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ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- In the dog days of summer, you may think about a trip to the beach or a cool hike in the mountains, but the students we're featuring equate summer with science. Johns Hopkins University was more than happy to make their dog days, count for college credit.
Students from all over the D.C. area are packing into classrooms at the Johns Hopkins University campus in Rockville, Md. They are building bridges. Their models may be from pasta, but a lot of the math they are using works in the real world.
"We're pretty much layering it like a hardwood floor so there is no break point, so there's no one pressure that could break it in the middle or something," explained Jack yarmas, a Gonzaga rising senior.
Fellow Gonzaga rising senior Jonathan Butturini told us, "They are going to start putting weight on and whoever's bridge takes on the most weight is going to be the winner..."
The Engineering Innovation Program at Hopkins' Montgomery campus not only gets students college credits if they make an A or a B, as they do experiments, lab reports and research papers they are building a bridge to a college career, too.
Churchill High School rising senior Emily Greenstein said, "I don't actually know what an Engineer does when they get up and go to work every morning so I thought I would come and see different types of Engineering so when I go off to college I know exactly what I want to do."
Karen Borgsmiller, Ph.D of Johns Hopkins University explained how the program helps students with that decision. "We give students the opportunity to explore chemical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, computer engineering, they do a robotics project," said Borgsmiller.
The not-so lazy days of summer may be over soon, but the lessons will last well beyond the next school year.


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Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) - Al Horford had 23 points and 22 rebounds to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 114-103 win over the Detroit Pistons on Monday.
Horford shot 10-of-13 from the field for the Hawks, who have won three straight games. Josh Smith also scored 23 points and Jeff Teague recorded a double-double as well with 20 points and 12 assists.
Rodney Stuckey and Jonas Jerebko scored 22 and 21 points, respectively, for the Pistons, who have lost three in a row. Greg Monroe registered 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists and Kyle Singler added 13 points.
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There is no conspiracy. Comcast has its agenda and Directv has its agenda. It's Mike White of Directv complaining about all the sports channel costs, etc. and yet he's the one who owns directly several of them that charge rates in the same general range as the others, that have had increases over the last decade in the same general range as the others, and Mr. White is the guy complaining about sports channels needs to be moved to a specialty tier. He needs to walk the walk and talk the talk for that to happen.
Because frankly, I would prefer that model. The model we have was set up by the tv providers and the tv distributors. Consumers have asked for years for an alacarte-type choice.
And understand the context of the Blazers issue. First, the Blazers have not complained about the pricing. They've had fans upset with access to the channel the games are on. And they filed this notice at the time the Comcast was buying NBC.
But the thing is - the games are available to Directv customers - at the price listed. Other systems have picked it up, but not Directv. Directv can carry CSN Philadelphia if it pays the price.
I don't like the prices and I think they are way to high, but that is a separate issue. I don't like how the Blazers sold out its viewership for an upstart channel with access problems.
Comcast is not innocent in anything, and neither us Directv. The chief competitor for both is each other.
Again you have no clue about big companies.
Fox? You mean the company that has the totally conservative Fox News and the immensely liberal Fox TV network that takes open swipes at Fox News?
I give up. You have no idea how businesses are run and think everything is a conspiracy. Wonder why directv would have channels that repeat Root programming like college sports if they want everyone to watch Root only.
Everything to you is a conspiracy. Directv would love to have the blazers games n their system. That brings them customers. For the right price. Just like the laker games.
And all that matters is NOW. Deny CSN because of a deal made years ago? And yet CSN has been a problem for everyone after they got the Blazers.
I am not cherry picking anything. The Blazers themselves complained about CSN pricing. But, if course, it is all about eyeballs for Root on Thursday night in January. Riiiiight.
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Adrienne Cooper had a spectacular 2012 season in the ITP/Moose Racing AMA ATV Motocross Championship Series, presented by Parts Unlimited.
The 22-year-old racer, who lives in Union City, Tenn., earned five overall wins and three second-place finishes to clinch the Women's championship title after just eight rounds of the 10-round series.
