If you’re anything like me (poor, young, and slightly intimidated by anything with a culture of exclusivity), the grocery store is where you will usually buy your wine. Hey, I agree that it is a nice and safe place to go. Unless it is the Killer Kroger on Ponce De Leon…but, I digress.

At the very least, there is no chance in hell or even purgatory that a zealous wine extremist with over-weaning (and bearing) hubris will lurk in the shadows of aisle six. Trust me, he’s way over on the other side of town in that “just splendid” little wine shop with vintages from the upward $30s. Probably with Robert Parker. 

But you, little darling, can hide amongst the aisles of California grapes in peace, perhaps even grab that third bottle of Yellow Tail with no shame. I like going to the grocery store, too. I hear you! However, as I mentioned earlier, it is pretty hard to spread your wings to wine god status with that level (or lack) of guide-less-ness. Yes, I made up that word. Deal with it.

Anyway, in theme with post No. 3, I dove into some high-profile research on wine-scavenging so that we could decode this beast like independent grown ass adults who know what they are doing! Maybe you’ll even start wearing a tie to work after this. Maybe.  And we don’t even have to hail from Bletchley Park .  Below is a compilation of all the best advice I have gathered:

1. Get your bearings. This is war, people. Take a walk-a-bout of sorts. Figure out where the Chardonnay is and hack that mess out of the way. Wait, hold the phone Winebbler. But, everybody loves Chardonnay!  Kids, there is just waaaay too much of that crap on the shelves. If you must, do your research first. In a bind, google it on your phone. In a real bind? Ask someone who may possibly look like they remotely know what they are doing. But, don’t, I repeat do not just pick up any random bottle of Chardonnay by your lone-lonesome. You will pay too much for it. Hello! You are poor, remember??

2. Don’t be a baby bitch, either. Leave your comfort zone. I’m talking to you with that California Merlot in your hand. In case you are blind, this place is infested with California wines. Yeah, sure they rock, but if you want to go with cheap and quality try something a bit crazier. Ahem, Wash State. What. Up.

3. Look at the year. Most grocery stores aren’t going to house a vintage that needs to be kept away. (We’ll talk about this, calm down!) The newer the wine at the grocery store, the better it is going to be. Obviously this isn’t always the case, but in the name of clarity–we’ll keep it black and white for now.

4. Release all college nostalgia. Back then, bigger bottle equaled more drunk. I loved Franzia just as much as the next monogrammed broad.  But just put it down, guys. You are not going back there because (sorry to be the bearer of bad news) your ass graduated. Let that piss poor excuse of a beverage stay in your hidden Facebook photo albums only.

5. Finally, if all else fails, some grocery stores have these (cringe) point systems. Maybe they are actually right in some instances. Higher number = Higher rating = Higher likelihood of good wine. I’m dying as I write this (obviously), but hey, even the man gets it sometimes.

Hope this helps! Happy winebbling!

Bis,

C.

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What are your main aims?

My immediate aim is to win selection for the Labour party. Then I want to fight hard to win back Bury North for the Labour Party and, ultimately serve as the towns MP.

One of the first things I’d do is to open up a constituency office in Bury North. Our current MP doesn’t even have an office in our town, and I would do that immediately. That would be for casework issues but also having a presence in the town that you are representing is important to me. I would also ensure that the team of 3 or 4 that I employ included an apprentice and provide internships for the long term unemployed. My view is that an MP, and their office, must be alive to the issues that are facing the town. One of the things I want to say to employers in Bury – working with employers – to ensure we provide more employment opportunities for young people. As MP, I would ask every employer to take 1 male and 1 female apprentice. It would solve the issue of youth unemployment and I’d start with my own employees.

One of the things we’ve got to in Bury North is seek investment in our town. We need an MP with the energy and experience to promote the town so that more businesses and organisations take Bury as a real consideration as somewhere to base their business or start up here and employ our brilliant people. I don’t accept we are just a commute-out town, but what we’ve got to make sure we grab growing industries and take advantage of new sectors for employment and jobs. I personally think that Bury is the best town of the Greater Manchester ten and its time we had a Labour MP to champion it for jobs and public services. It’s a fantastic place to live.

What do you think you can offer, that other candidates can’t?

My strength of experience is really what I’m speaking to our fellow members about. I’ve run a business; I’ve known what it’s like to be responsible for creating employment opportunities, but also understand the humility that goes with being an employer and responsible for peoples gainful employment. I take that very seriously. This also means I can talk with a degree of authority about the issues facing employers and what we need to create more sustainable jobs in both private and public sectors.

