“It’s just emotion that’s taking me over,” the Bee Gees crooned—emotionally—on their 1978 hit, “Emotion,” a song of unrequited love and the pain it can cause.
We all know how powerful emotions can be. If strong enough, they can, and do, overrule reason and common sense, and “take over,” driving their human to perform irrational and sometimes even self-destructive acts. But emotion also can inspire people to supreme creative heights: Beethoven’s deep depressions turn up in his Third Symphony, the Eroica, which is steeped in grief. But his Ninth, the Choral, is an explosion of the most ecstatic joy. (The suggestion that Beethoven was bipolar seems retrospectively to make sense.)
Emotion plays a role in our experience of wine, too. A recent Australian study suggests that people are influenced by emotions spanning the gamut from warm-heartedness and nostalgia to anger, even when they’re tasting wines blind. It’s not clear to me that this particular study is of any use to winemakers, beyond being a fairly interesting academic exercise. Far more insightful is this blog post from Clinton Stark on his responses to receiving an offer to buy Promontory, a new project from Bill Harlan. (I myself haven’t tasted it, but two years ago Bill Harlan explained the project to me, and I subsequently wrote about it in Wine Enthusiast.)
Clinton’s appraisal is that the appeal of Promontory, a $400 Bordeaux blend, is pretty much exactly the same as that of “rarified, non-discretionary luxury goods,” like “a purse, a painting, a sculpture,” or, more specifically, “a Porsche.” All trigger “feelings” of “inexplicable and illogical lust,” the result of “marketing” pitches (in his case, Promontory’s offer letter) that cause “woefully uncontrollable…desire” in Clinton’s all-too-human heart.
Clinton has had, in other words, an emotional response to the offer letter. Even though he knows that Promontory is just another red wine, albeit (one imagines) a very good one (after all, Petrus and Romanée-Conti are also “just” red wines), some part of himself—which he knows is irrational—wants it. He has a good attitude about the whole thing, though: recognizes his emotional response, views it with the correct admixture of detachment and wry amusement, and decides ultimately not to buy the wine, but to add the offer letter “to my collection.”
Are we to conclude, then, that the producers of expensive wine merely resort to marketing ploys that prey on our emotional triggers? Were things only that simple! Humans are too complicated to divide desire into two categories: desire based on real need, and desire not based on real need, with the latter category somehow illegitimate or silly. We do have emotions; our emotions help to define our humanness. (And I’m not saying that animals don’t have emotions. As Gus’s dad, I see the full rainbow spectrum of his.) Part of desire is aspirational: the person who loses, or voluntarily denounces, his aspirations may be a Mother Theresa type, but as Plato knew, self-interest lurks everywhere, in our saints as well as in our sinners; who is without aspiration of some kind is dead. The desire for something fine and rare—a wine, a Philip Milic tattoo, a Lamborghini, a Ty Cobb baseball card, an Oscar, a Superman Action Comic No. 1, a trip to outer space on Virgin Galactic, a Papal blessing—may be irrational, in the sense that it is not strictly to sustain life. But neither are love and much of what makes life so rich and interesting.
And then, even as I wrote this blog post, the phone rang and who should it be but Bill Harlan. Serendipity, you dazzle me! This was of course before he could have known about my next day’s post. He called about something else. We talked about Promontory, and I told him it would be in the next day’s post. I said also how much I’ve always respected him personally as well as his wine businesses. None of what I have written above is meant in the slightest degree to disparage him, or whoever wrote his offer letter. I don’t think that was Clinton Stark’s point and it certainly isn’t mine! A large part of Bill’s genius is in dreammaking. Let he who is without the sin of self-aggrandizement cast the first stone. I’m just saying that at some point, wine doesn’t get any better no matter how high the price soars. What the buyer is looking for can’t be measured or expressed or even justified: it’s “just emotion,” and sometimes it can feel so good to let it take over.
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This is pretty cool—a new blog that addresses “the practice of wine public relations, wine media trends, marketing ethics and news commentary.”
Lots of blogs, including mine, have written stuff over the years on these topics, but I don’t know of any blog that is solely dedicated to them. The creators, Tom Wark and Julie Ann Kodmur, call their site SWIG.
I’m sure it will be a success, especially if Tom and Julie Ann—both old friends of mine—keep it free. It’s not clear to me how often they’ll post, or if they view SWIG as a vehicle to drive paying customers to their own, separate public relations firms. Nonetheless, P.R. is a subject of importance and ongoing interest to winery principals—as well it should be—and so SWIG will probably be eagerly read. (Besides, as we all know, Tom is an entrepreneur who knows how to successfully start things up!)
I do want to comment on something Tom wrote on their website. “There is a body of knowledge which guides all publicists, regardless of industry, as well as there being a body of knowledge that guides wine publicists specifically. The intersection of these two bodies is what Julie Ann and I had in mind to explore here at SWIG.”
This is true, as far as it goes; but what interests me is where winery communications is going, as opposed to where it’s been—and believe me, it’s going someplace it hasn’t been before. For that matter, so is the entire wine industry; the two are interrelated. For it seems to me that we are leaving, if we haven’t already left, the “classical” era of winery P.R. and are chugging along into one that—as with all futures—we see only “through a glass, darkly.”
Tom has it exactly right when he states “The Number One Golden Truth of Wine Public and Media Relations [is] YOU MUST ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH.” In past “classic” times, this wasn’t always appreciated by the crafters of publicity messages. Back then, advertisers felt free to lie, knowing that no public agency or consumer outrage would check them. This 1930 ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes actually had the nerve to suggest that smoking was good for your throat and lungs!
Tom’s claim notwithstanding, not all wineries always tell the truth. There are lies of commission, and lies of omission; you can’t know what you don’t know, and wineries sometimes don’t want you to know all the stuff they do (like adding mega-purple, or blending in Central Valley grapes, or putting a little Syrah into that nice Pinot Noir, or soaking the Chardonnay in wood chips, or reducing the alcohol by technical gizmos).
But in this day and age, it’s awfully hard to keep anything secret, so wineries are better off figuring out how to be completely candid, even when it’s uncomfortable for them to do so. You can always turn a lemon into lemonade, as Dear Abby used to say.
However, the bigger questions remain: Why does a winery need a P.R. and communications firm? If they can’t do the job themselves, how should they choose an outside firm? How can they measure the return on investment they pay to the outside firm? Answered in reverse order, it can be awfully hard for a winery proprietor to tell if his P.R. firm is worth it. The P.R. people will tell him it takes time for plans to achieve fruition, which is true; they say, also, that some of their results aren’t measurable, which also is true. This is why some wineries remain locked into unholy matrimony with P.R. companies for years, yoked to firms that are not helping them. It’s also why, on the opposite end of the spectrum, wineries will peremptorily fire a very good P.R. firm that actually is advancing their cause: they get nervous, or their brother-in-law tells them he has a better firm, and so the pink slips go out. (Do firing managers still give out pink slips, or am I dating myself?)
How a winery should go about choosing an outside firm is one of the biggest decisions they’ll make, and also one of the most difficult. If I was a winery, I’d ask my successful friends, who represents you and how are they doing? But I’d also apply good, old-fashioned common sense: Do you like the firm’s owners? Do they seem honest, up-to-date, familiar with digital communications and social media? Or are they stuck in anachronistic approaches? Finally, why does a winery need a P.R. firm? It’s all about communication, stupid! The days are long gone when a winery proprietor could sit alone, in splendid isolation, and think that his wine will go out there and sell itself. That used to be true, in certain circumstances and to a certain extent: for example, wineries that were located on well-traveled tourism routes could depend on an influx of visitors who would buy the wine, even if it was horrible. That’s increasingly hard to do, as consumer’s palates are educated. And some wineries coast on their reputations for years, depending on their old customers to continue buying them. But guess what? Old customers die.
