that the skin can further tightened or needs to be tightened then he or she can simply visit their doctors and consult for another session. Once, the doctor confirms that the skin is ready for another round of session, and then the patient can undergo the treatment.
However, if you suffer from mild wrinkles around your eyes, I would suggest you to start from the anti- wrinkle creams and under eye cream that will help fight the soft fine lines around the eyes.


A pre-order is an order placed for an item which has not yet been released. The idea for pre-orders came when people found it hard to get popular items in stores due to their popularity.
Marketplace Pre Order for WooCommerce allows the customer(s) to purchase a product from the marketplace which is currently out of stock. A customer can even purchase the products which are yet to be released over the marketplace.
This plugin provides the feature where a seller of the marketplace can enable pre-order for their products.
The buyer can order products which are not available in stock if pre-order enabled for those products.
Works with every type of products like Simple, Downloadable, Virtual, Variable, and Grouped products as well.
The seller can set pre-order status and availability date.
The seller can set the custom amount to be paid for the preorder product.
By using this plugin customer can either pay the entire amount at once or can pay the partial amount for the order as per the configuration.
An email notification will be sent to all registered users for the new pre-order product.
The email notification will be sent to the customers once the pre-order product gets available in stock.
The user will get a zip file which he has to upload in the "Add New" menu option in the WordPress admin panel. For this login to the WordPress admin panel and under the dashboard hover your mouse over the "Plugins" menu option which brings out a Sub-Menu and then select the "Add New" option.
After successful installation of Marketplace Pre Order for WooCommerce the admin can configure it under "Marketplace PreOrder > Settings".
Here the admin can select the time zone for the marketplace. As per the selected Timezone, the time will be maintained for the pre-order products.
After successful configuration, the admin can add pre-order products. It can be done under "Marketplace PreOrder > PreOrder List > Add PreOrder".
This is the list of all the pre-order products as well. Admin can check all the available pre-order products here.
Note : Make sure the product must be out of stock. Only out of stock product can be added for pre-order.
You can make a product out of stock by making the status of the product as "Out of stock".
Product Name – Select Product Name from the list of available product. All out of stock products will be available in the list. Admin can select any of them as per the requirement.
Payment Method – Select payment method as "Partial Payment" or "Full Payment".
Original Price – Original Price of the product will be auto-filled as per the product price.
PreOrder Price – Enter PreOrder Price if payment method selected as "Partial Payment".
Quantity – Quantity of product.
Expected Availability Date – Availability date of the product.
Status – Select status as "Enabled" or "Disabled" as per the requirement.
By clicking "Save" the product will be added as a pre-order product.
The seller can add a product to pre-order under "Manage Preorder > Add Pre-order Product ".
This is the list of all the pre-order products as well. The seller can check all the available pre-order products here.
Note : Make sure the product is out of stock. Only out of stock product can be added for pre-order.
The seller can make a product out of stock by making the status of the product as "Out of stock".
Note: Module supports Simple, Downloadable, Virtual, Variable, and Grouped products.
The admin can enable the preorder for grouped products as well.
For this, the admin first needs to enable preorder for the associated products of that grouped Product.
For example – there is a grouped product "Logo Collection" with associated products "Beanie" and "T-Shirt". So, the admin first enables the preorder for "Beanie" and "T-Shirt" as shown below.
After this, the admin will finally enable the preorder for the grouped product as shown below.
And the grouped pre-order product will be displayed at the front-end.
On the product page, the availability and the countdown will be displayed as per the configuration of the seller and the admin.
By hitting "Pre Order" the pre-order product will be added to the cart and the customer can complete the checkout process.
Note : If a pre-order product is added to the cart then no other product can be added to the cart.
It will display the error notification as bellow for other product if a pre-order product is already added to the cart.
After placing an order for a pre-order product the customer can view them under "My Account > Pre Order".
Once the product is available in stock the customers will be notified through the mail. Then they can pay rest of the amount of the product in case of the partial payment.


A graduate of Smith College in Computer Science and Theatre, Liana spent her youth in New York City coding by day and singing at night.