"The championship feels great! My team and family and I have been working for this for a long time so it's nice to have all the hard work pay off," Cooper says.
But the championship didn't come easy. The Women's class is full of talent. Cooper says that Chloe Buerster and Katie Mette, in particular, were tough competition.
"Both girls are such strong starters and they are both very smooth but fast," Cooper says. "They are both all-around great racers."
The 2012 season was relatively smooth for Cooper, who stayed healthy all season. There was one weekend, though, that was particularly memorable. That was in Ohio.
"A huge storm came in and severely damaged our rig," she remembers. "It was devastating. But I ended up winning the overall that weekend and coming within four points of clinching the title, so it helped take my mind off the rig a little bit. And most important, nobody was injured during the storm so we are all really thankful for that."
Cooper loves the tracks on the AMA ATV MX series circuit, and she's looking forward to defending her title in 2013.
But before the green flag drops on the first race of the 2013 season, Cooper plans to do a lot of traveling.
"Joe Byrd and I will be going to Europe for one month to compete in a couple races and do schools," she says. "We will also be going to South America for a few weeks to race as well. But when I'm in the States, the off-season is a chance for me to spend time with my family and regroup for the next race season. We spend a lot of time out on the West Coast where I'm from, so that's important to me."
Cooper has been racing MX for a decade, with her first race in August 2003 at Glen Helen Raceway in Southern California.
"I was terrified," she says.
She's done a few endurance races in Europe, but says her heart is in motocross.
When she isn't racing, what does Cooper enjoy doing?
"I'm a real adrenaline junkie so I like to do a lot of extreme things," she says. "We go skydiving a lot and I love going to Glamis and drive our sand car. Anything that gives me a good rush is fun to me."
She's a hard-core racer, which may give some people the wrong impression of her. Cooper says people would probably be surprised to find out that she's "a girly girl. I love getting my nails and hair done, and getting dressed up to go out. I love my girls' days with my mom and sister."
Cooper credits her race team and others for her success, noting "they gave me all the tools I needed to win and always kept me up and running, whether it was at a race or training at home.
"Joe Byrd Quad Riding School has been my main sponsor this year and supplied me with an awesome team and a great bike," she says. "I would like to thank all of our sponsors that supported us for this season: Dasa, Walsh, PEP, Pro Armor, SSI Decals, Maxxis Tires, DWT, Fly Racing, Lonestar, Quad Tech, Hinson, Renthal, Tsubaki Chains, Precision, FPS, UNI, Scott Goggles, Web Cams, Sidewinder, Works Connection, Powermadd, Hardkor, Streamline, Golden Motorsports and my family.
"I would also like to thank the Women's class," she says. "The girls and their families have all been so awesome this season and I couldn't have picked a better group of girls to race with. Thank you everybody."


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N.C. A&T Earns First NCAA Tournament Win After Nine Losses
Tear up the record book. The North Carolina A&T Aggies men's basketball team ended the longest losing streak in NCAA tournament history with a 73-72 win over the Liberty University Flames from Lynchburg, Va. in front of 12,027 in a first round First Four contest at the University of Dayton Arena Tuesday night March 19. A&T had lost in its previous nine appearances.
It was also head coach Cy Alexander's first tournament win in six tries. His previous five appearances came as the head coach of South Carolina State. The Aggies will advance to face the the Louisville Cardinals, No. 1 overall seed in the tournament March 21, in Lexington, Ky., at 6:50 p.m. The game will be televised live on TBS. The win was also historic for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). It marked the first time since the conference went Division I in 1980-81 that any of its schools have won games in the NCAA tournament in consecutive years as the Aggies followed Norfolk State's upset win from last season with a win of their own.
Senior Austin Witter, the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year, made the key defensive stop in the final second of the game to secure the historic Aggies win. Junior point guard Jeremy Underwood came off the bench to score 19 points on 6-for-6 shooting from the field. Freshman forward Bruce Beckford added 16 points and nine rebounds.
