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Our current economic situation makes it even more likely that owners would abandon their pets rather than pay fees or pay to spay or neuter them.
A bill pending in the state Senate would require that dogs be spayed or neutered unless their owners obtain licenses to leave them unaltered. Those licenses could be revoked for certain violations of local animal-control laws. It also would require cats allowed outdoors to be spayed and neutered.
Senate Bill 250, a mandatory spay and neutering bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Dean Florez, purports to reduce shelter populations. The logic behind SB 250 is simple: force everyone to spay and neuter their pets and there won't be accidental matings that produce the puppies and kittens that end up in shelters. Unfortunately, the logic is flawed.
SB 250 doesn't address the real problem. Of the 400,000 animals euthanized in California shelters, 70 percent were feral cats. These wild cats have no owners, so no one will neuter them. Of the owned animals relinquished to shelters, 85 percent of dogs and 95 percent of cats were adults or adolescents that were already spayed or neutered. These animals were not unwanted puppies and kittens; they were relinquished because they had behavior problems, or there were changes in the owners' living situations. SB 250 won't help these animals at all.
SB 250 won't lower shelter populations by eliminating unwanted litters. Experience with mandatory spay and neutering laws that exist in some jurisdictions show that instead of pre-emptively spaying or neutering their pets, people often abandon pets and whole litters when faced with punitive fees or fines. Los Angeles County saw an increase of 28 percent in euthanasia and 20 percent in shelter populations after imposing such a law, exactly the opposite of what the law intended to accomplish. Our current economic situation makes it even more likely that owners would abandon their pets rather than pay fees or pay to spay or neuter them. This would increase the costs for local and state government. It's a bad idea.
SB 250 would eliminate the California hobby breeders of dogs and cats by licensing and taxing them to the breaking point. Californians would lose the opportunity to get well-socialized puppies and kittens from knowledgeable local breeders who have taken the time to select breeding animals for temperament, health and conformation, and who have the knowledge to ensure that the right puppy or kitten gets into the right home. Californians' pet options would be limited to shelters, pet stores or out-of-state and foreign sources that breed for profit rather than for better pets. Pets that are poorly bred and socialized are more likely to end up in shelters.
Perversely, SB 250 is just a rerun of last year's failed mandatory spay and neuter bill, Assembly Bill 1634. That measure failed because it would have been costly to the state, would not have helped animals and would have hurt responsible breeders and pet owners. Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly rejected AB 1634. Unfortunately, like a horror movie monster that refuses to die, it has morphed into the current measure.

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Upcoming Financial Results, Recognitions, Fighting Championships, New Appointments, and Mortgage Monitor Reports - Research Report on Amazon.com, eBay, NCM, Green Dot, and LPS PR Newswire NEW YORK, October 18, 2013 NEW YORK, October 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Editor Note: For more information about this release, please scroll to bottom. Today, Analysts' Corner announced new research reports highlighting Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI), Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT), and Lender Processing Services, Inc. (NYSE: LPS). Today's readers may access these reports free of charge - including full price targets, industry analysis and analyst ratings - via the links below. Amazon.com Inc. Research Report On October 10, 2013, Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon.com) announced that it will hold a conference call to discuss its Q3 2013 financial results on October 24, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET). 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Coming soon – At Home with the Ludskis (no 12) at Wysing Art Centre…
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Screening of Artists Moving Image old and new.
The Wysing Edition of At Home with the Ludskis no. 12 will be part of the 5th Space Time Festival at Wysing Art Centre, 30th August 2014
Artists included in screening programme:
Pipilotti Rist, Babette Mangolte, Trisha Brown
Zina Saro-Wiwa, house of o'dwyer, Laura Parnes
Meg Mosley, Sarah Maple, Ross McClure
Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Jodi.org, Qila Gill
Charlotte Morman, Nam June Paik, Fred Stern
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THEMATIC A beautiful musical opera accompanied by dramatic visuals… that was Gandhi Mahaan Kathai. RUPA SRIKANTH
'Gandhi Mahaan Kathai,' presented on Gandhi Jayanthi by dancer-scholar-musician Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, was a never-before-seen kind of production -- it was neither Bharatanatyam nor Bharatanrithyam but a beautiful musical opera accompanied by dramatic visuals. The impactful story-telling through music and mime re-created effortlessly the emotional landscape of that one special Indian, M. K. Gandhi. The work was prompted by R. Krishnaswamy and Natyarangam of Narada Gana Sabha. It was based on poet-lyricist-actor-film director Kothamangalam Subbu's text 'Gandhi Mahaan Kathai,' written for villupaattu and so had colloquial Tamil lyrics set in folk metres and tunes by Dr. Padma, who incidentally completes 60 years as a dancer this year.
The presentation was biographical as it traced Gandhiji's life from birth until his death. It was also a chronicle of India's Freedom Struggle as the events overlapped after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, when he rose in protest with the Non-Cooperation Movement.
As we travelled with the Mahatma through the ups and downs of his life, a sense of connection was undeniable as the sublime music, the humility in the acting (Padma, Vineeth) and the comprehensive narration (Lakshmi, Saraswati) came together. The production went beyond a performance to become an experience.
The real hero was the music. Led by Dr. Gayatri Kannan, herself a dancer, and accompanied by seniors such as Isaikkavi Ramanan, Lalitha Krishnababu and R. Narayanan, B. Kannan (veena), K. Sathyanarayanan (keyboard) and Devaraj (flute), along with percussionists Nagai P. Sriram (mridangam), N. Sundar (tabla), V. Rajagoapalan (effects) and K. Shyamakrishnan (ganjira), the music conveyed the essence of the happenings. Their timing too is to be applauded.
