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Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon
Posted by News Fetcher on March 06 '11 at 04:15 PM
By timothy from Slashdot's deptartment:
siliconeyes writes "Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon. An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed a 1.7-km long and 120-metre wide cave near the moon's equator that is in the Oceanus Procellarum area of the moon that could be a suitable 'base station' for future human missions."
HBGary Hack In Depth
Udo Schmitz writes "Heise's UK site has the English translation of an article from the latest issue of their magazine c't about Anonymous's HBGary hack. It shows that there was much more involved than just social engineering to get passwords, and how anonymous evolved following OpTunisia and OpEgypt."
Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently
Shlomi Fish writes "The best way to react to people trolling on Internet forums is not to feed them, right? Wrong! 'Don't feed the trolls' is also usually ineffective. Luckily, however, there is more effective approach, inspired by the book Feeling Good by David D. Burns."
Turkey Bans Google's Blogger Over Soccer Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "A local court has banned Google's Blogger service in Turkey in response to a complaint by satellite TV firm Digiturk that streaming media feeds from local soccer games were appearing on multiple Blogger profiles. Unsurprisingly, Google criticized the move, given that everyone is suffering over a few people's illegal actions. Copyright holders should target the individuals that are distributing the infringing content via an established complaints procedure rather than having the parent site banned. An estimated 600,000 Turks use the service to blog about anything from daily ramblings, to hobbies, to keeping their readers updated with the news."
Google Finally Uses Remote Kill Switch On Malware
Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Google Mobile Team has announced that in addition to removing the 21 malicious applications from Android Market that were downloaded 50,000 times, suspending the associated developer accounts, and contacting law enforcement about the attacks, they are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. 'We are pushing an Android Market security update to all affected devices that undoes the exploits to prevent the attacker(s) from accessing any more information from affected devices,' wrote the team on their blog. 'For affected devices, we believe that the only information the attacker(s) were able to gather was device-specific (IMEI/IMSI, unique codes which are used to identify mobile devices, and the version of Android running on your device).' Google's actions come after numerous complaints in tech publications. "Does Google really want its Android Market to gain the reputation of being a cesspool of malware? 'Certainly not,' wrote Nicholas Deleon in TechCrunch. 'But then part of the allure of the Android Market is that it's open; you don't have to play by Google's rules, per se, to get on there like you do with Apple's App Store.'"
Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators
Posted by News Fetcher on March 06 '11 at 11:15 AM
autospa writes "A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (PV) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells. This comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/W) without the 'need for government subsidization.'"
A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months
www.sorehands.com writes "While one spammer, Robert Soloway, gets released on probation, the Feds send another, Robert Smoley, to the slammer for 40 months.I know about Smoley because I tracked him down, and beat him in court. Not only was he an attorney, he still has not lost his license, yet. The IRS contacted me as a result of seeing my web site, and I gladly assisted the IRS in tracking his business. He not only bounced a check on me, but stiffed his local counsel and one of his ISPs."
Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection
By samzenpus from Slashdot's deptartment:
cultiv8 writes "According to an article from The Smoking Gun: 'A large-scale methamphetamine dealer who allegedly laundered drug profits by purchasing valuable comic books is in danger of forfeiting his 18,753-volume collection to Uncle Sam, according to a new court filing. Federal prosecutors yesterday filed a US District Court complaint seeking ownership of the comic book holdings of Aaron Castro, 30, who is facing a May trial in Colorado on narcotics distribution and weapons charges. The comics are valued in excess of $500,000.'"
Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8
siliconbits writes "At CeBIT 2011, we went around the stands from some of the biggest component manufacturers in the world and asked them a simple question, would you consider bringing out ARM products (barebones, laptops, tablets, motherboards) for Windows 8? The answer was a unanimous yes; like Microsoft, the same firms that have been faithful Intel and AMD partners for years are prepared to explore other territories as soon as Windows 8 will go live."
Graphs Show Costs of DNA Sequencing Falling Fast
kkleiner writes "You may know that the cost to sequence a human genome is dropping, but you probably have no idea how fast that price is coming down. The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the US National Institute of Health, has compiled extensive data on the costs of sequencing DNA over the past decade and used that information to create two truly jaw-dropping graphs. NHGRI's research shows that not only are sequencing costs plummeting, they are outstripping the exponential curves of Moore's Law. By a big margin."
Stellar Wormholes May Exist
seagirlreed writes "Pairs of stars could be connected via wormholes filled with 'phantom matter,' according to Kyrgyz researchers. If a wormhole exists within a star, the stellar body may exhibit measurable properties astronomers might detect. Although interesting, other scientists are skeptical, pointing out that this is highly speculative research."
Researchers Develop Super Batteries From Aerogel
greenerd writes "Researchers from the University of Central Florida may have found the most efficient (and most bizarre) battery material yet – 'frozen smoke', also known as Aerogel. One of the world's lightest solids, aerogel contains multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) which each one several thousands thinner than human hair. The researchers, Associate Professor Lei Zhai and Postdoctoral Associate Jianhua Zou, believe that this material could soon become the best energy storage material for capacitors and batteries."
Facebook Bans AdSense In Apps
Anonymous Coward writes "Three days ago Facebook finalized their list of accepted ad networks for use within Facebook Apps; AdSense being an (unsurprising?) omission from the list, stating that any missing ad network had yet to agree to the Facebook TOS. Facebook developers were quick to point out the only losers in this cold-war between Facebook and Google are the developers themselves. Other devs go on to clarify that the reputations of some of the accepted networks is shady at best, leaving developers with sub-par options to monetize their work on the Facebook platform."
Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts
An anonymous reader writes "Two students have been suspended, and one student has been expelled, over negative Facebook postings they made about a teacher. The individuals are in seventh grade at Chapel Hill Middle School, meaning they are either 12 or 13 years old, according. The children are accused of violating a portion of the school code that is a "level one" offense, the worst possible: 'Falsifying, misrepresenting, omitting, or erroneously reporting' allegations of inappropriate behavior by a school employee toward a student."
Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"?
jira writes "'You may think you own your iPad or iPhone but in reality an invisible string links it back to Apple HQ' writes John Naughton. He adds: 'Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one. His reasoning was that, like the Roman church, Apple offered a guaranteed route to salvation – the Apple Way – provided one stuck to it. PC users, on the other hand, had to take personal responsibility for working out their own routes to heaven.'"
Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Adam Werbach writes that in July 2008 oil prices reached $147 a barrel and suddenly energy prices and alternative energy was on everyone's agenda but soon oil prices fell as the economy faltered and people moved on to the more immediate concerns of keeping their jobs and businesses alive. Now with the possibility looming of $200 a barrel oil, the US has a robust field of clean energy technologies that are slowly coming online, from thinfilm solar to fuel cells to cellulosic ethanol — unlike 2008, when it seemed like we were starting our innovation engine from a cold start. 'In the last three years, as oil prices have softened, we've seen stumbles as companies like Applied Materials pulled back from the clean energy space because of operational and market conditions,' writes Werbach. '2012 will be a rich year for equity capitalizations, giving energy entrepreneurs the capital they need to build infrastructure. Even with the draconian austerity measures that are coming into effect across the country, this is a second opportunity for energy innovation.'"
IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys
theodp writes "'Look, Dave,' said HAL. 'I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.' Put a HAL 9000 in a baby's stuffed animal toy, a toddler's EEG-equipped knit cap, or other interactive monitoring device, and you've got the gist of IBM Research's just-published patent application for its Adaptive System for Real-Time Behavioral Coaching and Command Intermediation. 'For example,' explains Big Blue, 'to help a child who plays rough with other children the interaction data can include multiple interaction operations that can be performed by the interactive device for helping the child play less rough with other children. For example, one interaction operation can include an audible warning telling the child 'to play nice' in a strict tone of voice, whereas another interaction operation can include an audible warning that asks the child 'would you like someone to do that to you' in a softer tone of voice along with a visual cue as well."
Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya?
GrumpyBagpuss writes "We all know that the internet is supposed to route around damage, but currently eastern Libya is off the net because all their connectivity goes through Tripoli. How difficult would it to be to reconnect eastern Libya via a microwave link to Crete? It's less than 200km away, on the Libyan end there are mountains up to 850m and on Crete they're higher than 2000m. People have achieved distances of over 300km with simple WiFi equipment, but would it be possible to increase the bandwidth to handle a whole, or at least half a country? How would you connect the link at both ends? What other problems would there be? How many Pringles cans would we need?"


