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After more than a year at 38th & Grand, Ja'Lisa's Gorgeous Extensions is adding a location in St. Paul. Photo by Drushotya Photography
Ja'Lisa Calaway is busy. She worked multiple jobs while attending college, earned a degree from the University of Minnesota, became a licensed lash and nail tech, opened a storefront at 38th & Grand more than a year ago, and is now opening a second location in St. Paul. She's also working with a realtor to create a "safe house" for people needing shelter.
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Calaway made her own wigs in college to save money. She started the business two years ago with $1,000, and found herself surrounded by boxes of hair extensions.
"I remember telling my grandma, 'What if all of this hair doesn't sell?'" she said.
Her dad encouraged her to "just do it," and the effort paid off.
"I never expected it to go this far," she said.
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As a side project, Calaway oversees the Facebook group Ja'Lisa's Safe Place for women to discuss issues they are going through. Calaway said she and her family relocated to Minnesota for safety and stayed in a hotel for a time. She's now hoping to buy a safe house as a stopping place for people to "eat and sleep and think for a second, what's their next move."
"You'd be surprised how many people don't have a resume or don't know how to do an interview. Little things like that can help save a person and help them on to the next step," she said.
Ja'Lisa's Gorgeous Extensions and the surrounding shops are hosting their first annual Open Doors at 38th & Grand event on Aug. 25 from 12 p.m.-6 p.m. The event will feature live music, sips and bites, puppy treats and games for kids.
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Four Thirds ist ein von den Unternehmen Olympus und Kodak entwickelter Standard für ein digitales Kamerasystem. Dabei erfolgte von Anfang an keine Rücksichtnahme auf herkömmliche Objektive, Kameras oder Sensorgrößen. Dadurch konnten sowohl Kompatibilitätsprobleme mit alten Komponenten als auch Kompromisse bei der Auslegung der neuen Komponenten umgangen werden. Die erste entsprechende Kamera, die Olympus E-1, wurde im Herbst 2003 vorgestellt.

Der Standard definiert unter anderem die Sensorausmaße, das Objektivbajonett samt Kommunikationsprotokoll, den Abbildungskreis und das Auflagemaß (38,85 mm), aber auch optische Anforderungen wie den maximalen Winkel zwischen auf den Sensor treffenden Lichtstrahlen.

Die Produktion der letzten Four-Thirds-Komponenten wurde 2017 eingestellt zu Gunsten des seit 2008 verfügbaren Micro-Four-Thirds-Standards mit gleicher Sensorgröße, aber anderer Objektivgeometrie.

Namensherkunft
Namensgebend für den Standard ist das Außenmaß des Sensors (nicht dessen effektive Bilddiagonale), definiert nach dem traditionellen Messverfahren der Nominalgröße von Bildsensoren anhand der Größe der entsprechenden Vakuum-Bildaufzeichnungsröhre, angegeben als Durchmesser der entsprechenden Röhre in Zoll.

Bei einem Four-Thirds-Bildsensor entspricht die Bildgröße demnach der Größe des Bildes, welches auf der lichtempfindlichen Fläche einer Bildaufzeichnungsröhre mit dem Außendurchmesser vier Drittel Zoll dargestellt werden kann. Typischerweise betrug bei derartigen Röhren die Diagonale der nutzbaren Sensorfläche etwa zwei Drittel des Außendurchmessers, woraus sich die Sensordiagonale von knapp 22 Millimetern erklärt. Mit dem Seitenverhältnis 4:3 hat die Namensgebung Four Thirds (englisch "Vier Drittel") also nichts zu tun.

Sensorgröße
Die Bilddiagonale von Four-Thirds-Sensoren ist standardisiert (beim Micro-Four-Thirds-Standard wurde sie übernommen und nicht verändert). Sie beträgt mit 21,633 mm exakt die Hälfte der Diagonale des Kleinbildformates (43,267 mm), was einem Formatfaktor von 2,0 entspricht. Objektive mit Brennweiten zwischen 20 und 25 mm sind damit für dieses Format Normalobjektive.

Die meisten Kameras haben einen Sensor mit einem Seitenverhältnis von 4:3 und einem optisch wirksamen Bereich von 17,31 mm × 12,98 mm (Fläche 224,64 mm²).

Die Panasonic DMC-GH1
und die DMC-GH2
haben einen übergroßen multi-aspect-Sensor (Multiformatsensor) mit 18,89 mm × 14,48 mm. Das ermöglicht die Nutzung der größtmöglichen Diagonale für diese Seitenverhältnisse:

Lizenznehmer
Aufgrund einer offenen Lizenzpolitik steht es jedem Hersteller frei, dem Standard entsprechendes Zubehör für das System auf den Markt zu bringen. Kompatible Komponenten verschiedener Hersteller können so miteinander kombiniert werden.

Das erste am Markt erhältliche Produkt war 2003, als neben Olympus nur die beiden Anbieter Fujifilm und Kodak den neuen Standard unterstützten, die Olympus E-1. 2004 kamen mit Panasonic, Sanyo und Sigma drei weitere Unternehmen hinzu. Die folgenden weiteren Hersteller unterstützen den Standard offiziell: Astrodesign, Cosina, Leica Camera, Carl Zeiss, Schneider-Kreuznach, Tamron und Tokina.

Weiterentwicklung
Anfang August 2008 wurde von Panasonic und Olympus als Weiterentwicklung des Four-Thirds-System-Standards der sogenannte Micro-Four-Thirds-Standard vorgestellt, mit dem kompakte Kamerasysteme mit Wechselobjektiven möglich sind. Der neue Standard verwendet ein geringeres Auflagemaß und einen engeren Bajonettanschluss, was einen Einsatz bei Spiegelreflexkameras praktisch unmöglich macht.

Mit einem mechanischen Adapter und wegen der elektronischen Kompatibilität ist jedoch die Weiterverwendung von Objektiven des Four-Thirds-Standards möglich, obwohl der Micro-Four-Thirds-Standard mit elf elektrischen Kontakten zwei zusätzliche, für Videoanwendungen vorgesehene Kontakte aufweist. Die Produktion von Four-Thirds-Objektiven wurde von Olympus 2017 eingestellt.

