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Former Governor Displeased With Obama, Warns Democrats Acting Like Socialists
Former Democratic Governor John Y. Brown Jr., is disappointed with President Barack Obama's job performance and is criticizing the national party for "acting like socialists" over free enterprise.
Brown served as Kentucky's governor from 1979 to 1983, and is successful businessman and a revered patriarch among state Democrats past and present.
In an interview with Pure Politics, Brown said Mr. Obama doesn't understand the economy and is more interested in "taking care of people instead of taking care of our Constitution" and getting people back to work.
Brown also criticized the Republicans, but his comments typify the gulf between Kentucky Democrats and the president.


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By Chris Day
Stillwater NewsPress
STILLWATER, Okla. —
Stillwater's economic development arm will consider an agreement Monday that will pay the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce $150,000 to recruit industry to Stillwater and retain businesses and industries already here.
The Stillwater Economic Development Authority Board of Trustees will meet at approximately 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Stillwater Municipal Building, 723 S. Lewis.
The agreement technically runs from July 1 to June 30, 2014, and calls for two $75,000 payments to the Chamber on July 1 and Jan. 1. The authority didn't approve the 2012-2013 agreement until November 2012.
If the agreement is approved, the Chamber will:
• Help existing Stillwater businesses to remain successful and maintain employment levels and create growth and expansion.
• Recruit industry and commercial entities that offer high-paying jobs to Stillwater.
• Use regional and cooperative initiatives to create joint recruitment activities.
• Emphasize shop local initiatives for residents and visitors.
According to the agreement, the Chamber will provide written quarterly reports outlining recruitment and retention activities and expenditures and make public presentations of its activities to SEDA or the City Council upon request.
The Chamber will also make all books and financial records on funds spent under this agreement available to SEDA for inspection, review and audit, upon request. A preliminary annual report, including expenditures, will be provided to SEDA by June 1, 2014, and a final annual report is due Aug. 1, 2014.

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A 50-year-old Canton pharmacist who owned and operated 26 pharmacies in the metro Detroit area was sentenced Friday to 17 years in federal prison after being convicted in an elaborate scheme.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow, who sentenced Babubhai "Bob" Patel on 26 convictions for a health care fraud conspiracy, a drug conspiracy, and related fraud and drug violations, had harsh words for the man.
"What you have done is reprehensible," the judge said, adding that he's seen other heath care frauds in the past, but that they've all been "small scale compared to this."
In addition to the prison sentence, Patel also was ordered to pay $17.3 in restitution to the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs and an additional $1.5 million in restitution to Blue Cross Blue Shield.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, evidence presented at a six-week jury trial showed that between 2006 and 2011, Patel's pharmacies billed Medicare and Medicaid for more than $57 million.
At least a quarter of those billings were for drugs that were either medically unnecessary never dispensed. Additional amounts were fraudulently billed to private insurers, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
The pharmacies operated on a business model that paid kickbacks to physicians in exchange for writing prescriptions for expensive medications. The affiliated doctors also would write prescriptions for controlled substances, without regard to medical necessity, which would be filled at the pharmacies and distributed to paid "patients" and patient recruiters. The expensive non-controlled medications would be billed but not dispensed.
"Taxpayers fund Medicare and Medicaid to provide health care to needy Americans," U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said in a written statement. "It is gratifying to see courts impose strong sentences on defendants who exploit these programs for personal gain."
Patel is one of 26 people indicted in this scheme. Of those, 20 have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial. The remaining six are scheduled for trial in June.
Of 12 pharmacists charged, 11 have been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty, with one waiting to be tried. Of four doctors charged, two have pleaded guilty, with two waiting to be tried.
Earlier last week, Tarnow sentenced several of the other pharmacists who were convicted at trial.
Brijesh Rawal, 36, of Canton; Ashwini Sharma, 34, of Novi; and Lokesh Tayal, 36, of Northville, were each sentenced to 68 months in prison. All three are non-U.S. citizens who entered the United States under a visa program for certain skilled workers. Once their prison time has been served, each will be deported to the country of their citizenship. Rawal is a Canadian citizen and Sharma and Tayal are both from India.
"Those individuals who engaged in this health care fraud scheme stole millions of dollars over several years, from a system designed to provide health care to those in need," FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Foley III said in a written statement. "The FBI is committed to stopping these illegal acts and prosecuting these criminals."


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By Michael Kinney
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — When his senior season began, Derek Harris had all eyes on him. He was the starting quarterback for a Moore team trying to slowly turn around a program that had floundered.
However, after getting injured in the first game of the season against Westmoore, Harris lost his starting job. Instead of sulking and complaining about no longer being quarterback, he looked for other ways to help the Lions.
"It wasn't that bad," Harris said. "I've always played other positions besides quarterback. When I didn't play at quarterback, it opened up more options for me on special teams and defense and offense. I enjoy playing defense. I've always been a defensive player. I enjoyed played defense more than I enjoyed playing offense. But playing quarterback I felt was the best place for me on the team at the time. But then when I wasn't playing quarterback, I got to play special teams and defense again."
Harris became one of the Lions' top receivers and a special teams maven. But it was on defense at safety were he made the biggest difference. In doing so, Harris was named to the Oklahoma Coaches Association West All-State football team.
"I was happy I made it," Harris said. "It really was a surprise. I had like an idea that I might make it, but I didn't know I was going to. I felt I had a pretty strong year. The best year out of my years at Moore."
Harris will join some of the best players around the state in the annual All-State game July 27 at Union Tuttle Stadium. It's something he never thought he would get the chance to play in until last season.
"Last year my step brother (Austin Bowling) made all-state from Westmoore," Harris said. "I went and watched him in it last year. He told how much of a big deal it was. For me to make it is pretty cool."
Harris is joined on the West squad by Norman High's Zach Uhles and Norman North's Jake Higgenbothom and Jaxon Uhles.
However, Oklahoma commit Jordan Evans and several other of the area's top talents were not selected to the team. That includes no one from Southmoore or Westmoore.
"I am really disappointed that we had no one make OCA All-State," Westmoore coach Billy Langford said. "I felt like we were one of the better teams in the state and to have no one make All-State was really disappointing. I feel bad for our players because I know we have some of the best guys around that are very deserving to be All-State. I think playing in a district on the other side of the state also hurt our guys. No one got to see them play Union, Broken Arrow and Jenks. We played all those games on the road."
While Westmoore and Southmoore were left off the All-State team, they each had players make the OCA 6A All-Star West team. They include the SaberCats duo of Tre Edwards and Jackson Stallings and the Jaguars' Josh Morgan and John Finn.
The Tigers' Zach Long and Uhles and the Timberwolves' Higgenbothom, Beau Proctor and Jaxon Uhles also made the team.
"It's an honor to be named West 6A quarterback," Edwards said. "All the hard work I've put in, it finally paid off. It means the world to me. It's awesome, Jackson and I first started hanging out in the eighth grade, and we always talked about doing something like this our senior year. It's very special."
Langford was happy to see his team get some recognition also.
