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In The Eyrie Vineyard With Jason Lett
Ξ July 23rd, 2010 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Interviews, Wine History, Winemakers |
This is pt 2, the tentative conclusion to my interview with Jason Lett of The Eyrie Vineyards. It is tentative because he is a man of many layers, at once open, yet reserved. He can be startlingly honest and subtle at the same time, in the same sentence. There is always more to learn from him. This interview, though detailed and thorough in its own way, nevertheless implies dozens more questions all of which he would be willing to answer. Some people I've spoken with establish an implicit contract. They make it clear from the first utterance just how much they are willing to discuss. They might imply advertorial conditions, a set of company-sponsored talking points beyond which they are unwilling to go. They might limit inquiry with clipped answers. But that is not Jason Lett's approach. Ask him a question important to you and he will answer. He requires, I sense, a dedicated interlocutor. And I hope I have held up my end of the conversation.
Part 1
In The Vineyard
Admin This is a quiet place.
Jason Lett These are the original vines planted in the Willamette Valley. They are all planted on their own roots, so we're going to do a little clorox wash before we go in. You just have to get a little on the bottom of your shoes.
We each step into a shallow pan of bleach.
JL So this is our tillage and cultivation center here. This is a flail mower. Its has two side cutters that I have folded over right now because we're missing a snap ring…. But as we're driving down the row we're both mowing the middle but also underneath the vines.
That's a clever design.
JL Yes. As it bumps into a grape vine it just pulls around the trunk. It is made by a local company called Rears. They build great equipment, and they came up with this design based on an older design, an Edwards mower that was used in apple orchards in Washington. So it's pretty homegrown engineering. It's built like a proverbial brick shit house.
At Parducci's they had one of the strangest machines I've ever seen. It was designed for shallow spading. It was a series of spades moving in the oddest way.
JL Oh, yeah. A power spader. Those things are cool. It's like a crankshaft with spades on it. They are fun to look at. But we don't do any tillage here. And over here is our newest acquisition. Our vineyard manager, he's been with us for 25 years now, this was kind of his 25th anniversary present, this tractor.
I can see it. After he blew out all of the candles, you put a blindfold on him and told him to come outside…
JL That's exactly what we did! We hid it in one of the bays at the winery. We'd had our big harvest party, everybody was there. I said, "OK, everybody. We're going out. Mamas hang on to your kids. It's going to be dark in there." So we went into one of the storage bays and closed the door. Nobody could see to the back what was going on. Then we flipped the lights on! And there was the tractor.
So at the heads, at the ends of the rows we've got these cordon-pruned vines. It's just hard to get rid of these. They're just too pretty.
In vineyards you sometime see the practice of digging down a few inches at the base of the vine in order to access the shallow lateral roots. I saw it demonstrated in Cahors; it was a method to improve vineyard health there. The shallow roots are then cut away so as to encourage deeper rooting. Is any of that done here?
JL Well, remember how you were observing how in Burgundy they clean-till everything or herbicide it so that there is nothing growing on the vineyard floor? Well, that means that every drop of water that hits the ground is available to the vines. So the plants are going to take advantage of that and put their water-collecting roots at the surface. That's one of the purposes for leaving this full coverage here in our vineyard. It is to drive the roots deep. Basically, all of the weeds and companion plants handle all the minor rain events. This coverage all turns brown in late July, and it then acts as mulch. So we retain more water in the soil as a result of leaving the cover than we would if we tilled it up.
Then when harvest comes in October, and we start getting those rains that tend to panic people, this stuff is drinking up the water. The grapes, which are down into deeper sources of water, aren't getting that big burst of precipitation; and so the clusters don't get water-logged, for lack of a better word. This grass on the surface is drinking it all up.
And here you have a high admixture of red clay, yes?
JL Oh, yeah. This is classic Jory soil, red clay. Its got some really interesting properties. For a clay it's stays really friable. It doesn't seal shut in the Winter the way that a typical clay soil does. And so the roots still have access to oxygen. But it retains that ability of clay to hold water in the Summer. It's a great soil for growing grapes on. It is very consistent throughout the hill. Where you have lots of different layers of stuff, sort of a layer cake of hard and soft, water can move in interesting and unpredictable ways. In some places where there hasn't been a spring in 20 years might suddenly become one Winter very wet. In other places where I've managed that's actually been somewhat of a problem. A part of the vineyard that wasn't very vigorous before, and which you're farming in a certain way, suddenly it has all this water one Summer. You then have to back off what you're doing there, but then down on the other end, that's gotten a little bit dryer. That's one of the things Dad was looking for in a vineyard site in the Dundee Hills.
The Dundee Hills are composed principally of this material?
JL Yes. We'll actually walk down and I can show you the other major soil. It's like at the base of the Dundee Hills there is a kind of bathtub ring of Missoula floods soil.
Do you do much green harvesting?
JL Well, it depends on what the natural loads are. We are at a very wide spacing here. When my Dad came up here the common spacing he'd been trained to employ was 12 X 10. So, when he came to Oregon he was really going to pull it together and do hard-core Burgundian spacing. He narrowed it up to 10 X 6, which is now, of course, considered Combine spacing. But each one of these plants is stretched very wide. We ask each plant to give us a lot of fruit. But we also give each plant an enormous amount of resource. So, Dad basically determined this balance between how much we were giving the plant and how much we were asking of it in order to get what turns out to have been, intuitively, a really dialed-in balance.
If you look at these canes, none of the canes are bigger than my little finger. That's really what you're looking for. When you start getting thumb-sized canes, they're shooting off secondaries all over the place; they start to clog the canopy; you're not getting the sort of dappling effect; the clusters don't have good exposure. And the plant invests more heavily in developing infrastructure in the form of canes than it does in actually ripening fruit. What we look for in the vineyard is this innate balance. And an innate yield level. These naturally yield about 2 1/4 tons an acre. We might come through and take off a little wing here and there. And that will get us down to 2. So we're not having to physically shove the vines hard in order to get them to give us ripe, balanced fruit. It's kinda been happening from the way the vineyard's been structured since the get-go.
Is this a sulphur residue?