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RETHINKING COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW: BRIDGING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
Benjamin A. Aaron & Katherine V.W. Stone (eds.)
Labor law is no longer a subject of purely domestic significance. The comparative study of labor law systems has been an important field of law for many decades, but now, as production becomes increasingly global, issues of comparative labor law arise with a new urgency. The papers in this volume explore all facets of comparative work in the labor law field, addressing questions such as, what was the purpose of engaging in the study of comparative labor law in the past, and what is the purpose of such an inquiry today? Are national labor law systems converging in the face of the increasing globalization of production in recent decades? How are different countries responding to current challenges to their domestic labor law regimes, challenges such as the advent of new flexible models of production, an increase in immigration, and domestic participation in transnational trading blocs? Labor law scholars from eight countries, spanning several generations, met at the UCLA School of Law in the fall of 2005 to consider these and other questions. The papers in this volume present the ideas exchanged and invite yet further reflection on the goals, purposes, possibilities and pitfalls of comparative work in the labor law field.
Benjamin A. Aaron was Professor at UCLA School of Law since 1960 and served as Director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations from 1960 to 1975. He has also served as President of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and U.S. member of the Committee of Experts at the International Labor Organization. Over his sixty year career, Professor Aaron was called upon by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Bush (Sr.) as an advisor and to serve on several national boards and commissions dealing with labor relations matters. In his scholarship, he pioneered the study of comparative labor law in the United States.
Katherine V.W. Stone is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Previously she was the Anne Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution at Cornell Law School and Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a widely published author in the labor and employment law field and the founder of the Globalization and Labor Standards Project, a web-based library on comparative and international labor topics. Her latest book, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace, was awarded the 2005 Michael Harrington Award by the American Political Science Association.
Paperback, 253 pages

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Recycling, carbon capture, inequality: Experts find blind spots in Cop26 plans
Analysts say world leaders must put more focus on social justice in climate negotiations
Waste pickers need better working conditions for a sustainable economy to work, one expert said. AFP
Tim Stickings
As world leaders arrived in Glasgow on Monday for the first day of Cop26, critics said their climate plans were lacking focus on vital issues such as recycling, carbon capture and inequality.
Dozens of countries have put forward what they say are ambitious strategies to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the goal of the Paris Agreement.
But plans submitted for Cop26 were "overwhelmingly focused on the clean energy transition", said Hatty Cooper, who advocates a circular economy that emphasises reusing and recycling goods.
This means there is too little attention on preventing waste, even though saving resources could cut emissions by about 40 per cent, she said.
UN leader's Cop26 plea to 'save humanity' from extreme weather
"We need an alternative model of production and consumption," she said. "We need consumers to change their behaviour."
Just last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that recycling "doesn't work" and "is not the answer" to tackling environmental problems.
A panel of experts speaking on the sidelines of Cop26 said there should be more focus on the social effects of going green.
Panagiotis Fragkos, a climate modeller, said the measures championed by world leaders would lose public support if they cause widespread inequality.
Politicians have sought to play down concerns that the green transition would lead to higher costs or lower living standards.
But "one of the blind spots" in their climate plans is that they are "lacking social justice considerations", said Patrick Schroeder, a researcher at the Chatham House think tank.
For example, recyclers and informal rubbish pickers need to have better working conditions for a low-waste economy to work, Mr Schroeder said.
"It's a really important issue that needs to be addressed to make the circular economy more efficient and also make it work for human development objectives," he said.
"Many of the social and political issues so far have been neglected."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. AP
Negotiators will discuss gender inequality in the second week of the summit. The penultimate day of talks will focus on cities and regions.
Before then, they will discuss the financing and clean energy measures at the heart of their plans.
But another weakness, experts say, is that leaders are vague about how much they plan to offset emissions by removing carbon from the atmosphere.
This can include planting trees as well as using more cutting-edge technology such as carbon capture and storage.
Climate activists say governments should not rely on futuristic technology to avoid having to cut emissions now.
But some of the plans submitted for Cop26 suggest that carbon capture will "allow us to buy more time", said Heather Jacobs, who has carried out research for Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
In addition, plans that rely on using trees and plants could run into the problem that such natural resources are needed for other green initiatives.
Countries can "end up in this kind of vicious cycle that leads to a state of inaction", Ms Jacobs said. "This need to satisfy multiple different goals … leads countries to overestimate the availability of natural resources that are already in use now."