Finally, I’d say that the relationship between a winery and it’s P.R. firm cannot be one based only on occasional exchanges. It’s all about intense teamwork these days: neither side—winery or P.R. firm—can generate the best ideas, but only both sides working together, so that brains can rub against each other, causing sparks of imagination and creativity that are geared toward the winery’s specific needs and talents. The winery that blithely accepts from its P.R. firm a template with a boilerplate approach is asking for trouble.
Anyhow, like I said, I’m sure Tom’s and Julie Ann’s new venture will be a success. I wish them good luck, and I’ll be reading SWIG (and often commenting on it) whenever they post.
Someone whom I don’t know privately emailed me yesterday asking my advice about some Petite Sirahs he could buy that are “the darkest (black) and most earthy minerality (full bodied).” It was nice to know that, while I’m not officially a wine critic anymore, at least one person still appreciates that I have a couple decades-plus of experience under my belt!
I was happy to reply, “Lately, I’ve enjoyed Petites from Turley, Retro, Frank Family, Stags’ Leap, Turnbull (all Napa Valley), as well as Miro and St. Francis (both Dry Creek Valley) and MCV and Aaron (Paso Robles).” I could have added many others: David Fulton, Ballentine, Delectus, Ridge, Grgich Hills, J. Lohr, Proulx among them, but a brief reply to a brief email is not meant to be an article!
Petite Sirah is an interesting wine in several respects, not simply because it can be very good, but because it illustrates the difficulty of getting the consumer to try something he or she night not be familiar with. This is always a huge problem for producers and is why so many California wineries continue to make indifferent Chardonnay. The problem with Petite Sirah in particular also is that despite the considerable quantities of it made in California, not all of it is very good! The grapes can vary in ripeness and the wine itself can be too high in alcohol and above all too tannic. Then too, because Petite Sirah does not fetch as much money in the marketplace as, say, Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, there is little reason for vintners to make it as good as they possibly can. When Harry Waugh, visiting from London, tasted his first California Petite Sirahs (in Oakland, no less, at the then home of Belle and Barney Rhodes, who owned Martha’s Vineyard), he found too many of the wines suffered from “oxidation and…volatile acidity,” in other words they were rustic. While Petite’s qualities were strange to Harry, he did find in the best of the wines what he called “a fairly full-bodied Burgundy type,” a description that doesn’t sound like modern Petite Sirah (which you would hardly call “Burgundy type”). However, I suspect that many of the wines at that 1972 tasting were lower in alcohol than Petite Sirah tends to be today; also, that many of them would have been “field blends” of other varieties (Carignan, Alicante Bouschet, Syrah, perhaps even Grenache) and this may have accounted for the lighter weight. Incidentally, Harry also found, in many of the wines, a “peppery” aroma that mystified him, but that today certainly is a marker for a well-made Petite Sirah.
The variety used to be, and until comparatively recently was, known almost exclusively in California, but there there are suggestions its popularity is spreading beyond our borders. It’s “catching on in the Pacific Northwest,” with wines being produced in the warmer areas of Yakima Valley, Wahluke Slope and Walla Walla. Back in California, there’s more Petite being crushed nowadays than ever; 2013’s crush, of 68,000 tons, was a record (alrhough of course the 2013 crush overall also was a record). To put that into some perspective, the Petite Sirah crush was about one-fourth that of Pinot Noir and one-eighth that of Cabernet Sauvignon, but already exceeds that of Grenache, and is nearly half that of Syrah. In other words, Petite Sirah has become quite an important variety in its own right. I suspect a lot of it is being blended into red wine, to make it darker and firmer, an inference supported by the fact that the county with the most acreage is San Joaquin. Oddly, there’s also a lot of Petite Sirah–1,400 acres–growing in San Luis Obispo, although I couldn’t tell you why; SLO county isn’t known for varietal Petite Sirah, so it’s got to be going someplace else. However, the good news is that plantings in Napa Valley are on a sharp increase, up 41% since 2004 to 807 acres, and I’d bet most of that is being varietally labeled. If I had to pick the best spot for Petite in Napa, I’d say the northwestern part of the valley, St. Helena to Calistoga, where the toasty temperatures get the grapes nice and ripe, and where producers have enough money to sort out bad bunches, invest in good barrels, etc.
Seems like just yesterday that social media was portraying itself as the revolutionary alternative to Big or Traditional media.
(Actually, social media, not being an animate being, cannot “portray” itself as anything. It can’t even drink wine! So I should have said certain social media adherents were portraying it that way.)
The world seemed divided into two camps: You were either a hopelessly old fuddy-duddy who read the New York Times and watched T.V., or you were a young, hip, cool trendster with a smart phone or tablet pasted onto your face.
No inbetween. “You’re either for us or against us,” went the refrain of the social media-ists. (Longtime readers of this blog know that I was perceived in some circles as an “againster.”) The social media-ists insisted that the new media were qualitatively different from the old media–that in some way it was purer, more honest, closer to God and less controlled by the greedy hand of self-interested corporate America. Social media would, they asserted, knock old media to its knees.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the future. Things didn’t quite turn out the way they were supposed to. We now know that social media has quite a lot in common with old media. For one thing, social media is corporate-owned now; the people that run these networks are filthy rich–richer than most old media tycoons, in fact–and the us.-versus-them mentality that fueled an infant Twitter or Facebook has now morphed into an Animal Farm ending. (Remember that in the book’s final chapter, the other animals could no longer tell the difference between men and pigs. Mark Zuckerberg hangs out with, and presumably advises, everyone from President Obama to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Not sayin’ anyone’s a “pig,” just makin’ the point.)
We know, too, that businesses–from mom and pop wineries to the world’s biggest corporations–no longer perceive social media as weird or alternative, but rather as integral parts of their marketing mix. A company’s advertising and marketing budget now includes every aspect of modern media: Social, print newspapers, magazines, radio and T.V., if they can afford it. In essence, then, the people who spend the money make no distinction in kind between Facebook and Vanity Fair magazine.
Finally, we now know far more about who actually uses social media than we ever did before, and you know what? It’s everybody! It’s not just hip cool tattooed kids, it’s grandma. A study published yesterday on social media usage demographics stunningly paints a picture of an increasingly fragmented, even fractured public. You can read a summary of the study here; a few illustrative highlights are that Facebook is increasingly trending old, Instagram and Pinterest are trending female, LinkedIn swings male (no surprise there) as does Google+. Twitter retains its juvenile appeal, again no surprise given that even the least literate being on Earth can peck out 140 characters.
An earlier study, from last May, analyzes social media use from a slightly different perspective. Its findings once again suggest that a kind of rainbow effect has influenced social media. Users are dividing up along racial, ethnic, age, educational and household income lines, making sweeping statements about social media, per se, unreliable to the point of untenable.
The point I would like to make is that whatever allure social media had four years ago, as a kind of Jesus in the temple, cleansing it of the old money lenders, has now evaporated, if in fact it ever existed. We no longer have “social media” and “old media” in America. We have Media, pure and simple, and while each medium differs in distinctive ways, collectively they’re all the same. And you know what it’s all about? Profits.
What’s the killer social media app for a winery?
I can remember back in the early 1990s when the Internet, or the World Wide Web as most of us called it, was so new that nobody knew precisely what it could be used for. The search was on for “the killer app,” the thing that everybody would want to do, which would therefore earn its users a great deal of money.
