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Rates of birth defects linked to twins and triplets have almost doubled since the 1980s, research has shown.
The trend may partly be explained by the growth of IVF treatment, which can lead to multiple births.
Scientists studied data on 5.4 million births in Europe from 1984 to 2007, of which 3% involved multiple deliveries.
During that time, the prevalence of congenital abnormalities arising from multiple births increased from 5.9 per 10,000 births to 10.7.
On average, the risk of birth defects was 27% higher for multiple than for singleton births. This risk increased over time.
Study co-leader Professor Helen Dolk, from the University of Ulster, said: "The co-occurrence of multiple birth and congenital anomaly among live borns places particular demands on parents and health services. This may be even more relevant for the one in nine affected twin pairs where both babies have a congenital anomaly.
"The increase in multiple birth rates may be explained by changes in maternal age and increased use of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology). It is clear that more research needs to be done to determine the contribution of ART to the risk of congenital anomalies in multiple births."
The research is published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Transferring a number of embryos into a woman's womb during IVF treatment is known to increase the risk of multiple births.
Fertility clinics are now being advised to adopt a single embryo transfer (SET) policy.
John Thorp, deputy editor-in-chief of BJOG, said: "This increase in babies who are both from a multiple pregnancy and affected by a congenital anomaly has implications for pre and post-natal service provision.
"Extra specialised help should be put in place for affected families, recognising that there are now nearly double as many affected families than there were 20 years ago."
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Making claim to a foul ball is seldom easy
Bare skin is not allowed near the aged, yellowing baseball that sits in front of him. Such a precaution is taken not because the ball bears the Bambino's handwriting or because it is the only souvenir to which "Wee Willie" Keeler put a feathered quill.
What is most important to Duran, 77, is that he gained this souvenir during a game, not at some memorabilia show or off eBay.
He acquired it one sunny March afternoon in an Albuquerque ballpark that no longer exists.
He got it the old-fashioned way: He caught it.
Spring training in Arizona in 1953 was over for the Cleveland Indians and the New York Giants. The two professional teams were on their way back home, to Ohio and New York City, to begin the regular season.
Their first stop was an exhibition game in Albuquerque.
Duran, then a UNM sophomore lovesick on baseball, wanted badly to see that game at Tingley Field, which lay near the Rio Grande Zoo. So off he went. About the fourth or fifth inning, Duran recalls, someone fouled off a pitch that came sailing in his direction.
Duran remembers one such recent scene. "This boy, maybe 4 or 5, picks up a foul ball and starts to throw it back to the field. You can see his father shouting, 'No! No!' and reaching toward him. But the kid tosses it anyway. Then you can see how crushed and upset his father is."
Foul Ball Nuttiness, I call this condition.
FBN is a messy ailment. It topples beer containers and sends popcorn flying.
FBN is dangerous. Last week at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, a fan died after stretching for a foul ball and falling headfirst 20 feet. His was not the first fatality due to stadium exuberance.
I've been to perhaps 20 Major League Baseball games in my life, and never have I come close to getting a foul or fair ball. I attended perhaps 20 Albuquerque Dukes games over the years, and not once did I bring home a bat-scuffed ball.
I refused to take my mitt to ball games when I was kid. Early on I figured out that the odds were long on ever finding something in it. Similarly, I never took a mitt to a game as an adult. There would be no need for it. Besides, I could already hear the words: "What position you do play?"
I spent two seasons selling beer in the stands at Isotopes Park, and nary a foul ball caromed my way. As a fan at the park, one night about five years ago I sat along the first base side. At the crack of a bat, I looked up to see a ball touch down a row or two behind me, then bounce forward over some seats until it stopped rolling a few inches from my sneaker. I can remember staring at the ball, unable to process why it was there. All I had to do was reach down and pick up the ball—my ball.
Ann, a friend sitting alongside me, leaned over and grabbed it.
I suggested she give the ball to me. I was, after all, clearly nearest it.
"To this day I'm still amazed."
Art Duran
Ann looked at me as if I had asked her to fork over her winning lottery ticket.
"No way," she said.
I was stunned.
"It's mine," she said.
Case closed.
The one autographed baseball I own was signed by former Gov. Bill Richardson. There's a long story behind how this came to be, and it need not be repeated here. Suffice is to say, in 2005 Richardson signed my Kmart-bought ball suspiciously, in his governor's office. A few months later he admitted he had never been drafted by a Major League team, as he always insisted he had.
Art Duran was seated in the first base-side bleachers during that 1953 exhibition game. That's a good place to get balls due to a wealth of right-handed batters who might be swinging late.
Duran had been to Tingley Field twice before, both times in 1951, when he was a student at Menaul School. The first night no balls dropped in his vicinity. Someone told him that if he came back and fetched a foul ball outside the stadium, the Dukes would give him a free ticket to a game. Duran showed up and found himself among 20 or 30 kids from Barelas, all there with the same idea.
Duran left empty-handed and decided he would never go back.
But he did return—for that Cleveland Indians-New York Giants exhibition. Why? Because Cleveland was his favorite team. Duran was born in rural Mora Valley. He was listening to a baseball game on the radio one day in 1948 when he heard a familiar name. Down the road from his house lay a village named Cleveland. Yet here was a baseball team, also named Cleveland—on the radio!
"I thought, Wow! Isn't that something?"
Cleveland won the World Series that year, the last time that happened.
So here he was again, at Tingley Field, on March 30, 1953, a Monday. He cut class that day at UNM and took a bus to see the game. His ticket cost 25 cents.
Duran was among a crowd of 7,000 when the foul ball came winging toward him. Quick reflexes caused him for reasons unknown to take off his UNM cap and hold it out, upside down.
A hat trick.
Art Duran scored a prized souvenir.
"To this day I'm still amazed," he says. "I was lucky."
After the game, which Cleveland won, 13-6, Duran wandered around outside Tingley Field. He passed by a waiting bus that held the Indians.
"Hey, kid," a voice called from the door of the bus. "Come in here if you want some autographs."
So he did. Duran says Al Lopez, the Indians manager offered him a pen, but only if he promised to give it back. He did.
As the bus took off, Duran moved about, giving his ball to players to sign. When the bus finally stopped, it was at El Fidel Hotel in Downtown.
"Kid," called that voice again. "If you go inside the hotel, the Giants are there and you can get their autographs too."
So Duran did that.
His baseball has about 20 readable signatures. Among players Duran did not get to sign were Willie Mays, a sensational young outfielder, and pitching immortal Bob Feller. Mays was still in the Army and would not rejoin the Giants until 1954, when the two teams would meet in the World Series. The Giants would win that Series in four games.
Feller, Duran was told, had left the Indians early and would fly to their next exhibition game in Oklahoma City. God does not take buses.
For a time, the baseball stayed in Duran's parents' house. The ball's owner, who became a physical education teacher, took jobs teaching or coaching—mostly basketball—in California. He brought the ball with him to a string of towns on the West Coast. When he returned to New Mexico, he gave the ball to his parents again while he went overseas for the U.S. State Department to coach in South America, Africa and the Middle East.
