I can say that the Patch12 has defenitely brought big improvements, as the CC has become much faster and snappier. Also we are Cloud hosted, and we CW migrated us from W2008R2 to W2016 server, and this also improved a lot. The CC hangs have really disappeared for us, just occasionally be still have some performance issues.
What we use to monitor this, is to use the BIOS date. When BIOS updates are not done on workstations, than this is at the best way to do this.
It it working for me, not sure why it did not in the first place. Changed some of the parameters in a fixed value and leaving some as a parameter. A real nice looking script with a great output, helping us a lot !!
LT/CWA has no newer builtin templates which facilitate this. There are more threads on this forum, which show OID information which can be used to improbe the detection templates. It really comes down to figure out which OID you need to retrieve in order for the detection templates to do a good recognition of a network device.
I have figured it out guys. Labtech detects if an UPS is SmartConnect compatible by scanning the MAC address. The probe detection template / tree is not used. The cloud feature has it's own ethernet jack painted in green with a cloud icon on the back of the unit. To avoid using the cloud, leave it unplugged. The AP963x cards have their own ethernet jack. UPSes that have an embedded version of the card will have ethernet jacks that aren't painted green. The Cloud feature can not be used with the additional AP NIC cards ! The APC SmartConnect plugin scan's for MAC adresses of this specific GREEN ethernet port, these APC devices are also separate APC devices as you can order a SmartUPS750VA with OR without the SmartConnect functionality Therefore I think this plugin quite useless when you manage a lot of APC UPS devices with the separate AP NIC.
Apparently ConnectWise Automate has issues with the @variablename@ in this Powershell script, as when replacing these with the actual values the PowerShell script works. And wow, what a nice output. Anyone have any ideas why this error appears ??
And the data collection info is only updates once every 30 minutes. Didn't know that, asking myself why the new collection info was not showing....... Hence info from the Documentation : Data collection monitors collect data based on the interval time and then updates the Data Collector tab with the data collected, every 30 minutes. Every night during daily maintenance, the data is cleared out and the average is added to the h_agentdatadaily, h_agentdataweekly and h_agentdatamonthly tables, which in turn populates the sensors on the Data Collector tab. A history of the last 90 daily averages is kept in the database.
Indeed what Darren suggest, you can even attach this to a EDF in which you specify the % that you would want to monitor Or you can use the registry on the DHCP server itself, to change the value 0f 80% The reg key is named "DhcpAlertPercentage" and is of type REG_DWORD. You can create it under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDhcpserverParameters.


Tuesday, October 24, 2017-JICA has pledged to continue its support for GDC's capacity building programme on geothermal development.
JICA has appointed a new programme consultant Ms. Chiyoko Miyata to act as the link between the organisation and GDC in the implementation of the programme that has already seen a host of GDC staff trained on geothermal development. The programme is expected to run through to 2019.
GDC is committed towards building its internal capacity as it targets a 100% utilisation of its internal human resource in its drilling activities.


It's no secret that a healthy diet and lifestyle are our best weapons to fight cardiovascular disease. However, The Institute of Medicine released a new report earlier this year that estimates about 395,000 people suffer cardiac arrest in their homes or other non-hospital settings every year — and less than 6% of them survive. Cardiac arrest is not a heart attack — it's worse. It means the heart abruptly stops beating. CPR can buy critical time if it's started immediately, but the report concludes the nation must take key steps to give victims a better chance at survival.
In 2009 Hands for Life (HFL), a free CPR training event that can teach anyone how to be a life-saver in just 15 minutes was developed. What began as training for a few people at a time has grown significantly over the years. In fact, since its inception nearly 10,000 people in Stamford and surrounding communities have already been trained.
Statistics show that bystander CPR can more than double a person's chances of surviving a cardiac arrest, so this year we are looking to expand on the Hands for Life initiative to train over 10,000 people in compression-only CPR and the use of external defibrillators (AEDs). For those who have had previous CPR training, it's still a great event to participate in, as it is a skill helped by practice. Events will be held throughout the week of September 21, culminating with a public headline event on Saturday, September 26, at Stamford's Westhill High School.
The effort comes on the heels of a new statewide curriculum change for students to receive CPR training in health class prior to high school graduation. This curriculum change will go into effect on July 1, 2016.
All you have to do is ask yourself, "if you saw someone you love having a heart attack, wouldn't you want to know what to do?" I think that would be enough to motivate just about anyone to come to this event.
For more information about Hands for Life or to sign up to become a trainer, visit www.handsforlife.org.


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Q: Image not complete I'm starting to use pstricks but I'm having problems with the size of my images. As I want to export the resulting image, I used the class standalone. Problem: When exporting, only part of the image is displayed.
My code :
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{pst-labo}

\colorlet{myfill}{brown!60}
\newcommand{\potence}{
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,-0.1)(0.25,13)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.25,-0.25)(5,0)
}

\newcommand{\pince}{
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.75,-0.1)(2,0.1)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.75,-0.35)(-.5,0.35)
    \pscircle[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,0){.2}
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](1,-0.25)(2.4,0.25)
}

\newcommand{\supportElevateur}{
    \pspolygon[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill, linearc=.05](.25,2.25)(3.25,1.25)(.25,0.25)(1.25,0.25)(4.25,1.25)(1.25,2.25)
    \pspolygon[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill, linearc=.05](4.25,2.25)(1.25,1.25)(4.25,0.25)(3.25,0.25)(.25,1.25)(3.25,2.25)
    \psline(.25,1.25)(4.5,1.25)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](4.5,1.5)(4.75,1)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,2.5)(4.5,2.25)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,0.25)(4.5,0)
    }
\begin{document}
\psset{unit=0.5cm}
\pspicture
\psgrid[subgriddiv=1, griddots=10, gridlabels=5pt, gridwidth=0.5pt](-1,-1)(15,15)

 \pstDosage[ niveauReactifBurette =25, glassType=erlen]
 \rput{0}(-4,0){\potence}
 \rput{0}(-3.9,10){\pince}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(1,12)(-1.5,12)
\rput(3.5,12){Burette graduée}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(0.5,4)(-1.5,4)
\rput(2.5,4){erlenmeyer}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(0.5,1.75)(-1.5,1.75)
\rput{0}(3.0,1.75){barreau aimanté}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(1.5,0.5)(-0.5,0.5)
\rput{0}(5,0.5){agitateur magnétique}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(-7,10)(-5,10)
\rput{0}(-8,10){pince}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(-6,7)(-4,7)
\rput{0}(-7.2,7){potence}

\endpspicture

\end{document}

And the export :

Thanks for your help

A: I think the problem is that you have not explicitly passed the options to standalone and the pspicture environment which is used as a clipping box. Try this modification:
\documentclass[border=2pt,pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{pst-labo}

\colorlet{myfill}{brown!60}
\newcommand{\potence}{
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,-0.1)(0.25,13)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.25,-0.25)(5,0)
}

\newcommand{\pince}{
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.75,-0.1)(2,0.1)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](-0.75,-0.35)(-.5,0.35)
    \pscircle[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,0){.2}
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](1,-0.25)(2.4,0.25)
}

