![]() 1982 OPUS ONE: 82/16/2 Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot only 9 days skin contact & long 23 months in new French oak.Highly recommend this procedure to all wineries around the world as providing a most valuable history story. Congrats go to Opus One for their impressive website with details on all the vintages listed there which is outstanding and most helpful for consumers. Wines were 8 vintages of Opus One ranging from 1982 to 2014 plus a ringer of 2012 Mondavi Reserve. We thought it would be fun and educational to look back at some of these earlier vintages so the Vancouver Group of 8 scheduled a dinner at Blue Water on May 24, 2022.Ī few brief impressions: The bookends both were formidable from Dom Ruinart first 2004 Blanc de Blancs 100% Grand Crus low dosage delicately structured with creamy silky textures finishing up with Dom Ruinart 2007 Rose using B/B with 18% added pinot noir from Ay. Presently winemaker Michael Silacci picks early to maintain freshness maintaining vineyard wild yeasts, using 100% new French oak from 10 coopers aiming for accessibility of the wine on release though best drinking for him around 15 years of age but capable of going 40 years. The resulting wines have improved each decade after trying times early on and are looking at their 43rd vintage in 2022. This also helped vine management (looking for sunlight rather than heat to ripen the grapes), canopy, and pruning of the fruit with closer vines providing some shade themselves against the hot midday sun. The positive result was that denser replanting was key going from rows 12 feet apart with vines every 8 feet to 4 by 4 closer together competing. ![]() However in 1990 phylloxera was discovered in Q Block that resulted in a replanting on St. Another issue was the vines as Mondavi sold a key 35 acre Q block parcel of To-Kalon to the venture plus in 1983-84 they acquired two more vineyards across Highway 29 from Mondavi totalling 138 acres of which 108+ were planted. 1990 was the last vintage made at the Mondavi facility and 1991 the first one in that spectacular new Opus One winery (plagued by water issues built over a geothermal spring with cost overruns). From about 1986 on some Bordeaux vinification methods were being deployed and by the early nineties harmony developed between the Bordeaux & Napa contributions. Initially it was somewhat difficult to reach the unique perfect Opus One style with Bordeaux experts first Lucien Sionneau and in the late eighties Patrick Leon seeking more elegance & finesse while the Mondavi family (Robert, MIchael & Tim with Genevieve Janssens) focusing on the rich bold riper Napa fruit. In the early years the wine was produced at the Mondavi winery and was very California. There were so many aficionados of their wines (Mondavi Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon & Chateau Mouton Rothschild) that the launch of their joint project of Opus One in Oakville California with the inaugural 1979 vintage was met with highly enthusiastic anticipation. Your scribe is a long time follower and admirer of the work of both Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe De Rothschild.
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![]() Having spent a lot of time with gaming laptops, what XMG offers software-wise almost seems spartan but its that way because that is what end users have asked for. ![]() ![]() You spend top dollar on one of these XMG laptops, and its not just about the hardware specifications that command this premium XMG provides these options without a lot of the software "bloat" that you'll find elsewhere. XMG is really ready to offer customers full control over the hardware they have purchased, and the appearance of these options in the BIOS speak volumes towards that focus. We've gone from none to several pages of options to adjust, with both power limits and voltage settings adjustable by the end user. Undervolting options for the built-in Intel CPU are rather extensive. We also see support for memory speed, voltage and timing adjustments, and getting 5600 MHz memory installed as standard instead of 4800 MHz stuff is an option with the NEO 17 as well, should you be so inclined to have that little boost right out of the box. The NEO 17 throws that to the wind and offers a plethora of user-adjustable performance options for the built-in CPU, ready for you to undervolt so it can scale further and offer optimized performance. Most laptops have rather constrained BIOSes, with little-to-no options that we as enthusiasts might be interested in. That is important because this version of the NEO 17 does strive even further to be like a desktop in what it offers, starting with the BIOS. Nahamic offers some nice user-adjustable presets as well as fine-tuning options if that is more to what you'd prefer, and while it might not seem like that big of a deal, anything that improves audio in the laptop space comes as a welcome addition since the size constraints here really affect audio performance compared to a desktop. I am personally a big fan of what Nahamic offers, and it has been around for many years now, and seen many updates. I'd hazard a guess and say that overall noise is reduced by half while gaming and using the OASIS, and that lets you run the speakers at lower levels, where they can be more accurate.