As it turned out, some young guys, like Sergei Brim and Larry Page, realized that a search function–the ability to find anything amidst the vast (and growing vaster) hoard of information–was the classic example of a killer app: they created Google and got rich. A little while later, Mark Zuckerberg realized that social networking was the most natural thing in the world for a World Wide Web to do. He created Facebook and also got rich.
(A lot of porn site entrepreneurs also got rich. Enough said about that.)
So those were at least three things the Internet could do (aside from obvious B2B functions that are boring but crucial to companies, not to mention email). The question of the last 5 or 6 years has been, what is the killer app on the Internet for small businesses, and particularly for small wineries–the thing that will help them make money?
I’m not prepared to say, because I don’t know; but yesterday I asked my Facebook friends how they use social media at their wineries, and the overwhelming response was typified by this: “As a tool, FB, Twitter, Pintrest, WEM , are all wonderful ways to connect to your clientele” and this: “I rarely use FB/Twitter for promo and sales. Mostly just to reinforce the simple ‘voice’ of [the winery] and stay in front of my ‘likers’.”
In other words, communication. Several people warned that, as soon as the winery is perceived as trying to sell stuff, it turns friends and followers off. This remains the irony and contradiction within social media.
Central Coast Wrap-up
The Central Coast wine industry seems to be booming, according to this report from the Pacific Coast Business Times. Indeed, you can feel this buzz everywhere you go in wine country. Such a contrast to a few years ago, when a gloomy atmosphere pervaded. I’ll be heading down to Santa Barbara next week for the Chardonnay Symposium, and am stoked by the thought of seeing all the winemakers and tasting their wines.
Blind tasting the cults
Interesting article by my old editor and colleague, Jim Gordon, in Wines & Vines, where he writes of an event at the Culinary Institute of America in which winemakers tasted each other’s wines blind, something they “rarely” get to do.
Winemakers really should do it more often. In fact, they should do it all the time. I know certain cult winemakers who’ve never tasted their own wines blind, much less tasted them against competitors. They might be surprised to find less expensive wines out-performing their own–according to their own palates! But then, that potential danger in blind tasting is probably why more winemakers don’t do it. And anyhow, when it comes to sales, it’s about image as much as it’s about quality. Along these lines, yesterday my sister emailed to ask why some bottles of wine are so heavy. She wanted to know if they cost more than lighter bottles, and, if so, how do the wineries make up for the difference? I explained to her, of course, that some wineries package their wines in heavy bottles in order to make the consumer think the wines are more important. This works very well, and the consumer is willing to pay more for a heavy bottle than for a light one. My sister was surprised, but she needn’t have been. P.T. Barnum spelled this out more than a century ago in his famous dictum about suckers.
If it can happen in Australia, it can happen here.
I’m talking about the government requiring wine bottle labels to carry “large and graphic health warnings similar to [those on] cigarette packs,” which “public health lobbyists” Down Under are pushing for.
The wine industry is gearing up for a big fight, predicts the Herald Sun.
The industry already has developed voluntary online guidelines concerning drinking while pregnant, under their DrinkWise Australia program, but last November it rejected mandatory label warnings, with a spokesperson for the Winemakers Federation of Australia, the nonprofit trade group, arguing “We don’t believe [tobacco-like graphics] is the right approach.” His words were echoed by a top Treasury Wine Estates exec, who told the Herald Sun, “The [DrinkWise] guidelines around pregnancy and drinking were a good example of the industry moving forward with sensible and practical action,” and that further steps are not needed “at this time.”
But some “public health advocates” apparently disagree. They want “large and graphic” warnings, “to take up to 25 per cent of [the volume of] front labels,” on everything “from violence and car accidents to long-term health impacts such as liver and brain damage as well as cancer and blindness.”
We’ve seen this issue rear its ugly head time and time again here in the States. Anti-alcohol groups such as Marin County-based Alcohol Justice (formerly known and much ridiculed as the Marin Institute) have been active for many years trying bring about what they call “healthy communities free of the alcohol industry’s negative impact,” which sounds suspiciously like communities free of alcohol, period. Such groups, far from being mere cranky fringe riders, always must be considered dangerous. Remember, it wasn’t that long ago–Oct. 1919, less than 100 years ago, a blink in History’s eye–that these anti-alcohol types grew so powerful they actually succeeded in getting alcohol declared illegal across the United States. Repeal, in 1933, was a severe blow to them; but they never went away, simply recoiled, re-huddled and began planning their next assault on our drinking rights. In the early 1990s, they made their last big play, but were again defeated, largely because the Wine Institute took its considerable political clout to Sacramento and Washington, D.C. and defeated them. But these people, fueled by fanatacism, never entirely go away.
Alcohol Justice (what a silly name) isn’t entirely evil. When they say they “oppose the greedy, corporate promotion of alcohol to youth,” I think most of us can agree that the beer companies, in particular, and also to some extent spirits companies are pretty aggressive and outrageous in their advertising. Where I part company is when they use the phrase “the concentrated wine and spirits corporations” to lump wine in with the bad guys. I see no evidence of a “greedy” wine industry promoting its products “to youth.” Do you? It seems to me that the wine industry has been a model of rectitude. If anything, wine bends over backwards to portray itself as the beverage of adults, for drinking with good food, with stimulating friends, in controlled settings of dinner parties or restaurants. I’ve never seen a winery trying to appeal to teenagers.
The Aussie blogger Crikey [Bernard Keane] has got it exactly right when he explains the difference between anti-tobacco movements and anti-alcohol movements: “the mere use of tobacco is harmful whereas the vast majority of alcohol consumers consume it safely and, indeed, obtain health benefits from it”–a fact that “is deliberately overlooked” by groups such as Alcohol Justice. In other words, any puff of tobacco is dangerous; a glass or two of wine is actually healthful. I have yet to see an anti-alcohol organization, such as Alcohol Justice, admit this.


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The history of Imepa s.r.l is the story and the exploits of a family's passion for the land and their long cherished tradition of drying and preserving the gifts from the hearth.
The Esposito family, rooted in the territory of the Nocera-Sarno since ancient times, began dealing with dried and crushed peppers in the late 20's and is today a leading exporters of ground organic dried spices and canned products.
Brands : La Macina Rossa (Red Mill) a line of processed products with chilli and peppers was launched in 1935.
Immediately after the second World war another line, La Gustosa (The Delicius ) joined the list, a brand intended to represent a variety of dehydrated vegetables.
In 1989 with the third family generation still at helm and an ever increasing demand, a new company was born, Imepa Ltd, bringing together the existing two brands, La Macina Rossa and La Gustosa...
... as well as a new range of specialty organic products representing the typical traditional ingredients of the Mediterranean cuisine such as risotto and polenta ready mix sauces along with granular and dehydrated vegetables, traditionally used in the preparation of the Neapolitan cuisine.
Imepa s.r.l is today one of Europe's leading and sought after company in the sector able to guarantee the genuineness of its products.
Products offered :Ready made meals and frozen foods, Organic ready made meals and frozen foods, Preserved, frozen, dried and cooked vegetables; peeled tomatoes, pulped tomatoes, tomato concentrate, tomato pulp, jellies.
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Two-thirds of Russians regularly working overtime without extra charge. About it writes “Kommersant” with reference to a study by the Higher school of Economics (HSE).
So, Russia took the fourth place in the group of European countries with the highest prevalence of nonstandard employment schedules. It turned out that 64 percent of Russian employees work in the evening, at night and on weekends. Compensation for overtime achieves only a third of employees.
