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Education Industry News News Article Archive Outstanding 2021 Oregon Harvest Foreshadows Quality Vintage
Outstanding 2021 Oregon Harvest Foreshadows Quality Vintage
By Sophia McDonald November 24, 2021
WineBusiness.com
Everywhere you turn, professionals are predicting 2021 will be an outstanding vintage.
2020 was a heartbreaking year for the Oregon wine industry. In the Willamette Valley and Columbia River Gorge, early September wildfires created dense clouds of smoke and ruined many wine grapes. A devastating fire ravaged several communities around Medford, even destroying one winery.
With memories of last year still fresh in people's minds, the 2021 growing season was a tense one. "We were all just holding our breath all summer," said Luisa Ponzi, director of winemaking and viticulture at Ponzi Vineyards.
But in the end, the year was everything growers and winemakers could have hoped for. "It's the best harvest that I have in recent memory," said Steven Thompson with Analemma Wines in the Columbia River Gorge. "It was extra special this year to be able to move through harvest in a normal fashion and be able to taste the beautiful flavors and not be inhibited on making great wines. I truly believe these are some of the best (wines) we've ever had the privilege to produce."
He's not alone in that statement. Everywhere you turn, professionals are predicting 2021 will be an outstanding vintage.
Hot, Dry Weather Leads to Lower Yields, Less Disease Pressure
It was another hot and dry year in Oregon, which may have led to lower yields in some places. Alex Fullerton with Fullerton Wines works with fruit from every AVA in the Willamette Valley. At some of his partnering vineyards, yields were normal; in other places, they were 50% lower than usual. Heavy rain in late June seemed to affect pollination in late-blooming sites such as the Dundee Hills but didn't have any impact in the neighboring Ribbon Ridge AVA, which tends to be warmer.
It was a similar story in Oregon's Umpqua Valley. Dyson DeMara, owner of HillCrest Vineyard and a partner in Paul O'Brien Winery, said pollination of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris was good but rains impacted flowering for Malbec and Tempranillo, putting yields off by 30 to 40%.
"Leading up to (harvest), we thought we might have some effects from the heat waves that rolled in in the late part of summer," said Ponzi. "We also thought we were going to have pretty small yields." But both cluster size and the volume of grapes were very close to normal.
In fact, hot daytime temperatures in August and early September seemed to help the vintage. It shut down the vines a few times, delaying ripening until cooler weather set it, and killed off mildew and other problematic organisms.
Ross Allen, owner of 2Hawk Vineyard & Winery in Medford and president of Rogue Valley Vintners, reported that yields were about where they should be in southern Oregon. "If you take the incredible heat we had this summer, then the early rains, we're really happy with what's come out of the vineyard," he said.
Slightly Early Harvest Unaffected by Smoke
The Oregon grape harvest started and ended slightly earlier than usual. "We started picking for still wine around September 7, which is still a little early, but it's becoming the norm," said Ponzi. "We finished up right about October 22."
Typically, harvest would run closer to eight weeks, but much of the fruit ripened around the same time, making the picking window shorter. (The lower overnight temperatures made it possible to hang fruit a little longer, so growers didn't necessarily have to rush to pick, Ponzi said.)
Allen said 2Hawk began picking right on schedule, although some growers started as much as one week before they typically would. 2Hawk often wraps up the Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc harvest around Halloween. This year, they picked their last grapes on October 21.
Wildfire smoke was visible in southern Oregon as early as July, and Willamette Valley residents began catching whiffs of it in August. But this year, smoke stayed at atmospheric levels and did not cause any destruction in the vineyards.
The challenge that's stayed consistent the last two years is the availability and cost of labor. Ponzi typically brings in several international harvest interns, but all of them dropped out this year. "In the end, we had to source locally for workers in the winery," said Ponzi, and it was hard to find people with experience.
"I heard of a lot of people who couldn't find pickers, or the price of pickers was going up the morning of the pick, or they were picking at night when they couldn't get a pick during the day," she added.
Softer Reds, Riper Whites
So far, it seems the 2021 Oregon harvest will be one to remember for the right reasons. "I harken back to maybe even the 2008 or 2012 vintage — these years where I feel like the fruit came in the door really balanced and beautiful without a lot of input on the winemaker's part," said Ponzi. "These are deeply-colored wines with pretty intense fruit for such young wines. There are really big aromatics. The tannins seem to be right in line, but I think what's most striking is the natural acidity we got this vintage. The chemistry of the vintage was spot on. I've never seen it so perfect."
There's a certain softness that winemakers are already seeing in the red wines. Fullerton described the wines as plush, with lower-than-average acidity but still enough to add structure and allow for good aging. "I think this is going to be a vintage that comes out swinging and is really delicious," he said.
Aging these wines may not be necessary. "The '21 vintage wines are going to be drinkable earlier and require less cellar time," predicted Allen. "They've got great balance and great fruit, but chemistry-wise, the tannins seem to be a little softer than what I would anticipate."
DeMara called his Pinot Noir "very consistent and very measured" and said the bigger reds were what surprised him. "Typically, in a warm, dry vintage, you expect a lot of power and intensity." What stood out instead was an elegance and brightness. While it's too early to tell what will turn the most heads, so far, he's seeing great quality in the Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Teroldego.
In white wines, people may notice riper fruit this year. "In September, there was one hot spell, so the brix on the whites were higher than a perfect-world scenario," said Thompson. But the chemistry should still make wines with good acidity and crisp fruit.
"The whites came in just a little riper than I would have liked," said Ponzi. She expects Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and other whites to avoid a jammy character but lean more toward yellow fruits such as apricot and yellow apple.
"I think this is a vintage that is going to be a real standout in terms of its personality," said DeMara. In some years, the wines are pretty even across the board. In others, they evolve in different and intriguing directions. It remains to be seen where this vintage is heading, but it looks like things will only get better.
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1. I have a whole Pinterest board of summer projects and have started a list of supplies to buy.
2. I have decided to tear my classroom library apart to reorganize and levelize the books.
3. I am on website daily researching things to do with my son, Vegas stuff, Disneyland stuff, baseball game tickets, and many more things.
4. My amazon book wishlist has grown exponentially over the last few weeks.
Our school has always done thematic teaching, but we are also incorporating inquiry-base projects and so I ordered The Research Workshop. I started it the other day (yes, more procrastination) and I liked how they gave examples from a first grade classroom.
The other new book I want to read this summer is Teach Like a Pirate. Have heard some great things about this book.
I will be re-reading some books so I can participate in various book clubs. I love re-reading professional books that I enjoyed, just to have a refresher. I often pick up on something new that I missed before.
The first one is Teaching with Intention. I read this a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. I walked away with some easy to use ideas. When I pulled it off my shelf, I still had sticky notes throughout the book. I plan to participate in the book study being hosted by Kindergarten Smorgasbord. It actually started this week, but I am still trying to make it to the end of the year.
Our primary team is going to re-read About the Authors, which is good because I read it a while ago and don't remember a whole lot from it. We have a school goal to work on writing instruction, so this will be a fun read.
And finally, Daily 5 and The Cafe Book. I think I re-read these every summer. I am super excited to review them this year because I am going to a 2-day training with the 2sisters this summer. I can't wait! I have been using Daily 5 for three years now and I love it.
And for my pleasure reading, I am planning to read these two books.
So there you have it, my reading list. And yet about an hour out of my night writing a blogpost instead of finishing report cards! Have you read any of these? What is on your summer to-read list?
Hey!! I'm TOTALLY having a linky right now about this exact thing!! Adventures of Room 129 – What are you Reading this Summer Linky! 🙂 Come link up!!
You have a lot of great books that I want to read!