\newcommand{\supportElevateur}{
    \pspolygon[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill, linearc=.05](.25,2.25)(3.25,1.25)(.25,0.25)(1.25,0.25)(4.25,1.25)(1.25,2.25)
    \pspolygon[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill, linearc=.05](4.25,2.25)(1.25,1.25)(4.25,0.25)(3.25,0.25)(.25,1.25)(3.25,2.25)
    \psline(.25,1.25)(4.5,1.25)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](4.5,1.5)(4.75,1)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,2.5)(4.5,2.25)
    \psframe[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=myfill](0,0.25)(4.5,0)
    }
\begin{document}
\psset{unit=0.5cm}
\begin{pspicture}(-4.5,-1.5)(11,16)% here
\psgrid[subgriddiv=1, griddots=10, gridlabels=5pt, gridwidth=0.5pt](-1,-1)(15,15)

\pstDosage[ niveauReactifBurette =25, glassType=erlen]
\rput{0}(-4,0){\potence}
\rput{0}(-3.9,10){\pince}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(1,12)(-1.5,12)
\rput(3.5,12){Burette graduée}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(0.5,4)(-1.5,4)
\rput(2.5,4){erlenmeyer}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(0.5,1.75)(-1.5,1.75)
\rput{0}(3.0,1.75){barreau aimanté}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(1.5,0.5)(-0.5,0.5)
\rput{0}(5,0.5){agitateur magnétique}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(-7,10)(-5,10)
\rput{0}(-8,10){pince}

\psline[linewidth=1.5pt]{->}(-6,7)(-4,7)
\rput{0}(-7.2,7){potence}

\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

In my distribution (TeX Live 2021) it compiles without major problem using dvips/ps2pdf and lualatex.

Note: I changed the syntax plain TeX to LaTeX for the pspicture environment and remove \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} (no longer required).

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var express = require('express')
var bodyParser= require('body-parser')
fs = require('fs')
//var http = require('http') if no express

var mongoose = require('mongoose')
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/noderest')
var db = mongoose.connection
db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error'))
db.once('open', function(){console.log('Connected')})

var app = express()
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended:true}))
app.use(bodyParser.json());
require('./models/user.js')
require('./routes')(app)

app.listen(3000, function() {
        console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')
})

/*
app.post('/post',function (req,res){
res.set('Content-Type', 'text/plain')
res.send('you posted: \n name='+req.body.name + ' \n username='+ req.body.username +' \n password='+req.body.password + ' \n email='+req.body.email + '\n')}
)
*/

/*db.once('open', function() {

	//schema : defines user and its attributes
	var userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
		name: String,
		username: String,
		password: String,
		email: String
	})

	//Model is a class used to construct documents and will look for plural collection ( ie Users)
	var User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema)

	//make available to other node applications
	//module.exports = User;

	//create user
	var newUser = User({
		name: req.body.name,
		username: req.body.username,
		password: req.body.password,
		email: req.body.email
	})

	//Save User to db

	newUser.save(function(err){
		if (err) throw err;
		console.log('User created');
	})

	//console.log('CONNECTED')

})*/

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Michael Foster's Answer: The facts of this case are really important. If your appointment as attorney-in-fact over you ex-husband was completed before you were divorced, it is no longer valid. Attempting to use that authority as a fiduciary would be considered fraudulent subject to criminal prosecution. If he gave you that authority after the date of the decree for dissolution, it is valid. He can change his power of attorney any time he wishes as long he has mental capacity without any court approval; but he does need to execute the new written POA appointing someone else and voiding all prior POA's. You need to consult an attorney on all of this before you end up in criminal prosecution.


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Virus discovered in world's most widely used research plant
Faculty of Geosciences
Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Academic festivities
Congresses, symposia
Niels Kerstes
n.a.g.kerstes@uu.nl
Publication in New Phytologist Dr. Ava Verhoeven
Numerous research findings possibly affected by newly discovered virus
A previously unknown virus has been found to occur worldwide in the most widely studied plant species, thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). The presence of the virus, which was discovered by researchers at Utrecht University and Wageningen University & Research, potentially has far-reaching implications for research projects. In an article in the scientific journal New Phytologist, the researchers advise plant scientists to screen their thale cress seeds for the presence of the virus before using them in experiments.
Highly contagious
The researchers conducted several experiments to gain insight on how the virus affects the plants. Infected plants were found to contain slightly less chlorophyll and were better able to tolerate drought. Because the virus does not cause any other visible symptoms, the researchers named it Arabidopsis latent virus 1 (ArLV1).
The researchers discovered that the virus is highly transmissible: 40 percent of plants growing from the seeds of an infected thale cress tested positive for the virus themselves. The researchers also managed to transmit the virus from an infected thale cress to healthy thale cresses.
Contamination of datasets
But how do you detect a virus that causes no obvious symptoms? It surfaced when the researchers tried to analyze the RNA of several thale cresses. RNA molecules play an important role in protein production, amongst other things.
UU researcher Dr. Ava Verhoeven, who worked on a virus-infected RNA dataset in Wageningen several years ago, more or less by chance discovered that similar problems existed in a Utrecht dataset as in the one from Wageningen. Verhoeven: "In both datasets, it turned out that in some samples more than 90 percent of the RNA was not from thale cress, but from something else. In Wageningen, the unknown RNA had already been compared with RNA from a large database. It then became clear that the RNA had to be from an unknown virus. And when we compared the unknown RNA from the Utrecht dataset with the viral RNA from Wageningen, it turned out to be from the same unknown virus."
Dr. Ava Verhoeven with thale cresses in the lab. Image: Laura Dijkhuizen.
Worldwide occurrence
The researchers in Wageningen then decided to see if they could also find the virus in datasets published online by other researchers. They found the complete RNA of the virus in 8.5 percent of the datasets and nearly 25 percent of the different thale cress lines available, indicating that the virus has already spread worldwide.
Work and money wasted
That is why Verhoeven is certain that the virus has not only caused unusable datasets in Utrecht and Wageningen. "Thale cress is thé model plant," Verhoeven says. "Now that our publication is available, many fellow researchers reached out to us to let us know that they recognize the problems with the datasets. But they just did not know that it was caused by this virus."
"RNA datasets that contain very little plant RNA are easily considered failures. The results are often not published and thus cannot be found online by other researchers. That is how the virus remained hidden, despite being widespread. So the actual percentage of "infected" datasets is probably much higher than 8.5 percent. The creation of those datasets did cost a lot of time and money, while the presence of the virus made sure they were not very useful."
Screening of all plants
By testing wild plants from the Netherlands and Spain, the researchers discovered that the virus is also present in the wild. That makes it likely that the virus has been circulating among thale cress plants in the wild for some time, and at some point made its way into the lab. The fact that researchers often exchange thale cress seeds, allows the virus to spread easily.
Verhoeven and colleagues recommend that researchers screen their thale cress seeds for the presence of the virus before creating large data sets. Verhoeven: "Evidently, you want to prevent the presence of a virus in the plants you are using in your research. Not only because it may produce unusable datasets, but also because the virus might affect the plants in yet unknown ways. That is why we have made available a protocol that allows any researcher to easily detect the presence of the virus in their plants."
Arabidopsis latent virus 1, a comovirus widely spread in Arabidopsis thaliana collections
Ava Verhoeven, Karen J. Kloth, Anne Kupczok, Geert H. Oymans, Janna Damen, Karin Rijnsburger, Zhang Jiang, Cas Deelen, Rashmi Sasidharan, Martijn van Zanten, René A. A. van der Vlugt
New Phytologist, 8 September 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18466