When Duran returned, he retrieved the ball and moved with his family to coach in one small Navajo reservation town after another in New Mexico and Arizona.
Now and then Duran returned to New Mexico to watch the Albuquerque Dukes, who had left Tingley Field for a new stadium that would later become Isotopes Park. Whenever he watched the Dukes or the Isotopes, Duran says, it was the same old story: No chances for a baseball.
Ten years ago, Duran purchased a small protective case for his ball. The ball doesn't leave his house in the Northeast Heights.
"I like to watch 'Antiques Roadshow,' and I see other autographed baseballs being appraised," Duran says. "I think mine might be worth $350."
It's not for sale. It's going to his kids, along with those disposable gloves.

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I've commented in this space before about the efforts of Ford Motor Co. and other OEMs (as well as other vehicle-related suppliers) concerning a wide range of research efforts aimed at using organic-based materials to craft automotive components – everything from seat covers and interior carpeting to tires and engine parts.
Ford's most recent endeavor in this area is experimentation with tree fibers (a substance more readily known as cellulose) for its woven materials (think seat covers again) as well as to replace a variety of plastic composites.
Basically, Ford's biomaterials research team is working with forestry firm Weyerhaeuser to use cellulose fibers from trees to replace fiberglass and/or mineral reinforcements that go into making components such as armrests.
Ellen Lee, Ford's plastic research technical expert, said the automaker and Weyerhaeuser have been working together for three years dissecting how cellulosic fibers can be used in light vehicles, discerning along the way that such "tree fiber" has a high thermal stability, doesn't discolor and doesn't produce an odor.
[Tree fiber, by the way, is already being used to make clothing. Indeed, check out how Patagonia uses wood pulp-based fiber to make its goods – fiber gleaned from eucalyptus tree farms in South Africa.]
More important, Lee's team found that such tree fiber-based components weigh about 10% less than fiberglass-based materials, can be produced 20% to 40% faster, and require less energy to be manufactured.
Thus Ford concludes such weight and process savings can enable equivalent or reduced component costs – hopefully contributing in some form to price savings for vehicle buyers when all is said and done.
"All of that's important because it opens the door for use of the material in a wide range of applications that could eventually add up to significant environmental benefits across our product line," Lee (at right) said.
She also stressed that her team's research indicates that cellulose material can not only be used in vehicle interiors but for exterior and under-the-hood applications as well – all because Weyerhaeuser's cellulose-based plastic composite materials meet the automaker's requirements for stiffness, durability and temperature resistance.
The other benefit is that the "raw material" is available in abundance and can be renewed fairly easily. Indeed, Weyerhaeuser alone oversees more than 20 million acres of sustainably managed and third-party certified forestland around the world and plants more trees than are harvested (no worries about supply shortages here!)
Tree fiber, of course, isn't the only "sustainable material" Ford is experimenting with. Indeed, Ford is already using quite of few such materials in current production. For example:
- The company's new Fusion sedan uses the equivalent of about 42 recycled plastic bottles in its seat fabric and post-consumer recycled carpet in its cylinder head covers.
- The Fusion also contains the equivalent of slightly more than two pairs of average-sized American blue jeans as sound-dampening material
- Ford's entire North American lineup of vehicles contain soybean-based cushions and head restraints, while the plastic bins in its Flex crossover are partially made from wheat straw. Incidentally, using soybean-based cushions and head restraints saves the automaker from using about 5 million pounds of petroleum annually.
- Kenaf fiber – derived from a plant related to cotton and okra – is used in the door bolsters of Escape compact SUV.
- The equivalent of 25 recycled 20-ounce plastic bottles help make up the Escape's carpet
- The Focus Electric uses a wood-fiber-based material in its doors and recycled plastic bottles in its seat fabric.
Perhaps the biggest critical factor with all of these "sustainable materials" is that they offer Ford – and other vehicle makers as well – the opportunity to reduce costs across a wide range of areas; savings that will hopefully (as I stressed before) get transferred down the line to the vehicle buyer. If that happens, you'll no doubt see usage of such "green" stuff only increase.


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I made this same skirt with a Nani Iro double gauze knit before and I wear it all the time, so it was about time for a new one. Is it just me or do you worry about wearing out your favourite clothes too?
|Decapitated me as usual because I couldn't be asked to put on some make-up ;-)
The pattern is from 'one piece & skirt' and it's the only thing I have dared to make from this book. I have little faith in my dressmaking skills, and the fact that it's all in Japanese doesn't help either, but simple skirts I can handle.
I could live in this outfit especially since the skirt has nice deep pockets, love me some pockets!
So I may just need to make one more...it's the right thing to do really, since I already have the fabric ;-)
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Another 30 Sri Lankans have opted to return home rather than spend time on Nauru, with authorities claiming a win against people smugglers.
They have joined four of their countrymen who made the return trip home last week instead of heading to the Pacific island for the processing of their claims.
"They chose not to pursue their asylum claims and no longer seek to engage Australian protection obligations," said a spokesman for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
"This is further proof that there is no advantage engaging with people smugglers."
Nine Sri Lankan men left Nauru early on Sunday morning, travelling on a charter flight from Perth with 21 of their countrymen who were detained in Western Australia.
"These men departed voluntarily," the spokesman said.
He said more transfers to Nauru would take place in the coming weeks, prompting more people to choose to return home.
A total of 883 Sri Lankans have returned home both voluntarily and involuntarily since August 13, when the government announced that asylum seekers would be liable for transfer to regional processing facilities.
The first group to be sent for offshore processing were transferred from Christmas Island to Nauru on September 14.
The department spokesman said people who elected to depart voluntarily could be provided with support to assist with their return.
Meanwhile, a boat carrying 37 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted in Australian waters after experiencing engine trouble.
The crew of the vessel contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Rescue Coordination Centre on Saturday afternoon for assistance after losing power in the vicinity of Ashmore Islands but was then able to continue without help.
The boat was later intercepted by HMAS Larrakia.
The 37 passengers and three crew will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo initial security, health and identity checks.


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No Medical Value? New Epilepsy Drug Derived from Marijuana Shows Promising Results
The Washington Post reported that a new drug based on cannabidiol (CBD), an extract of cannabis, showed promising results for treating epilepsy in a new study. According to an article in the Post,
Elizabeth Thiele, director of pediatric epilepsy at Massachusetts General Hospital and lead author of the study, said the results varied depending on the patient.
"For some, it does not do a whole lot. But for the people it does work in, it is priceless," she said.
"One child who comes to mind had multiple seizures a day. She had been on every medication possible," said Thiele, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Then the patient tried the cannabis-based treatment and has been seizure-free for almost four years. "She is now talking about college options. She would have never had that conversation before. It has been life-changing."
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Justin Bieber Being Charged with Criminal Assault in Limousine Driver Attack
Justin Bieber has found himself in some more legal trouble and will be charged with criminal assault for allegedly attacking a limousine driver back in December, according to TMZ.
The 19-year-old singer was involved in some sort of situation with a limo driver in Toronto back in December and it was originally believed that a member of Justin's entourage was being investigated for the assault.
