#south kolan

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[naturalsceneries]

Bundaberg. At South Kolan. The mystery craters that geologists cannot explain. Sandstone and ochre 25 million years old.

[johnoxleyq]

A disappearing commodity #sugar #mysterycraters near Gin Gin No mystery just holes in the ground (at Mystery Craters - South Kolan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQx7VxVDKY2GUh8Y-7pDZxSad-qnT9WFA36U_s0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lawyersinaustralia]

Slater and Gordon have opened a new law firm in Bundaberg, QLD

Slater and Gordon solicitors in Bundaberg have lived and worked in the region for most of their lives. They regularly provide legal advice to people from a wide area including (but not limited to) Bundaberg, Childers, Bargara, Maryborough, Gin Gin, Avondale, Booyal, South Kolan, Burrum Heads, Mount Perry and all surrounding districts.

[goldcoastdreams]

Swimmer drowns in Cyclone Oma aftermath as swathe of Queensland beaches battle erosion

Updated February 26, 2019 00:59:06

Photo: Noosa Beach on the Sunshine Coast has suffered heavy erosion from days of big swell. (ABC News: Jacqui Street) Police say a man has drowned while swimming near Cylinder Beach on North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane on Monday, despite an easing of surf conditions after days of big swells from ex-Tropical Cyclone Oma. Key points:Critical care paramedics were unable to save a swimmer on North Stradbroke IslandNoosa Beach and many Gold Coast beaches have been seriously eroded by cyclonic swellGold Coast Mayor says the coastal damage could have been worse The man, described as a foreign national, got into difficulty while in the surf. Critical care paramedics worked on the man but he was pronounced dead on the beach. As the heavy coastal pounding from cyclonic swell finally begins to recede, authorities in southern Queensland are left to deal with serious beach erosion from the border to north of Bundaberg. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oma has been downgraded to a tropical low and is now sitting safely in the Coral Sea. However, for much of the past week, councils from central Queensland to the New South Wales north coast have remained on high alert as the system moved towards the coastline. On the Sunshine Coast, Noosa Beach particularly prone to erosion has been all but washed away. 'We dodged a bullet' Along the Gold Coast, the big waves that swallowed beaches on the high tide pounded sand dunes and left sand cliffs in their wake with all the beaches on the Gold Coast remaining closed. However, Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said the erosion could have been far worse. "I think we dodged a bullet on this one," he said. "We've been fortunate with Oma and the preparation we've done in the past. "We've got some scarping from Palm Beach, Burleigh, Surfers Paradise and Narrowneck."

Photo: Beach erosion at Main Beach on the northern Gold Coast on Monday, after days of pounding swell. (ABC News: Tom Forbes) Dr Darrell Strauss from Griffith University's Centre for Coastal Management agreed many areas had escaped a more serious pounding. "Look, we'll see the beach recover relatively quickly on the upper beach, but what we can't see is what's going on offshore," he said. "There'll be a big storm bar out the back of the surf zone and once the waves stop breaking on that, it'll [sand] gradually move ashore. "It'll probably take a few months to recover." Authorities are urging people to stay away from sand cliffs which are at risk of collapsing. Earth-moving equipment will be sent to the worst-affected beaches in coming says to reprofile the sand.

Photo: An earth mover preparing to tackle the heavy erosion on Noosa Beach on Monday. (ABC News: Jacqui Street) To better protect the southern Gold Coast, the council will begin building an artificial reef off Palm Beach the next month. The reef will be constructed from large rocks and will measure 180 metres in length and 80 metres in width. Councillor Tate said the reef would cost $18 million and take 18 months to construct. "It'll be quite a large structure, but we need it to make sure this portion of our beach is safe," he said. The artificial reef is expected to attract surfers and sea life, but fishing in the area will be banned.

Photo: Eroded dunes along Yaroomba Beach at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast. (ABC News: Jacqui Street) In Noosa, sand will be pumped to restore the famous beach along Hastings Street, and heavy equipment has been used to clear debris from the shoreline. Carl Billingham from Noosa Shire Council said erosion had pushed sand further north up the coastline. "We've got rock exposed at the moment and some of the sand has been taken out by the surf, but it's something we can easily fix in the next few weeks," he said. "We've put some handrails along there so that people don't fall off the edge of the rocks. "We did pump a lot of sand beforehand, which acted as a bit of a buffer." At Moore Park Beach, north of Bundaberg, local resident Russell Stewart said the beach and dunes along a 16-kilometre stretch of coastline had been heavily eroded over the past week.