Thomas Chandler, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Earth Institute, Columbia University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the principal investigator of a $398,000 two year grant with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control examining the public health systems response to Hurricane Sandy in the NYC Area (2013-2015), and the principal investigator of a $150,000 two year grant with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, on the usage of social media during disasters (2014-2016).
Benita Panigrahi, MD, MS, joins NCDP as a postdoctoral research scientist, investigating the complex health systems response to disasters. Her past disaster experience includes providing general assistance and medical relief in Hurricane Sandy, Haitian Earthquake, and Hurricane Katrina response and recovery efforts. She has a clinical background in general surgery, having completed two years of postgraduate training at the State University of New York Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY.
David Abramson, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU College of Global Public Health and founding director of the Program on Population Impact, Recovery, and Resiliency (PiR2). His areas of study include disaster recovery and resiliency, the social ecology of vulnerability, risk communication targeted to high-risk or elusive communities, and survey research on preparedness attitudes and behaviors.
Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA, is the Managing Director for Strategic Planning and Operations at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. He oversees projects related to the practice of disaster preparedness and guides the development of strategic planning for the center. His areas of expertise includes public health preparedness including planning, training and exercising.
Noelle Gallant, MA, is an evaluation specialist at Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response, with expertise in analyzing qualitative data regarding disaster response.
The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) has a long-standing relationship with local health departments (LHD) in and around the Metro New York Area. Given the shared impact of the storm, NCDP has partnered with the Nassau and Westchester County Departments of Health to carry out this study.


Our flag is red,white, and blue. But our nation is a rainbow-Red,Yellow,brown,black, and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 911. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.
The banks can, and do, create money... And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state.
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.
In a nation of minorities, it is important that you don't cherry-pick rights. A right is a right.


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"AS A CHILD, I knew I wanted to get into interior design or architecture, and that became more clear to me in college," says Katie Putnam Martinez '00. Having studied studio art at both Taft and Dartmouth, the skills she learned in those classes continue to inform her work as an in-demand interior designer today.
After graduating from Dartmouth, she enrolled in an interior design graduate program at Parsons to "get the specific training and tool set required to get a job in New York," she says. While at Parsons, Martinez interned in the office of André Balazs, the hip hotelier behind the Standard Hotel brand and the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
Her appetite for the hospitality industry whetted, Martinez set her heart on working at the Rockwell Group. Like Balazs's organization, Rockwell, which was founded by David Rockwell in 1984, is one of the most respected firms in the world of hotels and restaurants.
"It was a really exciting and creative place to begin, and I was given a lot of responsibility and creative freedom," Martinez says. "In hospitality, you're trying to create an experience for people that doesn't exist on the residential side, so it was really a helpful place to start creatively."
In 2008, she and her then-boyfriend (and now husband) Michael decided to move to San Francisco, expecting to stay for no more than a few years. Nine years later, they are still there and now have two daughters, ages 5 and 2.
After working as studio director at the residential design firm Nicole Hollis, Martinez launched her own business in 2013. Her first major project was Sinegal Estate Winery in St. Helena, California, which "felt residential in a way," Martinez says, because "one of our design goals was to make it feel more like a living room than a tasting room." The Wall Street Journal took notice and featured the design in 2015.
While she has also worked on offices and a store, West Coast residential projects are her main focus. Having grown up in New Jersey, she still taps into her East Coast network and recently completed a summer home on Nantucket.
Martinez describes her design sensibility as "a little bit of everything, in a way. I like rooms and places that feel layered with old and new, and I gravitate more toward contemporary aspects in terms of clean lines and simplicity." Still, she says she always tries to include vintage pieces, like antiques and textiles, in her projects. And black. "I love using black—it makes every space feel infinitely cooler," Martinez said in an interview with House Beautiful, which featured her work in the July/August 2018 issue ("On the Rise").
"I love doing everything from interior remodeling—kitchen, bathrooms, and space planning—to overseeing room details like textiles and custom furniture design," Martinez says. "I feel fortunate to have started my business in San Francisco during a pretty significant boom time for the city."
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Ian Smith was born in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, but at the age of 11 he moved with his family to the town of Peebles in the Borders region of Scotland. His family still lives there now. Since then, he has spent time in England, Switzerland, Japan, Ethiopia, India, Libya and a part of the Korean peninsula that isn't visited very much. At the moment, he is in Tunisia in northern Africa, working as an academic manager. He writes, pseudonymously, short horror, fantasy and Scottish fiction. He has also published non-fiction on topics ranging from linguistic relativity to amateur-league Scottish football teams, to vampires. This blog will no doubt be as unstructured as everything else about him.
No, I'm not beginning 2019 with another online diatribe about Brexit Britain. 'Little England' is the nickname – an unfortunate nickname considering the backward-looking parochialism and xenophobia that drove millions of real Little Englanders to vote in 2016 to prise the UK out of the European Union – that Sri Lankans often give to the town of Nuwara Eliya.
Located at an altitude of 1870 metres, it's the highest and, climatically, coolest town in the country. Nuwara Eliya was founded in 1846 and quickly became a retreat for members of the British colonial establishment eager to escape the heat and humidity of the lower-lying parts of the island. And with them, they brought British architecture, British pastimes and sports, and British clubs and associations.
Last month, my work brought me to Nuwara Eliya for a couple of days and I had a chance to explore it. I didn't do any touristy things like venturing out into the surrounding hill country to, for example, experience the nearby Horton Plains or visit the several famous waterfalls or tour one of the local tea plantations. This was because at some point in the future my better half, Mrs Blood and Porridge, and I would like to spend a proper holiday in the district and it made sense to leave the big tourist attractions until then. Instead, I simply wandered about the town, took some photographs and mooched in a few pubs. Here are my impressions.
Firstly, you needn't expect to find a picture-postcard English village that's been magically transplanted into the highlands of Sri Lanka. Nuwara Eliya's centre contains the usual guddle of modern, garishly-coloured buildings – hastily erected and now looking slightly the worse for wear – that are a feature of most towns in this country. And even in the less-recently developed parts away from the town centre, there are indications that the era when the British used to hang out here en masse are long gone. Witness the picturesque Lake Gregory at Nuwara Eliya's southern end. Anchored by the lakeside is a long, narrow, double-decker boat that serves as a floating restaurant called the Hua Yuan, obviously aimed at foreign visitors of a different nationality.
Come to think of it, the only Briton I encountered during my time in Nuwara Eliya was an old English fellow who'd travelled to the country for the recent England-Sri Lanka test series. The moment the final cricket had been played, and unable to withstand the sweltering climate of lowland Sri Lanka any longer, he'd hopped into a taxi and had the driver make a beeline for here.
That said, there are plenty of reminders of the presence and patronage of the old colonial regime. A little way short of the town centre is the imperiously and imperially-titled Victoria Park – which has in an adjoining corner a square-sided, grey-stone pillar that acts as a war memorial. Like most war memorials in Britain, this one's World War I plaque is a lot longer than the World War II plaque. The former commemorates 17 members of 'the glorious dead', while the latter sports just three names.
Across the road from Victoria Park is a genteel golf course with a hotel at its end containing a mock-English pub called – what else? – the 19th Hole. The Nuwara Eliya Golf Club isn't the only organisation with a slightly-snooty-sounding name you see on signs here, for the town is also home to the likes of the Hill Club ('established in 1876') and the Royal Turf Club.
And some of the British architecture lingers on. Nuwara Eliya's main post office is housed in a red-brick building with multiple layers and levels of roofing and its own little clock tower, which looks like it was moved to Sri Lanka brick by brick and slate by slate from Trumpton. Meanwhile, the local branch of the Hatton National Bank is contained in a stately-looking structure with arched windows. Scattered elsewhere are a number of other mansion-like buildings, often with Tudor-style patterning on their facades and their windows crammed with small, square panes.
In fact, the days when stereotypically British architecture would spring up in Nuwara Eliya may not yet be over. For during my wanderings I saw this billboard advertising a new estate – "Make Nuwara Eliya your second home!" – consisting of detached dwelling-houses with mock-Tudor designs. The scheme is called Little England Cottages, though there's nothing remotely cottage-like in the scale of the residences involved.


