Billboard and outdoor advertising has virtually disappeared from Detroit's central business district, part of an uneasy truce negotiated between outdoor advertising companies, downtown landlords and the city.
At issue is a proposed city ordinance that would set new guidelines and restrictions for all those involved in out-of-home advertising. Long in the making, the new ordinance would finally regulate a commercial industry that has — in order to survive — operated mostly outside the law.
In the meantime, a growing industry has stalled while the actors hold their breath.
Historically, downtown Detroit was a center of commerce — and advertising.
"Downtown Detroit once looked like Times Square, with billboards dotting nearly every building and advertising everything from Model Ts to Stroh's to cigars," says Dan Austin, senior account executive at Van Dyke Horne Public Relations and author of several books on Detroit's architectural history. "When you look back at those photos, it gave a real sense of vibrancy and commerce, hustle and bustle."
Some of these painted relics, dubbed "ghost signs," hawking everything from soda pop to long-shuttered saloons, can still be seen on old buildings — preserved reminders of the thousands of businesses that launched in Detroit during the early 20th century.
Then, as well as now, leasing out a building's exterior wall for off-premise signage (that is, signage advertising someone else's brand) could be a significant income stream for property owners.
Augmented reality is coming soon to a mural near you: Two entrepreneurial brothers are installing a "moving mural" in Greektown this spring. Read story.
Detroit looking up Woodward was packed with signs in the 1910s.
Candice Simons, owner of Brooklyn Outdoor, an up-and-coming national outdoor advertising agency based in Eastern Market, works directly with building owners across the country to lease out exterior walls for billboards and painted signs.
"You have these building owners and not all of them are Dan Gilberts and Ilitches," she said. "They just have one to two buildings where they've put the sweat equity in."
She says the guaranteed monthly income of an outdoor advertising lease can often provide cash-poor owners the resources to redevelop buildings and incubate new businesses.
"Say we generate a lease for five years," Simons said. "They have $24,000 a year of guaranteed income. A building owner can whitebox and release one floor a year on that income and secure tenants. The ripple effect that signage has on business and the local economy is massive."
One small problem: In downtown Detroit, most of those signs aren't legal.
Detroit's zoning code prohibits large outdoor advertisements in an area stretching from the Detroit River to Grand Boulevard on the east and west sides.
The ordinance, conceived alongside casino legislation in the early 1990s to keep Detroit from looking like Times Square, was selectively, if ever, enforced.
Building owners could theoretically apply for an official permit to host an off-premise sign, but the process was confusing enough to deter many of them from attempting it, and it's unclear how often the city granted permits for off-premise outdoor advertising after the ordinance.
Permits for outdoor advertising in downtown Detroit were rare — but a few do actually exist.
Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts holds one of downtown Detroit's only signage permits for its video sign, visible from the I-375 exit to Madison Avenue. The nonprofit's president and artistic director, Vince Paul, said he originally put up the video sign as a way to welcome visitors to downtown Detroit.
"I wanted to light this town up!" said Paul. "Nineteen million cars a year — it's the busiest exit to a local road. It was happening and nobody was harnessing it."
He says the sign and other outdoor advertising on Music Hall's buildings allow the nonprofit to increase the frequency of their cultural and educational programming.
"It had a huge impact on our ability to serve the community," he said. "Now they're trying to take that away."
In a digital age, buying billboards might seem like a counterintuitive — even outdated — advertising strategy.
But in a world where customer awareness is increasingly difficult to win and valuable to monetize, a five-story-tall poster isn't just an advertisement. It's a statement, an Instagrammable expression of brand identity commanding attention and social media exposure. And the best billboards blur the lines between art and urban life and commerce, creating virtual installations that stimulate the streetscapes around them.
Big billboards are big business. The Outdoor Advertising Association of America says that ad spend on outdoor campaigns grew from $5.9 billion in 2009 to $7.6 billion in 2016.
That's why ad agencies will plan outdoor ad campaigns on behalf of brands with the aim of fostering a "media mix" — targeting strategic locations, and audiences, along expressways and in the suburbs, plus a few prized locations in central business districts like Detroit. For companies like Amazon and Apple, billboards in downtown areas are more than just tactical buys — they are expressions of corporate solidarity with the youth-fueled creative movements happening in cities.
"They want to be seen, they want to be bold, they want to be in the suburbs and downtown," said Simons. "The downtown locations are the crown jewels."
As Detroit's downtown revitalization drew worldwide attention, a few billboards went up downtown. Downtown Detroit was suddenly a place to make deals. By 2016, as many as 60 signs were displayed in the central business district. And the city began to feel the pressure to enforce its almost-forgotten ordinance. "The issue was brought to our attention by owners of legally established signs, members of City Council and others," city spokesman John Roach told the Detroit Free Press last winter.
That's why, at the end of 2016, after months of writing tickets to landlords with outdoor advertising and facing criticism from all sides, the city of Detroit issued a decree for downtown building owners to take the signs down by the end of 2017.
Bill Jackson, director of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Michigan, represents some of the biggest outdoor advertisers in the game, companies such as Outfront and Lamar. Jackson said those large actors refrained from signing billboard leases in the city due to the ordinance.
"They aren't going to conduct themselves in illegal behavior so they aren't going to enter that marketplace," he said.
Jackson got wind that some of the outdoor billboard companies who had erected signs in violation of the ordinance were petitioning the city to rewrite their laws to make the signs legal. He called foul.
"It's a market entrance strategy," Jackson said. "Come into a marketplace, display a lot of wall signs, then you force the city's hands."
That perspective explains why the OAAM would support continuing the ban on outdoor advertising in Detroit, although they are open to other solutions. He also suggests that the city of Detroit "turn the clock back to zero," which would invalidate previous leases and allow all outdoor advertising companies the chance to enter the market and make deals at one time.
"The city needs to create a fair playing field where the companies who were operating illegally and irresponsibly aren't rewarded," Jackson said.
Some would argue that the present-day ordinance allowing only a few permit-wielding building owners to earn revenue from outdoor advertising is, by definition, unfair. Lauren Hood is the former director of the Live 6 Initiative and an experienced consultant in Detroit's community engagement and development spheres. "I think the ordinance allows a small group of people to corner the market on advertising profits," she said. "Which is inequitable in practice."
And there's yet another group of stakeholders with perspectives to consider: preservationists, who are concerned downtown Detroit may well look like Times Square again without some sort of constraint. Some point out that billboards don't fit the historic character of downtown Detroit. But others, publicly, have advocated for a solution that allows for some outdoor advertising while respecting the buildings and environment that makes the city special.
"I believe there is a way to be sensitive to our historic structures yet allow for appropriate accessory signage," said Francis Grunow, an urbanist and consultant in Detroit. "But my general feeling is less is more in most cases."
The preservation advocacy group Preservation Detroit would also support a sign ordinance with parameters "that are not detracting to the structure or surrounding landscape," the group said in a statement sent to Crain's. "Preservation Detroit recognizes the position of loyal, long-term proprietors in the central business district who rely on signage to engage clientele or generate advertising revenue."
Many are also frustrated with the reports of property owners leasing exterior walls of abandoned buildings.
"One bad egg is all it takes to spoil a good thing and an initiative," Paul said. "We've got people doing outdoor advertising to avoid having to sell or develop their building. They are forcing the city to take action."
No one knows for sure whether the new ordinance will continue the ban on outdoor advertising, allow all the signs back or (more likely) attempt some sort of compromise between factions. The City of Detroit did not respond to numerous calls to comment, with Roach saying only that the Planning Department is working on developing a new ordinance. Meanwhile, Detroit's City Council passed a resolution asking for a new ordinance to be ready by summer 2018.
Paul believes that the ordinance should be applied on a district-by-district basis, so that the central business district and theatre district downtown could operate by different rules than Detroit's neighborhoods.
"I will not support anyone who wants to get in the way of building a thriving entertainment district," he said. "And if I had to tolerate the bad apples to keep Detroit's progress moving forward, I'd say, don't stop our progress to punish a few bad actors. But they're punishing all of us instead of punishing them."
Simons said the Detroit area has already lost out on advertising campaigns — and revenue — by upholding the ban. "If they can't use us in their media mix, they'll pull their budgets from the market," she said. "If they can't get those crown jewel assets, they'll pull their money out and go to Chicago or LA or another place that will take their money."
Still, her conversations with the city, which she characterizes as positive, leave her feeling hopeful that the city will reach some sort of compromise.
"Not everyone is going to get everything they want, that's the nature of the world. But we all should be able to play nice in the sandbox."
There's also something very Detroit 2.0 about this particular problem. As Paul deadpans: "Isn't it wonderful that the city of Detroit has enough money to consider whether we want outdoor advertising or not?"