"John Finn has had a great career here at Westmoore" Langford said. "He is a four year starter and got better each and every year. He had his best season this year. Josh Morgan has also had a great career here at Westmoore. He is a four year starter and amazing story coming back from the injury he suffered at the beginning of his sophomore season. He is by far the biggest, fastest, strongest linebacker I have ever been around."
Despite that, Harris will be the only area player playing in the all-state game.
"It makes no sense that only one player is represented from the Moore area," Stallings said. "Other players in the area are as deserving, if not more so, from more successful programs."
Regardless, Harris said he will make the most of this opportunity. He hasn't gotten any offers yet to play college football and hopes he can turn his all-state nod into one. If not, he said he will just go to school for academics.
Even though he won very few games throughout his career at Moore, Harris said he wouldn't change a thing.
"I loved every minute of it," Harris said. "I loved all my teammates, coach and had a great time."
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By TARA HETTINGER
Sitting at his computer, Tom Handy, manager of energy systems with New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated Schools Corp., analyzes the temperature inside Green Valley Elementary School's cafeteria.
It is off by three-tenths of a degree.
The computer has already kicked in to make up for the shift.
But if it didn't, Handy, with a click of the mouse, could do it himself.
He also has the power to start up or turn off electricity and other utilities at each of the corporation's buildings. In about 10 minutes, he can shut down all the power to the schools — in instances such as closings because of snow. He can also start them all up in about the same amount of time.
That management system — along with the energy efficiencies they bring — has earned the school system national recognition through the federal ENERGY STAR program.
Eleven of the corporation's buildings have earned the label; 10 of those are schools. They are among 18 schools in Indiana have achieved that status.
"We've always felt that we were one of, if not the best, in energy efficiencies in Indiana," said Bill Wiseheart, facilities director for NA-FC. "This helps prove that we are probably there."
This has been many years in the making. Wiseheart said the corporation started looking into ways to save energy in the 1980s, just after the energy crisis of the 1970s. He said then they installed computers that would turn on and off systems to save energy.
That worked, but officials thought they could do better. So, in the 1990s and 2000s, the corporation started installing modern two-pipe systems for heating and cooling at the various buildings.
Two-pipe systems have gotten a bad reputation for taking too long to switch over from heating to cooling, sometimes up to 24 hours. Wiseheart said the new version of that system takes less than 20 minutes.
Wiseheart said installing this system verses the four-pipe design saved about $3 to $4 per square foot. He said the less piping and ductwork is what creates the savings.
That system is now in 19 of the corporation's 20 buildings.
The corporation then installed a more high-tech monitoring system, which allows users to see every detail, from the exact temperatures in rooms to the percentage of outside air coming in.
Many problems the computer can and does fix on its own. However, someone was needed to make sure rooms were comfortable when in use and shut off when not. That's where Handy comes in.
Wiseheart said someone else was needed to check the bills — to make sure they weren't being overcharged — and to teach others about energy efficiency. So, an energy auditor was hired.
As school corporations around the nation have paid contracts with groups that help them reduce energy costs, Wiseheart said NA-FC officials did this just by using their own energy sense, and the bills are significantly lower than before.
This year, the savings were more than $500,000 for the corporation. Wiseheart said since the corporation isn't spending as much money on utilities, that leaves more for students, teachers and the buildings.
Wiseheart doesn't want to stop there. He predicts seven more buildings in the corporation will be named ENERGY STAR worthy this fall, which would bring the total for NA-FC to 18. He said the goal is for every building to reach that same status.
"We don't want to slip," Wiseheart said about being the school corporation with the most ENERGY STAR schools in Indiana. "We will continue to look at and advance with new ideas."


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Cleveland Heights City Council will consider increasing fees for solid waste collection and disposal at its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 in City Hall.
According to the agenda, council members will consider amending a section of the codified ordinances that spells out fees established for "Solid Waste Collection and Disposal."
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Stirling engines show promise
Remote sites, unattended operation
Although it was originally conceived in 1816, the adoption of Stirling engine technology has been slow. It is powered by cyclic compression and expansion of a working fluid, powered by an external thermal energy source. The working fluid can be air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, or hydrogen, just to name a few, and the compression and expansion is done by a piston or series of pistons. The attraction is its high theoretical efficiency and the fact that the operating thermal energy can come from a wide variety of sources.
Reusing Heat Energy
To date, most commercial or experimental Stirling engines have been small in scale. Their unique aspect is the use of a regenerator to capture and reuse thermal energy, thus contributing to their high efficiency. The regenerator is an internal heat exchanger and temporary heat storage system placed between the hot and cold spaces such that the working fluid passes through it first in one direction then the other.
Stirling engines have been built to a wide variety of designs, including those with two separate pistons – one for the hot side and one for the cold side – and those with a single piston that operates in a two-ended cylinder with one end hot and the other cold. Modern metallurgy and computer modeling of thermodynamic flows make them more efficient than in the past. Several manufacturers today offer units for European and North American residential and commercial markets.
In European Homes
A current manufacturer of cogeneration units powered by Stirling engine technology is WhisperGen, headquartered in Spain and selling residential-scale units. The WhisperGen engine is a patented four-piston unit with a unique "wobble yoke" that connect the engine to the generator. The WhisperGen residential package is primarily marketed in Europe through a distribution network.
Another current manufacturer of commercially available Stirling engines is Infinia Corporation, headquartered in Ogden, Utah. The Infinia engine design uses a free-piston technology that can accept heat from a variety of sources including natural gas, biogas, propane, or from a solar receiver. One high profile application for Infinia is a 1.5 MWe multiple generator complex powered by solar collectors at Toele Army Base in Utah.
Ideal for Remote Applications
The same technology is ideal for operation at other remote sites where there is no central station power but there is access to natural gas or another fuel. According to Jeffrey Williams, CFO for Infinia, the engines are capable of reliable operation with minimal maintenance or supervision required. This characteristic and their fuel source flexibility also make them good candidates as power sources for villages in Third World countries.
Williams notes that currently the Infinia engine has an electrical output of up to 10 kW. He points out, "It is possible to parallel multiple units to increase power output. Infinia is currently developing a packaged paralleling controller to provide this option." He stresses that the product has large growth potential. "This small gas fueled generator is a great fit for smaller, remote sites where long term reliability and minimal maintenance is needed."
Worth Watching Developments
To be sure, the Stirling engine technology today is in no position to overtake turbines or conventional reciprocating engines in size or number of units deployed. But with its unique advantages, this technology is evolving and broader application in the future is likely. It's one more technology we need to watch.
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PFEIFFER SPARKS - Photo and Comment by Robin Black
For a two-week period each year around the same time as the winter solstice, the setting sun aligns with the portal in the big rock arch at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur. I was fortunate to get clear skies on this evening, which allowed the fiery sunset light to shine through the portal and light up the waves crashing through.
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Sunset in Boracay, Phillipines - Truly Breathtaking (Double Wow)
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"A Magic Moment" I was in the world-renowned resort island of Boracay in the Philippines for a class reunion.
Walking by the beach at sunset, I heard the rythmic beating of drums. I found out later this was a daily evening ritual by the islanders, to thank the sun for shining on their island.
As the sun sank into the horizon, I waited until a boat positioned itself perfectly silhouetted against the golden sky.
