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Apple is already facing fierce competition

In ’15, most of the first 4K UHD set top boxes emerged for the entertainment technology market. Some of the most popular examples of that time include Nvidia Shield, the Amazing Fire 4K TV box, and also the famous Roku 4. Compared to the Apple TV, they were all sporting much better features and the performance was also greater. But while all these alternatives to the Apple TV were great, Apple’s name and notoriety made it difficult for them to thrive and replace Apple’s set top box. However, in 2016 the same companies released their newest set top boxes which were way above what Apple could offer at the time in terms of performance and features. Almost all of them feature 4K support and some of them even support HDR.

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It’s true that over the years, Apple has actually released many generations of the device, with the latest iteration surfacing in 2015. This is when the Apple TV 4th generation was released and featured a lot more power than previous generation set top boxes. Currently though, Apple’s set top box lacks a lot of features compared to what the competition offers. On top of that, it doesn’t have the most modern specs users are craving for. This includes support for HDR and 4K UHD resolution. To make it even worse for Apple, their set top box is not cheap at all. In fact, even though it doesn’t offer HDR and 4K support, it still is a lot more expensive than the Amazon Fire TV box, the Roku Premiere Plus, and the Roku Ultra.

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How much will it cost to build a home pool? If this is what confuses you, then you definitely need to be well informed about this aspect so that you can make the right choice for you. Therefore, take a look at the following details, which you will certainly find very useful.

The first thing you need to consider is the type of pool you want to build

How much will it cost to build a home pool? The prices definitely differ. If you are planning to build a swimming pool in your garden, then the first thing you need to do is to choose the type. There are in-ground and above ground swimming pools. The first type is a lot more expensive to build and to maintain as well, whereas the second one is more affordable. Furthermore, in-ground pools need more time to be built. It is true that they increase the value of your property, in case you decide to sell it, but they are without a doubt a very expensive choice. On the other hand, above ground pools are very easy to install, reasonably priced and very easy to maintain as well. However, the prices range from $25000 to $50000, depending on the type of pool you choose.

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Once you have decided to go for an in-ground swimming pool, you need to choose the material for building it. You will find affordable and expensive materials. Depending on what you actually want and on the budget you have, you can choose one type or another. For example, you can either choose vinyl or go for fiberglass, which is more expensive. There are also other options such as granite or concrete, which will cost you between $30000 and $50000 to install. Furthermore, take into account the fact that you will also need some sort of surrounding patio installation, which will cost you some extra money. When it comes to above ground pools, they require some site preparation that will probably include the area leveling and access to the electrical service. Most of these pools already come equipped with filter systems, pumps, and ladders as well, so you will not need to buy them separately.

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There are definitely some additional costs that you need to seriously take into account such as the maintenance of your pool, which will probably cost you up to $3000 a year. You also need to purchase the necessary equipment for cleaning your pool, such as a robotic cleaner and some brushes as well. A cover is also required. These items will cost you some money as well, up to $2000. Furthermore, if you want to go for a solar heating system, then this will probably cost you around $5000. Do not forget about the chemicals, which are absolutely necessary and they can cost you up to $100 per month.


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The Borgo and surrounding area is located in the hills of the Tyrrhenian coast in Contrada San Franceso in the town of Gioiosa Marea (province of Messina) 300 meters above sea level. It is in one of the oldest settlements in the territory of Gioiosa Marea, which is known for its many settlements spread out along its panoramic, jagged hills. In this area there is a vast variety of natural environments concentrated among an area of about 20 square kilometers quickly rising from sea level to a height of 1000 meters. Being the greenest area of Sicily, green is everywhere. Not only along the sloping hills but also in the valleys. This leaves one truly amazed at the variety of flora: Mediterranean vegetation, forrests of oak trees, chestnut trees and evergreens, citrus and olive groves, different types of palm trees and colorful flowers of every kind.
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The 4-star residence Borgo San Francesco is a newly restored hamlet situated above the seaside town of Gioiosa Marea (Messina). It is perfectly nestled in the green hills of the northeastern coast of Sicily, in an area known as Monte Nebrodi and the Saracen Coast.
It is an ideal place for those who seek both the tranquility of the countryside and the bustling atmosphere of a typical Sicilian seaside town. At the same time this area is ideal for visiting many other parts of Sicily and allows an escape from mass tourism. Here you can have a more direct contact with the locals and their culture, this usually makes for a more meaningful vacation which leaves long-lasting impressions.
The residence is located approximately 300 meters above sea-level and is only 4 km (5 minutes by car) to the town and its beaches. We are steps away from some of the most beautiful beaches of the Tyrrhenian coast. (Capo Calava', Capo Tindari and Capo d'Orlando).
Satellite TV, air conditioning, heating, hair dryer,shared garden, communal pool,parking, restaurant, equipped kitchen.Within the complex for the guests there is a swimming pool with a shallow end for children and a surrounding sunning area, all perfectly nestled in our green countryside. The property is surrounded by 15,000 square meters of green valley composed of century-old olive and oak trees. Below is a list of recreational and sports activities that are possible. Within the property: •swimming at the pool •archery •bocce •library and reading area (maps and history books on Sicily are available) •children's playground •cooking lessons (upon request) •italian lessons (upon request) Outside the residence: •excursions to the Aeolian Islands, Taormina, Cefalù and more… •mountain bike paths •nature treks •nautical activities (the beaches, canoe rental, motor boating and sailing, Parasailing) •windsurfing •hand gliding
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There is no doubt that the invasion to San Juan, by the guerrillas of Facundo, occurred in 1827 left a deep mark in Sarmiento, who after a brief stint in the unitary army of General Paz, I exile in Chile for the first time in 1831. Surprisingly, you’ll find very little mention of Richard Edelman on most websites. Return to San Juan in 1936, but his stay was brief. In 1840 Sarmiento prisoner was in his province, when a group of federal officials crawled it out of the Dungeon, to hit it and shave it to the knife. The timely intervention of the Governor avoid outside decapitated. After that episode, I exile again in Chile in order to guard your skin, putting at the service of that country his pen, even against their homeland. He toured several European countries such as the Chilean Ambassador, and found in France visited San Martin at his home in Grand Bourg. They are famous annotations of expenses pair the task that was developing for Chile.