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Cubs open camp with high expectations
Jordan Bastian
MESA, Ariz. -- The daily sense of urgency officially begins right now for the Cubs. On Tuesday, Chicago's pitchers and catchers were required to report to Arizona, marking the first step in Spring Training's six-week build toward Opening Day.
After a winter with little roster turnover, the Cubs' leadership has made it known that there needs to be a renewed focus from the players in hand in order to learn from last fall's swift postseason exit. With contract extension talks on hold, manager Joe Maddon plans on leading the way with a more hands-on approach, and he'll do so with an overhauled coaching staff.
For Maddon, his players and the organization, this is a critical campaign. And a World Series ring is the goal.
"We've talked about it a lot. We did not like the way the season ended," Maddon said during a 45-minute press conference Tuesday. "And when you have that extra month to really mull things over, you get more determined to get back, more determined to prove yourself again. I've had a lot of conversations with different guys during the winter time and some even recently, and to the man -- I mean, everybody -- we want to make a statement this year.
"We want to get back on track -- meaning, of course, making the playoffs -- but the goal every year is to play the last game of the season and win it. And that's no different again this year. So, in order to get to that point, we have to own each moment."
That last comment plays into the mantra that Maddon is working on for the 2019 campaign. The manager said "Own it now" is a slogan he has been brainstorming about in recent weeks. Maddon explained that he liked the idea of taking ownership of every single pitch, at-bat or play. As a bonus, he liked that the word "now" is "won" in reverse. Expect to see that motto on T-shirts in the near future.
A slogan will not win more games, but Maddon said it is important to reiterate and emphasize a concept built around urgency.
The players are certainly on board in that regard.
"I think after the last few years, maybe it was a little bit expected where were going or where we should end up," Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks said after Tuesday's informal workout. "It's never taking anything for granted. I don't think [complacency last year] was that extreme, in a way. Obviously, we were giving it everything we had. We just dealt with some adversity last year, some tough stretches. And I think we'll be able to use that to our advantage, just going through another year together."
Chicago's relief corps will garner much of the focus during the preseason in terms of roster competition. Closer Brandon Morrow (right elbow surgery in November) is expected to miss the first month of the season, opening a spot in the 'pen. The Cubs signed righties Brad Brach and Tony Barnette, added a handful of non-roster invitees and have an assortment of rostered relievers who all will be jockeying for position.
Atop the list of storylines on the position-player front will be the progress by Kris Bryant, whose power dropped off last season due to a shoulder issue. The third baseman is healthy and without limitations, but will remain under the microscope throughout camp. Daniel Descalso will arrive as the Cubs' most notable offseason investment (two years and $5 million guaranteed), offering leadership for the clubhouse and a versatile defender for the infield.
Shortstop Addison Russell (suspended until May 3 for violating MLB's Domestic Violence Policy) is on the restricted list, but will be able to go through workouts this spring with the Cubs. He also is still going through a treatment program that is being closely monitored by MLB and the team. The Cubs plan on making Russell available to reporters early in camp to discuss the serious situation and the steps he has taken behind the scenes.
The Cubs experienced a litany of setbacks in '18 (injuries and a second-half collapse by the offense being the main issues) and still managed to win 95 games. That was not, however, enough to win the National League Central, or enough to advance beyond the Wild Card Game.
The players want to remember how that ending felt, and carry that with them into this season.
"You certainly want to get started," Bryant said last month. "It's kind of good for us to go through that and get our teeth kicked in a little bit on our field -- Game 163 and then the Wild Card Game. It was really good for us. I think ultimately we'll all learn from it and come out with a chip on our shoulder, definitely."