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NOTE:Currently operating from Wales, UK. Home QTH is Sarasota, FL but am often portable in other states or countries on CW with an ATS-3A (2W). My activities are featured in an article in the latest CQ Magazine, June, 2013. I will now be on the air as GW/K1YPP I will Tweet (as @K1YPP) when I can about activities. Will also post to QRPSPOTS.com when I have WiFi access. Look for me as GW/K1YPP.
I'm currently operating from the G3RJV, "Hut." I'm using a 51 foot random wire and the W1REX, Tunah-Tuner, using 5 watts. Look for me around 2100-0300 UTC. I'm looking for North American contacts, so please call.
My last three QSO's in Portugal were with G4DMC, Roy, DL1HSI, Sig and LZ1YW, Yoan. I was in a sunny field and spread out my sleeping pad and threw a wire in a tree. The wire was originally 15.55 meters (51 feet) long, but with use, small lengths have been breaking off, over time. I haven't measured it, but it has lost at least a meter or more in length and it just wouldn't load on 20 meters. I didn't realize how short it was and took about an hour before I finally added a meter and a half of length to it, and it started working fine. It was a wonderful way to say goodbye to Portugal and my operation as CT7/K1YPP.
Following this, we will be walking/biking across the U.K., Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark., until October. I'll be signing as K1YPP with the county designation, often from my tent, with a wire hanging from a tree, so don't expect a big signal.
The photo above is operation from Logrono, Spain. Here, I'm using my trusty ATS-3A and the Tuna Tunah, from QRPme.com. Watch for book about the hike, A FEW MORE ZEROES.
In 2007 and 2008 I completely hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,176 miles (3502 Km). There's nothing like a long hike with a QRP radio to clear the mind. The photo above was my 2007 Field Day operation from near, Damascus, VA. This was just prior to my heart surgery.
For the first 622 miles of the hike the rig used was a homebrewed 1.25 W affair. It worked great running on 40M with 1/4 wave wire and counterpoise. See article in February, 2008 WORLDRADIO magazine. Leaving the trail for 300 days for a 6-artery heart bypass, I then returned to Pearisburg, VA to finish the hike.
On the second leg of the hike in 2008 (1554 miles), thanks to Steve Weber, KD1JV, I used an ATS-3A running 2 watts with a series-L tuner and 51' random wire on 40 and 20 Meters. The last contact of the hike was from Katahdin Springs Campground in Maine. I worked AA9AA with freezing fingers and shivering bones!
See the March, 2010 QST for an article about the hike. I also have an award winning book, Three Hundred Zeroes (328 pages, 39 photos) that is a humorous, in-depth, treatment of the hike. It introduces ham radio to the public and shows that a mega-station is not necessary to really enjoy amateur radio. The book can be ordered at ThreeHundredZeroes.comSteve Ewald, WV1X, did a nice review of the book in QST in October, 2010.
My Bio is below:
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Born and raised in Connecticut. First licensed as KN1YPP (Novice) in 1962. We lived in New Hampshire for 25 years and in 2003, moved to Sarasota, Florida. On my web site at http://home.comcast.net/~k1ypp/ you can see a photo essay of my dismantling of the RBX-50 E-Z Way tower when we moved, the photos speak for themselves! My current station is a new Yaesu FT857, running on battery power at 5-30W and a very old Cushcraft trap-vertical and G5RV. Favorite operating is CW on 160, 80, 40 and 30 M and some PSK31 around 3.584,and 7.070. I operate primarily QRP, but if conditions warrant it, I do bring up the power as needed.
Look for me on the QRP frequencies, particularly on 40 Meters and on PSK31.
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Chatteris Educational Foundation
The Chatteris Educational Foundation has been a registered non-profit charitable organisation in Hong Kong since 1990. The Foundation's focus is running a unique programme that places graduate native English speakers, or those with Native-speaking English competency aged 18-25 mainly from the UK, Canada, US, Australia and New Zealand in schools throughout Hong Kong to help students improve their English.
Stage 1: The English Language Teaching Assistant (ELTA) and the English Development Programme (CEDP) for schools 1990-2005
The programme began in 1990 when Mrs. Evelyn Fergusson and Mrs. Margaret Kwee, now trustees of the Foundation, started working as volunteers, chatting in their spare time to a small number of Hong Kong students. As the importance of these chat sessions grew, so too did the reputation of their work. Later that year, the Chatteris Educational Foundation was established.
The Foundation's work soon spread to more and more schools across Hong Kong who wanted native English speakers to help provide new opportunities for their students. Eventually demand became too great and the original volunteers were unable to give the time commitment that the schools needed.
In 1994, the Foundation contacted Gap Activity Projects in the UK and recruited some eighteen year-old secondary school leavers for the Foundation's programmes in Hong Kong. These pioneer students, the first ELTAs, were shared among several schools. As more schools realised the potential of having their students interact with young native English speakers, the scope of the programme rapidly increased leading to today's Chatteris Schools Programme. In 2001-2002 there were eighty ELTAs in schools around Hong Kong. From 1995 to 2003 Chatteris was sponsored by the Language Fund and the Quality Education Fund of the Hong Kong Government respectively.
In 2003, with schools demands and expectations changing, Chatteris established a range of other services for schools including staff and curriculum development, consultancy service, English Language Environment Enrichment Programme (ELEEP) and a new position - the Graduate English Language Teaching Assistant (GELTA) for recent university graduates.
Stage 2: The Chatteris Native-speaking English Tutors (CNETs) and the Chatteris International Graduate Programme (CIGP) 2006-present
From here there were further upgrades to the Chatteris programme. The post of Graduate English Language Teaching Assistant (GELTA) was renamed Graduate English Language Tutor (GELT) in 2005, and again renamed in 2007 to Chatteris Native-speaking English Tutor (CNET). From September 2006 onwards, Chatteris staff have consisted only of graduates. The programme has also been redesigned to cater for the career development needs of these university graduates. It is now known as the 'Chatteris International Graduate Programme in Hong Kong'. Under this programme, graduates are offered the opportunity not only to work in schools but to get involved in various community programmes, cultural activities and development projects. The Chatteris English Development Programme for schools still remains the driving force of the work that these graduates do in schools.
Stage 3: Now and the road ahead
Since 2012 Chatteris has fully launched a scheme to bring up the best TESOL teachers for Hong Kong students by supporting CNETs with strong passion and commitment to developing a first career in TESOL teaching and education. Chatteris provides a career route for CNETs through combining qualifications from top British universities, school based experience and the interactive, communicative, principled and task-based teaching that represents the Chatteris approach. This approach is complemented by harnessing the increasing amount of new technology available to change the way English is taught in schools. As a result of all this, Chatteris increasingly is seen as a change agent for schools wishing to develop the way English learning is experienced by students.
A first career in TESOL opens opportunities for CNETs to go on to do many different things. In regards to education, CNETs have used the experience to develop a long term TESOL career, pursued employment at international schools or returned to teach in their home countries. If not pursuing a career in education CNETs have still found starting their first career in TESOL teaching valuable as a stepping stone to other opportunities that demand high calibre international applicants with experience. Other reasons CNETs have pursued their first career in TESOL have been to develop personally and professionally, as a springboard for travelling before settling down in their home countries or to save money.