JL It's sulphur and milk whey. The milk whey is actually a mildewcide. We used to use a traditional Bordeaux mix, but I don't really like copper. It's not good for people, it's not good for the soil; so we replaced copper with milk whey. And we've seen improved health in the vineyards. Not what comes out of the sprayer smells like a latte! Two benefits. (laughs)
Jason then does a bit of work.
JL This was my first job in the vineyard. It's called suckering. I was never sure if the sucker was the the thing growing off the vine or the guy doing it. There are lots to go. The guys were actually suckering and I said, "You know what? This is the perfect time to do some cane straightening." So what we've done is pulled the canes up, tighten the catch wires together, tied each one. So we're getting a good, upright canopy, which means we'll get good airflow, good exposure, good spray penetration.
What is the vineyard's orientation? North/South?
JL It's actually East/West. One of the things Dad experimented with was which orientation works best. It's funny. East/West, back in the 70s, he didn't like very much because it was too cold. But in the era of global warming we get some of our best fruit from these East/West vines. He didn't know it but he was preparing us for the future.
Was he an exacting records keeper? Did he record temperatures 3 times a day, take note of every rainfall?
JL Yes. We have really good historical notes. Unfortunately they are all on these 3X5 cards that are interspersed with his daily to-do lists and stuff. So he was able to go back and find anything. But if you go back into his card index it's like… How did you do that? (laughs)
So, in other words, you'd have a complete record of climate data and changes in these particular vineyards…
JL Yeah. We've actually worked with a scientist up at the University of Washington who is looking at the oxygen isotope ratio in library wines to try and extract climate signals based on these wines. Really interesting stuff. Gordon Holtgrieve is his name.
Most of the vineyard here was planted between 1967 and 1974. The first vines were planted in 1966. There is a last block planted at Eyrie, in 1984. Because it is a due West facing slope, it is less than ideal. But we had a vineyard manager at the time who said, "Well, let's just fill it in."
These are actually the first rows right here. These are the ones my Mom and Dad laid out on their honeymoon. This is Muscat Ottonel. It is kind of a shy-bearing white varietal, something we have a cult following for. Some years we make 100 cases, in others we make 25. It depends on what it gives us.
I see that a couple have given up the ghost.
JL Yeah. Eutypa is kind of an issue with these older vines.
And that tree right there is the tree that is on the label. So when my folks were planting this vineyard there were a pair of hawks nesting up there. At the time there was a filbert orchard on the back side, so there were lots of squirrels for the hawks to eat. And they were hanging out there building their nest, and my folks were, you know, planting their vines, having their kids, and building their nest — that's why they named it the Eyrie Vineyards. An eyrie is a hawk's nest.
We just went through here and mowed last week. Our little wheel cutters, we had the wheels made big so they won't go in too tight to the trunk. We come through here after the grass dries out. It gets it out of the fruit zone. But you know, when everything is up you can see what kind of diversity there is.
In California when we see grass standing this tall we often look for the nest spittle of leaf hoppers, a vector of diseases.
JL Yeah. The glassy-winged sharpshooter is definitely a concern up here. We find it in nursery stock from time to time, but it hasn't actually naturalized. I need to knock on some wood here! But we've been lucky so far.
JL Not an imposing sight after a long wet Spring; but this is the first Pinot Gris planted in the United States. When Dad came up here from Davis he talked somebody into letting him get 160 from the research vineyard there. He planted the cuttings in a temporary plot down in Corvalis '65. It took him a year to find this spot. And then he dug up the vines he'd planted in Corvalis and brought them back up here. And this is now their home.
Do you get a lot of rabbits and wild boar? Deer?
JL No. Back in the day they used to be an issue. But now the deer all have other vineyards to eat. They don't pick on us anymore. Even the birds aren't the problem they used to be. I think it's because there are so many more vineyards, and unfortunately, there is now a lot less habitat for wildlife. It just doesn't migrate through much anymore. They used to have on the next hillside over a herd of elk. There were bear sighted in there, cougar and bobcat. The locals shot all the elk. And then they clear-cut the forest that the elk were living in to plant vineyards… And so we really haven't nearly the wildlife anymore. The critters need continuous habitat. On the top of the hill we get a little deer damage, and a little bit on the very bottom of the vineyard.
We walk to a block of Chardonnay. Here Jason shows me the diversity of of the vineyard ground cover courtesy of the mower's broken snap ring.
JL Here we've got panicum grass, wild oats, not sure what this is… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… just within this little 6 foot area we've got 6 species of grass. And then we have the broadleaf forbs, here's clover… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, that's lactuca, 6, 7, 8…, so 8 different forbs in this same area. Oh, I forgot the huge one I'm standing over, 9. And that's just today. There is this whole cycle that happens throughout the year as new things come in. So this is a really important part of our viticulture.
We venture down to the lowest elevation in the vineyard. As if on cue, a female hawk soars overhead. Her cries, clearly audible on my recorder, punctuated our sentences for the next few minutes.
JL All the vineyards around us have been torn out and replanted because of phylloxera. But not ours. We're right next to the first vineyard in the state to have it, as far as we know. Yet we're still able to hang on to these vines. It's present here, but we're able to keep it to a dull roar. I think it has a lot to do with the dynamic that we create by having these other plants here.
And this is something your father practiced from the very beginning…
JL Yeah. He used to cultivate under the vines. We always left cover between. One other thing he did was occasionally to just mow under the vines. But then he went back to cultivation for a while. When I came back I said let's get back to mowing again. I really like that approach. So that is what we've been doing ever since.
What we need is a friendly gopher to give us a soil sample here… You can see that we've pretty much got the same stuff here. This soil is getting a little browner. So we're basically right at the bathtub ring where the Woodburn soil from the Missoula flood meets the Jory soil. And as we have walk down the row here you can see that we've much more brown here, much more friable. We're right in the middle of this little chevron of Woodburn soil that comes up the hill here.
The skies are overcast, but very still. No shadows are thrown.
So what does this particular cloud configuration suggest? In California we might think rain.
JL It suggests more cussing and praying. (laughs) There might be rain coming but it kind of looks like that all day. So once the clouds have made the jump over the coast range there, they must be rung out enough so as not to drop on us. When we'll see rain is when they start to stack up against the Cascades. Then the whole ceiling fills in.