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Where AI Meets Local: Tackling Consumer Engagement at Scale
Damian Rollison | Feb 21, 2019 10:15:27 AM
Artificial intelligence technologies and their public reception seem to be moving these days in opposite directions. At IBM Think in San Francisco last week, I was able to see first-hand the large number of practical applications for AI that are helping business and industry to save human labor, make smarter decisions, and optimize complex workflows in a way that points toward exciting possibilities for the very near future. At the same time, stories of deepfake videos and all-too-convincing social media simulacra hint at a much darker picture, marked by ever-increasing suspicion that everything we read and see might have been created to fool or manipulate us.
The Problem of Local Fakery
Both of these polar opposites can be seen playing themselves out in the world of local search. On the one hand, those who hold the more dystopian view that everything is potentially fake can point to the problem of review authenticity on Google and other local channels. Bloggers like Mike Blumenthal and Joy Hawkins have been writing for years about the fact that it's all too easy for fake reviews to get published and remain in publication, to the benefit of those who would use such black hat tactics to promote themselves or denigrate the competition. Recently, Blumenthal suggested that Google deliberately looks the other way and does little to address the fake review problem, in part due to indirect economic benefits like ad revenue from companies who brazenly sell fake reviews online.
Though most fake reviews are probably written by humans today, AI could maliciously be used, and perhaps already is being used, to make fakes much harder to detect. In this light, I might point out news that is breaking this week about research firm OpenAI, who has decided to withhold its latest text composing software from the public due to concerns that it mimics human writing too convincingly.
Certainly, Google has acted quickly to stamp down on spammers whose exploits cross certain lines, such as last November when millions of four-star ratings from the same few accounts appeared on listings throughout the United States and were taken down by Google within a couple of days. This was, however, a particularly egregious example, possibly designed to test the limits of Google's fraud-detection systems by deliberately triggering them. The more run-of-the-mill fake reviews, by contrast, can often remain in publication until the affected business owner, or a local search consultant acting on their behalf, reports the problem to Google support, with appropriate documentation. That these spam-removal decisions must often be made on a case-by-case basis by human agents suggests that the scale of the solution may be incommensurate with the scale of the problem.
What we don't know, of course, is how many fake reviews Google already removes through automated processes. The common perception in our industry is that whatever they're doing, they aren't doing enough of it. Still, AI potentially has a great deal of power to combat fake reviews and spam. And Google is already using AI in search, with RankBrain's neural network filling in for the standard algorithm to deliver relevant results for queries Google hasn't seen before. RankBrain already powers 15% of Google results; as Google's confidence in its capabilities increases, the role of AI is likely to expand.
As Cade Metz of Wired explained back in 2016, Google is learning to trust the results of AI and machine learning, even as doing so moves the company away from its reliance on comparatively transparent ranking decisions made by its algorithm. The algorithm contains complex rules, but it can be understood and tweaked by human engineers. Neural networks, by contrast, make decisions whose rationale is more difficult to examine, even if they turn out to be more accurate and reliable.
By extension, it's easy to imagine that Google's local technology, with its conspicuous reliance on human intervention, has yet to make the same transition from more traditional business rules to AI-powered decision making. If that transition does occur at some point in the near future, a more effective mechanism for combating fake reviews could well be on the horizon.
AI and Scaling Up Reputation Management
Reading the Google tea leaves is generally a dubious activity. But the potential applications of AI to local search are much broader than this one example. Consider, for example, the challenge major national brands face when trying to engage with consumers who leave reviews on local channels. For the typical small business, the same task is comparatively straightforward: check your reviews on major sites on a regular basis, and respond proactively and professionally to as many of them as you can.
For brands, the volume and complexity of that task is significantly greater, given the number of locations that are often at play. In the case of some brands, popularity even contributes to the challenge; one well-loved restaurant we work with has thousands of reviews and consumer-generated photos for every site and every restaurant location, with hundreds more generated each week.
We can say from a great deal of experience that fake reviews, while they do exist, are in a minority and do not represent the most critical challenge brands face. Much more significant is the sheer effort of processing the huge volume of feedback generated by actual consumers, and engaging with each of those consumers in a personal and relevant manner. As Brandify has shown with its Smart Review Response tool, AI and machine learning can provide highly effective assistance to human users who need to be able to create personalized responses at scale.
We have found that machine-generated suggestions and personalization features can greatly reduce the legwork involved in responding to hundreds or thousands of reviews, allowing human agents to focus more of their energy on special cases that require a greater degree of attention and creativity.
Learning from Your Customers with AI
Equally important is the potential of machine learning to uncover hidden trends in review data. According to research from Gartner, 80% of the world's data is unstructured, and reviews are certainly a primary source of unstructured data in the local arena. They contain invaluable evidence of consumer sentiment around products, services, staff, amenities, store layout, menu items, wait times, and a huge array of related topics, buried in natural language that is not easily susceptible to data-driven analysis.
Here, AI tools such as IBM Watson's Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Classification can be used to mine review data and uncover topic and sentiment trends that businesses can use to inform operational changes, marketing campaigns, staff training improvements, and even new product ideas.
At IBM Think, Reid Francis, principal product manager for Watson's Natural Language Classification tool, discussed the example of an airline that used Watson's capabilities to classify reviews by topic and sentiment, greatly enhancing its understanding of the concerns travelers shared most frequently. Many other companies, in industries from healthcare to cybersecurity to auto financing, have employed AI technologies to analyze of customer feedback and to improve related customer service processes, such as proper routing by topic of customer input that requires escalation.
So although the unregulated growth of AI may be cause for concern, and should be the subject of vigorous public debate, we should be reassured that its potential to save human labor and improve business outcomes, in local search and beyond, would seem to have no foreseeable limits.
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Perhaps best known for its contribution to the Teachers blended whisky, Ardmore was built in the late 1800's by Adam Teacher, son of William Teacher. Alongside it's contribution towards blended whiskies, Ardmore is equally well known to use peated malt. This has helped develop its reputation as a single malt whisky in recent years. Perhaps suprisingly, it took almost 100 years to produce a single malt whisky. Ardmore became a part of Jim Beam Brands when it was acquired alongside a number of spirits and wine brands from Allied Domecq.
Ardmore has in recent years also produced an un-peated malt known as Ardlair, however we have yet to see this bottled as a single malt.
Ardmore frequently appears at auction with various independent bottling and official bottling taking centre stage. The 100th Anniversary of the distillery, released as a 12 year old from 1986 to 1999 is a typical example of this.