This article will be the ultimate guide for vegan holiday gift ideas or just vegan gifts in general. Whether you are vegan yourself and don't know what to ask for from your friends and family, or whether you are the friend, sibling, parent, or family member of a vegan, this is the perfect vegan holiday gift guide.
Even though this is a vegan holiday gift list that would be great for Christmas, these gifts are perfect to give any vegans on their birthday, or any other special occasion as well.
Before we get into a list of the perfect vegan holiday gift ideas, here are some things that you should never gift to a vegan. It makes for a very uncomfortable and awkward situation when a vegan receives a gift that doesn't align with their morals and values!
Basically, it's important that you do your research beforehand and never gift an item that contains animal ingredients, or was tested on animals.
Vegan Cookbooks – These are the perfect things to give to any vegan, whether they are new vegans or have been vegan for years. You can choose dessert cookbooks, savory cookbooks, or ones that include all kinds of recipes. Some example cookbook titles include: The Edgy Veg, Thug Kitchen, A Vegan Pantry, Vegan Without Borders, Hot For Food Vegan Comfort Classics, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, Vegan Cooking for Carnivores, and Chloe's Kitchen.
Vegan Apparel – Apparel is a great option for many vegans. Vegan t-shirts, sweaters, sweatpants, tank tops, and more. If you are unsure of their size, you can always get them a gift card to an apparel company that you know they like. Some great apparel companies are: Herbivore Clothing, Compassion Co., Alba Paris, In the Soulshine, and more!
Vegan Food – Food is always a great gift. Put together a box or basket with a whole bunch of awesome vegan products such as cookies, vegan hazelnut spread, chips, granola bars, gummies, chocolate, or any food that you know the person likes. Search at health food stores and in the natural foods section of grocery stores to find unique and interesting vegan products!
Vegan Cuts Subscription – Vegan Cuts is an online subscription box company and marketplace that sells amazing vegan items at a discounted price. You can buy a pre-paid gift subscription for their beauty boxes (a box that comes to your door each month with 5-7 beauty items), or their snack boxes (a box that arrives monthly with at least 10 snacks). You can buy them a subscription for 3 months, 6 months, or a year, whatever you can afford. This is a great option because it's not just a one-time thing, it's something that they will enjoy month after month.
Lush Gift Boxes – Lush is a great company because everything is cruelty-free and handmade. They have holiday-themed baskets you can gift that include items such as bath bombs, soaps, shampoos, and much more. You can also get them a lush gift card so they can choose items for themselves. Please note that not all their products are vegan but they are cruelty free. You can look for the vegan symbol on the products to confirm the product is vegan.
Vegan Boots – If you live in a cold area, you can gift vegan winter boots! Unfortunately, many boots come with leather. However, there are some awesome vegan companies that offer vegan boots. Have a peek at the shoes and boots they already own to find out their size. You can order boots online from companies such as Will's Vegan Shoes and Native Shoes. If you are truly unsure of their size, you can also get them a gift card to these online stores. If you are looking for some amazing cowboy boots, check out Kat Mendenhall her boots are handcrafted right here in my hometown of Texas.
Vegan Bags – Bags are another great gift. Just like boots, many bags unfortunately have leather in them. Whether you want to gift backpacks, purses, or shoulder bags, you will definitely find something. You can check out the article that I wrote about vegan bags & wallets for more inspiration here.
Vegan Makeup – Makeup and beauty products are always a wonderful thing to gift. When looking for vegan makeup, always search for the cruelty-free symbol, and check to make sure that all of the ingredients are fully vegan and that the item doesn't contain ingredients such as lanolin or beeswax. If you don't want to gift makeup, you can also gift other beauty items such as face masks, skin creams, lip balm, toothpaste, and more. For men, you can give them beard oils, vegan deodorants, and shaving gels and creams.
Books – Books are the perfect thing to buy for bookworms. There are so many vegan themed books out there. Whether you are looking for something that focuses on animal rights, environmentalism, or health, you are sure to find something. Some example book titles include: My very own book, My Vegan Dreams, Eating Animals, The World Peace Diet, How Not to Die, The Starch Solution, and more.
Donation to Farm Sanctuaries – If the person you are buying a gift for is passionate about a specific animal sanctuary, you can always make a donation to the sanctuary in their name. Alternatively, you can also sponsor an animal in their name, and each month they would receive photos and updates on how that animal is doing. Not all sanctuaries offer opportunities to sponsor their animal residents, but many of them do!
Gift Card to a Vegan Restaurant – If there is a vegan restaurant in your area that you or your loved one regularly goes to, this is a wonderful gift option. Let them enjoy a fully vegan meal of their choice on you!
Take a Vegan Challenge – If you are struggling with ideas of what to give to your child, sibling, significant other, or friend, one of the best things that you can do for them is to take the vegan challenge. On January 1st, try being vegan for 30 days. This will likely make them so happy. There are tons of resources online that will help you, and it's a great way to show your support for their lifestyle. Who knows, maybe after the 30 days you will love it so much that you decide to stay vegan!
Vegan Engraved Cutlery – On Etsy, there are many shops that sell hand-engraved utensils and cutlery. Whether it's a fork, spoon, or knife, you can get these items fully customized so they can say whatever you want. Some popular word choices are "vegan," "plant-powered," and so on.
Kitchen Appliances – Kitchen appliances are fantastic gifts to give to anyone who loves to cook. Some awesome appliances to gift include blenders, food processors, spiralizers, rice cookers, air fryers, and instant pots.
Baked Vegan Goods – Homemade gifts are so touching. If you love to cook, you can bake cookies or any other dessert to gift. You can also make pre-made soup mixes and store them in pretty mason jars, or even pre-made cookie jars where all you do is add a few simple ingredients and bake.
Vegan Tote Bag – Everyone needs a reusable grocery bag, and there are so many vegan tote bags to choose from. Search online on places such as Etsy until you find the perfect one to gift. You can get many tote bags that say "vegan," "plant-based," "powered by plants" and so on.
Soy Candles – Soy candles are a great little gift to give. Many candles aren't vegan because of beeswax, so simply look for ones that are made with soy instead. Etsy would be a great place to find them.
Magazine Subscription – If you know that the person you are looking for a gift for loves a specific magazine, buy them a years subscription to it! Some awesome vegan magazines include Thrive, Veg News, and Chickpea magazine.
There are so many other great gifts to give, these are just a few popular vegan holiday gift ideas. Some other ideas include tea, vegan children's books, vegan dog treats, plants, water filters, and so much more.
If you have any other vegan holiday gift ideas, please don't hesitate to leave a comment and let me know!