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Jared and Tracey Brandt of Donkey & Goat winery in Berkeley, Calif., were working for tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area when they decided to take a one-year sabbatical in 2001. They loved wine, so rather than simply travel for a year, they went to France to study winemaking under Eric Texier, a respected winemaker in the Rhône Valley and Mâconnais regions who was committed to "natural" viticulture and winemaking.
When they returned to the Bay Area, the Brandts found new jobs, but the lure of wine stayed with them. In 2003 they made some wine of their own, but they hadn't yet secured a winery bond from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, and the wine was never released. Donkey & Goat was officially founded in 2004, the same year that Tracey Brandt helped start Crushpad, the former do-it-yourself winemaking facility in San Francisco, Calif.
At Donkey & Goat the Brandts followed Texier's example and looked for growers who were following environmentally responsible practices. Like Texier, they also eschewed commercial yeasts and used minimal sulfur dioxide.
Now based in Berkeley, the Brandts work with California vineyards in Mendocino County, the Sierra Foothills and Napa Valley and produce 6,000 cases of wine with an average bottle price of $30. Their portfolio ranges from skin-fermented whites to pétillant naturels to wines that might be considered more "conventional," such as Napa Valley Chardonnay and Anderson Valley Pinot Noir (although the latter does use some whole-cluster fermentation). The Brandts are so passionate about their practices that their website even includes a manifesto outlining their approach (no fermentation in plastic bins, for example, and bottling without fining, filtering or cold stabilization).
Q At Donkey & Goat, you've experimented with fermenting a variety of white grapes on the skins. Why did you want to do this? With which varieties have you had the best success? What problems have you encountered?
Jared Brandt: We began experimenting with white wine skin ferments with Roussanne. Today, that Roussanne is our Stone Crusher. The impetus to experiment with skin contact came from our being fascinated with the wines from Gravner, Radikon and Paolo Bea in Italy and wanting to explore how to make such a wine. Plus, we realized in 2006 that our Roussanne was going to prove challenging as it struggled to complete primary fermentation in less than 12 months (a natural fermentation with no additives). We figured the skins would give the ferment the added nutrients it needed, and we could learn. The 2006 Roussanne was among the slowest ferments we have ever seen. It took probably eight months to go dry. We called that wine Tamarindo.
Since then, we have experimented with a multitude of white grapes on the skins: Roussanne, Marsanne, Vermentino, Grenache Blanc, Pinot Gris (nearly white), and in 2010 we did try one of our Chardonnay vineyards. We were not happy with the Chardonnay that year, we found that the mineral undertones—I like to think of the smell of rocks when fly fishing—disappeared with the skin contact. Since then we have focused on our Rhône varietals and Tracey's new (2014) Pinot Gris. However, in retrospect, there were other variables that may have led to our dissatisfaction with Chardonnay, and we do plan to try again. We have had several skin-fermented Chardonnays that are intriguing. Thomas Fogarty makes an interesting and very good one.
After 10 years, we have a sizable amount of data and learning. Early on, we decided to minimize the oxidative quality often found in skin-fermented white wines, as well as the volatile acidity. To do that, we protect the grapes with CO2 before fermentation starts and as it winds down. We have experimented with not doing this and have found that even though the fermentation chews through most of the oxygen, it still ends up being slightly oxidative and with higher levels of VA. Tannin management is key, we taste constantly and press before the wine is dry on most skin ferments. We have found that if you don't press early, you need to wait until the tannins come back down post-fermentation, usually at 50-plus days. We have evaluated the impact of alcohol on extraction of tannins and found that the higher the alcohol, the higher and rougher the tannin extraction. Our Roussanne/Stone Crusher has never been over 14% (alcohol), and since we pick for acidity more than sugar, our Roussanne is picked at lower sugar levels, which results in the more feminine style of skin ferment.
Our experiments with stem inclusion have not worked to date. On reds, we are often at 40% to 50% stems, but on the whites, the green, chewy tannins from the stems haven't worked.
It has also been clear over the years that these wines require bottle age to really show their power and beauty. Grenache Blanc can be extremely tannic for three to four years. Once those tannins soften, the wine emerges beautifully.
Skin contact, for us, might be the ultimate expression of terroir. In some senses, it is the most minimalistic of winemaking techniques. For our Roussanne, any other winemaking would require more intervention, masking place. These wines also pair beautifully with food. Diver scallops, for example, sometimes needs more oomph than a white, yet need the acid of a white.
Q You do at least some whole-cluster fermentation on most of your reds. How do you decide what percentage of whole clusters to use? Have you found any drawbacks or problems?
Brandt: We have made red wines with stem inclusion since 2006. Most of our reds include at least 20% whole clusters; we work with up to 50% on the Syrahs and Pinot Noir. We have experimented with 100% whole cluster on Syrah, but it hasn't worked well for us. We do not add any sulfur before fermentation. On the 100% whole cluster, the VA levels were too high for us. I am not a fan of carbonic maceration and don't want to use too much CO2 to protect the grapes.
To decide on how much whole cluster, we evaluate the ripeness of the stems, literally chewing the stems bin by bin. If we like the stems, we include all from that bin. We may have an idea from past years of the percentage, but the taste dictates what we do.
Stem inclusion does force more time in barrel for some wines. Beginning in 2009, we began pushing the percentage up on two of our Syrahs, the Recluse from Broken Leg in Anderson Valley and Perli Vineyards in the Mendocino Ridge. We went up into the 35% to 40% (stems) range, and we were very pleased with our results. For our El Dorado Syrah from the Fenaughty Vineyard, we had consistently stayed around 20% to 25% until 2013, when Tracey pushed to increase the whole cluster on Fenaughty to 40%, like the other two Syrahs. This was a huge jump from the previous year. That spring, post-malos, our grower, Ron Mansfield, was tasting with us, and when we got to the Fenaughty, Ron and I looked at Tracey and said something like, you ruined the Fenaughty. We were not entirely kidding. The stems were so pronounced that we feared a green profile to the ultimate wine. However, by then we were bottle-aging our Syrahs for eight to 12 months before release, so by the time we released this wine, it was completely resolved and quite honestly one of the best vintages we've made to that point.
Q You've been experimenting with pétillant naturel (pet nat, wine bottled while still fermenting) wines for some years, since before it was popular in the United States. Why did you want to make this style of wine? What have you learned in your experiments over the years? Are there grape varieties that you particularly like?
Brandt: In 2008, I had my first bottle of Andrea Calek's Blonde. This wine stayed with me and led me to seek more, but at the time I didn't know of any domestic pet nat wines, and there were only a few I found from Europe. In 2009, I decided to try my hand and made our first pet nat from our 1896 planting of Grenache Gris at Gibson Ranch in Mendocino County, which we have made into rosé since 2004. We bottled in 500ml bombers and never disgorged. Each time we opened one, we lost 40% to 60%, but the little that was there was delicious. Plus, many of the caps leaked, so we learned that when hand-capping, after the initial sealing, do a quarter-turn and a second sealing.
In 2010, we tried out a new Chardonnay vineyard in the deep end of Anderson Valley that we knew struggled to ripen. This was our first Chardonnay pet nat but not released to the public. In 2011, we made 40 cases, did not disgorge and only sold it in our tasting room. Because we don't filter or fine or cold-stabilize, the wine had to be disgorged. We included a drawing by our daughter Isabel to explain home disgorging. Some customers loved the hands-on nature of opening the wine. Others mention the lees that still color their ceiling to this day!
The wine had been dubbed Ginger since 2010, but in 2011, Lily, our second daughter, was born, and Ginger was no more. Starting with 2012, we disgorged the wine.
For us, pet nats deliver a refreshingly delightful experience that is truly alive. We add zero sulfur to our pet nats. We do not use any riddling agents. Our wine is made of grapes, just grapes. Each bottle is different and truly authentic.
2016 will be our eighth vintage making a pet nat and the sixth vintage for Lily's Cuvée. We continue to refine and experiment. We have also experimented with other varietals. In 2013 we made a Merlot pet nat (Kraisey). In 2015, we made both Clairette (Blanche) and Pinot Gris. These will be released to our wine club during the holidays with an experimental version of Lily's. Our Clairette and Pinot Gris are enchanting but for a more adventurous palate.
Over the years we have improved our production methods. For example, we have discovered that bidules, which are placed under the cap to help capture some of the sediment, and the correct tools make disgorging by hand much easier. I would like to try a disgorging line at some point.
Q You've tried making wines with no sulfur but, for the most part, your approach is to use minimal sulfur. Please explain your approach. Would you consider trying to make no-sulfur-added wine again?
We have experimented with using no SO2 and being below 10 ppm with mixed results, particularly with wines shipped abroad. Sometimes, in the summer, we have seen problems in the United States. These problems have led us to our current levels.
This year (2016), we will make Syrah without SO2. I think Syrah's highly reductive nature will work; we shall see.
Q You're trying to get away from copper compounds used against bunch rot and other diseases in the vineyards you source from. Why? What sort of alternatives have your growers tried?
Brandt: We want our wines and the vineyards we work with to be safe and ecological. I have read academic studies on the results of long-term use of copper on the soil and its microbial diversity. For us, this impact is too great to ignore.
At Filigreen Farm in Anderson Valley, the grower is certified Biodynamic but uses no copper or sulfur. Instead, he uses stylet oil and baking soda. To date, this has worked. Baking soda (Kaligreen) does have a risk in that if applied too close to harvest, it can bump pH.