įurther to the audio updates is a change from Creative's Sound Blaster audio software to Nahamic by Steelseries. ![]() it actually makes the NEO 17 run quieter while at full load, too. The whole OASIS experience is brand new, and I have to commend XMG for taking so much time and effort in updating this part of the NEO 17, as it takes what was great before and brings it up a level into something that is truly incredible. Noise levels are significantly reduced compared to the previous version, thanks to all these updates. Even the power cord is removable this time, where the past OASIS saw the power cord stuck out like a tail. I think the radiator might be the same, but that's about it. As if that wasn't enough, we have the quieter pump, and the new hose fittings too, so most of the physical water loop has seen an update. We also see a well-lit water-level indicator, something that truly needed an update. Updated pump and fan are present here, as is a fancy new magnetic quick connect, a little engineering marvel that makes connecting and disconnecting the OASIS unit from the NEO 17 truly quick and easy, without so much as a drop of water lost.Īlthough it has about the same size as the previous version, the new OASIS cooler features a grille that lets the fan peek through, and for good reason, as this time around we have a rather well-lit RGB fan providing airflow to the 120 mm rad. The highly functional OASIS watercooler is completely different this go around, with no aspect of it left untouched. From audio down to the keyboard everything has been given an update and so much so that I'm utterly impressed that I have so much to talk about.įirst, let's talk about the elephant in the room, which is the OASIS water cooling. What they have provided in the 2023 version of the mighty NEO 17 sees updates to nearly every aspect of the laptop, and meanwhile there were no compromises made with connectivity. For some, those changes would be enough of a update, but not for XMG. Same power use as the past 3080 ti, but far larger performance figures. This go around, for 2023, we've got an Intel CPU, the mighty 32-thread Intel Core i9-13900HX, mated with the RTX 4090 175 W GPU. The 2022 version featured an AMD processor, mated with a 175 W 3080 Ti. XMG's NEO 17 has appeared on these pages before. ![]() 1st Stop Meat Market & Deli, 912 Colonial Ave., 80.Pizza and Donuts! Not rated yet Wow, it looks like we're getting a Papa John's pizza store AND a bakery in the Colonial Plaza shopping center! Half the time I eat in the dining room, and the rest of the time I order take-out. That's usually what I order when I go there. Hunan Diner has great General Tso's chicken. They are closed for the winter months (end of December to the first week in March). Inside, there's a cozy fireplace area for chilly days. Indoor or outdoor dining with a great river view (they're right on the Boardwalk) is offered. It's on the appetizer portion of the menu, and it makes for a great meal. When I eat at High Tides, I usually get the Commander Quesadillas. I can even tell when they have bands playing when I'm at my house, as the sound carries across the water. They have a real nice setup as far as indoor and outdoor seating. Yum! I also like to go there to hang out with friends and listen to the bands play. The last time I ate there I got the fish tacos with dirty rice. Absolutely yummy! Maybe they'll add it back onto the menu. My favorite dish at Dockside is the sauteed chicken breast medallions with angel hair pasta. Wilkerson's Seafood Restaurant in Potomac Beach on McKinney Ave.Top's China in the Beachgate Shopping Center 80.Suki The Cuisine serves Thai and Sushi on the corner of Washington and Hawthorn menu.Raven's Point Cafe, 322 Washington Ave.Paradise Bay Grill at Monroe Bay Campground.For more information, follow FireTruck Pizza Company and FireTruck Brewing Company on Facebook. ![]() Stay tuned for the official hours of operation as we creep closer to the Grand Opening on Wednesday, January 4.įireTruck Pizza Company is located at 800 N. The pizza joint is currently serving pies now during its soft opening (hours may vary). on Monday - Friday, which includes an 18-inch Margherita pizza and a pint of beer for $25. They've also got a Happy Hour from 3 - 5 p.m. Photo courtesy of FireTruck Brewing Company on Facebook
![]() Villa, L.: Incorporating Affective Proactive Behaviour to a Social Companion Robot for Community Dwelling Older Adults. Serafino, A.: Cybersecurity issues in robotics, Issues in Robotics. MDPI, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. Moran, J.: Preliminary examination of emergent threat and risk landscapes in intelligent harvesting robots. Maple, C.: Identifying attack, identifying attack surfaces. Mao, Z.M.: Automated Runtime Mitigation for Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities, ACM Other conferences. Mahler, T.: Cybersecurity, safety and robots: Strengthening the link between cybersecurity and safety in the context of Care Robots. Kragic, D.: Challenges in robot, trends and challenges in robot. Howard, D.: A review of jamming actuation in soft robotics. Robot Santa Claus has his home base on Neptunes north pole. Goyal, N.: Robotics, AI, and the IOT in defence systems, Robotics, AI. Neptunes atmosphere is made up mostly of molecular hydrogen, atomic helium and methane. Ghelani, D.: Cyber security, cyber threats, Authorea. George, T.: A review on self-healing polymers for Soft Robotics. Last accessed Ĭonstantinescu, D.: Multirobot system-IEEE Xplore, Multirobot System with Connectivity. Last accessed īilberg, A.: Developing a reference model for human–robot interaction, SpringerLink. Last accessed īhavsar, C.: Robotic arm control based on internet of things, Robotic Arm Control. Intrusion detection and prevention systemīhardwaj, A.: Cyber security attacks on robotic platforms, Cyber security attacks.In this case, the paper focuses on cybersecurity in