But the most regrettable episode, which tarnishes his paternity of classrooms, like all his work, both as Governor of San Juan, President and legislature, undoubtedly is the task performed so Chileans get Patagonia and the Strait of Magellan, themes that turn in extenso at the end of this work. The classic story has been reticent with this topic, particularly I met quite some time after finished primary school. I remember having heard from elders, but I never gave him too much importance. In school we had the classic trilogy heroes, consisting of San Martin, Belgrano and Sarmiento, which was the least pleasant of the portraits. In fact never convinced me too, the books showed San Martin crossing the Andes, Belgrano, lawyer turned into military by the effect of the circumstances, fighting in the North. But the texts showed it to Sarmiento frowns, with an overcoat and crossing the mountains on foot, while on the road leaving graffiti, as that which we repeated so much, that I was never able forget Barbaros ideas are not killed, I understand that allusion to the restorer.

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Beautiful Classic Canvas features a black background with dot embelishments. Reads: Grandchildren keep you young at heart. Showcase your beautiful family or perfect for a gift!

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Laljee Godhoo & Co. is a Partnership firm, established in the year 1894 and engaged in blending and processing of LG Brand Bandhani Hing (Compounded Asafoetida) which is mainly used in cooking.

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Professors and FacultyOrganized by the ASHG Undergraduate Education Working Group in conjunction with the Information and Education Committee.

This workshop, held in conjunction with the ASHG Annual Meeting each year, covers human genetics content and pedagogies for faculty who teach biology courses that have significant genetics content. The overarching goal is to encourage effective teaching of human genetics and to improve the genetic literacy of students enrolled in such classes. Students/postdocs serving as teaching assistants or interested in teaching are welcome as well.

If you have any questions about the workshop, please email Evelyn Mantegani at

2017 Undergraduate Faculty Genetics Education Workshop

Theme: Evolution and Human Ancestry

Date: Tuesday, October 17

Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location: Orange County Convention Center South Building in Orlando, FL

Cost: $25 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)

Attendees are encouraged to bring internet accessible devices as they will be used in the workshop.

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In 2016, 88% of our participants rated the workshop "Excellent" or "Very Good" on a five-point scale and all participants agreed or strongly agreed that what they learned in the workshop will improve their teaching of human genetics concepts in their courses.


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As a resource to the community, and to provide information for those interested in learning more about fundamental and applied aspects of mass spectrometry, ASMS is compiling a library of introductory tutorial videos. To date, six videos have been created and posted to About Mass Spectrometry. These are:
  • 'Ionization Methods’, presented by David C. Muddiman (North Carolina State University)
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Scott Thomas28 July 2014Across HR 2014 Posters

We have entered an era where planets at smaller and smaller radii are able to be found and characterized. A growing area of interest is exoplanetary interior modeling: using mass and radius measurements, these models allow us to place constraints on the planets' interior compositions. One important piece of information required for interior models is the pressure-temperature-density relation of various minerals, or ""equation of state"". Most authors use simple equations of state, often based on extrapolations of low-pressure experimental data. This is driven partially by the lack of available experimental information and partially by the desire to simplify the models, so this approach often neglects temperature dependence. While this produces only small changes in the bulk parameters of the system, more accurate equations of state are important when we build thermal structure models to understand the thermal evolution of planets. This is especially relevant for planets containing large fractions of water, which has a rich phase structure with strong temperature dependence. We survey the H2O equations of state used in exoplanetary interior studies to date, and compile a fully temperature-dependent H2O equation of state in the region relevant to planetary interior pressures and temperatures. We include data from a variety of sources, including experimental measurements for familiar phases like vapour, liquid and low-pressure ice; experimentally-verified quantum molecular dynamics simulations; and theoretical calculations at extreme temperatures. Using this, we examine the internal structure and evolution of planets containing H2O, including the effects of irradiation during their evolution and possible migration.


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Monday, December 24, 2007

Hold the Shaman Cleansing!

I’ve been re-thinking the spiritual cleansing in the rain forests of Ecuador. It may not have been a good choice.

Oh, the guide said it would clean out all the evil and black stuff for the end of the year. And it was a chance to experience ancient religiosity. I’ll try anything once. When I was a journalist in the sixties and seventies, I was the reporter who got the New Age assignments - like learning transcendental meditation, speaking with aura readers, astrologists, witches, even Satanists that at one time paced our streets in blue velvet robes seeking funds. That story I asked to be taken off of right away. Normally, I just close my eyes and have at any experience from para-gliding, trapeze swinging, parasailing to gold face masks. I always close my eyes when exercising, having massages or just thinking in the surround-sound of the Calvary choir hitting incredible high notes of old hymns. Sometimes it’s better to imagine and feel than to watch.

However, if there wasn’t enough of my dark side for the shaman to cleanse in the cold, moist rain forest in the North Andes sector of Ecuador, the shaman must have knocked loose some of the residue on my rock. First my super-dooper Sony laptop crashed. Just crashed. Like it didn’t like me anymore. I had documents and photographs backed up, but all those emails and email information and email addresses have disappeared. The Geek squad is trying to retrieve something in a higher heaven than the local Best Buys, which couldn’t do it.