Chatteris Community Programmes
Chatteris has a number of established and developing community programmes where partnerships have been formed with voluntary organisations and educational institutions. Some examples include the Saturday English Enhancement Programme for schools, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Pathways Foundation Limited. These established programmes offer CNETs the opportunity to make and active contribution to the Hong Kong Community. For example, the Saturday English Enhancement Programme (SEEP) aims to help students from low economic backgrounds to develop their English proficiency by providing opportunities they might otherwise not have access to. CNETs work with Pathways Foundation Limited to support students and raise awareness of young people who have specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia and AD/HD.
Chatteris is aware that CNETs are interested in other volunteering opportunities across Hong Kong. So providing CNETs go through the relevant procedures with Chatteris, they have the opportunity to locate other community opportunities and develop these links with Chatteris. As a result, many other one off volunteering opportunities have become available to CNETs, for example working with the Hong Kong Beach Clean-Up, Hands on Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Dog Rescue. As Chatteris enters an exciting period of development and stability it is hoped that these community programmes can be further developed for the benefit of Hong Kong and for CNETs to become even more integrated into the Hong Kong community.


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Being overwhelmed by the constant political rhetoric on both television and radio as the Republican National Convention was about to get underway just 45 minutes to the north; and in addition to preparing for Tropical Storm Isaac, I couldn't help but think of a favorite quote from a much more famous Isaac -- one with the last name of Newton -- "We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
Until recent years, wine was a mystery to most people in this country with many believing that true oenophiles are nothing more than "wine snobs." It used to seem quite obvious as one perused a shelf at the local wine shop that there existed a real barrier, or in other words a wall, between all those bottles with archaic-looking labels and the novice who is attempting to choose that perfect bottle to experiment with over that night's dinner. But, in today's market, there are numerous selections available in consumer-friendly packaging.
In reality, wine doesn't always have to be a mystery; one only needs to look to Randall Grahm, the founder of Bonny Doon Vineyards, to find a very artistic and eclectic winemaker. All you have to do is take a look at the unconventional labels that Grahm places on his bottles to begin to understand that Bonny Doon is unlike most other wineries.
Bonny Doon Vineyard was founded in 1983 and is known for producing Rhone-style wines. The Rhone wine region is in the south of France and produces red wines using the Grenache and Syrah varietals blended with other grapes,
including the white varietals roussanne and marsanne. The white wines are produced from the Viognier grape. Bonny Doon produces a number of wines, including the red blends Le Cigare Volant and Syrah Le Pousseur, and a white blend named Le Cigare Blanc.
If you desire more traditional varietals, you don't have to look much further than the Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines. Mondavi introduced this label in 1994 to highlight wines that were produced from grapes grown in the North and Central Coast regions of California. Each of these wines should be easy to find, with a price tag of about $10 a bottle.
Cupcake Vineyards also produces value-minded wines, costing less than a dozen of their fancy namesakes -- gourmet cupcakes which made a huge comeback nationwide. The initial release of wines from Cupcake Vineyards only took place in 2008.
Interestingly enough, Cupcake produces the typical varietals but with grapes from different parts of the world, with Sauvignon Blanc that hails from New Zealand, a Riesling from Washington State, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the Central Coast region of California, as well as a Malbec from the Mendoza region of Argentina.
It's much easier to step over the barriers that make for a daunting task to pick a bottle of wine to have with dinner on any given night, especially with the value-minded labels that are readily available on the market. Although wine may still remain as a mystery, the advent of consumer friendly labels are at least opening small foot bridges for some.
Jim Rawe, a family attorney in Bradenton, is an avid collector of fine wines. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Democrats are smart embracing cannabis (marijuana) since every poll indicates the majority of voters want to end cannabis prohibition and regulate the plant ("Some Maryland Democrats hope to legalize, tax pot," Jan. 20 Times-News, Page 1A).
Another reason to re-legalize cannabis that doesn't get mentioned is because it is Biblically correct since God created all the seed-bearing plants saying they're all good on literally the very first page of the Bible ("And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good," Genesis 1:12, KJV).
A sane or moral argument to continue punishing and caging humans for using cannabis simply doesn't exist.
Stan White
Dillon, Colo.


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A Typical Issue
The regular monthly departments include Blue Water Dispatches – information about all manner of cruising things around the world – and a column called Biewenga Offshore, which offers experienced sailor Bill Biewenga's musings on useful gear and other cruising lifestyle necessities. The New & Noteworthy department highlights the latest in equipment, clothing, and personal gear for serious cruisers. Giesemann Onboard is another regular column written by a veteran woman sailor who often brings a personal perspective to all dimensions of the cruising experience. Finally, Blue Horizons each month highlights a favorite anchorage or harbor written by BWS readers.
Feature stories focus also on extended cruising and include personal stories, boat reviews, technical reports, and gear reviews. Here's a sampling of topics covered in the last couple issues:
- Great food found on St. Martin
- Cruising from Norway to England
- Personal workouts onboard
- Cruising the canals of France
- Exploring the Azores
- Rebuilding the rig in Italy
- Adding an arch (for solar panels and gear) to your sailboat
- Coping with winter in an iced-in harbor
- Review of a cruising cookbook
- Experiencing the Marion-Bermuda cruising race
- Cruising the Canadian far north Atlantic coast
- Review of person-overboard equipment and techniques
- Review of the new Hunter 50
Pros and Cons
On the positive side, BWS avoids the sort of fluff stories frequently found in sailing magazines—the ones featuring beautiful photos and catchy titles, making you hopeful you'll actually learn something you didn't already know … but then all too often letting you down. Feature stories are usually long and detailed enough to get to the heart of the matter. For example, a recent article on cruising the thorny path from the US to the Virgin Islands—upwind and against the current for more than a thousand miles—taught me much about how to prepare for such an experience. These sailors experienced an almost constant wind on the nose and detailed the human and boat effects of being well heeled and bashed about for 12 days. Who'd have considered, for instance, how the constant vibration can shake equipment apart? A technical article in the same issue explained everything you'd need to tackle a fuel systems problem with your diesel, from cleaning the tank to polishing the fuel.
It's also refreshing to read a magazine that is not so chockfull of advertising that you sometimes have trouble finding the stories. That, of course, also makes the magazine a little slimmer than some others—but it's the advertising that's missing, not the content.
On the downside, some articles may feel a little skimpy to truly serious sailors who can never get enough technical information. And some of the gear review pieces read more like press releases written not by objective sailors but by the manufacturer's marketing department, though this is often the case in many magazines. When such a review is so overwhelmingly positive, you learn to take it with a grain of salt.
BWS Online
While Blue Water Sailing does not make full articles available online for free, the website does provide some useful information for both subscribers and nonsubscribers. Particularly of note is the Boat Review Archive section, where one can read over a hundred reviews of blue water boats published over the last six years. For those researching a certain type of gear or information on a cruising area, back issues since 1996 can be ordered. You can also view classified ads or sign up for the less expensive digital edition of the magazine.