A&T led 73-67 with 1:49 to play. But Liberty junior guard Davon Marshall hit one of his six 3-pointers to cut the lead to three. The Aggies then missed consecutive front ends of one-and-ones in the final 20 seconds to open the door even more for the Flames. In between misses, senior guard Tavares Speaks went down the lane and scored on a tough layup over Witter to cut A&T's lead to one with 11 seconds to play. The Aggies then nearly turned the ball over, but they fell on the ball to cause a jump ball.
The alternate possession went to A&T, but Middleton's missed free throw set up Witter's big defensive play. Liberty junior guard John Caleb Sanders went at Witter, but Witter avoided the foul and appeared to get a piece of Sanders' shot as time expired.
"I knew we were up by one at the time," said Witter who had four blocks on Tuesday. "I knew he was going to go to the rim, and I just wanted to play off of him. I saw him a couple times during the game trying to jump into our players' body. So I just tried to jump back, keep my hands back, and use my length to alter the shot. I believe I got a little piece of it, but I'm not really sure."
The Aggies have now won five straight games. The win improves the Aggies to 20-16, their first 20-win season since 1987-88 when the Aggies went 26-3 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
"I think the whole entire A&T community, the Greensboro community, and the alumni of A&T are all very proud of what these young men have done this past year," said A&T head coach Cy Alexander. "It's been a long time, and for a while, A&T was in this tournament for seven consecutive years in a row, and all of a sudden it kind of went south for whatever reason. So just the e-mails and texts I've had since we beat Morgan State on Saturday, just everybody is elated over where the program has come in a one?year period."
The Aggies will try to become the first 16th seed to beat a No. 1.
"We told the players don't worry about Louisville tonight," said Alexander. "Just relax and enjoy some basketball on TV. We'll let them worry about Louisville when we get to Lexington tomorrow."
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In the past week I had the opportunity to drink several Amontillado Sherries. That's because I've been hanging out with Peter Liem and he likes to drink Sherry a lot. I know essentially nothing about these wines - everything that I'm going to tell you from here on is me paraphrasing some of the things he said during several conversations.
I enjoy Sherry and I drink more of it than ever before, but I've pretty much limited myself to Fino, Manzanilla, and the occasional Fino de Puerto - Sherries that are aged under flor for something like 5 to 8 years and then wine is drawn from the solera and bottled. Amontillado Sherries begin as these same wines, but they continue to age after the flor dies - flor lives for about 8 years and then it kind of expires. As there is no longer a protective flor coating, the wine continues to oxidize, taking on a lovely dark color and a new set of aromas and flavors.
One interesting way I've been learning to think about Amontillado is to consider where it might be on the flor - Amontillado continuum. Peter said that it is, in fact, a continuum. It's not as if there is some exact day upon which a Fino becomes an Amontillado. Amontillado can show more or less flor character depending on the wine maker's choices.
Here are the Amontillados I drank recently, along with a few thoughts on each:
Valdespino Tio Diego, price unknown, not imported to the USA. This is made from Palomino grapes grown in the upper portion of the great Marchenudo vineyard. In fact, this is Valdespino's Inocente, as Amontillado. It is completely delicious wine, with a graceful and elegant tone, and a quiet intensity. Peter says that it is unique in the world of Amontillado in that is is actually very close in character to Fino. The solera that contains the wines used to make Tio Diego also contain Sherries with live flor, an unusual decision. In fact, of the 11 or so criaderas used to mature Tio Diego, perhaps 7 of them contain wines with live flor. Peter can sense the flor character in the Amontillado. I could not, but that's because I am not sensitive to it yet. But after drinking several more Amontillados over the next few days, I get it. Now, will some one please import this wine?!? I mean seriously, people...
Lustau Almacenista Amontillado Sherry Matured by Jose Luis Gonzales Obregon, price unknown but I think around $35, Christopher Cannan Selections, Michael Skurnik Imports. We had this by the glass at Terroir TriBeCa and it was simply excellent. Obregon makes both this wine and a Fino del Puerto that goes into Lustau bottles and at this point I will buy and drink wither of them at any chance I get. I found this wine to be just as graceful and elegant as the Tio Diego, but richer and darker, further away from flor on the continuum. I must have it again, and someday I want to drink it next to Tio Diego to better understand the differences between the two wines.