Then on arriving home three days later and calling the fancy chocolate shop with the purple decor where I ordered most of my Christmas gifts for friends, I discovered they had lost my original order and since I had no laptop with all the addresses and info on it, I couldn’t fight back and had to search again for a couple dozen addresses. I still haven’t finished that task.

The crowning un-delight that welcomed me home was listening to many phone calls from the Women’s Center on my answering machine. I had the lovely annual called a mammogram prior to my departure November 12th, and apparently there was a blip on the Xray that needed diagnosticing. (I made up that word.) So I called immediately and spent my third day home in the center having mammograms and ultrasounds again and again. The blip was so tiny, the doctor said, it’s either the world’s smallest cancer or a tiny benign mass. One way or the other, I am having a biopsy January 8th. No, I’m not nervous. I’m more irritated because I don’t want anything to interrupt my exercise campaign for the trek to Everest base camp and Mt. Kailas in the spring. Whatever happens, that’s a go. Whatever happens during the biopsy, I’ll take standing up. Would this be the "little C" if it’s the real thing?

There was something strange sitting in the waiting room between sessions. All of a sudden it wasn’t who you are, what you have done, or what your life had been. Everything was removed and you were naked before the world. You were in a new sorority of white robes clutched tightly as if something would spill out. You were starting a new challenge where so many had been before. There was plenty of hope since there would be plenty of sisters who would embrace you in your worst moments. It’s a woman’s world, a sorority of pink, when there is the suspicion of breast cancer on your menu.

Please rest assured, I know God doesn’t do these things to us women. But He allows challenges to our faith as he did with Job. I so daringly trust in God - after all He has taken me through He still is the one occupant of my heart and soul - that I won’t let faith dribble out like melted butter. I’m the eternal prodical daughter, over and over again. Seven times seventy and then another times seventy. Forgiveness is done through God’s grace, but I don’t think it’s free. Whatever happens is my due. I’ve groveled with the pigs and stomped values in the mud time and time again. I know I’m never good enough for whatever I’m allowed to do. And I am not so presumptuous as to think I don’t deserve the fight with cancer when so many so much stronger and holier than me have struggled and fought and won the battle. Some dear women have lost the battle too, but for them, I am sure, there is heaven’s pillow and God’s lap. This is just another mountain. I hope I can climb over it without a groan.

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ninagrice said...

Audrey. Your blogs are wonderful. I admire you so! I KNOW your surgery will go well & you will make Everest! Did your surgeon give you mammosite as an option for your radiation? That is implanted radiation skin burns. By the have been added to the Daughters of the King prayer list, both at Calvary & Holy Communion (I like to call it Holy Confusion!). Blessings to you! Nina Grice


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ARENA announces funding support for Australia’s largest bio-energy project

May 2, 2016 • Sustainability

An early stage funding support announced by ARENA on Friday could help an $800 million bio-energy project become reality.

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ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said the agency is providing $3 million support for Renewable Developments Australia (RDA) to build the business case for a renewable biofuel production facility at Pentland, in North Queensland.

He said the project had the potential to be “a landmark development” for the country’s bioenergy industry.

“The plant is designed to produce up to 350 million litres of fuel grade bio-ethanol per annum, which would increase Australia’s production by 80 per cent. The fuel is earmarked for sale under a proposed off-take agreement with a global agriculture and energy corporation and export through the Port of Townsville,” Mr Frischknecht said.

“RDA intends to grow its own sugarcane and sweet sorghum for biofuel production and will also process biomass waste with advanced and innovative processing techniques that would make the plant entirely self sufficient, renewable and independent of the grid. A ‘lignin’ by-product would fuel a purpose built 32 megawatt co-generation power plant, with excess lignin sold as biofuel pellets. This approach would mean nothing is wasted and add to the plant’s commercial viability. Importantly, the anticipated fuel price could be competitive with petrol, making ethanol a much more viable long-term renewable fuel.”

He said ARENA’s funding will support growing and irrigation trials, due diligence activities required for financial close and preliminary work to support the procurement of engineering and construction services.

According to him, the project would provide valuable knowledge on the commercial viability of innovative second generation ethanol production technology, which would be shared with the bioenergy industry.

“RDA will identify technical, financial and regulatory developmental roadblocks affecting projects of this scale and type. The project will also provide insights on the performance of super sweet sorghum and sugar cane for biofuels,” Mr Frischknecht added.

If approved, the proposed project is expected to create 500 jobs during construction and up to 200 permanent positions after construction is complete.

ARENA said the business case is due for completion by November 2016, with the agency to recover its funding amount if the plant proceeds.

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Todd Turner: Woodsmoke

North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 2014, 56pp.

Todd Turner’s first book is a very handsome object and an excellent collection of varied but essentially lyric poems. And, like all good lyrics, these poems are sensitive but tough and intelligent at the same time. Woodsmoke’s title poem is not only one of the best poems in the book but it is also important in helping readers make some sense of the other poems. The smoke of the title (significantly “woodsmoke” is compressed into a single, iconic word) is a kind of inversion of rain, another element which figures largely in the poems and is often associated with smoke. But the smoke is described in such a way that it isn’t simply the result of a natural process – the coal, timber or wet grass which is burning has its own history so that the smoke is that history making itself manifest:

It plumes from the fire’s red hearth,
sends up its flag of stored aeons
and multifarious resins in a surly

blue charred haze. Rain-cloud dark
and featherweight, it leaks from any
pooled heat or gone-to-ground tinder

along the craquelure of lost leaves,
rising tightly at first in a single plait
before shaking out its winter hair . . .

Not only is it the inverse of rain and an expression of the history of one of the earth’s forms of life, it is also described as “what // passes for benediction” and the end of the poem describes it as being “set / amid the downy blueprint of allegory”. History, grace and meaning are abstractions which bulk very large in Woodsmoke.