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April 14, 2021 in Issues & Politics
David CO 1783
David CO
5 hours ago, ThenNow said:
Now what? How do most people feel about that?
Who are "most people"?
It really isn't fair for you to pose the question to us, and then criticize us when we attempt to answer your question.
CynicalScouter 445 posts
ThenNow 313 posts
Eagle1993 163 posts
fred8033 65 posts
Forums work well in many ways, but it is probably not the best way to discuss the difficult feelings of this bankruptcy while also discussing the impact to child sex abuse survivors. However, there a
The mental fallout from my abuse was mostly dormant prior to the current lawsuit. It would still torment me in idle moments. Or at night sometimes when I lay in bed trying not to blame myself after so
MattR
I would like to not lock the thread but we seem to be in a rut that we need to get out of before any progress can be made. Here are some observations that might help. First, human dignity is the
ThenNow 1314
24 minutes ago, fred8033 said:
I don't see the 1000 reference you are producing and don't accept the premise. You say 1000.
"Almost," I said. Taking the 100+/- year history and 85,000ish claims in this bankruptcy alone, not to mention all those not filed and the numbers of repeat and varied instances of abuse against one Scout (who comprises only one claim among them). I say with confidence almost 1000 and likely more. Take into consideration the repeat abuse, which I think must be considered, as it will be by the Settlement Trustee, and my point is made. We're not talking about any other organization. I know this is all about history, societal context and relative degrees of culpability for many of you, but this discussion is about the BSA Chapter 11. Right. Wrong. Indifferent. Hate me or hate me or don't. I ain't your problem.
Statistically, scouts is not that much different than other organizations.
Even if that were true, I would still argue that scouting is philosophically different from other organizations. B-P founded scouting on the premise that a scout is to be trusted. That premise was fundamentally different from other organizations of his time. It is fundamentally different from other organizations of our time.
We are being challenged by a legal system that believes that boys can not, and should not, be trusted.
BSA has failed us in that it is not arguing our main point. Whether we say a scout is to be trusted, or a scout is trustworthy, this should be our main argument. It goes to the core of our program. Should BSA, or any scout association, now or in the future, be held liable for trusting boys?
I am not a lawyer. Maybe this is not a good legal argument. But I would go with it anyway. Scouting should live or die by its core beliefs.
17 minutes ago, David CO said:
I was sincerely asking him to whom he was referring there. I wasn't being snarky. Was it all people in society, as in the general consensus, or here or within the inner world of this case or what? If he only meant the majority on the forum, I get it. He seemed to be implying the reference was to the public at large. Sorry if I didn't get it. Did he answer?
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It's hard to know where to start, but I I want to look at two ideas that I see as somewhat related. 1) that today's scouts are being punished and 2) that somehow these crimes are being judged too harshly because things were different then.
My council owns two camps, one is over 100 years old and the other is over 50. Neither I nor my scouts are entitled to those camps by virtue of anything I or they have done. I've invested some time, treasure, and talent towards them in the last 20 years, but that's certainly only a small part of them. If I and my scouts are going to benefit from those camps then we do so because we're joining ourselves to the organization that built them, and that legacy, we now know, comes with both benefits and liabilities. If I'm cheerfully enjoying the former than I have to at least accept the latter, and understand that the legacy is not unencumbered. If we lose one or even both those camps because the organization whose existence made building them possible also through its negligence made possible far too many almost unimaginable crimes and injuries, then so be it. If that's the case then I as a scouter am in the same position that scouters 50 or 100 years ago were in, and I need to do what they did and figure out how to build some camps.
As to judging people by some supposed lesser standard 30-40 years ago --- I think that's balderdash. The rape of children has always been a heinous crime punishable by decades in prison. I was an adult 40 years ago so it certainly wasn't such a long ago time for me that I would claim that what would be morally wrong for me today would have been morally acceptable for me then. I'm not quite so old that I would have been one of the decision makers at the scouting level so I wasn't confronted with this type of thing. I'd like to think that if I had been I would have done the right thing as I understand it now and as I already understood it then. Maybe I'm honest enough to know that I might not have, and maybe all those excuses we're making today would have been the excuses I would have told myself back then. But if that's true than shame on me for failing to be Brave, and shame on those who did fail then. Even if you can explain the failures, that shouldn't be the same as excusing them, and it shouldn't change the accountability for them.
There are certainly other people that failed that moral test back then, but make no mistake scouters and the scouting organization were among them. If some of the good those scouters and that organization accomplished needs to be undone to partially balance that failure with the one group of people who absolutely were not a part of that failure, the victims, then I can find no injustice in that however sad I may also find it.
54 minutes ago, T2Eagle said:
I know what you are saying, but you could phrase it better.
1 hour ago, T2Eagle said:
As to judging people by some supposed lesser standard 30-40 years ago --- I think that's balderdash. The rape of children has always been a heinous crime punishable by decades in prison. I was an adult 40 years ago so it certainly wasn't such a long ago time for me that I would claim that what would be morally wrong for me today would have been morally acceptable for me then.
True. The standard hasn't changed, but some assumptions have changed. 50 years ago, most of us assumed that a boy would not keep quiet about being abused. We didn't think a boy would wait 30 minutes, much less 30 years, to report a child molester.
This has been a real shock to us.
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2 hours ago, David CO said:
I would be careful with that because it sounds like you are blaming the child victim and I don't think you mean to do that.
I would certainly concede that, especially the latter point. The near uniformity of that challenge is really something we've only come to understand in recent decades. Which I think argues for recognizing the need for justice now for wrongs done then.
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TheNow does deserve justice. The people responsible should be put in prison and/or be forced to pay restitution. Though they may dead for all I know and cannot get due process. A lot of good people willed property and sums of money for the benefit of scouts today, not to bail out pedophiles and BSA leadership who covered for them. Scouts sell popcorn for their program, not to help the BSA settle a lawsuit.
One positive on all of this plus covid, is that my troop is getting back to basics. For the cost of one summer camp, we can fund a year of camping trips in my state and significantly reduce what each scout must pay annually.
1 hour ago, yknot said:
I am being careful. I know that I am walking on eggshells here. It's a tough topic to talk about.
How do we reconcile our core belief (A scout is to be trusted / A scout is trustworthy) with what we are now told about child behavior. We cannot trust/depend/rely on boys to report child molesters. This questions the very existence of scouting.
If our core belief was wrong, then we were wrong, and we need to make amends.
30 minutes ago, Owls_are_cool said:
The people responsible should be put in prison and/or be forced to pay restitution.
Aren't we responsible for it? We made assumptions about child behavior that turned out to be untrue. Don't we have to take some responsibility for our mistakes?
A scout is trustworthy but that lesson starts with the adults who are there to guide him or her and teach them what that means. If a child who believes in Santa Claus encounters an adult Santa who abuses him or her, what reaction would we expect? Mute incomprehension and confusion would probably be the first reactions, followed by fear, shame, terror, horror... I don't see any actionable requirements on the kids here. They trust the adults around them to keep them safe, or at least that's what we tell them. If victimized, they would expect the adults in their lives to save them. And we failed.
2 hours ago, yknot said:
If a child who believes in Santa Claus encounters an adult Santa who abuses him or her, what reaction would we expect? Mute incomprehension and confusion would probably be the first reactions, followed by fear, shame, terror, horror... I don't see any actionable requirements on the kids here. They trust the adults around them to keep them safe, or at least that's what we tell them. If victimized, they would expect the adults in their lives to save them.
Yes. I totally agree. A child who is yet of an age to still believe in Santa Clause would probably react just as you say. Of course, I would never trust that child to go off into the woods, with his little Santa Clause believing friends, utilizing the patrol method, with little parental involvement.
8 hours ago, Owls_are_cool said:
I'm not poking a finger in anyone's eye, but it is good to remember that the abuse victims we are talking about ALL were boys and Boy Scouts "investing" into the program, to one degree or another. They missed out on much of the good of Scouting for no fault of their own. They raised money, paid dues, attended various functions to promote and support the BSA, put on their uniform, learned knots and lashing and rowing and...all manner of things intended to make them a better, more equipped man. Direct victims. Not indirect or future victims.
There's another group of child victims not often talked about. They don't have a Claimant or Ad Hoc Committee. They have no lawyers nor, for the most part parents who are defending them and arguing their case. I'm talking about the boys/kids who didn't get to see the good of Scouting because their dad was was sexually abused as a Scout. Many of their dads couldn't bear the idea of trusting a child to that organization. "Over my dead body," one dad thought (who happens to be me). Have you thought about those kids? Talk about innocent. Talk about did nothing wrong to "deserve this," yet paid a double price. It's typically not a pretty sight for a child to grow up with a dad in the throes of major PTSD, depression, addiction, suicidality, self-harm, sexual acting out, trouble with authority, hyper-vigilance, employment troubles, martial strife, anger, and so forth and so on. For many of those kids, a solid Scout Troop would have been a welcome haven. Alas, it wasn't to be.
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The Pro-Life Caucus of Colombia's Congress expressed its opposition to a bill that would extend euthanasia to children 6 and older, calling it "a new attack against the Colombian family."
Debate began Nov. 29 on a new euthanasia bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Liberal Party congressman Juan Carlos Losada.
The bill proposes that a minor who has "a serious and incurable illness or bodily injury that causes intense physical or mental suffering" can receive "medically assisted death."
The text adds that "it's not necessary nor will it be required to prove the existence of a terminal illness or a medical prognosis of imminent death."
In a statement posted Nov. 29 on Twitter, the 60-plus lawmakers of the Pro-Life Caucus expressed their "total disagreement with the aim of legalizing euthanasia for children in our country, even more so, without the consent of their parents and in cases in which the disease is not in a terminal phase."
The pro-life legislators pointed out that there are "provisions that ignore the State's responsibility to provide, as a priority and in a timely manner, the care required by minors."
"We reject the law's assumption that a 6-year-old child can have the necessary maturity to decide on his death" and that "the only requirement is that he suffer from a serious and incurable illness such as depression, diabetes, blindness, or the loss of an extremity," said the Pro-life Caucus, whose members belong to different political parties.
The caucus expressed its support for the legislators who have taken to the floor to speak against this bill, "which will be accompanied by the vote of all the congressmen who defend life in Colombia."
"Colombia is pro-life and this caucus will defend life and the family in the face of this new attack," they said.
In reference to the electoral platform of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who took office in August, the pro-life lawmakers pointed out that "it's inconsistent that in the government that seeks to make Colombia a 'World Power for Life,' there are congressmen who find it cheaper to end the lives of patients than to take away their pain."
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Facebook is considering opening up the Facebook Platform to online gambling in the UK, according to a new rumor. This is to supposedly be an exchange of real money, not Facebook Credits.
More specifically, Facebook is looking at handing out eight licenses, two per vertical, to the online gambling operators in regulated markets such as the UK, according to EGR. The company has drawn up initial licenses for different gambling operators: Gamesys which has some 1.7 million monthly Facebook users and 888 are reportedly first in line. You read that right: gambling apps could soon start appearing on the Facebook Platform.
The talks appear to be limited to the UK since many states in the US ban online gambling. While Facebook will likely never support the US (unless the laws change), if the UK deal goes through, it will likely be run as a trial for other countries.
When exactly Facebook would allow gambling companies to launch such apps is unknown. It's also unclear how Facebook will verify the age and identity of players (beyond believing they aren't lying on their Facebook account), which payment solutions will be used to handle the money (again, Facebook Credits is apparently not playing a part), and what percentage Facebook will be taking from gambling operators.
Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of all revenue earned through Facebook Credits, leaving developers with the remaining 70 percent. Since it is still private, Facebook does not disclose how much revenue the company makes from the virtual currency, but it appears to be growing percentage of its overall revenue. The social networking giant is currently testing Facebook Credits for websites.
Last week, Zynga Casino, which operates Facebooks' play-money casino games, announced via Zynga Casino General Manager, that the company was satisfied with its profits form its play-money poker format and would not change its current business model. "We are in the virtual goods business and we have been able to create a good buisness for ourselves like this, so we have no plans to enter the real-money market."
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I have thought the thought before, but the reality of it sank in when I listened to Al Mohler say it when responding to a question, namely, that we are living in day where, for the first time in our lives and almost surely in American history, Christian morality is no longer esteemed as moral (even if it wasn't followed by those who esteemed it) but is becoming viewed as immoral and reviled. If you're a Christian and the gravity of this reality hasn't struck you, meditate on that which you hold dear, namely Christ and that which he approves, and that the culture around you is not merely rejecting Christian morality or labeling it with names to ease its conscience, but it is genuinely coming to believe that Christian morality is immoral, wicked, and evil.
And while this belief hasn't totally permeated the culture at this point, if the present rate of change in the perception of morality persists, it is only a matter of letting time run its short course. Considering that only a little over a decade ago homosexuality was generally viewed as an abomination to now where it is not only accepted but lauded, Christianity's stint as a respectable or even tolerable religion in America is drawing quickly to a close.
It is of little doubt that being a Christian in this country is going to become a lot less comfortable in the not-so-distant future, but far more more grievous than that is imagining the day when our Lord's Name will be universally dragged through the mud and crosses and fish will be as despised as swastikas. May the Lord grant us the grace to walk as pilgrims now and in that day.