Robotics and identifies security gaps, vulnerabilities, and risks. ![]() ![]() Therefore, both physical and virtual problems in robotics systems are part of cybersecurity in Robotics which is rapidly growing. For instance, the WIFI connection may be designed with a poor encryption system. Virtual security vulnerabilities can be found in provider platforms, misconfigurations, built-in weaknesses in robot systems, and risks in data communications channels. Physical elements may raise concern in three key aspects integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the robot system’s operations and functions. Hence, when robots are compromised, it immediately affects two different areas.: I. Moreover, they experience security problems that are comparable to those that computer systems have had for years. Robotic functionalities are similar to computer systems running by a program that is defined to repeat tasks or operations. Additionally, this technology has become an essential component of daily life, and robotics automation usage cases have expanded from household utilities to medical, or space projects, defense, and education. These days, a robot can be small, and simple and still have increased performance and productivity. Nowadays, Robotics come in different shapes with different capabilities. Robotics is becoming more ubiquitous, and this technology has existed for almost a century and also keeps continuously evolving with better capabilities and advancements in an environment which includes both hardware and software. ![]() However, the story presents an argument that is much more nuanced, instead suggesting that thinking about plot is only a first and rudimentary step of writing good fiction. It is easy to conclude that "Happy Endings" is a story about bad writing, bad plots, and failed fiction. ![]() What does the ultimate goal of "Happy Endings" seem to be? As such, the repetitive nature of "Happy Endings" emphasizes the changeability of fiction and the artifice involved in writing an interesting story. This repetition, then, ultimately draws attention to the concept of the writing process, as a writer attempts to puzzle through what to do with certain characters. However, it quickly becomes clear that characters are not the same versions of themselves across the stories. Readers will notice that many words, phrases, and concepts are repeated across stories in "Happy Endings." This repetition initially fosters confusion, as it appears that each story is simply a different time in the characters' lives. Why does Atwood repeat characters' names and particular words and phrases in each of the stories? It is not the ending, then, that is important when crafting a good story. This repetition of characters' deaths connects to the narrator's concluding assertion that all stories actually have the same endings – characters die. John does not endure this and he decides to kill them. One day, John comes and finds Mary and James having sexual intercourse. Mary does not love John though, and instead loves James, who is often away riding his motorcycle. In scenario C, John and Madge are married but John and Mary are having an affair. When Mary realizes, she tries to commit suicide to attract the attention of John and make him confess his love for her but unfortunately, she dies. However, John does not take her love towards him seriously because he secretly has an affair with Madge. For instance, in scenario B, Mary is deeply in love with John. She portrays the characters in different scenarios having both good and bad endings. How does the theme of mortality manifest in "Happy Endings"?Ītwood depicts mortality as the ultimate end of every character regardless of leading a happy or bad relationship. ![]() How a secretive “quantitative hedge fund” run by a small group of players hoovers up millions of dollars in cash rewards from the platform.This is our vision and our business.”īut are NFTs as straightforward as they seem, and should those looking to get involved be wary?Īfter dozens of conversations with Sorare users and industry insiders, as well as a detailed analysis of the “blockchain” technology that provides details on how the Sorare market works, The Athletic can explain for the first time: “By collecting NFT cards and playing our global and free-to-enter fantasy football game, our community has unlocked a new way to connect with the players and clubs that they love. “At Sorare, fans can celebrate their passion for football in a unique way,” said a spokesperson. Thanks to a joint project with and you can now get our players' digital cards! Join #GlobalFantasyFootball and get your first 10 LaLiga cards for free to start playing. More recently, the record was broken by a Cristiano Ronaldo card which sold for $290,000, and another featuring the Manchester United and Portugal star that sold for $400,000 earlier this month. The most expensive cards on Sorare have traded for astonishing sums, like a Kylian Mbappe one which broke the record last year after being sold to a user for more than $64,000. Ils sont tous sur la liste des transferts, j’attends vos offres □□ #GriziFC /y6Tn4P8Llx Vous connaissez ? Ici vous avez ma Team □ ![]() He owns many of the cards bearing his name, regularly buying them for tens of thousands of euros and generating hype on the platform whenever he does. These huge footballing institutions promote Sorare to their fans on their social media accounts, as do other high-profile footballers or former players including Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Pique and Rio Ferdinand.