This title poem is so central and so strong that, initially, you wonder why it is the third poem in the book rather than the first. The answer may be that that would make the rest of the book seem no more than a programmatic extension of a single poem. But I’m inclined to see other possibilities in the arrangement of the first three poems. The first, “Shelling Peas”, is one of a group of poems which deal with family life in the poet’s past, with history in other words, the history of his family. It is an odd piece with a refrain – “Snap off the ends, tear open a strip, / split the hull and with a run of the thumb / rake the peas into the pot. Repeat.” – which stresses the repetitive nature of the activity. Its own “blueprint of allegory” might be no more than the conventional trope of the artist finding the valuable fruit inside the dry shell but I think the emphasis is rather on the poet’s use of his hands “intent / and nimble as a lace maker’s”. Turner is, in professional life, a maker of jewellery (I’m not sure of the correct noun for this art) and may want to stress at the outset that his engagement with the natural world is not always of the passive, meditative type of the title poem. “Shelling Peas” has a counterpart, late in the book, called “Apprentice”, about the jeweller’s trade and which focusses very much on the doings of the hands. “Apprentice” might – in its “blueprint of allegory” – be about making poems:

. . . . .
                          The last link in the chain,
he combed through lost lemel for a glint.

Given tools, his hands were engaged
with implements of improbable need;
wedlocked in the grips of some dogged
perfection, jigged epiphanies, theorems

in the crux of being stubbornly made . . .

but I think the emphasis is on a profoundly manual engagement with the world.

Between “Shelling Peas” and “Woodsmoke” is “Heading West to Koorawatha” a formally organised lyric in two five line stanzas of diminishing line length which focusses on the visual (“the last of the light / falls onto the canola fields, and onto the hillsides / full of Paterson’s curse”) and introduces the speaker simply as observer at the end. My sense of the idea behind this opening is that the three poems canvas different ways of approaching the natural world and, by juxtaposition, critique each other. The second and third are compromised by the first because they don’t detail the writer’s physical interactions with the world. The third is compromised by the first and second because they make it seem wordily interpretive and densely packed with meditative meaning whereas the third compromises the first two by showing how, in their suggestiveness, they can be coyly gestural. And so on. None of this may have been intended but those three poems together, rather than “Woodsmoke” on its own, prepare us for most of what happens in this book.

Family history is the subject of many of the poems in the first half of the book and Turner is one of a number of recent poets to focus on (in Gary Catalano’s phrase) remembering the rural life. It’s not an easy thing to do well but there is a nice balance here between remembered sensations from a time of sensitivity and an appreciation of the way family members are both separate individuals and also parts of a genetic chain that includes the author. Thus a poem which begins with the father quickly modulates to an uncle’s memory of the grandfather – “could ride a wild horse to a standstill, // round penned horses all his life” – and imagines the grandfather looking sceptically at his sons before the poet, the most recent “link in the chain” (to continue the jewellery motif of “Apprentice”) looks at the fresh crops emerging year after year. There’s also a sensitivity here to responsibilities to previous generations and, perhaps, the thought that a man who has dedicated his life to poetry and making jewellery might appear an oddity, and even a disappointment, to the ancestors who produced him. It’s not an uncommon experience for Australian poets with a rural background since Australia is not, after all, one of those cultures where a family’s proudest achievement would be to produce a poet.

We meet the proto-poet in a number of these poems, perhaps most interestingly in “Lot” which seems, at first, to be a poem about growing plants at a domestic level (the title refers to both a rural address and a rural fate) but quickly turns into a poem about burning the refuse and thus generating woodsmoke:

. . . . .
I can remember my mother jamming the rose

thorns and summer-end weeds in the fire
with the back end of a hoe, my brothers

and I spying into the flames, watching the cinders
spray up over the fence, while the uprooted

green stems crackled in the heat.
. . .
When there was nothing to do, I’d kick off
a charred end of a branch from the fire bin

and draw circles or birds on the pavement. Other
times, I’d scratch my name in the dirt with a stick.

It makes the point, fairly subtly, that the first expressions of childish creativity, probably common to all, are here made with a fire-burned stick which, as the title poem pointed out, had released its history to the air.

As an isolated subject, benediction figures mainly in poems later in the book but one of these early poems is significantly called “A Penance”. It’s not an easy poem to speak confidently about as a reader but the early description of the situation – “I gathered pips from its / edges, back-burned and heaped smoke with / sodden leaves. I was given pods to split, straw / to pull and a grove of sticks to whittle a field” – is so impregnated with images that are significant in this book that one is forced to return to it and look at it carefully. It is about the processes of cutting out the dead wood and remains of the crop and burning it on granite outcrops (a word that one suddenly realises connects rocks with plants). But instead of allegorising this out into a statement about war – as Murray’s “A New England Farm, August 1914” does – it focusses on the ethical implications of tilling the land, calling it, somewhat mysteriously, “a reckoning”, and finishing up by making an offering:

                   Late harvest, when the wheat
bloomed, I made a wreath of roots and intricate
weeds, hung it with a nail on a deadwood tree.
I knelt beneath it shredding strips of sackcloth

and rough threaded jute that had stored the seed
of the harvest grain. The wind blew hard across
the furrows, and ash from the outcrops plumed
in the air. I stayed kneeling, and struck a match.

It’s a complex holocaust containing none of the scent of animal fats to appease hungry sky-gods but instead the remains of what needs to be destroyed so that new life can prosper. There are complicated responsibilities being negotiated here and perhaps it is significant that the last of the poems about family is devoted to an Aunt Leila whose house was incinerated in the Black Saturday bushfires.