Wichtige Merkmale

Anforderungen an die Objektive
Objektive des Four-Thirds-Standards besitzen grundsätzlich das Bajonett des Systems. Weiterhin gibt es Grenzwerte für die Auffächerung des aus dem Objektiv austretenden Lichtstrahls. Dieser soll möglichst parallel sein, da digitale Bildsensoren (im Gegensatz zu chemischem Film) ihre volle Empfindlichkeit nur bei senkrecht auftreffendem Licht entfalten (siehe auch Telezentrik). Der im Standard geforderte Bildkreis ist im Verhältnis zur Sensorgröße verhältnismäßig groß, um eine gleichmäßige Ausleuchtung des Sensors zu erreichen. Diese Vorgaben wirken insbesondere bei weitwinkligen Objektiven und bei Offenblende einer Vignettierung des Bildes entgegen.

Wie bei den meisten Digitalkameras weicht die Sensorgröße von den Ausmaßen des 35-mm-Kleinbildfilms ab, der wegen seiner einst enormen Verbreitung als Referenz dient. Durch seine geringere Größe ergibt sich bezüglich des Bildausschnitts eine scheinbare Verdoppelung der Brennweite.

Durch die geforderte kleinere Abbildungsfläche haben auch lichtstarke Objektive kleinere Ausmaße, was sich durch ein geringeres Gewicht bemerkbar macht.

Schärfentiefe
Die Schärfentiefe eines Four-Thirds-Objektivs an einem Four-Thirds-Sensor ist bei gleicher Blendenzahl und gleicher Perspektive und gleichem Bildausschnitt etwa doppelt so groß wie bei Sensoren mit Kleinbildgröße. Genauer gesagt entsprechen die Schärfentiefe und die Beugungsunschärfe eines teleskopischen Four-Thirds-Objektivs mit einer Brennweite von 150 Millimetern bei einer Blendenzahl von 2,8 genau denen eines Kleinbildobjektivs an einem Kleinbildsensor mit einer Brennweite von 300 Millimetern bei einer Blendenzahl von 5,6.

Um mit einer dem Kleinbildformat entsprechenden Schärfentiefe Objekte oder Personen vor einem diffusen Hintergrund mit Four Thirds freizustellen, muss man mit diesem Sensorformat zwei Stufen aufblenden. Ein Four-Thirds-Objektiv bildet also bei der Blendenzahl 2 den Bereich scharf ab, den ein Kleinbildobjektiv bei der Blendenzahl 4 scharf abbildet.

Die größere Schärfentiefe des Four-Thirds-Formates ist allerdings immer dann von Vorteil, wenn mehrere Personen oder Objekte fotografiert werden sollen, die nicht auf der gleichen Schärfeebene stehen (zum Beispiel ein Gruppenfoto in mehreren Reihen), wenn der Hintergrund auch scharf sein soll oder wenn sich bei Bewegtbildaufnahmen ein Motiv auf die Kamera zu- oder von ihr wegbewegt. Wünschenswert ist der Zugewinn an Schärfentiefe auch in der Makrofotografie, da mit der Nähe zum Objekt auch die Schärfentiefe abnimmt.

Grundrauschen und Dynamikauflösung
Der Signalpegel eines (idealen) Sensorelements ist proportional zur Menge des einfallenden Lichts. Bei einem kleineren Bildsensor ist die Dynamikauflösung bei gleicher Anzahl der Bildpunkte geringer, da die Lichtmenge pro Bildpunkt reduziert ist, wenn mit gleichem Bildwinkel und mit gleicher Blendenzahl gearbeitet wird. Bei der notwendigen Verstärkung wird unter anderem unerwünschtes thermisches Rauschen mitverstärkt, was dazu führt, dass kleinere Sensoren tendenziell ein schlechteres Signal-Rausch-Verhältnis zeigen. Wird bei gleicher Anzahl der Bildpunkte und gleichem Bildwinkel statt der gleichen Blendenzahl die gleiche Öffnungsweite verwendet, erhält jeder Bildpunkt die gleiche Lichtmenge, und somit resultiert auch ein vergleichbares Signal- und Rauschverhalten.

Bei gleicher Öffnung sowie bei halber Bildgröße und halber Brennweite unterscheidet sich ein Objektiv also vor allem durch die kürzere Bauform und das dadurch geringere Volumen und Gewicht. Insbesondere sind die Schärfentiefe des Bildes und der Bildwinkel sowie der Lichtstrom und damit die Lichtempfindlichkeit pro Bildpunkt identisch.

Unter den Spiegelreflexkameras ist der Four-Thirds-Sensor zur Zeit der kleinste. Die konkurrierenden Spiegelreflexkameras mit APS-C-Sensoren besitzen Sensoren mit etwa 56 Prozent (Canon EF-S) bzw. 78 Prozent (Nikon DX, Pentax, Sony DT) mehr Fläche. Sensoren im 35-mm-Kleinbildformat haben gar die etwa 4-fache Größe. Verglichen mit den Sensoren der meisten Kompaktkameras weist ein Four-Thirds-Chip allerdings immer noch eine etwa 5- (″-Sensoren) bis 16-mal (″-Sensoren) so große Fläche auf.

Wird ein Motiv einer bestimmten Helligkeit unter einem vorgegebenen Winkel abgebildet, ist hierzu bei Four Thirds eine um etwa 20 Prozent geringere Objektivbrennweite notwendig als zum Beispiel bei einer Kamera mit APS-C-Sensor. Vergleicht man entsprechende Objektive mit gleicher Blendenzahl, ist die tatsächliche Apertur also im Fall von Four Thirds um 20 Prozent kleiner, was einer Verringerung der einfallenden Lichtmenge um etwa ein Drittel entspricht. Dies hat eine um etwa 30 Prozent reduzierte Dynamikauflösung zur Folge, verbunden mit einer Erhöhung des Grundrauschens um etwa 50 Prozent. Es ist zu beachten, dass bei dieser Abschätzung Unterschiede in der Bildsensortechnologie zwischen den Kamerasystemen außer Acht gelassen wurden (die tatsächlichen Leistungsunterschiede zwischen zwei konkreten Kameramodellen können also merklich geringer oder auch mitunter deutlich größer ausfallen).

In der Praxis spielt die reduzierte Dynamikauflösung meist eine eher untergeordnete Rolle, da die erzielten Werte weiterhin außerhalb dessen liegen, was ein Ausdruck oder ein JPEG-Bild wiedergeben können. Das erhöhte Grundrauschen stört jedoch, wenn bei dunkler Umgebung kein Blitz eingesetzt werden soll und stattdessen mit einer hohen ISO-Einstellung, also einer hohen Verstärkung, gearbeitet werden muss. Zudem kann es in Aufnahmesituationen von Bedeutung sein, bei denen in Motiven mit sehr großer Bilddynamik (eigentlich unterbelichtete) mit Hilfe der gespeicherten Rohdaten Bereiche nachbearbeitet und aufgehellt werden sollen.