When the Toronto cops wanted Justin to come in for an interview, he initially refused, but he is now in the city and will be making a stop at the police station.
Justin will reportedly be "booked for assault, given a citation, and released on his recognizance." Sources tell the site that other witnesses gave interviews this week and some of their accounts incriminated the pop star.


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Getting a bit desperate for a kite trip but I cannot take a full week off because work.
So my plan is to leave on thursday night after work to la Paz or Los cabos and come back on Monday night so I get 4 days kitting.
Has anybody done this? Or does anybody has a better kite destination leaving from Los Angeles
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Oh, I didn't see it in Nigel's book - serves me right for just skipping through it quickly when I had a look yesterday! :roll: Still, I knew I had seen it somewhere when I bought it! The one in the book is a touch taller than mine though.
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April is cruelest month
It's hard, during Fiesta, to think of April as being the cruelest month. Poet T.S. Eliot meant it metaphorically, of course, but the metaphor was rooted in a different geography from ours.
Eliot grew up in St. Louis. Then he spent most of the rest of his life either in England (like Chaucer, from whom he borrowed the metaphor) or at Harvard, where he studied and later taught.
It was a colder latitude than ours, and it was before climate change started accelerating. I lived in Boston for several years 30 years ago, and April was a cruel month. You had a week or so of spring — the first warm sun since early October — and then late April or even early May would deliver another blizzard.
Here the first half of April is the end of spring and the last half the start of summer. April begins nature's cruelty. But this year, April has already marked an unusual amount of man-made cruelty.
First there was the Boston Marathon massacre. We don't yet know for sure what motivated two brothers to fashion bombs loaded with small, slicing bits of metal, then cold-bloodedly place the bombs in the midst of hundreds of children and other innocent people.
Reports indicate the violence may have grown out of the older brother's radicalization into a perverted form of Islam. If true, this is a particularly cruel and vicious form of insanity. How else can we label a theology that teaches that a man can get to heaven by killing God's children for any other reason than to defend himself or others?
It is a form of insanity that is not limited to radical Islam. Any Christian who smugly thinks otherwise doesn't know his or her own history, whether it was the Spanish Inquisition or the religious savagery that propelled the Pilgrims to New England.
This April's cruelty also delivered the tragic explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, near Waco. Here the victims were more than innocent. They were heroic. Of 14 bodies identified so far, at least 12 were volunteer firefighters rushing in to deal with the disaster. The blast injured another 200.
Again, the cruelty here isn't climatological. It's human. Who among us in the wake of the catastrophic West Chemical and Fertilizer Co. explosion wouldn't say we'd be happy to chip in a few dollars each to make sure dangerous chemical plants are operated safely? And that they are not located next to schools, as this one was. Mercifully, the plant's approximately 270 tons of volatile ammonia nitrate exploded after school was out.
Records indicate that the plant wasn't inspected by OSHA, the federal work safety agency, since 1985. OSHA's staff has stagnated in recent years.
Meanwhile, while the plant's operator has been fined several times, no state agency appears to have been capable of requiring it to fix safety problems.
Gov. Rick Perry didn't wait for an investigation before pronouncing that no regulations could have prevented the disaster. Instead, he jetted off to Illinois to try to persuade factories there to move to Texas, using lighter regulations as a lure.
Some who would like to see more oversight of dangerous and polluting Texas industries are lobbying the Legislature in the wake of the West tragedy. But their goal isn't to establish more effective oversight.
It is to kill bills that would actually remove some of the inadequate safeguards that are now in place.
That, this April in Texas, is the cruel reality.
This column first appeared as the "Last Word" on KLRN's "Texas Week With Rick Casey." The program appears Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.


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Danica Patrick: Angelina Jolie Should Play Me!
If anyone could play race car driver cutie Danica Patrick in a movie — who would it be?
"I've always said Angelina Jolie would be great because she's an action star!" Danica told some Canadian bloggers. As for Mandy Moore, Danica thought she was way too tall to play her!
Danica, 26, was then asked about Jennifer Aniston, to which she answered, "I don't think that'd be age appropriate. She's older than me!"
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On the pillars of the main entrance stand two horsemen with swords unsheathed. On these pillars on all other sides there are beautiful sculptures like dancing females, and warriors etc.,
The Garbhagriha has a standing Venugopala image of Vijayanagara style. The Navaranga in front of Garbhagriha has four black stoned pillars carved with fine relief sculptures on all sides.
There are many sculptures on these pillars, such as Hayagriva, dancing female figures with attendant musicians, a conch blower, a Kinnara with the lower portion of his body in bird form, a huntress removing a thorn from her leg, etc.
The outer walls have a frieze of large images illustrating scenes mostly from the Ramayana and the feats of Lord Krishna as a child.
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Plymouth woman dies in traffic accident
The Marshall County Coroner's Office and Marshall County Sherriff's Department are investigating the death of a Plymouth woman that occurred as a result of a traffic accident Tuesday afternoon before 4 p.m.
In a press release sent late Tuesday, by Marshall County Deputy Coroner Lisa Richards, Amber Gayheart, 23, of Plymouth, was pronounced dead at the scene of the single vehicle accident near the 11000 block of Lincolnway.
Gayheart was the only occupant of the car.
Richards and Deputy Coroner John Grolich are conducting the death investigation.
Plymouth Fire Department also responded to the scene.
"It appears that speed was a factor," Richards said in the release. "Cause of death is pending until toxicology results are received."
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Steven Spielberg 1946–, American Film Director. * December 18, 1946 * Spielberg began his career as a television director, admired for his understanding portrayal of human character.
His film Jaws (1975) was the first to earn more than $100 million, a record he surpassed first with E.T. (1983) and then with Jurassic Park (1993), which grossed more than $900 million.
Spielberg's love of older movies was demonstrated with his serial-inspired trilogy of movies featuring Indiana Jones.
Other films, many based on literary works, include The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), and the widely acclaimed Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), for which he won an Academy Award.
In 1994, Spielberg, former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, and recording industry mogul David Geffen formed Dreamworks SKG, a movie studio and entertainment company.
The director later explored a slave revolt and trial in Amistad (1997) and won his second Oscar for the chillingly realistic war drama Saving Private Ryan (1998).
He subsequently examined a ghastly future world of neurotic humans and sentient robots (the result of a collaboration with Stanley Kubrick) in A.I. (2001), for which he also wrote the screenplay, and portrayed another dark future in which crime is detected and stopped before it is committed in the allegory-thriller Minority Report (2002).
He turned to a lighter, more comic vision in his tales of a young imposter and his implacable pursuer in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and of an Eastern European stranded in New York's Kennedy Airport in The Terminal (2004). By the early years of the 21st cent., Spielberg was mainstream Hollywood's most famous, influential, and successful director.


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We're one of the few companies that actually imports our own hair for manufacture of wigs. That, in and of itself, can make a huge difference in quality because we pay more to assure higher quality hair than a wigmaker, which has to control costs, will. We also don't accept manufacturing shortcuts that drastically reduce labor cost but affect quality.