With 20 years engineering experience behind her (as well as off-broadway and national tour credits), she is thrilled to be working at the intersection of business, design, and technology as a product manager at MeYou Health.
She has been an active member of the Boston Ruby community since 2008 and pays it forward by facilitating/participating in meet-ups for women in technology including Railsbridge Boston, Boston Ruby Women and Women in Games.
Liana is best known for adding vocals to her technical presentations at Wicked Good Ruby and RailsConf 2014. You can also check out this video from Techies Got Talent 2012.


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An international co-operative study of cases. Natural history of Ebstein's anomaly of tricuspid valve in childhood and adolescence. A hotspot for de novo mutations causing Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome.
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Finding themselves flummoxed by the former Government's Northern Territory intervention, parts of Australia's progressive movements were unsure how to respond. In the rush to take a large step sideways from positions in which one might risk being labelled as indifferent to child abuse, an opportunity was lost to debate the methodologies and philosophies mobilised to achieve the former Government's stated aim to protect Aboriginal children.
The NT intervention legislation invited questions around what circumstances, if any, a government can claim moral legitimacy in stripping Aboriginal communities of rights that others take for granted.
By 'quarantining' Aborigines' welfare payments to ensure they could spend their money only on certain items, the Howard Government played at social engineering to an extraordinary degree, attempting to control even which shop people choose to buy their groceries from.
Aborigines in communities covered by the intervention lost the right to appeal Centrelink decisions regarding quarantining and 'income management' — although the connection between exercising your right to review government decisions and child abuse remains unclear.
In effect, the Howard Government saw welfare payments as contingent on recipients conforming to notions of 'acceptable citizenship' — those who abrogated their family and community responsibilities were denied basic living support.
The methodology of the intervention was made possible in part by an evolving conception of recipients of Centrelink payments as, at best, in need of the firm guiding hand of the bureaucracy and, at worst, as would-be (or actual) criminals taking the government and its ever-suffering taxpayers for a ride.
This attitude is manifested in a culture of punishment within Centrelink and its parent departments — particularly the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. An obvious example of this punitive approach appeared in the Welfare-to-Work legislation, according to which job-seekers can be left with no benefits for up to eight weeks for missing appointments or turning down jobs.
The manner in which this legislation is being implemented was exposed in a series of newspaper stories. One man reportedly had his payment cancelled for missing an appointment with Centrelink. Apparently, he didn't have a 'reasonable excuse' for missing the appointment despite Centrelink being advised by paramedics that he had collapsed in the Centrelink queue and was being taken to hospital.
More recently, the Sydney Morning Herald exposed what welfare rights advocates had long been observing — that the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has been spending big running a legal campaign to recoup sometimes tiny amounts of money from unrepresented Centrelink clients.
The Howard Government's election promise to refuse welfare payments to people convicted of certain drug offences demonstrated the extent of the Government's agenda to reform recipients of social security payments into 'worthwhile' members of the community. The myth that government can so easily manipulate lifestyles is one which will need to be confronted by the Rudd Government if it aims to reform Australia's groaning social security system. It is based on unproven assumptions about the nature of job-seekers and pensioners.
Recent emphasis on penalties and payment suspensions for people who 'fail to participate' adequately in the labour market is indicative of a suspicious pessimism about the motivations and goals of those who are unemployed, raising children, or living with disabilities. Those who claim Centrelink payments expose themselves to invasions of privacy that would make the humblest aged pensioner feel like a criminal. In the name of thwarting 'welfare cheats' and 'Centrelink frauds', Australian citizens are exposed to large-scale bureaucratic busy-bodying.
Equally, recent welfare reforms assume governments have the capacity to change people's behaviour — to take unmotivated individuals and convert them into productive members of society — by forcing them to leap bureaucratic hurdles of appointments, interviews, job diaries, statements, forms and job capacity assessments.
There is no point in using the social security system in this way. It doesn't work. Participation obligations, far from making you feel the government's love and concern, can give the eerie sensation of having your local MP in bed with you. It can give the impression that the government assumes you will behave badly and, in so doing, possibly encourage the proverbial one-fingered salute through resistance to participation.