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The news from Egypt, where more than 900 people have died and thousands more have been wounded since the interim government began cracking down on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi last Wednesday, remains grim:
Here's one thing not to do: call 911. Police in Fairfield, Conn., had to remind residents Sunday night that a cable drop-out is not "an emergency or a police-related concern." They added that misusing the 911 system can result in arrest.
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Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne.
Redheads usually stand out in a crowd, though not at the Portland Redhead Event. More than 1,300 gathered in Portland, Ore., over the weekend - which it hopes is a new world record.
To qualify, participants had to produce pictures of their younger selves and their naturally red hair. If confirmed, this would be Portland's third record this summer. The others? The largest gathering of people hugging trees and the longest floating human chain.
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The average cost of an American wedding cost more than $28,000 last year. Travelers insurance is now offering wedding insurance. There's coverage for failed wedding pictures, the caterer goes out of business, gifts go missing, etc.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm David Greene. Good morning.
After a weeklong vacation, President Obama is back at the White House, though not for long. He's getting ready for a bus tour later in the week to promote his policies on the economy and education. The president is also dealing with demands from both political parties that he get tougher with the Egyptian military, as violence rages in Egypt.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.
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The cars we drive have gotten ever more sophisticated. They can just about park themselves; they tell us if we're drifting out of our lane; they can prevent skids. Some even automatically apply the brakes if they sense that a collision is imminent.
Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh are developing a car that can do all of those things and more — it can actually drive itself. Imagine that commute to work.
Originally published on Mon August 19, 2013 3:14 pm
More than 90 percent of Americans say public libraries are important to their communities, according to the Pew Research Center. But the way that love translates into actual financial support varies hugely from state to state.
Vermont, for instance, brags that it has more libraries per capita than any other U.S. state. Some of them are remarkably quaint. In Ludlow, one library is a white clapboard Victorian, slightly frayed, ringed by lilies and sitting by the side of a brook.


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"Aloha Bruddah! It's a local Hawaiian mixplate side favorite. I think people make it differently, just like potato salad can be made in 101 Da Kine ways. This is my own easy and favorite version of ONO (tasty) potato mac. Umm, 2 scoop potato mac, for me pleeze!"
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- Place the eggs into a saucepan in a single layer and fill with water to cover the eggs by 1 inch. Cover the saucepan and bring the water to a boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, remove from the heat and let the eggs stand in the hot water for 15 minutes. Pour out the hot water, then cool the eggs under cold running water in the sink; peel and chop the cooled eggs.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain and set in the refrigerator to cool.
- Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, stir in the macaroni, and return to a boil. Cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain in a colander set in the sink; rinse with cold water.
- Whisk together the mayonnaise, vinegar, curry powder, celery seed, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Combine the cooled potatoes, macaroni, chopped eggs, carrots, peas, and onion in a large bowl. Carefully stir in the dressing; cover and refrigerate overnight.
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like you said bradda everybody get dere own potato/mac recipe but i wen check yours out stay true to da way us guys make-um aloha bradda frank
Double the macaroni and used half the curry powder then this might be a descent dish. I am a macaroni salad expert, and i was not impressed with this recipe. The curry powder was so strong, and I like curry so it wasn't that....trust me use very little, or don't use it at all!
Very tasty! Only thing too much curry for me. I used about 2 to 3 teaspoons. Everyone like this salad it is a keeper.
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- Calories
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"The dough for these cookies is what makes them exceptional. I always quadruple this recipe for the holidays. Most popular fillings are peach, apricot, raspberry and date. Use your imagination! This year I'm trying Michigan cherry preserves and cranberry marmalade. You better hide a few for Christmas day--- these are the ones that go first!"
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- Mix cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add flour slowly until well blended. Shape into a ball and chill overnight or for several hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Roll dough out 1/8 inch thick on a floured pastry board. Cut into 2 1/2 inch squares and place 1/2 tsp (approx) of jam or preserves. Overlap opposite corners and pinch together. Place on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool. Sprinkle lightly with confectioner's sugar.
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I have been making these delicious cookies for years and I found an easier way for me . I just roll them in small balls and make a thumbprint in them and fill and bake them ,when cooled I roll in powdered sugar, same great taste and much less work
truly great, truly simple. .chilled for about two hours and to simplify, I made a "log" and rolled it in plastic wrap; just sliced, dolloped and baked. No rolling or unnecessary handling. Baked about 15 minutes though. and
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This is a great recipe. My dough was great to work with, very flaky dough. Just what I was looking for. Was great with all my fillings! Thanks for sharing! I had to make cookies for the holidays so I tripled this recipe and it still worked great! I have learned through the years that I don't touch the dough with my hand except to transfer them and roll it. This prevented me from my warm hands making the dough gluey. Also this helped to make the cookies flaky. I could actually see the flaky layers when I bit into the cookies! YUMMY!
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- 4%
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- 6%
- Carbs
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Customers and local business owners were shocked when announced its intent to close on its website on June 21.
Many didn't realize the long-lived thrift store was truly done until after it broke its 10-year lease and employees left for good at 5 p.m. June 24.
A week and a half later, there aren't many more answers to some of the questions echoed by locals and longtime customers: Why did a 30-year old thrift store staple close? Why wasn't there more warning or an effort to save it?
Commenters on Patch and other online forums, along with some loyal customers, blame Fairfax City officials for the store's demise. Others point to a lack of Rose marketing and the opening of Goodwill in its old location at Main Street Center strip. Then there are those who criticize parking in the downtown.
"I will sorely miss the Rose - I got a lot of good deals there, and the staff was like family," wrote Judy Rudek on . for more comments. "Admittedly, the new location's layout was a bit awkward, but there was always a great selection of things to peruse when I stopped by."
Yesterday's Rose began in 1982 at the suggestion of the Northern Virginia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, according to the store's old website. It was run by four charities.
There's no way to be sure why the Rose closed without speaking with the store's board members, who ran and made decisions about the store and divided the proceeds among the organizations they represent.
The board members did not return several requests for comment or information, so I visited the store in hopes of finding some clues as to the Rose's demise.
Instead, I found confusion.
The store was crammed with unsold goods — racks upon on racks of donated clothing, lightly used wedding dresses still tacked to the wall. Trinkets and oddities covered shelves throughout the shop. The basement was filed with books and records and various other donated items, as well as large piles of unsorted donated goods.
A half-eaten birthday cake sat in the employee lounge, plastic utensils strewn about it as though people still intended to finish when they heard the call to close up. Half-finished and empty soda and juice bottles were forgotten among the donated goods.
Landlord Marilynn Livingston was rushing to clean the store. She'd swept large tufts of lint and dust from under the clothing racks and tried to put things in order.
She reopened the store at 10 a.m. Monday. Everything in the Rose, including the shelves and display cases, is for sale. Livingston hopes to sell most of the items the Rose left behind to prepare for her next tenant.
"I think all will be very pleasantly surprised to find out how much more spacious, organized and clean things are now," Livingston said. "It should make for a fun and easy shopping experience. Plus we will have a friendly staff of familiar faces that were in that location before Yesterday's Rose. There will be no overpriced items like before. Prices will be posted to make things easy."