The hawk's cry is relentless. One is circling right above our heads.
JL So you can see where the inspiration for the label came from!
Can you imagine being out here, working one day and having those hawks screaming; maybe even seeing them mate. A horrifying sight!
JL No kidding! Watch out! And I'm about to have teenagers in the household. (laughs)
There's a lot of work that's been done here…
JL And to maintain it every year. We visit each one of these vines and tend them by hand between 13 and 14 times. I'm the closest person to full time in the winery. I don't spend nearly as much time there as I'd like to. But we've got 6 full time people in the vineyard. That shows where are priorities are.
Are the vineyard folk Spanish speakers in the main?
JL Yes. There are all US citizens. Like I said, our foreman's been with us since 1984. Our most recent hire was in 1997. We're able to keep people around for a good long time. They know every vine. You don't have to go in and look around to figure out what average thing you should do in a block and say, "Do it this way." Because they are so good in understanding each vine individually. They are really farming at a vine to vine level. That's ideal.
Then they come into the winery during harvest. I mean, I hire an intern every now and then, but for the most part the work is done by the guys in the vineyard. The winemaking informs the vineyard work. The vineyard work informs the winemaking. It's a really great closed cycle for the people in the vineyard to also to be making the wine.
Do they have healthcare?
JL Oh, yeah. We give them full benefits. We do hire temporary work during the year, and a lot of the wineries in Oregon have gotten together to form a group called SALUD which is a non-profit dedicated to providing healthcare for the more transient portion of the workforce. There are mobile clinics that come out to the vineyards. If people have issues they are taken care of. We had an open heart surgery completely paid for by SALUD last year, as well as just dental and visual, and cholesterol, you know, just regular check-ups.
We turn to make our way back up the slope.
JL In 1979 a friend of my Dad's who lived in Burgundy encouraged him to send her some bottles of wine for her to enter into an international wine competition. Dad looked around his cellar, and the Pinot Noir he was really proudest of came from 10 rows of vines down here at the bottom of the vineyard. He called it the South Block. He made his first dedicated South Block cuvée in 1975. These are the rows. It's all Wädenswil clone. This is the Pinot I was talking about that tends to be a little more floppy, need more support.
I noticed in the winery, in the tasting room, there was a Pinot Meunier. Where does that fruit come from?
JL Right here. We have a tiny block, just a few rows.
Have you ever thought of playing around with a sparkler?
JL I'd like to. I've got the base wines in barrel, a rosé Pinot Meunier we made last year, it was our 40th harvest. i thought, well, we'll do something fun and commemorative. But I don't quite know how to go from the base wine phase to the sparkling wine phase in anything less than an industrial level. I need to talk to somebody who understands sparkling wine production on a smaller scale. If you know of anybody, I'd appreciate it.
I know a couple of people I could write.
JL So our first question here is how many of these are going to bloom. We can, with the kind of weather we've been having, and in spite of making sure we're on top of the spray, we can get mildew development underneath the cap that will cause the berry to shrivel. Everything here looks really healthy and green, so I'm feeling pretty positive about this. But often by this time of the year these caps are starting to brown off and split at the bottom. They'll start to fall away; that's when pollination starts to happen. These caps can come off and we'll have rain that totally blocks pollination. We can end up with 30% of the berries on this cluster actually setting fruit. So we wait to make any decisions about thinning until then.
Oddly, I'm reminded of a conversation I recently had with Ken Burnap, the founder of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard. I adore that man. In any event, he told me about Randall Graham stealing canes from the vineyard of Romanée-Conti and smuggling them into the US in his dirty socks.
JL I have a theory. Everybody in Oregon seems to have a row or two of a Romanée-Conti suitcase clone.
You're kidding! It's like most Americans have a Native American background? (laughs)
JL Exactly! But I've never heard of anybody actually making a wine from those canes decent enough so that they would graft over a bunch of stuff to it. You know? My theory is that at Romanée-Conti all around the edges of their vineyards they plant the crappiest Pinot clone they can find just to sandbag all the vintners coming in there to steal the cuttings!
Oh, that's funny. You might be right! What do you think about wine blogger, by the way?
JL What I love blogging in general is that it has really decentralized the power structure of how people think about wine. This is important. Everybody's a critic, that's fine. At least everybody is thinking about it and not taking everything without analysis from an accepted mouthpiece. I really support that. It's a refreshing change. I think it's rocked the established media back on its heels and made it be more responsive and thoughtful to its readership and to the wines they're tasting.
We arrive back at the car to return to McMinnville. The hawk begins to more loudly exult as though it alone had driven us from the vineyard. My conversation with Jason continues on for another two hours. He is a very generous man. A talented man. A happy family man. Not sure there is anything more to say.


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1⁄3 cup mayonnaise
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1 cup cooked baby sweet peas
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It seems that whenever disaster strikes, Shigeru Ban is summoned to the scene to help. This year's winner of architecture's most prestigious award, the Pritzker Prize, the innovative Japanese architect has won many accolades in the past for his various humanitarian projects. One of 20 designers nominated for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Ban designed 100 small homes for Sri Lankan villagers who were displaced after the 2004 tsunami leveled the village of Kirinda. Learn more about this heartwarming project after the jump, or check out 10 top Shigeru Ban projects to better understand why he is one of Inhabitat's most admired designers.
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The first Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing was a pleasant surprise. Releasing just after the disappointing launch of Diablo III, Neocore Games had the opportunity to capitalise on the fans angry at Blizzard for their decisions by bringing a different spin on the genre. The pretty cool aesthetic of steampunk
Ryse: Son of Rome wasn't the massive hit Microsoft were hoping with critics been mostly luke-warm to the title. It feels like a launch game, something you will show your friends and family to show the power of these new systems. Eventually, you'll finish the game and move on. Microsoft
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow released last week and I decided to give it a good spin over the weekend to conclude the story of Gabriel Belmont. I finished Lords of Shadow 2 in two sittings, one lasting 13 hours. I was really excited and I finally had some free time
We've been hearing the hype since last year with only a small number of people having actually tried Titanfall but with the beta that just ended, hundreds of thousands, if not millions have finally got their grubby little hands on Respawn's mech battling online shooter and outlook is good, very
Ryse: Son of Rome is one of the more divisive titles to come form the launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Some people hated the title, describing it as boring and repetitive while others have been more favourable about it. I definitely fall on the more favourable side
On this week's Branching Dialogue, I talk about the criticism Respawn's Titanfall has been facing following the announcement that the game will feature 6 V 6 multiplayer. A lot of people seem to think that bigger is always better. Probably not.