The underlying assumptions of the social security system need to change, with the focus shifted to assistance and empowerment rather than coercion and punishment. Reforms should be proposed with an eye to compassion, to providing real skills and training and to dealing with the underlying issues — racism, mental health, poverty, education — which have a far greater impact on workforce participation than bone laziness. In this way, better outcomes for individuals might be achieved.
Susie Byers has worked as a welfare rights advocate and tenants advocate at a community legal centre in Perth. She is currently researching a PhD in History at the University of Western Australia and is co-authoring a chapter of the forthcoming history of UWA.
As a single parent with my youngest reaching seven years old, I was faced with the daunting and humiliating Centrelink 'interview' about participation ... and all I could do was cry! It made me feel, as your article describes, like a criminal, a cheat and a useless parent. I have either studied or worked since my very first child turned five years old, apparently an experience not uncommon among most single parents, as the Centrelink Officer told me was the result of a SWOT analysis by Centrelink that at least 90% of parents were already doing activities (presumably the other 10% had good reason not to, if not the broader issues of 'racism, mental health, poverty' etc.) ... so why the punitive legislation to make people who were already motivated feel unmotivated by labelling them in such a way?? Change is paramount!!!
A couple of years ago in Halls Creek, WA, I witnessed the attempt to address a child's truancy from school by suspending the welfare payments of the child's so-called remiss parents, or grannies/ guardians. So much for the basic influence of these latter people in the upbringing of their children. They would be seen as failures in the community, but naturally remained significant in the learning experiences of their kids beyond school. Often the parents and guardians were not enthusiastic about school because of their own experience at schools which did not appreciate their history, their culture, their general battle with the forces of acculturation. Let Susie Byers' advocacy continue to promote flexibility rather than the usual inflexibility so much intervention entails.


You might not think that a former vaudeville theatre in New York's Lower East Side could have a lot in common with an (almost) unmarked glass-fronted laboratory in Catusseau, Pomerol, but you'd be surprised. You would walk past both of them without a second glance, and yet both are owned by legendary figures in their industries and are responsible for some of the most iconic productions of recent years.
The first one, at 80 Clinton Street, hides behind its battered steel door the cavernous studios of J Ralph, the multi-award winning yet totally self-taught music producer and composer who has written songs with and for everyone from Carly Simon to Scarlett Johansson. It's not a million miles to leap from music producer to wine consultant, and Michel Rolland; a similarly go-to name for ambitious people looking to create something remarkable. His tiny laboratory in Pomerol, which he started in 1973 with his wife Dany and moved to the current site in 1997, is on an unassuming street in a barely-there hamlet, and yet holds every bit of the same mystique to wine lovers as the Clinton Star studio does for music industry insiders.
I was almost prevented from going there last Thursday because of the French air traffic control strike as I had a plane to catch to London, but the French unions very kindly called off their strike a few hours before my deadline, and I was able to drive over to Pomerol for a vertical of L'Eglise Clinet.
It was the second vertical in a week, as I had just finished up a fascinating tasting at Chateau Duhart Milon in Pauillac. Both were structured in a way that was too irresistible to resist – older vintages set against more recent ones, with a notable gap in between to highlight changes in the wines that came not only from weather patterns and ageing but from significant investments in the vineyard and cellar from increased density of plantation to smarter use of new oak.
These properties are near perfect reflections of their respective appellations. Duhart Milon is nearly 190 acres (76 hectares), which makes it fairly typical of Pauillac, while l'Eglise Clinet is barely a sneeze in the corner of Duhart; coming in at a Pomerol-friendly 10 acres (4.4 hectares). But despite the size discrepancy, the two have similarities. L'Eglise Clinet had its star years in the mid 20th century, but fell into disrepair in the 1970s before shooting out of a canon with Durantou's work over the past decade. And Duhart has been famously overshadowed by its big brother Lafite for many decades, before firmly reasserting its own identity in recent years. And if you'd like me to stretch the point, both are known for being closed and tannic when young ('Duhart doesn't tend to smile until after its first decade,' says winemaker Charles Chevalier while Durantou described his wines as being 'undrinkable for at least the first year in bottle').