So far Victorian Square, the central downtown location at the corner of Main Street and University Drive, has received interest from businesses. Rick Dickson of the Dickson Company, who manages several properties in that area, said he's had inquiries from a custom framer, an interior designer and an upscale salon. The location could be used as office space as well.
The large space boasts two floors, an elevator and a special delivery area hidden in the back. Livingston and Dickson are confident they can draw another tenant to that location.
Drop by the old Yesterday's Rose location at 10389 Main Street to catch the sale. There is free parking next door and in the garage on Chain Bridge Road. The store will be closed on July 4, but will reopen and continue until most items are sold.


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Ready, set, stack! Which party guest has the best moves? Try two versions of a classic gift stacking game. This game is fun for mixed-age groups, can be played indoors or out, and works for birthday parties and holiday parties—any event where you have wrapped gifts. Which stacking game is your favorite?
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 20-30 minutes
Here's How:
- Gather a stack of wrapped gifts of various sizes and shapes (try to have pairs of similar boxes). The more gifts, the better. To make the game easier, use empty boxes. Boxes that really have presents inside will make the game a little more difficult. Make sure those presents aren't fragile, though!
- Divide the gifts into two groups, with similar items in each group (one round box, two rectangular boxes, three small boxes, and so on). Start with five or six boxes. You can add more as the game progresses to make it more challenging.
- Select the first two players and have them sit back to back. They will be working as a team. They should each have a group of gifts in front of them.
- Then, let the stacking game begin! In front of only one of the two seated players, have a third player create a stacked arrangement with the gifts: standing them on end, piling them on top of each other. Each gift must touch at least one other gift, and no other props are allowed.
- Now, the player who can see the stacked pile of gifts must describe it to the other player so he can recreate it, without being able to see it for himself. Use a stopwatch or timer to track how long it takes.
- Once this team has successfully recreated the stack of gifts, move on to a new team. Whichever team can complete the task the fastest is the winner. (Alternatively, you can give each team a time limit of 3 to 5 minutes and see how many stacks they can create and recreate in that time.)
- Don't have enough gifts, or enough to make two matching sets? Have the first stacker make her arrangement of gifts, then take a photo with a digital camera. Then disassemble the stack, and reuse the same gift boxes when the second stacker takes over.
- Stacking Game Variation: Gift Relay. Divide group of players into two teams. For each team, put a stack of three gifts on a table at one end of the playing area; have a second table at the opposite end of the room. Have half the team stand behind the tables with the gifts and half behind the empty tables. Players must race back and forth across the room with their stack of gifts until each member of the team has carried the stack. Anyone who drops a gift must go back to her original starting point and begin again.
- To make the relay stacking game more challenging, add more gifts to the stack, require players to carry their stack with only one hand, or add obstacles to the playing area (such as cones to weave around, hula hoops to step in, and so on).
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How to survive a "collapse"By
If you waded into the RAB comments a month ago, you'd have thought the Yankees were on their way from first to last. It wasn't just limited to this site, of course; Yankees fans everywhere complained that this team was done, that they had no chance, that it was obvious to anyone who knew anything about baseball that they were going to miss the playoffs.
Yet here we sit, the Yankees taking a much-needed three-day vacation after having secured the best record in the American League. Funny how that works out: the team that was the best for more than two-thirds of the season ended the season on top, despite hitting a rough patch.
Apologies to those of you who didn't lose your cool. There were undoubtedly a number of fans who remained levelheaded, and many of them frequent RAB. I'm sure your lives were much more pleasant from August 16 through September 11, when the Yankees went 9-15 and saw a six-game lead turn into a tie for first.
Don't get me wrong: that time was no fun. But it involved a series of events over which we had no control. While we do get invested in the sport — some of us more than is healthy — it's sheer insanity to let it affect other facets of your life. The fact that the Yankees had played so well up to that point — they had the best record in the AL by 2.5 games — should have bought them a little slack as they hit a rough patch. That they were missing some key players, including their ace and two middle of the order hitters, should have bought them even more.
Honestly, it was relatively easy to weather this storm. All you need to do is fine something else remotely interesting to take your mind off matters. I suggest some of the more blatant trolls on RAB try this. Not only will you feel better in the head, but you'll be much more pleasant in the comments sections. We'd all appreciate that.
Read a book. It's the great cure for nearly any stressful situation. Just find a book, any book, and start reading. I guarantee it'll help you get over your favorite baseball team losing a few games. You might even learn something in the process. Plus, you could uncover some lines that prove prophetic.
"The Yankees cannot lose."
"But I fear the Indians of Cleveland."
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
"In the American League it is the Yankees as I said," the old man said happily.
"They lost today," the boy told him.
"That means nothing. The great DiMaggio is himself again."
- Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea
I imagine the last part of that conversation coming on Saturday, after the loss to Toronto, only replacing DiMaggio with Cano.
Immerse yourself in another hobby or — gasp — work. When the Yankees were losing games it actually became easier to focus on work. Yeah, weird, right? But without the pressing need to finish by 7 so I could flip on the game, it became easier to sit down and really dig deep into something. I got to test out an all-in-one PC from Lenovo, which was fun as anything. I also got to some serious writing, which is typically quite difficult during baseball season. But it could have been building model solar systems, cracking passwords, or any number of hobbies.
Remember the past. You don't even have to look to previous seasons to see how a team can wax and wane during a season. The Yankees went 11-15 from April 24 through May 21 before going 25-7 from the 22nd through June 27th.
Do — anything, really. Sorry for coming off as condescending, but it's really straight forward stuff. If the Yankees bother you that much, turn your attention elsewhere. They'll be there when you get back. It doesn't make you a bad fan to turn it off when it makes you upset. What makes you a bad fan is watching, getting mad, and making a fool of yourself in front of others. Sure, it might just be an internet message board or social media service, but you're still acting the fool. To me that's far more egregious than turning away and avoiding those ill feelings.
As we'd say back in the olden days:
Honestly, the past few days have been quite wonderful. They've been somewhat stressful, because there remained the chance the Yankees would play the play-in-game, or even a playoff for the AL East crown. But that's just part of baseball's normal excitement. Plus, when Raul Ibanez hit that homer in the bottom of the ninth, was there any doubt left in your mind that they'd take the AL East?
It was a rough month in the middle there, for sure. There's nothing not frustrating about a 9-15 stretch that eliminates a six-game lead. But that doesn't invalidate the previous 114 games, nor does it mean the slide will continue for the final 21 games of the season. And, of course, the Yankees went 16-5 in those final 21, which brought their final record closely in line with the .592 winning percentage they had before the collapse began.
Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. It's baseball. It happens.
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I don't see "defend other tragic tweeting/commenting" on here. Must be on Ross' blog.
I said months ago that they'd win the division and that it was locked up. It got a little close for comfort but they never fell out of first place. I think coming back to the pack will help the club in the postseason because they're already in that mindset. They've been playing must win ballgames for the past 2-3 weeks and we've gotten clutch performances from Ichiro, Robbie, Ibanez and Dave Phelps. This will help us in the playoffs.
Watching the Yankees during their "collapse" is still better than watching the Jets.