Photo: The beach erosion at Snapper Rocks on the Queensland border by Sunday. (AAP Image: Dan Peled) The community has been planting trees and shrubs for several years in a bid to protect the coast from erosion. Mr Stewart said environmental groups had relocated turtle nests, but that they believed some were still washed away by the large swells. "We've lost approximately half a metre off the top of some of the dune areas, especially towards the north, and it's moved the sand it didn't move it back to sea, it's mainly blown it over the top and in towards the Kolan conservation park," Mr Stewart said. "The waves came right across the top and brought sand right over the grass area [of the SLSC area] and has made more impact into the old surf club here, and the authorities really need to zone in and see what they're going to do with this area, and get moving on it before it becomes totally unsafe. "We've lost a number of turtle nests over Oma, the turtle watch group have worked tirelessly over the last week or so to try and relocate as many nests as they could but unfortunately we have had some losses, and that's nature I suppose." Topics:weather,cyclones,disasters-and-accidents,erosion,environment,qld,brisbane-4000,australia,dunwich-4183,surfers-paradise-4217,cooloola-4580,moore-park-4670,bundaberg-4670 First posted February 25, 2019 16:32:03 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-25/cyclone-oma-beach-erosion-drowning/10846778?source=rss

[mfmagazine]

Sarah Bettens

Article by Allyson Kolan North America is on the verge of discovering the talent that Europe has embraced for over a decade. Sarah Bettens and her former band K's Choice have seen gold and platinum success with their albums, written hit singles like "Not An Addict," and "Almost Happy," and graced the stages at some of Europe's biggest festivals with crowds in the tens of thousands. But the tides have turned as Sarah has grown as an artist and an individual. Her need to create music on her own inspired her to venture into a solo career. On her quest to win over North America, unforeseen obstacles and the difficulties that can come from launching a new career have become a reality, but with the support from family and friends, the journey is turning out to be the adventure of a lifetime. With the grass roots principles of rock and roll in mind, an empowered Sarah Bettens has proved herself ready to take on the challenge. Touring with only a few assistants, her guitar, and a makeshift merchandise table, the creation of her new career has been an eye opener for not only her fans, but for the artist as well. Sarah Bettens is well known for her hauntingly beautiful vocal style that encompasses listeners, like your favorite pair of worn-in jeans, with different shades and textures that make them uniquely your own. Her new album, Scream, provides listeners with a profound view into her heart and peers into a mind-set of her newly found self, while pushing the genre boundaries by blending rock and pop in such a way never thought possible. Your work with K's Choice was incredible! It has spoken to millions of people. You've gone gold, you've gone platinum; such huge success. What is it like now without K's Choice, and launching your solo career? It’s been a great, great ride, I mean, from the beginning to the recording process being so different and fun and to now, playing with Kurt, my guitar player, the two of us doing the acoustic thing, and having a brand new band when doing the festivals in Europe, everything has been really intense, kind of, but in a good way. Nothing but positive really, it’s really weird to explain because it’s not like I have to get rid of my brother. I am playing in Belgium in a couple of days and he is coming to sing a couple of songs with me and we're going to South Africa together in October and obviously there are no problems between us but there was something about doing it by myself that was just going to, that I was hoping was going to make me feel like I am starting over, like its all new again. It's really empowering! Right, that's exactly what it is. That's the word I was looking for, that I haven't, I am going to use it in the next interview! It is like, alright, I can do this, I can do this by myself and I can start from scratch and decide who to work with and write songs and you know, make all those decisions and be totally fine. I am so proud of it and so excited! How did your brother (member of K's Choice) react to this? I don't even remember whether he made this decision or I did. He made a solo record too and it’s coming out in Europe in October. He is really excited too; he's got a brand new band. I think for him it was kind of the same thing, like there was some routine creeping in there after all that time, 11 years or something, it’s like alright, we've done that before. Everyone's life within K's Choice changed at a different pace. You might be in one and the same mind set when you start out, but people grow in different directions and different speeds and I really didn't feel, and I see this much more clearly now then I did when I actually made the decision, that we weren't all at the same place anymore. It really felt like the right time. What was the deciding factor in doing this (a solo career)? Really needing something to change. It was at a time in my life when other things weren't right and I think maybe if that weren't the case I wouldn't have been able to make this decision, but I really felt like I need to change something in my life and all of a sudden I got so excited to think about that, like I'm going to do something else. It’s really the only factor that was playing at that time, like I need to do something different. It’s not like I wasn't able to make the music I wanted to make with K's Choice or creatively I felt stifled or whatever; that was never a problem. I was just like “I need a change of pace. It has got to be something different, and a change of scenery." And