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And now for something on the kinky side….
He sat for a moment, stunned at what he'd done, stunned at what had happened, wondering what he would do the rest of his life with the memory of it. Then he zipped up his pants.
Title: Alien Sex
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Science fiction, obviously, has an interest in aliens. And let's face it, everyone has an interest in sex. So it's not surprising to occasionally find both interests coinciding in the same place. In this volume you'll find nineteen tales of sex seen through the lens of science fiction (with a bit of fantasy and horror mixed in as well). These stories run the gamut, from thought-provoking to dull to incomprehensible; there is enough of substance here, however, to make this a worthy contender for the reader's attention. The stories also vary in their approach to the anthology's theme; while some are straightforward speculations on human-alien relations, whether serious or humorous, others take the metaphorical route, using the guise of alien sex to say something about human sex, relationships, or gender differences. Each story is preceded by a short introduction by Datlow, and followed by a few words from the author explaining their inspirations or intentions in writing it. That last is a plus for me, since I like getting into the heads of authors to see where they're coming from.
On the lighter side of things we have Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex," a speculative look at Superman's sex life. Also among the more humorous stories is Harlan Ellison's "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?", about a trans-dimensional explorer who brings back an addicting orgasm-producing creature — "the most perfect fuck in the universe." It's typical Ellison irreverent weirdness, but fun. Also in this category is "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" from Philip Jose Farmer, a self-proclaimed "parody-pastiche" that asks the question, "What if William Burroughs, instead of Edgar Rice Burroughs, had written the Tarzan stories?" Interesting concept, but since I can't stand William Burroughs' style I found this one unreadable.
On a more serious note there is "Her Furry Face" by Leigh Kennedy; it explores what happens when a primate researcher becomes attracted to an engineered super-inelligent orangatun. Lisa Tuttle uses "Husbands" to ask about the meaning of separate genders, and about what happens when one of them goes extinct. Bruce McAllister's "When the Fathers Go" uses the alien sex idea to look at the lies people tell each other in order to keep relationships going. Michaela Roessner's entry is "Picture Planes," a poem portraying a destructive, imprisoning relationship between an alien and a human that mirrors too many real-life couples. "Roadside Rescue," by Pat Cadigan, poses an intriguing problem: what if you engaged in sex with an alien and didn't even know it — simply by performing some innocent everyday action?
Then we come to my two favorite stories of the lot. "War Bride," by Rick Wilber, is a depressing picture of a man who, in order to escape impending destruction, becomes the sexual pet of brutal alien invaders. This one, too, is a reflection of a scenario surely played out many times in human history, and is a stark reminder of the conditions people will subject themselves to in the name of survival. "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side," by James Tiptree, Jr., is possibly the most thought-provoking piece of work in the book. It takes the position that our deep-seated biological imperative to spread our genes far and wide might become maladaptive when we encounter aliens, with whom mating is sure to be sterile. Tiptree deftly gets across the tragedy of this uncontrollable, misdirected drive, of eagerly striving toward a hopeless and unobtainable goal, to the diminishment of the species.
There are other stories — by Scott Baker, K. W. Jeter, Edward Bryant, Geoff Ryman, Connie Willis, Richard Christian Matheson, Lewis Shiner, Roberta Lannes, and Pat Murphy — that I didn't mention for one of several reasons. Some are fantasy or horror and thus not really my cup-o-tea. Some were simply of no interest to me. And a few inspired me to ask that oh-so-frequent question, "what the hell was the editor thinking by including that?"
There are some winners and losers here, like most anthologies. But hey, how can you pass up a book about SEX? And ALIENS!? You know you cant!
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More dream makers (addendum to a previous review)
A while back I did a review of Charles Platt's Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work, a collection of interviews he conducted with numerous famous authors. The particular item I was reviewing was a 1987 hardcover edition that was, I stated at the time, a merger of two previous paperback volumes by the same title. It turns out that description was not quite accurate, because I just picked up the first of those paperbacks — Dream Makers: the Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction, published in 1980 — and found out that not all of the profiles made it into the later hardcover. It seems the hardcover edition took only about half of the profiles from each of the paperbacks, so anyone looking to get the maximum benefit would be well advised to seek out the original two volumes, rather than the later hardcover.
The 15 profiles that appear both here and in the hardcover are: Isaac Asimov, Thomas Disch, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Frederik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Algis Budrys, Philip Jose Farmer, A.E. van Vogt, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradybury, Frank Herbert, Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard, and Brian Aldiss.
The 14 profiles appearing only in this first paperback edition are: Robert Sheckley, Hank Stine, Norman Spinrad, Samuel R. Delany, Barry Malzberg, Edward Bryant, C.M. Kornbluth (the interview was actually with his wife, since he died in 1958), Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, E.C. Tubb, Ian Watson, John Brunner, Gregory Benford, and Robert Silverberg.
I'm not going to delve into this and do any specific quoting; I'll just say that everything in my previous review applies here as well. There's a lot of good material here giving a glimpse into the lives and writing of some of the field's top authors — lots of intriguing little tidbits of information here. I especially enjoyed the interviews with Norman Spinrad, Samuel Delany, and Robert Silverberg. On the other hand, there are some real downers in this bunch. Particularly depressing is Malzberg, who says he gets nothing from seeing his work in print and that he hates his career.
It's also interesting to read what sf authors have to say about other sf authors. In some cases, the various authors included in this book have criticisms to level at each other, as well as at others. Two of these authors, for instance, state their belief that Heinlein is totally unreadable. And E.C. Tubb offers a strongly negative opinion of ANY new wave or "literary" writer, such as Delany (he calls Dhalgren a "monument of unreadability"). Some of these authors also share their criticism of the genre as a whole, or its fans.
I don't know about you, but I find this kind of stuff fascinating, and I quickly zipped through the profiles here that were new to me. I can't wait to find the second paperback volume to finish off Platt's wonderful interview project.
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The makers of our science fiction dreams
I just finished a fascinating book called Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers At Work, by Charles Platt. It's a book of author profiles based on interviews Platt (an editor and writer himself) conducted in the late 1970's. The work was originally published in two paperbacks in the early 80's; this 1987 hardcover volume is a "new and revised" merger of those two earlier editions. The authors covered are: Isaac Asimov, Jerry Pournelle, James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), L. Ron Hubbard, Algis Budrys, Harry Harrison, Brian Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Frederick Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, A. E. van Vogt, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Philip Jose Farmer, Thomas Disch, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Piers Anthony, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Stephen King.
Platt's introduction tells us something about his goals:
I started doing profiles of science-fiction authors (and other writers of imaginative literature) because I knew from personal experience that they could be just as interesting — sometimes, just as bizarre — as their own books. Also, I believed that the personality of the writer was relevant to his work. Most critics focus exclusively on the text itself, as if it might be "improper" to make deductions or inquiries about a writer's life. To me, this is snobbish and arbitrary. We can appreciate their work more if we know more about them as people.
And I do know more about these authors as people, after reading these profiles. I learned a lot about these authors, about the way they live, the way they write, the things they're passionate about, that made me appreciate many of them more (and a few of them less). Most of the material presented is direct quotation from the authors, with a minimum of Platt's commentary. Which is fine, because Platt's comments and questions are rather dull most of the time (with a few insightful opinions now and then). It's the words of the writers themselves that really make this book shine. I'd like to share some of the more interesting quotes and tidbits of information I picked up from this book.
Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) and her husband both worked for the CIA in its early days, in relatively important positions (cool — a spy and a science fiction writer). Alice had a degree in psychology, and one of her comments was:
"Man does not change his behavior, he adapts to the results of it. That is, to me, the most grisly truth I learned from psychology."
Harry Harrison shared his opinions about the corruption of sf awards, the lack of respect (and decent pay) for sf writers, and the dirty behavior of publishers and Hollywood. It all culminates in this recollection:
"Someone once sent me a clipping from some magazine, an interview with George Lucas, saying 'I grew up reading science fiction, I really was a fan of science fiction, but I didn't like things written by people like Heinlein or Bradbury, I thought Harry Harrison was my god, and I enjoyed everything he wrote.' That kind of thing. I thought, 'Well! Why the hell didn't you write to me and have me do a god damned script for you, you know, if that's what you feel, old son, I'd be very happy to come over and make some money from this rotten field.' Oh there's no justice in this field."
Frederick Pohl is (or was back then) quite politically active; he also sometimes lectured/preached at churches (mostly Unitarian). But he was pessimistic about whether anyone really listened to him:
"I remember talking to a group in Chicago once and saying that the primary requisite for achieving a viable relationship between our society and the planet's ecology was individual self-control. They stood up and cheered me. Then the next speaker said exactly the opposite and they stood up and cheered him too."
A. E. van Vogt spent much of his interview babbling about Dianetics, est training, and other psycho-nonsense. He came across as a total crackpot, saying that psychology needed saving and he might be the one to save it. Mighty humble, that one.
Philip K. Dick talked about…. well, the kooky stuff PKD is so well known for. From much of what he said, his unfortunate mental problems are all too apparent. However, even with his problems, he came across as more modest, intelligent, and likable than van Vogt.
Frank Herbert was also an amateur scientist and inventor. He and an electronics engineer friend once tried to design their own new kind of computer. He also experimented with harnessing wind power and came up with some pretty cutting-edge designs.
Piers Anthony is a hyperactive tour-de-force. He talks fast, moves fast, works fast — fast and non-stop. And even though he has a very successful writing career, he lives humbly:
"I am not foolish about money at all. I don't waste it, you don't see me going off and buying Cadillacs, no you see me out there splitting wood, because we have a wood-burning stove, and solar-powered water heating, if the sun doesn't shine we don't bother with hot water, because I don't like paying fuel bills. I'm a miser!"
Alfred Bester had one of the most fun profiles to read. Asked about his method of dealing with rejection letters, his answer was: "drink more!" Did you know Bester, while an editor for Holiday magazine, was responsible for talking Peter Benchley into turning what was then just a story into an entire novel — Jaws? When asked about retirement, he said:
"Retire? Yeah, I want to retire with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
One of the things I liked about Platt's style was that he helped to give a feel for the authors by describing their homes (most of the interviews were in person), and particularly their work areas used for writing. There was quite a variety, from Ballard's desk by a big window facing his back yard, to Anthony's office barn, to Farmer's windowless basement room with walls covered in erotic art.
There's a lot more I could mention — this book is full of great stuff! And somehow, in some mysterious way, my "to read" list has grown longer. Funny how that happens all the time. 😆
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The ZSU-57-2 in service of the Yugoslav People's Army
The ZSU-57-2 (Ob'yekt 500) is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), armed with two 57 mm autocannons. 'ZSU' stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka (Russian: Зенитная Самоходная Установка), meaning "anti-aircraft self-propelled mount", '57' stands for the bore of the armament in millimeters and '2' stands for the number of gun barrels. It was the first Soviet mass-produced tracked SPAAG. In the USSR it had the unofficial nickname "Sparka", meaning "pair", referring to the twin autocannon with which the vehicle is armed.
Croatian ZSU-57-2 in Vukovar war museum
During 1945 was made a smaller amount of the new self-propelled vehicle ZSU PA-37, which was based on a self-propelled vehicle SU-76m, such as the armored turret body mounted to open one gun K-61, 37 mm caliber. This weapon has retained all the bad characteristics of SU-76M, above all, not strong and unreliable engines. The total has made just over 70 ZSU-37. February 1946 design bureau 174 from Omsk Institute, its proposed solution based on the T-34, in which pivoting to four 37mm cannons. But in early 1947, a decision that future self-propelled weapon must stem from a body of the tank T-54 and PA guns caliber 57mm, which was practically started the development of future ZSU-57 / 2.
The first prototype of ZSU-57/2 has passed internal factory tests in June 1950, and something slightly different second prototype was completed in December of the same year for the state examination, which was conducted from 27 January to 15 March 1951 and included 1,500 traveled km and 2,000 shots. It was determined that the weapon meets the needs of protection of tank and mechanized units against attacks from the air and another is making trial lots for further testing. In May 1951 completed 6 perfected specimen for Army testing. Among other changes increased the fighting and set with 272 to 300 rounds 57mm.
Detail from military exercises Bilogora 77 October 1977
After a long negotiation on 4 August 1961 with the Soviet Union has concluded a contract on a large loan for the purchase of weapons. The total value of the contract was the US $ 115,912,474 (or about 900 million of today's dollars), and delivery under this contract lasted until 1965. Yugoslav delegation on 15 October 1962 demonstrated a self-propelled weapon ZSU-57, with an offer of 88,000 US dollars (about 690,000 today) for a weapon with two spare tubes. Obviously impressed, Yugoslav military leadership moved quickly and already on 23 November 1962 an agreement was signed that It concluded the purchase of 40 tools with 50,000 bullets.
ZSU-57-2 Soviet self propelled anti-aircraft gun
During 1963 was completed delivery of weapons, and the following year was purchased 16, 1965 was purchased another 69 ZSU-57. A total of 125 weapons was considerably improved capabilities of the Air Defense of the armored units.
During the 1991-95 war in the former Yugoslavia ZSU-57, the mainly used for attacks on infantry and fortified positions, as in the rest of the practice for all other anti-aircraft weapons.
Weight 28.1 tons
Length 8.46 m with gun in forwarding position (6.22 m hull only)
Width 3.27 m
2.75 m (with a tarpaulin top)
Crew 6 (commander, driver, gunner, sight adjuster, and two loaders)
Armor 8–15 mm
Main armament
2 x 57 mm L/76.6 S-60 anti-aircraft autocannons (57 mm S-68A variant) (300 rounds)
Engine V-54, 4-stroke, airless (mechanical)-injection, water-cooled 38.88 liter V12 diesel
520 hp (388 kW) at 2,000 rpm
Power/weight 18.5 hp/tonne (13.81 kW/tonne)
Suspension individual torsion bar with hydraulic shock absorbers on the first and last road wheels
Fuel capacity 830 l (including two externally mounted fuel tanks, 95 l each)
Range 420 km (road) 320 km (off-road)
Speed 50 km/h (31 mph) (road) 30 km/h (off-road)
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To celebrate the installation of PLU's 13th president, Thomas W. Krise, numerous public events are being planned in September, beginning with the opening convocation and inauguration ceremony, set for 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in Olson Auditorium. The entire PLU community, including alumni and friends, are invited to the event.
In the long standing tradition of PLU athletics, Spirit Weekend includes Women's Soccer competing on the new artificial athletic field at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7 vs. Trinity Lutheran and on Saturday, PLU football hosts rival sister school CLU at Sparks Stadium at 12:30 p.m.
Two noted speakers will come to PLU as part of the inauguration festivities. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "Into the Beautiful North," will be on campus on Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss his novel that was the focus of PLU's Common Reading Program this year. Larry Rasmussen, professor emeritus of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary, will be the keynote speaker at the Lutheran Studies Conference on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m.
A local community service project in recognition of the inauguration will occur on Sept. 22. A special concert performance in honor of the new president will take place in Lagerquist Concert Hall on Sept. 25. The All Alumni Homecoming Soiree at the Hotel Murano on Sept. 29 will close the month-long inaugural celebration.
To read a profile of PLU President Thomas W. Krise, click here.