Charming 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with single attached carport located on 0.77 acres (according to Deed) New in November/December, 2018, paint, carpet, vinyl, ceramic tile in bathroom floor, hot water heater, metal roof, some double hung tilt in windows, rear deck that has had old boards replaced. Hardwoods in unheated square footage upstairs (216 sqft). Laundry is also included as unheated square footage on main level (91 sqft).


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//var alphabet = '0123456789abcdefghjkmnpqrtuvwxyz'
var alphabet =   '0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTUVWXYZ'
var alias = { O:0, I:1, L:1, S:5 };
var table = {};
var numTable = [];

//var makeStrRepeat = function(n,c) {
//	var s = "";
//	for(var p=0;p<n;p++) {
//		s += c;
//	}
//	return s;
//};

/// <summary>
/// Converts the given decimal number to the numeral system with the
/// specified radix (in the range [2, 36]).
/// </summary>
/// <param name="decimalNumber">The number to convert.</param>
/// <param name="radix">The radix of the destination numeral system (in the range [2, 36]).</param>
/// <returns></returns>
var DecimalToArbitrarySystem = function(decimalNumber, radix, table)
{
    var BitsInLong = 64;
//    var Digits = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
	var Digits = table;

    if (radix < 2 || radix > Digits.Length)
         throw new Error("The radix must be >= 2 and <= " + Digits.Length.ToString());

    if (decimalNumber == 0)
        return table[0];

    var index = BitsInLong - 1;
    var currentNumber = decimalNumber; //Math.Abs(decimalNumber);
//    char[] charArray = new char[BitsInLong];
//	var charArray = new Array(BitsInLong);
//	var charArray = makeStrRepeat(BitsInLong,'0');
	var outStr = "";

    while (currentNumber != 0)
    {
        var remainder = (currentNumber % radix);
        // console.log('remainder='+remainder);
        // console.log("digits="+Digits[remainder]);
        outStr = Digits[remainder] + outStr;
        currentNumber = Math.floor(currentNumber / radix);
    }

//    var result = new String(charArray, index + 1, BitsInLong - index - 1);
    if (decimalNumber < 0)
    {
        outStr = "-" + outStr;
    }

    return outStr;
}

var ArbitrarySystemToDecimal = function(arbNum, radix, dictionary) {
	var ret = 0;
	var str = new String(arbNum);

	for(var n=0;n<str.length;n++) {
		var c = str.charAt(str.length-n-1);
		var v = dictionary[c];
        if(v == undefined) {
            throw new RangeError("Not in alphabet: "+c);
        }
		if(v > 0)
			ret = ret + v*Math.pow(radix,n);
	}

	return ret;

}

for (var i = 0; i < alphabet.length; i++) {
	table[alphabet[i]] = i
}

var k = Object.keys(table);
for(var n=0;n<k.length;n++)
    numTable[n] = k[n];

// Splice in 'alias'
for (var key in alias) {
    if (!alias.hasOwnProperty(key)) continue;
    table[key] = table['' + alias[key]]
}

//console.dir(table);
//console.dir(numTable);
var toBase32 = function(number,digits) {

	var baseNumber = DecimalToArbitrarySystem(number,32,numTable);

    if(typeof digits == 'number') {
        while(baseNumber.length != digits) {
            baseNumber = '0' + baseNumber;
        }
    }

    return baseNumber;
};

var fromBase32 = function(base32num) {
	return ArbitrarySystemToDecimal(base32num.toUpperCase(),32,table);
};

/*var examples = [ 0, 31, 313, 11110000, 1091212012, 120120, 99999999, 33, 32, 32*32 ];

for(var n=0;n<examples.length;n++) {
	var v = toBase32(examples[n]);
	console.log('' + examples[n] + " = " + v +"[b32]" + " = " + fromBase32(v));
}*/

/**
 * make an alphabet converter
 * @param  {[type]} opts an object with these options:
 * {
 *    radix: 16,                   // the base for your number system
 *    table: "0123456789ABCDEF",   // a string representing your alphabet
 *    caseInsensitive: true        // if true, letters will be non case-sensitive (default)
 * }
 * @return {[type]}      [description]
 */
var baseAlphabet = function(opts) {
    if(opts &&
        (opts.radix && typeof opts.radix != 'number') ||
        (opts.alphabet && typeof opts.alphabet != 'string') ||
        (opts.alphabet && opts.radix && opts.alphabet.length != opts.radix)) {
        throw new TypeError("Invalid options - can't instantiate baseAlphabet")
    }

    if(opts && opts.alphabet) this.alphabet = opts.alphabet
    if(opts && opts.radix) this.radix = opts.radix

    this.table = {}
    for (var i = 0; i < this.alphabet.length; i++) {
        this.table[this.alphabet[i]] = i
    }

    this.numTable = []
    var k = Object.keys(this.table);
    for(var n=0;n<k.length;n++)
        this.numTable[n] = k[n];