Kommunikation zwischen Kamera und Zubehör
Ein zentrales Merkmal des Systems sind intelligente Komponenten, welche über elektrische Kontakte untereinander über ein im Standard ebenfalls definiertes Protokoll kommunizieren.

Auf diese Weise werden Fokusdaten, Blendenwahl und Brennweite wie bei konkurrierenden Systemen elektronisch zwischen Kamera und Objektiv übermittelt. Das Four-Thirds-System kann darüber hinaus Eigenheiten des Objektivs wie beispielsweise Kennlinien der Verzeichnung oder Vignettierung an die Kamera übertragen, was eine digitale Kompensation von Abbildungsfehlern ermöglicht.

Abwärtskompatibilität
Da es sich bei Four Thirds um eine Neuentwicklung handelt, existiert zunächst keinerlei vollständige Abwärtskompatibilität zu anderen Systemen. Hinzu kommt, dass das vorherige OM-System des Herstellers Olympus ein rein mechanisches Bajonett ohne automatische Fokussierung oder Blendensteuerung verwendete, hier also keine Rücksicht auf Kompatibilität genommen werden musste. OM-Objektive können per Adapter-Ring am Four-Thirds-Bajonett betrieben werden. Das gilt ebenso für eine Reihe weiterer systemfremder Objektive.

Kameragehäuse
Bisher vorgestellte Modelle des Four-Thirds-Standards in der Reihenfolge ihrer Vorstellung in der Öffentlichkeit sind:

Objektive

Erläuterung: SWD/HSM = Objektiv mit Ultraschallantrieb, O.I.S. = Objektiv mit optischem Bildstabilisator

Literatur
 Späth Frank: Olympus E-System. November 2003, ISBN 3-925334-65-3.

Weblinks
 Systemkamera-Forum
 Olympus: Four-Thirds-Standard (englisch)