įrance forward Griezmann was an early investor in Sorare and is also an active player. Atletico Madrid said their deal was reached through La Liga, adding they had carried out “a due diligence and verification process”. Liverpool were the only Premier League club to sign up but their deal expired in August. ![]() Pansexual flag: Features stripes in pink (women), yellow (non-binary people), and blue (men) Intersex flag: Features yellow (a non-gendered colour) background and a purple circle (symbolising unbrokenness or wholeness)Īsexual flag: Features a black stripe (representing asexuality or lack of sexual attraction), grey stripe (grey asexuality and demisexuality), white (sexuality), and purple (community) Transgender flag: Features stripes in light or baby blue (traditional colour for baby boys), light pink (traditional colour for baby girls), and white (representing those who are intersex, transitioning, or gender non-conforming) Transgender Flag Colours This is commonly referred to as the “Progress Pride Flag”.ĭifferent gender identities and sexual orientations in the LGBT community have their own designs:īisexual flag: Features stripes in pink (symbolising same-sex attraction), purple (attraction to both sexes), blue (attraction to the opposite sex) The Bisexual Flag The following year, designer Daniel Quasar added a five-coloured chevron over the rainbow, which featured the colours black, brown, blue, pink, and white, with the last three representing trans people. In 2017, Philadelphia City announced a new city pride flag featuring a black and brown stripe atop the original colours, representing queer people of colour. In recent years, artists have put their own spin on the rainbow flag to represent marginalised and underrepresented communities. Eventually, the turquoise stripe was dropped and the six-colour pride flag has been the most popular LGBTQ pride flag since.īut again, the rainbow flag isn’t the only pride flag out there. When Milk was assassinated in 1978 and the demand for the flag grew, Gilbert opted to remove the hot pink stripe because the colour wasn’t readily available. Gilbert’s design originally had eight colours: According to Gilbert, it was a symbol of hope and stood as a “modern alternative” to the pink triangle – a symbol that had been used by the gay movement but had a dark history as a tool of oppression in World War II. Gilbert, together with his friend Lynn Segerblom, created the first iteration of the gay pride flag with the rainbow as his inspiration. The first pride flag was created by activist and artist Gilbert Baker, who had been challenged by then-San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk to create a symbol that could represent and unite the gay community. Why Do We Need Pride Flags Anyway?Īccording to, pride flags came from a “need to assert the presence of LGBTQ+ people and their community at a time when they tended to be overlooked by mainstream culture”. The popularity of Gwen’s inclusive version is also likely the reason why you won’t find a butch lesbian flag or a femme lesbian flag. This and Gwen’s original version are more likely to be found at a pride parade over the first two iterations. Tumblr user is credited for creating a simpler but similar five-stripe version. Many people on social media have lauded Gwen’s design for being inclusive of butch women, non-conforming women, and transgender women. Femininity, symbolised by the colour dark pink. ![]() Love and sex, symbolised by the colour pastel pink.Serenity and peace, symbolised by the colour pink. ![]()
![]() To determine the precise characteristics of the step response you can use the It looks like when = 0.15, we can meet our design requirements. Title( 'Step Response with K_p = 21, K_i = 500 and Different values of K_d') Let's see what happened to the step disturbance response, change the following commands in your m-file and re-run at the command Title( 'Step Response with K_p = 21, K_i = 500 and Different Values of K_d') Go back to the m-file and make the following changes. ![]() ![]() We will investigateĭerivative gains ranging from 0.05 to 0.25. ![]() We will attempt to reduce the settling time and overshoot by adding a derivative term toĪdding a derivative term to the controller means that we now have all three terms of the PID controller. We will choose = 500 because the error due to the disturbance decays to zero quickly, even though the response to the reference has a longer Specifically, the larger the value of employed, the faster the error decays to zero. However, the response due to the disturbance changes significantly as the integral gain is changed. Oscillation increasing slightly as is made larger. For the response to the step reference, all of the reponses look similar with the amount of The integral control has reduced the steady-state error to zero, even when a step disturbance is present that was the goalįor adding the integral term. Title( 'Response to a Step Disturbance with K_p = 21 and Different Values of K_i') You should generate a plot like the one shown in the figure below. Change the following commands in your m-file and re-run in theĬommand window. Now let's see what happened to the step disturbance response. Title( 'Response to a Step Reference with K_p = 21 and Different Values of K_i') Change your m-file to the following and run in the command window. We will set = 21 and test integral gains ranging from 100 to 500. Let's first try a PI controller to get rid of the steady-state error due to the disturbance. The DC Motor Position: System Modeling page that adding an integral term will eliminate the steady-state error and a derivative term can reduce the overshoot and Larger