Gutierrez Colosía Amontillado, $32, Bon Vivant Imports. This is a very fine wine that is further still away from flor than the Gonzaled Obregon Amontillado. And still, it shows great freshness, clarity, and focus. A great example of how a wine can be very rich and with all of the deeply nutty character that one would expect from Amontillado, but can still maintain an elegant lightness in mouth feel and aroma. Delicious wine, highly recommended.
Bodegas Tradicion Amontillado, price unknown but I think around $60, Steve Miles Imports. I drank this near the end of a wonderful Sherry dinner put on by Levi Dalton and Dan Melia. I must say that at first, I didn't get the wine - I thought it was all caramel. But maybe that's because drinking small glasses of about 20 Manzanilla and Fino Sherries with dinner can result in mild intoxication. I was lucky/crafty enough to take the bottle home after the dinner and the next day, I found the wine to be staggeringly complex , silky smooth, very rich, and very well balanced. This is made from wines that average 50 years of age! Yes, there is a caramel nuttiness to the wine, but I was getting fresh fruit, like quince and apricot on top, and the texture was really lovely. If I remember correctly, the word that Peter used to describe this wine was "profound," and I would agree.
A good friend who called me last night to ask me how I make a Negroni. I told him how I make mine, and in so doing, I thought about how tragic it would be if there are others like him out there - otherwise very intelligent people, worldly people who are great in the kitchen and who have a lot of experience making food and drink, but do not know how to make a Negroni. So please consider this as a public service announcement.
Let me start by telling you that I have never been a bartender. I have no piercings, I am not now, nor have I ever worn a bowler hat. Same goes for arm gators - never. I have not yet planted a vegetable farm on my roof, and I have never raised and then butchered a pig. I have, however, seen many western movies in which men wear mutton chops, bowler hats, and arm garters while tending bar, and I hope that the viewing of those films, in conjunction with the tattoo that I got in college 20 years ago, will convey upon me sufficient mixology street cred.
The first time I had Negroni it was served to me after dinner in a Martini glass. I loved it immediately - bittersweet, perky, complex, just delicious. I asked how to make it and the bartender said that the owner of the restaurant wants the Negroni to be served as an aperitif over ice, but he prefers it straight up after dinner. His recipe: 3 parts gin, 2 parts sweet vermouth, 1 part Campari. I made mine that way for a while and enjoyed every one of them.
That said, the classic recipe for a Negroni is equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari. Nowadays I use basically equal parts, but I like to use a little bit more gin, say a 3 and a half count pour instead of 3. And these days I prefer a Negroni as an aperitif on the rocks, and I like a thin slice of lemon that I massage with the ice cubes before I pour the drink in the glass. I know, an orange slice is more typical, but I like the bite of the lemon.
The point here is that I make it the way I enjoy it. If you're curious, play around with the ingredients and find your own favorite Negroni. Here is my current favorite:
3 and a half count pour Plymouth Gin
3 count pour Dolin Sweet Vermouth
3 count pour Campari
3 or 4 ice cubes in a shaker, add the above ingredients, shake vigorously while envisioning a frontier days bartender in Cheyenne. Press a lemon slice between ice cubes, pour the drink, have fun.
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I was in New Orleans recently and I had the opportunity to try out some of your recommendations from a while back. Very impressive in general, the eating and drinking in the Crescent City, but you already know that. Just a couple of things to share, almost all of them great:
It is commonly said that 2004 is the worst recent vintage for red wine in Burgundy. The weather was not good - lots of rain and a lot of rot. But that in itself is probably not the biggest problem with the 2004's. As Bill Nanson of Burgundy Report first wrote about, ladybugs were all over the vineyards in 2004. I heard that they were released to combat some or other aphid, but I cannot substantiate that claim. In any case, when ladybugs are trying to attract a mate or are under duress, they release a chemical of a class called methoxy-pyrazines. This chemical can cause off aromas in wine that are often described as green. But not in the unripe sense, in otherwise ripe wines, it is a vegetal, raw cedar, seaweedy, unpleasant aroma and taste. Anyway, the ladybugs, and if not the bugs then the chemicals they released, ended up mixed in with the grapes as they fermented. Not in every wine, obviously, but in some - perhaps as many as 30% of total red wines were affected.