After essentially being the lonely lighthouse keeper for the last four years; having the occasional visitor has been nice but it's time to have more people move into the lighthouse with me, or move out of the lighthouse to a house, or . . . OK so this analogy hasn't
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Welcome to Tucson, Jason Cianciotto
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April 14th, 2008
From this morning's Arizona Daily Star:
Jason Cianciotto has been named the new executive director of Tucson's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community center. Cianciotto is a former member of the youth group and a grant writer.
… He most recently served as research director for The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute in New York City. He also was the Task Force's primary spokesman at press conferences.
Tucson is pretty small as cities go. When including the suburbs — and every scorpion and rattlesnak — our population just barely made it to over a million recently. But Tucson's Wingspan LGBT community center rivals community centers in cities four times its size. (Phoenix still doesn't have one. Heh, heh!)
Wingspan celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year, but its roots go back to the late 1970's following the murder of Richard Heakin. The community's horror over that hate crime transformed Tucson, making it one of the first cities in the country to pass anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation. Anti-violence programs remain a core part of Wingspan's work, but it has branched out to include youth groups, community outreach, health and wellness programs, senior programs, and transgender support and advocacy.
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The Lockheed Corporation announced yesterday the resignation of its former chairman, Robert W. Haack, from the aerospace company's board of directors. Mr. Haack was named Lockheed chairman in February 1976 after disclosure that the company had paid $22 million in bribes to foreign governments.
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Ali'a is in quarantine and will soon be on her journey to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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|Raggedy Ann & Andy's Yuletide Adventure opens Nov. 26 at The Old Creamery Theatre
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Amana – Want a sweet treat this holiday season? Come and see The Old Creamery Theatre for Young Audiences production of Raggedy Ann and Andy's Yuletide Adventure. Help Raggedy Ann & Andy outsmart the witch and have a wonderful holiday adventure in Grandma's attic.
The show opens Saturday, Nov. 26 at 11 a.m. on The Old Creamery's Main Stage.
Written by Gene Mackey and based on characters created by Johnny Gruelle, the cast of Raggedy Ann & Andy's Yuletide Adventure consists of Kamille Zbanek of Ely, John Hill of Rockford Il, Laura Ambrose of Minneapolis Minn., Jackie McCall of Marengo, Nicholas Hodge of South Amana and Steve Weiss of Central City.
Tickets are $8 per person. Show times are 11 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 26, Dec. 3, 10 and 17. Call the box office at 800-35-AMANA or visit the website at www.oldcreamery.com for more information or to purchase tickets. Group and student rates are available.
The Old Creamery Theatre for Young Audiences shows are sponsored by Scheels of Coralville with Mix 96.5 as the media sponsor.
The Old Creamery Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1971 in Garrison, Iowa. The company is celebrating 40 years of bringing live, professional theatre to the people of Iowa and the Midwest. We thank KGAN and Fox 28, our 2011 season media sponsor.
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WholeFoods Magazine SourceBook: The Natural Products Directory
We left off in Part One with this: "The facilitated session ended, as had all of the others, with no consensus on ractopamine. But, as it turned out, finding consensus on ractopamine at this meeting had never been in the game plan for the pro-ractopamine forces."
It sounded like doom. After having taken a vote by secret ballot on July 5th, the Chairman of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Mr. Sanjay Dave, solemnly announced the results of the voting on whether or not ractopamine1 standards were adopted. Out of 143 ballots cast, the vote was 69 for ractopamine, 67 against ractopamine, with seven abstaining. If only one vote had shifted from the "for" camp to the "against" camp, then the result would have been completely different and the ractopamine standard would have been defeated.
The decision of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not been officially announced as of this column's writing, but Senate staff confirms that, on June 19th, Senators Tom Harkin and Orrin Hatch were informed in a personal meeting with FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and Deputy Commissioner Mike Taylor that a revision of the FDA's Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues may be attempted in the future.
There were 20 of them, cute and innocent as could be. The farmer raised his shotgun and pumped one shot after another into each one of them, killing every last piglet, and their mothers too. This was heart-wrenching for the farmer, but he knew he had no choice since the State of Michigan was about to descend upon him with a SWAT-style team intending to arrest him as a felon if any of his pigs were found alive on his property. His crime? Harboring an animal that the State had designated as an "invasive species". And this farmer's tragedy was not the only one to play out in the State; there were thousands of others facing similar dilemmas.
Not too long ago, I was at the Clark's Nutrition store in Palm Desert, CA. Well-stocked and so clean you could eat off of the floor, this store had another equally impressive side to it that caught my eye: a Value Added Information Center. Not only could you buy what you needed for your body, but you could also get what you needed to nourish your mind.
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What started out as just an idea has now become reality. When I first heard in early July that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had just released its Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues, almost my first thought was that the watershed date of October 15, 1994, set in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)—which defines as "new" any dietary ingredients introduced into the marketplace after that date and requires their notification to the FDA before sale—had to be changed.
Everyone with even an ounce of common sense has grave concerns about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s "Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues," which was released last July. This Agency sprang this trap on both industry and consumers without seeking any prior input from us at all. It had almost 17 years to seek our opinion before coming out with this document, and then decided to give us a miserly 90 days to respond with our comments, which period was just extended by an additional two months. Why should we be concerned about this document?
After some 18 years and seemingly interminable debates between two sharply divided camps, the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL), at its 39th session held in Quebec City, Canada, the week of May 9–13, 2011, finally reached a consensus on a watered-down labeling guideline for genetically modified organism (GMO) foods.