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The performance commenced with Gandhiji's favourite words 'Hey Ram' that was set in a bhajan style, setting the scene for the introduction of the folk element in a beautiful tableau with vibrant dancers. Following this was an endearing conversation between mother and son, as Gandhiji's mother is not happy about his London proposal. 'Settu Pazhakkam Poi Ketta Pazhakkame Sinda Palanaagum,' says Putlibai to which Gandhiji replies, "Amma Thaye Pethavalae, Naan Appadi Magan Alla!" Such simple words and so telling!
It was easy to follow as the music, the events and the mime were clearly spelt out; even the group sequences, with the 45 dancers of the troupe were so orderly and so involved that there was not even one child out of line. The 'kappal porappadu' showing Gandhiji's voyage to Britain and the sequence when Gandhiji travels by train in South Africa were particularly eye-catching.
The dancers whipped up emotions while bringing alive the dramatic events such as the Punjab massacre, the boycott of British goods, the salt satyagraha and the opening of the Madurai Meenakshi temple. There were no steps per se, but the coordination, timing and anga shudda can be achieved only by dancers! It was a pity that we did not actually get to 'see' Gandhiji, as the production was a third person narrative. There were, however, quite a few glimpses of the Mahatma when the actors got into the characters, which they did with dignity. One such image was that of Gandhiji (Vineeth) in The Great Trial defending the Non-Cooperation campaign. Another was when Gandhiji (Padma) loses his beloved secretary Mahadev Desai and his wife Kasturba while being imprisoned; it was a moving 'Irupathi Irendu Maasam...' in Malahari.
His death was captured by the dancers with remarkable timing and as Gandhiji's favourite bhajan, 'Vaishnava Jana To' was sung, there was not a dry eye in the overflowing auditorium.


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I am twelve years old and I have a rotator cuff injury. It all started when I skied into powder unknowingly and did a complete roll down the face off the mountain hitting my shoulder multiple times while outstretched. So I went to school thinking I was fine, which I was, until a friend of mine wanted to "fix" my shoulder and therefore forcing a rotator cuff injury. I screamed in pain and astonishment as I smacked his face repeatedly. He deserved it. Take note that I told him not to touch me but yet he continued and did. It wasn't until my next class that my hand had swollen and turned a deep red. Also I could not write. I was immediately sent home. Now here I am writing in bed with my left hand and in a sling not being able to sleep due to pain and preparing for tomorrow's X-rays and possible MRIs.
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A few days ago, I was shoveling snow. It had snowed a lot, and I was clearing away a 5-foot pile up. I got a pretty good load on the shovel and hoisted it over my shoulder. I could feel the muscles pulling, but by the time I tried to stop, my shovelling arc had already been completed. There was an initial sharp pain, and then some discomfort lifting my arm to the side. Fortunately, I still have more or less full range of movement. I just have a pretty sharp pain when I lift my arm to the side. Like I said, I've had plenty of shoulder injuries in the past. Shoulder separation being the most common. This was something different in that at least here I can move my arm in some directions, where with separations, I couldn't move at all. Not much comfort in that realization, though. Hoping that some rest and NSAIDs will get me back to the weight room in a few weeks.
Comment from: Dee, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: December 21
Last summer I tried to pull up a large ivy root so that a new fence could be put in place. I tore the rotator cuff in my dominant arm (confirmed by a private MRI scan) and have been in pain ever since. Despite repeated visits to my GP, osteopath & chiropractor I can get little relief. As I am 69 it seems I am too old to be referred for surgery. Now pursuing my hobbies such as painting, writing, gardening etc are too painful, so my quality of life has shrunk. It's no fun getting old & 'past your sell-by date'!
Comment from: StephanieLC, Female (Patient) Published: December 16
I damaged my rotator cuff by taking a severe fall as a small child from a climbing frame, reaching upwards to try and grab a rung as I fell. Later I had a number of horseback riding accidents, one of which in particular involved my falling right on my bad arm. Much later in life I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, but my left shoulder was always worse than anywhere else. It seems I had been putting extreme pressure on my left shoulder by constantly sleeping on it the final straw was when I had a more recent horse-related accident when my saddle rotated and someone grabbed my bad arm to save me from coming right off the horse. I guess all those things contributed to the very large tear I have. Unfortunately because of the large size of the tear, my Rheumatoid Arthritis and the limited range of movement with severe pain I have I have been told it's likely to remain like this. I began Pilates as a way to release it and this has had some effect though I guess the answer is don't sleep heavily on one side and certainly don't fall off horses too often. I've trained myself with pillows to sleep on my other side now - as for the horses - unfortunately I'm addicted.
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I tore my rotator cuff playing racquetball last night. I had surgery on it about 15 years ago. I understand ibuprofen is good and possibly ice. Guess I'll be out of racquetball for a while. I'm in major pain.
Comment from: kc, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: July 26
Yikes! I turned 44 on Monday and did this really new fun yoga move under a great teacher and had no problems. The next day, I tried a repeat of the back bend into handstand and my shoulder 'buckled' as I rolled out of it. I tried to move my arm and felt it. Five days later still, I still have a limited range of motion. I'm using lots of ice and ibuprofen, but I fear the worst! Two years ago, I injured my rotator cuff on other arm doing power yoga. No yoga for me for a while!
Comment from: twannman112, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: May 22
I injured my shoulder lifting weights. I just started lifting again and I think I started lifting weights that were too heavy, which caused the injury.