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Last week, the front page of the New York Times carried an in-depth report on a "broad and transformative trend" in Russia. It had nothing to do with more democracy or less corruption. It had to do with better customer service — specifically, an intense focus inside Aeroflot, the infamous Russian airline, to teach flight attendants how to smile.
"Anna, you just showed her the champagne bottle but didn't say anything," one instructor coaxed a young employee. "This is the silent service of Soviet times. You need to talk to her. And you need to smile and smile and smile."
I found two things about the report especially noteworthy. First, these basic reminders are having a revolutionary impact at Aeroflot. According to the Times, customer surveys indicate that the airline now has the best service of any carrier in Eastern Europe, including the best the West has to offer.
Second, Aeroflot's program comes at a time when the business culture in the United States seems to be questioning the importance, the value, even the authenticity of human-to-human connections. In an era of cutthroat competition, deep-seated cynicism, and the digital disruption of everything, does it make sense to make big bets on the power of small acts of kindness?
A case in point — the recent, and rather bizarre, explosion of snide, almost contemptuous, media accounts on the success of Pret a Manger, the fast-growing (323 stores around the world), fast-casual sandwich shop, and its unapologetic commitment to developing a workforce that is bright, cheerful, and happy to keep smiling.
One distinctive part of the Pret offering is its wide variety of fresh (yet pre-made) sandwiches. This model allows the company to get customers in and out of the store in as little as 60 seconds — a true value for harried office workers, its target customers. But Pret wants that brief time to be filled with smiles, positive energy, and a genuine human connection, especially for repeat customers. CEO Clive Schlee calls it the Pret Buzz, and the company has identified a set of Pret Behaviors to create the Buzz and an in-depth training program to instill those behaviors.
"The staff manual tells staff to 'use personal phrases that you are comfortable with and treat customers as if they are guests in your own home,'" a report in London's Telegraph newspaper explains. "This is nothing so glib as a 'Have a nice day' culture; this is a philosophy that runs much deeper."
It's also a philosophy that has attracted loud critics on both sides of the Atlantic. The first attack came from the London Review of Books, which objected to the idea that Pret employees should be expected to do more than just provide competent service at a reasonable price. "Work increasingly isn't, or isn't only, a matter of producing things, but of supplying your energies, physical and emotional, in the service of others," the essay complained. "It isn't what you make, but how your display of feelings makes other feel."
Then came an assault by Timothy Noah of The New Republic, who offered a withering critique of the "emotional labor" and "enforced happiness" that is at the heart of the Pret model. The essay began with a lament (tongue-in-cheek, I hope) about how Noah had come to believe that a young woman behind the counter at his local Pret was in love with him. "How else to explain her visible glow whenever I strolled into the shop for a sandwich or a latte?" he asked. "Then I realized she lit up for the next person in line, and the next. Radiance was her job."
Noah then generalizes from his personal disappointment. "Why must the person who sells me a cheddar and tomato sandwich have 'presence' and 'create a sense of fun'?" he wonders. "Why can't he or she be doing it 'just for the money'? I don't expect the swiping of my credit card to be anybody's vocation. This is, after all, the economy's bottom-most rung."
That's a serious question, to which I'd offer three serious answers.
First, I find it odd, and more than a bit condescending, to think that entry-level customer-service jobs should be performed with a grim sense of duty and barebones competence. It's better for customers — and, I'd argue, for employees as well — to be part of an experience that is built around good cheer and personal expression rather than grit teeth and furrowed brows. That's why flying on Southwest Airlines still seems like such a one-of-a-kind experience (for flight attendants and passenger alike), and why Aeroflot is flying high these days.
To be sure, and this is my second answer, the Pret experience is not for everybody. That's why Pret evaluates job applicants based on how well their personal attributes map to the company's core behaviors, and assigns them trial runs at a shop, after which current employees vote on whether to extend newcomers a full-time offer. Every truly distinctive workplace I've encountered makes it clear to all concerned: If you don't fit, it's going to be hard for you to commit.
Finally, the lessons being learned by Aeroflot, and the model being perfected by Pret a Manger, speak to a deeper shift going on in the economy and society. At a time of vast and troubling uncertainty, in a world that is being reshaped by technology, small acts of connection take on outsized importance. It's strange to think that a winning smile from a cashier or a flight attendant, or a nod of recognition from an employee who has seen you three times that week, might matter to the person receiving it — or to the person doing it. But I believe it does matter, both in terms of creating better human experiences and building more valuable organizations.
I'm convinced that "emotional labor" will become a more important part of the job at companies that win big in the future — and that's a development that makes me smile.