We reject/remake a lot of custom orders that don't quite hold up to our standards. We're not the least expensive, and we can't even claim to be the best as the best really is a factor of price and to truly be the best, we would have to charge a lot more money to ensure that we were able to cover the cost of more expensive manufacturing techniques. There are places where you will spend a lot more money and receive a better product, and there are places that charge a lot more and we're right up there in terms of quality.
We offer great quality for the price. And we are committed to that.
About the Company
Zarawigs.com is owned by me, Michelle. When I started the business, I tried to give everyone excellent customer service, even if that meant talking on the phone for an hour or more, consulting a single customer on a wig. Many of these customers, just wanted to hear the answers to their questions from a live person :)
Eventually, it became too much for me to handle the customer service and run the business (so sorry to my old customers), but I had to have someone take that over so I could just focus on the back end of the business.
Jeanette is our Operations Manager and handles consultations, escelated customer service issues, payment transactions, and makes sure things run smoothly.
Sometimes phone consultations take an hour or more, so while one customer is getting one-on-one service, the person calling 4 times an hour doesn't get through :)
We�ve experimented with having other staff on hand to answer calls and that�s a double edged sword: people appreciate the ability to speak to a live person when they call, but are frustrated when they have a detailed question that person can�t answer.
We really try to provide a good customer experience before and after purchase, from the quality of the product, to the care we take with packaging and shipping. Having said that, there is no business in manufacturing with zero defects. Things can go wrong, I'll be perfectly honest. It would be misleading to act as though nothing ever goes wrong and every wig is perfect. When this does happen, we do our best to resolve every issue, but it doesn't happen overnight.
So having said that, here's a brief overview of things:
We do offer an exchange policy, if you have not altered the wig, whether you have ordered a stock wig or a custom wig. You can exchange your wig for a stock or a custom wig, of similar specification. However, if you decide to get a custom wig as an exchange, we cannot expedite the manufacturing time.
Once you alter the wig, we cannot exchange it.
If you perform any chemical services on the wig and this includes color, curly perming, or any ill-advised treatments you may read about on a message board, we absolutely do not cover any resulting damage to the wig.
If your wig suffers wear and tear over time, we do offer repair services. We do not personally quote the cost of repairs and so we will not know the cost of the repair until your wig is returned to our wigmakers, inspected and quoted. We only charge our cost plus shipping.
I hope that gives you a little insight about us, and we look forward to hearing from you if you ever have any questions or concerns.
PS: A lot of people ask where we're located. We're located in the city of American Canyon, which is considered the "gateway" to Wine Country, in Northern California. Our office is in an office building that houses many other professional businesses, most of which cater to other businesses, not consumers. As such, we're not zoned for retail or walk in clients, and we don't accept them at our office location. (Maybe one day, I'll post photos of the building, which is actually quite huge, even though we don't occupy most of the space there.


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CANYON, Texas— "2008 Global Financial Crisis: A Five-Year Assessment (Part VI)" will be the topic of a special marketing and international business seminar at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 in the Classroom Center, Room 221 at West Texas A&M University.
Speakers for the event will be Pat Ware, vice president at Amarillo National Bank, Jim Owens, professor of finance at WTAMU, and Kevin Golden, vice president at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Amarillo. This special seminar is organized and moderated by Syed Tariq Anwar, WTAMU professor of marketing and international business. The three speakers will examine today's post-financial crisis environment and discuss a five-year assessment of global business and the Texas Panhandle's economy since the crisis.
According to Anwar, this is the sixth seminar in a series on 'financial crisis' which appeared unannounced in 2008. During the crisis, markets and businesses witnessed major bankruptcies and billions of dollars were lost. Major structural changes have taken place worldwide that continue to fix the system which broke down in 2008. According to one estimate, $15 trillion dollars were lost in this crisis.
The 2008 global financial crisis topic continues to be part of today's media discussions and business seminars. Anwar said that as of November 2013, financial markets and their global business environments have recovered significantly although structural changes and reforms are still being implemented in the United States and other countries. In addition, the seminar is timely and educational and will provide useful information to students and the business community.
The program, part of Anwar's MKT 5/4340 class (international marketing), is free and open to WTAMU students, faculty and the business community. For more information, call Anwar, at 806-651-2491.
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If you can't be there in person to deliver hugs and kisses, what better way to say "Happy Mother's Day" than by sending a dozen red roses? But once you shell out to have flowers delivered by mail, you have no idea what actually arrives — unless, of course, you have a brutally honest mom. To help you spend wisely, we ordered bouquets from eight popular websites to see what actually turns up on the doorstep and how long they last. From each service, we selected a dozen red roses, opting for long stems only when they were the only choice, and a clear glass vase, if offered.
Depending on whether you're looking for "wow!" factor when she opens the package or for roses that will still bring a smile to her face a week later, we found a few clear winners.
The Best First-Impression Pick
The hands-down favorite for a big first impression was Teleflora. Already partially opened, these roses were the only ones sent from a local florist. We loved the fact that they came artfully placed in a straight-sided vase, so we didn't have to trim and arrange them as we had to with the rest. This saves mom the trouble, too. But two days later, the Teleflora blooms were already fading, and by day four, they were ready to be tossed.
Teleflora.com, $54.95 plus $15.99 care and handling
Second Place for an Opening Statement
FTD gets a runner-up nod. Its healthy-looking but tightly closed roses came with sprigs of baby's breath and ferns, which helped us create an attractive arrangement in the glass vase. By the second day, one rose head was droopy, and we noted some bruising on the petals, but we were able to enjoy the bouquet for seven days before throwing them out.
FTD.com, $50 plus $14.99 shipping
The Best Buds for Your Bucks
This goes to 1-800-Flowers. Out of the box, these tightly closed roses looked healthy, but once arranged in their fluted vase, they didn't knock our socks off. But seven days later, their buds had opened, not one of their flower heads was bowed, and they were the only ones we didn't have to ditch. We were way impressed!
1800flowers.com, $50 plus $20.76 shipping
Where We Ordered From1-800-Flowers, FTD, Calyx and Corolla, The Bouqs, Pro Flowers, Teleflora, Organic Bouquet, Kabloom
Some Key Rose Wisdoms
• If it's an option, ordering from a local florist might be your best bet for creating a good first impression. Bonus: Mom won't have to fuss with trimming scissors and worry about her flower-arranging skills.
• Don't be swayed by a higher price, long stems, or claims that flowers are Fair Trade or organic. The ones we tested that were, were at the bottom of our ratings.
Sharon Franke is the kitchen appliances and technology director of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.


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Victory For Marc De Antonio's Bribon-Movistar At 2013 Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Torbole Edition
14 July 2013
Torbole, Italy - A full order of congratulations are in place for Spain's Marc de Antonio aboard Bribon-Movistar. Never once over the course of three days and eight races did de Antonio, along with tactician Gustavo Martinez Doreste and crew members Victor Marino, Giorgio Tortarolo, Filippo La Mantia, Nicola Pilastro, Albero Viejo Puga, Javier Ibanez and Sofia Bertrand, let up on speed and the ability to be fastest around the track ensuring them the title of 2013 Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series Torbole edition Champions!