Easiest way to survive a collapse: think "things feel bad at the moment, but I could be a Sox or Mets fan right now…"
Where was this excellent psychiatric analysis when Chuck Knoblauch suffered Steve Sax syndrome, Dr. Joe?
Easiest way for me to have survived this almost "collapse" was simply to stay off this board (and all other Yankees' boards, for that matter), and most definitely out of the game threads…. Some really crazy stuff was being posted around here.
Last night was such a wonderful night for the Bombers…and to do it in Game 162 vs. Boston AND put up a 14-2 score….great way to end the season and I'm sure made a lot of folks have to eat their words. Our guys came through, as they've done all year.
Now on to the playoffs with a rested and full squad again. Look forward to seeing #28 being won this year vs. Washington!!!!!
Yeah, I avoided the game threads for a few weeks too, and got into the Political season with the conventions…
Now…it's PLAY BALL !
Losing periods are always painful, and good teams pretty much all go through 20, 30, 40, sometimes even 50-game stretches where they're just not all that good. Yet in the end, the Yankees still won 95 games.
When the Yankee built that ten-game lead it was quite unrealistic. It was very rapid, just as it was when they lost their lead. Their hot streak coincided with a cold stretch by the other division players. That evened out. Yet they were in good shape to win the division by six to twelve games in most years. I expected the Rays to be the team to close the gap with their pitching, but the main issue turned out to be the Orioles who kept winning in impossible ways. They compiled the greatest record by far in one-run games in the entire HISTORY of the American League. Flukes like that can't be accounted for in baseball. They just happen sometimes. As I noted in one of the threads, if the Orioles keep winning these close games at this pace, then the Yankees might lose the division even if they play well. Can't really worry aboutt hat. Yet in the end, the Yankees still won despite the substantial injuries and the incredible run by Baltimore.
As for the trolls and the ledge jumpers, they'll be back. Soon as the Yankees are behind by a run. The trolls I don't care about. I ignore them once I recognize their trolls. The serious fans who are always so negative, even when things are going well, are the true mystery. Life for them must suck 24/7.
We are not the Red Sox (or Braves) of 2011.
The Yankees were never even close. Losing 21 of 28, or whatever the Red Sox did last September, was hardly in the cards. They lost to the Rays last year not because the Rays were playing great ball; they lost last year because they collapsed.
The Yankees on the other hand were playing well in September and pretty much were going to be in the postseason. They just were trying to avoid being one of the Wild Cards. Unlike the Rays last year, the Orioles were making their own destiny.
Geniune question – was the Sox's collapse of September 2011 better or worse than their 'continuation of rubbishness' of September 2012?
Better or worse for who? As a Yankee fan, the whole mess has been enjoyable to watch. September last year was historic, so that was even more enjoyable. 2012 they just sucked.
was there any doubt left in your mind that they'd take the AL East?
Yeah not really, seemed destiny-ish at that point
This is good but I wish it came like 3 weeks or 6 weeks ago or maybe 9 weeks ago. The out of control trolls make reading RAB game threads impossible in close games or games when the other team scores a run in the first inning. There have been many a night I just gave up. Most prominent example I can think of is stuart ragging on Arod relentlessly prior to him hitting the GS in Atlanta. Then crickets. Then back to all negativity all the time. So tiring.
I've been a Yankee fan all my life and they win every game and they don't go all the way every season, but those who live and die inning to inning are just incredibly tiresome. Much more tiresome than the idea of a Yankee collapse.
Sorry to put this /rant here, but honestly, it's just what I'm tired of at the end of the season. Not the Yankees or their "win some/lose some" way of playing baseball which is sort of everyone's way of playing baseball. The Yankees just win more, year after year, than most. So bitching about another team scoring a run in the first inning and declaring the team dead by the second is just getting very old.
*they don't win every game (I know, horrors!)
+10000 on everthing in this post. It needed to be said.
is it too early to start griping that the Yankees won't make the playoffs NEXT year?
Maybe a tad, but you can certainly lament on how Cashman has failed to put together a roster capable of winning it all this year.
Wow Joe. Talk about being hoisted by your own petard (Shakespeare rather than Hemingway) or biting the hand that feeds! I'm sure the last month was a banner month for hits/comments on this site. Losing your "cool" and the reactions to those who do makes RAB a more interesting read during the stressful moments especially in the game threads and really is more at what being a fan/fanatic is about (the definition of fanatic says it all: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion). Instead of apologizing for being condescending you should probably be more concerned about turning into a "get off my lawn" curmudgeon. Lighten up. Life is good!
"replacing DiMaggio with Cano."
My grandfather is spinning in his grave. No one replaces the great DiMaggio.
There was only one Joseph Paul of May. There is nobody out there in professional baseball that can be compared to him.
There was only one Teddy Fucking Ballgame too, and he was better.
Um, well, not according to T.F. Ballgame himself. It was well-recorded that he thought DiMaggio his superior.
Both were before my time, but:
How is DiMag superior? Maybe Ted had an inferiority complex?
Also, the lifetime 482 OBP is the best in MLB history.
Ted's comments/opinion notwithstanding, I stand by my assertion that Williams was better.
Sweet Dick, Colo Yank was giving you the real information regarding Williams' own words. No words coming out of your filthy mouth can change that!
Colo Yank, your comment regarding Williams and DiMaggio was right on. However,it is useless to communicate with Pig-Headed posters. Incidentally, when I made my original statement regarding Joseph Paul of May that there was nobody out there in professional baseball that could be compared to him, I was referring to all the current players today, not to yesteryear's greats.
Sweet Dick,Ted Williams was considered a mediocre left fielder with little or no arm. The Great DiMaggio was a premier center fielder with a great arm. As a matter of fact, Ted Williams wrote in his autobiography that Williams thought he was a better hitter than Joseph Paul, however, he could not compete with the Great DiMaggio as an all-around ballplayer. These were Williams' words!
I wonder what the comments would have been like if RAB was around in September '98. I imagine the comments during that 12-15 stretch from mid-August to mid-September would've had people convinced that they were a terrible team. I'm sure lots of people would've wanted the rookie GM fired for letting such a terrible collapse happen. Probably calls for George to fire Torre too – the '96 World Series was almost 2 years ago, can't ride on that forever!
Or when they went down 2 games to 1 to Cleveland in the ALCS that year. The bridge-jumpers would have been all over that one!
We survived by a clutch hit or two from having to play Texas in a one game playoff. So I don't really get this article. Yeah there were people jumping off the bridge and I don't blame them. The question now becomes how will we win in the playoffs. We don't match up favorably against any of these teams. Sabathia suddenly looks old this year (maybe injuries that he's not disclosing), Kuroda has trouble winning, and Hughes is very unpredictable. Worst of all, the offense looks feeble against any decent pitcher. Our old nemesis, RISP, is lurking around the corner every inning. And Girardi makes Clueless Joe Torre look like a genius. Hate to pop your bubble but I'd be very surprised if we survive the first round.
The bridge is right over there. Don't forget to scream and wave your arms around on your way down.
Seriously, EVERY SINGLE TEAM in the AL playoffs has issues. None of them are a lock for anything. They all could easily win the pennant and go to the World Series. They all could easily lose and go home. May as well enjoy it, unless you prefer expecting the worst and getting yourself all tangled into knots about stuff you can't control. Your choice.