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Sounds really good. If they do remaster more episodes, this one should be first due to the infamy of its current state.
definitely agree. it's not so much that the mission's bad (medicore, yes, but not terrible), it's that it's blatantly obvious something is up as soon as we search those crates... but we can't do anything about it until too late.
in my plan above, it's remastered with little resources (at least as far as i know), and allows the player to decide what to do. you can decide to play the fool and have the romulans be inflirated easily, or confront the 'Admiral' early on and stop things from going terribly wrong. with my plan, there's replay value to a degree, the career options, less mobs... and so on.
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Direct Relief International has allocated up to $100,000 in cash to support the emergency response in China and Tibet following the earthquake in Qinghai Province yesterday. A portion of those funds will finance the travel of three partner groups sending medical and assessment teams into the affected region, including Yushu. Direct Relief is coordinating with Amitabha Foundation, One HEART, and Mercy Relief, which […]Read more →
Today Direct Relief International is reaching out to its partners in Tibet and China to assess needs following a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck yesterday. According to news reports, at least 400 people are feared dead and that number is expected to rise; while search-and-rescue efforts are underway to find survivors. Initial estimates number the injured in the tens of thousands. […]Read more →
In the three months following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti's capital, Direct Relief International has delivered emergency medical assistance valued at more than $34.8 million (wholesale) to more than 30 healthcare providers. Having worked in Haiti since 1964, Direct Relief had strong relationships with the country's largest hospitals and clinics, allowing us to rapidly deploy resources to where they […]Read more →
Direct Relief International is reaching out to its partners in Indonesia to offer assistance following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra today. News reports indicate that power blackouts have occurred on Simeulue Island following the quake and a tsunami warning is in effect for Indonesia; damage and injury assessments are being made. Partners contacted in the region include Muhammadiyah, Island Aid, Yayasan Bumi Sehat, Mercy Relief, […]Read more →
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RKF tapped for 22,000 s/f agency.
RKF will be responsible for leasing 2,675 s/f of ground-floor and basement space at 404 Third Ave., 2,470 s/f of ground-floor space at 997 Third Ave., 9,000 s/f of lower-level space at 552 Sixth Ave., 1,000 s/f of ground-floor space at 1375B Sixth Ave., 3,700 s/f of ground-floor and basement space at 1379 Sixth Ave. and 2,700 s/f of ground-floor space at 47 E. 21st St.
Scott Edlitz, managing director With RKF, is representing Manhattan Skyline Management in this assignment.
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"Soon after the completion of the deal, we were chosen to lease retail space at six of its other buildings in Manhattan."
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Sunday July 12th, 2015 Coin & Stamp Show
The Brunswick Coin & Stamp Club is sponsoring our annual Spring Coin & Stamp Show on Sunday July 12th, 2015. The upcoming July Show is another near sellout with the following dealers in attendance who will be staffing 40+ tables.
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Coins, currency, medals & tokens, stamps, post cards, ephemera and postal history, as well as collector supplies will be available for sale. As usual, there will be a "silent bid" auction which is one of the favorites of many collectors attending the Show. Hourly door prizes, including ( 2 ) $50.00 bills.
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It was also just announced that Anna's love interest Kristoff will be played by "Greek" star Scott Michael Foster.
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June 18, 2013
Drugs and jobs do not mix
On June 7, Heather Rutz's column was about the problem employers are having trying to find people who can pass a drug test.
In Saturday's paper the report of an operator of a piece of heavy equipment in Philadelphia is charged with six deaths at the job site. Marijuana was found in his system.
This is just one incident. When will people understand if you want a job DO NOT do drugs. If you want to keep a job DO NOT do drugs. If you do not want to potentially hurt yourself or others DO NOT do drugs.
For those of you who think your rights are being stepped on let me say this, party hearty dude and watch more jobs leave this country. It shouldn't bother you, you're stoned, right?
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Insulin Treatment Associated with Higher Mortality Rates
A recent study that analyzed over 3,400 French adults over a period of 14 years found that those with Type 2 diabetes who received insulin treatment had a significantly increased risk of death as reported by diabeticlive.com.
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Insulin Treatment Associated with Higher Mortality Rates: A study that analyzed over 3,400 French adults over a period of 14 years found that those with Type 2 diabetes who received insulin treatment had a significantly increased risk of death as reported by diabeticlive.com.
According to Dr. Emilie Bérard, an epidemiology researcher at the University Hospital Center in Toulouse, France, patients with diabetes who were âœtreated with insulin at baseline were at increased risk of all-cause mortality.â Dr. Bérard spoke at the yearly meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, adding that the data âœprovides further information to the debate on the risks and benefits of increasing hypoglycemic treatments.â
The study adjusted for factors that may have affected the outcomes of the data. Even after the adjustments were made, the study found that diabetics who received treatment with insulin were five times more likely to die over the 14 year period of the study than the study participants who did not have diabetes. Those who received insulin were also 1.5 to 2.2 times more likely to die than diabetics who were treated with other hypoglycemic drugs such as Metformin or Sulfonylurea. The relative risk of death for diabetic patients who were treated with insulin was nearly double that of diabetic patients who did not receive any treatment at all â" the latter group was about 2.8 times more likely to suffer death than patients without diabetes.
Dr. Lars Rydén, a professor of medicine at the Uppsala University in Sweden, cautioned against taking the studyâs findings at face value. The study was âœon the right track,â according to Dr. Rydén, but its findings must also âœbe taken with a grain of salt.â
âœThe results indicate something, but we need further studies,â continued Dr. Rydén. He commented that a major potential flaw in Dr. Bérardâs findings were that it used several adjusting factors in a fairly small sample group of only 171 diabetic patients. âœI think [the analysis] is on the edge of controlling for too many things in a small number of people, which led to extremely wide confidence intervals,â said Dr. Rydén.