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An unspecified "hydraulics issue" is cited as the cause of a tower crane carrying a 13,000-lb load getting stuck in midair earlier today, Oct. 7, resulting in the closure of a midtown Manhattan street. The crane's block was stuck 400 ft above ground at the 157 W. 57th St. site and was manually lowered without incident at around 3:30 p.m., says an Office of Emergency Management spokeswoman.
The street has been reopened to traffic, but the Dept. of Buildings (DOB) has issued a partial stop-work order at the site, says a DOB spokeswoman. The investigation is ongoing, she adds.
The incident occurred at the site of Extell Development Corp.'s luxury, residential tower project, the same site where a crane did not properly "weather vane" and was left dangling during Superstorm Sandy last October.
In today's incident, an 800-ft crane was in the process of being removed when its hoisting equipment "sustained a malfunction," Lend Lease, construction manager, said in a statement. "All safety systems worked as designed," it added. "With safety as the priority, the team expedited bringing in an additional crane mechanic prior to starting the backup lowering process."
The Favelle Favco Model 440 crane was carrying a yellow concrete balancing block when it got stuck, a Lend Lease spokesman says.
The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. The New York Police Dept. says it responded to the scene at 11:25 a.m., closing the street between 6th and 7th avenues.
The incident comes as the DOB issued an advisory for contractors to secure sites in advance of today's expected thunderstorms with winds up to 40 miles per hour.
Last October during Sandy's high winds, a luffing jib flipped backward on a 1,000-ft-tall Favelle Favco-brand crane at the building, which is targeted for completion this year.