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I feel I should be writing this post with an old-fashioned pen. You know the ones with the big feather on the end? Let's sprinkle some pixie dust and simply just imagine, shall we?
Once Upon A Time, in a magical land not so far away, two best friends had the most perfect, fairy tale, kind of day. It all began with an invitation to a special screening for the Disney live-action film of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. Upon watching the trailer, I was instantly inspired to host a girly outing with my best friend. The movie is sweet and lavish and there is nothing sweeter than Cupcakes or more lavish than Bubbles.
Watch the Cinderella trailer and get inspired for your own fairy tale party!
It was a fairy tale day, but possibly not in the way you may imagine. I didn't get glammed up for a ball like The Fairy Tale Traveler did at the Cinderella premiere in LA – you must check out her site to read all about her awesome experience. However, I did get to do something very special. I got to play hooky, in the middle of a week day, with my best friend from forever – ok since college, but that feels like forever ago! There were no boys, no kids, no work, and no errands to run, just simply two girlfriends doing girly stuff and hanging out. Sounds like a fairy tale, right? Well, it gets better.
When thinking of bubbles, I immediately GO for my favorite sparkling wines: Iron Horse Vineyards from Sonoma County California. Nothing would be more perfect for this Cinderella inspired day than their Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée made exclusively for Disney. It is the only house wine of the Magic Kingdom and only available at Disney theme parks, hotels and cruise ships. Barry Sterling of Iron Horse was inspired seeing the beautiful Wedding Chapel at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort when he created this special Cuvée 30 years ago! It is the bubbly made for celebrations and one I imagine being served at the Prince's Ball. Drinking the Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée makes any day a celebration!
As far as cupcakes, there are plenty of options but only one would fit as perfectly as Cinderella's glass slipper, a lovely local shop that has won multiple "best of" awards including being named by The Daily Meal in the Best 101 Cupcakes in America, Blue Bird Bake Shop.
My best friend and I met up at this adorably quaint bakery with comfy seating and mismatched china, located in the Audubon Park Garden District of Winter Park, Florida. The name Blue Bird alone evoked images of the blue birds that flutter around Cinderella in the animated movie as well as the live version. Ceramic blue birds adorn the walls in the shop which is also quite charming. How the name came about was a story even sweeter than the movie and the cupcakes we shared. I will tell you more about that later but first let me tell you about the cupcakes. Oh those magical cupcakes!
We sampled – more like devoured – 5 different flavors of cupcakes from vanilla to chocolate to strawberry and apricot, which all paired beautifully with the fabulous Iron Horse Vineyards Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée, the owner was kind to allow me to bring in for me to write this story.
Pairing wines with dessert can be a bit tricky. You may wonder if there is a secret to pairing bubbles with cupcakes. It's common to think a sweet dessert wine will pair with a sweet dessert. The truth is, they tend to cancel each other out. Instead, look to strike a balance between the dessert and the wine. If the dessert is sweet, the wine should be a bit drier with good acid backbone. If the wine is sweet then you want the dessert to have some bitter tones like dark chocolate or crisper flavor notes of tropical fruit. Think of dark chocolate paired with a sweet port wine, for example. In this case, the sweet cupcakes paired with the well-balanced Blanc de Noir style Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée.
This elegant vintage estate-grown and bottled sparkling wine is made predominantly of Pinot Noir grapes, making it expressive and fruit forward, and then in a step away from convention they blend a bit of steely Chardonnay to add some acid structure. The wine has bright fruit aromas and flavors and brut-level dry so it is not sweet. It is rich and creamy which was perfect pairing with the cupcakes.
It also helps to look at the flavor profiles of the wine so if it says it has notes of apricots, honey, peaches, strawberries or lime, then a great pairing could be desserts that also feature those flavors.
If you're still worried about what to pair with your bubbly, you can never go wrong with chocolate. Just like this sparkling wine, it goes with anything.
No matter what flavors you choose, just remember as long as you enjoy it and share it with friends, there are no rules to tell you you're wrong. GO Live it up!
Blue Bird Bake Shop owners Jeff Lambert and Joel Pfrogner have their grandmothers to thank for their love of home-baked treats. Jeff also attributes his love of birds to the time spent bird-watching with her. Before she passed away she told him she would always watch over him in the form of a blue bird. When Jeff decided to leave his corporate job, #MakeSomedayHappen and pursue his entrepreneurial passion to open up a bakery, he and his partner spent months perfecting recipes but had not decided on a name for the shop. One afternoon, as they were discussing the bake shop, a blue bird magically appeared in their back yard and they instantly knew the shop would be named Blue Bird. I got goose-bumps hearing this story and I imagine like the blue birds and the Fairy Godmother that come to Cinderella's rescue, Jeff's grandmother is his fairy godmother watching over them. They began producing cupcakes for corporate accounts in 2008 and opened the retail shop in 2010 to the glee of everyone in the neighborhood. They went from 3 dozen cupcakes their first week to 300 hundred dozen per week today. I certainly think there is some pixie dust sprinkled over them!
When I spoke with Jeff about my desire to pair our bottle of Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée with his cupcakes, we discussed the flavor profile of the wine and the many flavors of cupcakes they offer in the shop. With over 50 recipes in their collection, I was spinning with cupcakes dancing around in my head. Jeff offered to create a special Fairy Tale inspired cupcake for me and the result was absolutely magical!
The Strawberry & Vanilla Swirl cupcake features a moist blend of both strawberry and vanilla cake topped with a swirl of strawberry and vanilla buttercream icing and pink sugar crystals to give it that fairy tale sparkle. The natural flavors of strawberry and vanilla bean were vibrant and the icing was sweet but not in a saccharin artificial way. Similar to the Cinderella Movie, it was sweet and authentic. The pink cupcake was so beautiful and girly it instantly made me think of the pink dress that Cinderella wanted to wear to the ball.
The Fairy Tale Strawberry & Vanilla Swirl special cupcake will be available for a limited time at the bake shop so please stop in this weekend and try it. It was a wonderful pairing with the Iron Horse Vineyards Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée.
Blue Bird offers eight "everyday flavors" of cupcakes, baked fresh, from scratch, in small batches daily. Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, creamy butter, real fruit and Dutch-processed cocoa are just a few of the quality natural ingredients they use. There are no artificial colors or sweeteners in their store and you can taste the difference.
The Sweet Cakes Cupcake is the one I imagine being served at a fairy tale wedding. Vanilla cake with white chocolate chips topped with vanilla buttercream icing and sprinkled with white nonparails. Some may see this as a boring or plain "vanilla" cupcake but it was quite elegant and satisfying.
The Tuxedo Cupcake made of chocolate cake topped with cream cheese icing and mini chocolate chips was perfect for those that love chocolate and don't want buttercream icing. It's also dressed and ready for the ball!
There is nothing better than chocolate and bubbly and the Ch-Chocolate Cupcake was perfectly decadent and rich. It's a chocoholic's dream made of chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttercream icing and chocolate curls.
In addition to the everyday flavors, they offer a flavor or two of the day. There is always something exciting to choose from so follow them on Facebook to find out about specials and deals. On this day, the featured flavor was Apricot Ginger and this was spectacular with the Iron Horse Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée.
The vanilla cupcake with finely chopped ginger mixed in and a decadent swirl of apricot jam in the center topped with ginger cream cheese icing and candied ginger was an explosion of flavors. It offered that blend of sweet and spicy notes that were made even more expressive by the hints of spice and lime zest in the bubbly.
Other popular everyday flavors include the Neapolitan with layers of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry cake and the traditional Red Velvet. I will also be on the lookout for the Chocolate Guiness cupcake with Irish Cream Icing to make an appearance on the daily menu. Doesn't that sound spectacular?! See their full list of flavors.
Blue Bird Bake Shop also makes brownies, cookies, scones, muffins, bars and cakes together with their own coffee, Top Hat Coffee, made with organically grown, fair trade beans.
The staff at Blue Bird Bake Shop is so friendly!
The shop is absolutely charming. The smell of fresh-baked goods gets you the minute you walk in the door. It's like visiting grandma's house, if you had a stylish and whimsical granny that could bake really well. This is a great place to meet up with friends and share conversation over sweets that will remind you of your childhood paired with a delicious specialty coffee drink. I hear their Toasted Marshmallow Latte is a real treat!
Blue Bird Bake Shop is located at 3122 Corrine Drive, Orlando FL. 407-228-3822. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 7 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm, or until they run out of cupcakes so get there early! Closed on Mondays. Cupcakes are $2.75 each or $30 per dozen which is quite reasonable for high quality baked treats.
I must tell you about my love affair with Iron Horse Vineyards and why I selected them for this special day. This family owned and run winery has been producing award-winning sparkling wines since 1976. Three generations ranging in age from 19 – 84 call the property home and their love of the land is apparent in everything they do in their community, their vineyards, their wines and their life. They always strive to put back more than they take out. In the movie, we see Cinderella caring for the land and the animals around her in a similar way. Iron Horse's motto is where rustic meets elegant and that is what Cinderella is all about.
A love of the land!
Cinderella's motto of "Have courage and be kind" could very well apply to the Sterling family that founded Iron Horse Vineyards. Audrey and Barry Sterling fell in love with the property at first sight in 1976. They were sure they were lost driving down Ross Station Road until they came upon their own fairy tale land made of 300 acres of gentle rolling hills. Incurable romantics, and dare I say quite courageous, they bought the property in just two weeks and became pioneers in the Green Valley appellation within Russian River valley of Sonoma County.
The fairy tale land of Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County, CA.
My first encounter with Iron Horse Vineyards was sampling the Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée Sparkling at Epcot's International Food & Wine Festival many years ago. I was instantly smitten. This wine is made exclusively for Disney. If you live in Orlando, you must GO and get yourself a bottle at one of the stores on Disney property or enjoy it in one of their fine restaurants. If you are not able to get your hands on the Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée, then my pick is its sister, but not of the wicked stepsister variety, the Wedding Cuvée. It is their most popular, a rose sparkling voted #10 on the Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Wines of the Year. It has a beautiful rose color and you could probably call it a "Love Potion". It is quite romantic paired simply with some high quality bittersweet chocolate.
Iron Horse Wedding Cuvée is a Love Potion!
I was fortunate to visit their gorgeous property not too long ago and completely fell in love with their wines even more. There is something magical about tasting the wines while overlooking the vineyards they come from and meeting the people who make them. It was lovely to meet Joy Sterling, daughter of founders Audrey and Barry and the company's CEO. She is a dynamic woman who like Prince Charming has taken over the family business and infused her own style bringing the company to even greater accomplishments. I wish I had been able to spend more time chatting with her as she is fascinating. Rather than sitting behind a desk, she was conducting a tour of the property.
Iron Horse Sparkling Wines have been served at the White House during the last five Presidential Administrations starting with the historic Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetings which ended the Cold War. It was the sparkling of choice to usher in the new century at the White House Millennium celebrations New Year's Eve 1999, to honor the Pope on his 80th birthday, to honor the Queen of England at the Ambassador's Residence, Winfield House in London in 2011, and to welcome the President of China in 2013. Iron Horse is definitely a sparkling wine for royals, presidents and heads of state so when you drink it you can't help but feel a bit regal. Go ahead and lift your pinky finger if you want!
Our tour guide was the charming granddaughter, Barrie Sterling, part of the third generation involved in the business. She was passionate about the property and most importantly the care of the vineyards and gardens. She shared with us stories of growing up around the vineyards and we got a chance to taste their full list of 12 estate bottled sparkling wines including the special limited production vintage sparkling they produce in partnership with National Geographic called Ocean Reserve. The winery contributes $4 for each bottle sold to establish Marine Protected Areas and reduce over fishing around the globe. This is a kind company indeed.
If you have the opportunity to visit California's Sonoma County, take the beautiful drive to Iron Horse Vineyards located at 9786 Ross Station Road in Sebastopol. It's a bit out-of-the-way from the main corridor of wineries but it is well worth it. I promise you will fall in love in this fairy tale land. Sparkling wine always helps kindle the spark!
After our delicious time with cupcakes and bubbles at Blue Bird Bake Shop, we had some time to spare before the movie so we crossed the street to visit Orlando's Foodie mecca, East End Market. This is a #MustVisit for anyone coming to Orlando who considers themselves a food lover. We still had some sparkling wine left and decided a cheese and charcuterie board from La Femme du Fromage would be a perfect way to help us finish the bottle. This is the best cheese shop in Orlando. Cheese is one of the few foods you actually see in the Cinderella movie, mostly because she shares it with her adorable little mice friends. They were certainly eating better than her and so were we. Read all about cheese and bubbly pairings on an upcoming post. It was an absolutely decadent way to cap off the afternoon and send us on our way to the theater with full bellies.
I don't remember reading many fairy tales as a child but I do remember Cinderella. The theater was full of girls of all ages anticipating their favorite childhood fairy tale, and I was one of them. This visually stunning movie brings to life the original 1950's animated masterpiece in such a way that makes it classic and modern all at once. The story is not reinvented. We are not seeing a new version or some clever twist of who Cinderella or the Wicked Stepmother really were. It is the original story, there are no surprises. We know how it will end and yet we couldn't help but weep during the sad scenes and cheer during the happy ones. The theater erupted in applause when the slipper fit! The beauty of the film is simply showing us how the story unfolds and bringing us into this magical world.
Much is made about fairy tales giving the wrong message to girls and that Cinderella, like most fairy tale maidens, is simply waiting for her prince charming to rescue her. I am a strong and independent woman and I think differently. In this film we see a strong young woman who takes care of herself, who wants to be loved for who she is, who doesn't need a man to rescue her, who is courageous and kind despite the evil that surrounds her and who is also a girl who wants to dress in a beautiful gown, wear gorgeous shoes and dance all night with her handsome prince at the ball. I can certainly relate to all of that and think it is a great message. Who said you have to forgo being girly and wanting pretty dresses to be an independent woman?
Who wouldn't want to be this girl at the ball?
The Cinderella Movie not only celebrates who we are as strong women but also honors the little girl inside us who will never stop wishing upon a star.
The film stars Cate Blanchett as the fashionable wicked stepmother, Lily James as the sublime Cinderella, Richard Madden as the handsome Prince Charming, Stellan Skarsgård as the calculating Grand Duke, Derek Jacobi as the King and Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother. Directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Chris Weitz, "Cinderella" is produced by Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur and David Barron.
A perfect day of friendship, laughter, cupcakes, bubbly and fairy tales!
Disclosure: For purposes of writing this article, I received free product from Iron Horse Vineyards, Blue Bird Bake Shop and media passes to the Cinderella Movie screening. No other form of compensation was received and all opinions are my own. As always, I only share with you experiences worth celebrating. Cheers!
I love that Fairy Tale Cuvee by IHV, but I only though one could obtain it at EPCOT! Have you seen it at Disney Springs (like in The Pantry with all the Once Upon a Vine Wines)?
Also, SO MUCH YES to Bluebird Bakery and Femme du Fromage! Two of my favorite haunts in Audubon Park! It was a treat finally meeting you in person the other night!
We'll need to arrange a Foodie Edition of Girls Nerding Out!
Karen, thanks so much for checking out Go Epicurista!It was awesome to meet someone who is as into movies and food as I am! Fairy Tale Cuvee is divine, isn't it? Your best bet for where to find it is to call ahead. It is such an exclusive wine, it is only placed in certain Disney restaurants. A Foodie Edition of Girls Nerding Out is definitely in order! Cheers!


