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The remarkable life of a man nicknamed Pi played out in Western New York years before there ever was a movie or book of the same name. He is largely forgotten now, obscured by time and overrun by events, but Pius Louis "Pi" Schwert had a life worth remembering in the widely disparate worlds of sports and politics.
That dichotomy can be summed up in the kind of trivia question beloved by baseball fans:
Who was the only New York Yankee player ever to go on to a career as a U.S. congressman?
The answer is Schwert, an Angola native and backup catcher for the Yankees who debuted at the same time as a young Boston Red Sox pitcher named Babe Ruth. Schwert went on to become a highly popular Erie County clerk and played a prominent role in local amateur athletics for decades, before he was elected as a U.S. representative from Western New York.
He collapsed and died at a wedding dinner near Washington, D.C., on the eve of World War II, at a time when he was considering a run for mayor of Buffalo.
Pi Schwert, despite his organizing and sportsman's roles in amateur baseball and basketball here, his two seasons with the newly renamed Yankees and his exploits as an early collegiate All-American, isn't even in the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame or the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame. Neither the Yankees nor the National Baseball Hall of Fame have much more than basic information on him.
There's probably a good reason why he has been overlooked – he only played in 12 games for the Yankees of 1914 and 1915, had 24 at-bats and logged a respectable but unspectacular batting average of .208. He did play for the Buffalo Bisons from 1920 to 1922, but that was in a sort of emergency role that he had to work in around his new career as a banker.
Still, Schwert had a remarkable life, especially for his times. He was born on Nov. 22, 1892, in Angola, the son of Julius and Louisse Schwert and the grandson of a German immigrant who had been a saloon keeper in Hamburg in the 1870s and a hotelier in Brant in the 1880s. Julius was a banker and businessman who served as the Evans town treasurer and clerk, and as town supervisor for 17 years.
Julius and Louisse sent their son to Angola High School, and later to "post graduate" high school classes at Lafayette High School in Buffalo. All that study was good enough to earn young Pius admission to the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton School of Commerce in Philadelphia, where – unlike the rest of the hard men from the coal fields and farms who made up most of professional baseball at the time – he emerged with a degree in economics in 1914.
An early All-American
At Penn, Pi was an impressive student. He became president of the Wharton Association, and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Friars Society, Scalp and Blade Society and the Christian Association.
He also emerged, though, as a baseball player. He was a member of the freshman class baseball team in 1911, then spent the next three years as the starting catcher for the varsity squad. By his senior year he was captain of the team and was picked for the All-American college team.
Julius probably wasn't all that happy, but his son Pi still had some baseball oats to sow. Instead of using that economics degree in his father's trade of banking, which was certainly as open to him then as it would be later on, Pi signed on with the New York Yankees – who, until just a year earlier in 1913, had been the New York Highlanders. He was assigned no uniform number; players didn't wear numbers at the time. One of the few photos from his baseball career shows him lined up with three other Yankees, inexplicably wearing a white home uniform while the rest are in road-game grays.
Another photo shows Schwert catching in practice while American League base-stealing champ Fritz "The Catonsville Flash" Maisel is at the plate. Forget batting helmets – the Yankee third baseman isn't even wearing a cap, in this shot.
Schwert didn't have to go far to sign with the Yankees. They were in Philadelphia when he joined the club managed by Hall of Famer Frank Chance. A Pittsburgh Press sportswriter of the time, following the then-common practice of naming teams by the leagues they played in, picked up on the news that July:
"Catcher Pius Schwert, of Buffalo, who captained the University of Pennsylvania baseball team during the spring, has signed with the New York Americans and came here from Philadelphia with the team last night. He has signed a one year contract.
"Schwert and Coach Roy Thomas had a conference with Chance in Philadelphia a few days ago and the New York manager accepted the collegian's terms. Schwert went to Shibe Park yesterday and was togged out in a New York uniform. He did not get in the practice, as it was late when he reached the grounds.
"Schwert is called one of the best catchers Penn ever had and was regarded as one of the best receivers in college ranks this year. He is a tall lad with a good arm and is a fair hitter. His throwing to bases all season was a feature of every Penn game.
"Scout Billy Murray, of the Pittsburg Nationals, looked Schwert over twice at Franklin Field, but the Pirates picked up catcher Rodgers, of Michigan, instead, when it was understood that Schwert would not play professional ball. But Chance's offer looked good to him and he accepted. Schwert was graduated from Penn a few weeks ago."
Not that Pi saw much action that month. The right-hander's actual debut came in August, because of a union rule, as Yankee historians Ray Istorico and Marty Appel have noted: "It was after 6 o'clock then and, as Walking Delegate Ed Sweeney of the Player's Fraternity objects to working other than union hours, Chance gave a young catcher named Pius Schwert a chance to catch."
1914 and 1915
Schwert got into three games with the 1914 Yankees, as a replacement or to work with a specific pitcher. He went 0 for 6, with two walks and three strikeouts. He wasn't exactly setting the league on fire.
The next year he played in nine games, going 5 for 18 (.278) with six runs, six RBIs, three doubles, one walk and six strikeouts.
Schwert's major league career stats are a matter of record, but the box scores of his games are not. There are historical gaps in 1914 and 1915, in that department, for all of baseball. Finding those invaluable game summaries, once devoured by baseball fans in the era before radio and TV, requires knowing the dates of the games and poring through old newspapers.
There are, for example, no box scores found to date that would indicate Schwert batted against Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth; he probably did not. One quaint Philadelphia Record game account does give a glimpse of a typical Schwert outing, against Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, which included all-time superstar Nap LaJoie:
"Showing signs of despondency, Keating pitched to McInnis. … Barry hurt his hand sliding into second on Saturday, so they loaned his uniform to Conway, the Victrix third baseman who was stationed at the Baker corner. The uniform almost fitted, a couple more inches here and there and it would have been big enough. Kopf was shifted to his natural position, shortstop, and the combination worked very well except that Malone had three errors."
The starting pitchers were quickly driven from the game, which the Yankees eventually lost 12-7. In the third inning, "Cy Pieh and Pi Schwert, this new battery, met with a warm reception. Conway singled and Malone tripled. Kopf's out scored Malone. Then Pieh settled down. … Singles by Cree, Bauman, Schwert, High and Peckinpaugh in the fourth netted three runs."
In one early game, Schwert would recall, he got to play when an irate umpire threw the starting Yankees catcher out of the game. When he got to the plate, the ump recognized him as the collegiate who had gotten into a hot argument with him when he was still with Penn. "You again," the ump snarled, and then told the batter – LaJoie – not to take the pitch to see if the new kid could throw out a base-stealer trying for second. But LaJoie swung, lofting a pop-up that Schwert easily handled.
In another game, he watched the starting catcher block one of Ty Cobb's feared spikes-up slides into home plate, and then got an earful of instruction from the other catcher on the bench on just how to do that without getting maimed.