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The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) geostational meteorological satellite, Himawari-8, carrying Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) has been in regular operation since July 7, 2015. Before the AHI, geostational meteorological sensors hardly observed ocean color due to only one broad band in visible wavelengths and relatively large radiometric noise. However, AHI has six spectral bands from visible to shortwave infrared wavelengths (470 nm, 510 nm, 640 nm, 856 nm, 1610 nm, and 2257 nm) in addition to ten thermal infrared bands, and their radiometric noise can be reduced by temporal average since AHI observes the full disk by every 10 minutes. This study investigates the possibility of ocean color estimation (remote sensing reflectance, Rrs, and chlorophyll-a concentration, Chla) from AHI observations. The estimation sensitivity was tested using in-situ data, a simple in-water optical model, and the spectral response of AHI bands. We found the error characteristics and limitation of the estimation by AHI as follows. Chla can be estimated by the traditional scheme, blue (470 nm) green (510 nm) ratio in Chla <3 mg/m3. The estimation in Chla > 5 mg/m3 can be improved by using the green (510 nm) red (640 nm) bands. The random noise can be reduced, by averaging original 10-minute images over an hour. Good estimates are obtained in the summer hemisphere; however, retrieved imagery becomes noisy in the mid and high latitudes (e.g., > 35°) of winter hemisphere due to a long path of the solar light.