I look at what this government’s doing – their priorities as a government and the current Tory MP here. He’s invisible – nowhere to be seen at a time when families, single people, and whole communities are facing great uncertainty, the real issue of finding sustained employment, and paying household bills. I’ve a young family and I know how hared it can get to cover the household bills. Paying these bills is getting harder and harder, and we need someone in Bury North, and a government nationally, that understand this.

Bury North needs someone that can stand up with authentic claim on those issues for the town. Genuinely, I hope to demonstrate throughout the course of this campaign that I am all of those things and that as the Labour MP I would provide a better alternative.

There are a lot of people whose faith has been lost in politics that do not vote. How do we turn that around?

Individual contact is really important, as is being able to demonstrate the change in culture of politics and its ability to make positive changes to peoples lives. One of the things about non-voting is one of apathy and a belief that voting wont change things. Apathy is difficult issue to overcome but it can be if we relate the Labour cause to everyday life and to people’s lives and change peoples mind one conversation at a time.

I also think we have to engage more effectively and take full advantage of modern campaigning techniques and social media. My campaign is on facebook at facebook.com/james4burynorth or twitter @jimmyfrith.

Prof Bousso told BBC News: “The paper argues that intelligent behaviour, which is hard to quantify, can be reduced to maximising one’s options, which is relatively easy to quantify. But it cannot explain intelligent behaviour from first principles,”.

I think: The causal entropic effect simply emerges from the evolutionary selection effect. Physical systems that happen to maximize future histories will maintain lots of options, whereas other systems collapse to particular options more readily given some inputs. They are then less likely to maximize options in the future, because they have fewer choices about their future states. Thus there need not be any particular mechanism responsible. We are simply left with some physical systems that maintain options in the face of potentially limiting physical, varying inputs, just as we are left with species that tend to survive given other, varying inputs.

On an application note: It might also prove very interesting to maximize future artificial neural networks (ANNs) alteration histories given a changing set of problems.

Anyhow, below is some background on this new hot topic of intelligence emerging from the causal entropic “force”:

Weissner-Gross and C.E.Freer of Harvard, Cambridge and MIT made a startling discovery – that maximizing future histories, or potential future entropy, by applying a causal entropic force or principle, yields intelligent behavior in simple physical systems such as pendulums, a ball in a box, and series of 2D disks to maintain balance, find a center, destroy limitations, help others, and cooperate in tasks. Without any special programming per scenario, the following intelligent behavior arises from just maximizing options:

1) Maintain Balance: A system maintains a pendulum in an inverted position on a moving cart.

The system has the most possible future histories when a force props the pendulum it straight up in the air because it can then fall in any direction. This entropic force is analogous to the net forces required to maintain balance in a moving biped or human on a moving plane.

2) A ball decides to move to the center of a box, which best enables it to get to any other spot in the most evenly distributed maximum time. It can be viewed as preparing for future need to arrive at any spot in limited time.

3) Larger disks in a set of disks enable mobility and free other disks by breaking smaller disks that limit movement.

4) Collaboration: disks collaborated with other disks at times.

“Raphael Bousso of the University of California Berkeley said: “It has always mystified me how well this principle models intelligent observers, and it would be wonderful if Alex’s work could shed some light on this.”

Prof Bousso showed in a 2007 paper in Physical Review D that models of the Universe that incorporated causal entropy were more likely to come up with a Universe that contains intelligent observers – that is, us.

However, he cautions that although the new paper bolsters the case for causal entropy, the idea still lacks explanatory power.

“The paper argues that intelligent behaviour, which is hard to quantify, can be reduced to maximising one’s options, which is relatively easy to quantify. But it cannot explain intelligent behaviour from first principles,” he told BBC News.”

This is the statement that got me thinking and writing this post.

It seems to me that an evolutionary type selection effect is driving this perceived causal entropic “force”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22261742

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i16/e168702

A. D. Wissner-Gross and C. E. Freer

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“The ideal situation is that if you were picking a Test side now that the captain would be in it and almost guaranteed a start.” – Gatland at the start of April on the Lions captaincy. “That’s only fair for the rest of the squad and particularly for those playing in the same position so they can be thinking ‘If I go out there and play better and my form’s better then there’s no guarantee they’re going to select the tour captain over me’.” Then, in the most hotly-contested area of the 2013 Lions squad, Gatland gave Warburton the captaincy despite many doubts about his place in the team, a decision that immediately put the head coach’s impartiality in question.