it worked! It totally did! How have other artists been supportive of you, because I know you have done work with the Indigo Girls before, and how did they feel about your solo career? Amy (Indigo Girls) has done solo stuff; Emily (Indigo Girls) is going to make a solo record this year. I think they are excited for me too, you know, they kind of know what its like to always be part of this entity and then just go out on your own and try something new. They love the record, they're very supportive. I got to do two shows with them which was great. I saw your video for Not Insane, and I loved your images of George W. Bush, and I totally appreciate politically active material. Are you fearing any backlash from that? You know, that video was made initially for Europe and in Europe, no one is going to care. And here, more and more I want to get involved in that kind of stuff and I have always had a strong opinion about things and I have never been afraid to speak my mind but I guess I didn't always feel ready to do it in my songs and now I am getting to that point where I've got some things I want to throw on the table and the backlash of it, of saying things about Bush or being out is just going to have to come with it. I can't 'not' do that, so it’s not even an option. So fearing the backlash is just like being afraid of something that is bound to happen. I have to be who I am so there you go, and I am going to have to deal with whatever the consequences are. When you are on the road, do you find yourself writing songs? I do! I write kind of always, when I'm home, on the road. Home has gotten a little harder now that I live with two kids. I don't really get the five hour stretch that I used to, to write. But I write all the time and I am already writing for the next record, and have just gotten two songs done. So any chance I get, at any time. In terms of the song writing process, when with K's Choice, was it a collaborative process? No, my brother and I always wrote separately. We would come together when the song was finished and one of us would say something like, “I think you should double that chorus," or, "That chord doesn't really fit in there." They were just really minor changes. Once we are comfortable with that, then we get the band involved, and put the song together, but the actual writing was always one of us. I have heard some stories about groups coming together and all working at the same time. It’s hard to imagine; I have done some co-writes for my solo record and I had never done that before and so that was a new experience for me and it was all with complete strangers except my producer (I wrote a song with him too), but every other person was someone I had never met before. We would meet at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and by 7 o'clock we would have a song. It was very, "That is what you are going to do today." It was actually great for me, that I was kind of forced to be creative during this place and there is nothing else you can do. The writer is right there, your guitar is right there, so you might as well write. It actually really inspired me. Most of the time I just sit by myself and try to get something going and if I don't, then do it the next day, and the next day; I cannot write for a month, and then all of a sudden get really inspired and write two songs in three days. It just depends. How do you think K's Choice fans are going to feel about your solo career? So far, in Europe they have been awesome. It’s been really great. Very supportive, very happy that I am happy and having a good time. They are happy the record is out and they can finally hear what I have been doing all this time. Nothing but good things really. People are wondering if K's Choice is ever coming back together, that kind of stuff, but I really feel like everyone followed me and it was not a hard transition for them, so it has been great. How would you describe the new album to somebody who has never heard K's Choice, never heard any of your work before? This is such a hard question. I like to say that I think it is rock and roll in the sense of the heart that is behind it. Someone said that to me and I thought that I am going to use that because that is how I want to describe it. It’s just me. There is some soft, intimate stuff on there, some poppy stuff on there, some more rock-alternative stuff too. It is all things I love to listen to, things I love to make all smashed together in what I hope is a pretty homogenous record. But just different flavors, like the different parts of your personality, different parts of your day; your ups and downs all in one. Its all me; what I am thinking, what I like, what I do, what I don't like, what I fear, and no other concept than that behind it. Where do you see yourself in five years? I hope doing this still. Making my third solo record or making a 6th K's Choice record, and still touring, still going. Ten years? That is a different question. Maybe still doing the same thing. I will have to see if I still have the drive the I feel right now but I hope in five years I am still just loving it and plowing away.

[australia-wanderlust]

One of the 35 mystery craters discovered in 1971 / South Kolan, 01.05.16

[wineanddinosaur]

Replanting To Kalon: A Napa Cabernet Renewal (Wine Spectator)

Senior editor James Molesworth is Wine Spectator's lead taster for California Cabernet Sauvignon. He recently returned to Napa Valley for more visits with top wineries. And don't miss our Q&A with James on his Napa Cab eureka moments, his scoring philosophy, and what he's up to when he's not tasting wine.

There are plenty of well-worn adages in the wine business. Someare a bit overworn, actually. You've surely heard "wine is made in the vineyards." No oneever argues with it …

As we walk the rows in his To Kalon Vineyard blocks in Oakville,Andy Beckstoffer recites the line. I click my pen open and closed, waiting forsomething a bit more compelling to happen.