May 4, 2001 edition of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Class-action law developed with careful consideration for the due process rights of absent class members. Because absent members' claims are adjudicated by proxy, the Constitution requires that their interests be adequately represented in order for a court's decision to be binding on the class. Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 31, 40-43 (1940). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(a)(4) reflects this due process concern by requiring, as a necessary precondition to class certification, proof that the representative plaintiffs will adequately represent absent class members.
Adequate representation can be compromised, however, and due process rights threatened, when conflicts exist within the class, either among class members or between class representatives and class members. This can occur when class counsel defines a class too broadly in an effort to raise the stakes. In other cases, the underlying factual circumstances and the very nature of the claim asserted may produce inherent conflicts between class members.
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases provide reminders to class-action attorneys as to the importance of protecting absent class members from such conflicts. These cases also provide lessons on how to defeat or strengthen an argument for class certification.
In Amchem Prods. Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591, 626-27 (1997), the settlement class included two groups whose interests were "not aligned": absent members who were diagnosed with injuries from asbestos exposure and members who were exposed to asbestos but not yet diagnosed. For the currently injured class members, "the critical goal is generous immediate payments." This goal "tugs against" the interest of exposure-only class members, who would prefer an ample "inflation-protected fund for the future," the justices said. The Supreme Court therefore rejected the settlement, even though the defendant's assets were sufficient to pay both claims and there was no evidence that either of the groups' interests were sacrificed. Thus, even without evidence of an actual conflict, a merely theoretical conflict was enough to prevent class resolution.
Soon after class-action attorneys began a debate over Amchem's significance, the Supreme Court issued Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., 527 U.S. 815, 857 (1999), and clarified that the doctrine was not limited to the facts of Amchem. In Ortiz, the court focused not on any intrinsic conflict between class members, but on different external factors that resulted in different values of the members' claims. Because considerable funds were available from an insurance company whose policy expired in 1959, the claims from pre-1959 exposures were worth more than like claims from post-1959 exposures. Therefore, the Ortiz court held that claimants exposed before 1959 had "disparate interests" from claimants exposed after 1959. Remarkably, this conflict was held to bar class resolution even though both groups were treated the same in the proposed settlement: "The very decision to treat [the class members] all the same is itself an allocation decision with results almost certainly different from the results the [claimants] would have chosen."
Amchem and Ortiz demonstrate that whenever class representatives are put in a position of rendering an "allocation decision" ¾ which results when a class includes claims of different values ¾ a conflict exists that prevents class resolution. Such allocation decisions are necessary in several common situations: when some claimants have fatal injuries and others have minor injuries; when some claimants have present claims and others have future claims; when some claimants have statute-of-limitation problems and others do not; and when some claimants' jurisdictions are more receptive to the claim and others' jurisdictions are less so.
In In re Telectronics Pacing Sys. Inc., 172 F.R.D. 271, 277 (S.D. Ohio 1997), for example, the court applied Amchem to require formation of three subclasses based on the different states' application of the product liability doctrine.
However, dividing classes into homogenous subclasses under Rule 23(c)(4)(B) is not an easy solution, at least from the perspective of the attorneys representing the class. The conflicting interests of subclasses cannot be adequately represented by the same attorney; each subclass needs separate counsel. Ortiz, 527 U.S. at 856. Not only does this complicate class counsel's job, but any attorney fees recovered will have to be shared by the different law firms representing the different subclasses.
In addition to the conflicts resulting from different claim values, conflicts can result from different motivations. When the representative plaintiffs have personal agendas or views driving their pursuit of the litigation that are contrary to the goals of some absent class members, a court will be disinclined to certify the putative class.
For example, in Kamean v. Local 363, 109 F.R.D. 391, 395 (S.D.N.Y. 1986), the representative plaintiffs were ex-union members suing the union, and had no interest in the union's continued vitality. That motivation obviously conflicted with the interests of current members of the union who had been included in the class.
Similarly, in Broussard v. Meineke Discount Muffler Shops Inc., 155 F.3d 331, 338-339 (4th Cir. 1998), the court rejected a proposed class composed of former and current franchisees of the defendant. Former franchisees benefited from maximizing the damages, whereas current franchisees had at least some interest in the defendant's continued economic viability. The group of current franchisees was further conflicted among themselves because some had signed releases favoring the defendant and some had not.
These sorts of motivational conflicts are common in the context of collective bargaining. Often, a group of union members will file a class action against their union or an employer challenging an action that the majority of union members had previously approved. In such situations, the class representatives, who are often strong dissenters but in the losing minority, have interests antagonistic to the class, militating against class certification. See, e.g., East Texas Motor Freight System Inc. v. Rodriguez, 431 U.S. 395, 405 (1977).
An intra-class conflict poses an especially difficult problem in Rule 23(b)(2) "non-opt-out" classes, in which an absent class member does not receive even "minimal due process protection" ¾ "the opportunity to remove himself from the class." Philip Petroleum Co. v. Shutts, 472 U.S. 797, 811-12 (1985). Concerned about binding absent members without this minimal opt-out protection, most federal circuit courts have gone further than avoiding conflicts. These courts imply an affirmative "cohesion" element into the Rule 23(b)(2) class-certification analysis, requiring that common issues predominate even though the statute does not explicitly require it. See, e.g., Lemon v. International Union of Oper. Eng'rs, 216 F.3d 577, 580 (7th Cir. 2000).
Attorneys and judges alike should carefully examine the Supreme Court's decisions in Amchem and Ortiz and consider how to avoid these sorts of conflicts, and how to best protect absent class members' due process rights. See, e.g., In re Mego Financial Corp. Securities Litig., 213 F.3d 454, 462 (9th Cir. 2000) (disregarding a "potential" conflict resulting from different claim values, in order to achieve the efficiency of "dispos[ing] of all potential claims" at once). Class conflicts raise serious concerns about fundamental constitutional rights, and they should not be disregarded.
Barry N. Endick, Raymond J. Tittmann and Joshua Irwin practice in the San Francisco litigation group of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. They specialize in class action law, frequently in matters involving the environment and ERISA.


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Leonor Ordakowski
Lola – As we all know and love – left this life with us here to watch over us all from the heavens above peacefully with family around her.
Lola was born in Curitiba, Parana Brazil. The oldest daughter of Joseph Ordakowski and Sophia Kowalczyk. She came to the United States in 1955 and after a short stay in San Diego CA moved to Salt Lake City, UT where she lived most of her life.
As a child, Lola was stricken with Polio which left her with an abnormal walk. Throughout life she battled many other physical health problems too, however, in her typical fashion, she never let this damper her spirit of determination to succeed, unconditional love, service, cooking, and caring for others. We are certain this amazing spirit is how she lived to the incredible age of 93 with always a smile, only kind words, and laugh to share with us all.
Lola did not marry another individual in this life but devoted her life to helping others. She spent much of her life caring for young toddlers and infants at the YWCA day care center. She adored children. She enjoyed spending time with all her nieces and nephews, and specifically helping raise 3 of them as her own and giving them a second mom. Lola was not just aunt to us. She was a mom and grandmother. Lola loved to cook, laugh, be with people, read, watch old movies, and stay up to date on Brazilian TV and happenings. She had the sharpest mind of any person we ever knew and had no problem in remembering names, dates, and events of years past. She truly appreciated every ounce of help ever given to her. The love of her family, friends, and neighbors was never in short supply. This love and time is what she cherished in return. They all meant the world to her. Many of these individuals spent the last few years giving back to her what she shared and taught all of us.
Lola was proceeded in death by her Parents (Joseph and Sophia) plus two brothers (Eloy and Renato).
She is survived by her Sister, Laura (Egon), Laura's children (Who knew Lola as their other mom) LeGrand and Baron de Carvalho, Sophia (Robert) Lambert – She had four grand kids from these kids: Malcolm, Cameron, Casie, and Haylee. Nephew's Joel (Cecilia), Daniel (Eliana), plus many others and their extended families. Oh yes, if she was here, she'd name them all and could tell you something about each one of them.
Per her wishes there will be no viewing. A simple Graveside service will be held at the Salt Lake City cemetery on Wednesday May 15th at 11:00AM where Lola will be buried next to her mom and dad.
Outside of family and friends, a special thank you goes out to Lola's incredible family of medical professionals; the staff at Brighton (now Bristol) Home Health and Hospice (Tara, Katie, Debi, Mariah, Bryce, Emily, and many, many more), plus Dr M. Hecht, G. Coccimiglio, and Dr C. Biraldi who spent so much time making sure she lived the most comfortable life possible. Our friends Leisa, Laura, Marie, Rod, Matt and the village of others who made Lola enjoy life to the fullest these last 10 years on the crazy ups and downs. Always available to whatever we needed and giving her the most incredible quality of life, one could imagine.
Her heart is full….
Tia Lola's presence and laughter will always be with us! Much love to everyone, from the girls and I. Beijos, Mariana, Amani, Ilana e Sofia.
— Mariana Ordacowski
Oh I so wish I could have been there clear to the end with Lola. I love her and your family so very much. You are wonderful people. She was a joy and a blessing. You took such good care of her. My love to all of you during this difficult time.
— Debi Poulsen RN
Sweet Lola. Such a kind lady who loved every one. We will miss her and pray you will always feel her near.
All our love,
The Hanson Family
— Tammy Hanson