Schwert spent part of the 1915 season in the minors, catching 31 games and hitting .214 with one home run. One of his Skeeters teammates, the legendary Jim Thorpe, would be called up to the New York Giants by the end of that season; Schwert also would catch a game against the Bisons in Jersey City that September. Schwert realized there was too much catching talent on the Yankees to break through there, and his father wanted him to use that degree. He would return to Angola in 1916 and open a general store, but also played for the Newark Indians in 1916 and the Mobile Sea Gulls in 1917.
Next, the Navy
And then life, in the form of World War I, intervened. Schwert joined the Navy as a yeoman at the Bremerton, Wash., naval yard and later was commissioned as an ensign and assigned to the Philadelphia Naval Yard – where, of course, he played on both the Naval Yard and the Fourth Naval District teams.
He returned to his general store after the war, then became a bank clerk and vice president and by 1921, three years before his father's death, president of the Bank of Angola.
But the lure of baseball still was strong. Toward the end of the 1920 season, three Buffalo Bisons catchers were laid up with injuries and Schwert – then playing for the Semi-Pro League Buffalo Nationals – was called on to catch the last 20 games: "Manager Wiltse, of Buffalo, picked up a semi-pro catcher named Schwert to help out. In the second game of the double-header against Jersey City recently he hit a home run with the bases full," the Reading (Pa.) Eagle reported.
The 1921 season got even more complex. Schwert stayed with the Bisons part-time, playing only 29 games and hitting .262 with two doubles and a triple. The reason? According to The Buffalo Express, "Pi Schwert, the former Yankee player, who lives in Angola, is unable to go on the road for business reasons, but he sends a letter, stating he will gladly fill in at backstop if we need him when the Bisons are home. He is big league material and will be welcome when needed. Schwert helped us out in a bad pinch last (season), the fans remember."
The North Tonawanda Evening News noted that Schwert had deserted his business to play the end of the 1920 season with the Bisons.
"Pi, although often describing himself as through with baseball, has a strong liking for the game and now indicates he may at some not far distant date retire from business and devote all his time to the game. However the present arrangement calls for him to play with the Bisons at home only. It is probable that he will be available nearly all the time in the heat of the pennant campaign," the writer noted.
"Schwert was on his way to a big league career a few years ago when he was taken by the Yankees, only to decide to renounce the game in favor of business. He played phenomenal ball upon returning for his brief stay last season, staging a hitting spree which has seldom been equaled in the league. He socked the ball for an average of .456 and among his sensational feats was a mighty home run over the left field wall with the bases loaded and four runs needed to tie the score. Schwert is a most welcome addition to the club not only for his rare baseball playing ability but also a remarkable personality, which makes for harmony on a ball club."
Changing direction
Things were not so rosy in 1922, though. Schwert was projected as the team's starting catcher, but two younger men were impressive in spring training and the strain of juggling business and baseball proved unworkable. He was released.
While working as a bank president from 1921 to 1931, though, Schwert still got in a lot of sports. He headed a strong Angola amateur team that also featured two other former Bisons. Through the years, he would lead the Angola Bear Cats, the Angola All Stars, the Angola Horseshoes and the Evans A.A. team of The Buffalo Evening News Suburban League, and would become president of the newly formed Western New York League in 1929.
The 5-foot-10-inch 160-pounder also captained the Angola Giants team in the American Legion basketball league in the 1920s, and also in 1929 was elected president of the newly organized Southern Basketball League of The Buffalo Evening News division of the New York State Newspapers Athletic Association. He would help Buffalo News sportswriter Bob Stedler organize the Evening News Suburban Softball League and Western New York Basketball Federation, serving on its first board.
And through the years, he would share a dais or two at dinners featuring such storied former ballplayers as Honus Wagner, "Marse Joe" McCarthy and Rabbit Maranville.
By 1931, he was working as manager of the Masonic Service Bureau, a job placement agency during Depression unemployment. Despite working for the Masons and being a Protestant in an era when that mattered to most Catholics (he was baptized in Farnham's Holy Cross Lutheran Church on Christmas Day in 1892), he also organized annual Shrine-Knights of Columbus baseball games for several years – a job perhaps made easier by the fact that his wife, Hattie, belonged to the Rosary & Altar Society at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church in Angola.
The political years
In 1933, Schwert decided to run for public office. A Democrat, he was elected as Erie County Clerk that year and re-elected in 1936, also serving on the President's Review Board for veterans' compensation claims – and, of course, continuing his amateur baseball career.
In 1938, he won an election by 3,000 votes to replace James M. Mead in the House of Representatives (Mead had been elected to the Senate, the last Western New Yorker ever elected to that body). Instead of following the returns on the radio, Schwert had gone to visit former Bisons General Manager John C. Stiglmeier in the hospital. When informed, he said he was surprised because there were three candidates running against him: "They got two strikes on me, but I knocked the next pitch over the fence."
Schwert was re-elected in 1940, having compiled a strong record on national defense (although he was against sending American troops to any war), for resource conservation and against stream pollution, and opposition to cuts for the poor. He opposed the St. Lawrence Seaway, championed vocational training and welfare programs for youth including physical education in schools (denying that was a "Hitlerizing" plan), and sought boat harbors for the Southtowns. He had a slew of endorsements, from the American Legion to organized labor.
On March 11, 1941, Pi Schwert was asked to make a few remarks at an Annapolis Hotel dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bennett of Angola, who had married two weeks earlier. He knew them well, serving on the House Postal Committee while Bennett was head of the Railway Mail Association. Schwert spoke briefly, "in a light vein," but when he returned to his seat he collapsed into the arms of his friend, Sen. Mead. He was pronounced dead by an ambulance surgeon. He was just 48.
The Meads and the Schwerts had planned a Florida vacation the next day, and when Schwert had been interviewed following the passage of the Lend-Lease Bill a few hours earlier he seemed healthy and in "a happy frame of mind." Buffalo Mayor Thomas L. Holling was due in Washington soon to see if Schwert would accept his party's 1941 nomination for mayor, but Mead had been planning to advise him against it because of a heart attack he had suffered a year earlier while they were exercising in the House gym.
Schwert had been a quiet and conscientious congressman, missing only seven roll call votes, including those taken during his hospitalization. Shock at his death was widespread. He was buried in Angola's Forest Avenue cemetery. Hattie would join him there in 1967, after dying in her Lake Shore Road home.
Schwert had been a volunteer fireman and president of his town department and the Southwestern Volunteer Firemen's Association, an officer on the American Legion's county committee for years, a member of the Eagles, Moose, Lions, Odd Fellows, Buffalo Advertising Club, Buffalo Automobile Club, Orpheus, the Cazenovia and Erie Downs Golf Clubs, the Boreal Club, the Blackthorn Club and Big Brothers. Once described as a "champion joiner," he had been the first vice president of the New York State County Clerks Association in 1938, and an active Mason and Zuleika Grotto monarch in 1939. He was inducted into the Seneca Nation as an honorary member.
Hattie was no slouch herself. A teacher in Eden and Buffalo before her marriage, she was a member of the first graduating class of Mount Mercy Academy in 1907, graduated from Buffalo State Normal School, and was a member of the Board of Visitors and Nurses Advisory Council of Gowanda State Hospital.