The Duhart vertical had a full 20 year gap between its two set of wines; we tasted the 1988 to 1990 and then the 2008 to 2010. L'Eglise Clinet was showing a smaller five year gap, with the wines 1995 to 2000, and then 2005 to 2010. Even this was fitting – in smaller areas such as Pomerol, changes in the vineyard can take place more quickly than in vast Left Bank estates, meaning that the effect in the final glass can be equally read more swiftly. The other effect of a tiny estate is, of course, a limited production of wine – perhaps why, although the miraculous 2010 vintage at Duhart Milon shows clearly that this property is deservedly having its moment, it is L'Eglise Clinet that gets the kind of adulation that music lovers reserve for rare-edition vinyl, and why going to the tasting felt like getting behind the doors at J Ralph's Manhattan studios.
L'Eglise Clinet is owned by Denis Durantou, a man who looks like a literature professor at an Ivy League college and unassumingly sets about makes one of the greatest wines in Bordeaux. He's a coil of energy, obsessive about detail. He questions his own methodology at all times, bouncing questions off Rolland as we tasted through the range, refining parameters, clearly open and interested in the wider wine world.
The oldest plots in L'Eglise Clinet vineyard are from 1935, planted by Durantou's grandfather, and are a mix of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, used for his massal selection programme, harvested together and co-fermented. Plants are around 15% Cabernet Franc in the vineyard, although he uses less and less of it in the main wine, with planting density upped to around 8,000. The main changes since 2000 have come in the cellars – he now practises less racking (which before was every three months, now every six months as he prefers a more reductive aging, with healthy sulphur levels and less oxygen ingress). The wines remain in oak for less time than before, but the proportion of new oak has been raised (until the mid-1990s, L'Eglise Clinet used just 30% new oak, mainly because money was too tight to do otherwise). 'I control the details much better than before. And if I don't know something, I don't do it. So no punching down, no malolactic in barrel. I can't be everywhere at the same time, and I believe in controlling things as much as I can – so don't want to put complicated procedures in place that my teams will have a difficult time carrying out in my absence'.
It was fascinating divining the effect of these changes in the glass, and this style of 'before and after' vertical is one of the most useful exercises you can find for getting under the skin of an estate. But what it revealed most clearly was the sheer joy and skill in winemaking that Durantou displays, which is why the real joy for me was not the magisterial 2000, 2005, 2009 or 2010 vintages, even though they will be fought over by collectors, and deservedly so. The real thrill lay in a wine that showed how, even in smaller vintages, L'Eglise Clinet can touch perfection.
The harvest lasted from October 1 to 8 October, the latest at this estate until 2012. New oak stands at 80%, but is more than balanced by the fruit. This is stunning from the off. It is still almost as young and pure as it was during the primeur tasting, but has gained in stature, a full meal with chewy tannins that are powerful and mouth-filling yet light and playful. Butterscotch, cinammon rolls, smoked cumin, charcoal, juicy blueberries and blackberries, coffee, liquorice. The texture is silky and it's honestly hard to see what's missing – perhaps not as powerful as the 2010, but so elegant and fine. Great combination of power and lightness that every winemaker talks about but few deliver. Surpasses the vintage by so far, and price-wise this is available for less than one third of the 2009 or 2010, and for me gives almost more pleasure for being such a surprise (around £750 in bond for a case of six compared to around £2500 for the 2010). It's going to run and run. 19.75/99 Outstanding. Drink 2018-2050.


ARTICLE: Rodriguez, N.M., Levesque, M.A., Cohrs, V.L. & Niemeier, J.J. (2017). Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 50, 717-732.
Teaching a help request can lead to overgeneralization, where the learner asks for help without attempting the task first. This article provides a method for teaching the help response in a manner that readily generalizes to other tasks but does not overgeneralize to tasks that the learner is capable of completing. Article access is included in the course.