However, the share of workers overtime Russians could be much higher because the study was conducted at the main place of work, while a large part of people working unofficially or on freelance.
The commitment of non-standard work schedule overtook Russia Croatia, Greece and Poland. It is noted that these countries have traditionally been the countries with the lowest wages.
Serviceability all adhere to the standard work schedule, the people of Israel and the Netherlands — there is after hours work 44 and 49 percent respectively. The official working week in the Netherlands is only 27 hours.
Previously founder and CEO of Chinese Internet holding Alibaba Group Jack MA spoke about the benefits of overtime. He defended the schedule, “996”, which involves working 12 hours a day six days a week.
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Grounded has only been on the market for six months, yet its already managed to find its way into the hands of more than 5 million players. It’s recently been optimized for Series X/S, and developer Obsidian only expects Grounded to become more popular in the coming days.
When the game crossed the million player threshold, Xbox Game Studios’ Marcus Morgan lost a bet he had with the team at Obsidian. However, Grounded hit one million players within 48 hours of launching – so both parties decided to up the ante to 5 million. Well – Morgan lost that one, too. However, his punishment for losing the bet isn’t that bad, as he’s getting a pretty slick tattoo of BURG.L, an important character in the world of Grounded. You can check it out in the video below:
Grounded recently added a bunch of new content with its Koi Pond update. Anyone who jumps into the game will now find a whole new biome populated with new enemies, items, and the Jaws-like Koi Fish. There are also new crafting recipes for weapons such as the Bone Trident and Pebblet Dagger to help you fend off the creepy new foes.
Grounded is now available on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. If you’re a Game Pass subscriber, you can check out the pint-sized, backyard action for free.
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Stührling watches are made with precision and care. That's why we've been around for almost a quarter of a century.
Now, for the first time, we’re ready to pull back the curtain and reveal where our watches are made—and what makes them a favorite of so many wrists.
The design and development of our timepieces takes place in our Park Slope mothership in Brooklyn, NY. Long before it was hip to call yourself a Brooklynite, we were connecting with Stührling owners around the world through our ongoing digital dialogue to refine designs and ensure satisfaction on wrists everywhere. But when it comes to manufacturing our designs, we went to the same place that Apple, Bose, Sony, and other market-leaders turned to: Shenzhen.Simply put, the world-class manufacturing capabilities found in this part of China’s Guangdong province rivals (actually, surpasses) everywhere from Silicon Valley to Stuttgart in terms of quality, performance, and value. For a generation that cares more about how something is made rather than where it’s made, brands looking to deliver both maximum quality and value don’t have to look farther than Shenzhen. By now you’re probably wondering why a client list full of top-tier tech brands would be of interest to a company in the business of classically inspired timepieces—not to mention the movements that power them. And though our skeleton watches, divers, and tourbillons thrill in the same way as the latest tech accessories do, the core designs and “technology” of watches have remained pretty much unchanged for almost three centuries. But despite having the whole world to choose from, Stührling opted for Shenzhen—the Switzerland of world-class manufacturing and the perfect place to launch a watch brand that would go on to disrupt the industry.
WATCH MOVEMENTS – THE ORIGINAL MICROCIRCUITSWhat’s the difference between a classic watch movement and a cutting-edge circuit board? About 300 years. But beyond glib comparisons, watch movements actually share a fair amount of similarities to their computer counterparts. Both feature complex designs stored in small devices and both rely on precision manufacturing to make the system work. Just replace chipsets with gears, power sources with mainsprings, and you’ll see how quickly parallels between the two crop up. Watch manufacturing is a precise, meticulous process where virtually every step is informed by centuries of experience. While materials and aesthetics may evolve, the way the gears inside the movement “talk” to the watch’s hands and indicators on the dial is essentially the same. A far cry from the changing world of consumer tech, to be sure, but they face the same manufacturing concerns. Delivering the “latest and greatest” challenges the limits of your production line and, as often is the case in the tech world, you have to rely on manufacturing that maintains the same level of precision and care with every build. Now imagine what happens when all the resources and commitment that has made Shenzhen the world leader in tech manufacturing turns to rich horological tradition of watchmaking. Suddenly, the “Best Of” awards and recognition that our watches enjoy makes a lot more sense. Most brands would’ve been content trusting a place with the bona fides of Shenzhen, but we never intended for Stührling to be like most brands. That’s why we took another page from the leaders of the tech industry and brought in our own team of experts, led by a 3rd-generation Swiss watchmaker who joined us to create the kind of classic watchmaking atelier that hadn’t existed outside of Switzerland until then. The result? A master class in watchmaking that combines old school with new school to rewrite the watch industry’s playbook.
Along the way we created a timepiece brand for consumers who love the classic craftsmanship that defines luxury watches, not because of the “centuries of history” associated with their name. Our customers aren’t into brands that expect loyalty because of what they were in the past. They’re looking for a brand whose value is based on tangibles like quality, craftsmanship, and design. A brand that understands that you’re not buying a watch to tell the time, but rather to tell your story. It takes a trip around the world to bring you a Stührling, but it only takes your wrist to make it matter.


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Led by two New York City-based choreographers who direct their own busy companies, this ensemble brings together dedicated dancers from throughout the campus in a collaborative, creative environment that invites dancer input. Performance opportunities throughout the academic year include a range of informal appearances and a mainstage production—which this year includes a new version of Stravinsky’s captivating ballet Petrushka, in an innovative collaboration with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra.
Music and Dance join forces May 25 & 26!
Reserve this weekend for an innovative collaboration between two Hop Ensembles, at two ends of the Hop! The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra and the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble perform Stravinsky’s classic ballet Petrushka, with thrilling new choreography by DDE Director John Heginbotham and Choreographer-in-Residence Rebecca Stenn. Linked through technology and big-screen video projection, the DSO in Spaulding Auditorium and the DDE in The Moore Theater unite to realize this iconic work: audiences in each venue experience the art and performance of both ensembles! Each ensemble rounds out the evening by performing its own lively set of discrete works—so attend both nights and visit both venues, to get the full effect!


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Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. is planning to raise a $2bn through a USD-denominated bond maturing in 2026.
The company is still in discussions with banks on the terms of the issuance and the size of the deal.
Banks likely to manage the bond issue include DBS Bank, ANZ Banking Group, Standard Chartered and Bank of China.
According to bankers, it appears that the deal could be completed as early as April 2016.
Previously, the company had issued a $1bn USD bond last year, which was oversubscribed.
U.S-based oil E&P firm Warren Resources, Inc. is engaged in discussions with its first lien and second lien lenders and an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders, regarding a restructuring of its debt obligations. These discussions would continue either through an out-of-court restructuring settlement or through a bankruptcy court proceeding.
First lien lenders under Warren’s credit facility had made a restructuring proposal that would help the company deleverage by converting a substantial amount of its debt into equity.
Warren had presented this proposal to its second lien lenders and to the holders of more than 95% of its unsecured bonds.
However, a consensus agreement among all three categories of creditors has not been reached. Failure to reach an agreement may force the company to file for bankruptcy.
As of 31 March 2016, Warren’s first lien creditors held debt of approximately $235m, second lien creditors held debt of approximately $52m and unsecured bondholders held approximately $167m of its senior unsecured notes. During the same period, cash position was $16.85m, of which $10.04m was in a restricted account under the control of the lenders under its first lien credit facility.
Warren elected not to make an interest payment of approximately $7.5m interest payment on 1 February 2016 on its unsecured notes.