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Epistemic Concepts & Practices I
Epistemic Concepts & Practices II
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Dynamics of Scientific Research
Keynote Lecture
Reflections on Epistemology and Historiography
What Have We Learned? Anything Historical? Anything Epistemological?
What (Good) is ...
Epistemic Objects II
Section IV Epistemic Objects II
Chair: Marcel Weber (University of Basel)
Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia, Vancouver): The Economy as an Epistemic Object
According to Karl Polanyi, Aristotle discovered 'the economy'. We have reason to believe there was one in Athens, or the Mediterranean region, and ever since Moses Finlay (The Ancient Economy, 1973) we have reason to believe it was very extensive and sophisticated. But there was no concept of an economy as an object of inquiry in Aristotle's texts (notably his Politics and Ethics), nor even in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith never referred to an economy, though he made use of the more traditional term oeconomy either to mean personal frugality or to appropriate the Linnaean sense of the oeconomy of nature. Smith's analysis of wealth is deeply and directly imbedded in natural processes and the discourse of natural philosophy; there is no appeal to a separate realm of producers and consumers.
Michel Foucault observed correctly that it was only in the early part of the nineteenth century that 'the economy' became an object of discourse, although he argued wrongly, in my view, that this came about because wealth was reconceptualized as an 'object' after serving for two centuries as a 'representation' (Les mots et les choses, 1970). What I will argue here is that part of the conceptual work that enabled David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill to see a realm in which laws of production and distribution operated had much to do with the concept of human agency, and that this became increasingly explicit by the latter part of the nineteenth century. The market phenomena they studied were the result of what John Searle has called 'collective intentionality' and bear all the markings of Searle's institutional facts (self-reflexivity, inscribed regulations, evolution). In sum, they were Durkheimians in the making, seeing features of the economy such as the interest rate as autonomous of individual agency (there were no individual characteristics to attend to as in contemporary economics, e.g. attitudes to risk or time). For some of the leading contributors to economic discourse in the nineteenth century the key phenomena had become objective social facts that could be detached from physical nature and studied as part of a realm known as the economy.
My aim in this paper is twofold. First I will offer evidential support for the above claims, drawing on the history of economic discourse and the literature in the philosophy of the social sciences. 'The economy' emerged as an object of reference for economists circa 1820 and endures to the present as an epistemic object. At some point, like the history of the concept temperature, it became part of everyday speech as well. Clearly, the economy can not be perceived directly, though we appeal to 'leading indicators' such as the interest rate or rate of unemployment to talk about its overall performance and efficacy. 'The economy' must be constructed out of a conviction in the well-behavedness of certain phenomena in the market place (money, prices, labour supply, etc.). The source of that nometheticity stems from certain distinct commitments to the uniformity of human agency independent of the natural order.
Second, I will argue that discovering 'the economy' owed much to the drift toward secularism that so characterized the long eighteenth century. Part of this intersected with the novel speculations of an evolutionary nature that we associate with Buffon or Hutton among others. Economics, in short, was at the vanguard of secular thought and thus tugged the human sciences more generally in the direction of a separate and distinct social realm.
My paper will propose that social facts such as 'the economy' are emergent on other branches of knowledge and thus must necessitate some historical account to make sense of this object. The transformation of a science of 'the wealth of nations' to a science of 'the economy' required an evolutionary (historical) and secular sensibility that emerged over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Uljana Feest (Technical University, Berlin): Remembering (Short-Term) Memory: The Death of an Epistemic Object?
In chapter X of his Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn suggests that after a paradigm shift, "familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well" (p. 111). This statement is commonly taken to mean that paradigms provide the conceptual structures that allow us to parse up the world in particular ways. While this idea has been especially hotly debated in relation to paradigm shifts, i.e., grand restructurings, the focus of this paper is rather on a more fine-grained question, namely, how taxonomic changes can take place within the context of what we may – for lack of a better phrase – refer to as "normal science". I will argue that within the context of such normal research the line between the familiar and the unfamiliar is much more fragile and dynamic than the above quote might suggest: phenomena become objects of research precisely because there is an unsettling sense of unfamiliarity associated with them, even when they seem very familiar. At the same time they can become objects of research only insofar as some things about them are taken for granted. To study the process whereby a phenomenon is investigated empirically, therefore, is to study the productive interplay between scientists' conceptions of what they know and what they don't know.
In this paper I will present an analysis of this dynamic relationship in psychological research. I will do so by means of a particular example: shifts in the way that short-term memory is taxonomized. I will argue that the experimental study of memory is guided by specific conceptual presuppositions about the object in question, namely that to have memory is to have the disposition to display behavioral indicators of past experience. This presupposition, in turn, is closely tied to a particular paradigm of investigating the object empirically: by experimentally manipulating research subjects in ways thought to actualize this disposition. In conjunction with other constraints, however, this method has led researchers to the surprising result that some memory phenomena are not really memory phenomena at all.
I will relate my story to the topic of historical epistemology in two ways. First, I will suggest that my account can provide an analysis of Rheinberger's idea that the "blurriness" of an object is an essential aspect of its knowledge-generating capacity. According to this analysis, we need to distinguish between the notion that an epistemic object is only partially understood and the notion that in order to do any research at all, scientists need to operate with a preliminary concept of the object. Second, I will argue that since preliminary conceptions of epistemic objects are closely tied to norms of experimental research, this opens up a way of reconciling the descriptive aims of a historical account with the normative ones of an epistemological account.
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December 13th, 2012 | Tags: Anacortes, bottled water, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Everett, Mayor Ray Stephanson, Sandra Spargo, Skagit Valley, Steve Winter, Tethys, western United States, William Dietrich | Category: Anacortes, California, Defending Water Newsletters, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, Maine, Oregon, United States, Washington | Leave a comment
Sandra Spargo, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin, Anacortes, Wash.
Will Anacortes' push for manufacturing jobs on Fidalgo Island take us back to the future, when mills of many kind lined the Anacortes waterfront in the 1900s?
A town in-between by local author William Dietrich was published in the Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine on Feb. 20, 2005. The article's excerpts include the following:
With its industrial legacy and recreational future, Anacortes remains confused about where it goes next. Despite the presence of some beautiful waterfront parks, most of its shoreline is still relegated to industry. City officials want to draw middle-wage boat builders, not barristas and barmaids. Nor is Anacortes willing to take anything that comes along. Citizens voted to block a third grocery store because it would occupy land originally cleared for industry and was too far from the downtown core. Many testified against welcoming a luxury-yacht builder onto public port land, so the company went to Port Angeles instead.
"We're not in a hurry," says Mayor Maxwell. "We don't have to do backflips to attract business. If Anacortes stays the way it is, that's just fine." A long line of fast-talking promoters has come to town with dubious dreams, little capital and less delivery.
Read Dietrich's article at http://seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2005/0220/cover.html.
What direction will Tethys Enterprises' bottling plant take Anacortes and Skagit Valley?
Does a one-million-square-foot beverage bottling plant–along with its trucks and trains–fit Anacortes and Skagit Valley's culture, lifestyle and environment?
Steve Winter, CEO of Tethys Enterprises, states on Go Skagit (Sept. 14, 2012) that his plan "is to create a 'center of gravity' for the beverage industry in Anacortes that would attract a bevy of suppliers and service businesses, similar to how the presence of Boeing established a ring of support industries to northwest Washington."
Winter states the following in the Skagit Valley Herald of Sun., Dec. 9, 2012:
The huge advantage that we will have is the ability to instantaneously produce product for the entire western United States. So when a company wants to do a brand introduction, they can come to one company–to our company–and have us manufacture a product for the entire western United States.
What is the definition of the "western United States?" Regional definitions vary from source to source. As defined by the Census Bureau, the western United States includes 13 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In turn, this region is sub-divided into Mountain and Pacific areas. The states in light red, particularly the Plains States, are sometimes considered "western," although they are often grouped with separate regions such as theMidwest and the South. (Wikipedia)
Moreover, previous to the Anacortes contract, Tethys courted the City of Everett for five million gallons of water per day from Spada Lake to produce bottled water. During the failed courtship, Tethys hired Jason Jenkins to produce a pre-contractual promotional video. The video starred Mayor Ray Stephanson. He stated that Everett has the capacity to fill the entire bottled water demand for the western U.S., and Everett's rail and deepwater port give easy and low-cost access to western U. S. and Asian markets. — By the way, Everett, Bellingham and Anacortes offer deepwater ports for Asian export of bottled water/beverages. See Tethys' promotional video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19y5bxfbF2Q.
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A COVID-19 related flight in Timor-Leste
At 7am on the 8th of April, Pilot Andrew Macdonald and MAF Timor-Leste's Operations Assistant, Aldo Falo took off in the MAF aircraft VH-MFM for the region of Oecusse.
Oecusse is an area of Timor-Leste surrounded by West Timor (Indonesia). To access this region from Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, one has to travel by sea ferry or by road, taking many hours. With the recent State of Emergency declared in Timor-Leste due to the COVID-19 crisis, Oecusse has become locked away from the world. The ferries have stopped. The borders are closed. They are seemingly alone and cut off from everyone else.
The people of Oecusse, however, are not on their own. The flight on the morning of the 8th of April was proof of this fact. In Dili, eighty kilometres away, the staff of Oxfam send help.
Kathy Richards, Country Director of Oxfam Timor-Leste explains,
"Today we are sending 430 kilograms of hand washing kits, soap and posters to the Timorese people of Oecusse. 68,000 people in Oecusse are without ferries and commercial flights to mainland Timor-Leste. Surrounded by Indonesia, Oecusse is a border region vulnerable to COVID-19 transmission. Oxfam has worked in Oecusse for twenty years. We won't let them down. A specially approved cargo delivery filled with Oxfam resources, using the MAF plane. We are working together for a special delivery for Oecusse. This will get COVID-19 information packs to 14,350 households and hand washing kits to 1500 families. Thank you MAF - Safe flight!"
MAF Pilot Andrew Macdonald said a team of people came to help load the aircraft. "The Oxfam staff stressed that the information flyers were the most important resource on the plane, as the need to educate people about COVID-19 was the first line of defence. The load was bulky rather than heavy, but we got it all into the aircraft without too much hassle. It took fifty minutes to fly down the coast. There were a few isolated clouds on the way with a high overcast layer which kept the temperature down en-route and when unloading. The importance of this flight was clear from the beginning! Being able to get education material and appropriate protective supplies to Oecusse was hugely significant for all of us involved."
Working to help isolated people is one of MAF's key purposes for existence. It is why our MAF planes and personnel are currently in countries like Timor-Leste, looking for ways to serve in these times of COVID-19. Partnering with organisations like Oxfam who have the networks, information resources and the equipment to promote health and good hygiene is what MAF loves to do.
This flight was particularly important for MAF staff member, Aldo Falo, who grew up in Oecusse region of Timor-Leste and has family still living there. Aldo was able to join Andrew on the flight. "Thank you to the Timorese government for allowing MAF to operate this flight to help the people of Oecusse."
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Suzie & Léo are a French artistic team based in Paris. Their work ranges from fashion, to art, photography and film. Léo studied film and Suzie studied fine arts at Les Beaux Arts de Paris, after which they met at the famous Gobelins school. They have worked for international publications such as, amongst others, Muse, 10 Magazine, Numéro France, Exhibition, Under the Influence and Vogue Japan.
As directors, they mostly collaborate with advertising agencies and fashion brands. Their work includes a series of films for Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Givenchy, Chloé, Mugler, Carolina Herrera and music videos for the Swedish rap artist Yung Lean.