    if(opts && typeof opts.alias == 'object') {
        // Splice in 'alias'
        for (var key in opts.alias) {
            if (!opts.alias.hasOwnProperty(key)) continue;
            this.table[key] = this.table['' + opts.alias[key]]
        }
    }
}

baseAlphabet.prototype.alphabet = '0123456789ABCDEF'
baseAlphabet.prototype.radix = 16
baseAlphabet.prototype.caseInsensitive = true

baseAlphabet.prototype.toDecimal = function(num) {
    if(typeof num == 'string') {
        if(this.caseInsensitive) {
            num = num.toUpperCase()
        }
//        console.dir(this)
        return ArbitrarySystemToDecimal(num,this.radix,this.table);
    } else {
        throw new TypeError("Bad param - not a string");
    }
}

baseAlphabet.prototype.toAlphabet = function(decnum) {
    if(typeof decnum == 'number') {
        return DecimalToArbitrarySystem(decnum,this.radix,this.numTable);
    } else {
        return new TypeError("Bad param - not a number");
    }
}

baseAlphabet.prototype.randomNumber = function(digits) {
    var max = Math.pow(this.radix,digits);
    var num = Math.random() * max;
    return this.toAlphabet(Math.round(num));
}

module.exports = {
    toBase32: toBase32,
    fromBase32: fromBase32,
    BaseAlphabet: baseAlphabet
};