A past president of American Legion Auxiliary Newcomb Long Post 928, where her husband had been the first commander, she was active in Girl Scout work in Angola and organized the troop there, and was a Girl Scout district leader for several years. She was a member of the "76" Club of Congressional wives while in Washington, assisted Red Cross fund campaigns in Buffalo in the 1940s – and ran unsuccessfully for Congress after her husband's death, becoming the first woman in Erie County history to be nominated for Congress by a major party.
The Schwerts had no children, and their legacy has faded. But for a successful businessman and congressman who never lost his love for the sport – and who was manager of one team that included Hall of Famer Jimmy Collins in the 1939 Old Timers Game at Buffalo's Offermann Stadium – there may be a little tribute lodged somewhere in the job another Democratic mayor did to deliver a fine new baseball stadium to Buffalo.
The statue outside that stadium may feature Jimmy Griffin rearing back to throw the first pitch – but somewhere there may well be an old Yankees catcher with a big smile. At least, one can hope.
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If, as expected, James Franklin is indeed the next head coach ...
What a great testament it is to the allure of Penn State University and the remarkable resiliency of the football program that they can attract arguably the best available college coaching candidate in the country.
This is a home run of a hire, or at least appears to be now. We'll see how Franklin fares, but when you can win at a perennial doormat like Vanderbilt, there's no reason to believe he won't be successful with the Nittany Lions.
No one needs to be reminded of how bad things were for the PSU program two years ago, and then even worse when the NCAA sanctions were levied in July of 2012.
Things aren't nearly as bad now -- thanks to Bill O'Brien's tremendous work -- but there are still several legitimate issues that could have scared away top prospective coaches.
The program is still dealing with severe sanctions. The school also has a lame-duck president in Rodney Erickson and lame-duck athletic director in Dave Joyner, so the next coach won't even know who his bosses are for several months.
O'Brien's explosive comments about the "Paterno people" while he had one foot out the door also could be construed as an obstacle the next coach will have to deal with.
Despite all of that, if Franklin is hired, Penn State will have landed its top choice and the best fit for the program.
NFL teams were interested in this guy.
He was mentioned as a possibility at Texas, which many people believe is the best college job in the country.
Yet he's coming to a program that's still dealing with severe scholarship reductions, that still can't go to a bowl game for two years (maybe less) and will have big question marks on the field next season because of key personnel losses.
Why would James Franklin, the toast of the college football coaching carousel, come to Penn State?
Only he knows all of the reasons, but obviously the terrific football facilities and tradition play a key role. A stadium that can seat 100,000-plus passionate fans can never be overlooked as a destination job, even with sanctions hanging over the program.
The bottom line has to be that Franklin believes he can have success -- a lot of success -- at Penn State.
He's a Pennsylvania native who grew up watching and rooting for Joe Paterno's teams, and the allure of coming back home and trying to get the program back to national prominence has to be appealing.
So, too, is the fact that he has a franchise quarterback to build around in Christian Hackenberg. When you have a good quarterback, you always have a chance, so Franklin probably figures he can win immediately.
That's the only concern: What if he wins immediately and performs so well that an NFL or other college team comes calling?
That's a very real possibility, and you'd think Penn State officials are putting provisions in the deal that protect the school in some way from a stability standpoint. At minimum, a hefty buyout should be in order.
But you know what, if Franklin leaves after two years like O'Brien did, Penn State can cross that bridge then. You can't go through life worrying about what might happen, and in this case, the benefit of getting the best coach available right now offered too good of a scenario for PSU to pass up.
I've felt all along that stability should be the biggest issue in the hire. One thing many sports columnists do is marry one opinion and refuse to consider the benefits of other possibilities, but I have spent the past few days talking to as many people as I could to get their thoughts on the stability versus the two-and-done possibility with Franklin.
The biggest takeaway I've heard from others is that, if Franklin has enough success over the next two years to land himself a better job, then Penn State will have been better off for having him around. Because at that point, the Penn State job would be an even better job and could attract possibly even more great candidates.
Two years from now, the sanctions will be in the rearview mirror. There will be a new president in place. There will be a new AD. Removing those factors alone would make it a more appealing job.
Still, the fact that it's appealing enough right now to land a hot coaching commodity such as James Franklin speaks volumes for how differently Penn State football is perceived nationally compared to two years ago.
A toxic job? Not anymore. Try top notch.
Cory Giger is the host of "Sports Central" from 4 to 6 p.m. daily on ESPN Radio 1430 WVAM. Reach him at 949-7031 or @CoryGiger on Twitter.

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Sucking, much like talent, is a complex thing with several different levels and degrees of severity. It comes in many forms and is often not as easy to spot as you might think. Rather than an all-encompassing "find a new job" kind of suck, many bands and musicians just have one fatal flaw that keeps them from being mentioned among the true music greats of the world.
If your favorite band or musician has never quite gotten the recognition you think they deserve, give this article a quick read. Maybe it will shed some light on what went wrong. Here are five subtle clues your favorite band secretly sucks.
#5. They Make Better T-Shirts than Albums
Here's a sentence I promise you will never hear anyone say with any seriousness: "Hey, remember all those great albums Lou Reed made?" Don't get me wrong, he's had his moments, especially if we're including the Velvet Underground in the equation. And if you're trying to sell anyone on the merits of Lou Reed as a musician, you damn well better be, otherwise there isn't much else to work with. We're talking about a guy whose best known solo album is the one that sounds terrible on purpose.
The working title was How to Tell Your Fans to Go Fuck Themselves.
That's not a good sign. Sure, he'll always have "Walk On the Wild Side" to hang his hat on, but with the possible exception of "Stairway to Heaven" I don't know if a more overplayed rock song exists. I'd honestly rather listen to it provide the soundtrack to this hilarious "very special episode" of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's career ...
... than the original version of the song. At least the Marky Mark version doesn't come with that obligatory moment of discomfort that's inherent to hearing a white person use the phrase "colored girls."
Now, taking Velvet Underground and that one song out of the discussion, what else has Lou Reed done? He's made 20 goddamn albums. Can you name ... three? I can't. Nevertheless, doesn't it seem like Lou Reed has always been around? He has, but it's not because he's made tons of great music, it's because he makes a great T-shirt:
I'd totally wear that shirt, by the way.
I should clarify, I don't mean Lou Reed actually makes shirts. I'm sure a Lou Reed shirt is stitched together on the dusty floor of a sweatshop in Southeast Asia like any other band or musician. It's just that some eras in music history have their iconic faces, and Lou Reed happens to be one of those faces. For people looking to align themselves with the Velvet Underground's bleak, nihilistic outlook on life without partaking in any actual nihilism (like overdosing on heroin, for example), the next obvious step is to throw on a Lou Reed T-shirt. You can tell me he's been such an enduring figure because of his music all you want, but I will never buy it (just like his music).
Tupac is another good example. He's arguably the most influential rapper of all-time, but how much of it has to do with his actual music?