"But that's B.S," he says. "Wine is made by winemakers." My ears perked up. He kept it rolling.

Beckstoffer, 79, draws deep water in Napa Valley. He's beenfarming vineyards here since 1969. In 1993 he secured arguably hisprize piece, a nearly 90-acre block of vines in To Kalon Vineyard that was being offloaded by Beaulieu Vineyard.Today prime Napa Valley land goes for at least $400,000 an acre, sometimes near$1 million. Beckstoffer got the parcel for $44,000 an acre. And he got itwithout a fight.

"No, no one else was bidding for it," he says when I ask whoelse was in the mix. "It was virused and needed replanting at the time. BV andBob [Mondavi] didn't want to deal with it."

Today Beckstoffer farms 1,000 acres in the valley.The Beckstoffer To Kalon fruit goes to 20 different producers and a handful ofNapa's top hired-gun winemakersuse it to produce some of the valley's most sought-afterbottlings. And Beckstoffer says it's they who make the wine.

"Well, first thing I ask when someone approaches me to buyfruit is, 'Who's the winemaker?'" says Beckstoffer.

"To be honest, we don't tell them how to make wine, and theydon't tell us how to farm," he says matter-of-factly. "Now sometimes you canget too close to the forest, so if there's a better way and I can't see it andthey bring it to us, we'll do it. But generally that doesn't happen."

In addition to his portion of To Kalon, Beckstoffer holdssome of Napa's "heritage" sites, as he calls them. Vineyards with histories ofred wine production going back to the late 19th-century. There's 300acres of the Georges III Vineyard, 40 acres in Missouri Hopper, 20 in Dr. Crane, 20in Las Piedras and 13 in Bourne.

"I never wanted to make wine. I grew up in Smirnoff country.I bought United Vintners and then I met farmers," he says. "And I decided I liked farmersbetter than salesmen. And I just like farming the land."

"A great wine region has to do two things. Its wines have tomatch with foods. And its wines have to stand the test of time. Those heritagevineyards have proven to stand the test of time, as they've been making greatgrapes for over a hundred years. And when they started, it wasn't Cabernet. Itwas Mondeuse and things like that. If you can make a Mondeuse that gets famous,and then a Cabernet that gets famous from the same piece of land, that'sspecial land."

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As we come to a break in the vineyard rows, the parcelfacing us is a new replant. It's a particularly expensive proposition to take theland out of production when it's this kind of real estate. But virus haseventually worn the block down, and it was time. To mollify his clients,everyone buying fruit from his To Kolan parcels took less fruit, whether theirrows were in the block or not. He'll use the same procedure as he rotates inother replants in the coming years. That way no one gets left out.

What pops out is the new row alignment, east-west instead ofnorth-south, with the aim to get the blast of hot afternoon sun off the grapes. What might seemlike a nod to changing wine styles, with more powerful, high-alcohol winesseeing some pushback in the market is less that, and more just about farming. "Better farming gets better grapes," he says. "New plantingsget changed because we've improved what we know and technology has improved. It's simply about delivering a better product to my customers."

The To Kalon Vineyard name has been in dispute for years (and remains so, to some degree).A trademark was claimed by Robert Mondavi in 1988; the name was created in the late 1800s by Hamilton Crabb for his wine company. In the early 2000s, Beckstoffer started puttting the To Kalon name on fruit from his section of the vineyard, and Mondavi promptly sued Schrader Cellars for putting the name on its label. Beckstoffer countersued, and a settlement was eventually reached by which the fruit from Beckstoffer's portion of the vineyard could be labeled Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard. Constellation (which bought Robert Mondavi Winery in 2004, as well as Schrader Cellars in 2017) owns the trademark now, and the agreement with Beckstoffer still stands. And it's on thispoint that Beckstoffer takes a farmer's stand, unlike when he defers to a winemaker.

"This is like DRC. There should be a Beckstoffer To Kalonand a MacDonald To Kalon," he says, mentioning one of the smaller growers inthe vineyard. "If we're going to present Napa Valley to the world then thevineyard needs integrity. The name should be about the land, not a trademark."

That final sentence hangs there as we find ourselves back atthe starting point. After completing a full loop of his parcel. After farmingfor 50 years in the valley, I can't help but think he must have timed it that way.