The findings were also questioned because the participants did not undergo an evaluation of their A1c levels when the study began in 1995 and 1996. According to Dr. Bérard, this means that the adjusted analysis could not account for the varying quality of diabetes control that the patients may have received at baseline. Dr. Bérard speculated that the insulin treatment could have caused a higher rate of hypoglycemia which lead to a higher mortality rate, it could have caused increased weight gain, or it could be indicative of more serious cases of diabetes. It may have also stimulated the sympathetic nervous system, which could have promoted atherosclerosis and triggered vasoconstriction.
The study analyzed data collected from a random sample of 3,403 French adults who were aged between 34 and 64. The study began in 1995 and 1996 and was a part of the MONICA (Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Developments in Cardiovascular Disease) project, a large study sponsored by the World Health Organization. Of the study sample group, 171 participants had diabetes, with 123 on a hypoglycemic regimen and 48 who were not being treated for diabetes at all.
Dr. Bérardâs team analyzed the participantsâ data 14 years after their first assessment and found that the mortality rates varied widely, from 7% in the group without diabetes to 33% in the group who were treated with insulin; those who were not receiving hypoglycemic treatment at the beginning of the study had a 23% mortality rate.
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Open-Source Databases, Part II: PostgreSQL
If you're developing an application that depends on storing and retrieving large amounts of data, you undoubtedly have discovered how useful a relational database can be. Databases have been around for a while, but for many years, the open-source offerings were inferior to their commercial counterparts. Today, we have several open-source options from which to choose. Last month, I gave an overview of MySQL, which is probably the most popular open-source, client-server relational database.
This month, we look at MySQL's best-known competitor, PostgreSQL. (Next month, I plan to compare the two programs.) PostgreSQL has a smaller community than MySQL, which sometimes leads people to write it off, think of it as unimportant or even believe that it's not as powerful as MySQL. But, PostgreSQL includes nearly all the functionality of MySQL, and it offers a large number of features that MySQL does not currently offer. As this article shows, it's worth considering PostgreSQL any time you need a database.
PostgreSQL began as a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. Michael Stonebreaker, a professor of computer science, already had developed and released one database product known as Ingres. After commercializing Ingres, he returned to Berkeley and designed a new database (Postgres), meant in part to solve the problems he had seen with Ingres. Despite a growing community of users, Stonebreaker shut down the Postgres project in 1993.
However, Postgres was distributed under the BSD open-source license, which meant users were free to modify and redistribute it. Two Berkeley students, along with a handful of people from elsewhere in North America, decided to see how easily they could modify the code and distribute a working database.
One of the changes these developers made was in the way Postgres communicated to the outside world. Originally, Postgres had used the QUEL query language that Stonebreaker had designed for Ingres. The developers removed QUEL and added an SQL interpreter to be more compatible with other products. To indicate that this version of Postgres used SQL, the database was renamed PostgreSQL.
Today, many of those original developers continue to work with the project, fixing bugs and contributing patches. The effort is coordinated by a volunteer steering committee. Individual PostgreSQL developers may be hired (as employees or contractors) by various companies, but no one company or organization controls the development or direction of PostgreSQL as a whole.
The most recent release of PostgreSQL is 8.2.3, released in early February 2007. This was a bug-fix release for version 8.2, which was released in late 2006. Major releases typically come out once per year, with additional minor releases for security and other serious bugs.
The easiest way to install PostgreSQL is to use a packaging system, such as debs or RPMs. On my Ubuntu system, for example, I was able to install PostgreSQL easily and quickly with apt-get. Note that most packaging systems distinguish between the PostgreSQL client, server and developer libraries, so be sure to retrieve the packages that are most appropriate for your needs. Installing PostgreSQL via apt-get or RPMs should achieve everything you need to get started—from creating a postgres user to initializing a data directory.
If you must install PostgreSQL from source, I suggest reading the documentation that comes with it. Compiling PostgreSQL is not hard, but it does require more description than I have room for in this article. One piece of advice though, for anyone compiling it from scratch, is to unpack the archive, as well as compile and test it, as the postgres user. Trying to compile and test PostgreSQL as the root user is bound to fail, and other users also might not have sufficient privileges for it to work correctly.
Now, we're ready to start up the server. Prebuilt packages generally will include a shell script (to be placed in /etc/init.d/ or the equivalent) that starts the server for you. Even if you have downloaded and installed the source code for PostgreSQL, you will find an appropriate startup script in the contrib directory. I suggest using (or at least modifying) this script rather than writing one from scratch. On my system, I can start PostgreSQL with:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
If all goes well, our server should now be running. (We can check this by typing ps aux | grep postgres at the command line.) The easiest way to access the server is to use the psql interactive client, which comes with PostgreSQL. To get a list of databases in the current cluster, use the following syntax:
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Lady Gaga loves to surprise and she certainly did Saturday when she turned up at Walt Disney World.
The always controversial singer spent several hours at the resort outside Orlando, FL, where she became new BFFs with the Evil Queen of Snow White fame.
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Lady G also went on the Magic Kingdom's Peter Pan Flight and bravely found her way through the Haunted Mansion.
Gaga had performed in Orlando Friday night, and apparently couldn't leave the area without letting the kid in her out at Disney World.