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This is it, the final pregnancy. There will be one more chapter to "wrap it up" but the challenge has been completed.
Juliana and Benjamin finally get to Try for Baby.
A quick shot at the outfit Juliana bought in the future that she never gets to wear because she is always pregnant.
The very first multiples this challenge.
Benji is glad it is over too.


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"""
The User is really a cheap abstraction for inputs and outputs. Rather than have an individual document
for each input and each output, we group them by users. That way, a device that connects has all its properties
associated with one document, and it becomes trivial to modify/check its properties and valid input types.
This also means that users are very, very cheap - each item can be its own user. A heart rate sensor is one user,
and an android app is another - and each user can have multiple inputs and outputs that it defines.

This architecture choice has two benefits: Usually, a sensor defines specific inputs which are somehow related
to each other. This means that correlations and compression of data is more likely to be effective with all the
inputs of one user. Secondly, having all of a user's IO defined in one document, it becomes trivial to check for
validity of input

The user data structure is as follows:

_id: the uid
secret: The "password" which gives access to the uid

perm:   The permissions  of this user with respect to other users
        {
            uid: {
                r: Read data that the user wrote (including things it triggered, and its registered inputs/outputs)
                o: Trigger the user's outputs
                p: Read the user's permissions
                s: Read the user's secret
                wp: Write user's permissions (can only enable permissions it itself has)
                ws: Write the user's secret
                wr: Write the user's registered inputs (ie, allows another user to register inputs)
                wo: Write the user's outputs (ie, allows another user to create/modify outputs)
                d: Can delete user
            }
        }
        1) "db" - sets permissions database-wide (admin has db.<everything>=True)
        2) uid - sets permissions for the given uid

write: T/F : Whether or not allowed to write _data_ to the database
wunreg: If write is true, then:
            -1 : User is not allowed to write unregistered inputs to the database
            <any other number>: The kafka partition number that unregistered inputs are written to.

create: T/F : Whether or not allowed to create user. The new user can only have permissions <= creating user

trigger: [] : Specific IDs of outputs that the user is allowed to trigger. This is similar to the 'o' permission,
        but here, it is not per-user, but rather a specific list of outputs

inputs: The inputs to the database that the uid registers. In general, inputs do not need to be registered, and can be
        of any type. A registered input is constrained to within the registered type/range. It allows analysis
        algorithms to normalize and process the data. Registering inputs also allows easy finding of the most common inputs

outputs: The outputs from the database that the uid registers. Outputs require registration.