"No one leaves home and family just like that. You must be so desperate that you are not even fazed by the thought of drowning in the Mediterranean. What matters is that you have tried to find a better life elsewhere and to avoid turning to crime, despite adversity."
This is how an acquaintance explained to me a year ago why he fled his North African homeland for Switzerland. He was sent back there a few months ago.
There are now several hundred refugees in Como on Switzerland's southern border, including many unaccompanied minors. They make almost daily attempts to cross the Swiss border, either to find refuge here or to travel on to Germany or Scandinavia. As we know, only a small number of them manage to cross the border.
In mid-2016 there were about 33,000 asylum seekers in Switzerland. In addition, there were over 73,000 recognized refugees and temporarily admitted persons. They currently represent a mere 0.9% of Switzerland's resident population. Yet the "refugee crisis" is causing a stir in Switzerland. A few facts would be a useful input to this discussion.
First, according to UN statistics, there are currently over 65 million people worldwide fleeing war, political persecution or economic despair. Of these, 40 million are still in their own country as "internally displaced persons". This constitutes an enormous challenge for the still peaceful parts of the country where they take refuge. Lack of foreign support could lead to instability and poverty in these regions.
Second, of the over 20 million refugees who have left their own country, less than one-fifth have fled to rich industrialized countries. Over 80% have found refuge in other developing countries, and a quarter of them even in some of the world's poorest countries. In Chad for example, there are currently over 350,000 refugees, who make up some 2.6% of that country's population. In Lebanon, the roughly 1.2 million refugees account for as much as 18.3% of the resident population, or 18 times more than in Switzerland.
Third, some developing countries are finding it less difficult than us to integrate foreign refugees. Uganda, for example, is currently home to roughly half a million people who have fled their countries, and hence the third major country of refuge in Africa after Ethiopia and Kenya. Those accorded refugee status are given a piece of agricultural land in local communities, the same access as Ugandans to public services, a work permit and the right to set up their own business. The country is nonetheless dependent on international support, for here too, immigration is placing enormous strains on public infrastructure.
It is hard to understand that so many in the Swiss Parliament want to finance the rising cost of caring for asylum seekers here in Switzerland by cutting development aid funding, of all things. It should be clear that poor countries taking in substantially more refugees than ours, need our support more than ever.
By Mark Herkenrath, Director Alliance Sud.


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1965 Pontiac Tempest GTO
©2007 Publications International, Ltd. A recessed grille and the now-famous hood scoop were among the front-end styling changes for the GTO's second season in 1965. See more muscle car pictures.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd. Under the hood, the V-8 in the GTO got a slight horsepower boost.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd. Woodgrain trim and a bevy of instruments on the dashboard set the GTO apart from other muscle cars.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd. This is one of 11,311 GTO Tempest ragtops built for 1965.
the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide "1965 Pontiac Tempest GTO" 3 January 2007.
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Republican candidate Ashley Moody is leading her Democratic counterpart Sean Shaw in the 2018 race for Attorney General, according to the latest survey from St. Pete Polls.
When asked, "If the election for Attorney General were held today, who would you vote for: Republican Ashley Moody or Democrat Sean Shaw," 46 percent said Moody and 44 percent said Shaw, with roughly nine percent undecided.
The poll was commissioned as part of "Wellness Week," a collaboration between Florida Politics, St. Pete Polls and Empowering Wellness.
The takeaway: Moody seems to be the one Republican leading in these polls; all of the others had Democrats ahead.
In other questions, 71 percent said they "support the Florida law that allows the use of medical marijuana if approved by a doctor," with nearly 22 percent opposed and 7 percent undecided. That tracks with the passage rate of the 2016 constitutional amendment authorizing medicinal cannabis.
Asked whether they "approve or disapprove of the way current Attorney General Pam Bondi has handled medical marijuana," 23 percent approved, 42 percent disapproved and 34 percent were unsure.
Respondents also were asked: "Sean Shaw is a strong supporter of medical marijuana and, if elected, would end the state's opposition to patients' ability to smoke medical marijuana. Knowing this, are you more or less likely to support Shaw?" A little more than 46 percent said they'd be more likely, 32 percent were less likely, and 21 percent said it would make no difference.
The poll was conducted through an automated phone call polling system. The results were then weighted to account for proportional differences between the respondents' demographics and the demographics of the active general election voter population for the state of Florida. The weighting demographics used were political party, race, age, gender and media market.
The voters polled were chosen at random within the registered voter population within the state of Florida. Voters who said they were not planning to vote were excluded from the results below. The scientific results shown for the questions below have a sample size of 1,657 and a 2.4 percent margin of error. The confidence level is 95 percent.