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In and Out of Caloris
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Release Date: March 5, 2014 Topics: Caloris, Terminator Views Date acquired: April 27, 2012 Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 244054579 Image ID: 1721895 Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) WAC filter: 7 (748 nanometers) Center Latitude: 40.19° Center Longitude: 140.5° E Resolution: 270 meters/pixel Scale: This scene is approximately 492 km (306 miles) across Incidence Angle: 88.2° Emission Angle: 53.7° Phase Angle: 142.0° Of Interest: Small knobs and crater rims just barely catch the sunlight with the Sun low on Mercury's eastern horizon. The relatively smooth floor of the Caloris basin is on the right, and the rim and exterior of the basin are to the left. The knobby texture outside of the basin may be the result of blocks of material that were ejected by the basin-forming impact. This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map was acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel. The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. During the first two years of orbital operations, MESSENGER acquired over 150,000 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is capable of continuing orbital operations until early 2015. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Seth Rabinowitz, the Jets' senior vice president of marketing and fan engagement, says Monday that season ticket holders can submit a video of 15 seconds or fewer of themselves leading the chant. Fans will then be able to choose their favorite entries on the team's website later this month, and the eight top vote-getters will lead the crowds at MetLife Stadium.
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Vintage 2014, and California declares war on small wineries
With the first (light) rain of the season expected tomorrow (today, as you read this) north of the Golden Gate Bridge, I thought it was a good time to consider the 2014 vintage in California. So, as usual, I asked my loyal Facebook friends, who responded in force.
The story is this: short, compressed harvest. Record early, in many cases a month before normal. (This means that Autumn rains should not be a problem. If they actually come, which everyone is hoping they will.) A good crop, tonnage-wise, not a record, but then, it comes on the heels of two record-setting years (2012, 2013).
Quality? Overall, pretty good. The wines should be plump and approachable. Several people commented on soft acids, but that can be corrected in the winery. On the other hand, others remarked about high acidity, which also can be corrected, partially, through the malolactic fermentation. The exceptional drought has resulted in small berries but that should make for intense flavors.
Potential problems? Smoke taint tops the list. The Sierra Foothills have been hit heavy by wildfires. So has the extreme North Coast, but that smoke drifts down to the south. A second potential issue is that the warmth, combined with the drought, has resulted in fairly high sugars, especially in reds, but true phenolic ripeness lags a bit behind. I wouldn't call this a statewide problem but it could result in some structural and balance problems. In a few cases, the crush rush could be a challenge for vintners running out of cellar space.
Several respondents commented on the inverted order of picking, with Cabernet coming in earlier than Pinot and some of the whites, a situation that has vintners scratching their heads, and which may be due to the drought.
Overall, the mood among vintners is positive. I'd call 2014 the third year in a row where there's more cause to celebrate.
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I must say I find this story disturbing. In brief, the State of California has fined a local winery for using volunteers. Seems the winery didn't pay them wages, or worker's comp, so Sacramento has cracked down with a fine so heavy, it looks like it will put this little family winery, in business since 1986, out of business.
The story was so preposterous, I called the winery to see if it's true. I spoke with Westover Winery's owner, Bill Smyth, who confirmed it. "The State is out of control," he told me. What will happen now? "We'll go out of business, 900 of our club members and thousands of customers will lose, and wineries all over California will be devastated." Bill contacted his state assemblyman, who's calling for hearings to "do something," Bill says. But what exactly can be done isn't clear.
What were the volunteers doing? "The same things as they do at all other wineries: work behind the bar, making wine," Bill says. They're friends of the winery who loved participating.
I've volunteered at wineries. I've punched down, cleaned tanks and worked in the vineyard, and enjoyed and learned from it. There's something seriously wrong with this development. I hope things work out for Bill Smyth, and I hope that the California Legislature changes the law to allow volunteers to work at wineries. And how about Wine Institute? Guys, it's time for you to use your clout in the State Capitol.
A day in coastal California's micro-climates
It was 101 degrees in Calistoga yesterday when I left, around 4:30 p.m. By the time I reached St. Helena it was down to 94. Then 87 in Napa city. As I crossed the Benicia bridge, across the Carquinez Straights on the 101 freeway heading back to Oakland, I could see, there in the distance, a huge, glowering wall of dark gray hovering on the horizon. At first it looked like the smoke from a forest fire; but it wasn't, it was the coastal fog.
Bigger and more looming it grew as I drove south. In Richmond, I entered the maelstrom. The blue sky, the picturesque distance disappeared into the gloom; Mount Tam, to the west, vanished as completely as if it had been wiped off the face of the world. The temperature dropped until it was 65 degrees: nearly 40 degrees lower than when I'd left Calistoga, just 1-1/2 hours before. The fog hung low through Albany and north Berkeley, then evaporated as I got to Oakland, where it was again sunny, and the temperature had gone back up to the mid-70s. This was as beautiful, as classic an illustration of Cailfornia's summer coastal climate as you could possibly wish for. It's why northern Calistoga specializes in Cabernet Sauvignon (good Charbono, too), why Carneros is good for Pinot Noir, and why the near East Bay is too cold for any serious grapegrowing.
I'd been in Calistoga for a visit and tasting (of various Pinot Noirs) at Atalon, which is part of Jackson Family Wines' portfolio. It's on Tubbs Lane; nearby are Summers, Chateau Montelena, Tamber Bey and others. This is the warmest part of Napa Valley, its northwestern-most pocket, where the cooling influence from the Bay pretty much fizzles out. Bo Barrett once told me that there's something he calls "the Calistoga Gap"—no, not part of the clothing store chain, but a low place in the Mayacamas through which, he said, cooler air from the Russian River Valley funnels in, moderating the temperatures. This may be so; to get to Calistoga from the Russian River Valley (as I'd done that day), you drive east up Mark West Springs Road as it roller-coasters over the mountains, twisting and turning its way towards Highway 128/29. But it's not clear to me that the Russian River Valley air can actually find its way "over the hill", to any meaningful extent. Maybe one of my smart readers can explain this. (I had Gus beside me, in the passenger seat, and for a while he seemed like he might throw up, because his little tummy doesn't do well on twisting mountain roads. But he didn't.)