And how much credit goes to the abs?
You can cover the "essential listening" section of Tupac Shakur's catalog on one album. You might even have room to spare. If his singles were some of the greatest in rap history, it only worsened the fact that the albums they teased were generally mediocre at best. There's something to be said for dying at the right time, though, and when Tupac was tragically shot and killed, he was at the height of his "Thug Life" proselytizing. And damn if "Thug Life" isn't a fun life to claim you lead. If that's the life you've chosen, Tupac is your Jesus. That's why he'll live forever in the annals of history. It has little to nothing to do with his actual songs. Sorry if it hurts to hear that, suburban white teens.
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"You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife!"
Because I'm not going to let myself get out of this entry with a single friend left, I should also add Henry Rollins' name to this argument.
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Seen here raging against the machine, fifth from the left.
Talk all the shit you want about teen pop stars, but if you're looking for a fine example of a career built mostly on personality and attitude as opposed to good music, look no further. He's been coasting on the "success" of having inaudibly screamed his way through a couple of decent-ish Black Flag albums for decades, and now people revere him like some kind of punk rock Abe Lincoln.
What all three of these musicians have in common is that listening to their music (or at least pretending to) is more of an endorsement of a frame of mind or set of beliefs than the quality of their work. They aren't extraordinarily talented artists; they're Che Guevara T-shirts with record deals.
#4. They're Just 'Technically' Good
I have this theory. It goes something like this: Starting a conversation with "I have this theory" is a great way to make sure people immediately stop listening. Thanks for hanging on this long. If you were hoping for a theory that's relative to the topic at hand, try this: Every band is someone's favorite. I believe that. There wouldn't be so many terrible bands in business today if that wasn't the case.
So when I look at a list of, say, the best guitar players of all-time and see names like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, or Yngwie Malmsteen (a name I staunchly refuse to learn how to properly pronounce), I have no doubt that somewhere, someone is wondering why one those three names isn't the absolute biggest and most respected in the history of music. After all, these aren't just guitar players, these are the guitar players the guitar teachers of the world think about when using their calloused fingers to rub one out moments before you drop your kid off at Guitar Center.
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The rest of you probably couldn't even point each one out correctly by name from this lineup. I don't even think I can anymore, and I just tossed the picture together in Photoshop like six minutes ago.
I just know that's definitely Stephen King on the far right.
What's with the disparity? Easy. If music is a language, these are the guys who have a gigantic vocabulary and insist on using it every chance they get. They're the Dennis Miller in the Monday Night Football booth of music. Sure, hearing a virtuoso player shred on a solo constructed from an obscure guitar scale that was discovered just six months earlier etched into the side of a cave in the Balkan Mountains is a lot of fun ... but only once. And even then Ralph Macchio better be involved somehow.
It's not the kind of thing that's going to stick in your head for weeks afterward, though. Eventually, there needs to be a good song wrapped around all of those guitar heroics or everyone but the most staunch of purists will lose interest.
When that happens, it's not because the public doesn't appreciate technical proficiency, it's because that particular musician doesn't know how to make good songs, no matter how face-melting the solos may be.
#3. They Sell out Huge Venues but Don't Sell Records
If you were basing your judgment on nothing but concert attendance, it wouldn't be crazy to assume that Phish is one of the best bands in the world. Of course, anyone with four hours or more of space between them and their last magic mushroom trip knows that's not the case. Phish is a terrible band.
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Imagine I'm speaking as this guy for the first part of the next sentence.
"Well, it's not that they're a bad band, per se, it's just that what they do onstage doesn't really translate to the studio," some dirty hippie probably said just now. They're wrong, though, because if Phish (or the Grateful Dead before them) was a good band, they would find a way to make their shit work everywhere.
It's not impossible. Plenty of bands make great albums and also put on consistently great shows. Bruce Springsteen has been doing that for decades. If the only way you can pull a strong performance out of a band is to put them in front of thousands of adoring fans, it's not because they're awesome, it's because they're shitty songwriters who have to play minor variations of the same idea for minutes on end before it becomes even remotely listenable. Their only role in the music universe is to give the last few thousand people in the world who still do acid a relatively safe place to go when the planetarium is closed.
Homeless shelter for hippies.
Whether fans want to admit it or not, bands like Phish didn't build their vast live following by making good music. They did it by consistently throwing great drug parties.
There are some exceptions in this particular realm right now. Pearl Jam has built the same kind of live following, but they did it on the strength of years and years worth of memorable songs and albums. Even the Dave Matthews Band manages to pair incessant noodling onstage with relatively tight studio work on occasion.
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Even the blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
So let me ask you this: Is it fair to give someone like the Grateful Dead a pass as a "great" band even though all of their good albums are live albums and their studio stuff is mostly forgettable? Trick question, there are no good Grateful Dead albums. The live ones are the best, though, because, again, it's "hard to recreate what they do onstage within the confines of a studio, man."
Listen, I'm not saying people who make that claim about a band like Phish or Grateful Dead are incorrect. I'm just saying it means those bands are less talented than a lot of other bands.


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Serves 1 |
Prep Time 5 minutes |
Cook Time 10 minutes
1 piece any Eden Brown Rice Mochi, slice in half
1/2 sheet Eden Sushi Nori, cut in half
2 Tbsp finely grated daikon (Oriental white radish)or red radish
1 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
1 tsp water
Heat a cast iron or heavy stainless steel skillet over a high flame, add the mochi, reduce the flame to low or medium-low and cover the skillet. Let cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Flip the mochi over and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until the mochi puffs up. Remove from the skillet. Eat as is or wrap nori around each piece of mochi. Place the daikon, shoyu and water in a small dipping bowl and mix. Dip the mochi into the dip when eating.
Appetizer, Breakfast, Eastern, Japanese Food, Low Calorie, Low Fat, Macrobiotic, Main Course, No Sweetener Added, Sea Vegetables, Vegan, Whole Grain, Whole Grain


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LISBON - Several residents have complained the beeping sounds coming from the new traffic light signal boxes are interfering with their television viewing.
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One of the new traffic light signal boxes sits on the square in Lisbon.
The issue was raised last week by Councilman Jeff Snyder, who said several residents have complained about the audible beeping sound that goes off when the traffic light is about to change from green to red. The beeping is to assist visually impaired pedestrians in crossing the street, and it remains activated long enough to allow the pedestrian to cross the street until the light is about to change back to green.
The residents living near some of the intersections where the new signal boxes have been installed are complaining the beeping sound occurs all day and night and is so loud that it interferes with their TV viewing.
"I've had the same complaints in my office. They are saying it interrupts their TV," said police Chief Mike Abraham.
Abraham said there is a problem with the signal boxes located on corners at some of the intersections. The beeping is supposed to cease at 11 p.m. when the traffic signal becomes a flashing light and then everything switches back at dawn, but the beeping is continuing throughout the night instead of quitting.
The new traffic lights are the responsibility of the Ohio Department of Transportation, but Abraham said ODOT has yet to assume formal responsibility since their installation last fall.