Defenders of the appointment highlight Gatland’s words – “He’s someone that I worked with closely and I really respect the job he’s done for Wales” – and say that, because the Lions is such a short-term assignment, it is essential the bond between coach and captain is strong and that an already-functioning working relationship is an advantage, but this is baseless spin. There is no precedent of this previous coach-captain relationship in the professional era of the Lions; very simply the job should go to the right man for the job, not the player the coach has worked closest with. Additionally, the knock-on effect of Warburton’s appointment could be extremely divisive, especially when we consider the selection issues.

In 2005 Clive Woodward made the mistake, among others, of allowing pre-conceived personnel ideas for the Test team cloud judgement in relation to fair and reasonable selection. The proven approach to Lions selection is fixing the style you want to play first and then creating competition between the players to find the ones who can operate at their optimum and fit the system best, while allowing scope for variation in case it’s needed. It’s fairly evident from the larger squad, that Gatland has a similar idea to Woodward, despite a claim that selection was “about picking the best 15 players to beat Australia” and “about fairness as much as anything”. His selections spoke louder than his words, and none more so than Warburton’s naming as captain when, in a fair contest, his Test place is far from assured and has the potential to create real selection issues.

Ever since Wales’ winless Autumn series in 2012, Warburton’s place in Wales’ starting XV has been under pressure from Justin Tipuric, and a shoulder injury for Warburton in the Six Nations opener against Ireland meant he and Tipuric shared openside duties between them up until the final match against England. With Ryan Jones injured, Rob Howley wanted both flankers in his team, but gave the 7 shirt to Tipuric and moved Warburton across to openside. If Jones had been fit, no doubt he would have stayed at openside, Warburton at blindside and Tipuric on the bench, but when Howley had to choose between his best 7s, he went with Tipuric.

So who’s the better of the two? Warburton’s trump is his ability as a tackle/retrieve flanker, getting around the field to compete for possession at rucks, working best off team-mates with high tackle counts to quickly get over tackled players. Tipuric is more of an all-rounder, covers ground a little better, follows and links play a bit more intelligently, makes a few more metres and a few more tackles and gives away fewer penalties at the ruck – the combination being the principal reason he’s put so much pressure on Warburton’s Wales spot.

Now Warburton is Lions captain, he’s more than likely going to play the first Test in the 7 shirt, then stay there if all goes well, so why pick Tipuric as well? Isn’t Tipuric on a hiding to nothing? Would Gatland really drop his captain if Tipuric was playing out of his skin in the midweek matches? Very doubtful, as Warburton would have to move to his more unfamiliar side, as he did against England. If that’s the thinking, then why take Dan Lydiate or Tom Croft as specialist blindsides if there’s a chance they’re not going to get a Test spot at the expense of a non-specialist like Warburton? Either way, it seems without the captaincy guarantee Warburton’s place in the team might be controlled by the performances of other players, not himself. If Tipuric, Lydiate and Croft are playing terrific rugby, one of them won’t get a Test place and might just start thinking: ‘It doesn’t matter if I go out there and play better and my form’s better, they’re going to select the captain over me’. Just the divisive situation Gatland said he didn’t want.

In addition, the story of Warburton passing up the opportunity to lead Wales against England was largely buried under the record result, but was one of the main reasons tGL didn’t consider him for the captaincy of our Lions squad. Ryan Jones captained Wales in their 28-18 win against Scotland as Warburton made his full comeback from injury and won the man of the match award, but despite Jones being ruled out of action in the build-up to the England match, a conversation between Warburton and Howley about the armband ended in Gethin Jenkins being recalled to the team as captain so Warburton could concentrate only on playing well. The overwhelmingly clear indication being that captaincy was a negative distraction to his performance and that it was either one thing or the other, but not both in conjunction. “I am not captain so that I can concentrate on my own game,” Warburton said before the match. “It was mutually agreed that would be the best thing for everyone. That is fine with me because I thought last week went really well for me personally. I quite enjoyed not having the responsibilities a captain has, especially before the game, and I could sit down beforehand in the changing room and completely focus on myself.” Neither the story nor his words are ringing endorsements.

In the event, Warburton played well against England in a very well-contested match, that eventually turned into a record Wales win and one of the biggest reputation-boosting matches of all time from which Warburton most certainly profitted unevenly. The predictable reactionary cases of scoreboard journalism followed, and not only called Chris Robshaw’s candidacy as Lions captain into question (he plays out of position and didn’t rally his troops under pressure said the critics), but boosted Warburton’s, despite his performance coming out of position and as a result of him eschewing the pressure and responsibility of captaincy before the match. Again, the defensive spin says it takes courage to be ‘selfish’ and concentrate on your own game for ‘the good of the team’ in that situation, but that’s not a rugby philosophy I’ve ever known, and even if it really is considered a good quality for a player, it’s certainly not a good quality for a captain who has to marry selflessness and performance. Recently Warburton has only been able to do one thing or the other, but Gatland has asked him to do both, and in a much higher pressure environment than being ‘just’ captain of his country.