The Tubbs Lane part of Calistoga is a distinctive place. To my eye, it's a bowl of sorts: not like Napa Valley further south, in, say, Oakville or Rutherford, where you have the mountains (Mayacamas and Vacas) neatly lining the western and eastern sides, with the valley broad and expansive inbetween, like the sheet on a bed. Along Tubbs Lane there seem to be mountains everywhere except to the south; it is thus more of an amphitheater. Mount St. Helena looms immediately to the east: this picture, taken at Atalon, only hints at its majestic presence.
On the other side of the mountain, of course, is Lake County.
That 101 temperature yesterday in Calistoga shows how we're in the midst of a long, severe heat wave here in California. That's on top of the drought. The state has had some forest fires, but mainly in the Sierra Foothills and around Yosemite; the coast has largely been spared—so far. Everybody's hoping it will continue to be. The heat is expected today—as I write these words—to be even worse than yesterday, not good news for anyone, including the grapevines that are so close to being harvested in record-early time.
Although it's only August 1, I haven't heard that growers are particularly worried. In fact, the scoop is that it will be another fine harvest, coming after 2012 and 2013. Lest anyone think vintage doesn't matter in California, the evidence proves otherwise. At the Pinot Noir tasting at Atalon, which we did blind, we tasted through multiple Anderson Valley and Russian River Valley wineries, in two flights: the 2011 and 2012 vintages. There was no comparison. The 2011 flight contained some good wines but overall was disappointing. The 2012s by contrast were fat, lush, opulent. There wasn't a single loser among them.
Have a great weekend!
Tuesday twaddle: geographic indicators, and the changing seasons
Sen. Pat Roberts, the Republican from Kansas, delivered a scathing attack the other day during hearings by the Senate Finance Committee on the proposed regulations by the European Community that would ban the use of certain geographic names on U.S. goods, such as Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, Black Forest ham, feta cheese and even bologna, unless they were made in those European regions.
Such names are known in the parlance as geographic indications, or GIs. The issue of GIs is part of a broader package of issues weighing down Senate consideration of a Trade Promotion Authority bill that the Obama administration supports. The administration was represented in the hearings by the U.S. Trade Representative, Michael Froman, who told the Senate committee that he largely agrees with Roberts, making for rare bipartisanship between the Republicans and Democrats.
The issue of geographic indication names has a long and contentious history, especially in the wine industry. The U.S. has already banned certain names, such as Burgundy and Chablis, unless they were grandfathered in before the laws went into effect. But the new regulations proposed by the E.U. apparently would go even further, possibly making it illegal even for older brands to use certain place names. For example, Korbel, which currently is allowed to use the word "champagne" as long a it's preceded by "California," might no longer be able to do so.
Other countries that have negotiated agreements with the E.U. have already banned certain GIs that are still allowed here. Singapore recently passed a tough GI law. South Korea no longer allows any liquor to be called "scotch" unless it's from Scotland, nor any cheese to be labeled "feta" unless it's from Greece. Here in the U.S., the rules are considerably looser. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that, "once a geographic designation is generic in the United States, any producer is free to use the designation for its goods/services."
It is this lax approach that concerns the E.U.
Are the Europeans being too restrictive about their GIs? I don't think so. In this era of intense global competition, American consumers have a right to know precisely where their food, including wine, comes from—and the people in ancient regions, like Chianti and Champagne, deserve the right to insist that only their locally-produced products can bear those names.
But the food lobby in this country is powerful, and the Congress doesn't seem to be in the mood to pass new restrictions on products that have been sold here for a long time. Fortunately, the wine industry is only tangentially affected by this issue, since they've largely done the right thing and gotten rid of most of those purloined European place names.
But not all of them, as witness Korbel. And I still see American-made products like cooking sherry and sauterne on the supermarket shelf. I don't blame the people of Spain and France for being bothered.
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I love this time of year. Winter has been cold, if dry. But now you can sense the changing of the seasons. One day reminds you that the Gulf of Alaska is just up there, with its winds off the ice. A day later and Mexico beckons, tropical-warm and shirt-sleevy, as the temperature hits the 80s. Schizy weather, but most days are inbetween: get in the sun, out of the wind, and it's summer. Get in a windy place in the shade, and you need a hoodie. That's why they say the key to clothing in the Bay Area is layers. I should think wine grapes like the same weather as humans. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. Goldilocks weather. East coasters always say that coastal California has only two seasons, wet and dry, but they're wrong. We have four seasons; the only thing is, they're subtle, and you have to live here for a while to get it. Well, summer's almost here, and so far, it looks like another great vintage, on the heels of 2012 and 2013, two masterpieces.
World of Pinot Noir 2014: Random notes
At the morning seminar on the Pinots of Willamette Valley, my friend Gillian Handelman, of Jackson Family Wines, remarked that Oregon winemakers seem to talk a lot more about soil and rocks than do California winemakers, who lean more toward climate in explaining their Pinots. That immediately rang true to me, and I wondered why it might be so. A few things occur to me:
The historical reference point for Pinot Noir in California is Sonoma County, where the soils are so impossibly jumbled, courtesy of the San Andreas Fault system, that you can walk two yards and find different structures. That may be one reason why: Winemakers were stymied trying to understand their soils, so they very naturally turned to climate. Then too, as someone observed, up in Oregon-Washington, every kid is raised with the story of the great Missoula Floods, which formed so much of those states' terrain. "It was our creation myth," said Oregon journalist Katherine Cole, who moderated the Willamette seminar. So it may be that Oregonians have rocks more deeply imbedded in their imaginations than do Californians. Finally, it may be because in Willamette, Pinot Noir is pretty much exclusively the red grape, whereas in California, it's everything from Pinot to Cabernet and Zinfandel. Pinot seems to draw more from the dirt than most other red varieties, so maybe Oregon winemakers look more toward Burgundian explanations of terroir than Californians. I don't know what the answer is, but I think Gillian hit the nail on the head.