In another matter at last week's meeting, council decided to sign off on the West Chestnut/Cedar streets storm sewer project, allowing for release of the last of the money due contractor Dave Sugar Excavating.
This was done after council decided to take no further action in regard to Cedar Street resident Ed Day, who complained his property had been damaged during the project. The only unresolved issue was compensating Day for an easement the village needed during construction. The village agreed to compensate him $250, but Day has yet to sign the agreement, despite repeated attempts to get him to do so.
"He didn't accept it, so we're not going to pay it," said village Solicitor Virginia Barborak, who recommended they ignore the matter and move on, which council agreed to do.
Another issue left over from the project involved replacing a rare magnolia tree at the Persic residence on West Chestnut Street after it had been removed during construction. Sugar and the village agreed to split the cost of a new tree, with council paying $397.


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1896 proved to be one of the pivotal years in American history with the presidential election of that year pitting old, rural, agricultural America against young urban America.
The impact of the election results and other changes would soon be seen. Probably to many people, the slow revival of the nation�s economy harkened a better day coming, which would eventually impact isolated Durango. Most Durangoans, however, must have noted some improvement in the local economy by February of that year.
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The Feb. 20, 1896, The Durango Herald featured that struggle with front page headlines � all in capital letters � with a long article following.
Within two years the United States would go to war with Spain and within a few months gain a victory. It was also America�s �coming out party,� so to speak as a world colonial power. With that out of the way, the readers turned their attention to more local news and especially particularly Valentine�s Day.
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The evangelical service at the Methodist church continues to attract many to hear Mrs. Livingston and good work is being accomplished. Mrs. Livingston is a fluent exhorter and a number of her hearers respond to the elegance of her appeals by professing religion and keeling at the throne of Grace nightly.
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The two women who were arrested Monday night, charged with running a bawdy house, were arranged before Judge Hechtman yesterday morning and each fined $10 and cost.
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As innovation in China takes off, it is attracting a lot of funds that are looking for investment opportunities in a country that has already become one of the most important markets for venture capitalists.
U.S.-based technology-focused bank Silicon Valley Bank is trying to cater to this demand for funds from investors through its joint venture, which provides loans and banking services to venture capital, private equity and startup firms.
Silicon Valley Bank set up a joint venture, SPD Silicon Valley Bank, with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank in Shanghai in 2012.
Ken Wilcox, chairman of Silicon Valley Bank and the president of SPD Silicon Valley Bank, spoke about the investment landscape in China in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Edited excerpts.
WSJ: What are the differences between venture capitalists in China and the U.S.?
Mr. Wilcox: When I first came to China 13 years ago, there were almost no venture capitalists in the country. Today, China has more venture capitalists than the U.S.
The problem is that China's venture capitalists are largely inexperienced. They have the problem we had in 1997-1998 in the U.S. At that time, the venture capital industry in the U.S. attracted a lot of people who did not know much about venture capital. When the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, many of these new venture capitalists didn't know what to do. They were useless at that point.
Sometimes venture capital funds in China also face a lot of pressure from government officials, who are interested in how many people are employed, how many companies are registered and the amount of tax dollars raised. They are less interested in finding the best companies.
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WSJ: Are there any differences in fundraising between China and the U.S.?
Mr. Wilcox: China's venture capitalists aren't early-stage investors, but mostly invest at a later stage. Chinese venture capitalists like to get involved when the companies are already profitable. Family, friends and angel investors are the early-stage investors in China.
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WSJ: Have you seen any creative innovations in China over the past few years?
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One problem with reading aloud is that it can lead to artificial intonation as people are using other people's words, and written ones.To improve the students' pronunciation, some sessions they will read out short passages from different books.
I have this class consisting of 9 students who are all adult women (actually theyre teenagers and young women). They are supposedly at upper-intermediate level. Up to now, theyve been taught using Total English books and theyre going to continue using this series. The last term I had with them was UI2 (Upper course, here, is divided to 5 terms, each term 21 sessions, and each session is about an hour an a half. Classes are held 3 times a week). The thing is, they are not strong enough for this level! They know the grammar, but it hasnt been internalized, so they make a lot of mistakes when speaking and writing, and they use too many simple words which makes it worse, though again they know enough words for their level. To remedy the situation, Ive been charged with forming an extra class for them. Now, Im not really sure what I should do, especially considering the fact that these classes are going to be one hour per session only. There will probably be about 15 sessions overall.
The lesson plan Ive been considering is like this:
- * Since using the proper tense and maintaining the correct point of view is a major issue, Im going to start the term by working on tenses. The framework for this part will be the first 4 chapters of the book Understanding and Using English Grammar by Betty Schrampfer Azar. These chapters are about all past, present and future tenses. The students will study and do the related exercises at home and in the class we will troubleshoot and focus on the use of particular tenses when speaking. One the main exercises will be telling stories and changing their perspective to a particular time. They can be provided with very short stories in order to have basis to build on.
- * Each week, one whole session will be dedicated to debates and free discussion. The topics will be decided one week before in order to give the students ample time to prepare themselves. Meanwhile they will be provided with related vocabularies and information. These will be chosen from different sources, including documentary films, recorded lectures and radio talks, some lessons from the book English Collocations in Use, etc. Theyll also be asked to do research on the topic using the Internet.
- *The study of the book Common mistakes in English will be another task that the students should do. They each will be assigned 50 pages of the book. They are expected to study these pages to the end of the term and each session, one of them will explain a tip or two for her fellow classmates. (The book is not very long and its easy to read.)
- *To improve the students pronunciation, some sessions they will read out short passages from different books. They will prepare themselves for this part beforehand. These texts will be chosen from different sources and some of them will be accompanied with audio versions to give the students a source to compare their pronunciation and accents with. This part will also include the audio course of New Headway Pronunciation Course (Upper-Intermediate) and a few lessons from the book American Accent Training by Ann Cook. The lessons about accent will be practical and not theoretical, meaning mainly the exercises will be used, although the whole book will be available for self study.
- * Some story books, in the form of Audio, will be another part of the lesson plan for this term. The stories will be chosen from MacMillan series and will be listened to rather than being read. These books will be discussed in the class.
Obviously we wont be able to cover all of these and even if we try itll be overwhelming for the students, especially because theyre mostly students and have many other commitments.
Now I want to know what you think I should do. Which parts are more important and which parts should I put aside? Im sure many of you have had similar problems, one time or another, during you careers as English teachers. Id be eternally grateful if you could share your experiences and expertise with me. Im looking forward to your suggestion.
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MARTINSBURG - With rows of numbered yellow bags lining the Voters Registration Office, the votes for Berkeley County's precincts stood ready to be counted and declared during Tuesday's canvass.
Following the Nov. 6 election, the Berkeley County Council members assumed the role of Board of Canvassers to comb through the vote stubs and ensure accurate totals. After counting for more than four hours, board members recessed the canvass until 11:30 a.m. Thursday, when members will count the county's 45 absentee ballots.