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Q: login window not showing While this is very similar to other problems reported (and even abandoned and closed), I haven't seen so far any suggestion that solves the issue. On the other hand, there seem to be some details differing from other cases reported.
My Ubuntu 10.04 boots and runs up to showing the background, drumbeat sound, and mouse pointer but not login window.
I can change to tty1 (or any or the other five), and have tried stopping, reconfiguring and restarting gdm; tried reconfiguring plymouth; asked for apt-get to fix any broken packages (none), even reconfigured and updated grub (not really necessary).
What I managed to do is to run startx after
sudo service gdm stop

Compiz working fine there, I know all my files are OK. But no gnome or anything except my desktop background image and a terminal if I do [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] (This one might dissapear after a while, though).
I suspect some (gdm) configuration file has been corrupted, but I have no idea which it might be or how to restore it.
I have some log files in case somebody could look at them and help. Thank you in advance.

*

*.xsession-errors

*/var/log/gdm/:1-slave.log.1

*/var/log/gdm/:1.log.1

*/var/log/gdm/:1-greeter.log.1

A: Faced with the perspective of having to work on Windows 7 (same computer, almost never-used option of dual boot), and disliking it in general, I tried upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04. Didn't work. For some reason, I suspect it has to be done under a graphical environment.
So I insisted, got myself a LiveCD and upgraded from it. It did just fine and now I have a working 12.04.
Not an answer to my original problem, yet it can be considered a solution.

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The first day of the Kentucky Fair Board's annual hiring spree drew hundreds of job seekers for the 350 part-time positions available.
The openings are for ushers, ticket takers and other positions at the convention center, Freedom Hall and KFC Yum Center. Ryan Zencka, a freelance event staffer, knows the minimum wage salary is low but he showed up today grateful for an opening in his field.
Hiring continues tomorrow from 10 am to 7 pm at the Kentucky Convention Center, and Thursday at the Yum Center.


This is exactly the way Chrome behaves, and you have to add an extension in Chrome to prevent that.
What SHOULD have been available in Chrome is an option to prevent that. If in fact Opera mimics Chrome in this, then they have made a mistake.
On mt laptop using Windows 7 Pro, O55.0.2994.61 does NOT close down when I close the last tab that is active, for what it's worth.
It's very interesting! Now doesn't present Opera this problem by the same version.