The age-old debate of build-or-buy is nothing new in the PC world. However, the popularity of mining has attracted many new investors and enthusiasts alike, each with varying degrees of technical expertise. As mining rigs operate quite differently compared to traditional systems, the question arises again.
This article will cover the pros and cons of buying a pre-built rig and building your own. The information presented here should help you choose the best method and begin the journey of cryptocurrency mining.
It's no secret that building a mining rig can be quite time consuming and difficult. The time consumed and level of ease greatly depends on your background in computers — both software, and hardware. To build a mining rig, you have to spend the time researching which individual parts are the best to purchase depending on which cryptocurrency you want to mine. You have to spend time ordering the necessary equipment and wait for the shipment of the individual parts. After the parts arrive, it can take a good chunk of time (depending on your level of expertise) to actually construct the mining rig and take necessary steps to ensure that it's functional. It is time-consuming to install the necessary software to mine, which can also involve a lot of troubleshooting, where technical expertise really comes in handy.
On the other hand, purchasing a mining rig off of eBay or another online outlet is a lot quicker and less painful. Research is limited to which cryptocurrency you wish to mine and what video cards are best for mining it. Then all you have to do is to go on ebay (or another site) and purchase a rig with the aforementioned video cards. There is no need to check the compatibility of the individual components, or go into other specifics. As long as the seller is legitimate, you shouldn't have to worry much about troubleshooting potential issues. This option is much easier and less time consuming, especially for those without a technical background. Many pre-built rigs even include the necessary mining software to get started.
Generally, building a mining system yourself allows for a lot more flexibility in cost and performance. When choosing the individual parts, you can choose where you want to put your money. Do you want a beefy power supply but don't need a great CPU? Want to start off small and add additional graphics cards later? Are you willing to purchase some used components that are lower priority? No problem, just set your budget and find parts that fit it. Also, individual components often come with their own warranties, allowing for easier replacement and some added reliability.
Meanwhile, there isn't a lot of wiggle-room when springing for the pre-built machine. Pre-builds simply don't give you a lot of choices in the individual components, as everything is bundled. Some builders offer some choices in parts, but this is uncommon and can often be expensive. The only choices you really have are how much money you are willing to spend and what general system you need. Also, eBay sellers often do not offer their own warranties. This means that the individual components may not be under warranty or could have significantly lower warranty periods depending on how long ago the seller bought them. However, a lack in choices can have advantages if you do not trust yourself to make the right ones.
The primary objective of building a mining rig for most is profit. Some do it as a hobby, but it's typically a longer-term investment. Performance-per-dollar is of uppermost importance if you want a fast ROI.
A pre-built rig might be appealing for the ease described earlier, but profitability tends to be the factor that scares investors away from the option. Most rigs you will find on eBay or another online retailer cost significantly more than a similar performance system that was custom-built. This is due to the cost of shipping a full system, the cost of the time put into doing the research and labor you would be avoiding, and the interests of the seller to make a profit. The seller knows that they are providing a service many customers aren't willing to. Sometimes you may stumble upon a good deal on a rig, but this is an exception and not the rule.
With a custom build, you can save a lot more money. There are no extra expenses on top of the cost of the components (except for shipping). Also, as mentioned before, building a custom rig allows for the flexibility to purchase some individual used components without necessarily buying a totally pre-owned rig. This saves money without sacrificing performance or reliability. As long as you have some free time, building a mining rig yourself is economically worth it. ROI is generally much faster and will in turn lead to you earning those sweet profits quicker.
The decision to buy a pre-built mining rig or build one yourself can be quite a difficult one to make. The pre-built machine is the quicker and easier route. However, it is usually more expensive and less flexible. This option is probably best for someone who doesn't have the time or has little background knowledge in computer hardware and software (although some tinkering with software is probably going to be unavoidable regardless).
For those most concerned about the profit line, the custom route is the journey worth taking. The price-performance ratio of a custom build saves a lot of money and leads to getting profits faster than an equivalent pre-built system. However, this doesn't account for bad decision making when choosing components. As profitability is the most important aspect of investing in a mining system, I would recommend going the custom route.


Freedom is not . . .
Freedom is brine on the wind mingled with pine and oleander.
Freedom is the intimate touch of a woman.
Freedom is a starry sky pierced by a mountaintop.
Freedom is choosing to live the second time as you should have lived the first.


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A Lyme disease test detects antibodies to the Lyme disease bacteria in the blood. Lyme disease bacteria are spread by certain kinds of ticks.
Lyme disease can be hard to diagnose because its symptoms are similar to those of many other illnesses. If you and your doctor think you have Lyme disease, your doctor will do a careful medical history and physical exam. Antibody tests can sometimes be used to help identify Lyme disease. Other tests may be done in certain situations.
Antibody tests
Antibody tests are the most commonly used tests to help identify Lyme disease.
It may take up to 2 months after becoming infected before antibodies can be detected in a blood test. Once formed, antibodies usually stay in your system for many years, even after successful treatment of the disease. Finding antibodies to the Lyme disease bacteria does not tell whether you were infected recently or sometime in the past.
There are two types of antibody tests to detect Lyme disease.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). This is a rapid test to identify Lyme disease antibodies.
Western blot test. This test also identifies Lyme disease antibodies and can confirm the results of an ELISA test. It is most often done to detect a chronic Lyme disease infection.
Antibody testing should be done in a two-step process, using the ELISA followed by the Western blot test. The Western blot test should be done for all people who've had a positive (or borderline positive) ELISA test.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing detects the genetic material (DNA) of the Lyme disease bacteria. PCR testing may be used to identify a current (active) infection if you have symptoms of Lyme disease that have not gotten better with antibiotic treatment. The PCR test is a blood or urine test, but can also be done on fluid from the spine or from a joint.
A Lyme disease test is done to diagnose Lyme disease in people who have symptoms of Lyme disease. Symptoms may include:
An expanding red rash with a pale center. This is sometimes called a "bull's-eye" rash.
Headache and stiff neck.
Muscle and joint pain.
Symptoms of chronic Lyme disease infection include joint pain, stiffness, and problems with the heart, brain, or nerves.
Testing is most accurate when you have risk factors for Lyme disease or symptoms of the disease.
In general, there's nothing you have to do before this test, unless your doctor tells you to.
How It Is Done
A health professional uses a needle to take a blood sample, usually from the arm.
Learning About Blood Tests for Children
Learning About Your Blood Test
When a blood sample is taken, you may feel nothing at all from the needle. Or you might feel a quick sting or pinch.
There is very little chance of having a problem from this test. When a blood sample is taken, a small bruise may form at the site.
Test results are usually available in 1 to 2 weeks.
An antibody test checks to see if you've had an infection from a bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
A normal (negative) test means that no Lyme disease antibodies are found.
An abnormal (positive) test means that Lyme disease antibodies are found.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test may be done to confirm a Lyme infection if you have a positive antibody test result.
A negative PCR test means the test didn't detect Lyme disease bacteria DNA.
A positive PCR test means the test detected Lyme disease bacteria DNA.
Normal (negative) values
A normal, or negative, test for Lyme disease can mean one of the following:
You do not have Lyme disease. A negative PCR test usually means that you do not have a Lyme disease infection.
You have Lyme disease but it does not show up on the test (false-negative). This is more likely with the antibody tests than with PCR.
Abnormal (positive) values
An abnormal, or positive, test for Lyme disease can mean one of the following:
If antibodies are found, you may either have Lyme disease now or had the illness in the past. Once you have a Lyme disease infection, antibodies to the bacteria will usually stay in your body for the rest of your life.
If Lyme disease bacteria DNA is found, you probably have an active Lyme disease infection.
The result is a false-positive. Sometimes an antibody test for Lyme disease finds antibodies to other bacteria.
Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson MD - Internal Medicine & Adam Husney MD - Family Medicine & Christine Hahn MD - Epidemiology & W. David Colby IV MSc, MD, FRCPC - Infectious Disease
Medical Tests: Questions to Ask the Doctor


Cutnall Green Church of England Primary School is a village school serving the local community and homes around the outskirts of Droitwich and beyond. We are lucky to have small class sizes and extensive grounds. Some of our key features include Forest Fun for all year groups, a thriving Early Years unit, excellent ICT facilities, and a large hall for PE, lunches and productions.
At Cutnall Green our overriding aim is to enable all pupils to develop, as fully as possible, their own unique potential in a happy, secure environment. We have high expectations and strive for pupils to achieve good standards in all areas of learning, as well as developing a caring attitude towards others. Each and every child who attends our school is offered opportunities to develop their unique potential, confidence and academic ability, in a kind and caring Christian environment. Their well-being, security and happiness are key focuses because we know that happy children learn well and achieve their dreams.