Roberto Tomasini Grinover's Robertissima 1 and Jason Carroll aboard Argo maintained their positions as well overnight to finish the event respectively in second and third. Edoardo Lupi aboard Torpyone and Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalzone Latino rounded out the top final five.
With Lake Garda's 'wind factory' in place, two additional, final races were completed on Sunday with Lupi coming on super strong to win both heats, naming them 'Boat of the Day'. The first race of the day saw the advancement of Keisuke Suzuki on Swing finishing second with Carroll in third. Onorato took second place honors in the final race of the day followed by IM32CA Vice President Richard Gorannson on Inga From Sweden III HH.
Also on this final racing day, B.Plan Sport&Events and Melges Europe have welcomed at the Audi Village Debra Südtirol's "butterfly children", a non-profit organization founded in 2004 aimed at assisting "butterfly children", affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa, enjoying together with their families an open air day in close contact with the sailing world and Melges 32 teams. At the prize giving, the organization received donations offered by Melges 32 owners and sailors collected during the weekend.
In the overall Series rankings, Lanfranco Cirillo's Fantastica remains at the top, however the points gap has been closed ever so slightly. Andrea Pozzi's Bombarda is seated in second after four events with Lupi now in third.
Torbole was graciously hosted by Circolo Vela Torbole and organized by BPSE B.Plan Sports & Events in full coordination with the IM32CA and Melges Europe.
TOP TEN RESULTS (FINAL - After Eight Races)
1.) Marc de Antonio/Gustavo Martinez Doreste, Bribon-Movistar; [14]-1-2-2-5-2-5-12 = 29
2.) Roberto Tomasini Grinover/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima 1; [13]-13-1-4-6-1-6-4 = 35
3.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, Argo; 11-6-5-6-2-8-3-[18] = 41
4.) Edoardo Lupi/Pietro Sibello, Torpyone; 2-[14]-9-13-3-13-1-1 = 42
5.) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, Mascalzone Latino; 4-[15]-7-1-13-12-7-2 = 46
6.) Filippo Pacinotti/Nathan Wilmot, Brontolo HH; 12-2-6-[17]-1-7-8-13 = 49
7.) Keisuki Suzuki/Chris Nicholson, Swing; [16]-3-4-10-4-11-2-15 = 49
8.) Richard Gorannson/Hamish Pepper, Inga From Sweden III HH; [17]-5-8-8-11-10-4-3 = 49
9.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Nicola Celon, Fantastica; 3-11-11-3-7-6-[18]-11 = 52
10.) Tony Buckingham/Chris Hosking, Ngoni; 10-7-12-9-8-5-[16]-5 = 56
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NEWTON, Mass. – Sophomore Brad Gross (Centreville, Va.) posted 11 kills, a .318 hitting percentage, and four digs to help the nationally-ranked No. 13 MIT men's volleyball team sweep Mount Ida College, 25-11, 25-16, 25-15, on Wednesday night. With the win, the Engineers improved to 6-5 on the year.
Sophomore Chris Omahan (Mount Vernon, Ohio) registered five kills, a .308 hitting performance, five digs, and two blocks while senior Matt Hohenberger (St. Louis, Mo.) rounded out MIT's balanced attack with four kills in two sets. Freshmen Brendan Chang (Laytonsville, Md.) and Kevin Tu (Saratoga, Calif.) collected nine and four digs respectively. Sophomore Andrew Busse (Mount Prospect, Ill.) earned four blocks as freshman Tavish Smith (Oceanside, Calif.) tacked on two of his own. In two sets, junior Paul Syta (Fairport, N.Y.) tallied 14 assists and five digs while classmate Evan Wang (Saratoga, Calif.) dished out eight assists.
MIT used a 10-1 run to break open the first set and establish a 13-3 advantage. Mount Ida picked up three of the next four points but the Engineers closed out the frame with an 11-5 run. While a service error gave the visitors set point, a kill helped keep the Mustangs alive. MIT countered with a kill from Omahan to capture the win.
The second stanza was closely played as the Engineers slowly inched out to a 15-11 lead. Mount Ida recorded the next three points; however, MIT won 10 of the final 12 points to secure the set courtesy of a Busse block and a Mustang hitting error.
The Cardinal and Gray maintained a small cushion throughout the third set as a trio of Mount Ida miscues helped fuel a 12-4 run that put MIT up, 17-8. An exchange of points followed before the Engineers ended the set with a 4-1 spurt as a Gross strike clinched the victory.
MIT continues its roadtrip on Saturday, Feb. 9 at cross-town rival Harvard University.


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Sister Mary Campbell, 75, was traveling with Co. Longford native Monsignor John Sheridan and U.S. Ambassador to Malta Doug Kmiec when the crash occurred.
Campbell, originally from the Kiltimagh area of Co. Mayo, died instantly in the accident in Malibu on Wednesday, August 25. She was a member of the Sisters of St. Louis and was based in Our Lady of Malibu.
Sheridan, 95, remains in critical but stable condition.
Kmiec, 58, was driving the car when the accident occurred on Mulholland Drive. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Sheen and his actor son, Emilio Estevez, were one of the first cars on the scene. Sheen is a member of Our Lady of Malibu Catholic Church and knew Campbell well.
Campbell, Sheridan and Kmiec were returning from a Mass and luncheon commemorating to 60th anniversary of the St. Louis order in the U.S. Campbell had just returned to the U.S. a few days earlier after spending a month with her family in Ireland.
She was a member of the Sisters of St. Louis for 52 years. Her religious community was celebrating its patron's feast day -- St. Louis of France -- on the day that she was killed.
The California Highway Patrol said the accident remains under investigation, and that the "dashboard control adjustment" may be a factor in the collision.
Kmiec was driving westbound on Mulholland when his 2009 Hyundai Accent veered off the road and crashed into a drainage ditch.
Kmiec and Sheridan, the pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Malibu, were airlifted to UCLA Medical Center.
Sheridan had life saving surgery to stop internal bleeding and is now in stable condition.
Speaking to Fox News, Sheen described Campbell as "one of the dearest people that you could ever know." He described her loss as "heartbreaking."
Campbell joined the Sister of St. Louis in 1959 and came to the U.S. in 1961. She taught at several Los Angeles Archdiocese elementary schools.
Her tenure at Our Lady of Mercy began in 1983. She also served as principal.
Retired from teaching in 2003, Campbell devoted her life to taking care of Sheridan in recent years, said Sister Brid Long, the regional director of the Sisters of St. Louis and a friend and colleague of Campbell since 1966.
"Wherever he went, she went," Long said.
A parishioner who knew Campbell, Katie Row, wrote on the Malibu Times website that the parish and town lost a "gentle soul who guided generations" of children into "wholesome" adulthood.
"She (Campbell) could be seen of an evening accompanying the monsignor on his daily constitutional. Her death leaves a hole in the community and, I'm sure, a vast vacuum in the monsignor's heart. God bless her memory as we were blessed by her life."