An interesting example of that match’s boosting power in terms of reputation over substance can be seen in Warburton’s match statistics against England. His passing, running, tackling and penalty concession numbers were all inferior to those of Robshaw, and not only in that match, but inferior to Robshaw’s Six Nations averages covering his last 10 matches.

> The table shows total possessions (Poss), kicks (K), passes (P), runs, (R), metres made (Mtrs), tackles made (Tack) and penalites conceded (Pen)

Experience is a key component to dealing with pressure in any situation, but much more so in sport, and especially when responsibility is part of that pressure. If Gatland was trying to reassure Warburton and show belief in him then, given the player’s comments above, he’s chosen an interesting way to go about it. Warburton is the youngest and second-least experienced of the five Lions captains in the professional era. Among that group, he comfortably has the lowest Test winning percentage and is the only one of those players to get the captaincy without a Test win against at least one of the southern hemisphere’s big three. Yes there’s experience in the squad, but probably not enough in the captain.

> The table shows the Test records (W,D,L,W%) of the Lions captains up to the time of their captaincy, covering all Tests (All) and just matches against the southern hemisphere’s (SH) big three, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

At the heart of Warburton’s southern hemisphere zero is seven consecutive defeats against Australia, all against Robbie Deans, and four of them as recently as last year. Warburton’s abilities as a player are certainly respected by Deans, but his captaincy holds little fear for the Australians. The Warburton spinners say this creates motivation for Warburton and complacency in Australia, but – at best - that’s hoping for the best and not a serious winning strategy. I’m sure Gatland thinks that the captaincy will bring out the best in Warburton, but with almost all of the recent evidence suggesting otherwise, that’s a big gamble. Quite what will have changed in the 10 weeks from the build-up to the England match, when Warburton wanted to divulge himself of the distraction of captaincy, to the start of this year’s Lions tour and the enormous attention and pressure that goes with it, remains unclear…

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You know a book is good when they make it into a movie … and Brad Pitt stars in it … after fighting for the part with Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, this one is going to be good!

(Great Gatsby next girls?).

Thank-you to Ashley for 3 great selections.

Where to get it:

• Chapters
• Amazon
• Ottawa Public Library (13 copies)

To get us thinking:

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• History of zombies

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Now, The Elite. —spoilers—
If you read my Selection review, then you already know how big of a fan I am of that book.
The Elite starts where the Selection ended. America isn’t sure about her feelings towards Maxon because she’s still in love with her ex boyfriend, Aspen.
So, let me just say I love Maxon in The Selection and part of what makes me love him so much is his innocence. The fact that he’s the prince, future king of Illéa, but he gets nervous by seeing crying women. In The Elite, there’s this chapter where Maxon is making out with Celeste. YES! Celeste. (what???) Yup… and America sees them. That kinda made me lost a little bit of respect for him, but not really (I’m a Maxon girl 100%)
Also, in this book, there are A LOT of rebel attacks, and I just really want to know what the want, and I hope we get to know it in The One (last book of the triology).
Moving on to Marlee. OMG this part made me cry so much. So basically, Marlee is found kissing one of the officers of the castle and is of course punished.  America is trying to save her or get Maxon to say something, but he doesn’t. But I’m really glad with how that situation turned out. Maxon kept them in the castle, they both work in the kitchen.
Okay, so, America. I have a love-hate relationship with America. She’s one of my favorite female characters ever! But sometimes I just wanna slap her in the face (that takes us back to me, being in love with Maxon and wanting America to love him too). But what I like about America is that she’s so very unpredictable. It kinda fustrastes me not knowing what she’s gonna do next, but that what keeps me wanting to read more every single page.
The only thing I DO dislike is that like, ehenever she doens’t agree with a desicion Maxon makes, she goes back to Aspen. I REALLY dislike Aspen, I guess I don’t find him interesting. Like, I just hope she makes her mind soon, or she’s gonna end up with anyone. Well, not really but yeah, I just want the Prince and her to be together..
And about Maxon’s secret… I won’t say it. I just wanna say King Clarkson is the meanest person. Please read The Elite if you wanna find out more about this. It is really worth it. It’s an amazing book, in my opinion at least. It is full of drama but it has the perfect amount of everything, which makes it even harder to stop reading once you started.

xoxo, Marla
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This is the book cover of The Elite by Kiera Cass.