By Phil Plait of www.badastronomy.com This article was written by Phil afew years ago now but is still relevant to the newest wave of "Nibiru SOHO" images to hit the web. These images show exactly what Phil describes below.
What is going on in the SOHO images?
A few people have been asking about this, but there hasn't been much talk about it. As it happens, I have a lot of experience with astronomical imaging. I spent about a decade working on Hubble images, and a few years before that on a ground-based telescope. I still do dabble in digital astronomical imaging. I am not bragging, just putting my credentials down to show that I am very experienced in this field.
Let me say this up front: the images from SOHO are completely within the realm of what you'd expect from such images. The "anomalies" pointed out by Tuatha (who claims spaceships are all around the Sun: do a websearch on the words "suncruiser" and "SOHO" and you'll see what I mean), Ms. Lieder and the rest are not anomalies at all. They are simply things that happen when you use a digital camera.
The cameras usually used in astronomical imaging are called CCDs, for Charge-Coupled Device. It's like a computer chip that's sensitive to light. The best analogy for one is like an array of buckets in the rain. Each bucket (CCD pixel) collects rain (light). The amount of rain collected depends on how much rain falls on that bucket; the amount of light in each pixel of the CCD depends on how bright an object is. When light hits a CCD it is converted to electrons, and when the image is done the electrons are "read off" the CCD and counted. The more electrons you see in a pixel, the more light hit that pixel. The numbers of electrons can be converted to images by your computer. That's how the images on, say, the SOHO site are done.
Sometimes, a pixel is more sensitive to light than others. This can happen when a pixel is hit by high energy radiation like cosmic rays (which I'll abbreviate "CR"), which are subatomic particles zipping around space. What happens then is that pixel is always "bright", or "hot", even when nothing is putting light into it. You have to make a map of the hot pixels in a CCD so you can compensate for them.
Ms. Lieder claims the images taken by Steve Havas show Planet X. What they really show is a hot pixel. When the pictures are properly calibrated, as several people have shown (see here and here), the "Planet X" pixel goes away. One giveaway is that stars/planets/etc. are round in the image (they cover several pixels), where hot pixels look like single points. The things pointed out by Ms. Lieder and others are single points, so they cannot be real. This shows two things: 1) you have to be careful and understand CCDs when you look at the data, and 2) Ms. Lieder is wrong.
A lot of the stuff pointed out by Tuatha in the SOHO images is really just hot pixels. They aren't spaceships at all, they are simply pixels inside the SOHO camera that are a bit too overenthusiastic.
When cosmic rays hit a CCD, they dump their energy into a pixel, making it look very bright. Sometime, if the impact angle is low, the CR leaves a streak. At the end of the streak, it can suddenly dump lots of energy into the pixels, making what looks like a spray. I saw this all the time in my Hubble images. Unless there are billions of spaceships out there leaving little trails in all those random images, I would prefer to assume they are actually the somewhat more common cosmic ray.
In the SOHO images, there are lots of CRs. Sometimes these are particles from the Sun, accelerated during a coronal mass ejection. Matter of fact, after you see a big ejection from the Sun, the particles can hit the SOHO detectors, making it look like they were hit by a shotgun. A few of what Tuatha claims are spaceships near the Sun are CR sprays. Tuatha's claims are wrong.
Remember the bucket analogy? What happens when a bucket fills up to the brim with water? It overflows. The same thing happens in CCDs. A pixel can only hold so many electrons before it overflows. Because of the way the pixels are made, the overflow goes into the adjoining pixels horizontally, so the overflowing pixel leaks electrons into the pixels to its left and right (or above and below it). If enough light is hitting the one pixel, it can overflow the adjacent pixels, which flow into the next ones, and so on. When you look at the resulting image, a bright object appears to have a bright horizontal line going through it. This is called "blooming". A bright star may bloom over several vertical pixels, so you get many rows of blooming.
There is a picture posted at http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback46.html which is called the "Ra" image because there is a feature that looks like the symbol for the Egyptian god Ra. This is a perfect example of a bright object blooming. If you go through the SOHO archive, you'll see this happening whenever a bright object is in the image. Venus is the brightest thing you'll see, and it blooms quite a bit. I don't know what was in the SOHO field in the Ra image, but it was bright and it bloomed (it may have been a very energetic CR). Those "wings" are not real. They are simply electrons that overflowed inside the CCD itself.
You can see several examples on this page: http://www.iwonderproductions.com/suncru.htm. In fact, the explanation given by Joe Gurman on that page is correct, and the webpage author didn't believe him. The cosmic rays and bright objects give the same shape every time because what's happening is inside the CCD, not on the sky. Also, the "torpedo" in that image is a comet! Lots of comets are seen going very near (and sometimes actually impacting) the Sun. Matter of fact, more comets have been discovered using SOHO than any other single telescope. Hundreds have been seen.
As far as other "anomalies" in SOHO images go, there are many, but all the ones I have seen have rational explanations. Sometimes you see what look like palm fronds coming out, fanning across the image (this one is a favorite of The Millennium Group, which you can see here). I asked a SOHO person, and they said that sometimes debris gets knocked off the satellite (there are a few moving parts on the satellite that can jolt it) and this stuff drifts in front of the camera. They are out of focus at first, and as they move away they get more and more in focus. That's why you get the palm frond shape; the thick base is actually when the particle is close, and the narrow tip is when it's far away. It's a time exposure of something coming into focus.
Well, that was longer than I anticipated, but I hope it clears some things up. The point here is that people like Tuatha, Ms. Lieder and others have no experience with digital astronomical cameras, and assume they simply take pictures. CCDs are far more complicated than that, and in fact I have just scratched the surface here with what you need to know to interpret CCD images. Every single thing Tuatha has pointed at in the SOHO images actually has a far more mundane explanation than alien spaceships.
Like Robert Sepehr (a man who has a Planet X video to sell, and constantly makes easily-disproven claims on a PX discussion group), who constantly claims the Sun is acting up without understanding that this is actually the Sun's normal and expected behavior, Tuatha and the others simply don't understand the subject they are talking about. It's really that simple. I don't mean this to sound condescending; I mean it to be literally true. I try to stay away from topics (like geology and mammoths) in this field when I do not have the expertise to give an informed opinion, but in this case I do. If more people actually went out and tried to find the answers to some of these questions, a lot of the Planet X "evidence" would go away.


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Q: Java FutureTask - Multithreaded call to get() I have the following two methods in a class:
private MyDef myDef;
private FutureTask<MyDef> defFutureTask;

public synchronized void periodEviction() {
       myDef = null;
}

    public MyDef loadMyItems() {

    // if it's not ready use a future - it will block until the results are ready
    if (this.myDef == null) { // this will still not be thread safe
        Callable<MyDef> callableDef = ()->{ return this.loadFromDatabase(); };
        FutureTask<MyDef> defTask = new FutureTask<>(callableDef);
        this.defFutureTask = defTask;
        defFutureTask.run();
    }

    try {
        // wait until's it's ready
        this.myDef = this.qDefFuture.get();
    } catch(InterruptedException e) {
        log.error(this.getClass(), "Interrupted whilst getting future..");
    } catch(ExecutionException e) {
        log.error(this.getClass(), "Error when executing callable future");
    }
    return this.myDef;
}

I wanted to do the following:
1) Do a cache eviction using periodEviction() every one hour or so.
2) Otherwise, use the cached value when db loading is done.
I believe I have misunderstood Java future as I couldn't answer the question, "What happens when Thread A,B,and C all are calling loadMyItems() at the same time?"
So does this mean without something like an executor, this implementation is still not thread safe?

A: A super simple approach would be to declare loadMyItems as synchronized. But if the class has other methods that access myDef, you would have to declare those synchronized too. Sometimes this results in very coarse-grained locking and slower performance.
If you're looking for the cleanest/fastest code, instead of declaring periodEviction as synchronized, declare myDef as an AtomicReference:
private final AtomicReference<MyDef> myDef = new AtomicReference<>();
Then the body of periodEviction is:
synchronized (myDef) {
    myDef.set(null);
}

And the body of loadMyItems is:
synchronized (myDef) {
   if (myDef.get() == null) {
        // perform initialization steps, ending with:
        myDef.set(this.qDefFuture.get());
   }
   return myDef.get();
}

If many threads call loadMyItems at the same time, myDef will only ever be initialized once, and they will all get the same object returned (unless somehow a call to periodEviction snuck in the middle).

A: An even simpler approach is to not cache the object at all but just retain the Future.
private CompletableFuture<MyDef> defFuture;

public synchronized void periodEviction() {
    // evict by triggering the request anew
    defFuture = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(this::loadFromDatabase);
}

public synchronized Optional<MyDef> loadMyItems() {
    try {
        return Optional.of(this.defFuture.get());
    } catch(InterruptedException e) {
        log.error(this.getClass(), "Interrupted whilst getting future..");
    } catch(ExecutionException e) {
        log.error(this.getClass(), "Error when executing callable future");
    }
    return Optional.empty();
}

With the caveat that this will trigger the database query every eviction period rather than on demand.