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While assisting the Columbus Firemen's Cheer Fund in preparation for Saturday's annual distribution of toys and food baskets, Pat Whittington reflected on her first experience with Bartholomew County's oldest charity.
It was Christmas morning 1957, a time when many citizens in East Columbus burned coal for heat and could afford little more than beans and cornbread for supper.
While a number of older siblings had moved out, Whittington was one of a half-dozen family members still residing in her parents' home on Cleveland Street.
It was an exceptionally difficult holiday season that year. The father, who installed pipes for Dunlap's Construction, had been laid off from his job.
Cheer Fund distribution
Distribution will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday. Volunteer deliverers should pick up their baskets from the warehouse inside the Doug Otto United Way Center on 13th Street.
Drivers will be asked to use the following route to accommodate the anticipated line of traffic that will lead to the warehouse:
Start at 10th and Michigan Street.
North on Michigan to 13th Street.
13th Street east to Cottage Avenue.
South on Cottage Avenue to 12th Street.
West on 12th Street to the warehouse entrance.
When Whittington woke up that Christmas morning, gifts were both few and simple. Young Pat received two toys that cost a little more than a quarter apiece in 1957: a paddle ball and a Pixie Pick Up Sticks game. The little girl also received two pieces of fruit.
While the 5-year-old was too young to feel disappointment, Whittington remembered her father seemed noticeably depressed.
As Whittington began playing with her inexpensive toys, there was a knock on the door. The girl followed her mother to the front entrance and peeked out from behind her skirt to see who had come to visit them that Christmas morning.
"Two firemen with the biggest smocks I've ever seen in my life came in with a large box," Whittington recalled. "These guys were dressed so nice in navy-blue uniforms. And it seemed at that age their box was so huge that it almost touched the roof of the house."
After the family discovered what was inside, the girl's mother began to cry. Before them was a treasure trove of Christmas gifts — a full ham, house slippers, and for tiny Pat, her first and only Barbie.
While she loved the doll, Whittington was most delighted with the new coats, especially the gray one with her name on it.
"That was something I never had," the now-60-year-old Whittington recalled. "We all had hand-me-downs. They sure made us happy that day. It was a memory I'll never forget."
In contrast to Whittington, Jon Lortz, 46, grew up in a more prosperous environment. As an adult, the Columbus man owned a business and worked a profitable second job as a professional musician. His Budweiser-sponsored music tours took him to high-profile entertainment centers such as Florida and southern California.
Lortz was doing so well that he purchased a beautiful new home for his wife and two children, Dylan and Brooklyn, just eight months before fate pulled the rug out from under his feet in 2005.
"I found out my bad back pain was the result of a degenerative spinal disc disease," Lortz said. "The doctors put me on some very heavy pain medication. It got so bad I could barely get out of bed due to pain and medication."
For that reason, work was not an option. As a result, his business folded. The tours stopped. The family lost its new house, and his marriage eventually disintegrated. In addition, 3-year-old Brooklyn had ongoing and expensive medical needs.
As Lortz struggled to cope with overwhelming financial, physical and emotional troubles, in December of that year the Columbus Fireman's Cheer Fund came through for him.
"When you've fallen on hard times, there's no worse feeling a father can have than not being able to give his kids a decent Christmas," Lortz said. "It makes you feel like a failure."
Among the gifts brought to the Lortz home were a variety of art supplies for 4-year-old Dylan, who had displayed both a talent and interest in drawing and painting. The cheer box also had a variety of dolls that Brooklyn adored immediately.
"You almost do cry because your kids are getting
something," Lortz said.
His long-term rehabilitation required him to seek assistance from the Cheer Fund for a few more years. But once he regained his mobility, Lortz began using his talents to repay the organization that had brought such happiness to his children.
In addition to the money raised by the concert, the Eagles donated $200 of their own to the charity. Lortz said a local business, Guitar City, provided both the sound equipment and an audio professional for the concert at no cost.
"You know when a good buddy does you a favor and loans you money, but you can't pay him back for years?" Lortz asked. "Then, suddenly, you feel like you've won the lottery, so you want to give more to your buddy than he gave you? Well, the Cheer Fund has been that good buddy for me."
Whittington feels the same way. Since starting her own family decades ago, she has been a regular Cheer Fund volunteer.
"I've been marking, stuffing and sorting for quite some time," Whittington said. "I also work with a retirement group that donates new toys each year."
While assisting other philanthropic organizations in the Columbus area, Whittington said the Cheer Fund will always be special to her for the happiness it brought her family 55 years ago.
Bartholomew County residents this year were eligible to sign up during November for assistance through the Columbus Fireman's Cheer Fund and through First Call For Help — United Way 211, which monitors the applications to prevent duplication of services and for eligibility requirements.
At least 1,190 children will be served. In addition, more than 215 food baskets will be handed out Saturday to the elderly and disabled in the community.


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On Wednesday the pair had a wild ride, reaching a high of 1.3353 only to surrender gains afterwards, falling to a weekly low of 1.3263 before recovering. However, EUR/USD remains well within its 1.3250/1.3400 range, where it has been trading for a couple of weeks now.
At time of writing, EUR/USD is trading at the 1.3310 zone, only a few pips below its opening price. As for technical levels, next resistances are seen at 1.3350, 1.3375 and 1.3400, while supports could be found at 1.3280, 1.3260/50 and 1.3220.


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Democratic members of Congress press AG Pam Bondi on Trayvon Martin case
Six Democratic members of Congress from Florida expressed concern over the handling of the Trayvon Martin case in a letter to state Attorney Pam Bondi, a Republican.
The letter came from U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings of Miramar, Frederica Wilson of Miami, Ted Deuch of Boca Raton, Kathy Castor of Tampa, Corrine Brown of Jacksonville, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston.
The letter, date Thursday, is below on the continuation:
Dear Attorney General Bondi:
We write to express our grave concern over the handling of the Trayvon Martin case. It is clear that questions must be answered about the events that have transpired over the past month. Therefore, we were pleased to learn that a new State Attorney, Angela Corey of the 4th Judicial Circuit has been assigned to investigate this tragic incident, and that a task force will convene at the conclusion of this investigation.