Christmas time is probably the most appropriate time of year to send a light-hearted, fun promotional product to your customers. Whether the promotional mailer is sent to publicize a Christmas event or it is to be sent as a Christmas greeting the main point remains the same – the product needs to stand out and be noticed and if possible it should also engender a good feeling. Our range of automatic pop-up products ticks all the boxes!
There are many very versatile shapes in the range which lend themselves to Christmas promotions. Pop up products such as the pop-up cube and pop-up cuboids are easily transformed into Christmas gift boxes by using good graphic design. The Sideshooter is an auto-extender which can be designed with great effect as a Christmas cracker. Our pop-up pyramid becomes a pop-up Christmas tree in the hands of a creative graphic designer. Pop-up Christmas decorations are easily made from our pentagonal, hexagonal and heptagonal products such as the pop-up snowflake, the Hexapop and the pop-up diamond. And if you're thinking of Santa's Grotto then nothing fits the bill better than our pop-up house.
It doesn't have to be just about fun as these versatile and interactive pop-up products can also be transformed into desk top products such as pen holders and calendars. Pop up cubes make excellent pen holders and desk calendars at the same time but if you prefer to be more traditional – we do a pop up pen pot that looks exactly like a pen pot and this, too, can be printed as a desk calendar.
However, not all of our automatic pop-up products are standalone shapes. Some come in surprise packs such as the Jumpinjax and the Springbox and these are both terrific fun at Christmas. Both products pack a big surprise as four cubes literally jump out of the pack as soon as it is opened which creates great fun in the office! Both products have been extremely successful as Christmas invitations – to parties, dinners, events and in one case last year – a pantomime!
All in all, automatic pop-ups are very much in keeping with Christmas promotions offering a laugh, a smile and a surprise whilst also delivering your Christmas message in a fashion that is bound to be well received by your customers.


Well I'm on the road again early tomorrow morning. This time, I get to spend two weeks in Philadelphia attending the Army Master Resilience training course. It was kind of short notice, I just found out about it on Thursday ... but this sort of thing sounds right up my alley anyway ... plus if I've ever been to Philadelphia before, it had to have been when I was a kid ... and I don't remember it.
I'm bringing a laptop with me, and the hotel is supposed to have Internet (unlike my trip to FL last month). If the class is interesting, and/or I get out to see some of the landmarks in the area, I'll try to make posts here on the blog as often as I can. I think I'm not going to bring my "big" camera with me. It's such as hassle to lug the camera and lenses on an airplane, so I think I'll just try to make due with my phone ... should I encounter anything picture worthy.
Hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend ... be chatting with you again real soon.
Aloha, Todd! There is an article about this course that I just read in Stars and Stripes last week. It sounds fantastic.


Groupon's Andrew Mason says he may not be as smart, mature or experienced as other CEOs, but being company founder is his edge. Watch Lesley Stahl's report on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
He is the CEO of a multibillion dollar company but his executive bathroom, behind his desk, is a portable outhouse. It's a practical joke, of course, but it's just one of the many antics that make Andrew Mason untraditional for a man heading a company with monthly revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mason, CEO and cofounder of online daily deals site Groupon, says he may not be the traditional CEO but being the founder makes up for it. Mason sits down with Lesley Stahl for his first major interview since taking Groupon public in November, for a "60 Minutes" story to be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Mason is anything but buttoned down. How many CEOs have a video of themselves on YouTube doing yoga in their underwear in front of a Christmas tree? "I think that if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what is expected," says the 31-year-old entrepreneur. "Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO."
And, he says, it's working. Groupon, an online site whose members can get daily discounts from local businesses, has recently had the biggest initial public stock offering of any Internet company since Google. On the first day of trading, the barely three-year-old Groupon's worth jumped as high as $18 billion. It has spawned a cottage industry of "daily deals" imitators, yet it remains firmly and unassailably at the head of the pack.
But the company's stock price has gone up and down since opening day, dipping at times below its initial pricing. More importantly: Despite earning the title of "the fastest growing company ever" on the cover of Forbes, Groupon has yet to turn a profit as it expands overseas and spends millions in marketing costs. And in the run-up to going public, as Groupon disclosed its accounting methods, some analysts began calling the company "unviable," even "a Ponzi scheme." Mason addresses those labels and concerns in the interview. Says Mason, "I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast and that made people dig in and be skeptical."


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Johann Heinrich Wüest (14 May 1741, Zürich - 7 April 1821, Zürich) was a Swiss landscape painter in the Romantic style.

Life and work
His father was a rope maker. His artistic training took place entirely in Zürich, where he also spent most of his working career. For a time, he studied with Johann Balthasar Bullinger, who recommended that he continue his studies in Holland. As a result, his early works were heavily influenced by Flemish painting from the Dutch Golden Age. During his stay there, he worked closely with his fellow Swiss artist, , who introduced him to the art dealer, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. In 1766, he went to Paris for further studies.

He returned to Zürich in 1769 and was accepted into the painters' guild. Over the next two decades, he developed his own, distinctive style. After Maurer's death, in 1780, Wüest adopted his son. In 1787, he became one of the founders of the Zürcher Künstlergesellschaft (art society).

His best known works are those portraying the Rhône Glacier; done at the behest of the English naturalist, John Strange, in a style reminiscent of Jacob van Ruisdael. His use of rugged landscapes with tiny figures for staffage became essential design elements in Romantic painting. He also worked as a teacher. Among his notable students were Ludwig Hess and Heinrich Freudweiler.

References

Further reading
 Kunsthaus Zürich – Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2007.

External links

 More works by Wüest @ ArtNet

1741 births
1821 deaths
Swiss painters
Swiss landscape painters
Artists from Zürich


This Pomeranian nicknamed Baxter sold and went to a new family.
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Learn About Image Uploading, Sharing on Twitter!
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Although it has not been covered yet on the Twitter Blog, it appears Twitter photo sharing is here so you better know about it if you manage social media. This Twitter feature has been out for sometime, but it has not been available to all users, and now it is – exciting!
Now that this Twitter photo feature open to all, you should see an image such as the one below when you login.
To upload a photo to Twitter you simply need to click the photo icon. Twitter will preview the image for you in the lower left hand side of the update box.
Once you upload the image you will see the character count. Images take up characters.
If you click a Tweet in a news steam you can preview it in the panel to the right.
So those are some of the important points, but let me tell you the rest. Although Twitter is taking on this photo sharing feature, they will not stop supporting Flickr, Twitpic or yFrog. These are still great ways to share photos on Twitter.
The only way to comment on Twitter photos is by replying to a Tweet containing the image. There are no galleries at this point, but this feature is coming soon. Twitter has stated that images could show up in search, so be careful what you Tweet! This is of course unless you have a protected account.
Overall, it is nice to see Twitter taking on more functionality. Twitter has had a lack of features since day one, we are glad to see them taking something back.
From a social media marketing and search engine optimization perspective, we now have just one more way to promote content online.