Today is a big day for our customers. We're releasing the biggest ever update to our Messenger. We've completely rethought how a messenger designed for business should work. And it goes way beyond chat.
With over 500 million conversations every month, we've long known that our Messenger provides a personal, mutually beneficial experience for both our customers and their customers. Most internet businesses want a personal way to communicate with customers; they just need the right tools to do it at scale.
As we looked into ways we could make our Messenger better for our customers, we started to see patterns and realized our Messenger is powering much more than just chatting. For example, we found in 1 in 7 Messenger conversations, people were sharing links to other work tools. This gave us great insight into the things people were trying to do, like booking meetings, getting on video calls, sharing announcements and helping customers sign up or make a purchase. We saw big opportunities to improve our Messenger so that these business goals were achievable right there in the Messenger, removing the need to share links around.
Home screen: It has a completely new area called Messenger Home, which acts like a front desk for your business, helping direct both prospective and existing customers to the best, fastest outcome, whether that is talking to a person or self-serving.
Messenger apps: The Messenger can now be integrated with the third-party apps and tools you use everyday. So you can do things like have people sign up to your app, book a meeting or take a payment, right there inside the Messenger. With a brand new App Store, you can find apps you know and love like Stripe, Shopify, Google Calendar and Google Meet.
And for the first time in any messenger, you can build your very own messenger app to integrate with your own products and tech stack so you can truly tailor the Messenger for your business.
With today's changes, we believe we're giving our customers a much better messenger that works for them, and we're setting a new standard for business to customer communication.
A strong belief we have here at Intercom is that messengers will soon become the primary communication channel between internet businesses and their existing and prospective customers. Messengers will dominate our business communication, just as they have done in our personal lives.
Using a messenger (like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat) is now the primary way people communicate. In the blink of an eye relative to human history, messengers have left everything in their wake, from phone calls to email to SMS. In some cases, they have even surpassed face to face interactions.
Why did this happen? Messaging uniquely allows people not sharing the same physical space to interact in very human ways. It is personal, friendly, approachable, rich in emotion, real-time and expressive. It's no surprise that it has taken over so fast.
In the foreseeable future, every internet business will use a messenger on their website and in their app as the primary way they interact with existing and prospective customers. This is because they can't physically be with their customers but they want to communicate in human ways. Just like everyone's friends and family are all on consumer messengers, customers will expect businesses to work in the same way the rest of their life works, with a messenger front and center.
But what messengers can mean for businesses is much more than just being a personal way to communicate. They now have automation and bots built in, helping scale personal communication to millions of people, assisting them in getting what they need to get done, fast.
It's at this intersection of personal conversations and intelligent automation where we see messengers for business diverging from the messengers in your personal life. Right now, messengers for business look and work the same as messengers for your personal life. But we know that what a business needs is very different to what your friends and family need. Unlike all other messengers to date, today's new Intercom Messenger is designed from the ground up to uniquely work for a business.
We believe the shift to the business messenger is happening now. We're seeing time and again that businesses are adding messengers to their websites and as a result they are winning more customers right then and there when people come to visit.
One of the biggest changes you'll notice in the new Messenger is a customizable home screen alongside your conversation list and individual conversations. Think of it as the perfect front desk for your website or app – one that lets you create tailored experiences for leads and customers when they open the Messenger.
Provide a personalized, welcoming experience for existing and prospective customers.
Enable users to get things done without having to start a conversation, like searching your help center right there in the Messenger without starting a conversation.
Create a new space to tell your business' story and capture details from visitors.
Completely customize not just how your Messenger looks but also what it does.
With the new Messenger comes the ability to add messenger apps to both the home screen and into conversations, making it infinitely customizable to whatever is most important to your business. This means full product experiences and independent workflows right inside the Messenger. So you can start calls with Google Meet and Aircall, capture leads with Campaign Monitor, receive payments with Stripe and much, much more.
Apps can also be added to conversations e.g. In the Intercom Inbox, the Stripe app can be used to upgrade a customer to a new subscription plan with a few quick clicks (on the right, you can see how it appears to your customer).
But what's just as exciting is that you can build your own Messenger apps to suit your unique workflows – and enable entirely new ones. Our sales and customer support teams have already built some exciting apps of their own, and one of the most exciting parts of this launch will be seeing what our customers build in the coming months.
There is also much more to come from us. We're building more apps, and we're partnering with other companies you know and love to help them build apps. Very soon we'll add the ability for our Operator bot to automatically insert apps based on criteria you define, and for you to insert apps into outbound auto messages.
Opening up our Messenger to third-party apps also meant creating a centralized, unified place where customers could go to easily access and enable their apps. That's why we built our all-new App Store where businesses will be able to discover, install and customize their apps.
Like all our other products, the App Store will continue to evolve after launch so that we continuously optimize app discovery and adoption.
We believe this is just the start of something that will grow much bigger. We believe this is a new dawn for the Messenger as the primary way internet businesses will communicate, whether that is to acquire new customers, help other customers become more engaged or provide support to others still.
If you're as excited as us about the possibilities the new Messenger offers to grow your business, you can get started right here.