The seminar on the wines of Louis Jadot's Beaune Premier Cru Clos des Ursules was stunning. I've gone to few vertical tastings in my life in which a continuity of style was clearer, or where the necessity of aging more apparent. We tasted eight wines, from 2010 going back to 1985, and it was easy to find the same elements in them all. But really, only the 1985 was drinkable (to me)–and that, just barely; I'd love to try it in another 20 years. Jadot's winemaker, Frédéric Barnier, conceded as much. When asked by an audience member if he didn't feel the need to change the style in response to consumer demand for earlier-drinking wines, Barnier said, in effect: No way. Good for him.
Later, at the walkaround tasting, I found myself gravitating toward the 2011s, from both Oregon and California. Some of them were stunning. The one I particularly recall was the Baxter 2011 Valenti Vineyard, from Mendocino Ridge. (I no longer review Mendocino wines for Wine Enthusiast; Virginie Boone does. She scored it 92 points. I might have gone a little higher, and added a Cellar Selection designation. But Virginie and I are in the same ballpark.)
I'm still formulating my views on the 2011 Pinots. Katherine, the Willamette moderator, told a story about a Burgundian producer she interviewed. When she asked him about a certain vintage would develop, he crustily replied (I paraphrase Katherine's quote), "How am I supposed to know? You can't understand a vintage for at least fifty years." While I wouldn't go that far, I do think it takes time, and any serious reviewer who doesn't revise his estimations of a vintage is lazy or dead. Early on, I had serious problems with 2011 Pinots from California. Lots of mold. But there always were some great wines from producers who either sorted out the moldy berries or who sourced their grapes from vineyards (often mountains or hillsides) where mold was not a problem, even in the cold 2011 vintage. So at the walkaround tasting I was really blown away by some of the 2011s. The Baxter is the only one I'll mention here, but the great ones all were low in alcohol, incredibly streamlined and elegant, brisk in acidity and not overwhelming in fruit. You can call them Burgundian, I suppose. This raises the question of how to evaluate a vintage, overall, when it contains extremes of both sides: extraordinary wines as well as moldy ones. My feeling is to lower the overall score, in terms of numbers, but try to express, in the text, that consumers who choose well will find unbelievably gorgeous wines. This is not always an easy message to get across, but then, of course, the individual scores and reviews of the wines also express how I feel about them.
Finally: Frédéric Barnier on numerous occasions made a distinction between wines that are "good" and those that are "interesting." I raised my hand five or six times, during the Q&A, to ask him to elaborate; but alas, Katherine never called on me, so all I can do is surmise. I wanted to ask him: Can a wine that's not good be interesting? Can a wine that's good be uninteresting? This is fascinating stuff, and I hope to muse on these concepts in the future.
Ongoing thoughts on the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignons
I remember when the 2010 vintage was finished, how everyone was predicting that the wines, especially the Cabernet Sauvignons, would be the most balanced California had produced in years.
The vintage was the chilliest people could remember–2011, of course, was even colder–but the spin was that the cool conditions meant that the grapes would physiologically ripen at lower brix, resulting in Cabs and other wines that would taste good at lower alcohol levels.
Well, I've now reviewed about 750 Cabernets and Bordeaux blends from the 2010 vintage, and I've got to say, from the evidence presented to me, the theory hasn't panned out. The simple fact of the matter is that a cold vintage is a cold vintage. You can't spin your way out of that.
Look, California isn't Bordeaux. Whatever happens at the latitude of Bordeaux to a Cabernet Sauvignon grape is not what happens to a grape at the latitude of Napa Valley. The light is different; the length of day is different, and of course the climate is totally different, California being warmer and drier than Bordeaux. So to suggest that "all California needs" is a cool vintage that will result in more Bordeaux-like wines is simplistic and incorrect.
It's not that 2010 was a bad vintage for Cabernet. In fact, it was a very good one, in the sense that it resulted in many high-scoring wines, particularly (as you'd expect) from Napa Valley and its subappellations. But, looking over my reviews, 2007 outclassed 2010. So did 2008 (a fairly warm year) and, by a hair, 2009. (As for 2011, that icebox of a vintage, all the Cabs have not yet been released. But so far, I've given the lowest number of high scores to 2011 Cabs than I have in many years.)
Case in point: Sequoia Grove's Rutherford Bench Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. I gave the 2010 a perfectly respectable 92 points. But I gave the 2007 96 points. The '10 was a shade less rich, not quite as vast as the '07. Ditto for Alpha Omega: I gave the 2010 Beckstoffer Tokalon Cab 91 points (they actually had two bottlings, a "North" and a "South," but they both got the same score), while the 2007 Beckstoffer Tokalon got a whopping 97 points. Then there's Moone-Tsai, whose 2010 Cor Leonis I gave 90 points, compared to the 96 points and 95 points I gave, respectively, to their 2008 and 2009.
I should also point out, in fairness, that I recommended a lot of 2010s for cellaring, precisely because they started out so tannic and tight. However, if you've followed my reviews for any length of time, you'll know that I have mixed feelings about longterm prognostications when it comes to California Cabernet Sauvignon. Predicting which one will actually improve with more than 8 or 10 years in the cellar, as opposed to which one will simply become old and boring, is an inexact science, and anyone with experience in these things is bound to agree.