With the expiry of the applicable 30-day grace period for the interest payment, as per the indenture governing the notes, the trustee and bondholders holding atleast 25% of the unsecured notes have the right demand payment of the entire principal amount of the notes plus unpaid interest.
In addition, this creates a cross-default on other debt instruments of Warren as well. However, no such acceleration on Warren’s debt obligations has occurred so far.
Warren’s advisors on its debt restructuring are Andrews Kurth LLP (as restructuring counsel) and Jefferies LLC (as financial advisor).
China State Grid Corp. has shown interest in acquiring Abengoa S.A.’s assets under construction in Brazil.
Officials from the state-owned firm visited Abengoa’s energy transmission project sites in Brazil which are under construction to evaluate a takeover.
According to sources, these assets comprise of Abengoa’s portfolio of assets whose construction had stalled last year when the firm ran into financial problems.
Sources further stated that the Brazilian government wanted to avoid a piecemeal sale of Abengoa’s Brazilian assets to avoid delays. Some of the major assets include a major transmission line linking the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon to consumer markets.
State Grid has invested more than $1bn in Brazil’s energy sector since 2010.
Abengoa has about 6,000 kms of transmission lines which are under construction, requiring billions of dollars in investments.
Further, the company has debts of more than BRL 800m ($218m) with equipment suppliers in the country, according to the electricity industry association Abinee.
According to sources, U.S.-based private oil and gas firm Chaparral Energy would miss a mandatory 1 April 2016 coupon payment on its $300m bond.
Separately, the company, in its FY 2015 annual filing stated that it may look at the possibility of filing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Further, Chaparral had, on 1 March 2016, missed a $16.5m interest payment on another bond, kicking off a 30-day grace period.
As per its FY 2015 filing, Chaparral generated a net loss of $1.3bn for the period and had about $1.6bn in debt.
Chaparral drew down the balance on its $548m RCF in February. The lenders will re-determine the credit facility on 1 May 2016, and it expects its borrowing base to decrease significantly.
The company would then repay the outstanding balance within 30 days or in six monthly installments.
According to HSBC Holdings plc, nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) may face some difficulty in refinancing $94bn worth of debt by 2018, after being impacted by falling crude oil prices, slowing growth, rising rates and rating downgrades.
GCC countries, dominated by United Arab Emirates and Qatar, face $52bn of bonds and $42bn of syndicated loans maturing in the next two years. These countries also have a cumulative fiscal and current account deficit of $395bn over the period. Further, Gulf nations have a total of $610bn of FX-denominated debt and syndicated loans outstanding currently.
HSBC is confident that these nations would be able to tackle the issues of maturing debt and fiscal deficits through a raft of issuances of sovereign debt in the near-term.
Mining firm Anglo American’s subsidiary Anglo American Capital plc plans to re-purchase upto $1.3bn of its bonds from investors as part of its turnaround plan aimed at reducing debt and divesting certain assets.
The company published a tender offer on 18 February 2016 to purchase debt which ends on 16 March 2016.
The plan to puchase debt comes on the news of Moodys’ downgrading the company’s credit ratings to Ba3 from Baa3 on 15 February 2016, ahead of its FY 2015 results announced a day later. S&P also downgraded the company’s credit rating to BB from BBB-.
Key takeaways from the FY 2015 earnings release:
- Revenue of $23bn vs. $30.9bn a year ago
- Net loss before tax of $5.5bn vs. loss of $259m a year ago
- EBIT at $2.2bn vs. $4.9bn a year ago
- EBITDA at $4.8bn vs. $7.8bn a year ago
Targets for 2016:
- $3-4bn of asset disposals targeted
- pro-forma net debt to decline below $10bn by 2016 and to touch $6bn in the medium-term
- Net Leverage to be less than 2.5x in the medium-term
- Suspension of dividend payments
- Capex for 2016 of less than $3bn
Bonds to be purchased include EUR, GBP and USD -denominated bonds with the following maturities:
- 4.375% bonds due December 2016
- 1.75% bonds due November 2017
- 1.75% bonds due May 2018
- 6.875% bonds due April 2018
- 2.5% bonds due September 2018
- 2.625% USD bonds due 2017
Sources: Company Press Releases, PR Newswire, Bloomberg & FT


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Sonoma County workers Wednesday set about the laborious task of counting and verifying tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.
Bins of uncounted ballots in the Registrar of Voters' warehouse vividly illustrated the numbers of envelopes yet to be opened and examined by a staff of up to 24 election workers committed to the task.
It likely will take the full 31 days permitted by law to count them, said Janice Atkinson, county elections chief.
That will delay the naming of victors in at least three local elections, and none of the results for any race of ballot measure will be official until that final certification.
In recent general elections, roughly 35,000 mail-in ballots arrive in the mail or are hand-delivered to one of the county's 194 polling places on Election Day, making them the last to be counted.
It appeared Wednesday that those numbers would hold true again, said Atkinson, a 40-year veteran of the registrar's office.
"Does it seem to be about usual? Yes, so far," she said.
At the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building -- Precinct 3112 -- 618 mail-in ballots were turned in Tuesday, a record for a single polling station, Atkinson said.
"That's an incredible number," she said.
In total, 184,671 absentee ballots were mailed out to Sonoma County voters -- or 71 percent of the county's registered voters -- and about 122,000 of those were returned in time to be counted Tuesday.
But the number remaining means that some close races may hang in the balance for weeks:
The 10th Assembly District race, where San Rafael Councilman Marc Levine claimed victory Wednesday with a 468-vote lead but Assemblyman Michael Allen refused to concede.
The Sebastopol City Council race, where incumbent Councilwoman Kathleen Shaffer trailed challenger John Eder by nine votes in a battle for the final contested seat.
The Santa Rosa school board race, where newcomer candidates Jenni Klose and Brian Noble were separated by 1,055 votes, with Klose leading.


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World of Stories
Welcome to a world of stories. This blog has been created so I can post my thoughts, when I have them or the time to post the few I have about what I am doing and the odd story, too.
I am British and have been living in the States with my wife Sarah, for over 11 years. I began storytelling when working for the Youth Hostel Association (England and Wales) back in 1991, but turned professional in 2003. Since then I have told tales at schools, libraries, a couple of festivals and at private parties.
Combining my passion for children’s literature and folklore, I have created a fun program for all ages. My repertoire comes mainly from European folk and faery tales, but I also includes stories from South America, Africa, China and Japan amongst other countries. All these stories are given life and animation by unique voices, as I act them out in front of a captivated audience! Honest! Just visit my website and look at my testimonials! www.diamondscree.com
Well, I must be off to do some work - learn and practise more stories!


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Hyundai New Zealand was today announced as a major sponsor for the 99th staging of the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open, to be held at Millbrook Resort and The Hills in March 2018.
New Zealand Open Chairman John Hart, in welcoming Hyundai New Zealand, commented that this once again illustrates how the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open continues to go from strength-to-strength.
“We are delighted that this hugely successful New Zealand company has joined our family of sponsors and we are looking forward to a great partnership. It’s wonderful to have a brand join us who is as committed to New Zealand as we are,” said Mr Hart.
While Hyundai is a globally recognised automotive powerhouse, Hyundai New Zealand is 100% Kiwi owned and all Hyundai dealerships are operated by New Zealanders. The company has long been involved in New Zealand’s sporting and community fabric.
Hyundai New Zealand is a long term partner of the National Agricultural Fieldays, Hyundai Country Calendar and the Spirit of Adventure Trust as well as backing Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon, whilst its Pinnacle Programme mentors talented young Kiwis to help develop their dream projects and build their careers.