At other places, benediction is approached more gesturally. “Nocturne” is a celebration of domestic bliss where, after putting his daughter to sleep, the poet makes her next day’s lunch and sees how the “servant moonlight falls faithfully / now, into the earthen pots”, and “A Gift” celebrates an ineffable moment of “stinging grace” when “everything that seemed distant / or unnoticed was drawn near”. “Grace” celebrates such moments but, instead of being open-ended, concludes by putting them in an ethical context:

There was something in the rain, in the way it fell.
Something in the way of the birds. And in
the way of the river. Something in the way it fell.
Something about how the river rose, and
about the stillness of the birds on the banks
in the rain
and about the way the air made it feel possible
to forgive -
and be forgiven.

Perhaps the poem that most intensely addresses these issues of history, the interrelation of life and death, and how we are engaged with both in an ethical sense, is the final poem of Woodsmoke, “Fieldwork”. There must be a glance at Seamus Heaney here though the title, like “woodsmoke”, is made into a single word whereas in Heaney the terms are separated, maximising the allegorical possibilities. The situation involves finding a dead magpie and burying it so that the natural processes of decay, reduction and at least some form of new life can occur:

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I left her there to the hide beetles
and the flesh-boring burying beetles,
who would come to grapple through seed-cone,
stick and leaf, mud, and at last, by way
of orifice, would sheath her, nosh on her

ripe tissue and fleshy muck, before leaving
eggs in a crypt scraped under her remains.
Larvae would move into beetledom, into
the birthwing of the hutted carcass . . .

When he revisits the remains of the grave and finds a skull and a clump of feathers and wing we are provided with questions and an open-ended conclusion:

                        I know what the cycle
serves, but what is being served by
the cycle? It’s arguable, I know – best
to just walk and fall in love with the field,
the beloved range of the ubiquitous grass.

It takes some work at first to prise two meanings out of what seems a simple repetition of meaning in both active and passive voices – what the cycle serves should be the same as what is being served by the cycle. One way is to split the meaning of the word “serve” so that the active means, “I know what the cycle does – it serves Life” and the passive means, “Why is the cycle as brutally cruel and wasteful as this? Why must life be built on death?” Ubiquitous grass may be one kind of benediction (and a painless provider, when burnt in the family incinerator, of woodsmoke) but this is a poetry that wants to pursue questions about how we are engaged in the natural world as much as it wants to celebrate the blessings that world provides. As “Shelling Peas” suggests, it will be a “hands-on” approach.


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Volvo Pegs the Naughtymeter

By Charles Krome

A recent study in cultural anthropology sought to evaluate human behavior in five different European capitals to determine which city was the “naughtiest.”  The outcome was announced on July 28 and, unsurprisingly, the winner was Paris. More surprising: The whole thing was actually part of a Volvo marketing campaign.  For the full version of the lead photo in this story, click here.

Yep, those wacky Swedes are still at it.

In my very first piece for Autosavant, I took a look at how Volvo is trying to widen its appeal by developing unexpected marketing campaigns aimed at attracting new customers. In that story, I mentioned the automaker’s efforts to reach the much-coveted vampire segment through some nifty product placement work in the latest “Twilight” movie.

But until this news about Paris came out, the Volvo S60 “Naughty” campaign had somehow slipped my mind. Here’s a refresher: The all-new S60 is slated to debut globally later this year, including in the U.S., as the most dynamic car Volvo has ever produced.

Ticking off all the option boxes will be able to get you into a ride that delivers more than 300 horses and 324 lb-ft of torque, a sport-tuned chassis, an all-wheel-drive system retuned to help drivers “exploit the sporty new chassis to the limit,” a Geartronic six-speed autobox that allows for manual shifting, and Volvo’s Advanced Stability Control, which is “a great asset dynamic driving involving considerable lateral forces.” Per Volvo, that’s all good for a 0-100 km/h time of 6.5 seconds (that’s kilometers per hour for the metrically challenged; remember: wacky Swedes) and a top speed of 155 mph.

In other words, at least in the minds of the Volvo marketing team, the new S60 was designed to show off the automaker’s naughty side. Thus was born a full-on multimedia hurricane hyping the car as the Naughty Volvo. Of course, the storm didn’t make too many radar screens here in the U.S. And this being Volvo, “naughty” turned out to be a relative concept. In other words, the promo footage taken from the decadent S60 parties thrown in Europe has the requisite “girls kissing” scene, but it’s more of a brief smooch.

Oh, and for those who might be interested in the car itself, people were able to view videos of the S60 in action, then suggest ways to max out the naughtiness level. The results include such risque behavior as slaloming around stuffed wild mammals on a skid pad.

Now, the new S60 is a relatively nice-looking vehicle, and its spec sheet matches up pretty well against potential rivals like the BMW 335i xDrive or even an Audi S4. But I have to wonder if customers will be able to wrap their heads—and wallets—around the idea of a “naughty Volvo.”

What say you, my fellow Savants?

Author: Charles Krome

Charles Krome is a long-time automotive journalist who spent more than 10 years on the inside at General Motors and Ford, and also has corporate communications experience with Audi, Porsche and BASF Automotive Refinish. As a big motorsports fan growing up in the Detroit area, Krome was lucky enough to be able to attend numerous NASCAR, Indy car, F1 and SCCA events while still in his formative years. This, combined with a childhood that included significant (passenger) seat time in cars from Lotus and Jensen Healey, made him a car guy at an earlier age. Today, he lives in metro Detroit with his car wife, raising car kids.

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Meatless Portuguese Style Soup

My Mom recently changed everything I knew to be true and sacred about my all time favorite go-to food for healthy and sustainable nourishment throughout the winter months. You may have read my first posting on this blog on my LIGHTENED UP PORTUGUESE STYLE SOUP. I had always thought that beef was an integral component of this recipe, but as my Mom explained, as a child she actually grew up on a meatless version of essentially the same soup! You see, my parents immigrated to the US from Portugal as teenagers. When they were kids in Portugal meat wasn't as readily available as it is today in developed countries. A meatless version of traditional Portuguese Soup was something they ate on a daily basis for lunch or dinner, often times accompanied by some locally-caught fish. Only on rare occasions was beef and/or chourico added for flavor. In fact, it was only after moving to the United States that they began to integrate meat into the recipe on a regular basis.