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Springsteen Seeks New Day in Court
He hopes to be declared innocent of the Yogurt Shop Murders
By Chase Hoffberger, 9:30PM, Wed. May 4, 2016
Attorneys for Robert Springsteen were in Texas' 3rd Court of Appeals last Wednesday, April 27, to argue that their client should, under Texas' Declaratory Judgment Act, be given the opportunity to prove his innocence in a civil suit.
Robert Springsteen speaks at a press conference following his release from prison in 2009. (photo by Jana Birchum)
Springsteen, one of four arrested for the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders, was convicted and sentenced to death on May 30, 2001. Although Springsteen initially confessed to the murders, he had, by the time of his trial, recanted, saying his confession was coerced. Springsteen's death sentence was converted to life in prison after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 ruled that juvenile offenders could not be put to death. (Springsteen was 17 at the time of the murders.)
In 2009, the Travis County District Attorney's Office dismissed the charges against Springsteen – as well as another defendant, Michael Scott – after new DNA testing revealed the profile of an unknown male taken from a vaginal swab collected from one of the four victims. Since, he has twice sought compensation for his wrongful imprisonment (a total in excess of $700,000); however the state comptroller has denied his claims due to the fact that Springsteen has not been declared actually innocent.
Such a declaration was at the heart of last Wednesday's hearing. Springsteen's lead attorney Broadus Spivey argued that, given the opportunity, he could absolutely prove Springsteen's innocence in the murders. Springsteen is appealing the Travis County District Court's ruling denying him a civil trial; he has also tried and failed to obtain a new trial in Bexar county court, and in federal court. Travis County prosecutors have been hesitant to declare Springsteen innocent in part because they say he is still considered a suspect in the murders and subject to new charges. They argued before the appeals court's three justices that Springsteen should not be granted an appeal because civil courts lack jurisdiction to issue rulings on criminal charges.
Springsteen, who now lives in West Virginia, was not present at the hearing. Spivey told the Chronicle that Springsteen won't return to Travis County unless granted the protection afforded to him at trial.
The court has no designated date in which it needs to issue a ruling. Spivey said that a decision could come next month, or in three years.
More by Chase Hoffberger
The Reporting Life
Oh, the places you'll go
Revisiting the Railroad Killer
Local journo Alex Hannaford's Dead Man Talking podcast investigates the case against a man on death row


On March 11th, we published our first non-fiction book in the world building subject area. World Building Tips Volume 1 is a compilation of the weekly tips that have been going out to World Building Academy subscribers for the last half year. Together they offer a wealth of helpful information for novice and intermediate level worldbuilders.
Award-winning science fiction novelist Jacqueline Lichtenberg praises this book as "an excellent primer in worldbuilding," and in her Amazon.com review calls it "the FIRST book you'll need" to study in this subject area.
World Building Tips is an ongoing series. We'll release a volume about once every six months, as the weekly tips build up to a book's worth of content. Once published in ebook form, the tips will not be available on-list, but only in book form. At a future date we'll make this available also in print-on-demand format, but for now it is ebook only.
Click here to read more about this title at the book page, or to purchase a copy.


19th Annual Eat to the Beat Culinary Event in Toronto | media!
Engage your tastebuds at the 19th Annual Eat to the Beat Culinary Event where sixty of Canada's top female chefs are donating their time and talent to create mouthwatering delicacies at the 19th Annual Eat to the Beat culinary fundraiser.
This charity event benefits the Willow Breast & Hereditary Cancer Support, a not-for-profit organization that offers free peer support to anyone coping with breast cancer.
Early Bird Tickets are $150 each until September 13 and Regular Tickets are $175 after September 13 (with a tax receipt) and include all food and beverages. For tickets or to see the line-up of chefs and beverage participants please visit the event organizer's website noted below.
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Home Education Legislators announce passage of local education bill in Westborough
Legislators announce passage of local education bill in Westborough
Region – State representatives Hannah Kane (R-Shrewsbury), Danielle Gregoire (D-Marlborough), Carolyn Dykema (D-Holliston) and Senator Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton) announced passage of legislation relative to Westborough Public Schools' Bridging Over Right Opportunities (BORO) Program.
The legislation, which was passed by the Massachusetts Legislature and recently signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker, was filed as a Home Rule Petition by Representative Kane and jointly sponsored by representatives Dykema and Gregoire and Senator Eldridge. Prior to that, it was introduced by Westborough Public Schools Superintendent Amber Bock and the Westborough School Committee, and received an official vote of overwhelming support at Westborough's Oct. 18, 2017 Town Meeting.
"This project encompasses the best practices of so many educational goals. It focuses on program innovation and cost-effective outcomes, while it was forged through team collaboration across multiple community organizations. Our state legislators seamlessly took this project vision of a viable business to anchor the job training of our students, and collaborated on getting us established with amazing speed," Bock said. "The BORO now has the accounting structures it requires to develop a full business experience to contribute to the Westborough community. We feel fortunate to work with such invested and collaborative legislators."
The new law, which pertains to Westborough's adult transition program for ages 18-22 complex learners, allows for Westborough to establish a school learning lab training site in the form of the Sugar Shack candy shop. The legislation authorizes the creation of a revolving fund so that income derived from the purchase and sale of Sugar Shack products, and expenditures necessary for the purpose of the program, may be made through this vocational-technical program.
"I am proud to have filed this legislation with my colleagues, representatives Gregoire and Dykema and Senator Eldridge on behalf of the town of Westborough," Kane stated. "The BORO Program and the Sugar Shack, in particular, is an innovative and thoughtful means to fulfill the educational and vocational requirements of the adult transition program. I look forward to further supporting our schools and students, and shopping at The Sugar Shack this fall in its convenient downtown location."
"The BORO program recognizes the need to provide job skills and valuable experience to students with complex learning needs out of our school system," said Dykema. "Congratulations to the Westborough schools for championing creative initiatives like the Sugar Shack to ensure that our community continues to lead the way in quality vocational education."
"This program is a groundbreaking educational opportunity for Westborough's students and it will serve as a model program for other school districts," added Gregoire.
First filed in October 2017, the bill was signed into law by the governor March 8 as Chapter 41 of the Acts of 2018.
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'use strict';