Hyundai New Zealand General Manager Andy Sinclair said Hyundai is proud to step up to support the New Zealand Open for the first time, knowing the role that golf plays in the leisure interests of so many New Zealanders.
“This country has a proud history of representation at the highest level of golf and our dealers know very well how passionate Kiwis are about the game. One of the first things many customers will do is open the boot to see how a set of clubs will fit in! Fortunately our designers seem to have taken this into account,” he said. “We’re looking forward to helping this unique event continue to grow over the coming years.”
Rodd & Gunn and SBS Bank were also announced as supporting sponsors. Rodd & Gunn is the new clothing sponsor for the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open. The company, registered 70 years ago, takes its inspiration from New Zealand’s picturesque landscapes and has a philosophy to create classic authentic garments of quality and style. The company is now taking its successful formula to the global market, and believes its sponsorship of the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open will act as an arrowhead for that development.
SBS Bank will become the official sponsor of the volunteer programme for the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open. Volunteers are a vital cog in the successful running of the event, with a significant number of the more than 300 volunteers coming from the Canterbury, Otago and Southland regions.
SBS Bank was established almost 150 years ago and has become a trusted financial institution that has grown to operate throughout New Zealand. During this time it has been a strong supporter of community projects and events.
“For sponsorship to succeed both for the company and for the event, there needs to be a real synergy. These three companies share much of the same ethos and approach in terms of a drive for excellence, whilst retaining a culture as proud New Zealanders,” said Mr Hart.
Tickets for the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open, co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia and, for the first time, the Asian Tour, with a partnership with the Japan Golf Tour, will go on sale on Wednesday 22 November through www.ticketek.co.nz.


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27th, 28th, 29th October 2017 - Halloween Ghost Train
Join us for a frightfully good trip up the Rheidol Valley!
Watch out for things that go bump in the night! Train departs Aberystwyth at 6:00pm returning into Aberystwyth at approximately 9:30pm.
A Halloween feast will be served at Devil's Bridge station (included in the price).
Halloween hot dogs for the children and a hot pork bap for adults. A vegetarian option is also available. This will be topped off with a delicious blackberry and apple crumble.
We kindly ask vegetarians and anybody with any other special dietary requirements to mention this at the time of booking.
Feel free to dress up! There will be a prize awarded to the best children's costume.
Ticket prices: adult £28 / child £13
Included in the ticket price: return journey to Devil’s Bridge, entertainment during the journey, meal and a drink at Devil’s Bridge station, goody bag for children.Find out More
4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th November 2017 - Autumn Colours & Sunday Lunches
Every Saturday and Sunday during November, take a unique glimpse of the stunning Rheidol Valley, ablaze with Autumn colours.
Upgrade your train ticket to enjoy a Sunday lunch served at the Hafod Hotel in Devil's Bridge or enjoy a trip around the famous waterfalls.
For further information about the Hafod Hotel, visit: thehafod.co.uk
Sunday lunch prices: adult £9.95 / child £5.95
Departs from Aberystwyth station at 11am & returning for 3pm on 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th and 26th November 2017.Find out More
16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd December 2017 - Santa Trains
Meet Santa and his Helpers at the Vale of Rheidol Railway for some festive Christmas magic!
Your family's magical Christmas journey will take just over an hour with the ticket price including: the train journey, a personalised present for each child, mince pies and mulled wine for adults, biscuits and squash for children, a miniature train ride and a Storyteller! Perfect for the whole family.
Specially decorated Santa train will depart from Aberystwyth station for the one hour round trip through the Rheidol countryside, as far as Capel Bangor and back. During the journey, Santa will hop between the carriages to meet all the families and give out a personalised gift to every child .
What better way to start the festive Christmas season? There will also be the chance to get some last minute Christmas gifts in our Railway shop .
Departs from Aberystwyth station at 10:30, 12:30 and 14:30 on 16th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd December 2017.
We strongly advise booking in advance as this event is very popular.
Early Bird prices apply to all tickets booked prior and including 30th November 2017:
Adults and Seniors: £14.50
Child (age 2 to 15): £12.00
Under 2 with present - £5
Regular fares apply for tickets booked from 1st December 2017 onward:
Adults and Seniors: £15.50Find out More
Child (age 2 to 15): £13.00
Under 2 with present - £5
11th Jan 2018 - Test event
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HC orders police protection for Sankararaman`s wid
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday ordered the Tamil Nadu Police to provide protection to Sankararaman widow, a witness in her husband`s murder case in which Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi is the prime accused.
"The respondents (Kancheepuram SP and Crime Branch-CID DSP) shall ensure the safety of the petitioner (S Padma) when she appears before the trial court," Justice S Nagamuthu said, disposing of petitions filed by her seeking police protection for her and family members.
Padma had sought police protection on the ground that she and her family members had been allegedly threatened when they had come to depose in the case on August 6, 2009.
The judge stated the woman had made "a lot of allegations touching upon the merits of the case" which had been denied by the DSP CB-CID and "this court cannot go into the correctness or otherwise of these allegations".
He said it was for the trial Judge to dispose of Padma`s plea for police protection and re-hearing depositions after affording sufficient opportunity to both parties.
Pointing out that a perusal of petitions filed by Padma before the trial court would show that similar prayers had been made, the Judge said the question of police protection would be decided by the Puducherry Principal Sessions Judge, who is hearing the case.
Sankarararman, manager in the Varadaraja Perumal temple in Kancheepuram, was murdered in its premises on September 3, 2004.
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Since his arrival in Sydney in 2005, Varun has been pursuing his creative passion with an unfailing and unwavering dedication. He has striven to rise against all odds and has completed more than 3,000 shows as a Bollywood Dancer, a feat that is now impossible to achieve. Along the way, he has been a source of inspiration to countless actors and performers who have learned from him and performed alongside.
Varun has not only shown that a creative pursuit can be developed into a vocation, but also led the way in always being there for every worthy cause. He can be seen performing at various community events, he entertains senior citizens with his performance, and also brings a smile to special children by performing for them.
Over the past few years, Varun has ventured into video and photography, and here too, his creative acumen and focus has led him to set up an enviable reputation among the community. His team ‘Friends Audio Video’ can be seen filming at most major events and is a regular feature and several family occasions within the community members from the sub continent.
Not the one to sit on his laurels, he has also ventured into film making, and produced an indie film ‘The Jury’ which was screened in Sydney and took him into the legends of NSW Parliament.
He has not only achieved his own dreams, but has helped several of his colleagues and friends to discover and celebrate their dreams.


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text: The purpose of this study was to develop a substantive theory describing and explaining cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioural aspects of living with urinary incontinence in a nursing home. Using grounded theory methodology, data were obtained from interviews, participant observation, and minutes from meetings of resident advisory councils, and analysed concurrently using the constant comparative method. Three nursing homes located in the metropolitan area of a major American city served as sites for the study. Ethical approval was obtained from the administrator of each facility and institutional review board of a major university. Ten residents served as primary participants, consenting to provide one audiotaped formal interview, subsequent opportunities to observe and discuss their methods of bladder control, and access to their health care records. Another 33 residents from these facilities served as secondary participants, providing opportunities for observation and informal interview when their bladder control needs, issues, or methods were visible to the investigator and seemed relevant to the evolving theory. Data were collected over a period of 17 months. Findings suggest that nursing home residents with actual or potential urinary incontinence engage in a process called managing urinary incontinence. Managing urinary incontinence occurs in the context of believing that it is an inevitable part of ageing and seeking to protect physical, psychological, and social integrity. Managing urinary incontinence is a dynamic process with consequences that are influenced by the degree to which six specific strategies are used with satisfaction by the resident and supported by staff and significant others. Implications for nursing practice and research are discussed.