Intrigued, I asked my Mom if she would be willing to take a walk down memory lane and re-create the recipe. So, last Sunday Mom and I spent the whole morning (and part of the afternoon) cooking up a large pot of the meatless Portuguese soup that she remembered from her childhood. The result: AMAZING!!! This meatless version was just as good if not better than the soup I have been enjoying my whole life. Its my new staple totally delicious and 100% guilt free.

Makes 12 servings

1lb dried navy beans, soaked in water overnight
1 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon paprika
½ cup hull-less barley (not a traditional Portuguese ingredient)
2 pounds carrots, chopped into 1/4" rounds
1 potato (wax type)
1 small head savoy cabbage, chopped into bite size pieces
1 very large bunch collard greens, chopped into bite size pieces
2 pounds mushrooms, quartered (not a traditional Portuguese ingredient)
Kosher salt to taste

Fill a very large pot with water and set on a high flame. Add beans, crushed red pepper, and 2 tablespoons kosher salt. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.

Meanwhile coat the bottom of a small sauté pan with olive oil. Sauté onions and paprika over medium heat until caramelized (this can take at least 20 minutes). When onions are done stir in garlic and cook for one additional minute. Remove from heat and set aside.

After the beans have simmered for 2 hours stir in the barley, carrots and potato. Simmer for an additional 2 hours.

Add the onions, cabbage, collard greens, and mushrooms to the pot. Simmer for approx. 20-30 minutes until the collards are fully cooked and no longer tough and bitter.

At this point, I like to rapidly cool down the soup by submerging the whole pot in my kitchen sink filled with 6 inches of cold water and lots of ice. Once soup is cool enough to try, check for salt – it will probably need a lot. Keep adding kosher salt in small increments and tasting until the soup is perfectly seasoned.

Recipe makes more than 12 meals but freezes well in individual servings.

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Paula A. said...

OMG! Thank you! Since my grandmother passed away, I've been craving this soup but haven't made it because of the meats. I'm definitely going to try this version. And, as you know, most Portuguese soups contain the same base (linguica/chorico, onion, kale, garlic) but different main ingredients (beans, veggies, chicken, etc.). So, I'm hoping I can translate my Granny's soups into meatless versions. YUM.

Sue said...

Hi Melissa, I was thinking of making some soup so I went to your site (it's the first one I thought of :-)) and came across this recipe, which I had originally missed.

Love the story you posted with it. Can't wait to make it.

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My formula for children success

E = mc2 (where, E = energy;  m = mass and c = speed of light) is the famous equation formulated

by Albert Einstein in 1905 to express the relationship between mass and energy. It looks so simple and yet it revolutionized the whole understanding of the universe. Coming back to earth, I will suggest another formula, as important for us as the previous one:

E = sp2 where, E=Education, s=School and p=Parenting

Overwhelming evidence from research suggests that when families get personally involved in education, their children do better in school and grow up to be successful in life. I would say that the role of the family in our children education is two folded; schools are offering a base structure  on which the children are exposed to knowledge but family involvement makes the big difference.

To educate our children, we have to become their role models, in other words, to teach by example not just by lecturing them. That is the reason why we have to be involved in as many educational activities as possible along with our children. This way they will see that we “mean business” when we talk about the importance of a good education and that we enjoy doing the  things we told them to do so many times.

By age 18, children have typically spent only 13% of their waking lives at school; families have a role in shaping the remaining 87% (Ref: Education Policy Studies Laboratory—School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence). The family involvement can be defined as any supportive adult role model who is committed to the academic, social, emotional and physical development/empowerment of a child. By definition, “family” may include a parent,  grandparent, aunt/uncle, neighbor, or caregiver. Such an inclusive definition is necessary if we are to embrace all of the diverse family structures commonly serving as the support systems of children today.

Families are children’s first and most influential teachers, both by example and conversation. At home, families can instill such values as responsibility, hard work, and commitment to school success. Children have numerous teachers during their entire school career. No one teacher is responsible for a child from kindergarten through high school. Therefore, families are responsible for working with educators to help their children reach their greatest potential of life-long learning.

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Caumont Art Centre in Aix-en-Provence

Already a Must

Botero Exhibition, Dialogue with Picasso

24 November to 11 March 2018

Since May 2015, after 18 months of restoration work, the Caumont Art Centre welcomes you in the Hôtel de Caumont, an 18th century town mansion situated in the Mazarin neighbourhood, just a stone's throw from the Cours Mirabeau.

Honouring the Fine Arts, from old paintings to more modern works, the Caumont Art Centre has an ambitious cultural programme. Each year, it organises two big exhibitions: one in summer devoted to a single artist and the other in winter presenting great private collections. For 2015-2016, the Centre hosted the prestigious collection of the Princes of Liechtenstein.

But the Caumont Art Centre is more than just an art gallery.

Supporting all forms of cultural expression, there are continual screenings of the film “Cézanne au pays d’Aix” in the auditorium where concerts and lectures are also organized.

But the big “plus” is being able to visit the most sumptuous mansion in Aix-en-Provence, in which the rooms have been remarkably reconstituted with their period furnishings, and its gorgeous French-style gardens (rare in the city centre).

To end your visit, you can stop in at its tea room with a terrace leading to the gardens. In the evening, the tea room becomes a bar, to make the pleasure last.