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The Augustine B. Hawley House in Red Wing
1105 4th Street W., Red Wing
On a large corner lot in Red Wing, sits a grand old home that can't be missed, what with its purple porch and decorative eaves and brackets. It's the home that Augustine Boyer Hawley built for his extended family in 1875. Sadly, he only enjoyed it for few years, dying at the young age of 44 in 1878, leaving behind his wife and 8 children.
One of the most generous things an old Minnesota family can do is donate their family history to the Minnesota Historic Society. Letters and papers help tell a story of not only their family members, but many times the history of the places they lived. There is a vast archive at MNHS about the Hawley family in Red Wing, including personal letters, that are a very intriguing read about the Hawley family, Red Wing, and history of the Minnesota and the United States.
Augustine Hawley arrived in Red Wing in 1857 to set up his medical practice, at the urging of a fellow Hobart classmate, and quickly became one of the preferred physicians in the area, traveling often to the countryside to see patients who were unable to come to town. He is described as a man of great character, intelligence, and charity. He was born in Caroline, New York in 1833 to Isaac A. Hawley and Anne Boyer, his father being a professor of the Classics at the University of Virginia. In 1847, he entered Hobart College at the age of 14 and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1852. He went on to obtain his medical degree from Geneva Medical School in 1854. He studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Joel Hawley, but continued his studies overseas for two more years in Edinburgh, Scotland, as well as Dublin, London, and Paris, before moving to Minnesota. During the Civil War, he was appointed to sit on the examination board to qualify surgeon applicants heading out to various regiments of the Minnesota Volunteers.
Hawley was instrumental in helping establish the Christ Episcopal Church in Red Wing, inspiring his college classmate Reverend Edward. R. Welles to move to Red Wing to become the church's first minister. Welles later became the first Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin. He also encouraged a fellow class mate of Hobart College, Dr. Charles Hewitt, to move to Red Wing to take over his medical practice in 1867. Hewitt, already a distinguished doctor for his surgeon skills and preventative approach to medicine, agreed. Hewitt later helped found the Minnesota State Board of Health in 1872, and after studying at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, in 1890, he established the first laboratory for producing the smallpox vaccine in the United States on Dakota Street.
The home was built circa 1875 in the Italianate style out of locally quarried limestone. It features 15 foot tall ceilings and 18+ inch thick walls. The photo below shows details of the original front porch: thinner columns, decorative brackets, and a narrow full facade porch (all indicative of the Italianate period). In 1903, the home was purchased by Albert F. Bullen, secretary and treasurer of the Minnesota Malting Company, who initiated a major remodel of the home two years later. The architectural firm of Purcell and Elmslie was hired to transform the interior of the home into the more up-to-date Arts & Crafts style that was popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Today the home is a fine example of how even historic homes, at one time, have undergone remodels to more "modern" styles.
Photo of Home Circa 1875
As for the Arts and Craft remodel, the original oak staircase, which extended straight down towards the front entrance, was replaced by a curved walnut staircase extending into what was once a main floor bedroom. A formal dining room, with coffered ceiling, paneled walls, and an elaborate buffet, replaced a second, main floor bedroom. (These two bedrooms were occupied by the 2 dowagers, Mr. Halwey's mother and his mother-in-law.) The formal living room was expanded from two rooms into one with major additions: grand wood beams to the ceiling, relocation of the fireplace, tapestry applied to the walls, and Tiffany light fixtures. The front porch was enlarged and changed to what is seen today.
A year before Mr. Bullen's death, he sold the home to Henry Stebbins, President of the Red Wing Milling Company. Interestingly, Stebbins sold the home 12 years later to the next President of the same company, Harold Meech. Today, the home still retains most of the original features from the 1905 remodel, as well as many of the original 1875 exterior Italianate features. It now operates as the Moondance Inn, an established bed and breakfast in Red Wing.
The Hawley family has many stories that contribute to the history of Red Wing and Minnesota. One interesting story involves the famous bank robbery in Northfield by the James and Younger gangs in 1876. Some of the gang members stopped in Red Wing before the robbery, and upon leaving, asked a six year old boy playing on the side of the road the best way to get to Northfield. The boy told them, and in return was given a silver dollar in thanks. After news of the robbery reached Red Wing, it was found out that the men asking for directions were the robbers, and the one who tossed the coin to the boy was Cole Younger. The boy was George M. B. Hawley, the young son of Augustine Hawley.
The Bed and Breakfast is also For Sale with more photos and interactive tour at the Property Website.
The front porch remodeled in 1905.
The front parlor originally had a corner coal burning fireplace.
The main living room was opened up from two rooms with the addition of a wood burning fireplace during the 1905 remodel.
The formal dining room was created from an original bedroom in the 1905 remodel.
This room was originally a front bedroom and was opened up during the 1905 remodel for the new staircase.
A chandelier thought to be from the 1905 remodel.
The staircase redesigned during the 1905 remodel
The newel post design from the 1905 remodel includes a motif that became a signature design element of architect and designer George Elmslie.
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One Response to "The Augustine B. Hawley House in Red Wing"
Kathy Johnson says:
Benjamin Hewitt's great-great-great grandson was George Hewitt (b. 1824 NY). George was my maternal great-great-great grandfather.
Benjamin's brother Joseph's great-great-great grandson was Edwin Hawley Hewitt, son of Doctor Charles Nathaniel Hewitt.
I have compiled a Hewitt family history (32 pages,dating back to 1651) in a 3-ring binder complete with photos, stories, original documents, and extended family through marriages.


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Tongan And Samoan Members Assist Cyclone Victims In Vanuatu
By admin on	 Apr 5, 2015 Latest News, Religion
Source: LDS Church News
On March 14, a category-5 storm dubbed Cyclone Pam, cut across the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu. The disaster inflicted staggering damage. Countless families lost their homes and many others were left without food or water after high winds and rains destroyed their subsistence crops and scattered their belongings.
The First Presidency and the Presiding Bishopric acted immediately, working with the Pacific Area Presidency shipping 1,500 tents, 2,000 food boxes, building supplies and other provisions to impacted areas in an initial response to care for those in dire need.
But the relief effort didn't end there. Members from the Polynesian countries of Samoa and Tonga have stepped forward to help, giving of their own substance to feed and clothe victims of the cyclone.
The people of Samoa and Tonga are culturally and linguistically different from the Vanuatuan people.
"But they consider each other cousins," said Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy and president of the Pacific Area. "They love each other and share an empathy and compassion for one another."
Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga also have recent, first-hand experience with natural disasters.
In 2012, a tropical cyclone blasted the Samoan Islands, claiming more than a dozen lives and exacting hundred of millions of dollars in damage.
And in early 2014, Cyclone Ian slammed the Tongan Islands. The massive storm destroyed hundreds of buildings and left thousands without homes.
In each of those disasters, impacted Latter-day Saints and their neighbors in Samoa and Tonga were the beneficiaries of relief assistance from members in the Pacific Area and across the globe. When the cyclone hit Vanuatu, the Tongan and Samoan members were anxious to provide help. Under the direction of the Pacific Area Presidency, stakes in Tonga and Samoa have worked together to collect food and clothing to be shipped to Vanuatu.
"We've been overwhelmed by the generosity of the Saints and their willingness to help one another," said Elder Pearson. "The members there have said, 'These are our brothers and sisters in our area, and we can contribute something.' "
Elder O. Vincent Haleck of the Seventy and first counselor in the area presidency has a professional background in the food industry in the Pacific. His expertise in shipping and logistics has proved invaluable in working with local shipping companies contracted to transport the donated goods to Vanuatu.
According to Elder Haleck, the Tongan and Samoan members have put together containers filled with food staples that are common to the Vanuatuan diet — including rice, canned mackerel, flour, sugar and frozen breadfruit, along with tarot and other root crops.
Each bag of donated food or clothing represents a personal sacrifice.
"The members are giving of their own substance," said Elder Pearson. "They are taking food they have grown for their own needs and giving it to those who have less."
Such selfless service — offered under the direction of local priesthood leadership — epitomizes "the gospel in action," said Elder S. Gifford Nielsen of the Seventy and second counselor in the Pacific Area Presidency.
"This is the principle of self-reliance," he said. "We're helping people get back on their feet so they can help someone else."
Elder Nielsen also noted the capacity and devotion that have fueled the ongoing relief effort in Vanuatu. Priesthood and Relief Society leaders at all levels across the area have come together for a common effort.
"It's been a total team effort," he said.
Elder Haleck said the containers of food and provisions gathered by the Tongan and Samoan congregations will begin reaching Vanuatu, via sea, by the end of April.
"They are prepared to do more in both Samoa and Tonga and are awaiting further direction," he said.
Elder Nielsen added that members in New Zealand and Australia are also contributing to the Vanuatu relief effort.
Prince Ata seated in front with the local leaders standing behind him in front of the freezer container that is fully loaded and locked up ready to be shipped out to Vanuatu from Tonga. (IRI)
His Royal Highness, Prince Ata and local media attend the photo ceremony in Tonga to mark the closing of the first container to Vanuatu. Freezer content has been inspected and approved to be locked up ready to be picked up by the shipping agency on April 4. (IRI)
Liahona stake brethren load up plastic bags of peeled cassava to be delivered to for final inspection in Tonga before being loaded into the freezer container. (IRI)
Samoan members fill a shipping container with food bound for cyclone victims in Vanuatu. (Photo courtesy of the Pacific Area)
Samoan sisters pack bags with clothing that will be shipped to Vanuatu to assist folks impacted by cyclone. (Photo courtesy of the Pacific Area)
President Kupu (regional welfare committee chairman) is recording donations from all 14 Tongatapu stakes. (IRI)
Saints of Tongatapu Tonga East Stake donated 56 bags of cooked breadfruits. They are unloading them into the freezer container at the quarantine compound. (IRI)
Two varieties of cassava — yellow type and white type — are loaded for shipment. Yellow is more popular to Tongans' taste. (IRI)
Relief Society sisters in Samoa pack clothing that will be donated to people impacted by Vanuatu cyclone. (Photo courtesy of the Pacific Area)
YSA brethren pack the freezer container all the way to the top. (IRI)
Source Link: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865625691/Tongan-and-Samoan-members-assist-cyclone-victims-in-Vanuatu.html?pg=all