Three precincts were pulled at random to be counted for accuracy, as a test to see if the precincts' electronic count matched the count of stubs tallied by poll workers. If the count matches within one percent, then the canvassing can proceed with no fundamental errors encountered.
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Berkeley County Council members Jim Whitacre, Doug Copenhaver, Elaine Mauck and President Bill Stubblefield and County Attorney Norwood Bentley assumed the role of Board of Canvass members to canvass the votes from the Nov. 6 election.
While the three pulled precincts were approved for accuracy, multiple precincts had to be manually counted by volunteer workers when the ballot tally counted by poll workers on election night differed from the electronic printout by more than one percent.
According to Berkeley County Council member Elaine Mauck, with approximately 50 percent of Berkeley County's registered voters voting, 33 percent higher than the May 8 primary election, the possibility for human error was greater.
With the canvass open to the public, Republican Mike Folk and Democrat Donn Marshall, candidates for the new 63rd House of Delegates, each attended the canvass, monitoring the process to see if the 74-vote difference crowning Folk the winner would stand.
"I was pretty confident I was going to win. One of my precincts was the one that they had to recount, (precinct) 27. That is a very strong precinct for me. I have a feeling you'll find my margin of winning was over 100 (votes) now. I would even say more than 150," Folk said.
A frequent discrepancy between the manual count and the electronic count was not the only setback the Board of Canvassers and the county clerk's office faced. Despite believing that all of the ballots from precinct 27 were reported on election night, a count the next morning revealed that not all of the votes had been accounted for.
"We tallied them all in, and it did not change the outcome of (the 63rd House of Delegates) race. It did add more votes for everybody, naturally. The total that we did that morning does reflect that, and the council has that total," said Bonnie Woodfall, deputy county clerk.
Canvassers also voted on whether to accept or decline any provisional ballots in question per precinct. Instances of a provisional ballot include voting in the wrong precinct or voting despite not being registered in Berkeley County.
Totals will not be released until after the canvass is finished Thursday. After the votes are declared, a 48-hour waiting period is in effect, during which time a candidate can request a recount for a specific office of interest or precinct. If no recount is requested after the waiting period, the results of the canvass becomes official.
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As bagpipers played traditional and pop tunes at Mons Barrack in Aldershot, Kate donned a gold shamrock brooch to top off her head-to-toe green as she took part in the annual parade.
Kate and William, (in his ceremonial Colonel of the Regiment uniform), looked tanned after their week-long break in the Maldives last week, and she decorated her forest green coat by Hobbs with the Cartier jewelry that was traditionally worn by the late Queen Mother.
Teaming her coat – which had its own flourish of shamrock – with a matching hat by Gina Foster, she stood alongside William on the dais as the ceremony to hand out the shamrock began.
The Duchess handed over baskets containing 300 sprigs of shamrock to the warrant officers for distribution among the guardsmen.
Next it was the officers' turn to get their emblem of the day. Finally, Kate pinned a sprig to 19-month-old Domhnall's red tunic. The dog's ceremonial jacket comes with Irish Guards' uniform brass buttons and a silver necklace.
The late Queen Mother, great grandmother to Prince William, traditionally undertook the ceremony to hand out shamrocks. Kate took on the role three years ago and has been joined by William for the day since he was made Colonel of the Regiment shortly before the couple's wedding in June 2011.
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Either way...fans of opposing teams need to stop jocking off the Wings! Ours is actually a tradition. LOL
I remember when the Preds fans would throw cat fish? when playing the Wings and im sure we thought what the hell..and then NOW this Shark thingy. That is just not right. Get your own tradition, peeps!
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• Thirteen of 356 children consecutively admitted for treatment of status asthmaticus in a 37-month period experienced 19 episodes of respiratory failure, an incidence of 5.3%. In this retrospective study, all children received similar pharmacologic therapy after admission, and all were treated with nasotracheal intubation and controlled ventilation with a volume-cycled ventilator. Mean duration of mechanical ventilation was 54 hours and mean duration of hospital stay was 7.5 days. Complications occurred in nine of 19 episodes and there was one death not directly related to acute asthma. It is possible that 12 of the 19 episodes of respiratory failure might have been prevented by more prompt or more appropriate treatment of the child with acute asthma.
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MIFFLINTOWN - Sandra King has announced her intention to seek a third term as Juniata County Treasurer.
A life-long resident of Juniata County she has been married to Denny King for 29 years and is the mother of three children, Sarah, Jonathan, and Naomi. She is the daughter of Barbara Fairman of Mifflintown and the late Harry "Preach" Fairman.
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"I worked in banking for six years, was the secretary for a state representative from Philadelphia for four years, was the tax collector for Milford Township for 16 years, and was the office manager for Two Sisters for eight years," King Said.
"I have played a vital part in implementing a new and efficient accounting system throughout the county offices. My years of experience as well as my desire to work hard to make things better for the employees and the residents of Juniata County are just a few of the reasons why I should be re-elected as treasurer for Juniata County," she added.
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Using the LWCF to acquire land—without first addressing the billions of dollars in deferred maintenance on the existing federal land—will threaten the ecological health, public accessibility and economic productivity of these precious lands.
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As the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate heats up again, Shawn Regan, writing for Reason, looks at how The Aubudon Society has managed to earn mineral royalties while also protecting bird habitat.
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Today's Sagebrush rebels want federal lands transferred to states, while environmentalists want more federal control. Both sides should be careful what they ask for.
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An inmate in the Erie County Holding Center who was involved in a fight with another inmate in June died from his injuries on Aug. 31, officials said Friday.
Patrick Yale, 49, was assaulted on the same day he was placed in custody at the jail on a parole violation, said Thomas Diina, acting jail superintendent.
Tyshawn Ball, 19, of Buffalo, who was initially charged with felony second-degree assault for his role in the attack, is now charged with second-degree murder, said Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III.
"This was really an assault that ended up being a murder," Diina said.
Ball beat his fellow inmate to death, the District Attorney's Office said.
Diina said no weapon was used in the fight.
The superintendent declined to release some details because it is a pending criminal matter, but he said there is no indication that a previous dispute led to the confrontation in the jail.
"There's no indication the two individuals knew each other," Diina said. "There's no indication there was anything from the street."
Yale was taken to Erie County Medical Center after the fight.
A deputy conducting observation safety checks shortly before 9 p.m. on June 19 heard yelling and banging coming from one side of the Holding Center.
He responded to the scene and found the 49-year-old inmate lying on the ground.
Ball was transferred on June 22, a couple of days after Yale suffered the injuries, and is no longer housed in the Holding Center.
An investigation by the Sheriff's Office's Investigative Services and Professional Standards unit showed that all policies and procedure were followed by the jail staff, Diina said.
"Everything was done correctly," he said, everything from the safety check to the response to the medical emergency.
Ball had been in jail for two days before the fight. At the time, Ball was locked up on arson and assault charges for allegedly starting a fire in his family's home and assaulting his mother and sister June 17.
Ball faces up to four years if convicted of those charges.
He faces up to 25 years in prison on the second-degree murder charge following Yale's death, Sedita's office said.