Inputs and outputs have data of the following format:

[
    {
        id: The Kafka partition number to which this input/output is written to
        parts: {
            partname: {metadata}
        }
        meta: {metadata}
    }
]

"""

class Users(object):
    """
        Given a mongoDB database object, opens the collection
    """
    def __init__(self,db,name="users"):
        self.p = db[name]

    def __call__(self,uid,secret):
        #Given uid and secret, returns the user object
        res = self.p.find_one({"_id": ObjectId(uid),"secret": secret})
        if (res!=None):
            return usr(res,self.p)
        return None

    def get(self,uid):
        if not ObjectId.is_valid(uid): return None
        #Gets user based on uid
        res = self.p.find_one({"_id": ObjectId(uid)})
        if (res!=None):
            return usr(res,self.p)
        return None

    def create(self,uid=None,secret=None,perm = {},write = False,create=False,outputs=[]):
        if (uid==None):
            uid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:24]
        else:
            if not ObjectId.is_valid(uid): return None
        if (secret==None):
            secret = uuid.uuid4().hex
        r = self.p.insert({"_id": ObjectId(uid),"secret": secret,"perm": perm,"write": write,"create": create,
                    "outputs": outputs, "inputs":{}})
        return usr(self.p.find_one({"_id": r}),self.p)

if (__name__=="__main__"):
    import shutil
    import os
    from database.mongo import Connection

    testname = "./test_db"
    if (os.path.exists(testname)):
        shutil.rmtree(testname)

    os.mkdir(testname)
    c = Connection(testname)

    p = Users(c.cursor().db)

    assert p(uuid.uuid4().hex[:24],"fdfsfsd")==None
    assert p.get(uuid.uuid4().hex[:24])==None

    e = p.create(write=False,create=True)

    f = p.get(e.id)

    assert e==f

    assert f.pRead("safdfsad") == False
    f.pRead("safdfsad",True)
    f.pReadOut("safdfsad",True)

    assert f.write == False
    assert f.create == True
    assert f.pRead("safdfsad")==True
    assert f.pReadOut("safdfsad")==True
    assert f.pReadPerm("safdfsad")==False

    assert f.secret == e.secret
    f.secret = "hlop"
    assert f.secret == "hlop"
    assert f.pRead("testing") == False

    f.pRead("safdfsad",False)

    assert f.pRead("db") ==False
    assert f.pRead("safdfsad")==False
    f.pRead("aardvark",True)
    f.pRead("trolo",True)
    assert f.pRead("aardvark")==True

    f.write = True
    f.create = False
    assert f.write==True
    assert f.create == False

    #Now test the inputs
    assert len(f.inputlist())==0

    assert f.getInput("hi")==None

    f.addInput("hello")
    f.addInput("world",{"gg":4,"ho": ["fg",33]})
    f.addInput("dude",{"foo":"bar"})

    assert len(f.inputlist())==3
    assert f.getInput("hello")!=None
    assert f.getInput("world")["ho"][1]==33
    assert f.getInput("dude")["foo"]=="bar"

    f.setInput("dude",{"gram":3})

    assert not ("foo" in f.getInput("dude"))
    assert f.getInput("dude")["gram"]==3

    f.remInput("dude")

    assert f.getInput("dude") == None

    g = p(f.id,f.secret)

    assert f == g
    assert g.secret == "hlop"
    assert g.write == True
    assert g.pRead("safdfsad")==False
    assert g.pRead("aardvark")==True
    assert g.pRead("trolo") ==True
    g.pRead("trolo",False)
    assert g.pRead("trolo") == False
    assert g.pReadOut("safdfsad")==True

    g.pReadOut("safdfsad",False)

    assert g.pReadOut("safdfsad")==False

    assert len(g.inputlist())==2
    assert g.getInput("hello")!=None
    assert g.getInput("world")["ho"][1]==33
    assert g.getInput("dude")==None

    g.addInput("ra",{"men":"yum"})

    assert g.getInput("ra")["men"]=="yum"

    assert g.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': None})["men"]=="yum"
    assert g.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': 1})["dudes"]==None
    g.input("ra",setv={"men": "pf","dudes": 1337})

    assert g.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': None})["men"]=="pf"
    assert g.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': 1})["dudes"]==1337

    i = f.id
    c.close()
    c = Connection(testname)

    q = Users(c.cursor().db)

    h = q(i,"hlop")
    assert h != None
    assert h.secret == "hlop"
    assert h.write == True
    assert h.pRead("safdfsad")==False
    assert h.pRead("aardvark")==True
    assert h.pRead("trolo") == False

    assert len(h.inputlist())==3
    assert h.getInput("hello")!=None
    assert h.getInput("world")["ho"][1]==33
    assert h.getInput("dude")==None

    assert h.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': None})["men"]=="pf"
    assert h.input("ra",getv={"men":None,'dudes': 1})["dudes"]==1337

    assert q.get(uuid.uuid4().hex[:24])==None
    h.delete()

    assert q.get(i)==None

    assert q.get("hello") == None

    c.close()

    shutil.rmtree(testname)

    print "\n\nAll tests completed successfully\n"