Is a tight, tannic young Cab "better" with food than one that's fat and opulent? That's the standard wisdom–if fact, it's common to hear that those huge, rich Napa Cabs are "cocktail wines" rather than food wines. Well, I haven't found the 2010 Cabs to be particularly modest in alcohol, which was also one of the early prognostications. Among my highest scorers, the Yao Ming was 14.9% (these are all official readings, but–again, as my regular readers know–I sometimes am forced to conclude that some wines are higher in alcohol than the label says), the Laird Flat Rock is 14.8%, Venge Bone Ash is 14.9%, JCB No. 10 is 15%, Lamborn Vintage VIII is 14.8%, Hall Exzellenz is 15.5%, Terra Valentine K-Block is 14.9%, Janzen Beckstoffer-Missouri Hopper is 15.2% and David Arthur Elevation 1147' is 14.9%. I don't have a problem with these alcohol levels, but they do lend the lie to the notion that the 2010 Cabs are more elegant because they're lower in alcohol.
In the end, one is left having to sort out what's true and what's not true about the old notion that "every year is a vintage year in California." It's quite true in the sense that California or, more properly, its various sub-regions hardly ever have uniformly bad years. Yet it's also true that some years can be tough on certain varieties and regions. Sauvignon Blanc had a particularly difficult time in 2011. It was so cold that the grapes just couldn't fully ripen, resulting in an ocean of green, minty wines. And yet, certain producers (the usual suspects, one is tempted to say), did just fine: Mondavi, Grgich Hills (whose '11 Essence is fabulous), Margerum down in Happy Canyon, Brander, Rochioli and others. But all in all, if you're perusing a wine list and see a 2011 California Sauvignon Blanc and don't know the producer or that particular wine, you're best off buying something else.
How dry was California in 2013?
It's official: 2013 was the driest year ever in recorded California history.
Here are some statistics for selected cities. The number represents the percentage of normal seasonal rainfall that has fallen so far during this year's rainy season. (Figures courtesy of San Francisco Chronicle)
Bakersfield: 16.7%
Eureka: 12.5%
Los Angeles: 6.4%
Oakland: 7.7%
Sacramento: 8.6%
San Diego: 21.7%
San Francisco: 8.7%
San Jose: 9.8%
Santa Rosa: 6.2%
Napa City, meanwhile, had only 22.7% of its normal yearly precipitation average, according to the Napa Valley Register, making 2013 "the driest year since reliable records started being kept nearly a century ago in Napa."
Granted, the 2013-2014 rainy season still has many months to go. But we're getting off to a bad start, and people are scared.
The numbers clearly are unsustainable, and reflect the fact that the drought is statewide and not merely regional. All previous drought records, dating back to 1850, have not only been surpassed, but pulverized. "The official drought map of California looks as if it has been set on fire and scorched…", a reporter wrote in the San Jose Mercury-News.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein in early December asked Cal. Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a drought emergency, an action Brown so far has resisted taking, although a week after Feinstein's request, he did form a task force to study the issue. Some municipalities aren't waiting for statewide action. The city of Folsom on Dec. 23 mandated a 20 percent rationing order. Three days later, Sacramento County asked some residents to reduce water consumption of 20 percent. In Sonoma County, the County Water Agency has asked permission from the state "to slash flows from Lake Mendocino to the Russian River," in order to keep the reservoir's dwindling water level from falling even more.
Other cities are expected to enact similar water-saving mores in January.
The American Geophysical Society announced that California, and large parts of the West, may be experiencing a "megadrought" that could last for decades. They released this drought map
showing the extent of "severe" and "extreme" drought, with the worst areas centering on California and northwestern Nevada.
What impact could the drought–if it continues through the rest of the winter and spring–have on California wine? Vintners fear there won't be enough water to spray for frost protection during the crucial early budding season. And there won't be enough water for vine irrigation next summer, especially if we have heat waves. This enforced dry-farming probably means lower crop levels, especially compared to the last few years. Catastrophically dry conditions could spark massive wildfires that take out vineyards.
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LAKE CITY, Fla. -- A Columbia County man was arrested Monday following an early morning SWAT standoff in the 200 block of NE Menlo Gln.
Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance when Frederick Lee Janigan, 47, refused to come out, according to a news release.
The Columbia County Sheriff's Office SWAT team and Crisis Negotiation Unit were called to the scene and several homes near the residence were evacuated as a precaution.
After several hours of of negotiations detectives were able to convince Janigan to come out. He was taken into custody after a brief schuffle with deputies. Residents wereallowed to return to their homes around 6 a.m.
Janigan has been booked into the Columbia County Detention Facility.
He facesthe followingcharges: assault with a firearm, resisting arrest without violence, andpossession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A bond of $55,000 was set for Janigan.


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The Parkhead club have lined up Stromsgodset head coach Deila to replace Neil Lennon.
He guided the club to the Norwegian title, ahead of more established teams, and the manager of rival club Valerenga, Kjetil Rekdal, believes Celtic are making a shrewd appointment.
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Rays recalled LHP Enny Romero from Triple-A Durham.
Rays optioned INF Tim Beckham to Triple-A Durham.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said Friday that Alex Wood will make his next scheduled start on Wednesday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura said Friday that Avisail Garcia's knee injury could cause him to miss a couple of games.
Chris Archer improved to 5-4 on the year after holding the Athletics to one run over 5 1/3 innings on Friday.
Scott Kazmir gave up three runs (two earned) over 5 2/3 innings in a loss to the Rays on Friday.
Brad Boxberger notched a one-out save in Friday's 5-2 win over the Athletics.
Evan Longoria went 2-for-3 with a three-run homer, a walk, and his first stolen base of the season Friday against the Athletics.