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by Mark Carroll Tuesday October 04, 2016
Three ACC players crack ESPN's Heisman Watch
ACC Buzz
Mitch Trubisky
Clemson finished the regular season at 12-1 with Deshaun Watson (4) quarterbacking the offense. (AP Photo).
The ACC as a league is making noise through five weeks of the regular season with six teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 poll. Along the way, some of the conference's top players have gained national recognition.
Three ACC quarterbacks made the cut for the latest edition of ESPN's Heisman Watch: Lamar Jackson of Louisville, Deshaun Watson of Clemson and Mitch Trubisky of North Carolina.
Despite the Cardinals' 42-36 loss in Death Valley over the weekend, Jackson maintained his spot atop the list. The sophomore has completed 59.4 percent of his passes for 1,625 yards and 14 touchdowns (with four interceptions) through five outings. In addition, Jackson has rushed for 688 yards and another 14 scores.
Watson's Saturday performance helped him climb to the No. 2 spot on ESPN's list. His stats over Clemson's first five games include a 60.8 percent completion rate, 1,302 passing yards and 14 touchdowns through the air (with seven picks). On the ground, Watson has churned out 211 yards.
Trubisky made his first appearance on ESPN's Heisman Watch by claiming the No. 11 spot. The Tar Heel junior leads the nation in completion percentage (76%), passing for 1,711 yards and 13 scores with zero interceptions. His four rushing touchdowns are good for fourth in the ACC for quarterbacks.


The entire philosophy of successful advertising is promise -> deliver so how would you imagine Kraft is going to deliver on this with the banner graphic? Maybe a page about how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich? Or about the quality of ingredients in the product?
Let that sink in for a minute. Kraft is paying to be on the home page of Yahoo.com, still a pretty darn key property in the Internet world, and no-one bothered to test the link. So if people are clicking on the beautiful and effective banner ad, they're getting a 404 error page. Yikes.
This is obviously sloppy marketing but there's a bigger issue underlying it, the entire concept of advertising. Again, back to promise:deliver. Regardless of what kind of advertising you're doing, online or off, it's the most critical concept to converting a viewer into a buyer.
This applies to regular life too. If I invite a woman over for a delicious home-cooked meal, then promptly say "you're in my home, please start cooking our dinner" it fails. But the fail is that the promise of a home-cooked meal ends up not being delivered and so it's dissonant.
That's the same thing happening here with the Kraft ad. I wouldn't have minded if it dropped me to their home page (though that's a poor fulfillment of the promise of their photograph in the banner), or even dropped me onto the Safeway.com page for this particular product (though again, suboptimal). But to click and get an error? Jarring and off-putting, for sure.
I would like to see them specifically state that they are Nikon compatible (you have to click through to find that out) but it's still a decent example of the promise of the advert being fulfilled by the landing page.
Now, how's your advertising doing in this regard?


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wellness theories Aug. 10, 2017
Candice Swanepoel on Inventing Her Own Workouts and Making Grilled Cheese
By Candice Swanepoel as told to Kathleen Hou
Candice Swanepoel. Photo: Courtesy of Juicy Couture
Longtime Victoria's Secret Angel Candice Swanepoel is one of the most famous models in the world, and now she's also the face of Juicy Couture's new scent (containing notes of frozen pear Italian mandarin, pear sorbet, cassis leaves and jasmine sambac), Viva La Juicy Glace. In the ad, she says, she plays "a fun, vibrant Juicy girl – feminine and confident," which doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. A new mom, the South African model talks to the Cut about how she makes perfect grilled cheese, how her body feels like an alien, and the moisturizer she won't share.
How I start my morning: I'm usually up early. I can't really do anything until I've had a coffee or a shower — it resets me.
My breakfast varies depending on my mood. I do a nice beauty smoothie. It contains coconut oil, flaxseed oil, banana, protein, some kind of antioxidant fruit like blueberries or strawberries, or some nut butter. I discovered it from doing research; I like to be on beauty blogs. I've always loved nutrition and because I've worked out for so many years, I've figured out what's best for my body and keeping my energy up. It's evolved from that.
Sometimes I also like to have eggs and toast or make a grilled cheese. I have one of these sandwich press things but you do it on the fire (or a gas stove) and it toasts the bread so beautifully.
To me, wellness is: Having a balanced lifestyle between personal and work. It's being happy and healthy. I don't like restrict myself from certain foods that I want, or kill myself at the gym. It's really what's comfortable for my body at the time and what's best at that moment.
How wellness has changed for me: The amount of time I have has changed. Now I have a lot less time to focus on myself.
But I've always been in tune with my body. I started dancing when I was really young, and it just gives you a different sense of your body. Then I started with Victoria's Secret and building my body with Justin [Gelband].
I've been lucky — I was born with quite a fast metabolism. I'm that girl who orders the healthy plate with a side of fries. Your body is like a machine and everyone's is different. I know mine quite well.
It definitely changes after you have a baby. It's really impressive. Having a baby is, like, extraterrestrial stuff. I'm amazed by how it bounced back and repaired. Creating a life in your tummy — it's amazing.
Photo: Courtesy of Juicy Couture
How I sweat: Lately, I've been doing my workouts at night because I've had full days with my baby. I've been doing my own kind of yoga. It's not traditional yoga, but I put on some music and mix in some Pilates and squat resistance stuff I've learned over the years. It's calm: I can meditate through it and get some flow with some music. It's a little ritual for me. I do it every time I feel overwhelmed and stressed — I try at least twice a week. How often I do it depends on if I get my baby down or not.
My first scent memory: It was definitely watching my mom get ready for dinner and dinner parties and seeing her put on her fragrance. I remember seeing her walk around the house and getting her bag. It's so funny as a little girl, watching her do her liner and thinking, I can't wait.
She would spray directly on her pulse and I do the same. I do about three spritzes, with the last one in my hair. I think it lasts longer that way.
My beauty routine: I cleanse, tone, moisturize, and then do an eye cream religiously, twice a day. I use this gentle green-tea cleanser that I get from Whole Foods. My serum is Biotherm [Swanepoel is the face of the brand] — they have one called the Phyto Plankton. It takes two weeks to start seeing a difference so I'm putting it to the test. I used to use the Colbert serum, that's a great one. For my eye cream, I use the Colbert Uplift. I like his products a lot. My moisturizer is from my facialist, which I can't give you. It's a secret! My daytime routine is pretty much the same, but instead of the serum I use a retinol that my facialist gave me. It's a pretty light one because my skin gets sensitive with the stronger ones.
My best wellness advice: I haven't been going by it lately, but it's to stop drinking coffee. Before I got pregnant, I was feeling my energy levels go up and down all the time. If you replace coffee with a decaf tea or hot chocolate, it's a good way to reset your energy levels. But now I need coffee to keep me going.
Three Products I Recommend
Heritage Products Rosewater Petals 8 oz.
I use rosewater for toner, it's something I get at Whole Foods. I love it. I take it on the plane because it's refreshing. It's a good step in between cleansing and moisturizing.
$28 at Amazon
RMS Uncover-up
I use this for a light makeup look. [It's also on sale at Dermstore.]
$36 at Dermstore
Colbert sheet mask
I love to try a lot of different ones and I have been loving this sheet mask. It has the most amazing texture of coconut meat. A makeup artist used it on me for the Biotherm shoot.
$110 at Amazon
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