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Andrew Land, 73, Brainerd
Published 12:00 am Sunday, May 7, 2006
Andrew &8220;Andy&8221; Clayton Land, 73, of Brainerd, formerly of Northwood died Friday, May 5, 2006, at the St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud.
Visitation will be held from 4 until 6 p.m. on Monday, May 8, at the Conner Colonial Chapel, 1008 First Ave. South, Northwood. Following the visitation his body will be cremated.
Memorial services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, at the Conner Colonial Chapel, 1008 First Ave. South, Northwood. Interment will be in the North Shell Rock Cemetery, rural Northwood, with military graveside honors by &8220;Our Buddies&8221; VFW Memorial Post No. 6779 of Northwood.
Andrew Land was born on April 12, 1933, in Northwood, the son of Clayton Norris and Laura (Myli) Land. He was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of his baptism through confirmation at the First Lutheran Church in Northwood. Andy attended rural country school in the Heartland Township No. 3, rural Northwood. He was inducted into the U.S. Air Force in 1952, and served during the Korean Conflict and was honorably discharged in 1962. He was united in marriage to Joanne Barbara Makela on March 31, 1956 in Duluth. She preceded him in death on March 24,
1993. Andy was inducted into the U.S. Navy in 1963, and served many tours of duty overseas, until his retirement and honorable discharge in 1974, earning many commendations as well as the Korean and Vietnam Service Medals.
After his wife's death in 1993, Andy lived with his daughters Barbara Sanchez and Lisa Mondt in Brainerd, Minn.
Andy loved woodworking, fixing small appliances, and also was a helicopter mechanic.
He was a member of First Lutheran Church in Northwood.
Left to cherish his memory are his children: Barbara Sanchez and Lisa Mondt, both of Brainerd, and Larry Land of Dallas, Texas; three grandchildren: a brother: Harry Land and his wife Mary of Swisher, Iowa; five sisters: Carolyn Kalvig and her husband Carl of Northwood, Francis Christiansen and her husband Roger of Lake Mills, Lila Funk of Charles City, Luan Sallee of Albert Lea, and Lily Anderson and her husband John of Albert Lea, as well as other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and wife Joanne.
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nine cool things on a tuesday
May 14, 2019 May 13, 2019 ~ jama
1. There's nothing ho-hum about Oregon-based ceramicist Sara Swink's work. She creates human and animal figures that tease our thinking and beg interpretation. She takes something familiar and gives it a dreamlike, bizarre, or even humorous twist. Her distinctive pieces definitely compel us to take a second or third look.
Her love of clay began when she was eight, with the encouragement of a neighbor who was a potter. She learned to throw on a potter's wheel, hand build and mix glazes in high school, even buying her own wheel with money earned cleaning houses.
Some twenty years later, she began taking ceramics classes, then studied art history, printmaking, drawing, and foundry work at several universities while teaching. Studying with Coeleen Kiebert (whose approach is to fuse artmaking with the psychology of the individual) was pivotal in shaping Sara's work. Sara's pieces can be seen as expressions of her inner psyche; there is a personal narrative that runs through all her art.
Sara opened Clay Circle Studio when she moved to the Portland area in 2006 and continues to offer workshops. Find out more about her classes at her official website, where you can also view a wonderful archive of available and past pieces.
2. New poetry book alert! You know I'm a big Andrea Potos fan, having featured her poems here several times. Her latest collection, just released last month, is Mothershell (Kelsay Books, 2019):
In this stunning, new collection by Andrea Potos, we find beautiful windows into the life of abiding love—each poem steeped in elegant imagery and story. A simple moment of sharing eggs over-easy with her mother, or witnessing her daughter's essence igniting in the Italian light, is all we need, to know the deep connection this poet has to others. Potos offers up these poems as prayer and healing. This collection is a love letter to memory, hope, and presence. She brings memories to life so vividly, that we, too, can hear her mother's voice through glittering veins of stone. Gentle in their touch, these beautifully sculpted poems pay tribute to the quiet strength needed for the loss you know is coming and the spaces left behind.
~ Cristina M. R. Norcross, editor of Blue Heron Review; author of Beauty in the Broken Places, Amnesia and Awakenings, and others
I so enjoyed Arrows of Light, Yaya's Cloth, and We Lit the Lamps Ourselves, and am looking forward to reading this new one. I like picturing Andrea writing poetry in longhand at a cozy café while eating a giant slice of blueberry or lemon meringue pie. In case you missed it, click here to read my April 2018 poetry chat with Andrea about Arrows of Light, which includes lovely pics of her and her mom.
3. Every once in awhile, a picture book will hit me just the right way, making me a total goner. I receive a fair number of review copies from publishers in the mail, and regularly borrow loads of picture books from the library. Much as I'd love to, I rarely purchase any picture books for myself because I simply do not have any more shelf space.
When I heard about Sergio Ruzzier's Good Boy on Facebook, it looked adorable, so I borrowed a copy from the library.
And I went wild — giddy with glee, "ahhh-ing" and hugging myself, then levitating like Snuffles the bloodhound in Quick Draw McGraw cartoons. Okay, you're probably too young to remember Quick Draw McGraw, but trust me, Snuffles REALLY loved dog biscuits and hugged himself so hard it made him float in the air.
Cute and adorable doesn't begin to describe this book. A heartwarming story of a boy and his dog brilliantly told with the sparest of texts — basically just one word for each spread. But the pictures! There's just something about that dog. He follows commands and is the best companion. He does things ordinary dogs don't usually do, like bow, juggle, cook, serve and clean! Then he and his boy have some adventures, sailing the high seas and building their own rocket ship to fly to the moon.
I know there are a lot of boy and his dog stories out there, but as I said, something about these two really got to me. The endearing posturing, facial expressions, the big heart of a child and steadfast loyalty of a dog are all there. The bonding! This is picture book writing and illustrating at its best: the narrative unfolds beautifully with perfect pacing and humor incorporated at just the right places.
Of course I threw caution to the wind: I simply had to buy my own copy. If you haven't already seen this book, you must! But don't take my word for it. Read this excellent review of Good Boy at Librarian's Quest. Margie writes the BEST reviews, and as a diehard dog lover, she agrees that this is a masterfully created book.
4. Have you ever wondered what toys do at night? Children's author and artist Barbara Younger recently finished a series of 16 paintings for the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough, North Carolina, in coordination with their current "Let's Play: Children's Toys and Games" exhibit, which features antique toys and games from local collectors.
Barbara's series, called "Toys Escaping," will be on display through October, and the paintings can be purchased at the museum or via Barbara's website. All proceeds will benefit children's programming.
"Ms. Bear Moves into the Oval Office"
"Snuggle Bunny Escapes the Nursery"'
Each of Barbara's charming acrylics tells a bit of a story, and are perfect for a child's room. Of course whimsically-minded adults may very well wish to add one of these delightful pieces to their private collections. 🙂
"Play Dough Flowers in a Play Dough Pot Decorate the Palace of a Real Queen"
"The Marbles Have a Field Day"
Large paintings are $60 (2 for $100), and small are $45 (2 for $70). Barbara will ship for an additional $10. Here's a nice chance to own some original art while supporting a good cause. Check out the entire series at Barbara's site. Best to hurry before these toys get away!
Guess which painting is Mr Cornelius's favorite? 🙂
5. Yes, yes, it's time for food. How about some PIE?
Not just any pie, but an awe-inspiring pie by Seattle-based writer, artist and self taught baker Lauren Ko (lokokitchen).
Now, we've seen many talented pie artists out there, who create beautiful crust designs using cookie cutter leaves, flowers, hearts, etc. Lauren's pies are all about mathematical precision. She loves geometric patterns and textiles, creating her intricate designs with lattices and cut fruit.
It all started several years ago, when Lauren, who's originally from San Diego, moved to Seattle. Unemployed, she had lots of time on her hands and had seen a pretty pie crust on Pinterest, wondering if she could replicate it. She wasn't an avid baker at the time, just someone who wanted to try something new.
In the Fall of 2017, she posted her first pie photo on Instagram with a punny caption. Within a couple of months, DesignMilk and Buzzfeed had shared her photos and her following exploded by the tens of thousands. She's since been featured by other national and international media outlets, including Vogue, Oprah Magazine, and the Washington Post, and has done television appearances.
Right now, Lauren doesn't sell her pies, and she has no aspirations to publish a pie cookbook or open a bakery. She currently has close to 300,000 Instagram followers, who are eating up every single pie design she serves up.
Learn more about what happens "When All Hell Bakes Loose" in this video:
Follow Lauren on Instagram and check out her Official Website.
6. Now for a bit of stunning beauty courtesy of Scotland-based artist Angie Lewin, who creates limited edition linocut, wood engraving, lithograph and screen prints. I had just ordered a copy of Mark Hearld's The Lumber Room: Unimagined Treasures from St. Jude's online gallery, when I chanced upon Angie's linocut print, "The Gardener's Arms":
It took my breath away with its gentle colors, delicacy and intricate details and design — so exquisite! The still life composition features a cherished jug Angie received from a friend a few years ago, along with teasels, echinops, and other seedheads gathered from the artist's own garden. How much do I love that Angie is an avid ceramics collector? 🙂
I had visited the St. Jude's site several times before because of Mark Hearld's and Emily Sutton's work, never realizing that it was Angie and her husband Simon who had founded the gallery back in 2005. If you haven't already visited St. Jude's, please do — they feature the very best of British printmaking.
You can learn more about Angie Lewin's work at her Official Website, and of course purchase her prints at St. Jude's. Many of her sold out editions are now available as fine art greeting cards, notebooks or postcards from such sites at Art Angels, Blank Card Company, and One Brown Cow.
7. Have you seen the movie or broadway musical, "Waitress"? I haven't seen the musical but I LOVED the movie (my introduction to Nathan Fillion). 🙂
On my Wish List is Sugar, Butter, Flour: The Waitress Pie Book (Pam Krauss/Avery, 2017). These recipes were created by Sheri Castle and inspired by main character Jenna Hunterson.
The official tie-in to Broadway's hit musical Waitress, featuring the recipes for 3 dozen of the show's most evocative and delicious pies.
In the cult classic movie-turned-Broadway production, the eternally optimistic protagonist of Waitress expresses her hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations through the whimsically named pies she bakes each morning. Sugar, Butter, Flour celebrates this art of baking from the heart, with foolproof and flavorful pies for seduction, pies for mending a broken heart, pies for celebrating new beginnings and pies for all the little milestones that come afterwards. Taking its inspiration from the iconic mile-high pies of the diner case, Sugar, Butter, Flour offers an array of showstopping pies, each with a twist that puts it over the top; from rum-spiked cookie crusts to hidden layers of passion fruit preserves, these are familiar favorites with hidden depths. The ideal gift for anyone who has ever eaten her feelings or baked away the blues, Sugar, Butter, Flour proves there's a perfect pie for every occasion – and that everything looks better with pie.
It's so much fun hearing the names of some of the pies:
Big Guy Strawberry Pie, The Apple of My Eye Rum Raisin Hand Pies, Sweet Victory Pie, I Wanna Play Doctor with My Gynecologist Chocolate Mousse Pie, Getting Out of the Mud Frozen Mud Pie, Life's Just Peachy-Keen Polka-Dot Peach Pie.
I'll take a big slice of each, please. Mmmmmmm, pie!
8. New Book Alert! Look what's coming out a week from today: Paper Mice by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Phoebe Wahl (Paula Wiseman Books/ S&S, 2019)!!
It's the middle of the night, and two paper mice find adventure—and each other—as they explore their new home in this beautifully written, stunningly illustrated story of friendship.
With a snip and a clip, two paper mice are made. They are given names: Della and Ralph. Each alone, they explore their new house in the dark. Della dashes up the stairs; Ralph skitters through the dining room. There is so much to see and so much to discover!
But a big, dark house can be scary for those so small, until they find…each other.
Beautiful, cut-paper illustrations bring to life this lyrical story of adventure and friendship.
I can't say I'm familiar with Megan's other picture books, but I am a huge Phoebe Wahl fan, so I'm excited about seeing this new one. Loved Phoebe's debut, Sonya's Chickens, as well as her recent Backyard Fairies. Can't wait!
9. My, my, my, look what's coming to Netflix on June 12: "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story" by Martin Scorsese!!
Billed as "part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream," the film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975, and will include remarks from the man himself, along with other performers on the tour, including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott (also special guests Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, and Patti Smith).
If you're a Dylan fan, you're probably familiar with Scorsese's previous Dylan documentary, "No Direction Home," (2005). What I liked best about it was the rare footage of Dylan speaking on camera (probably the most I've ever heard him discuss the early days of his career). Just to hear Dylan say anything at all is pretty remarkable, since he's notoriously interview adverse.
And there's more: a new 14-CD box set, "Bob Dylan — The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings," a companion piece to the Netflix film, will be released on June 7 (available now for pre-order).
A comprehensive anthology of music from the mythic first leg of Bob Dylan's groundbreaking Rolling Thunder Revue, this 14CD box set includes all five of Dylan's full sets from that tour that were professionally recorded. The collection also provides the listener with an intimate insider's seat for recently unearthed rehearsals at New York's S.I.R. studios and the Seacrest Motel in Falmouth, MA plus a bonus disc showcasing one-of-a-kind performances from the tour.
The collection features 148 tracks in all, with more than 100 of those never previously released. Included in the box set is a 52-page booklet featuring rare and never-before-seen Rolling Thunder Revue photos and a revelatory essay by novelist/musician Wesley Stace.
What made the Rolling Thunder Revue so unique? Read on:
Launched in the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue flouted the touring conventions of the time by featuring an eclectic cast of characters and playing small and unusual venues with little advance notice. The shows would often stretch to more than four hours long, generating some of the artist's most dramatic and dynamic on-stage performances ever. Dylan debuted the new songs he'd written for his forthcoming Desire album (which became one of the most acclaimed and popular in his canon) with a fire and intensity that Dylan had reached ten years earlier with his incendiary tours with musicians who became The Band. He also took wild, interpretative rides through his back catalog and broke out some unexpected covers.
Sounds like a cool film and an epic box set (also on my Wish List).
Bob Dylan will turn 78 on May 24.
**BONUS COOL THING!**
❤ Favorite artist/illustrator Emily Sutton has a brand new website and it's a beauty! Now all her picture books, editorial/commercial illustration projects, paintings, prints, and product designs are all showcased in one place. And there's even a SHOP where you can purchase her prints!
Give yourself a treat and have a good look around (don't miss her paintings section with gorgeous views of Venice, Rome, France, Suffolk, and Yorkshire + transferware). It will make you happy to know that despite the darkness and hate we keep hearing about on the news, there are artists truly dedicated to making the world a more beautiful place. Internalize some of that beauty, positivity, and love as you go about your day and pass it on however you can.
Finally, since it's Bob Dylan's birthday on the 24th, it's only fitting that we feature one of his compositions as our BLUE SONG this month.
Even't if it wasn't a "blue song," I would count "Tangled Up in Blue" as one of my all time favorite Dylan tunes. He has famously said it took him "ten years to live and two years to write." It's considered "one of the clearest examples of Dylan's attempts to write multi-dimensional songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space."
In a 1978 interview, Dylan explained this style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today, and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening."
He was influenced by his study of Cubist painters, and he told one reporter that he wrote "Tangled Up in Blue" after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell's "Blue" album. This song appeared on Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album (1975), and this particular performance was part of his Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
READ GOOD BOOKS
EAT GOOD FOOD
TICKLE SOMEBODY
THINK BLUE
BELIEVE IN BLUE
P.S. I've now had a chance to get a good look at you, and I've decided you're a COOL THING too. 🙂
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20 thoughts on "nine cool things on a tuesday"
So many cool things! I think I NEED that book "Sugar Butter Flour." Thanks for collecting all this great stuff!
Yes, I need that one too. 🙂
A collection of marvels! So much to love here, Jama.
Glad you enjoyed, Tabatha!
Matt Forrest Esenwine says:
I was going to say today's post takes the cake – but it actually takes the PIE! Love both pie posts, as well as Mark & Angie's work. thanks for sharing!
LOL. Yes, it takes the PIE (which I actually prefer over cake, don't tell anyone) . . .
lindabaie says:
So many beautiful things, Jama. The picture books are on their way from my library. And, to let you know that I finished The President's Kitchen Cabinet by Adrian Miller & loved it. Also, a friend from the bookstore has had a meal with him & he went to the same high school my daughter & son went to. Small world! I loved the two pie shares, too, and see that one appears to be a key lime pie, my favorite! Thanks for each part, all terrific!
Wow, you're a speedy reader — I haven't seen Miller's book yet and you've already finished it. And how fun too about your friend, son and daughter — indeed a small world.
Kathy Mazurowski says:
So much to take in on this cool Tuesday! Fabulous as always, Jama.
Hope you had a good Tuesday, Kathy!! Enjoy the rest of the week. 🙂
Barbara Younger says:
Thank you for featuring my escaping toys. I'm honored to be included with so many other cool things. The museum director is delighted and will feature the post on their website tomorrow. Thank you so much!
Wow, that's cool, Barbara! You may have to paint a giant net next to catch those runaway toys . . .
jeanjames926 says:
I'm seriously on cool things overload! What a delicious post…and I do mean the pie and the art! Fantastic!
Cool things overload is a good thing, and so are PIE and ART in any form. Thanks for visiting!
mariagianferrari says:
How wonderful to see Paper Mice here, Jama!! I am a friend of Megan's, and you'll love her other picture books: Finding Wild, Fort Building Time (both illustrated by Abigail Halpin) & Building Books (Brianne Farley). She's also a local VA author, and she has a graphic novel coming out too called Allergic (in 2021 I think)!!
Those pies are mind-boggling! She must have a steady hand to be so precise, and the mind of an engineer! Cool!
And I LOVE the ceramics, especially that cute teapot. Thanks for all the cool stuff this Tuesday :)!!
Small world — I'll have to look for Megan's books!
Andrea Potos says:
Thrilled to have my new book of poems on your gorgeous blog Jama! You truly are an inspiration to all creators!!!
Just starting reading some of the poems — *swoon*
Oh, there is a staggering amount of goodness in this post. I need three or four days just to immerse myself in all of it. 🙂
Take as much time as you want! 🙂