Sheen will speak at Campbell's funeral mass at the Church of the Holy Family in Kiltimagh on Thursday, September 9. She will be buried at Kilkinure Cemetery with her parents and a sister, Kathleen Campbell, who predeceased her.


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c)Back focal distance (pick-up tubes): If focus varies from channel between greatest and shortest focal length, the individual pick-up tubes must be adjusted mechanically in the optical axis.
1.Select white channel. Set optical focus at greatest focal length and divergent focus adjust the pick-up tube in W-channel until optimum focus is achieved. If necessary optimize by alternative with optical focus adjustment.
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In the center of the test chart on a gray background (D=0.75; reflectance = 18%) a white circle with four gray scales of 11 steps each is located. They are graduated in equal linear steps from D=0.15 to D=1.65 and are used for checking halftone rendition of cameras. Due to the white surrounding area the results may, however, be qualified.
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In the middle of the test chart and on the left and right sides there are four squares with multi bursts that are inclined at angles of 0°, 45°, 90°and 135 °generate a different frequency (141.4 cph) in horizontal and vertical direction (due to their inclination). The inner white and the four outer circles enable a rough appraisal of the scan linearity. The outer ones show cross-shaped resolution wedges. The circular rings, which can also be used for checking geometry, are designed for marking the resolution in vertical and horizontal direction. Resolution is shown at 200, 300, 400, 600 and 800 cph.
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The campaign for the House District 52 seat has been congenial to date —- and that's the way both contenders want it to stay.
"This has been a very positive issue-oriented campaign and that's the way it should be, people don't want bickering they want results," said Rep. Patti Smith, R-Corbett.
Her Democratic rival, Larry Cramblett of Cascade Locks, agrees.
"It's been comfortable because, basically, we're just staying with the issues," said Cramblett.
That doesn't mean the two candidates share the same views for fixing the state's economic woes. Smith believes that her two years of experience will most benefit citizens because she has already navigated the steep learning curve. Cramblett contends that he can bring a fresh perspective to the complexities of managing state government.
"The experience I have gained by serving in a regular session and five special sessions will serve our district well," Smith, 55, said.
"We need to open up our eyes, open our thoughts to take a look at our priorities and come up with some new ideas," said Cramblett, 51.
Both Cramblett and Smith are drawing from the troubled Public Employees Retirement System, but Smith is boldly proposing that all legislators forfeit that funding and bring labor representatives and the governor to the table to find a solution to the growing problem. Cramblett is distrustful that the advertised $8.4 billion deficit in the program is accurately calculated and wants to investigate the issue further before recommending any changes.
"If we fix it right we do the right thing by everyone — taxpayers and retirees," said Smith.
No matter how troubled PERS is, Cramblett, a retired school teacher, thinks immediate action needs to be taken to secure school funding by removing education revenue from the general fund and placing it into a dedicated account. He is willing to consider a sales tax if necessary to accomplish that goal, although he wants to form a panel of experts to review how to best spend school dollars.
"We need to make kids the first priority and look at the overall tax package," he said.
Smith wants to hold the line on taxes in a troubled economy but agrees with Cramblett that both children and senior citizens need to be spared from budget cuts. She said the best methodology for stabilizing programs for these populations is to revitalize the state's private business base.
"We must protect our schools and we can do that by stimulating our economy with more family wage jobs," said Smith, who serves on the House Task Force on Jobs and Economy.
Cramblett also supports state action to attract new industries and businesses, but wants to focus on "environmentally friendly" firms that protect Oregon's high quality of life.
"I would like to be able to evaluate what we have and decide what Oregonians want," said Cramblett, who wants to have a liaison in place that will help entrepreneurs through the regulatory system.
Smith wants to cut the bureaucratic burden that is making ownership of smaller businesses more costly and difficult to manage but Cramblett is hesitant to lift regulations that he believes have protected the scenic beauty of the state.
"We still want to to keep that pristine look that has made Oregon special," said Cramblett.
The two candidates are joined in their support of the agriculture industry and both want to promote "Buy Oregon" labeling on fruits and vegetables and use of homegrown fruits and vegetables by public institutions. They also strongly applaud the expansion of "value added" product lines.
"Our agriculture economy is vital to this district so that makes it a priority for me," said Smith.
They also agree that the state government's spending habits need to be curbed and operations streamlined to prevent the duplication of services and an undue burden being placed on taxpayers.
"I've learned in the past two years that there are a lot more complex issues involved in state government than anyone can imagine so it takes a lot of listening and willingness to work through the issues," said Smith.
She said a good example of that leadership was the outcome of last week's Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act hearings. According to Smith, who co-chaired the Oregon legislative oversight panel, the 16-hour discussion appears to have a pro-active result. She said the Gorge Commission is now working with legislators to iron out many of the problems that have plagued the Mid-Columbia since the NSA became law in 1986. That is especially important, said Smith, since the four Gorge counties with the largest Scenic Area holdings have the highest unemployment rates in their respective states.
"I think by solving the economic development problem in the Gorge we will eliminate a lot of the really contentious issues," said Smith, who wants to work closely Oregon federal legislators Rep. Greg Walden, Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Gorden Smith toward that goal.
Improving the state's transportation system to attract more commerce also heads Smith's "to do" list and she plans to seek a role on the House Transportation Committee if re-elected to help solve growing pains on Interstate 84, Highway 26 and the Historic Columbia River Highway.
"We are in a difficult recession, there are difficult decisions to make and I am confident that, under new leadership, we will be able to make them," she said.
Cramblett said he hasn't yet developed any hard ideas about Oregon's future but has spent the past six years traveling to Salem to lobby issues on behalf of Cascade Locks and children. He believes the state's current budget woes can be overcome if legislators are willing to sit down in a bi-partisan effort to prioritize programs and cut unnecessary expenditures.
"I think Oregon can be very prosperous, I think we need to be incorporate new ideas from other states and be open to new ideas," said Cramblett.
He referred to the state as a "house" and said children should be considered the foundation and senior citizens the roof — which is in danger of falling in because of the high cost of health care and prescription drugs. Cramblett wants to take a strong role in reforming the total "medical package" to make it more affordable, especially to the elderly who are on fixed incomes.
"It is a tough time to be in Salem and some major decisions are going to have to be made for Oregon and we're going to have to make some tough calls," he said.
Smith and Cramblett grew up in the Gorge and have been actively involved in their respective communities. She and husband, Leroy, have five grown children. He and wife, Bettie, have three adult children.
"You don't do this job for the money ($1,287 monthly), you do it for your communities and the opportunity to represent them well," Smith said.
Cramblett agrees.
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Iron Man 2 cast steps out for world premiere
On Monday, Hollywood played host the world premiere for what is arguably this year's hottest blockbuster, Iron Man 2. The film, which releases to theaters on May 7th, was directed by Jon Favreau and features the return of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts. The sequel also adds Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson to an already amazing cast.