We remain troubled that this incident occurred on February 26, 2012, and yet Mr. George Zimmerman has not been arrested. As members of the Florida Congressional delegation, we request that you keep us apprised of your findings, and provide us with a comprehensive briefing at the conclusion of your investigation.
We cannot let the standard of our judicial process be overlooked in this matter. As you know, there are a number of laws, decisions, and procedures involved in both what happened to Mr. Martin, and the subsequent actions of the Sanford Police Department. We sincerely hope that your office will do everything in its power to find answers as to what went wrong in order to prevent an incident like this from happening in the future.
Thank you for your time and consideration of our request. We look forward to your response.


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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
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I guess I could just cut and paste my last blog entry on today's. Goals for 2011 are the same as for 2010, except this time I really mean it! More water. More fiber. More exercise. More veggies. But since I didn't stick to my resolutions last ye... Read more
Sunday, January 03, 2010
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No more procrastinating. I'm getting back on track and Ten in 2010 over at RecipeGirl.com is going to help me do it. The Ten in 2010 Healthy Challenge is a way to help you make some healthy changes in your life during the first 10 weeks of 2010.... Read more
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I'm calling a do-over! 2009 didn't work out at all the way I'd planned.
Well, now that 2009 is history and I look back over the past months I am pleasantly surprised that I'm still blogging. 2009 was not a stellar year. Too many losses. Too... Read more
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Here's a recipe that will come in handy this holiday season. It's easy to make and looks pretty when you serve it. This Layered Greek Dip from The Savory Notebook ( savorynotebook.blogspot.com/2005/08/layered-greek-dip.html ... Read more
Friday, October 24, 2008
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This quick, easy and inexpensive Creamy Onion Soup had dh raving about how tasty it was ... even after I told him that it was healthy too! This creamy soup doesn't contain any dairy products. (The creamy consistency results from the use of a pot... Read more
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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This is a quick and delicious recipe that can be easily customized to fit the needs of your family. You can add more cheese or less cheese. (I prefer it without the ricotta). You can use turkey sausage or ground chicken or even leave out the mea... Read more
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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My first day back at Spark, all my healthy plans went out the window. I had some dental work done and my whole face was swollen and sore. Chewing was definitely out of the question. Luckily I'd bookmarked a recipe for Loaded Baked Potato Soup ea... Read more
Monday, October 20, 2008
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Time to get back to it. I've been slacking pretty much since I got hurt last year. Lots of excuses since then but that was then and this is now! Starting today I'm back on the Spark wagon: eating healthy and exercising regularly!
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
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I've started a new blog called I'm Running to Eat. imrunningtoeat.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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Here's an old post of mine that I wrote a long time ago:
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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I think I might try running a bit tonight and see how it goes. This has got to be the longest I've gone without running since I started in January 2006. I ran home from a friend's on Friday but that was only and mile and only because the bike go... Read more
Saturday, May 12, 2007
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My hamstring problem isn't getting any better. It's not really getting worse but I've got to do something about ir. I've already cut back my weekly mileage to about half what it was supposed to be. Now I think I'm going to have to stop running f... Read more
Monday, May 07, 2007
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Saturday I ran the OneAmerica Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini Marathon. It's a half marathon that starts in down town Indianapolis and runs past the Indianapolis Zoo to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. You take a lap around the track and then bac... Read more
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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Claxton is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in Claxton, a small village in the county of Durham. It is generally believed that a branch of the Norman family of Heriz, settled here and assumed the local name. The surname is derived from the Old English word clacs-tun which literally means those who lived near the clayey soil.
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Claxton family name include Claxton, Claxon, Klaxon, Klaxton and others.
First found in Durham where it is believed the first reference of the name was found. There are three other listings of the place name in the Domesday Book: Claxton, or Long Clawson (Clachestone) in Leicestershire, Claxton (Clakestona, Clarestona) in Norfolk, and Claxton (Claxtorp) in North Yorkshire. [1] In Norfolk, Claxton Castle was built in 1333 in the village of Claxton, but it was largely demolished in the 17th century to build Claxton Hall. Today, Claxton is also a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.
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For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Claxton surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
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Recorded: Friday, February 22, 2013
Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with Lyanne Melendez of KGO-TV on city gun buy-back programs.
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Recorded: Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Recorded: Thursday, May 26, 2011
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In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on the Second Amendments individual right to keep and bear arms in Heller v. District of Columbia. Now the question remains whether this right must be recognized by the States and their political subdivisions.
Experts: Stephen P. Halbrook, Nelson LundType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Culture/ Society, Gun Control, History (U.S)


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Lotus Notes R5 For Dummies Quick Reference
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About the Authors Stephen Londergan lives in Braintree, Massachusetts, with his wife, Robyn, and sons: Michael, Richard, and John. Steve and Pat (the other author of this book) have been colleagues for over 20 years. Pat Freeland is an independent consultant doing Notes application development in the Boston area. His expertise includes teaching about, writing about, and using Lotus Notes. Formerly, while at Lotus, Pat was editor of Lotus Notes Knowledge Base. Pat lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children, a cat, two dogs, and a ferret. He has written several books and magazine articles on Notes and other computer products.


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25 Interesting Facts about Design Editor Jeff Mertz
In honor of WOOD Magazine's 25th Anniversary, we're posting 25 Interesting Facts about each of the folks who put out your favorite woodworking magazine. Here's my list:
1. I was a Project Manager for a general contractor before I came to WOOD magazine.
2. I am a engineer before I am an artist…I fight to be the other way around. The engineer in me wants to see a schedule before it will allow me to switch, but the artist in me does not know how to make a schedule…thus an ongoing conflict!
3. I recently completed my first marathon and my first Olympic distance triathlon.
4. My favorite week in my life was the week I married my wife and went to Ireland for our honeymoon.
5. Spending a week of my vacation time to teach at Marc Adams School of Woodworking is a vacation!
6. If I could be a full time shop teacher to students who really wanted to be there and not just students who want to "test" the SawStop mechanism…I would do it!
7. I am curious… Are compact fluorescents and being able to dispose of the hazardous waste they contain actually better for the planet than using standard light bulbs? 6 of one half dozen of another…?