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Portrait of Nikolai Leskov
Russian Impressionist Painter, 1865-1911 Related Paintings of Valentin Serov :. | Domotkanovo, | Portrait of the Artist Isaac Levitan | Autumn Evening. Domotcanovo | In Winter | Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina |
Ivana Kobilca
Ivana Kobilca (20 December 1861 - 4 December 1926) was a Slovene realist painter who lived, worked and studied in various European cities including Vienna, Sarajevo, Berlin, Paris and Munich. She was a member of Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Many of her paintings are still lifes, portraits or country settings. She later tended toward impressionism. Her best known paintings are Kofetarica (Coffeemadam), 1888; Citrarica (The Zitherist), Likarice (Women Ironers), 1891; Holandsko dekle (A Dutch Girl), Portret sestre Fani (Portrait of Sister Fani), 1889; and Poletje (Summer), 1889.
Johnson, Frank Tenney
American Painter, 1874-1939 was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes. Johnson was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, on his family's farm along the old Overland Trail near a town then called Big Grove and now known as Oakland. Johnson's mother died in December 1886, and by 1888 the family had moved to Milwaukee. There, in 1893, he enrolled in the Milwaukee School of Art (absorbed by Milwaukee State Normal School in 1913), where he studied with a well-known painter of western subjects, Richard Lorenz.
Makart, Hans
Austrian Academic Painter, 1840-1884 Austrian painter. He studied (1860-65) at the Akademie in Munich under the history painter Karl Theodor von Piloty whose influence is evident in Makart's Death of Pappenheim (1861; Vienna, Hist. Mus.). Makart visited London and Paris in 1862 and Rome in 1863. The Papal Election (1863-5; Munich, Neue Pin.) reveals Makart's skill in the bold use of colour to convey drama as well as his virtuoso draughtsmanship. Two decorative triptychs, Modern Cupids (1868; Vienna, Zentsparkasse), and the Plague in Florence (1868; Schweinfurt, Samml. Schefer), brought Makart both fame and disapproval (mostly because they lacked a literary original) when exhibited in Munich in 1868. His plan for the second work