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Computing Sciences Students conduct Service Learning with Community Organizations
Dr. Mehruz Kamal teaches a service learning-based course in the Computing Sciences department. Through this course, Computer Information Systems students work with local non-profits and micro-enterprises by assisting them with their technology needs. They meet with the clients every week to provide technology/training interventions. Throughout the fieldwork, students continue to meet in class to report on the progress and relate their fieldwork activities to the theory/lessons being discussed/learned in the classroom.
This fall, CIS students worked with the following community entities:
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Justin Moore Despises 'American Idol'
Country singer Justin Moore cops to watching plenty of NASCAR and ESPN, as well as hunting and fishing shows while camped out on his tour bus when on the road. One show you won't catch him glued in front of the tube for is 'American Idol.' No, he is not a Scotty McCreery or Carrie Underwood hater, as both those genre superstars got their start on the show, which was incredibly friendly to country music last season. He just isn't feeling reality TV as a whole.
"I despise 'American Idol'," he told US 99.5 radio. "It has nothing to do with anybody that's on the show, or was. I just can't stand the show in general."
When the show's host spoke about watching 'The Bachelor,' Moore let out an "Ugh." It sure sounds like Moore isn't a fan of ratings grab reality TV. He finished, "It doesn't matter what it is. 'American Idol,' 'The Bachelor,' or any of it. I just don't like any of them."
Well, that's not exactly 100 percent true, we'd learn. Moore clarified his statements about reality TV and admitted that he does watch 'Celebrity Apprentice,' which features celebs competing for their charities of choice. "That to me is different than 'The Bachelor.' But I can't imagine being a Kardashian or something," he explained.
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New York, N.Y. – After earning six league championships in 2013-14, Farmingdale State has won its second consecutive Skyline Conference Presidents Cup, a measure of all-sports excellence in conference competition. The Skyline Conference instituted the Presidents Cup in 2007-08.
Farmingdale State amassed 92.75 out of a possible 118 points for an overall rating of .786, while Mount Saint Mary finished second with a rating of .721. It marks the Rams' third Presidents Cup in four seasons.
FSC claimed league crowns in baseball, golf, softball, women's soccer, women's lacrosse and women's tennis. The Rams also advanced to the finals of the men's soccer championship and took home regular season crowns in women's basketball, women's lacrosse and women's tennis.
Mount Saint Mary finished runner-up for the second straight year after capturing Skyline Championships in men's soccer and women's swimming and placing runner-up in both men's tennis and women's cross country. St. Joseph's-L.I. claimed league championships in men's cross country, women's volleyball and women's cross country to place third overall for the second consecutive season.
The Sage Colleges (.661) finished fourth overall, followed by Purchase (.581), Mount Saint Vincent (.483), Yeshiva (.401), Maritime (.392), Old Westbury (.390) and NYU-Poly (.236). Mount Saint Vincent (sixth) and Yeshiva (seventh) each achieved its highest finish in the seven-year history of the Presidents Cup.
A school earns points toward the Presidents Cup based upon the conference finish in each sport in which it competes. For each sport, the maximum number of points an institution can earn is equal to the number of teams competing in that sport. For sports with regular-season and conference tournament play, a school receives points based upon an average of the regular-season and conference tournament finishes. For sports with only conference championships, the finish in the championship determines the Presidents Cup points. An overall rating is generated for each school which is a percentage of total points earned divided by total points possible for that school.
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Farmingdale State - 92.75 - 118 (.786)
Mount Saint Mary - 93.00 - 129 (.721)
St. Joseph's-L.I. - 77.75 - 117 (.665)
The Sage Colleges - 72.75 - 110 (.661)
Purchase - 75.50 - 130 (.581)
Mount Saint Vincent - 56.50 - 117 (.483)
Yeshiva - 34.50 - 86 (.401)
Maritime - 36.50 - 93 (.392)
Old Westbury - 42.50 - 109 (.390)
NYU-Poly - 21.00 - 89 (.236)
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Carlos Hyde ran for 246 yards and four touchdowns and Braxton Miller had another 184 yards rushing and two scores Saturday to push No. 3 Ohio State past Illinois 60-35.
But even with Hyde's offensive explosion, the Buckeyes (10-0, 6-0 Big Ten) needed a third-quarter defensive stop and safety to secure the win.
After trailing 28-0 in the second quarter, Illinois (3-7, 0-6) closed to 35-21 in the third on two Nathan Scheelhaase touchdown passes.
Illinois had the momentum when the Buckeyes' Ryan Shazier sacked backup quarterback Reilly O'Toole in the end zone. Illinois recovered his fumble but the safety gave the Buckeyes a 37-21 edge and the ball. Minutes later, a Hyde touchdown put them up 44-21.
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Lump or Jumbo Lump Blue Crab
Bread Crumbs
Dijon Mustard
Old Bay Seasoning
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They can be either broiled, pan fried, or deep fried.
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Chateau de la Chauvinieire's 2005 Granit de Chateau-Thebaud
Where would less than $20 buy you a bottle of wine, that took over 4 years to make? It's doubtful California would provide you with such a deal… But the Northwestern part of the Loire Valley in France, where Muscadet, also known as Melon de Borgogne, is grown and made, has provided us with Chateau de la Chauvinieire's 2005 Granit de Chateau-Thebaud. The terroir here is truly unique. Its granite base called "Granit de Château-Thébaud", occurs in one very localised area (4%) in the Muscadet vineyard. These granite terroirs, which are extensively weathered, guarantee both an excellent natural drainage and a perfect rooting environment for the vines. Because this area is so far North, farmers began planting Muscadet. This varietal is less prone to frost damage. The region is planted with mostly Muscadet, much of which is made into mediocre wine. However the 2005 Chauviniere is unique. Firstly, the vines of this hectare are 45 year old on average, some are over 90 year old.
Another unusual characteristic of the Granit de Chateau-Thebaud is that it's matured "sur lie fine" for 4 years in underground tanks. This technique is more commonly found in the process of making Champagne, but is not typical, certainly for this length of time for most still wine. Normally, when wine is transferred from the barrel it's aged in the "sur lie", or residual yeast and other particles that fall to the bottom, are left behind. In this special case, the "sur lie" sits with the wine for 4 years, and as the yeast cells, skin, seeds and other grape solids break down, they release amino acids and proteins. This process contributes to a toasty, yeasty character that can add creaminess, texture and mouthfeel to the wine.
This practice in the Loire is only about 100 years old. It's been speculated that wine makers would set barrels aside for special occasions, but then discovered that after a year or so, the wines had more texture and aroma.
If lush, tropical, buttery fruity wine is what you drink, Muscadet may not be the wine for you. But if your palate pleaser is refreshing, green apple and melon, with a more luscious mouthfeel, and a bright minerally finish, this 2005 will hit the jackpot. It paired magnificently with our crab cakes and would also work with any shellfish, cheese plate or lighter fare. The wine is extremely limited, but available at Joy Wine and Spirits, 1302 E. 6th Avenue.


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Dan Merica of CNN posted an article recently about how Christmastime brings to light divisions within the atheist movement about how to deal with religion. Hemant Mehta beat me to this article and has already responded and I agree with much of what he says in his post. But the CNN post came on the heels of another article that I ran across from Psychology Today about atheist discrimination. I feel that the many topics brought to light in these articles are tied together and I have found it difficult to agree with any of the people, atheist or theist, who have chosen to speak on atheism as it relates to yuletide religiosity this year.