Ball is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday before State Supreme Court Justice Deborah Haendiges on the murder charge.
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In January, Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware), at right in photo at the ALS, unveiled a bill in the Senate designed to modernize national labs and spur innovation:
"In this century of rapid change, America's best competitive advantage remains our capacity to innovate… What we are doing is modernizing the labs for the 21st Century, so that ideas developed in the lab can most effectively become innovations in the marketplace."
Read the full text of his speech below, with references to the ALS, or watch the video where the ALS is called out at 8.34.
As delivered on the Senate Floor on January 29, 2014
Mr. President, I rise today to speak about a bill introduced today, a bipartisan bill, a bill that will strengthen America's innovation economy.
Over the last 60 years, our national laboratories have served as leading centers of research and discovery in America.
Today, in fact, we have 17 DOE labs charged with three broad research missions – science, energy, and national security. And although they've grown and changed since their founding to encompass much broader ranges of work and are successful in carrying out their primary missions, the labs are not fully optimized to take part in today's innovation culture.
That's a problem; because in this century of rapid change America's best competitive advantage remains our capacity to innovate.
So over the coming months I'll be talking about a few things that Congress can do in a bipartisan way to streamline and jump-start our nation's hubs of discovery so that we can thrive as a 21st Century innovation economy.
At the top level, it will mean working together to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act, which would reaffirm our commitment to the robust national strategy for science and technology programs that will continue to be a critical underpinning of America's prosperity.
One part of how that can be achieved is how our national labs operate, and a bill that will make our national labs operate more effectively has been introduced today by Senator Rubio of Florida and myself, and it's the America INNOVATES Act.
Already, our labs have incubated many groundbreaking innovations over their long and storied history. Their research has led to breakthroughs from, for example in the health care field, new Melanoma and HIV/AIDS treatments, to in the national security field, special I.E.D. detonators that have saved the lives of our troops in combat.
That research is critical because although the private sector will continue to be a key source of investment and innovation, the federal government has and will continue to play a central role in advancing basic science, research, and innovation as well.
Why is that? Private markets historically speaking tend to underinvest in R&D relative to the potential benefits to society, and this is especially true where basic science is most relevant and it's particularly true in the energy sector.
But if there's a problem I've heard about since coming to Congress, in this field, it's that too often the great work of scientists at our national laboratories just doesn't get translated to the marketplace – that we as a nation, as a people don't benefit from the remarkable discoveries and inventions being made in our 17 national labs.
Right now too much groundbreaking science and too many innovative ideas never leave the walls of our national labs, squandering enormous potential for our people, our country, and the commercial marketplace.
So in this bill today, introduced with Senator Rubio of Florida, we continue to support our labs' core missions. We're not proposing anything drastic. What we are doing instead is modernizing the labs for the 21st Century, so that ideas developed in the lab can most effectively become innovations in the marketplace.
Fortunately, we need only look to the labs themselves for inspiration on how to do this.
So we make two broad proposals.
First, we're integrating the management of the Department of Energy's science and energy programs to improve linkages between basic and applied science. This will allow the early stages of research and development to be translated more efficiently and it's something that Department of Energy Secretary Moniz has signaled he supports and is going to move forward with.
Second, we're giving the national labs more power to work with the private sector, to ensure that more scientific discoveries turn into commercial breakthroughs.
Together these two steps would allow us to streamline the labs' work so it can more quickly and effectively translate into the transformative innovations that can create jobs and grow our economy.
Now to explain what our proposals actually might achieve, let me walk through what is broadly known as the innovation pipeline, which shows how basic science research ultimately becomes a deployed world-changing innovation.
First I'll use the example of the great work scientists at the National Renewable Energy Lab, or NREL, in Golden, Colorado, are doing to advance cellulosic ethanol technologies.
One of our country's big challenges today is reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and to do that we need new fuel options that we can create or grow here in America. Cellulosic ethanol is an advanced biofuel with a great deal of promise because it's produced from abundant and renewable materials like grasses and wood chips, other types of biomass and waste. And because these materials are abundant, cellulosic ethanol has the potential to replace a significant portion of our nation's petroleum consumption.
The challenge comes, however, because unlike corn, these cellulosic materials are made of much more complex starches that are much harder to break down into ethanol. To make the promise of cellulosic ethanol a reality, we need to develop the enzymes and the micro-organisms that could break them down and ferment these more complex starches, and that's where this innovation pipeline comes in.
At the NREL in Colorado, scientists started at this most basic science step here.
Basic science is very fundamental. It's the study of the elementary principles of the universe, really discovery level science.
So, for example, in this application, enzymes are large biological molecules, they are nature's catalysts. They accelerate the metabolic processes that sustain life. And to develop new customized enzymes and micro-organisms capable of converting starchy biomass into cellulosic ethanol, you have to start at the very fundamentals of biochemistry and of biology. This includes studying intricate details of the relevant processes, the biochemical processes, as well as probing the proteins and amino acids that form the building blocks of these enzymes down to the sub-molecular level.
At this point, scientists, having made a series of discoveries, can then move to the applied science stage.
Applied science concerns translating these fundamental discoveries into an application. In this example, scientists apply the insights gained from fundamental basic science research to develop new enzymes with desired performance traits such as high selectivity, specificity, and stability to enable effective and efficient conversion of these complex starches into ethanol
Applied research can also involve controlled lab-scale demonstrations to test and to demonstrate how effectively these newly developed enzymes and micro-organisms can turn wood chips into ethanol.
Still in the lab and very far from commercial scale, the kinds of small discoveries that happen at the applied science level act as an early demonstration that something new, the application of a new discovery, can possibly move further down this pipeline.
At the applied research stage, we are still far away from creating something ready for the market, but between these two stages our scientists have gone from the basic science of how an idea might work to actually demonstrating it could work in practice.
At this point now, the private sector is much more likely to see the potential value of this discovery. Scientists have shown it's possible and next we move to the commercialization and then the scaling and deployment phases, where private investors and private companies take the technology of our national lab scientists and make it into a product that can succeed in the market.
During the applied research stage at NREL, scientists were hard at work showing they really could produce cellulosic ethanol efficiently and cheaply, eventually meeting their goal to make it price competitive with conventional fuels in the commercial marketplace.
That's where we are right now with cellulosic ethanol. Companies across the country, such as DuPont from my own home state of Delaware, Poet from other places in the country, and many others are currently actually building plants, they are doing the scaling and deployment, they're building plants to produce cellulosic ethanol at commercial scale and competitive prices.
So this example is just one model of public-private partnership for innovation and how it works all along this innovation pipeline, where the basic and applied science research begin in a national lab and then are transferred either by the licensing or sale of intellectual property to private-sector companies who then do the very hard work of commercialization and scaling before ultimate delivery to the marketplace, where it can be bought and consumed by Americans and others around the world.
I had the opportunity last year to witness another model of public-private partnership for innovation at a different national lab, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which is home to a unique national asset, the Advanced Light Source, or ALS
The ALS is a very complex, very expensive piece of machinery that serves thousands of researchers – from private sector scientists to university researchers – who use the light sources such as ultraviolet rays, soft x-rays, and infrared light that all come off of the ALS to conduct a wide range of scientific experiments.