Oh I'll enjoy the playoffs, whatever happens. Been a Yankee fan since '81 so I've seen 'em lose, seen 'em win. It's baseball. But I'm just stating the obvious: our chances, at least on paper, are worse than the other teams.
"But I'm just stating the obvious: our chances, at least on paper, are worse than the other teams."
I'm willing to bet many Yankee fans don't see that as obvious at all. Myself included. Yankees have as good of a chance as anyone else.
Yes, the obvious. It's not like we're the favorite to make the world series or co-favorite to win it all.
The obvious: Yankees have tied or won every regular season series against the AL playoff teams, therefore, their chances are less than everyone else.
/eye roll
27 rings, like 17 play-off apereances in the last 18 seasons… I think you (as in everybody) should know better by now. This organization has earned the benefit of the doubt, at least.
Just sit back, relax, and thank the good Lord for making you a Yankee (Fan), in case you are of course.
The '78 Yankees were one clutch hit away from not making the playoffs.
The 2003 Yankees were one big hit away from not winning the pennant.
If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
There is so much negativity in this comment I don't know where to begin, so I'll just pick the low hanging fruit.
Sabathia suddenly looks old this year
Nebulous statement that contains no facts.
CC's last 3 starts:
I guaran-fucking-tee you every team in the playoffs wished they had a starting pitcher who looked that old.
I just skiped the games and drank on weekends during the bad strech.
Seriously my liver apreciates the good run, 'cause i just stay at home friday night and saturday morning.
Its one thing to tell people to chill on your MB's and not to be rude/ obnoxious/ obscene and generally act all mental, its another thing altogether to start playing Life Coach to people who didn't solicit your advice.
Steves makes a good point, you didn't post this in the midst of the Yank's poor spell when it was likely a banner time for hits/ comments, now did you? Wasn't that when it would have been most timely?
That said, your advice is well put, but here's a word of advice of my own- If you feel the need to write, "sorry for coming off as condescending…" then guess what?
You are being condescending.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with acting the fool!
(If you're Brian Dawkins)
When I was very young as the song goes, I would be devastated if the Yankees lost in the WS which occurred with rare frequency. The loss in 55 vs Brooklyn was felt deeply within me. However,the one that hurt the most was the 60 WS which ended on Mazeroski's home run. After that I never got excited or despaired if they won or lost. And by the way, Hemingway was my favorite author and I read all of his books, but I don't remember the quote on Dimaggio in
the Old Man and the Sea.
Hemingway is a good read.
I always thought his use of DiMaggio was the old man assurance of his abilities. Hemingway always used his own traits and personal opinions into the leads and used what the Old Man felt he was about…"(he)…is himself again"
CS Yankee, Hemingway was a close friend of Joseph Paul of May. It should be noted in one of DiMaggio's biographies, they both attended a championship boxing match. When the crowds swelled around DiMaggio and asked him who the man with the beard was, Hemingway just uttered that he was just a friend of the Yankee Clipper.
Hey, someone who's been around even longer than me.
The '60 series was my very first encounter with the Yankees. Specifically, on the day of Game 7, Sr. Annette Marie told us we didn't have to do homework that night if the Yanks won the Series. So Mazeroski's home run was a double bummer for me. (To this day, when people tell me how boring the Yankees are because they "always win", I flash back to that)
Things got better right quick, of course.
A month ago, the trajectory of Baltimore was overwhelming, the Yankees' underwhelming. And it appeared the battering the Yankees had taken on the disabled list was catching up to them. It certainly appeared the Birds would go rolling past the Yanks.
But like a distance runner who'd been caught and then refused to yield the lead, the Yanks toughened up and gutted it out. Frustrating Baltimore time and time again. The Yanks deserve credit for showing such pride and determination, such resolve and refusal to allow Baltimore to pass by.
That said, the AL championship is completely up for grabs this year. Any team in the playoffs could go to the World Series. The Yanks, like all the other teams, will have a tough road to grind. The biggest problem facing the Yanks is that they've got a few players who hit home runs, but don't hit for average. And in the playoffs good pitching prevails over those kinds of hitters. So Jeter, Cano, Swisher, above all, are really going to have to carry the offense. And hopefully between those other guys one or two will do some hitting in each particular game. Of course, the playoffs are always, always about clutch hitting. That's the rub.
Grandy is the 7th hitter…think about that.
I feel with Ichi, Nunie & Gardy, that they are the most balanced team out there. However if they add/play Jones and start Raul, I'll be sadden serverely.
Power & speed, throw in the high OBP and they are the most complete team at the dish.
The 9-15 would not have been so concerning if it were not part of a stretch from July 18-September 20 where the team played .500.
When you play mediocre for 2 complete months it's hard to be very optimistic about the post-season. Joe G. did well to right the ship.
$200 million helps a lot.
Unless you're the Red Sox.
Haha, the work thing is so true! I live in Australia so I watch a lot of games via mlb.com gameday from 9am to roughly Noon (west coast games from noon to 3pm). When the Yanks are on a slide, or an off day like today, my work productivity increases dramatically which I am sure my employer appreciates. Oh, that reminds me, I have to do some work…
Cerebral sage words. Far too often folks mistake the Yankees for Their Guiding Force, which is sad in a way. As Yankee fans, we're pretty GD fortunate to have a team that's substantial most of the time. Maybe 3 days off will do everybody some good.
For me it wasnt the loosing that was so frustrating it was all the RISP. Its hard to watch your team put men on base every night and regularly fail to get them home. It seemed like just a handful of timely hits and the Yankees would have never even been in a race.
All right, Joe, and all you loyal posters, I have this little trick that might make me less of a fan, but I don't think so. Each day after a Yankee loss, I find I pay a little less attention to the specifics of that game. Oh, I keep a sharp eye on the standings, who the Yanks are playing, who's coming up next on the schedule, etc., but the game itself, I kind of push to some other place in my psyche. I've been following the Yanks for an awful long time (that doesn't make me any better or more remarkable, just older than most on this forum), and I remember Yankee teams that lost day in and day out. Think about that. They were tenth in a 10-team league my first year as a fan, and deserved every loss they took. They stank.
Right now is a very joyous time. These games and players are so sweet to watch and enjoy … It's an odd thing, this team and its community of fans. Like Ozzie Smith said about Derek Jeter, circa 2000. He's (we've) got a very warped view of baseball, like we're upside down on it. I like it when they compete, and do well against good competition. Honestly? As a fan, that's all you can ask. Truly. Sit back, relax, let the games wash over you, and love the moment.
This is nonsense. You run a fan site. Fans are passionate. They get crazy when the team is doing well and they get crazy when they aren't. Sports are one of the few places where we can really express our feelings fully. My opinion is that the slow pace of baseball increases the opportunity for dread and foreboding. Some of us, myself included, ride the rollercoaster of emotion with each inning, every game, all season. If that's troublesome to you, maybe you ought to put up a warning that your site is only for dispassionate observers and everybody else should get lost.
No one said you're not allowed to post nonsensical ravings.
He just said that you come of as looking foolish. If that's ok with you, carry on.


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