8. I have two awesome stepchildren, a freaky dog, and an amazingly intelligent, beautiful, and patient wife.
9. I would blog more…but I can't stand listening to me, why would anyone else…
10. I have had my job at WOOD longer than any other job.
11. People who take a week off work and stand around and cry at celebrity funerals…scare me!
12. Aside from a 1976 El Camino, I have never owned a car… trucks only, and if the bed is not 8' long… is it really a truck?
13. I love to cook.
14. The Empire State Building, or a Philadelphia Highboy: Both are built one piece and one joint at a time… I didn't build either one, but I want to!
15. I currently have a USA Cycling Officials License.
16. I want to go to France and ride my bike up the mountain passes of the Alpe d'Huez, the Col Du Galibier, and the Col de Telegraph before I die.
17. Learning to hand-cut dovetails was the greatest woodworking lesson I ever received. Layout is everything!
18. I wonder why a Prius has to look like a Prius and not a Porsche Boxster?
19. I have been to two NASCAR races with my good friend Scott. His favorite driver won once, and my favorite driver won the other…what are the odds?
20. I am a Founding Fan Race Pass owner to the Kansas Speedway …. 23 more years of guaranteed race tickets!
21. I can't spell or punctuate, therefore I design and build. And they call me an editor.
22. Anything about building or engineering on TV, I will find it and watch it.
23. I am glad I can bike, build, and draw, because if I had to play golf, tennis, or basketball for a living, I would be penniless.
24. Would love a nice glass of Fat Tire Ale to help me think of the last thing to write.
25. The favorite piece of furniture that I have designed and built was a piece I collaborated on with Kevin Boyle and Al Kinsey. We donated it to a charity auction.
Categories: Get to Know the Editors, wood | Tags: 25 facts
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7 Responses to "25 Interesting Facts about Design Editor Jeff Mertz"
January 22, 2010 at 3:34 pm, by LeRoy Leland
I am interested in building the Country Pine Cabinet in the Mar 2010 issue. In it you suggest using a "story stick" of which I understand the use. What I don't see in the article or in any of the views included is the dimensions for the locations of the biscuit locations. Are they included and I just not seeing them or are they included in the plans that I would have to pay for (which I really don't want to do)? Wood mag is my favorite because I have gotten most of the ideas for things to build and tips for how to use the many sawdust making tools I have accumulated.
"Turning perfectly good wood into sawdust."
January 24, 2010 at 6:26 pm, by James Miles
I have been looking over the Excavator plans in the November 2009 issue and I have the one for the crain and was wondering if you had or have any plan to do one one for a dump truck? My two boys would love to have some thing to put the marbles in to haul around. Thanks for the great work you do with getting out great information about a lot of wood working plans and ideas.
March 16, 2010 at 1:20 pm, by Gerry Rovner
I built the jewelry box you designed from the December issue, for my daughter in law's birthday. It is completed, and waiting for the day.
As the jewelry box is by far the most complex thing I've made to date, I depended on the design to be accurate, and to follow along so I could have a successful build.
I learned a valuable lesson, albeit a series of challenges, as I built the box. Even though the design is in a publication, as a worker I must double check the dimensions to be sure they will all fit once the assembly is made. I found a significant error in the design, as the depth of the drawers is shown as 6 13/16″, but the case depth is 7″. With the backing of the box rabbeted in 1/4″, this leaves 6 3/4″ for the drawers. Of course I discovered this AFTER I had built the drawers, but thankfully before I glued the faces to them.
As there should also be a bit of clearance at the back of the case for possible bumpers or expansion, so I had a challenge: How to remove 1/8″ of material from the sides of the drawers so they would fit into the case.
Soooooo, it took me an extra day to determine a best course of save. I had to used my Stockroom Drum Sander and a fence to maintain square, to carefully remove 3/32″ off each long face of the drawer boxes, so they would then fit. MANY passes later, using 100 grit paper, the job was corrected.
As you can see, it turned out. http://lumberjocks.com/projects/29413
So now the watchword I've learned to use not is: " It takes a REALLY good woodworker to know how to hide his mistakes."
July 23, 2010 at 9:13 am, by Craig Ruegsegger
Regarding the jewelry box drawer dimensions: The drawer is 1/16″ deeper than the case to create a 1/16″ gap between the false front and the side of the case. The gap isn't distinct in the opening photo and it wasn't described in the copy. Sorry for the confusion. Your box looks great, by the way!
Craig Ruegsegger, Projects Editor, WOOD magazine
May 21, 2011 at 5:15 am, by samsungunlock
http://www.woodmagazine.com is amazing, bookmarked!
August 18, 2011 at 12:59 am, by John Hodges
Dear Jeff Mertz I am John Hodges and need to address a safty problem with the wooden rocking horse plans that your compay put in one of the wood magazines allmost a Year ago. I cut out enough to build about 4 to 5 rocking horses and have built two of them and gave them to both of my Great grand kids. when my great grand son almost a year ago started to get on it he wanted to put his feet down into the neck cavity and could have got stuck or turned the rocking horse over and get hurt . I did not pay tomuch attention to the first time but when I built the second one and almost done I put my great grand daughter on it and she done same thing my great grandson did by putting her feet down into the neck cavity. so I took notice then because they both done the same thing at age 0ne. so I masured and built a wooden block to fit the cavity and block it off so they cannot get hurt doing that. also I made better handle supports for it and made it stronger to so they will not break off or work there way out .I took good pictures of my changes and woul like to know if you would be interested in seeing what I done to make it safer for the toddlers.I would go ahed and send them now but cannot get pictures to down load off my camra to my computer at this time but would be glad to put them on disc and send you a copy of it. I thought that thios should be addressed and to show and tell in your magazine about the changes on it .and the reason why it should be done. yours Truely John Hodges firstname.lastname@example.com
November 18, 2014 at 11:04 am, by JOHN CERTO


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Guide To The Aurora Theater Shooting TrialOpening statements are set Monday in the long-awaited trial of Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. Here's a look at top elements in the case.