When I first read Dan Merica's post, I was slightly amused. Though he doesn't use this terminology, what he is really writing about is the ever-famous confrontation vs accommodation debate that has actually been going on in the atheist community for a years. Merica's post cites the words of two atheist activists, David Silverman and and Greg Epstein. These two are known for their seemingly diametrically opposed views on how religion should be addressed. Silverman has a very forward, in-your-face style of criticizing religion, especially religion in the public square. Epstein, Harvard's Humanist chaplain, believes that religion itself doesn't need to be opposed, as believers and non-believers can peacefully work together. I have my sympathies and concerns about both of these views. Where my real criticism lies in in the confrontation vs accommodation debate itself. I do not deny that a debate exists. I understand that one can get judged very harshly for choosing one side or the other in different spheres of the atheist community. As with most dichotomies, however, confrontation vs accommodation is a false one.
I could easily write an entire post about this single point, but I will try to sum up my objections in the context of the "war on Christmas" issue. David Silverman and American Atheists make some good points in their rhetoric. Religion has long dominated the national conversation and has taken for granted its ability to trample over unbelievers. This is a problem that should certainly be addressed. The problem is that going on Fox News and arguing with Bill O'Reilly about nativity scenes doesn't do much to solve the problem. Putting obnoxious billboards up doesn't help either; it makes us look like jerks. Silverman has argued that putting signs up helps nonbelievers realize that they're not alone and that it's ok for them to come out and be proud. The problem is that the level of confrontational and poorly thought out vitriol that we see from American Atheists is not necessary for this aim. The Center for Inquiry put up billboards that simply said "you don't need God..." speaking directly to the nonbeliever and directing them to a website. While these billboards still resulted in controversy, it was clear that their intention was to show compassion for the atheists rather than to give the finger to the religious.
All of that being said, I am equally disillusioned with the accommodation "why can't we all get along?" camp. Greg Epstein mentions in the article some charity work that his group participated in with religious groups for the holidays. Such collaboration is all well and good and I have, with my own SSA group, worked with religious groups on events. The problem with noting the ability of the nonreligious and the religious to get along is that it misses the point entirely. Men can work with women, white people can work with black people, etc. This does not mean that one of each of those pairings is not underprivileged. I brought up the Psychology Today article about atheist discrimination for exactly this reason. We live in a society where it is perfectly acceptable (or at least, not negligible) for Mike Huckabee to twice blame the godless in our country for the horrendous tragedy in Connecticut. When someone blames homosexuals for disasters, sensible citizens shake their heads and condemn the accuser for being discriminatory. How often do unfair blanket accusations against atheists illicit the same reaction? The US is far from the worst country to disbelieve, but it certainly is no paradise for us. Ignoring this fact and devoting our time to accommodation and coexistence doesn't make the situation better.
Allow me to speak in blunt terms: the "war on christmas" is hogwash. It's a made up conflict hyped by the likes of Fox News and helped along by atheists who feel the need to argue directly with the clowns on that network. We should not be using it as a jumping off point for drudging up the old aggression vs accommodation argument. We really need to move beyond that debate. As I see it, both sides are wrong. We all need to sit back, eat a holiday cookie and decide what actions we're going to take to really help strengthen the community of Atheists and secularists in the coming year.
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Nov. 28, 2007
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Jon Curry scored in the 10th minute and that was all 7th-ranked UC Santa Barbara needed to defeat visiting Washington 1-0 in an NCAA Tournament Second Round match Wednesday night in front of 9,641 fans at Harder Stadium.
With the win, the 12th-seeded Gauchos improved to 13-3-4 overall this season and advance to the Sweet 16, where fifth-seeded Ohio State awaits after defeating Louisville 1-0 earlier in the day. UCSB will travel to Columbus to face the Big Ten Champions on Sunday afternoon. Kickoff is slated for 1:00 p.m.
The defending national champions have now won seven consecutive NCAA Tournament games dating back to last season and have won seven of their last eight overall in 2007.
The Huskies season came to a close with a final overall record 9-8-4.
It didn't take long for UCSB to get on the board, scoring the matches' only goal on the Gauchos' first shot just 9:58 in. After a Ciaran O'Brien corner kick from the left side was cleared out, it landed right at Curry's feet just outside the box on the same side. All alone with the ball, the sophomore midfielder sent a curling shot up over Huskie goalkeeper Stephen Fung's head and into the top right corner for what proved to be the game-winner with over 80 minutes still to play.
It was Curry's second goal of the season and first since he scored Santa Barbara's third goal in a 4-0 win at UC Davis September 29.
"I was surprised to have the time I did to get a shot off like that," Curry said. "But I knew I placed it well and, unless their keeper made a really great save, I felt like it was going in. Fortunately for us, it did."
Washington had a couple quality chances to equalize in the first half, but freshman goalkeeper Bryant Rueckner rose to the occasion in his first-career NCAA Tournament match. Freshman forward Ellis McLoughlin got in front of the Gaucho defense in the 14th minute, but Rueckner was there to make the save on his header.
The Huskies had perhaps their best opportunity of the night in the 39th minute after senior defender Andy Iro was whistled for a yellow card just outside the box. Junior midfielder Raphael Cox lined up for the free kick and fired one towards the far post, but Ruecker read it all the way and made the diving stop.
Both teams recorded six shots in the first half, but it was the Gauchos that had the lead at the break.
Trailing 1-0, Washington was the more aggressive side after intermission and controlled possession for much of the second half. The Gaucho backline came to Rueckner's aid, clearing balls out of the box when Huskie forward Ely Allen got a shot off on a corner kick and then denying McLoughlin on a nice give-and-go play. Rueckner then erased a floating shot from Cox from about 25 yards out and UCSB held on for the narrow victory.
"Our offensive has gotten most of the headlines all season, but tonight it was the defense that really stepped up and got it done," head coach Tim Vom Steeg said. "I thought we put together a defensive plan that was effective against a very, very good Washington team and that's what it takes to win a close one like this in the postseason."
Despite getting outshot 13-7, the Gauchos will move on after recording their sixth shutout of the season. Rueckner finished with six saves, which ties his career-high.
Fung did not record a save for the Huskies in the defeat.
Offensively, Curry and junior midfielder Eric Avila led the team with two shots, while O'Brien, Tino Nuñez, and Alfonso Motagalvan had one apiece. Curry's goal was UCSB's only shot on frame in the match.
After the final total of 9,641 came down, Wednesday's attendance was the highest for a single game anywhere in the nation this season. In fact, Harder Stadium has now been the site of the top two men's soccer crowds this season, with the other coming after 8,102 turned out for Santa Barbara's 3-1 win over Central Coast rival Cal Poly November 3.
"The crowd has been amazing all season and it definitely was a factor for us tonight," Iro said. "Anytime you see that many people coming out, it gives you that extra push, that 12th man on the field."


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Facebook steals your password?
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Is filing taxes online safe?
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