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Two grandfathered wineries are holding up the creation of a long awaited Calistoga AVA in Napa Valley. Calistoga Cellars and Calistoga Estates both use the Calistoga name but are not located there nor do they use 75% of grapes from the would-be viticulture area. The current law does not allow wineries to use misleading names but since these wineries were in existence prior to the 1986 law they are grandfathered in. Bo Barrett of Chateau Montelena has been leading the charge for a Calistoga AVA and is even trying to line up grape sources for the wineries that don't meet the requirements. And so the saga continues.
nzhwyActually, Calistoga Cellars is located in Calistoga on Tubbs lane. Calistoga Estate Vineyards is also located in Calistoga on Silverado Trail. I don't believe either winery has ' grandfather' rights as neither was arround prior to 1986. And yes neither winery sources 75% of their fruit from Calistoga. Also Calistoga Cellers is in the process of opening a tasting room on Lincoln, the main street in downtown Calistoga.
Neither Calistoga Cellars nor Calistoga Estate operate a winery. Neither is currently "grandfathered" though their alternate proposal essentially requests their future grandfathering. Meanwhile generations of bona-fide Calistoga growers and wineries find their Calistoga AVA elusive. Wines marketed under these brands are not produced in Calistoga nor the Napa Valley. In fact, the Calistoga Cellars group recently sold their small facility (basically a tasting room) on Tubbs Lane however THEY RETAINED the Calistoga Cellars brand! Now wouldn't Fred Franzia, the largest grape grower in California drool shamelessly over the prospect of acquiring a brand projecting the image of Napa Valley wine (such as Calistoga Cellars or Calistoga Estate for instance)to foist his California Central Valley wines upon unsuspecting customers?
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Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
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A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.


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Gary Rollins was bornon August 30, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Billionaire brothers Randall and Gary Rollins preside over Orkin, the biggest pest control company by revenues in North America. The bug-killing business is booming: in April 2017, the company reported its 44th consecutive quarter of sales and earnings growth. Of the 14 subsidiaries under the Atlanta- headquartered Rollins Inc. umbrella, exterminator Orkin is the best known. The company was founded by their father and uncle, who bought several local radio stations and named it Rollins Broadcasting. It went public in 1961.
Gary W. Rollins was born on August 30, 1944. His Father was O. Wayne Rollins and his mother, Grace Crum Rollins.
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