/** @module pictor.http */

var
    util = require('util'),
    http = require('http'),
    Q = require('q'),
    _ = require('lodash'),
    express = require('express-toybox')(require('express')),
    pictor = require('./pictor'),
    routes = require('./routes'),
    debug = require('debug')('pictor:http'),
    DEBUG = debug.enabled;

/**
 * create express router.
 *
 * @param {*} opts
 * @param {*} opts.http
 * @param {*} [opts.http.auth]
 * @param {*} [opts.http.middlewares]
 * @param {*} [opts.http.routes]
 * @returns {express.application}
 */
function createRouter(opts) {
    DEBUG && debug('create pictor router...');

    // XXX: best initialization sequence & timing?
    pictor.configure(opts);

    return express.Router()
        // auth
        .use(routes.auth(opts.http.auth))
        // files
        .post('/upload', routes.files.uploadFiles)
        .put('/upload', routes.files.uploadFileRaw)
        .get('/upload', routes.files.uploadFileUrl)
        .get('/delete', routes.files.deleteFile)
        .get('/download', routes.files.downloadFile)
        // XXX: experimental for issue #4 and #5
        .get('/rename', routes.files.renameFile)
        .get('/files', routes.files.listFiles)
        // convert
        .post('/convert', routes.convert.convertFile)
        .get('/convert', routes.convert.convertAndDownloadFile)
        // rest
        .post('/:id', routes.rest.uploadFileRestful)
        .put('/:id', routes.rest.uploadFileRawRestful)
        .delete('/:id', routes.rest.deleteFileRestful)
        .get('/:id', routes.rest.downloadFileRestful)
        // images
        .get(routes.images.downloadHolderImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadHolderImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadResizeImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadResizeImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadThumbnailImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadThumbnailImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadCropImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadCropImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadRotateImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadRotateImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadResizeCropImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadResizeCropImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadCropResizeImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadCropResizeImage)
        .get(routes.images.downloadPresetImage.PATH, routes.images.downloadPresetImage)
        // info
        .get('/info/converters', routes.info.getConverters)
        .get('/info/presets', routes.info.getPresets);
}

/**
 * create express app.
 *
 * @param {*} opts
 * @param {*} opts.http
 * @param {string} opts.http.prefix
 * @param {*} [opts.http.middlewares]
 * @param {*} [opts.http.routes]
 */
function createApp(opts) {
    DEBUG && debug('create pictor app...');
    return express()
        .useCommonMiddlewares(opts.http.middlewares)
        .use(opts.http.prefix, createRouter(opts))
        .useCommonRoutes(opts.http.routes);
}

/**
 * @param {*} opts
 * @param {*} opts.http
 * @param {string} [opts.http.host]
 * @param {number} [opts.http.port]
 * @param {function} [callback]
 * @returns {*}
 */
function startServer(opts, callback) {
    DEBUG && debug('*** start pictor server...');
    return express.toybox.server.start(createApp(opts), opts.http, callback);
}

function stopServer(callback) {
    DEBUG && debug('*** stop pictor server...');
    return express.toybox.server.stop(callback);
}

module.exports = {
    createRouter: createRouter,
    createApp: createApp,
    startServer: startServer,
    sopServer: stopServer
};

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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The idea to form a golf & country club in western Loudoun County began in 1926. Inspired by a visit to either a resort in California, or Ashville, NC (reports vary), two Purcellville natives — Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Robey — returned home convinced that western Loudoun was in need of, and was the perfect location for, a recreational outlet.
And so, in 1927, Loudoun Golf & Country Club was incorporated. While they envisioned it mainly as a golfers' club, and a place where people could gather and socialize, it eventually grew into a facility that now includes tennis, pickleball, swimming, and dining — and whose membership would reach and maintain, as of 2021, a level of over 700 members.
Today, the vision that began as a simple plan to provide a place to gather, golf, and socialize in what was rural western Loudoun, has evolved into a full-service country club committed to providing the best services and facilities to our members and guests — while still showcasing a family-friendly, relaxed atmosphere. We are proud to be a club that appeals to our third-generation members, as well as those new to the area or to the club experience.
LG&CC recognizes the changing dynamics of today's club industry and the evolving needs of the membership, and we are always seeking ways to improve our club's facilities and programing to meet those expectations.


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package mvm.rya.accumulo.pcj.iterators;

import info.aduna.iteration.CloseableIteration;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

import org.openrdf.query.BindingSet;
import org.openrdf.query.QueryEvaluationException;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;

/**
 *	This {@link CloseableIteration} takes in a list of CloseableIterations
 *	and merges them together into a single CloseableIteration.
 *
 */
public class IteratorCombiner implements
		CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException> {

	private Collection<CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException>> iterators;
	private Iterator<CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException>> iteratorIterator;
	private CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException> currIter;
	private boolean isEmpty = false;
	private boolean hasNextCalled = false;
	private BindingSet next;

	public IteratorCombiner(Collection<CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException>> iterators) {
		Preconditions.checkArgument(iterators.size() > 0);
		this.iterators = iterators;
		iteratorIterator = iterators.iterator();
		currIter = iteratorIterator.next();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean hasNext() throws QueryEvaluationException {
		if (!hasNextCalled && !isEmpty) {
			while (currIter.hasNext() || iteratorIterator.hasNext()) {
				if(!currIter.hasNext()) {
					currIter = iteratorIterator.next();
				}
				if(!currIter.hasNext()) {
					continue;
				}
				next = currIter.next();
				hasNextCalled = true;
				return true;
			}
			isEmpty = true;
			return false;
		} else if (isEmpty) {
			return false;
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	}

	@Override
	public BindingSet next() throws QueryEvaluationException {
		if (hasNextCalled) {
			hasNextCalled = false;
		} else if (isEmpty) {
			throw new NoSuchElementException();
		} else {
			if (this.hasNext()) {
				hasNextCalled = false;
			} else {
				throw new NoSuchElementException();
			}
		}
		return next;
	}

	@Override
	public void remove() throws QueryEvaluationException {
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
	}

	@Override
	public void close() throws QueryEvaluationException {
		for(CloseableIteration<BindingSet, QueryEvaluationException> iterator: iterators) {
			iterator.close();
		}
	}

}


A warning has gone out about a phishing email currently in circulation that claims to be from the City of London Police.
Action Fraud says that the departments that it claims to represent include the 'Fraud Intelligence Unit' and the 'National Fraud Intelligence Bureau'.
The email is entitled 'compensation fund' and has a letter attachment that claims to be offering financial compensation to victims of fraud.
The letter uses the City of London Police logo.
The letter states that in order for compensation to be arranged, the receiver of the email should reply disclosing personal information. It states that HSBC and the South African Reserve Bank have been chosen to handle the compensation claims.
Action Fraud says that all of these claims are false.