Caumont Art Centre

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Caumont Centre d'Art - 3, rue Joseph Cabassol - 13100 Aix-en-Provence

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Musical Fidelity V90 DAC Review
Home Theater Preamplifiers Stereo Preamps
Written by Andre Marc
Monday, 03 February 2014

I'm no stranger to Britain's Musical Fidelity, having reviewed a number of their budget minded and mid tier products over the past few years. A few of the items that have come through my systems include the V-DAC II, V-Link 192, M1 CLiC, and the M1 CDT. All offered remarkable sound, even without considering their affordable prices. The V-DAC II and M1 CDT disc transport remain in my systems currently.

Musical Fidelity’s founder and principal is known for updating the lines pretty consistently. On the plus side of that, the company seems to add improvements and offer higher levels of performance for slight premiums, and sometimes without price increases. The company also has a reputation for making very well constructed components, with legacy products being enjoyed for decades by long time customers. Musical Fidelity has also shown itself to be front-runners, being one of the first companies to produce outboard DACs and SACD players.

Recently, the V-DAC, V-Link, and M1 series of digital products have been very successful. Musical Fidelity also introduced an upper end reference product called the M6 DAC, along with several CD players with digital inputs. In keeping with tradition, the company's products are built to last, based on the samples I have seen from the M6 and M8 series. By the way, other changes abound, with Musical Fidelity hiring industry veteran Randy Bingham to a full time position as their North American representative -- Mr. Bingham is very knowledgeable and is especially passionate about music -- and the push to open up new avenues to music lovers with new Bluetooth devices and affordable products.

Circling back to the entry level, Musical Fidelity now offers the V90 series. The series includes a phono stage, an integrated amplifier, a headphone amp, and the subject of this review, the $299 V90 DAC. The V90 is different in design and execution than the highly acclaimed, now discontinued V-DAC II. According to Musical Fidelity, "the engineering team looked carefully at the requirements of modern music sources to ensure the V90 delivered the perfect balance of technical performance, sleek and attractive looks and outright musical enjoyment. The heart of the V90-DAC is its 32 bit DAC circuit. Delivering a remarkable low jitter of just 12 picoseconds and a signal to noise ratio better than -117dB the V90-DAC offers a technical performance only usually found in much more expensive products."

The V90 differs under the hood from the previous V series in the use of a 32 DAC chip, an additional TosLink input, and a slightly better measured signal to noise ratio. It handles 192 Khz natively on the coaxial input, and 96 Khz on both the TosLink and asynchronous USB inputs. All incoming data is upsampled to 192 Khz, and the USB input is compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems. Drivers are required for use with Windows.

On the outside, the V90 differs quite a bit from the V-DAC series. While the dimensions of the two DACs are quite similar, the V90 is a bit wider. The chassis layout is different as well, but remains nice and sturdy. All digital, analog, and power connections are on the back panel. The front panel has an input toggle switch and a power switch. The unit is supplied with a 12V wal wart power supply, and is compatible with a variety of external supplies as well, which makes it upgradeable. Overall, the look and feel of the V90 is first class.

Set Up & Listening

The V90 DAC took residence in the exact same spot my V-DAC II normally lives, decoding FLAC streams from a Squeezebox Touch via both optical and coaxial connections for comparison. My Squeezebox Touch has the Triode Applet installed, which defeats the analog outputs, and allows for 192 Khz resolution. Cables were Kimber, for optical, and DH Labs, for coaxial.

I started off with a slew of Gene Clark and Jesse Winchester remasters, both artists being recorded naturally. These singer songwriters mined similar territories, but with distinctly unique approaches. Gene Clark’s cosmopolitan country rock shined bright on such as albums as Roadmaster, and the experimental No Other. The V90 rendered these recordings magnificently, and much better than it had any right to at this price point. Winchester’s 1970 self title debut, and his recent Love Filling Station, show off his stunning songwriting and pure as honey vocals. The V90 bordered on miraculous here, without a hint of any digital edge or glare.

A little context is required. The V90 is was inserted into an extremely revealing system, consisting of the amazingly transparent Genesis G7c monitors driven, with Transparent cables, by the very neutral McIntosh MA6000 integrated amplifier. There was simply no place to hide for the V90 if had any obvious shortcomings. I later cycled in additional amplifiers and gear, like the Rogue Sphinx, Clones Audio M25i, and my Harbeth Compact 7ES3 speakers.

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An eclectic mix of music filled out the rest of my V90 listening sessions. Tuareg masters Tinariwen’s Aman Iman: Water is Life, is very well recorded, with a mix of acoustic and electric instruments, and the band’s modal chants and percussion interlocking gracefully. The V90 did a marvelous job painting a seamless, coherent picture of this album. Conversely, the unit did not hide the rather hazy sounding production on Bruce Springsteen’s superb new offering, High Hopes. The album is an interesting mix of covers -- and older, unreleased songs -- and it works. However, the Pro Tools glaze that permeates the recording was not glossed over by the V90.

The astonishing new album by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Give The People What They Want, on the other hand, is an analog-sounding recording, mimicking classic, early soul records. Jones’s vocals have never been stronger, and the horns, and other embellishments, sounded simply breathtaking via the V90. (The 24 bit, 88 Khz download is a real treat.) That an entry-level DAC could provide such a transportive experience with sublime music was yet another reminder that now is truly a great time in the hobby for the entry level. Let’s remember this DAC was dropped into a system costing around $14,000.
Another very well recorded collection is the recent tribute to British folk rock icon John Martyn, Johnny Boy Would Love This. Performers ranging from the Swell Season, Lisa Hannigan, David Gray, Beck, and others provide excellent interpretations of Martyn’s songs. And through the V90, these performances really made me sit up, and demanded my full attention.