Follow James Molesworth on Instagram at @jmolesworth1, and on Twitter at @jmolesworth1.

source https://www.winespectator.com/blogs/show/id/Beckstoffer-California-Napa-Cabernet-2019-To-Kalon-Visit

[promiseiwillwrite]

Day Two

Um, So yes.  Spoiler Alert.  Jamie and Kolan, Please be advised, If you read this, it is going to give away a bunch of stuff in the Online Game.  If you want to be even remotely surprised, do not continue, and you will not have to worry about this little glimpse of hypothetical future timelines in the game.

*Please insert Jeopardy music while my players make their mildly ethical decision based on whether or not they can role play well, and then read this anyway.*

So yesterday I wrote about 700 words, and it came out to around a page.  I am going to try to do the same thing here, and I expect it will be longer, as I was writing in WORD yesterday, and Tumblr is more Narrow, horizontally.

I then proceeded to write quite a bit about what is going on behind the scenes in a stalled game of mine. I am really not sure how to kick start it again, but Maybe if I fool around with some of my side characters again, I will find a plothole I can use for my plothook, and I can snag one of my characters.

I think I am going to use Daisy.

*really, stop reading here unless you’re confident that you won’t metagame, and that it won’t ruin it for you*

I think I am going to go back as far in the story of how Tyrin was abducted by the Aboleth to see if I can remember the name of the Somnambumancer that took everyone into Tyrin’s Dream to rescue him.  I think Tyrin will likely go find this old Dude, and then This old Dude will take Daisy to find her Goddess.  And my Characters are going to get to fight a Great Old One.

I am not sure how big I want my Great Old One to be, But I am thinking of a roughly 500hp magic resistant, formless horror, an almost liquid swarm of eyes and mouths. Something that was formed in infinite chaos, and is not bound by physics (until it is drawn into Reality) And in the Dream Realm, the thing is still at full Power.

Ah, but see, that reminds me that I still need everyone to figure out that they are now Bound to Zypher by a Bond of Blood, and I need to hash out what powers Zypher has sprouted in the last 24 hours.

I also need to write the scene for Jorn getting turned over to Mebeth...  Because I think Mebeth knows where Tyrin’s Piece of Power is hidden on Dormiris...

Down the creek and up the hollow from her house, because of course it is.

Fuck.  Today I went running after work. I wasn’t even a mile in and my gastrosnemius muscle on both legs started seizing. I stopped, and both legs went straight into Backward charley-horse mode.  I almost cried.  I have a fucking PT test in a week, and While I don’t think I hurt myself, I DID experience quite a lot of pain, and I am afraid it is my shoes.  I was supposed to get new ones, but I’ve procrastinated that, and also not had extra money.

I’ve given quite a lot of my discretionary funds to my sisters over the last two months, and I am caught up again now, but I had to decide not to go splurge on garden stuff at home depot, not to get a tattoo, and not to go buy new Running Shoes...  which I’m afraid I actually need.

Ayla has decided to join the game.  She’s decided she’s going to pilot Draven. Ayla has never played before.  She is my Elsa, except she isn’t Elsa, she’s the fucking Legit Snow Queen from the Old school faery tale.

Ayla and I have the least comfortable relationship in the history of my relationships with the people in my head. Sometimes we are lovers. Sometimes she is fucking actively undermining me. Sometimes she constructs elaborate period fantasies about Dick Tracy era bars and flirting.  I don’t know what she wants I think because She doesn’t know what she wants.  I am not as emotionally connected to her as I am to some of the others that I know and love.  But it kind of works, in that regard, because I Bleed empathically Less onto her, and I am more confident that her assessments of me and my reality can be more objective as a result.

But therein lies the Rub. I also don’t know when she is being a Giant Bag of Dicks because she can and she feels like it.  I can never trust her or anything she says.  I just have to evaluate her observations from Every possible angle before I put anything into policy...  and be ready to Rip it right back out when shit goes WAY South because I listened to her when I shouldn’t have.

Draven the Character was Loosely based on her.  Like, Her and Rath’s imagining of a bad guy. Part of the character is and has always been this instinctual badness, the vitriol and foulness that just effortlessly rises to the top.  That knee jerk, unthinking horrible human being that lies within Ayla.  And then there’s an Elegance and a sinister premeditation that she also has that Rath prizes in his fictitious villains.  For all his rotten loathsome vicissitudes, Draven has Class.

And Ayla can and Does All these things.

Plus, she is also sometimes a Psycho Ninja.

And Sometimes she is a Truthsayer.  She will go out of her way to say or do the thing that no one else can acknowledge or commit.

I am maybe going to call this a page.  I have no idea how long it is, but I have to water planties before I lose the Light and the Damn Bird Size Mosquitoes come out.

Fuck those guys.