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Apr 13 2022 by David Breecker
MSL Teams with NMSU, NREL for DOE Proposal
Posted in MSL news, partners, R&D, research, Uncategorized
MSL has teamed with New Mexico State University and The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (an MSL Member) for a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, for a Building EPSCoR-State/DOE-National Laboratory Partnerships grant. The team's proposal, "Building a federated learning framework for trustworthy and resilient energy internet of things (eIoT) infrastructure," focuses on Federated Machine Learning (FML). It was selected by DOE at the pre-proposal stage for full proposal submission, and it approaches several FML-related aspects of smart grid data architectures and applications.
The "energy internet of things" (eIoT) is a promising technical aid for the energy-management change drivers, such as rising demand for electricity, the prominence of clean and distributed energy resources (DERs), the emergence of electrified transportation, deregulation of power markets, and innovations in smart grid technology. The convergence of cyber, physical, and economic frameworks in the energy sector depends primarily on the distributed heterogeneous eIoT devices and their collaborative management. These eIoT devices will increasingly get integrated into the power grid providing unparalleled visibility into energy generation, use, and operations. This proliferation will create a deluge of operational and information technology data, from geographically diverse and heterogeneous sources, necessitating use of data-driven machine learning (ML) applications. The ML applications will digest the data volume, preferably close to the devices themselves, and help increase grid scalability and efficiency. Given the data volumes, the need for resilience, and user/data privacy needs, federated machine learning (FML) can be used as a foundation to improve not only visibility and optimization, but also security of the eIoT infrastructure.
NMSU's Professor Jay Misra will serve as Principal Investigator. MSL will provide subject matter expertise and organize a seminar for the NMSU graduate student researchers on smart grid and microgrid trends and technologies, and host a site visit at the research microgrid operated by (MSL Member) the University of NM. NREL will provide simulation and emulation expertise and environments, featuring its Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform. ARIES represents a substantial scale-up in experimentation capability from existing research platforms, allowing for research at the 20-MW level. The scale of the platform is amplified by a virtual emulation environment powered by NREL's 8-petaflop supercomputer.
This project aims to be the first to propose a foundation blueprint for secure, verifiable, and privacy-preserving FML frameworks that can be used to build the trustworthy and resilient eIoT infrastructure of tomorrow. It targets basic innovation on five research dimensions. The first is the creation of a distributed public key infrastructure, utilizing the certificate transparency standards, to handle the diversity of the devices (from low-capability legacy devices to capable computing devices), while also enabling seamless onboarding/offboarding of devices and resilient key management. The second dimension, builds a verifiable and trusted execution framework for device operations, which enables trustworthy insight exchanges under a zero-trust setting. In the third, the first two dimensions are utilized as foundations to develop a use-case inspired FML framework for eIoT, to be studied in the context of short-term energy forecasting. The framework accommodates parameters exchange within the ambit of communication infrastructure constraints while preserving user/data privacy through differential privacy (DP). The framework will be generalizable to other use cases. The project addresses anomaly detection and coordinated attack mitigation in the fourth dimension by significantly enhancing the generic FML framework built in the third dimension. In the fifth, the team will develop a co-simulation framework and also emulation/testbed functionalities to validate algorithms, protocols, and the consequent overall eIoT infrastructure.


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Miami Seaplane Base, Great Location for Seaplanes and Adventures!
By Andrea | February 19, 2018
When they say location is everything, they must be talking about Miami Seaplane Base. Located on Watson Island, it's just minutes from South Beach and within walking distance of the Miami Cruise Ship Terminal. There should be a sign there that reads, "The adventure starts here!" Over the last few years Miami Seaplane Base has…
Seaplane Pilot Mark Futch – Back in Action
By Andrea | December 13, 2017
For many years, Mark Futch, the doyen of seaplane operators in Florida, lived in Boca Grande on the southwestern coast of Florida – where the turquoise waters surround jeweled emerald islands such as Sanibel and Captiva. Mark is a local there and started out, as the other men in his family had, as a fishing…
Training Continues Even in Winter
By Andrea | December 6, 2017
The season up here in the northeast is still months away, but we're busy interviewing and hiring new pilots. This past week was spent training new Captains and Co-Pilots. We are still hiring though, so if you know someone whose dream is to be a seaplane pilot, send them our way! Seaplane pilots are a…
Nantucket Stroll
By Andrea | November 21, 2017
Tis the season and it is time once again for the 44th Annual Nantucket Christmas Stroll. Every year the airport at Nantucket looks like an Air Show as so many aircraft bring guests to the island for this event. Luckily most of them have room for extra bags on the return flight! This year's festivities…
Stunning Scenery from a Seaplane Perspective
By Andrea | November 8, 2017
Recently we were traveling in Italy and made our way up to Lake Como to visit Aero Club Como, a seaplane base that has been in existence since 1913. John Kelly spent time training pilots there for a Caravan customer about twelve years ago and has fond memories of "hanging out" at this historic seaplane…
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One of the interesting things about internet and website advertising is that there is almost no way for a consumer to determine which claims are accurate and which are just hyper-inflated self-promotion. Over the last few years some of our competitors have made some disingenuous claims in their advertising that sound great on paper but,…
Exciting New Seaplane Services in Madison, CT
On Thursday, September 28th, Shoreline Aviation introduced new seaplane services directly to the town of Madison, Connecticut. This project was initiated by members of the Madison Planning and Economic Development Commission and Biehn Travel to promote Madison as a great place to live and visit. Shoreline's seaplanes land near Tuxis Island in Long Island Sound,…
TFRs – Tremendously Frustrating Restrictions
By Andrea | August 15, 2017
Anyone flying with Shoreline Aviation in the New York area this summer has become familiar with the effects of Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs). TFRs are put in place by the FAA and the Secret Service to provide security for the President when he is away from Washington D.C. (Washington has a permanent security zone called…
Shoreline Aviation's New Service – The Montauk Express
By Andrea | July 19, 2017
This summer we've had so many requests for direct flights to Montauk that we started a new service called "The Montauk Express." It departs the 23rd Street Seaplane Base in NYC on Friday nights at 6:30 p.m. with a return trip on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. The one way fare is $695 per person and…
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Coronavirus vaccine crucial for future of Tokyo Olympics, organizing committee says
The development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments will become a key factor in deciding whether to hold the Olympics and Paralympics next year, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee Yoshiro Mori said in an interview with NHK.
"Whether the coronavirus can be brought under control is the most important factor. This applies to progress in the development of vaccines or treatments," he said, adding that the final decision is to be made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Speaking about the possibility of once again rescheduling the Games, Mori said it was highly unlikely. He said the host cities of the Games have been already named until 2028, including the Beijing Winter Games in 2022 and the Paris Summer Games in 2024. "It is hardly possible that Paris would give up its turn to Tokyo," the Japanese official said.
The IOC (the International Olympic Committee) and the IPC (the International Paralympic Committee) announced on March 24 a decision to postpone for one year the tournaments in Japan due to the continuous COVID-19 spread. Yoshiro Mori announced on March 30 that the Summer Olympic Games in Japan next year will start on July 23 and the Summer Paralympic Games will begin on August 24. The Games' name - Tokyo 2020 - will be preserved.
The official opening ceremony of the Olympics in Tokyo is now scheduled for July 23, 2021, while the closing ceremony is slated for August 8, 2021. The Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo offer 339 sets of medals, which will be contested in 33 sports (50 disciplines).
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Bright Armenia, AFF and others ready to provide guarantees for footballer Edgar Malakyan's release
The footballer brothers are charged under the Criminal Code articles on using violence against a representative of the authorities and on committing hooliganism.
Footballer Edgar Malakyan to be arrested
Edgar Malakyan will be arrested for a month.
La Liga could resume with Betis-Sevilla behind closed doors derby on 11 June
"Players are an example to society and should be careful with their actions," Tebas said. "I call on all footballers to not act like this. We have to be very careful because a lot of people's jobs are at stake."
Unknown people steal few monuments to football players of legendary Ararat-73
"I ask the people who stole the monuments return them. We are also ready to give money award to those who will help in finding the monuments," Tadevosyan said.


