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I had a friend in college whose life's goal was to move to France, don a beret, stomp on grapes, and make wine for a living. Though I tried to tell her that there was more to wine-making than purple feet, and that berets were so "Clinton Administration," she ignored me and dreamt of grapes anyway. Though I did not share her winemaking aspirations and decided instead to dream of something much more realistic, like a marriage proposal from Brad Pitt, she did get me thinking about the process, and she got me thirsty for knowledge. This eventually led me to discover different types of wine require different recipes, with one of the most complex belonging to Port.

Prior to actually reading about making Port, I was under the impression that all it involved was people stepping on grapes in bare feet. Because of this, I often worried that I would be drinking Tinta Barroca, and find floating in my glass a human toenail or perhaps a foot corn. But, in truth, port-making is a lengthy, complicated process.

Port wine, also known as Vinho do Porto, Porto, or Porto wine, is a fortified wine that comes from the Douro Valley in the northern lands of Portugal. Produced in Portugal since the mid 15th Century, Port gained popularity in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703. While this treaty did war-related things reserved for history books, in regards to wine it caused England to become an adopted family for Port, with Portugal being the biological parents.

There is no easy way to make Port: no kind comes in a packet with "just add water" instructions. Instead, the process initially involves picking grapes, smashing them, and then placing them in an automated tank where they are further chopped into tiny pieces. After remaining in this tank for nearly twenty-four hours, the grapes begin to ferment and their sugar climbs the food chain, turning into alcohol.

With Port wine, after fermentation begins, timing takes over. Once half of the grape's sugar has been converted, fermentation must be stopped. In order to do this, the wine is mixed with clear brandy (a strong alcoholic spirit distilled from wine) containing a proof of 150. The alcohol in the brandy kills the yeast in the wine, causing fermentation to cease. The ending result is a sweet wine that is about 20 percent alcohol. It is typically served with desserts, cheese, and, of course, desserts made of cheese.

Though there are many styles of Port - White Port, Ruby Port, Young Tawny Port, Aged Tawny Port, Vintage Character Port, Late Bottled Vintage Port, Traditional Late Bottled Vintage Port, Vintage Port, Single Quinta Vintage Port, Crusted Port, and Garrafeira Port - most styles fall into two broad categories: Bottle aged or Cask aged. Because doing the tiniest thing different will result in a different taste of wine, the two Port processes greatly dictate the flavorful outcome. While Bottle aged Ports generally behave like wine on Botox, keeping their color and their fruitiness well into maturity, Cask aged Ports lose flavor quickly. They are ready to drink right away.

The best Ports to know, the ones to introduce yourself to before sending them down your esophagus, are the Taylor Fladgate Tawny Port, W. & J. Graham's Tawny Port, Smith Woodhouse Vintage Character Port, Niepoort Vintage Port, Quinta do Infantado Single Quinta Vintage Port, and Adriano Ramos-Pinto Late Bottled Vintage Port.

As demonstrated, the process of making Port is not as simple as one might imagine; it involves a little more than simply visiting a vineyard, and being met with thousands of grapes shouting, "Pick me! Pick me!" And, it involves more than taking off your tennis shoes and having a smashing good time. After a careful, lengthy process, the smashing good time will follow.

Jennifer Jordan is the senior editor at http://www.savoreachglass.com. With a vast knowledge of wine etiquette, she writes articles on everything from how to hold a glass of wine to how to hold your hair back after too many glasses. Ultimately, she writes her articles with the intention that readers will remember wine is fun and each glass of anything fun should always be savored.

Stressful Workplace? Time To Take The Responsibility To Change Things

With 25% of all prescription drugs provided to patients used for psychotherapy; more than 11% of all occupational disease claims related to stress (and rising); and 42% of all absence citing stress as the major cause, workplace tensions have never been worse.

Pressure on business success, especially to meet the demands of stockholders, seems to translate itself all the way down the hierarchical chain to the many at the sharp end. Managers are shifting their pressures as quickly as they can, understandably. as their pressures are no less.

Characterized by symptoms such as:- irritability with others; fear; lack of hope and pessimism in general; lack of interest; lack of self-esteem, boredom; feelings of failure; frustration; anger, to name but a few, more employees are taking the time out today, for longer, than ever before, with paid absence as their support structure.

This stress, of course, goes all the way home at the end of the day, putting a greater strain on all the relationships at home, more than ever before.

In organizations, large and small, stress and consequent under performance and absence causes a significant impact both financially, running into billions of dollars a year and, especially with smaller businesses, threatening their very survival.

It's very easy for employees to blame the organization of which they are a part, yet there has never been a better time to drag senior business management kicking and screaming to ensuring workplace practices change, for the better, for the future.

Indeed, making better use of employees is not only good business sense, but it ensures engagement, creativity, involvement and loyalty, reduced absenteeism as well as improved retention of more people for longer.

So what can the average employee do?

There are two main options that will make a difference and for each of them, the employee has the choice to make, whether they want to engage and change to organization or, a quite reasonable choice, to walk away and try something different.

If the first option is chosen, any employee has the potential to change the face of the workplace in their (and the organization's) favor. This is no win-lose situation. Happy, engaged and enthusiastic employees are very much an asset to a business, driving sales, building great client relationships, contributing into the business, rather than sucking out their earnings and nothing more.

To make this sort of contribution, it's time for employees to speak up constructively, replacing a complaining style with solution-based feedback with on every occasion. Once organizations recognise contributions as positive and value-creating, a stronger and more balanced two-way even, relationship will evolve.

For the second option, if an employee decides, after bashing the constructive feedback and ideas-based relationship to death, with little return, then it's time to haul up the drawbridge and move on. In fact, taking a stance to make for a better workplace experience, rather than the stressful one they already have, can itself be even more stressful. Not exactly the result they would wish for at all.

In moving onto something new then, one of the biggest challenges is to ensure that the new role is one that will provide the positive experience they found so lacking in their last job. Truth is, many disaffected employees jump ship straight into another, similar role, with results that are, understandably, pretty much the same!

Balancing the need for reward with their personal needs for an enjoyable job, anyone can make better decisions when they are in the process of moving on. Taking into account that it's far more pleasant when working in a role that plays to their individual strengths, this needs to be the first objective.

Closely followed by the workplace environment; energised co-workers; a lively and fun bunch of people, as well as a management culture which is developmental, encouraging, challenging and supportive. All in one!

Is this perfect vision possible? Well, it is. And, it does depend on you! You making decisions that can change your existing workplace around for the good of you and the others around you (works even better if a 'team goal'!) - or ultimately, making a decision that will move you out of there and onto something much better.

Now that's a stress-buster!

About the Author

(c) 2007 "How To Land Your Dream Job". You can have the job of your dreams. It takes application, attention and information to get you there, young or old. There's all you need to help you at Martin Haworth's website, How To Land Your Dream Job

will i loose timing on 1996 nissan maxima if the crank got turned more than 20 degrees?

i was trying to get more slack from timing chain to install water pump ,in doing so i turned the crank more then 20 degrees.i did'nt remove the rear timing tensioner because it did'nt say to do so in my book.will that mess up my timing or anything else?

it will give the system different ratio and you will get a "Check Engine" sign up..but if you reset the your timing it will not mess up your engine

this will also improve your cars engine life..because the ratio and timing will not screw it up

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