This little lady is so cute. I can't figure out how to identify her.
Her material is some type of composite with a matte finish. Her face and lips are painted. Her arms and legs are jointed.
She has unusual pins in the back of her hair which is braided like a crown. She is only 6.5" tall.
I got her from a doll collector's estate sale and was told it was antique.


Shyness is considered to be one of the inhibiting factors paralyzing the students during language conversation courses. Overcoming such an obstacle demands much effort and attention from both the teacher and the student. So far, many practices have been proposed as remediation and some proved to be successful; however, this research has tried to present a student-centered model which its main concern is group work and in-group progress. Therefore, a number of 51 French language students who had passed the French conversation course were asked to respond to a questionnaire including both Stanford's Shyness and Willingness to Communicate tests (WTC). The students were studied in two groups one as the experimental group, the other as the control group without pretest and by using a posttest only design. The experimental group received our Student-Centered model. Subsequently the collected data was analyzed by t-test. The results indicate that teaching communication skills to students could help them improve their classroom efficiency.


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The corporation demo site utilises a layout with a right sidebar for most of it's sib pages.

**Modules used** -
Zentools2 / Custom html module / Breadcrumb

**Positions used** -
logo / header4 / panel / menu / banner / breadcrumbs / sidebar2 /offcanvas

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## We Relaunched our website text
Please see this document for a description of how this was created.

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## Sidebar content
All four modules seen int he sidebar are instances of the Zentools2 module.

The first item uses a single Joomla contact as a source for the content. While the other items use a one column grid layout to display it's various content.

Setting up these modules is similar to the work involved [in this tutorial](../../../display/front-page/tabbed-modules/about-us). The main difference being that a grid layout is used, with a single column specified as the maximum number of columns.

## Creating the sliding modules
The recent news, our team and our work modules all use the zenslider module class to display the content in a collapsible sliding module layout. This is easily set within the module settings by selecting the module chrome as per the screenshot below. The title for the module becomes the trigger that opens or collapses the slider.

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The DelMonico Contrast Peak Rust Plaid Flat Cap is a beautiful blend of fall colors ready to add warmth and style to your cold weather wardrobe. Made from 100% fine quality wool in a classic flat cap style, this cap has a contrast color peak in soft swirls of deep neutral colors for a subtle hint of something special. The interior is fully lined in quilted satin for a warm feel all winter long. Hand crafted and handsome, you'll love this autumn cap. Made in Italy.


We usually do not live in the moment. We are more concerned with what happened (past) or what will happen (future) and that's the recipe for our discontent. This song #AbhiKabhiSabhi by #RameezKhalid is not advertisement for 'mindfulness' but yet it is about living the moment. A state where both pleasant (happy) and unpleasant (unhappy) experience is meant to embraced as part of our existential reality. #Livinginthemoment can free us from many burdens that we wrongly assume due to ours or others expectations. How can you learn to go with the 'flow' of the moment if you being too tied to past traumas or future anxieties, not really there.