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Art Pottery & Fine Pottery. Cut & Engraved Crystal inc ABP. Sets of Stemware & Glassware. Elegant Glass - Cambridge, Etc. Geoffrey has been in the business since childhood.
He is committed to providing the highest quality glass, china, and other goods available. EAPG Adams US Glass XLCR Large Flared Orange Bowl Excelsior Kings Crown Punch. After spending 10 minutes cleaning it, this orange bowl turned in to a real beauty. Guaranteed original from the 1880s.
According to Reilly & Jenks, this piece has not been reproduced, probably too expensive and challenging. It is shown in a 1892 catalogue to which I added as picture #12. The glass quality is great. John Adams was the first to create a lime glass and lead the glass industry away from flint during a time in which the cost of iron to make flint glass became prohibitive and unavailable due to its need during the Civil War Era.
Adams glass created the XLCR pattern in the early 1880s, also known later as Excelsior and later Kings Crown and in some instances called Thumbprint. The hard to find Orange Bowl has a flaring rim that is hand drawn. It appears to me that the Adams bowls flare out much more than the US Glass bowls made after 1891, when US Glass took over the Adams factory.
Most of the pieces I have seen flare very little and the mold lines are less crisp, indicating the molds had been used much longer and influencing my belief that this is an Adams XLCR piece, rather than a US Glass piece. Contains the joint lozenge between the foot and bowl. This piece is made in two parts and joined by a molten lozenge or disc. This massive piece weighs 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Measurements: 9.25 Tall and 12.5 Across Top.
Base is 5.5 Across. Condition: OUTSTANDING - no chips, cracks, or repairs. There is a common strawline from manufacturing in the center as shown in picture.
The base shows surface scratching. There is a 1/2 arced scuff scratch on a section of the flared rim. Otherwise just the minutest amount of very light scratching. Everything is in the pictures.
Please ask any questions at all. The clarity on the glass is pretty remarkable and casts light well. One thing that is quite unique about the production of this piece is that the flaring of the bowl was done by hand and could vary in diameter and height based on the how the glassmaker flared the bowl. Upside down the base foot is crisply molded and a solid piece of glass.
There are no chips on the base, however, there is age appropriate base wear. This piece is made in two pieces and joined using a round lozenge of molten glass, as is shown in the 1892 US Glass Catalogue - picture #12. This catalogue was produced shortly after US Glass took over Adams Glass in Pittsburgh and turned it in to Factory A. They continued to produce the XLCR pattern at the factory. Above: Looking down the flared bowl through the foot. Another angle of the open foot. Above: The bowl is upside down and you are looking down through the foot. Crisp mold of the center medallion through.
Please note the straw line from manufacturing. Above - one more angle of the foot again with the adjoining lozenge between foot and bowl. Above: The one noticeable scratch that is on the bowl flare.
The higher flares all have the serrated top. Crisp mold - clear glass. Note serration on the taller rounds of the rim.
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Sunni Salvation
By William R. Hawkins
About William R. Hawkins
Organizing new alliances in the Middle East.
American field commanders have made considerable progress in winning the respect of Sunni tribal leaders and turning them against al Qaeda in Iraq. But a key part of this improved relationship is a pledge to protect the Sunnis from genocidal attacks by radical Shiite death squads and Iranian-backed militias. Recent attacks on Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki by U.S. senators, including presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton, have again raised the question of whether the prime minister is an Iraqi nationalist serious about leading a national unity government, or merely a Shiite partisan. Though born and educated in Iraq, Maliki went into exile in Iran and Syria during Saddam's crackdown after the 1991 Gulf War. He was deputy leader of the De-Baathification Commission in the post-invasion interim government, which many charge became a witch hunt against Sunnis.
On Aug. 22, al-Maliki lashed out at his American critics on his return from a 3-day trip to Syria, saying, "We will pay no attention. We care for our people and our constitution and can find friends elsewhere." The danger is that he only defines his "people" as Shiites, and "elsewhere" is Iran. Pres. George W. Bush has voiced continuing support for al-Maliki, but at the same time, the Bush administration is taking steps to prepare the next line of regional defenses if Iraq stays in turmoil or its Shiite majority falls under Iranian influence.
On July 30, just a few days before the U.S. Congress went on its August recess, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns held a press briefing in Washington outlining how the Bush Administration plans to arm the Sunni states in the Middle East to contain Iranian expansion. The $20 billion in planned military aid to the Saudi Arabia and the other five members of the Gulf Cooperation Council will run in parallel with increased military aid to Israel ($30 billion) and to Egypt ($13 billion) over the next decade. According to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the arms sale to Cairo will "strengthen Egypt's ability to address shared strategic goals" with Israel and the other Sunni Arab states. The best way to build new diplomatic and security alliances is to pull otherwise diverse states together against a common enemy.
The arms deal with Israel was signed in Jerusalem on August 16. At the signing, Under Secretary Burns put the aid to Israel in the context of the Iran-Syria axis and its support for Hezbollah and Hamas, all enemies of the Jewish state. But he then went on to say, "We have said to the congressional leadership that we intend to seek their support for increased military assistance to our friends in the Gulf: to Saudi Arabia and to Kuwait and to Bahrain and to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and to Oman. All of this together represents a signal from the United States that our country is strong in this region, that we intend to be a good friend to our allies and our partners in this region." This was an explicit setting of Israel and the Sunni Arabs together in a U.S.-backed security alignment.
It should be remembered that last summer, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan openly criticized Iran's proxy Hezbollah for raiding into Israel and triggering over four weeks of heavy fighting. The Arab states gave Israel the diplomatic space it needed to mount military operations aimed at crippling Hizbollah in Lebanon.
In his March 29 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Under Secretary Burns outlined the new regional dynamics in which Lebanon plays a major role: "We are also working with France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and others to signal our strong support for Prime Minister Siniora's democratically elected government in Lebanon, to enforce the arms embargo imposed by Security Council Resolution 1701, and to prevent Iran and Syria from rearming Hizballah. We have stationed two carrier battle groups in the Gulf, not to provoke Iran, but to reassure our friends in the region that it remains an area of vital importance to us. And at the regional level, Secretary Rice last autumn launched a series of ongoing discussions with our Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners, as well as Egypt and Jordan, regarding issues of shared concern, including most especially the threat posed by Iran."
Iran, with its support for militias in foreign lands, its nuclear ambitions, and its aggressive Shiism, poses a much greater threat to the Sunni Arab world than does Israel, which has no intention of toppling Arab regimes and converting their people to its religious doctrines. Iran does have these ambitions, directed at both Jews and Sunni Muslims. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said Israel will not lobby against the new arms sales to Saudi Arabia, as it has against previous sales.
On August 9, the Tehran Times, the self-proclaimed "loud voice of the Islamic Revolution," highlighted a speech given in Lebanon by Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah which attacked the proposed U.S. arms sales as an attempt to "drown the Mideast in wars." The speech was given at an event marking the terrorist group's "victory" in last summer's war, and follows Nasrallah's claim that his fighters have been fully rearmed and trained for a new round of conflict.
There is congressional opposition to the Saudi-GCC weapons deal. Even though the details of the deal are classified and months from being finalized, 114 members of the U.S. House, (96 Democrats, 18 Republicans) rushed a letter to President Bush on August 2 declaring their intention to vote against any sale of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia. The letter was organized by New York Democratic representatives Anthony Weiner and Jerrold Nadler, who staged a protest outside the Saudi consulate in New York City on July 29.
The thrust of their stated argument is that "Saudi Arabia has not been a true ally in the War on Terror or furthering the United States interests in the Middle East." This opposition is really just another aspect of liberal-isolationist opposition to the Iraq War, and to any continued geopolitical involvement by the United States in the region. Those who signed the letter don't just want out of Iraq, they want to withdraw completely from everywhere "east of Suez." Such a retreat would leave a security nightmare in its wake.
Also from William R. Hawkins
Ever since the pro-Western, secularizing shah of Iran was overthrown by the radical Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the Middle East has been ripped by the Shia-Persian/Sunni-Arab divide. Far more have died in this sectarian struggle than have ever fallen in combat with Israel or Western "imperialists." Iraq was the front-line state against Iran under Saddam Hussein, who became the hero of the Arab world during the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War. But he brought disaster upon himself when he invaded his ally Kuwait in 1990. U.S. reconciliation with Iraq proved impossible, as Saddam had gone mad after his defeat. He continued to threaten Kuwait and even made overtures to Iran for a united front against America.
The two countries with the strongest military potentials in the Gulf region are Iran and Iraq. Washington needs a friendly regime in either Tehran or Baghdad. Whatever the proximate cause cited for the invasion of Iraq, the real strategic objective was to replace Saddam with a new government with which the U.S. could cooperate against Iran.
U.S. forces are again engaged, as they have been during several prior phases of the Iraq campaign, in beating down the pro-Iranian militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, who also heads a powerful Shiite bloc in Iraq's legislative assembly. It is not clear who will win the power struggle within the Shiite majority in Iraq, so it is only prudent to strengthen the next line of defense, either to support a unified Iraq or to sustain anti-Iranian forces in a fragmented Iraq.
Saudi Arabia and the smaller Gulf states do not have the manpower to combat Iran, so they need superior weapons which are interoperable with those of the United States. Cooperation in the areas of missile defense, maritime patrol, counterterrorism, and energy security is moving ahead with U.S.-led joint exercises. American trainers, advisers, and support personnel will also have to accompany the new weapon systems.
Though a minority in Iraq, the Sunnis are a majority in the Muslim world. For Congress to block the arms sales would undermine what trust there is between Washington and the Sunni world. It would also fuel the propaganda of both al Qaeda and Tehran that alleges America is at war with all of Islam, when, in fact, U.S. security interests are in line with those of a majority of Muslims regarding the rising threat from Iran.
– William R. Hawkins is senior fellow for national-security studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council in Washington, D.C.