I bought some 2004 wines. I was feeling rather pessimistic about their potential until a few months ago when Peter Wasserman told me that the wines are improving, losing the smell. I decided that I wanted to explore the 2004's - are they really as bad as they're supposed to be? So I got together with a group of Burgundy loving friends who all dug deeply into their cellars and we drank a load of wine - top producers, from villages to Grand Cru.
Here are the wines we drank, in the order that we drank them with our dinner:
Jean-Marc Morey Beaune 1er Cru Grèves.
François Gaunoux Pommard 1er Cru Rugiens.
JF Mugnier Chambolle-Musigny.
Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny.
Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin.
Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Cherbaudes.
Sylvie Esmonin Gevrey-Chambertin Vieille Vignes.
Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots.
Mugneret-Gibourg Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots.
Sylvain Cathiard Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Aux Murgers.
Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Pruliers.
Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Saint-Georges.
Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Beaumonts.
Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots.
Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée Grand Cru Romanée St. Vivant.
Jean Tardy Echezeaux Vieille Vignes.
I have no tasting notes to share with you because I didn't take any, but you can read Keith Levenberg's notes here. I want to share some thoughts, though.
People generally agreed that the wines showed better than expected. There were a few that I would call excellent wines, wines that lived up to their potential in a difficult vintage. At the same time, people said that they wouldn't run to the stores to buy them. There were some delicious wines that seemed to me to be in perfect place for drinking. The Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin, for example - I thought it was great. I liked its clarity and purity, its clean and very pretty fruit. I thought it showcased Fourrier's sheer and elegant style. I also thought Morey's Beaune Grèves was in a good spot for immediate drinking. And although the oak was more prominent than I might like, I thought that Mugnier's Chambolle was a lovely wine.
And the thing is, some of the others at the table experienced those wines completely differently. I didn't hear anything negative about the Fourrier wine, but I did hear some say that the Beaune was too oaky, and that the Mugnier wine was clunky, that they preferred the Barthod Chambolle. Hmmm, I found the Barthod wine to be essentially undrinkable. The roasted seaweed and vegetal aromas were just too much for me. But others liked the wine, and I love the fact that this whole thing is complicated enough so that a group of people sharing the same bottles could have such a diverse take on them.
Some of the wines showed the off aromas and flavors that 2004 is accused of. I found the Barthod Chambolle to be the greatest offender, but the two Chaignots and Hudelot-Noëllat's Beaumonts also showed green to me. I thought the Pommard was affected too, but others disagreed, saying that it was just the odd expression of minerality in a good young Pommard Rugiens. I was not convinced. Until I drank the leftovers on day three and the wine was absolutely lovely - crushed stones and flowers, with no traces of green. There may have been others that were affected and I missed them - not everyone agreed with me when I thought a wine smelled or tasted green.
Some of the wines greatly improved over the course of a few days, shedding bulk, gaining definition. For example, I wasn't moved by Sylvie Esmonin's Gevrey Chambertin during our dinner. I found it to be a big wine that didn't show much other than ripe fruit. But on day three it was far more articulate, showing intensity and detail, and a lovely earthy finish. The wines that initially showed green aromas and flavors, however, did not lose those aromas and flavors over the course of several days. Perhaps the 2004 green wines will not lose the green?
The group seemed to agree that 2004 is a vintage in which the quality of the wines very closely adheres to the relative nobility of terroir. For example, as good as the Fourrier villages wine was, its 1er Cru counterpart showed that much more nuance and distinction. I thought this wine was just excellent, and if I owned any I would cellar it for another 8 years or so, the way I would any good 1er Cru from a good producer.