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Entrance to the Georis Tasting Room and Corkscrew Cafe.
The New Napa?
ByShannon Switzer
When I knew I'd be passing through Monterey County, I thought Cannery Row, not wine. What I discovered was a "wine sleeper." A grape-growing hotspot waiting for its time in the sun.
After the wilds of Big Sur and a camp dinner of peanut butter and apples, my friend Rachel and I were ready for some real cuisine. So as a detour before our stop at the Ventana Winery Tasting Room, where she had worked for the past year, we searched for a little spot I'd heard of in Carmel.
It took some time on windy country roads to find our destination, the Corkscrew Cafe, but the pay off was worth it.
At first, we unwittingly headed into the art gallery across from the restaurant. "You are interested in the art?" a silver-haired gentleman with a faint European accent asked.
"No, we are starving," I blurted out.
Fresh-baked bread at the Corkscrew Cafe.
"Ah, it's food you want? Corkscrew is right across the way," he said, pointing us in the right direction.
We entered a sun-dappled courtyard decorated with colorful pastel Mexican papel picado banners, fountains made out of wine bottles, and lovebirds chirping in an aviary. The smell of fresh baked bread wafted from the kitchen as Fado, Portuguese folk music, played in the background.
Our waiter, Seno, greeted us and explained that all the produce is organic and raised by the owner. I perked up. "Would it be possible to speak with the owner if he's around?"
"Oh, yes. I'll get him," he said, then disappeared. After enjoying our salmon Niçoise salad and day boat scallops over sweat-pea risotto, the same man I'd practically barked at earlier came and sat next to us.
"Ah, it's the hungry ladies," he said with a laugh. "I'm Walter. Nice to meet you."
I blushed and began my inquiries.
He explained that the origin of the bistro was a spin-off of the Georis Winery Tasting Room, which he also owned, along with the art gallery we had just snubbed. In addition to the winery and vineyard (established in 1981), he also owns two other high-end restaurants in Carmel — La Bicyclette and Casanova.
Shannon chit-chatting with Walter Georis, a former member of The Sandals.
My favorite part of his story was how he arrived in America — by selling Birkenstock sandals (remember those?). The icing on the cake was when he mentioned that his old band, aptly named The Sandals, had written the soundtrack to the king of classic surf films The Endless Summer.
I smiled at the serendipity.
We could have soaked up sun in the courtyard all afternoon, but the owner of Ventana Winery was waiting for us in Monterey proper.
Randy Pura greeted us in the historic stone house-turned-tasting-room with two glasses of Rubystone in hand. We sipped on the Grenache-Syrah blend and listened to Randy's colorful stories of his family tree and the origin of his winery.
Then we got on a different topic: Why hasn't Monterey made the wine map yet?
Rubystone, one of Ventana's most popular reds, and Monterey County specialties.
"It's a case of mistaken identity," Randy explained. "We have all the makings of great wine country — first class soil, climate, water access. But in the '70s, the area was categorized as a warm climate, so all the wrong varietals were planted. They didn't ripen properly, and the result was wine that tasted like asparagus. Nobody liked it."
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After that catastrophe, he explained, it had been difficult for Monterey to shake its bad rap, even though the colder climate produces show-stoppers like Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Gewürztraminer, Riesling, and Grenache.
But this year, the sleeper got its break when a grape shortage put California winemakers 40 million cases below normal production levels, forcing them to search beyond their usual suppliers. Monterey came through, and is on its way back up, evidenced by the fact that E. & J. Gallo Winery, one of the largest, recently picked up sizable pieces of land in the area.
When we finished our glasses of Rubystone, and Randy left and came back with another bottle.
"This is Le Mistral, our 'liquid love.' She's the Cadillac of Rhone blends."
With each sip of that complex, yet smooth red, I silently cheered for Monterey County and its future fame.
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