[spartan-sheds-blog]

Another slab down at South Kolan. Keep 'em coming Bundy. (at Bundaberg, Queensland)

[kyreniacommentator]

By Margaret Sheard …..

The weather couldn’t have been better, with a warm and sunny two days, for the Rotary Golf Tournament which was held at CMC Golf Club, Yeşilyurt, on 14th and 15th October.

We were so sorry that we were not able to join the Rotarians and the golfers for this event, due to our heavy commitment of contributing articles to the newly published Cyprus Scene newspaper by Cypro Art Graph, which was launched on the 21st October.   However, Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolian President, Gul Ozsan, has kindly supplied some information to enable us to prepare a preview of the very successful 2 day event.

The aim of the Golf Tournament event was to raise funds for the Yeşilyurt Special Needs School, to provide or facilitate provision of a new all-weather classroom to alleviate the overcrowding currently experienced and also to provide additional essential art and craft materials for the children.

Yeşilyurt Special Needs School caters for up to 20 students from the Guzelyurt and Lefke areas, with guidance from Prof. Dr. Aysegul Ataman, Head of the Special Needs Education Department at European University of Lefke.  Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan will ensure that the funds raised by the Golf Tournament are used to the maximum benefit of the students.

Yeşilyurt Special Needs School has previously been supported by CMC Golf Club and the Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan is proud to continue this tradition.

On Saturday afternoon the children from the Special Needs School came to the CMC Golf Club to perform a music show and they were also taught to play golf.  They were all presented with medals at the end of the afternoon, which gave them a great deal of pleasure.

On Sunday, there was a lunch which was attended by Rotary members, CMC members and Rotarian friends, following which trophies were presented to the winning CMC golfers. There was also support from golf players from the South who came to give their encouragement for the event.

The CMC members were very generous by giving their winnings and also a cash donation and their participation and support made the two days very rewarding for this very special Rotary event.

The amount raised from the Tournament and with Sponsors’ donations was a magnificent 13,000TL.

Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan would like to thank their main sponsor – Albank, together with the companies which made some very generous donations and raffle prizes, and members and friends who also donated items for the raffle.

ALGIDA ice creams donated by Oero Limited + a cash donation

Eziç Restaurant, Red Lobster Restaurant, and Paradissa Fish Beach Restaurant who each donated prizes of a dinner for two.

Kombos, Royal Emlak, Kolan Hospital and the Savoy Hotel, who all gave a generous cash donation.

There are more photos of this very special event in the slideshow below.   All photographs are courtesy of Dr Brian G Joyce who took hundreds of photos during the two day Tournament.  It was hard to choose but more can be seen in the slideshow below.

We visited the CMC Golf Club in March 2017 and met up with Club Chairman, Malcolm Lees, together with Dr Hasan Garabli and his wife Gulay, who gave us some very interesting information about the Club,.  To see this article click here

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  Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan – CMC Golf Tournament review By Margaret Sheard ..... The weather couldn’t have been better, with a warm and sunny two days, for the Rotary Golf Tournament which was held at CMC Golf Club, Yeşilyurt, on 14th and 15th October.

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Editing up last nights twilight shoot. Love this house from a recent shoot. #realestatephotography #kitchen #nikon #commercialphotography #iamnikon #nikonlife #bundabergphotographer #bundabergphotography #rightimagephotography #bundabergcommercialphotography #bundabergcommercialphotographer #d810 #gitzo #blum #house #ljhookerbundaberg @ljhookerbundaberg #home #house #bundaberg #investment @brendanfromljhooker @ljhookerbundaberg (at South Kolan)

[lawyersinaustralia]

Slater and Gordon solicitors in Bundaberg have lived and worked in the region for most of their lives. They regularly provide legal advice to people from a wide area including (but not limited to) Bundaberg, Childers, Bargara, Maryborough, Gin Gin, Avondale, Booyal, South Kolan, Burrum Heads, Mount Perry and all surrounding districts.

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#BEACHISBETTER👙🏝🌞🏖🌊

There are only a few places on the Adriatic surrounded by as many beautiful natural beaches as Novalja. Whether you go north or south, you'll soon reach one of these magnificent beaches, which will provide perfect comfort and relaxation. The beaches are wide, sand and shingle, with clear water and excellent access to the sea, which in turn makes them particularly suitable for families with children. They are located 1-3 km from Novalja, forming a ring around it. All the beaches can be reached by car and have parking areas.