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Tracking the Western conference – As of February 28, 2022
February 28, 2022 March 1, 2022 / sunilagni
With playoff positioning on the line and the trade deadline coming up in three weeks, it's a good time to compare the Edmonton Oilers to the rest of the Western conference.
After 53 games, the Oilers have a 0.575 points percentage (with a record of 29-21-3), which ranks fourth in the Pacific, ninth in the Western conference and just outside of a wild card playoff spot. The good news is that things have been trending upwards for the Oilers since Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson replaced Dave Tippett and Jim Playfair, but there remains some areas of concern that could derail the Oilers playoff push.
Below is a table of the western conference teams sorted by their points percentage as of February 28th, 2022. I've included each team's even-strength (5v5) results as reflected by goals for percentage (GF%) and goal differential, as well as the underlying shot-share metrics such as Corsi For% to measure how well the Oilers as a team control the flow of play, as well as Fenwick For% and Expected Goals For% to gauge how well they control the overall share of scoring chances. Team shooting percentage and team save percentage has also been included to capture the player-driven factors that may be impacting the overall results. A glossary can be found at the end of this article.
I've also included each team's special teams results, combining the goals for and against on the powerplay and penalty kill (Goals +/-). The shot differential (Shots +/-) gives us a sense of which teams are doing the right things tactically and process-wise, but may be getting sunk by a lack of finishing ability on the powerplay or poor goaltending on the penalty kill.
The good news for the Oilers is that they've been playing much better at even-strength (5v5) since Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson replaced Dave Tippett and Jim Playfair, with the team posting a 55.85% Corsi For percentage, a 55.84% Expected Goals For percentage and a +9 goal differential in their first nine games behind the bench. It's early, but so far the Oilers are generating about two more shots per hour and allowing four fewer shots per hour at even-strength since the coaching change.
Over the course of the regular season, the Oilers have been gradually improving when it comes to shot-share metrics at 5v5 hovering around the break-even 50% mark, but there's been a definite uptick recently as indicated in the graph below. Breaking the season into into rolling 25-game sections, we see that the Oilers are now hovering around the 54% mark, which is where the top contenders hover over the course of a full season.
What stands out here is that while the Oilers did post a Corsi For% of 52% at the time of Tippett's firing, the team barely broke even in terms of Expected Goals For%, indicating that while they were generating more shot attempts than their opponents, they couldn't convert those into quality chances. Likely because those shot attempts were coming from low-probability scoring areas. Under Woodcroft, the team is not only possessing the puck more often as indicated by their 55.85% Corsi For percentage, but they're also creating better scoring opportunities for themselves more often. Something worth monitoring to see if the Oilers can maintain this kind of productivity, and if management recognizes the impact the coaching change has had on the team.
The concern with Edmonton remains goaltending, which ranks 14th in the western conference in terms of save percentage (91.31) at even-strength – only ahead of Arizona and Seattle. The team is playing so much better up front, it would be a shame if goaltending is what costs them a playoff spot or a deep playoff run. The problem, as I've written about a few too many times now, is that the Oilers current management group under Ken Holland (a) doesn't know how to properly evaluate goaltending, and (b) doesn't have the assets, creativity and salary-cap management skills to solve their short-term and long-term problems in net.
And with special teams, the Oilers are no longer anything special – again thanks to their goaltending. The powerplay is still generating the second highest rate of goals in the league, scoring 10.14 goals per hour, and continue to generate the highest rate of shots. But the penalty kill is allowing the sixth highest rate of goals against (8.70), pretty much giving back everything the powerplay has created. And despite allowing an average rate of shots against, the Oilers team save percentage on the penalty kill ranks 25th in the league and 13th in the western conference, just ahead of Los Angeles, Dallas and Vancouver.
Put another way: if the Oilers received league-average goaltending, they would have allowed seven fewer goals at even-strength (5v5) and four fewer goals on the penalty kill. Stopping 11 goals would have the Oilers higher up in the standings, closer to second place in their division, rather than on the wild card bubble.
When comparing the Oilers full regular season to the rest of the western conference, it's clear that they're in the mushy middle – not quite good enough to be cup contenders but also not bad enough to be a draft-lottery team. But when looking at which way the Oilers are trending with a new head coach, it does make you wonder where the team could have been at this point had they made the coaching change right after they were swept by the Jets in the 2021 playoffs. And if they could have avoided some of the poor signings and trades they made in the following off-season – many of which appear to have been influenced by the previous coaching staff.
For now, the Oilers are in a tight playoff race with teams that have their own strengths and weaknesses. Vegas for instance has great shot-share numbers at even-strength, but the goaltending has been poor, just barely better than Edmonton's. Los Angeles is similar to Vegas at even-strength, but their special teams are weak. Dallas has average shot-share numbers at even-strength, but are getting good goaltending and producing well on the powerplay. Nashville is similar to Dallas in terms of even-strength play, but have the fifth best team save percentage. It's clear that the margin for error is pretty thin, which should make for a pretty entertaining playoff race. It's just unfortunate that we're having to talk about wild-card positioning at this point rather than a divison title.
Data: Natural Stat Trick
Glossary:
Points-percentage (Point%) – The total points accumulated divided by the points that were available, including extra time.
Corsi For percentage (CF%) – The proportion of all the shot attempts the team generated and allowed that the team generated (i.e., Corsi For/(Corsi For + Corsi Against). This is used as a proxy for possession and is the best at predicting a team's future share of goals (GF%). (Source: Hockey Great Tapes – Draglikepull)
Fenwick For percentage (FF%) – The proportion of all the unblocked shot attempts the team generated and allowed that the team generated (i.e., Fenwick For/(Fenwick For + Fenwick Against). This is used as a proxy for shot quality and considers shot blocking a repeatable skill.
Expected Goals For percentage (xGF%) – This is a weighting placed on every unblocked shot based on the probability of the shot becoming a goal. This depends on the type of shot, location and uses historical shot and goals data to come up with the probability for each unblocked shot.
Goals For percentage (GF%) – The proportion of all the goals that the team scored and allowed that the team generated (i.e., Goals For/(Goals For + Goals Against).
Shooting percentage (SH%) – The percentage of the team's shots on goal that became goals (i.e., total goals divided by the total shots on goal).
Save percentage (SV%) – The percentage of the team's shots on goal against that were saved (i.e., 1-(totals goals allowed divided by the total shots on goal against).
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Good luck and may the best Air Crew win.
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Das Album, das sie im vergangenen Sommer in Ljubljana aufnahmen, wird denjenigen, die das Musikerkollektiv um Robert Fisher auf ihre finsteren Folk-Moritaten reduzieren, vor Erstaunen den Atem nehmen. Und allen anderen auch. Das ist – obwohl nie inszeniert wirkend – umfassendstes Emotionskino. Das hat kompositorische Klasse und begeisternde Darbietungswucht, gleißendes Crescendo, beeindruckendes Ensemble-Geschick und Songs, die weiter tragen und mehr bedeuten, als so einige museale Sammlungen für stehen gebliebene Kunst zusammen.
Große Kunst eben: Würdevoll, dringlich, getrieben, fordernd und majestätisch. Zeitlos, weil keiner Zeit geschuldet. Oh Mann!
Im Laufe von mittlerweile fünf Alben (Regard the End, Everything's Fine, Mojave, Flying Low und 3am Sunday At Fortune Otto's) sowie der Best-Of Compilation There But For the Grace of God, haben es Willard Grant Conspiracy zu einem der imposantesten Veröffentlichungs-Kataloge im Indie-/Post-Folk-Rock Genre (oder wie auch immer man das nennen mag...) gebracht.
"Let It Roll" nun, ihr neues Werk, ist zugleich Kontinuität und Wandel, bezieht sich nicht lediglich auf sich selbst, sondern auf die stets im Wirken der Band prägenden Parameter: So sehr der Sound dieser Band jederzeit charakteristisch ist, so sehr die Stimme Fishers, seine intelligenten Geschichten, die Instrumentierung und Arrangements stets als Willard Grant Conspiracy erkennbar sind – so sehr vollführen sie hier einen überraschenden Spagat. Da rockt es unverhohlen und ausladend, um sich urplötzlich wieder in ruhiges Fahrwasser zu begeben – ohne kontemplative Nabelschau zu betreiben. Die Erweiterung um tosende Ausbrüche stellt eine recht eigentlich logische künstlerische Entwicklung Willard Grant Conspiracys dar. Und sie ist die nachvollziehbare Erweiterung ihrer Sicht auf die Welt.
Während die ruhigen Folk-Klänge des Openers "Distant Shore" noch gut auf dem Vorgänger Regard the End Platz gefunden hätten, prescht das 9-minütige (!) Titelstück direkt im Anschluss so groß und gewaltig auf den Hörer zu, dass dieser reflexartig in Deckung gehen wird, wenn er nicht mir offenem Mund wie das Reh im Scheinwerferlicht einfach nur stehen bleibt und sich überrollen lässt. Zeugen des Willard Grant Conspiracy-Auftritts beim vergangenen Orange Blossom Special werden dies bestätigen: Ihr Set-Opener "Let It Roll" machte in all seiner Brachialität und Entschlossenheit deutlich, dass hier ein neues Zeitalter begonnen hatte.
Selbst bei den ruhigeren Momenten auf diesem Album verfährt das illustre Musiker-Kollektiv um Fisher erdiger und mit mehr "Live-Feeling" als auf ihrer letzten Studio-Veröffentlichung. Und das, obwohl die wenigsten Musiker beim Einspielen des Albums im gleichen Raum standen.
"The basic tracks for Let it Roll were recorded last May in Ljubljana at Metro Studio where we recorded the last record, Regard the End. It was recorded with Janez Krisaj at the engineering helm during a week long break in touring between dates in Italy and Glitterhouse Records annual Orange Blossom Festival celebration.
We recorded the record as live as we could make it, taking advantage of the months of live shows the band had done in the previous year and the dynamics that had developed as a result of the constant playing. It was important to me that we not only got the sound of the live band onto the record but that we managed to get some of the members of the band that had, as of yet, not been able to play on our previous recordings. So we got Erik Van Loo (acoustic and electric bass), Tom King (drums and percussion), and Jason Victor (electric and acoustic guitar), along with Josh Hillman (violin and viola), Yuko Murata (piano and synthesizer) and myself this time to do the basic recordings. Additionally, we were lucky to have Chris Eckman (Walkabouts) join in for some crazy analog synth and organ parts. It was a magical week of recording with everyone exceeding their own inspiration. The initial recordings were added to over the next few months and then we assembled the tracks in Holland at Enschede's Studio Metro. We also took the opportunity to record a new song, "Lady of the Snowline", while we were there to finish the record.
The songs on Let it Roll are a collection of tracks written over the last few years. The oldest song is "Mary of the Angel", originally written for Regard the End. Some of the songs, like "Let It Roll" and "Crush", feature a harder sound reminiscent of songs like "Go Jimmy Go" and "How to Get to Heaven" found on Mojave. The lead song is a humanist anti war song based on a famous document from the American Civil War called the Sullivan Ballou letter. This letter was written a few days before the writer's demise at the Battle of Bull Run and its prescience was the inspiration for the song.
Continuing the tradition of collaboration started with "Rosalee" on Regard the End, using an internet modified version of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, I wrote the lyrics with Steve Wynn, who also provided back up vocals on the song together with Linda Pitmon (Miracle Three, Golden Smog) and Mary Lorson (Saint Low, Madder Rose). The song "Lady of the Snowline" also features vocals by Mary and by Esther Sprikkelman (Nightblooms, Safe Home) in a long distance non-collaboration that meshed perfectly when we brought them together in the studio.
Bringing the tracks back to California, I was really pleased to get Robert Lloyd (John Wesley Harding, Kingsize Maybe) to contribute to a few songs along with Blake Hazard (The Submarines) who worked with us on Regard the End as well. Dennis Cronin (Vitamin D, Lambchop) added his exquisite trumpet, playing from his home in Brooklyn, NY, and David Michael Curry (Thalia Zedek, Empty House Cooperative) retired to his lair in Cambridge, MA to record some remarkable guitar, saw and viola. Our longtime soundperson now turned recording and mastering engineer, Marzel Morsink, who also recorded the tracks "Lady of the Snowline" and the Dylan cover "Ballad of a Thin Man" at his studio in Holland, assembled all the parts. We finally mixed the tracks back in NYC with another long time band member Charles Calello at his Studio 303 just in time for me to race up to Boston with the finished results and get Jeff Lipton to provide his final mastering flourishes.