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The legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps lives on in state parks
By jimadmin On Sep 25, 2021
PITTSBURGH (AP) – America's 20th century "tree army" has brought generations of citizens closer to the wonders of nature while enduring the nation's greatest economic hardship.
If the political winds are favorable, new recruits could have a chance to repeat those efforts during the current health crisis.
U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Scranton, and the National Wildlife Federation propose the creation of a Civilian Conservation Corps of the 21st
Casey-sponsored REVIVE the CCC bill is inspired by the original Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s, which employed approximately 3 million unemployed men during the Great Depression. Among them were 194,500 Pennsylvania residents.
Their efforts included building paths, roads, and shelters in more than 800 parks across the country.
Many of these park improvements are still in use today, including 10 cabins available for rent at Linn Run State Park, a 612-acre outdoor recreation destination in the Cook and Ligonier townships.
Off Linn Run Road, near the park office, the wood and stone structures were built to last. With some updates over the years and regular maintenance by the park staff, they have remained popular with visitors.
Park manager Corey Snyder noted that an indoor bathroom was added to one of the cabins, adapted to meet handicapped accessible standards. Each cabin has been fitted with basic modern appliances and an indoor fireplace insert to improve heating. Outdoor fireplaces are closed for safety's sake.
"We're repainting these inserts to keep them jet black," said Snyder. The five-person maintenance crew, who are responsible for two other neighboring parks, also refurbished the wooden floors in several cabins.
"They're under a lot of stress," he says. "We want to make the original into the last."
The more rustic huts are served by a modern wash house with showers and flush toilets.
"It's a balancing act," said Snyder. "You want to make the cabins as accessible as possible, but some believe that the more amenities you add, the less it can be the charm."
The CCC cabins were designed in accordance with a National Park Service architectural philosophy that required the use of local, natural materials and the placement of structures to blend in with the surrounding area.
But the huts on Linn Run were not impromptu constructions. "They sleep from two to eight people," said Snyder. "It differs from cabin to cabin. They are all a little different. "
According to Snyder, fishing and fall foliage watching are among the activities that draw visitors to Linn Run cabins.
"We always had a very high reservation rate," he said. "The Linn Run, a huge trout stream, runs right next to the huts. It is topped up three times a year. "
There are also two small stone and mortar bridges built by CCC workers in the park's hut colony.
"Everything is in the same area, which has made moving supplies and materials a lot easier," said Snyder of the Linn Run CCC projects.
"Roosevelt's Tree Army"
While working on projects, the CCC crews stayed in camps in parks. Pennsylvania had 151 of these camps, second only to California among the US states.
Three of these camps remain available in Somerset County's Laurel Hill State Park and can be reserved by groups during the warm season. With approximately 200 structures, Laurel Hill has the largest collection of intact CCC architecture in the state park system.
"They're pretty rustic," says Kimberly Peck, a specialist in environmental education in the park, about the camps, which each have central dining and lounge areas and accommodation for 100 or more people in huts or barracks-like buildings.
"People who have rented them have the option to rent them again," she said, pointing out that park guests must bring their own sleeping gear.
"We have to do a few things to renovate it," she said of the CCC buildings. "On many there are new roofs."
Another storage building in the park, adorned with images from the CCC era, has been converted into a space for educational programs and special events. Its name, Camp Tree Army, suggests CCC influence.
"The CCC was known as Roosevelt's Tree Army," Peck explained.
Laurel Hill, covering 4,062 acres, was one of five Pennsylvania recreational demonstration areas that received attention from CCC crews and were converted into state parks. About 400 young men arrived in July 1935 and set up facilities such as picnic areas, stone drinking fountains, roads, Laurel Hill Lake, and the beach house.
The park offices at Laurel Hill and nearby Kooser State Park are both wood and stone CCC structures that have received more modern additions.
"A very special place"
Kooser, located on 250 hectares, is home to nine cabins built by CCC that can be rented by visitors.
"Some are made of wood and some are clad in wood," said Peck. "Everyone is different."
"The Jones Mill Run Dam is the most famous piece of CCC architecture we have," said Peck. Originally built to provide water for CCC workers at Laurel Hill, it is now known for its photogenic waterfall and the wildlife it supports.
"It has become a very special place for the living space that it offers," she said.
In addition to photos from Camp Tree Army, Laurel Hill pays tribute to his CCC roots with a blue and gold historical marker recently placed at the park entrance by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Near the park's visitor center, a keystone-shaped plaza surrounds a monument with a bronze statue depicting a CCC worker.
"You will find this monument nationwide," said Peck. "We are honored to be one of the places that have it."
Remains of other CCC camps are detectable in portions of the Forbes State Forest, which extends over 59,000 acres in Westmoreland, Fayette and Somerset counties.
One of the camps was in the Blue Hole Division of the Forest, off Fall Run Road in Middlecreek, Somerset County.
Rachael Mahony, an environmental education specialist with Forbes State Forest, noticed a building that was being used by Boy Scout groups.
"Everything else was demolished in the 1970s," she said. "It hasn't been waited."
Other CCC remains are in the Mt. Davis Division of Forbes in southern Somerset County.
"There's a picnic pavilion built by the CCC," Mahony said.
A CCC building was occupied by a lumber shop but is now used as a warehouse.
"We installed some interpretation boards a few years ago," she said.
Laurel Hill works
Civilian Conservation Corps crews worked in the area that would become Laurel Hill State Park from 1933 to 1942.
In the first two years at the site, they planted 600 trees, 1,500 shrubs and 750 vines.
They also completed:
• 10.5 miles of park roads
• 13 km of hiking trails and footpaths
• 20 pedestrian bridges and one bridge for vehicles
• 2 organized group camps and 1 family camp
• 1 picnic area
• 3 dams
• A 70 hectare lake
• 23 drinking fountains and 19 chimneys
• 100 picnic tables and benches
• 1 swimming pool
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One soldier's war on North Africa, Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany, following his life, loves and emotions in wartime.
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945: From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine is a British soldier's account of his life, both private and militarily, while serving with the Corps of Royal Engineers between 1940 and 1946. Based on the diaries of Driver First Class Robert 'Robb' Jones, the reader follows him across the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, endures the bombing of Tripoli harbour and accompanies him on the invasion of Sicily and landings on the Normandy beaches.
The reader follows the advance up through Belgium and Holland, and is given a first-hand account of the battle that became known as the Rhine Crossing. The narrative is also interspersed throughout with military events, which occurred during the period. As with all such stories, the reader is given access to the subject's innermost thoughts, revealing his fears, anxieties, frustrations and emotions; the latter involving the affections of two pretty young ladies. Also, the book is gloriously illustrated with photographs taken by him during his six years as a Royal Engineer.
Martyn R. Ford-Jones is the acknowledged historian to No. XV Squadron, Royal Air Force, and to No. 622 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Because of his interest in the RAF, he has become an established author and researcher. Born and raised in London, Ford-Jones lives in Wiltshire with his wife Valerie, to whom he has been married for over fifty years. Ford-Jones' main topics of interest, apart from the RAF and the Second World War, are reading, travelling, solving crosswords and Formula 1 motor racing.
Based on personal interviews, Bomber Command aircrews who served with XV Squadron reveal the horrors of operations over Nazi Germany.