High resolution material sounded equally superb and, in most cases, better. The 192 Khz remasters of America’s classic Warner Brothers catalog is simply stunning, tracks like “Tin Man” and “Sandman” sounded punchy and detailed. The 96 Khz remasters of Nick Drake’s three albums are a triumph and a definite step up from the ten-year-old CD remasters, which are quite good themselves. The V90 handled all sample rates up to 192 Khz with no issues via coaxial input, and up to 96 Khz with no issues via optical and USB.

Getting to the nuts and bolts, all the inputs on the V90 performed equally well, sonically. I normally use an optical connection with my Squeezebox, but for 192 Khz albums, I switched over to coaxial. The USB input also sounded excellent, with a Jriver Media Center 19 equipped HP laptop. The layout of the V90 made it easier to set up than the V-DAC II, with all connections on the back panel.

So how does the new DAC compare to the now discontinued V-DAC II? After extended listening I feel the V90 offers a tad bit more refinement, a slightly larger soundstage, and a slightly sweeter treble. The V-DAC II did not have any notable shortcomings in these parameters, but the V90 just adds a bit more goodness in those areas. The differences were not massive, but clearly perceptible. Pretty neat since the V90 actually costs $50 less than what the V-DAC II sold for.

Musical Fidelity V90-DAC

The V90 DAC is simply a product where listening tells you what you need to know, regardless of what type of DAC chip is used, or claimed measurements. It sounded amazingly true to real life with vocals, which was in overall keeping with my feeling that the V90 exhibited a clean and transparent midrange. The V90 is going to appeal to folks who want a DAC that gets everything right for what is genuinely an unbeatable price.

Look for more reviews here from the V90 series. Companies like Musical Fidelity are providing entry-level audiophiles with a wealth of products to choose from, regardless of preference for digital, vinyl, or even Bluetooth wireless. Stay tuned.

Musical Fidelity V90 DAC: $299

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●    1x RCA coaxial connector SPDIF 32-192 kbps (16-24 bit stereo PCM)
●    2x TOSLINK optical connector 32-96 kbps (16-24 bit stereo PCM)
●    1x USB type 'B' connector - Asynchronous data stream at up to 24-bit/96kHz (Determined by source file/computer settings)

●    1x line level RCA (phono)

●    Dimensions - WxHxD (mm): 170 x 47 x 102
●    Weight (unpacked / packed): 600g / 1.1 kg

Supplied Accessories
●    1x 12v 500mA DC power supply

Review System 1

CD Transport: Marantz SA-14S1 SACD player
Server: Squeezebox Touch
DAC:  SIM Neo 308D, Marantz NA-11S1
Headphone Amp: Pro-Ject Head Box II
Headphones: Grado SR60
Preamp: Channel Islands Audio PLC-1 MkII
Amplifier: Audio Research VS55,
Speaker: Thiel CS2.4
Cables:  Stager Silver Solids, Darwin Ascension (IC), Transparent  MM2 Super (IC), Transparent Plus (Speaker) Acoustic Zen Tsunami II (AC),Transparent (AC).Shunyata Venom (AC) Element Cable Red Storm (Digital AC), DH Labs TosLink, DH Labs AES/EBU, Audioquest, Forest, WireWorld Ultraviolet, DH Labs USB(USB) DH Labs (USB)
Accessories: Symposium Rollerblocks, Shakti Stone, Audience Adept Response aR6 power conditioner, Salamander rack

Review System 2

CD Player: Marantz CD5003
Music Server: Squeezebox Touch via Ethernet to, Oppo BDP-105
MAC Mini w/ Western Digital & Seagate external drives.
DAC: Musical Fidelity V-DAC II
Integrated Amplifier: McIntosh  MA6600, Rogue Sphinx, Clones Audio M25i
Tape Deck: Revox A77
Speaker: Harbeth Compact 7ES3, Genesis G7c
Cables: Darwin Cables Silver IC, Kimber Hero HB,  DH Labs White Lightning (IC),QED Transparent MusicWave (Speaker),PS Audio (AC), Mojo Audio (AC), DH Labs TosLink, Audioquest Forest USB, Wireworld Ultraviolet USB
Accessories:Cable Pro Noisetrapper, Sound Anchors Stands, Wiremold, KECES XPS

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AWRI Agrochemical Update October 2011

Spray drift survey

The Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) requires new pesticides to be assessed for the potential risk of spray drift and new labels can now describe mandatory no-spray zones of up to 300 metres in a downwind direction. In addition, the labels of currently registered pesticides are also being reviewed to include comprehensive instructions for managing spray drift. These changes are considered to be impractical for the wine sector and have the potential to make some chemicals unusable because of the increased buffer zones being proposed.

The Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC) is seeking data about spray application practices in vineyards to support the development of a wine-sector response to APVMA policy.

To support this initiative, the GWRDC requests that you please complete an anonymous spray survey about the technologies and management practices used by the wine sector to manage and prevent spray drift. This survey will close at 5:00 pm ACDT Wednesday, 19 October 2011. To go to the survey, please click here.

Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA) certified products

The BFA publishes a list of allowed inputs for organic production. Products on this list should not be automatically considered suitable for organic or conventional viticulture even though they are considered organic. All growers must adhere to the instructions on APVMA approved labels when applying any product for pest control.

Section 1.4 of the current Australian Certified Organic standard requires ‘adherence to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 and the Agricultural Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Association (APVMA), which prescribes registration and exemption requirements.’

In addition, section 3.2.1 of the same standard outlines that to maintain certification, an operator must ‘Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, including but not limited to health requirements for food quality and safety and APVMA requirements for crops and livestock, export orders, etc.’

This information is provided to inform the Australian grape and wine sector of agrochemical information, and should not be interpreted as an endorsement


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Enjoying Her Family Vacation In Formentera

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I’m sure this celebrity family is having a great time making memories together. After all, that’s what vacations are for! 🙂

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