values of has the adverse effect of increasing the overshoot and settle time as can be seen from the step reference plot. The larger the value of the smaller the steady-state error is due to the disturbance, but it never reaches zero. Therefore, to have zero steady-state error in the presence of a disturbance, we need the disturbance This follows from the property of superposition that holds for linear systems. Simultaneously is equal to the sum of the two graphs shown above. Specifically, the response due to the reference and disturbance applied Steady-state error when the disturbance is added. This is due to the fact that the plant has an integrator, that is, the system is type 1. The above plots show that the system has no steady-state error in response to the step reference by itself, no matter theĬhoice of proportional gain. Title( 'Response to a Step Disturbance with Different Values of K_p') Add the following to the end of your m-file and run it in the command window. Refer back to the block diagram at the top of this page to see the structure of Now only the plant transfer function P( s) is in the forward path and the controller C( s) is considered to be in the feedback path. The feedback command can still be employed for generating the closed-loop transfer function where there is still negative feedback, however, In this case, we will assume a reference of zero and lookĪt how the system responds to the disturbance by itself. Let's also consider the system's response to a step disturbance. Title( 'Response to a Step Reference with Different Values of K_p') You should generate the plot shown in the figure below. Add the following code to the end of your m-file and again run it in theĬommand window. Now let's see what the step responses look like. Add the following code to the end of your m-file and run it in the MATLAB command window: The closed-loop transfer functions can be generated using the feedback command. An array of LTI models, each with a different proportional gain, can be built using a for loop. Let's first try using a proportional controller with gain ranging from 1 to 21. Recall that the transfer function for a PID controller has the following form. First create a new m-file and type in the following commands (refer to main problem for the details of getting these commands). Now let's design a PID controller and add it into the system. No steady-state error, even in the presence of a step disturbance input. ![]() We promise you'll be pleasantly surprised. Pour into a festive dish and garnish with the remaining Christmas tree for decor. 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Explore Marsha Mintons board 'Bridal Shower - Favorite Things', followed by 582 people on Pinterest. ![]() We opted for something super simple a Smirnoff Peppermint Martini. ![]() Frost with your favorite frosting and serve Last but certainly not least, the cocktail. Then, we do an exchange of sorts (while also drinking wine and catching up with girlfriends) and everyone goes home with three. The idea is that everyone brings three of their favorite thing that costs roughly 10 20.00 each. Bake at the recommended time and degrees per the cake mix. Last Friday night, I went to a Favorite Things party that my friend Jen hosts every year. Finding the perfect gift for a special person in your life - whether it's a family member, friend or coworker - doesn't always mean you have to blow your budget. Mix white cake mix, cake mix ingredients, and chocolate pudding mix together. ![]() But there’s a major change in the dim sum service. The restaurant is pretty much the same on the inside as it was on our last visit in 2017. Starting at about 10, people began to file in, slowly at first and then much faster by 10.30 all the tables were taken and there were people waiting both in the foyer and outside. And when they opened their doors, we were the first in. I’d worried that there would already be a lot of people waiting outside (after all Mandarin Kitchen’s dim sum is a lot worse and people queue up there before they open) but there were only two or three others cars parked in front with people inside. ![]() As I’m paranoid, we arrived in their parking lot at 9.30. They still don’t but the person I spoke with said that if we were all present when they open their doors at 9.45 (they officially open for dim sum at 10 am on the weekends it’s served till 2 pm) we would almost certainly get a table. I’d called the restaurant the day before to see if there was a chance they now took reservations for dim sum, as the start time of our midday appointment was non-negotiable. Louis Park at midday on Sunday and as I cast around for a place to eat an early lunch at Yangtze was right there. But our last meal there- back in 2017-was a big disappointment and, given that it’s a 50 minute each way drive for us, we swore off returning. Louis Park was the one place we would eat dim sum at from time to time. In fact, you don’t even have to compare the local scene with that in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley to find it lacking we ate better dim sum in Denver when we lived in Boulder in the early-mid 2000s. Despite what a lot of people will tell you, it’s not really very good-both on its own merits and when compared to what’s available in American cities with large Chinese populations. ![]() It is not a secret that we-my family and I-are not fans of the dim sum available in the Twin Cities metro. Regular readers of the blog know why this is shocking. I bring shocking news: we went out to eat dim sum in the Twin Cities. |
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