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Treat your love to a special Valentine’s evening that’s sure to rival any restaurant rendezvous. Tiago has dreamed up an elegant dinner menu that’s not only delectable, but doable at home! He’ll take you through the techniques for searing Lamb Chops with Rosemary and Thyme, paired with Frisée Salad with Bacon and Poached Eggs. For dessert, Tiago will show you how to master a classic – Vanilla Bean Crème Brûlée. With complementary wines to accompany the feast, it’ll be a date night to remember!
With meat, dairy, eggs and gluten.
About the instructor: Tiago graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2014. After graduation, he honed his skills as a lead sauté cook for a fine dining establishment. He has been teaching cooking classes for the last several years and has found teaching to be one of the most gratifying experiences of his life. Tiago is also a wine enthusiast and certified sommelier.
This is a demonstration class offered live via the Zoom app. Class details and recipes will be sent before class; after class we’ll share a recorded version. One spot in class is good for one kitchen. Online classes are nonrefundable.
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Back To School: Kid Friendly After School Snacks
The start of the new school year is the perfect time to double down on healthy eating. It’s a great time to end the empty calorie snacks of summer and get your kids back on track with healthy, wholesome, and delicious after-school alternatives. Here are a few of our favorites.
Everyone loves pizza. But kick the nutrition up a notch with this take from south of the border. Using fresh cheese and veggies, this tortilla-based pizza is sure to be a hit. Check it out!
Fresh Fruit Smoothie
Healthier than ice cream, but just as tasty. Kick artificial sugar to the curb by maximizing natural sugar found in fruit. By blending ice, fruit, and yogurt together you can create a creamy treat that’s almost too good to be true. Here’s a recipe for a mango-strawberry version.
Turn popsicles, a summertime favorite, into a wholesome treat with ease. All you need are popsicle molds and a whole bunch of peach. This recipe calls for fresh peaches, agave nectar, peach yogurt, and peach juice. Yum!
Make an easy veggie tray focusing on this delicious peanut dip. Unlike plain peanut butter, this mix folds in fruit and milk for a more balanced treat. The secret is in the whipped topping and minced fruit. Check it out, here.
It’s your favorite sandwich, but baked into a dessert cup! These bite-sized morsels add some crunch to the classic with quinoa, sunflower seeds, and oats. It’s sure to be a hit.
Bring home some southwest flavor that is packed with healthy fiber in this twist of a classic quesadilla. Working in black beans and corn in place of chicken, these are great when served with sour cream and avocado. Get full details, here.
Nutty Cereal Cookies
Who doesn’t love a cookie? Most kids will be very happy if you offer them cookies as an after-school snack. Adding nuts, flax seed, oats, and dried fruit to the batter makes these cookies a notch above other varieties. Here’s the recipe.
Chocolate Trail Mix
Do you have a kid with an unquenchable sweet tooth? We like this trail mix recipe to keep the sweet in the healthy mix. Its super simple to make, and especially great for student-athletes.
The perfect cool snack for a hot day, a yogurt parfait is one that you can make in advance and let sit in the fridge for a bit. We like it because it’s very wholesome and healthy. Kids like it because it blends textures and offers colorful, fresh fruit. Check it out.
Chilli Cheese Taco Chips
It’s amazing how much you can do with basic ingredients. Scoop tortilla chips, shredded cheese, black beans, and canned vegetarian chili come together to make a quick snack that is an instant hit. Learn more, here.
If you’ve made one of our simple snacks, we’d love to see it. Be sure to tag us on Instagram @QALO.


Protesters blast Republicans on tax cut vote
Protesters took to the streets in communities around the state, including Novi and Birmingham, on Tuesday to blast Michigan House of Representatives Republicans who voted against a state income tax rollback plan in February.
The Tax Day protest outside the U.S. Postal Service station on Novi Road, organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, drew about 20 people who carried signs and waved to passing motorists, some of whom signaled apparent support by sounding car or truck horns.
Novi was among the towns picked for a protest because its state House member, Kathy Crawford, was one of 12 Republicans who joined most Democrats in voting against a plan to cut the state's income tax rate from 4.25 percent to 3.9 percent over four years. The plan would have cost the state an estimated $1.1 billion in tax revenue by its fourth year.
"I think it's very important to tell people about the people who didn't vote for the tax cut," said Marge Mancuso of Commerce Township, who was waving a sign Tuesday.
"They run as Republicans, they claim to be conservative, and they don't lower our taxes," said MCC president Roseanne Ponkowski of West Bloomfield, who was handing out fliers critical of the 12, whom the MCC has dubbed "The Dirty Dozen."
Neither Mancuso nor Ponkowski live in Crawford's 38th District, which includes Novi, South Lyon, Lyon Township, Walled Lake and part of Northville.
Reached Tuesday, Crawford, a second-term House member and former Oakland County commissioner, endorsed the group's right to protest, but said she stands by her vote.
"You can't blow that big of a hole in the general fund without it hurting something," she said.
Crawford said the legislation had no chance of passing the Michigan Senate or being signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
"They weren't going to get it anyway. This was all smoke and mirrors," she said. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Lee Chatfield, R-Levering.
Crawford said there was no plan to make up for the lost revenue or specify what in the general fund budget would be cut.
"I would always look at (tax) reduction because I've been a lifelong conservative, but you can't just run willy-nilly," she said. Many of her constituents, Crawford said, told her the state should not cut taxes but instead put the money toward road improvements.
Mancuso and Ponkowski weren't buying Crawford's reasoning.
"They could come up with the money by wise spending and keeping their word," Mancuso said. Chatfield's plan had been billed as a way of ending a supposedly temporary 2007 tax increase.
"Did we not have a huge tax increase on our gas to fix the roads?" said Ponkowski, referring the 7.3-cents-per-gallon hike, from 19 cents to 26.3 cents, that took effect in January.
Bill Lethemon Jr. of Waterford, which also is not in Crawford's district, said Crawford's job includes finding alternative revenue or places to make cuts. "That's what she's elected to find out and do," he said.
The defeated tax rollback plan was a compromise proposal. Chatfield's original plan was to cut the tax to 3.9 percent beginning next January, and then by 0.1 percent every year for 39 years until it was eliminated.
Several protesters also showed support for President Donald Trump; the MCC provided grassroots support for Trump during his campaign last year and staged a number of pro-Trump "flash mobs" before and since the election.
"I think we truly have somebody in the White House who cares about us," said Tom Banks of Ypsilanti, who said he stopped by after hearing about the rally on the radio.
The rally also drew Robert Cortis's Trump Unity Bridge, a trailer decorated with U.S. flags and pro-Trump slogans that has shown up at many Trump events.


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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.Maya Angelou
I have something important to ask you today.
I want to ask you to stop telling yourself you’re a failure.
Life is a funny old thing. So often, it doesn’t turn out how we had hoped or planned.
There is a ridiculous amount of pressure upon us to ‘be successful’.
Our social media feeds and the news is filled with stories of people having success, of being influencers, of having it all.
That can lead to us feeling that we don’t measure up, that we have failed, that we are less worthy than others.
But did you know that so much of what you read, and what others portray is staged. It’s carefully crafted. It’s misleading.
And what is success anyway?
Your life may not make sense to you until long after it is finished.