Experiments at the ALS are performed at nearly 40 different beam lines that come off the Synchotron and can operate simultaneously around-the-clock and year-round. This facility's remarkable resources would be far too expensive for any one company or university to invest in alone, but by building a national level publicly-owned facility, it's then possible for it to function and to be partly sustained by fees and targeted infrastructure investments by users. And as a result, the ALS has become a place where many different partners from around our country and the world test new ideas and new approaches.
In terms of this innovation pipeline, what the Berkeley Lab and ALS do is allow a very wide range of researchers to engage in different stages of research under one roof. The unique capabilities offered by the ALS attract many industry partners and encourages productive public-private collaboration.
A good example of how this is actually applied into the marketplace is in the semiconductor industry. Semiconductor technology is one of the most transformative scientific breakthroughs of the last century. Semiconductors are at the heart of what makes a modern computer work. Their constant advancement is what allows us to today hold the computing power of last generation's supercomputer in iPhones in our pockets.
However, the manufacturing techniques previously used to produce new, smaller, more powerful semiconductor products just aren't adequate to build the next generation of nano-electronic devices. So what's happened is a consortium of companies – Intel, IBM, HP, Dow – formed a consortium called SEMATECH to leverage the unique capabilities of the ALS at the Berkeley Lab to advance semiconductor manufacturing for next-generation electronics
As the lab reports, "By tapping into the center's long-term expertise in short wavelength optics and the unique properties of the ALS Synchotron facility, SEMATECH funded the development of the world's highest resolution projection lithography tool and highest performance extreme-ultraviolet microscope" – developments only possible because of the facilities and the expertise at this unique national lab.
Having then developed these new tools capable of manufacturing the next generation of semiconductor devices, a company like Intel can take that new technology and scale it up at their own plants.
Of course, there are many different variations like these two I've suggested of public-private partnerships that our labs can and have utilized to take ideas from basic science all the way out to the marketplace. These two examples – cellulosic ethanol and semiconductor manufacturing – show us what's really possible when the private sector is able to work in full partnership with our national labs.
In the bill we've introduced here today, Senator Rubio and I are trying to expand the flexibility and freedom of all our national labs to innovate and to build productive partnerships so that every research project has the potential and opportunity to travel this entire pipeline and be deployed to the world markets.
As we see here on the innovation pipeline, the payoff for all this work doesn't come until the very end, so one of the best things we can do together is to focus our policies to make the movement of ideas through this – from the national labs to private-sector partners to the marketplace – as efficient and predictable as possible.
Mr. President, while there are many ideas, many areas, many political subjects on which Senator Rubio and I disagree, I'm pleased that we've been able to work hard and to come together on the America INNOVATES Act today. Because we both agree that government has a role to play investing in fundamental scientific research that can lead to innovations that change our world.
In this bill we're not talking about expanding government or calling for any new spending or new regulation. We're talking about the early science work that only government can fund because there isn't a clear payoff for the private sector, and figuring out how to connect the national labs and the private sector along this innovation pipeline in a better and stronger way to deliver more products to the American marketplace and the world markets.
Once again, I want to thank my Republican colleague, Senator Marco Rubio, and I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join us in supporting this bipartisan innovation jobs bill. Thank you.


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Anne Heap teaches you how to make sugar paste figures that are too adorable for words. Learn how to color, structure and form gum paste into a sleeping baby, a sitting boy, a sitting pregnant lady and a standing woman. These characters are so cute you could almost eat them up! Adorn your cakes with these colorful figurines and apply the techniques learned in class to model an endless variety of cute characters. Start with the basics of working with gum paste, and learn how to use gel colors to produce realistic skin tones. Then sculpt your toppers and dress them with fashionable gum paste outfits that you create, no sewing machine required! Support your figures with skewers and wire to place them in a wide variety of positions. Your toppers will take the cake!
Meet Anne and learn about the Craftsy platform. Start asking questions and see what your fellow students have created.
Start making your own adorable cake toppers by preparing the gum paste. Anne will walk you through the steps!
You'll make leaves, a baby and finally the oh-so-adorable Pea in a Pod - "Henry" with Anne's detailed instruction.
Construct a sleeping baby, complete with blanket. Then bring "Olive" to life with cute curls and a bow.
Learn to sculpt a torso and legs to create "J.J.", a sitting child. Anne also shows you how to create his head and face.
Finish "J.J." by adding ears, arms, a shirt and hair. Anne makes each feature easy with her step-by-step instruction.
Make "Pregnant Penny" by building her body, tunic and even eyelashes. This adorable topper will be a hit at baby showers.
Add Penny's shoes, her spunky ponytail and accessories. Your friends will be impressed by your attention to detail.
Use all the skills you've built to create "Madison" with Anne's step-by-step instructions and lifelike design.
"I always admired those figures, but immediately said, "not for me", which really meant "too hard for me!". But with Ann's wonderful instructions, and great visuals, I've conquered my fear and have now made a couple of cake toppers, which came out so much better than I would have thought.
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When baking with kids and decorating cupcakes around Easter, you simply have to let a few things slide. Icing on the floor? It's going to happen. And those frosting-filled piping bags? They don't stand a cupcake's chance at a kid's birthday party. Luckily, there is nothing wrong (and a lot that's right) with giving a festive home-spun look to your cupcakes. To achieve the designs below, all starring Peeps and themed after Easter and springtime tales, we used just a small spoon, butter knife and a criminal amount of frosting and candy. Vanilla Cupcake Recipe Though the base in our cupcakes is a balanced vanilla cake, a chocolate, red velvet or even carrot cake (with the buttercream frosting swapped for cream cheese) will be equally sweet�with any of the designs. Cupcakes:
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- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
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- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)
- 1 1/4 cup 2% milk
1. Line a cupcake pan with paper liners and preheat oven to 350F. 2. In a large mixing bowl (preferably from a stand mixer), sift flours, sugar, baking powder and salt. Using an electric mixer set on low speed, mix butter into dry ingredients until well incorporated. 3. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, vanilla bean paste and milk. With the mixture on medium speed, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients in thirds. Beat until incorporated, but be careful not to over-mix. 4. Divide batter among liners so that each are about 2/3 full. Bake on the center rack for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely. 5. To make frosting, cream�butter with an electric or stand mixer until light and fluffy. Add 4 cups�of powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and mix on low speed. Once creamy, add remaining cup of powdered sugar and beat until desired consistency (3 to 5 minutes). Taste frosting and if it is sweeter than desired, add lemon juice. Add additional powdered sugar for fluffier frosting, or additional milk for a creamier frosting. Add food coloring, a few drops at a time, and mix until you achieve a uniform color. Peep-ter Rabbit For more fantastic recipes with Peeps, visit the Peeps recipe page. And for more of our�Peeps dessert�recipes and cupcakes for Easter, see below.� This article originally appeared as on Relish
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