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Chateau Montelena 2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Complex dry red with layers of fruit and earth, a bottle that will age gracefully and taste amazing in 5 to 15 years.
Some years Mother Nature throws you a curveball, but with years of practice and experience you can see that pitch coming and still connect for a home run. 2008 was one of those years where everything seemed to conspire to make life difficult here in the Napa Valley.
First, a cold and frosty spring caused a bit of damage and reduced the size of our crop. Then the heat and wind showed up right in time for bloom, which resulted in widespread shatter – again reducing the crop here on the Estate. The heart of the growing season was actually quite nice and normal, but then more heat showed up during the harvest; pushing some of the fruit to dehydration and serving up the final challenge of the season – there was a lot of movement on that ball. Despite all these challenges, 2008 produced an incredible, concentrated, and exceptional Estate Cabernet that is very representative of the vintage.
The Estate vineyard is comprised of varied terrain, from flat to steep hillsides. The vineyard gently slopes downward towards its base, where a small patch of sedimentary soil was deposited by the settling of an ancient ocean or lake. Extending out from the Napa River is the alluvial soil, the most prevalent type on the property. In the back and outside areas of the vineyard are volcanic soils, formed by ancient lava flows caused by tectonic uplifting.
This diversified soil profile results in aromatic, rich and full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon, characterized by the unique earthy-berry flavor that is the Montelena Estate. Our decades old Zinfandel vines, planted in volcanic soil, combined with our 10 year old vines in alluvial soil, produce a wine with a spicy, ripe berry flavor.
The wines produced by Chateau Montelena are handcrafted in the Chateau Montelena cellar by their dedicated winemaking team. The wines express the fruit from which they are made and the vintage in which they are grown, with all other elements in balance to complement the fruit. To achieve this goal, Chateau Montelena use modern crushing, de-stemming and pressing equipment to process the grapes as gently as possible. The Montelena team then use temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks to allow the wines to ferment slowly and evenly. Once fermentation is complete, the wines are transferred to small, French oak barrels to begin the aging process. Chateau Montelena uses a combination of new barrels along with older, neutral barrels to ensure that the natural flavors of the grapes are not masked by oak. After blending and bottling, the wines receive enough aging time prior to release so that they can be enjoyed right away or laid down to mature for years to come.
Dense, rich ruby color in the glass, this Estate Cabernet Sauvignon shows complex aromas of dark cherry, dried fruits, earth, cedar, and vanilla cream along with hints of licorice and leather. The palate opens with big, chewy tannin – firm but not coarse – and builds even bigger into a mid-palate loaded with ripe red fruits and dried black fruits. There is a good, strong acid backbone completing the balance and structure. The barrel flavors are well-integrated throughout but are best evident in the warm and spicy finish. Still quite young and powerful, this dense compact wine will open beautifully with time in bottle (or glass).
Varietal Composition: 98% Caberner Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc
Appellation: Napa Valley, California
Barrel Aging: 22 months, 100% French Oak (34% new)
Harvest Date: September 7 to October 13, 2008
Bottling Date: December 2010
Case Produced: 5940
Chateau Montelena's rich history began on a chilly fall morning when Alfred L. Tubbs spaded over and inspected the soil where he thought of planting estate vineyards. He had heard the Napa Valley was the best place to grow grapes in California. A deal was struck, and in January of 1882 the San Francisco entrepreneur owned 254 acres of rugged land just two miles north of Calistoga at the base of Mount Saint Helena. The soils are well drained, stony and loose - perfect for the vines he would plant.
It took less than a decade to turn his dream into reality. First Tubbs planted his vineyards, then he built his Chateau, and in 1886 he imported a French-born winemaker. By 1896 his winery, christened Chateau Montelena (a contracted form of Mount Saint Helena), was the seventh largest in the Napa Valley. Winemaking at the Chateau came to an end with Prohibition. After Prohibition was repealed, the Tubbs family continued to harvest the vineyard, making some wines and selling grapes to other wineries and home winemakers. The Tubbs family sold the winery in 1958, at which time the Chateau and its overgrown grounds passed into the hands of Yort and Jeanie Frank, who were looking for a peaceful spot to retire. The Chateau inspired Frank to excavate a lake, with landscaping to reflect the Chinese gardens of his homeland. Today, Jade Lake is considered one of Napa Valley's most beautiful sanctuaries, home to a variety of fish and wildlife, and surrounded by weeping willows and native fauna. The next chapter began with the renaissance of Chateau Montelena Winery and the Estate vineyard. Under the leadership of Jim Barrett, the vineyard was cleared and replanted, and the Chateau outfitted with modern winemaking equipment. He assembled a team to oversee the vineyard and winemaking, then grew and contracted for the highest-quality grapes in the Napa Valley. In 1972 wines were made for the first time. Decades later, this celebrated family-owned winery continues to thrive with Jim Barrett at the helm.
"The 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a gorgeous, mid-weight wine laced with mint, cassis, sweet herbs and tobacco. It is an understated, gracious wine from start to finish. This is a relatively approachable vintage for the Estate. It shows tons of finesse and mid-palate generosity while maintaining a medium-bodied personality. Today it is quite young, although it is drinking well. Readers who prefer more tertiary notes will want to cellar the wine for at least a few years. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2028.
I was very impressed with the wines I tasted at Chateau Montelena. Bo Barrett and his team are going for a food-friendly style. They certainly appear to be succeeding in the endeavor. The signature wines are the Chardonnay and the two Cabernet Sauvignons. The Chardonnay is fermented in steel and aged in oak with no malolactic fermentation or less stirring. There is no question the Chardonnay can age, but personally, I am not sure the wines improve beyond age ten or so, at least not markedly. The Cabernet Sauvignon Estate typically includes 2% or so of Cabernet Franc. The Cabernet Sauvignon is made from purchased fruit and incorporates small amounts of Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Barrett describes 2008 as a tough vintage for Cabernet Sauvignon. Frost and shatter were an issue earlier in the year, while temperatures rose dramatically later in the summer. Barrett is much higher on 2009 because it presented virtually no problems." - Antonio Galloni
Aging Potential: 5-10 Years, 10-15 Years
Alcohol By Volume: 13.9%
Flavor Pairing: Tomato Base, Herb Roast, Barbecue
Food Pairing: Steak, Seafood, Duck
On the Nose: Vanilla, Licorice, Leather, Earthy Minerals, Cedar, Black Cherry
On the Palate: Tobacco, Spicy, Cigar Box, Cassis, Black Cherry
Serving Recommendation: Cup Glass in Hand to Warm Slightly
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc


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Pope Francis has spoken on the environment. Will the US Congress listen?
A week after Pope Francis injected a bolt of energy into the environmental movement, Catholics of all stripes are trying to influence public opinion about Laudato Si' and influence lawmakers to act.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, chairman of the US bishops' committee on domestic peace and justice, penned a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to adopt ambitious carbon limitations.
But not all Catholics are cheering Francis, particularly those who believe that open markets are the best way to lift people out of poverty.
Samuel Gregg, the director of research at the Acton Institute, penned an essay criticizing "the sheer overreach that plagues" Laudato Si'.
"Catholic clergy are perfectly entitled to hold and express their personal opinions about, say, air-conditioning, dams, plankton, or synthetic agrotoxins. When, however, an encyclical like 'Laudato Si'—or formal statements issued by a Catholic bishop or Catholic bishops' conferences—enters into discussion of the details of such topics, they seriously risk crowding out the laity from their proper sphere, or even subtly pressuring lay Catholics into adopting positions they have no obligation as Catholics to hold," he wrote.
Nicholas Hahn, the editor of RealClearReligion, joined Gregg in his criticism of the pope.
Will the lobbying and editorializing have an impact on policy makers one way or another? The Obama Administration is pushing increased regulations on coal burning power plants as well as stricter emissions standards for trucks. But there's little appetite in Congress for sweeping changes in US energy regulations, a situation Catholic climate advocates hope the encyclical might change.
Stephen F. Schneck, who leads the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, told Crux he anticipates that lawmakers will consider the pope's message on the environment, and ultimately push for legislation in line with the encyclical.
He predicted that members of Congress will begin to digest the encyclical just before the pope's September address. "Something's going to come out of this and it's definitely going to have an impact on public policy in the US," he said.
Others aren't so sure the encyclical will be able to overcome partisan gridlock in Washington.
Kathy Saile, who led the US bishops' office for domestic social justice for many years, told Crux that she doesn't expect that the encyclical will directly impact legislation, but that it could help galvanize advocates and policy makers already in favor of adopting climate change measures.
"I don't think it will spark a climate change bill, but someday when negotiations are happening on a bill or a treaty, these kinds of moral teachings could have an influence," she said.
Even if phrases from Laudato Si' don't make their way into any laws, Saile said the encyclical, and the pope's address to Congress, could nonetheless lead to important developments.