THE ZRĆE BEACH

The Zrće Beach is located southeast of Novalja and tells a special story. It's the most beautiful beach in Novalja. Its coastal area has a shingle surface and during the peak season several thousand people can fit on it. The beach by the sea is pebbly and the sea is very deep due to the steep descent off the coast. Numerous sports, recreation and entertainment facilities and high quality restaurants can be found on the beach, while a few attractive night clubs offer entertainment throughout the night. In one of the events thrown by the Croatian Tourist Board and the Blue Flower Media, the Zrće Beach won first place as the tidiest and most beautiful beach on the Adriatic. With its outstanding natural characteristics, equipment and amenities, the Zrće Beach meets the strict criteria of the European Foundation for Education and Care for the Environment and as of the summer 2003, it has had the blue flag status. The beach is located about 2 km from Novalja, has a large parking area and during the tourist season it is linked by public transport.

THE STRAŠKO BEACH

The Straško Beach and Camp is located south of the centre in a wide bay area. It is about 1.5 km long and after a short rocky beach area that leads into the sea, one reaches a sandy bottom. One of the largest and most beautiful camps on the Adriatic is located along this beach, with its clothed and naturist areas, restaurants, entertainment and sports facilities, various workshops, playgrounds, etc. The entire area is covered by a pine and oak forest, which gives it a special charm. Since the summer of 2004 the beach has had a blue flag.

THE ČISTA BEACH

Čista beach is about 5 kilometers away from Novalja and can be reached by turning off the road from Novalja to Pag before Kolan. It is a long sandy beach with access to the sea suitable even for the smallest children. The sea is crystal clear. "Čista" means pure/clean in Croatian.

THE RUČICA BEACH

This beach is located 1 km from Metajna and it can be reached by boat or by car. The beach is a combination of shingle and sand, without a natural shade and with a few catering facilities. The beach can be reached on foot through the picturesque area called the Canyon.

THE PLANJKA BEACH (Trinćel)

The beach is located north of Novalja, along the southeast coast of the Novalja Bay. It is covered with fine sand, it is warm, shallow and well-kept. It has restaurants and various recreational facilities. Due to its excellent maintenance and facilities, the beach has had a blue flag since the summer of 2004. In one of the events thrown by the Croatian Tourist Board and the Blue Flower Media, the beach won two awards - for best kept and most beautiful beach on the Adriatic coast. This beach is great for families with children.

THE MATA BEACH

The quiet cove of Mata near Luna has hidden beaches and coves surrounded by centuries-old olive trees. In some places, the beaches are covered with fine stone, while others are made of concrete or stone. There are no additional facilities.

THE LOKUNJE BEACH

This is the Novalja town beach, located along the southern edge of the Novalja Bay. It's pebbly, shallow and warm, with a large green belt, which makes it pleasant for vacationing and cooling off during the hot summer days.

THE JADRA BEACH

The beach is located near the Old Novalja and in some areas is covered with fine stones offering gradual access to the sea, while in others it is rocky and you directly enter the deep waters.

THE CASKA BEACH

This is located east of Novalja, on the site of the former Roman city which, according to legend, was destroyed by an earthquake in the 4th century and whose remains can still be found in close proximity to the beach and the sea bottom. Access to the sea is mostly sandy. The sea bed is very steep, which makes the beach deep. There are restaurants and recreational facilities on the beach.

THE BRANIČEVICA BEACH

Located next to Strasko, this beach is very long, while in its hinterland is a residential area called Gajac. It has a good gastronomic offer and some recreational facilities. All other facilities are located a few dozen meters away from the beach, within the residential area.

THE BABE BEACH

This beach lies in a shallow cove west of Novalja. This is the shallowest and warmest of all Novalja beaches, with fine sand and a narrow coastal strip. In recent years the beach has been enriched by restaurants and recreational facilities.

THE SV. DUH BEACH

Sveti Duh is a beach located within the area of the camp of the same name. The beach is a gravel-fine sand combination, elongated and suitable for families with small children, since the shallows extend up to 50 meters from the shoreline. Visitors can expect a clean sea and a spectacular view of the Bay of Pag and the mountain Velebit. There is no shade on the beach and a segment of it is used by naturists.

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Replanting To Kalon: A Napa Cabernet Renewal (Wine Spectator)

Senior editor James Molesworth is Wine Spectator's lead taster for California Cabernet Sauvignon. He recently returned to Napa Valley for more visits with top wineries. And don't miss our Q&A with James on his Napa Cab eureka moments, his scoring philosophy, and what he's up to when he's not tasting wine.

There are plenty of well-worn adages in the wine business. Someare a bit overworn, actually. You've surely heard "wine is made in the vineyards." No oneever argues with it …

As we walk the rows in his To Kalon Vineyard blocks in Oakville,Andy Beckstoffer recites the line. I click my pen open and closed, waiting forsomething a bit more compelling to happen.