It always fascinates me, the ways people go to justify evolution, when really all they are pointing to is the wonders of God’s creation.

Almost all textbooks on evolution include the peppered moth, as the classic example of evolution by natural selection. That probably doesn’t mean much to a lot of people, but lets explain how some of their justification comes about.

There are two types of peppered moths, a light-colored speckled variety and the dark variety. Most peppered moths in England were the light variety, which were camouflaged as they rested on the trunks of trees.

The black variety stood out against the light bark and were easily seen and eaten by the birds. But as the industrial evolution created pollution, that covered the trunks with soot, the dark variety was camouflaged better, so the birds ate more of the light ones.

Here it becomes humorous, because this is where the evolutionist use the peppered moth as their best example , enabling them to watch evolution in action.

So watch closely, before the moths environment changed, some were mostly white, and mostly black. After their environment changed, some were mostly white, some were mostly black. No new colors or varieties came into being, yet we have supposedly just witnessed evolution.

I know for myself, I rather believe the Psalmist. Psalm 104 verse 24:

“How countless are Your works, Lord! In wisdom You made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.”

Something to make us all think.

God Bless.

O F J.

I have to warn you now.  The Elite is Book 2 in the series.  If you have not read The Selection then you may want to wait on this review.  I know I should probably review that book first, but I have not reread it since I first read it 6 months ago.  I could tell you that its AWESOME but all the emotions I would need to really get that point across have sadly worn off.  It was a quick read and I could not wait until the new book came out.

So onto The Elite by Kiera Cass

The Description:

I bet that you have made some of the following statements with Biblical certainty. I know; because I have.

The problem starts at primary schools
Science A levels are just too hard
Science and Engineering degrees are just too hard
Too many undergraduates are doing Media Studies and other useless degrees*
Science and engineering undergraduates all want to be investment bankers
Compared to (INSERT country of choice), we have a smaller number of graduate-level scientists and engineers
*OK that was the Daily Mail

And even when, in an idle moment, you want chapter and verse to back up this self-evident truth, there’s plenty to confirm your beliefs.

The Royal Academy of Engineers says that UK business needs 100,000 STEM graduates a year, every year, until 2020.

The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) says that 45% of its members declare there is a serious problem with the supply of STEM graduates.

And yet, at last week’s TARGETjobs Breakfast News, all our cosy beliefs were turned upside down.

Marcus Body, from Work Group, made this bold assertion:

“There is no shortage. There are plenty of STEM graduates to fill all the STEM graduate jobs”.

I would have been less gob-smacked if the Pope was outed as a Scientologist. Which he wasn’t. Not this time.

But, hey Marcus, we know from surveying recruiters that they have a supply problem, so what’s the story?

This is what he said:

“Many of them are opting out early and not taking the jobs that their degree naturally equips them for.”

And this was his remedy:

Pay them more money.

Above all, stop rejecting a THIRD of the available talent by rejecting anyone without a 2.1.

This last point I have touched on before and feel rather strongly about. I know why it happens and I know that brand-wise, it’s not easy in today’s market to look like you’re fishing in a different and poorer pool than your competitors. But the point is simple. There isn’t really much of shortage is there? Not if all science and engineering students were considered equally for jobs.

To sum up, Marcus has identified no shortage in terms of the potential supply but three shortages that create the actual shortage that we all know to be true.

1. A self-inflicted shortage (see above)
2. A salary shortage (you can earn more in other jobs)
3. An ‘interesting career’ shortage (make it more exciting for God’s sake)

So unless there is a huge growth in the number of kids studying science at school which then feeds into a huge growth in undergraduate numbers (unlikely), then we need to deal with the problem creatively. And if this means looking at students who got good 2.2s from far-from-shabby engineering degree courses, then let’s do it.

But although it appears there is less of a shortage than we may all have honestly believed, there is definitely a real shortage of women STEM undergraduates. GTI Media has always been pretty active in the campaign for more STEM females to stay in technical, scientific and engineering careers. But that’s, as they say, another story for another time.

This is a blog, so all this is a touch broad-brush but you can see all the proper stuff from this and previous TARGETjobs Breakfast News at http://www.breakfast-news.com

Or read Marcus’s own take on the subject at http://workcomms.com/what-we-think/posts/2013/04/25/the-science-of-recruiting-stem-students/

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