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Paolo Rossi (Prato, 1956. szeptember 23. – Róma, 2020. december 9.) világbajnok olasz labdarúgó. Pelé beválasztotta a Világ 125 legjobb labdarúgója közé.

Sikerei, díjai

Klub
Vicenza
Serie B – bajnok (1): 1976–77

Juventus
Serie A – bajnok (2): 1981–82, 1983–84
Olasz kupagyőztes (1): 1982–83
KEK győztes (1): 1983–84
Szuperkupa (1): 1984
BEK győztes (1): 1984–85

Válogatott
Olaszország
Világbajnok (1): 1982

Statisztikái

Klub

Mérkőzései a válogatottban

Góljai a válogatottban

Jegyzetek

Források

1956-ban született személyek
2020-ban elhunyt személyek
Olasz labdarúgók
Labdarúgócsatárok
A Calcio Como labdarúgói
A Vicenza Calcio labdarúgói
A Perugia labdarúgói
A Juventus labdarúgói
A Milan labdarúgói
A Hellas Verona labdarúgói
A Serie A labdarúgói
A Serie B labdarúgói
Az 1978-as világbajnokság labdarúgói
Az 1982-es világbajnokság labdarúgói
Az 1986-os világbajnokság labdarúgói
Aranylabdások
Világbajnok labdarúgók
BEK-győztes labdarúgók
Rákban elhunyt személyek


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Having your home broken into is a traumatic experience that you definitely want to avoid so this month's article shares some tips on how to increase your home's security.
There are also some great feng shui ideas to help you create a harmonious home environment as well as a few tips on how to build a more close-knit community.
Bank of Canada holds rates steady at 1%.
On October 25, 2017, the Bank of Canada announced it was keeping its trend-setting overnight lending rate on hold at 1%.
The rate rose by 0.25% in July and again in September. Since then, the Bank has cautioned that future interest rate increases depend on whether economic data suggest that inflation is starting to percolate.
A fully secure home will provide you with peace of mind.
Whether you're at home sleeping or away on vacation, it's important to know that your home is secure. A secure home is also much more attractive to potential buyers when it comes time to sell.
Smart lighting, remote locks and wireless cameras can all make your home safer; however, the issue of cyber criminals hacking into smart home systems is a valid concern so homeowners shouldn't forget about the basics.
Eliminate potential hiding spots by trimming down bushes that are around your windows and doors. Most thieves are opportunists who see an open door or window and decide to take a chance and see what they can make off with.
Next, install strike plates on your doors to help protect the deadbolt from crowbars or kick attacks. Thieves want to get into your home as quickly as possible so if one forceful kick doesn't work, they'll likely turn and run.
Windows are also popular break in points so install heavy sash or keyed locks. Installing an eyebolt in window corners also prevents the window from being opened from the outside. Glass block windows are an excellent choice as they look attractive, can't be opened and are extremely difficult to break.
Give the impression your home is lived in while you're away on vacation by installing a dusk-to-dawn porch light. Although technology allows you to control blinds and lights right from your smartphone, you'll still need to find someone to rake your leaves as there isn't an app for that yet!
When it comes to home security, paying attention to the little things can often make a huge difference so take time to "case the joint" and list all the security failures that burglars would appreciate. Potential buyers will prefer a secure home as it's one less thing for them to worry about so you may as well do it sooner than later so that you can enjoy the benefits as well.
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Think Outside the Nest - Birds bring great energy so add a few feeders and a bird bath in your backyard.
The Right Path - Place a few plants and wind chimes on your porch and make sure the path to your front door is unobstructed.
Fire & Ice - Essential oils, crystals, candles and water features such as fountains and fish bowls will bring calm and balance into your home.
Mirror, Mirror - The strategic placement of mirrors helps improve feng shui by drawing more sunlight into otherwise murky rooms and by expanding narrow areas such as hallways.
De-clutter - Clearing your home of clutter will introduce a smoother flow of energy. Clutter is a sign of trapped energy so be ruthless and get rid of everything you don't need.
Feng shui emphasizes that our physical surroundings have an impact on our emotional well-being so it's important to be aware of how we arrange our space. Buyers often feel certain vibes when they enter a home so a "harmonious feel" could be the difference between a quick sale and one that drags on.
Getting to know the people living around you offers plenty of benefits!
Rags to Riches - Organize a garage sale or clothing swap in your 'hood. It's also a great way to get rid of clutter!
Clean Green - Coordinate a park clean-up and then enjoy drinks and snacks that will hopefully be donated by a local business.
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