"But that's B.S," he says. "Wine is made by winemakers." My ears perked up. He kept it rolling.

Beckstoffer, 79, draws deep water in Napa Valley. He's beenfarming vineyards here since 1969. In 1993 he secured arguably hisprize piece, a nearly 90-acre block of vines in To Kalon Vineyard that was being offloaded by Beaulieu Vineyard.Today prime Napa Valley land goes for at least $400,000 an acre, sometimes near$1 million. Beckstoffer got the parcel for $44,000 an acre. And he got itwithout a fight.

"No, no one else was bidding for it," he says when I ask whoelse was in the mix. "It was virused and needed replanting at the time. BV andBob [Mondavi] didn't want to deal with it."

Today Beckstoffer farms 1,000 acres in the valley.The Beckstoffer To Kalon fruit goes to 20 different producers and a handful ofNapa's top hired-gun winemakersuse it to produce some of the valley's most sought-afterbottlings. And Beckstoffer says it's they who make the wine.

"Well, first thing I ask when someone approaches me to buyfruit is, 'Who's the winemaker?'" says Beckstoffer.

"To be honest, we don't tell them how to make wine, and theydon't tell us how to farm," he says matter-of-factly. "Now sometimes you canget too close to the forest, so if there's a better way and I can't see it andthey bring it to us, we'll do it. But generally that doesn't happen."

In addition to his portion of To Kalon, Beckstoffer holdssome of Napa's "heritage" sites, as he calls them. Vineyards with histories ofred wine production going back to the late 19th-century. There's 300acres of the Georges III Vineyard, 40 acres in Missouri Hopper, 20 in Dr. Crane, 20in Las Piedras and 13 in Bourne.

"I never wanted to make wine. I grew up in Smirnoff country.I bought United Vintners and then I met farmers," he says. "And I decided I liked farmersbetter than salesmen. And I just like farming the land."

"A great wine region has to do two things. Its wines have tomatch with foods. And its wines have to stand the test of time. Those heritagevineyards have proven to stand the test of time, as they've been making greatgrapes for over a hundred years. And when they started, it wasn't Cabernet. Itwas Mondeuse and things like that. If you can make a Mondeuse that gets famous,and then a Cabernet that gets famous from the same piece of land, that'sspecial land."

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As we come to a break in the vineyard rows, the parcelfacing us is a new replant. It's a particularly expensive proposition to take theland out of production when it's this kind of real estate. But virus haseventually worn the block down, and it was time. To mollify his clients,everyone buying fruit from his To Kolan parcels took less fruit, whether theirrows were in the block or not. He'll use the same procedure as he rotates inother replants in the coming years. That way no one gets left out.

What pops out is the new row alignment, east-west instead ofnorth-south, with the aim to get the blast of hot afternoon sun off the grapes. What might seemlike a nod to changing wine styles, with more powerful, high-alcohol winesseeing some pushback in the market is less that, and more just about farming. "Better farming gets better grapes," he says. "New plantingsget changed because we've improved what we know and technology has improved. It's simply about delivering a better product to my customers."

The To Kalon Vineyard name has been in dispute for years (and remains so, to some degree).A trademark was claimed by Robert Mondavi in 1988; the was created in the late 1800s by Hamilton Crabb for his wine company. In the early 2000s, Beckstoffer started puttting the To Kalon name on fruit from his section of the vineyard, and Mondavi promptly sued Schrader Cellars for putting the name on its label. Beckstoffer countersued, and a settlement was eventually reached by which the fruit from Beckstoffer's portion of the vineyard could be labeled Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard. Constellation (which bought Robert Mondavi Winery in 2004, as well as Schrader Cellars in 2017) owns the trademark now, and the agreement with Beckstoffer still stands. And it's on thispoint that Beckstoffer takes a farmer's stand, unlike when he defers to a winemaker.

"This is like DRC. There should be a Beckstoffer To Kalonand a MacDonald To Kalon," he says, mentioning one of the smaller growers inthe vineyard. "If we're going to present Napa Valley to the world then thevineyard needs integrity. The name should be about the land, not a trademark."

That final sentence hangs there as we find ourselves back atthe starting point. After completing a full loop of his parcel. After farmingfor 50 years in the valley, I can't help but think he must have timed it that way.

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source https://www.winespectator.com/blogs/show/id/Beckstoffer-California-Napa-Cabernet-2019-To-Kalon-Visit