The things you are experiencing may be just what your Soul wanted to try, or to experience or understand.
Maybe you’re here to help a friend.
Maybe you came for a simple life, or a quiet one.
Maybe all you needed to do was to be here to anchor love, just by being yourself, and living an ordinary and unassuming life.
You are enough. Just as you are. Right now.
You always were enough. You always will be enough.
You matter, simply because you exist.
And I am glad that you are here to share the journey.
If there are things your Soul longs to do, or ways you want to express yourself, then do that. Stop worrying about what other people may thing of you. Stop judging yourself. Choose to accept yourself with love and compassion, as you are, right now. You can still change if you want to, grow if you want to, but if you don’t that’s okay too, and even before you change, right now, you are enough.
I’m sending so much love your way, and I’m holding you in my prayers and meditations.
All my love, Nicole xx
8 thoughts on “Stop Telling Yourself You’re A Failure”
Ah Nicole. Just this morning I was saying to my girls that I’m working hard on forgiving my past self for not knowing what I know now, and being grateful and positive that my present self has made positive changes to improve the health of my children. Thank you for this timely reminder. ❤
I worked in the big corporate world and the truisms that stood out for me were ‘if you climb the ladder make sure it’s leaning against the right wall’ and ‘no one ever said on their deathbed that they wished they’d spent more time at the office’ .
I thought myself an under performer as my heart was always elsewhere. It took me many years before my wise husband suggested my life work was not on the outside consumer and appearance driven world but internally on the energetic realm. Shame is I have no idea how I measure this and hey all we have grown up with is measuring ourselves. It. Is. To. Control. Us!
Know that if you try to be kind and anchor love into this confused planet, you are doing great and are successful.
Beautifully said, Kate! Thank you x
That is a habit I am trying to change yes it isn’t easy but I am still trying
I remember a time when I flopped during a big presentation in grad school in front of peers, professors and industry leaders. When telling a friend my shame, he surprised me by saying, “What a great experience. If you can survive this then you can survive any speaking engagement in the future.” It changed my perspective on failure and overcoming. Thank you for sharing this important message.
Thank you for the reminder and the love
Easier said than done.
Hi Caroline. When I have been in that place I found that what helped me was to focus on two things. The first was the things that I knew were still true about me. I was kind. I could cook. I had a few people who loved me and to whom I mattered. The second thing I focused on what how short and unpredictable a human life can be, and that across centuries people like me had lived and died, and were then forgotten by future generations. It gave me a bigger sense of freedom and allowed me to more deeply appreciate the beauty of the natural world and to take comfort in my ability to witness that world, and to think more deeply about life while seeing my own physical self as valuable but transitory. I am a soul in a human body. Everything is just experience. I have lived before and I will live again, and these things I might think of as failure are simply experiences, from which I can explore thoughts and feelings that arise within myself.
We spend so much time judging ourselves and beating ourselves up. Is it possible for you to pivot your thoughts, and to see the value in your life as it is now? What to you is success? Do you have that in any area of your life? Is there any small thing for which you can be grateful? Can you find a new perspective for yourself as a soul in a human body?
I’m sending you so much love, thanks for your comment and for being part of my community xx

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"These are my easy to-make delicious empanadas when I am in a hurry, and of course, they are my kids' favorite! Gouda, hard-boiled eggs, and ham empanadas are light and full of flavor, a perfect easy midweek Mediterranean dinner."
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
Combine ham, Gouda cheese, and hard-boiled eggs in a bowl; mix well.
Arrange pastry disks on a flat surface; dab a little water around the rims. Place a large tablespoonful of ham and cheese mixture in the center; fold pastry over and press edge with a fork to seal well.
Place empanadas on the prepared baking sheets. Brush with beaten egg.
Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.


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Judd, iconic country artist known for her music in the beloved mother-daughter duo The Judds (in addition to her solo work), opened up about losing Presley in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. Presley, the only child of Priscilla Presley and legendary artist Elvis Presley, died on January 12 after apparently suffering a cardiac arrest, shortly before her 55th birthday.
“I was so shocked, and it kicked my butt because she's 54 years old and I'm 58. And when you go through something like this, it's just bizarre. It's hard to comprehend,” Judd told ET. The “Love Can Build A Bridge” singer, who lost her mother and duo partner, Naomi Judd, last year, added: “I'm not one of those people that says, you know, I'm praying for you, or, you know, my prayers and my condolences, because I've been going through it myself. And it's so heavy. It's too heavy to talk about it right now. Maybe in some time, when we give it some time for things to settle. I just think, right now, I can't imagine what they're going through.
“I know what I went through,” Judd continued while speaking with ET. “And when people say stuff like, ‘They're in a better place.’ I don't want her to be in a better place. I want her to be here with me. That's selfish, but that's human response. So the human response for me is just love the ones you're with. Love the ones you're with. That and forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness. That's on my list every single day.”
Judd took part in an outpouring of tributes to Presley, sharing a photo of the two legendary artists together and captioning it only with a broken heart emoji. Others — including Dolly Parton, LeAnn Rimes, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Billy Idol, John Travolta and many more — also shared photos and heartfelt tributes to Presley, who was laid to rest at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
Judd, who has often been open about her mental health as she mourns the loss of Naomi, is getting ready for the next leg of “The Judds: The Final Tour.” The tour, aiming to honor her late mother in song, will include special guests on select dates, including Martina McBride, Ashley McBryde, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile. The tour begins again on Thursday (January 26).

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Firstly, this product had the main feature was to hold candles and torches on the walls but the perspective has changed. You must know that the wall sconces have a more renowned role in the house decor. It’s one of the most popular lighting options and it permits a good surface to any space. There are different kinds of styles, sizes and figurations. Let’s see the amazing selection that will motivate you to add one of these pieces into your house decor!
Unexpected twists in the magically evocative ribbon awaken your deepest senses giving you the impression of being wrapped in the impulsive charm of a little girl. Exquisite leaf detailing in gilded bronze finished in gold.
Made of brass with gold plated and handmade butterflies and majestic flowers ending with the touch of beautiful Swarovski crystals. The wall version of McQueen Chandelier, this master piece causes a dramatic and eccentric sensation of beauty.
This sconce has the complex and attractive geometry design of combined tubes. It is both inspiring and elegant with its aluminum body.
The Newton wall lamp is an exclusive artisan produced piece that reflects the best of Portuguese design and craftsmanship, authenticating Boca do Lobo’s core values and ethos.
Design by Christopher Guy
A beautiful forged metal extension, in an abstract cross-layered profile form this spectacular wall-light sconce.
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Marlena Shaw: Let's Hear It For The Good Guys and Gals
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, July 1976
"Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?" Hey man, we're not being abusive...that was the title of Marlena Shaw's breakthrough album and serves to introduce this background piece on the talented lady. Nice to see her joining a few other soulful folk who are grabbing airplay and sales...
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A 16-year-old Utah boy was found dead in what police believe was a homicide.
As the Salt Lake Tribune reports, the teen boy was discovered dead in cargo trailer in Taylorsville on Wednesday. Sources told the newspaper that the there was a large amount of blood at the scene. The trailer was behind a residence near the victim’s home, Fox 13 reports, but he did not live at the residence and any connection to the homeowners is unknown.
Police have identified the victim as Ivan Nickolas “Nick” Vetecnik. They have released very few details about the investigation, including the boy’s suspected caused of death.
According to Fox 13, police have taken a 17-year-old person of interest into custody but he has not yet been charged with a crime. The relationship between the victim and the person is interest is not yet known.
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