James Holmes Studied Brain Disorders Before Mass MurderJames Holmes was growing volatile well before he put on a gas mask and body armor, strapped on a rifle, shotgun, pistol and ammunition, and slipped into a midnight premiere of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."
Holmes Attorneys Seek Records Of 2 More OfficersLawyers for the man charged with the Colorado theater shootings are seeking disciplinary records of two more police officers, but they did not say why.
NY Court: Reporter Shielded In Aurora Theater Shooting CaseA Fox News reporter is protected by New York law from being forced to reveal her sources for a story about the suspect in the mass shooting that left 12 people dead in a suburban Denver movie theater last year.
Theater Shooting Victim Begins The Rest Of His Cycling TourA man who was injured in the Aurora theater shooting last summer hopes to complete his cross-country bicycle trek to raise money for other victims.
Have Aurora, Newtown Affected Screen Violence?It was a year ago this week that the sickening sound of gunfire rang out at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo.
Judge Accepts James Holmes' Insanity Plea A judge on Tuesday accepted James' Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation of the Colorado theater shooting suspect.
Judge Rejects Holmes' Challenge To Insanity Law The judge in the Colorado theater shootings has rejected arguments by defense lawyers that state laws on insanity and the death penalty violate the Constitution.
Insanity Plea By Holmes Holds Risks For Both SidesOne of James Holmes' lawyers asked a judge on Monday to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings.
'Aurora Rise' Set Up To Help Victims With Everyday ExpensesNearly nine months after the Aurora movie theater shootings, people are still reaching out to help the victims.
Ohio Man Gets 6 Months In Theater Weapons CaseAn Ohio man has been sentenced to six months in prison for bringing a loaded gun, ammunition and knives to a showing of the latest Batman movie.
Reporter In Theater Shootings Fights Order To TestifyA Fox News reporter in New York is appealing a judge's order to appear in a Colorado court to identify her sources for a story about a notebook that movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes sent a psychiatrist before the killings.


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So after reading the previous post about ordering online I wasn't sure if anyone had heard of or have any of these diapers??
Infant Baby Cloth Nappy Covers? I can't find anything else online about them but they're SUPER cheap. I realize you can get what you pay for but they look OK. I am just starting to build my stash as baby isn't due until Nov. and I don't have any real experience with cloth diapering. I have read it's important to have an assortment so I figured that these could just be some cheaper back-ups?
Thank you!!


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Pregnancy can be a time of great creativity online, from quirky pregnancy announcements, to Gender Reveal photos and videos, name announcement photos, birth announcements and beyond. But one new offering has caught our eye and tickled our funny bone. I give you The Pregnant Husband.
Written by a unnamed dad-to-be, it tells the journey of his wife's pregnancy through a series of pithy comments illustrated with well-chosen GIFs. (For the uninitiated, GIFs are those funny little animated images you'll sometimes come across on the web. Buzzfeed loves 'em for example.)
See a couple of our favorites below and then click through to see them all:
When I hear a name I really like and suggest it to my wife as the name of our future child and she says "Uh, no."
It feels like
When our "couple" friends get pregnant at the same time
We're all like
When, in the heat of an argument, I suggest that maybe my pregnant wife's hormones are the reason why she's angry with me … and when that last word comes out, I realize what I just said.
I'm like
When I come across a conversation on Facebook between two women about trying to get pregnant and one mentions cervical mucus and I go and Google it.
I'm like
Check out The Pregnant Husband to see a bunch more!
images via BabyCenter and The Pregnant Husband


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The money, which has come from the Welsh Government's All-Wales Capital Programme, will support the establishment of a second Catheter Laboratory in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in North Wales. This will enable significant cardiac activity to be repatriated to the area.
A cath lab is an examination room in a hospital or clinic with diagnostic imaging equipment used to support the treatment of some heart and chest conditions. The current catheter laboratory is located at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
Patients who access acute care at Wrexham Maelor Hospital are currently treated at the Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital (LHCH), while those who require diagnostic angiography at the Wrexham Maelor are referred to the Countess of Chester Hospital (CoCH).
It will also deliver a number of key investment benefits, including the repatriation of over 700 cases from the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital and the Countess of Chester Hospital combined.
This will result in a saving of £550,000 per annum to the health board, and has the added advantage of reducing ambulance travel times, while keeping the transport vehicles in Wales.The Minister for Health and Social Services, Lesley Griffiths said:
Dr Olwen E Williams, Chief of Staff Primary Community and Specialist Medicine Clinical Programme Group said:
"The development of a second cath lab in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd will mean a more resilient cardiac service.
"It also means patients in North Wales will be able to have a 24/7 service closer to home."
Dr Richard Cowell, Cardiac Network Lead Cardiologist said:
"We are delighted with the investment in Cardiac Services for BCUHB. Not only will this new development allow us to have a second state-of-the-art facility at Glan Clwyd Hospital, which will enhance the services already provided. It will also be an incentive to attract doctors to train and take up consultant posts in BCU."
"A second catheter laboratory is a very exciting development for cardiac services in North Wales.
"We will have the capacity to perform all cardiac angiography and angioplasty locally which will be more convenient for patients and relatives and will result in significant cost savings.
"Having two catheter labs on one site will provide the resilience required for the immediate treatment of heart attack patients with primary angioplasty. The central location of the lab will enable this treatment to be available in a timely manner to all North Wales residents.
"The lab will also be used to implant defibrillators and complex pacemakers further enhancing our independence from English tertiary centre providers."


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They may be able to tell you, but it's not accurate as genitals do not finish forming until at least 16 weeks, earlier than that they are guessing based on nub and the angle of it, but they have to get a perfect shot for that, there is a very specific way the baby has to lie for them to get a good nub guess, and even that is just a guess as it can change. It's best to wait until 20 weeks, 18 at the earliest.
Yeah, it was 15 weeks. I wish they hadn't though, because it was the same u/s that showed I had incompitent cervix and had to have a cerclage right away! I was so upset. I didn't want to know the gender if something bad happened.
Thankfully everything turned out okay, but I think we are going to wait this time. If they happen to see, we will probably have them put it in a sealed envelope, and open it around 28 weeks when I will feel more confident.
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