Similarly, Chevillon's 1er Cru Pruliers was good. But Les Saint-Georges was a great wine, a wine that in my opinion was everything Les Saint-Georges is supposed to be - full of ripe and rich dark fruit, perfectly structured and balanced, and with lots of depth and complexity that is just beginning to hint at itself at this early stage in its life.
Hudelot-Noëllat's 1er Cru Suchots was good, especially on days two and three, but the Grand Cru was a very big step up. I thought that it, along with Les Saint-Georges, were the two finest wines on the table.
So, 2004 Burgundy Red Wine - How Bad is it? At this point I would say this: not as bad as you might think. Focus on the wines from the best terroirs. Give the wines time to develop like you would in a typical vintage. And if you have a wine that was affected by the greenies, it might be a simple case of bad luck - doesn't seem like the green aromas are going anywhere, not any time soon, at least.
To celebrate a good friend's birthday, the other night we shared a bottle of wine from his birth year, the 1973 Château de la Roche-aux-Moines Clos de la Coulée de Serrant. This wine was made by Nicolas Joly's mother Denise - for a succinct history of the vineyard take a look at the Wine Doctor's profile.
We decanted this wine and drank it slowly over the course of the evening. A wine like this provides pleasure on many levels. There are obviously the sensory pleasures of smelling and drinking the wine, but there is perhaps even greater pleasure in doing so in the company of another person, particularly one who knows and loves wine as much as Peter does.
The wines of Nicholas Joly are quite controversial and I have absolutely no desire to engage in that debate. I've had very good bottles, and not so good bottles, and I've not had enough examples of Coulée de Serrant to say anything. Drinking this particular wine provoked some interesting conversation (I was part of it, so grain of salt necessary) and I want to share some of the issues we discussed.
--This isn't a Nicolas Joly wine. It was not made using biodynamic farming principles, and I have no idea what Denise Joly did in her cellars. Peter suspects, actually, that this wine is was made under what were standard practices - pesticides galore in the vineyards, who knows what in the cellars.
--Coulée de Serrant is one of France's and the world's greatest terroirs. It is the apex of Savennières, and some would say, of the potential of the Chenin Blanc grape (although many Huet lovers would argue for Vouvray).
--The wines of Savennières and of Coulée de Serrant are made differently now. The wine we drank does not list the alcohol level on the label - that law wasn't yet in existence. But it felt to us that it was 12%, maybe 12.5%. Joly's wines from the same terroir are higher in alcohol now, and I do not know of a Savennières producer whose wines are routinely under 14% in alcohol.
--Is it a drive for phenological ripeness in Savennières that fueled this uptick in alcohol? Is it the changing climate? Even Damien Laureau, currently my favorite producer in Savennières, who in fact has a plot of vines that are adjacent to the Coulée de Serrant, his wines are 14%. Is this a stylistic preference or a climatic necessity?
--If it is stylistic, it would be a shame that everyone in Savennières bought into the notion that bigger and more powerful is better. And obviously I'm not limiting that to Savennières...
--What happened to quality in Savennières? That is a rhetorical question. As recently as 5 years ago I loved wines made by Closel and others. I've had nothing other than Laureau's wines in recent years that I like. And as good as Laureau's wines are, they require more thought than other wines regarding pairing with food. Why have the great wines of Savennières become not as great?
--Will these higher alcohol wines be as long lived as the leaner wines from the '70s and '80s?
--The wine we drank was amazing, one of the greatest white wines that I have ever had. It was a distilled rendition of the rocks and soil of Coulée de Serrant. It had nothing whatsoever to do with fruit - there could not have been any less fruit in this wine. 0% fruit. It was pure mineral with amazing intensity and focus, driving throughout and after the finish. And with nothing extraneous, only the vital components present - lean and muscular. Shocking to me too was the vibrancy - this wine is 37 years old and it had great energy and vitality.
--I wish I could have tasted it when it was young to understand its progression. Will any of the Savennières I have sleeping in my cellar become wine like this in 30 years? I don't know, obviously, but I would say that sadly, it is not likely.
You know that I'm joking. If I were to list 25 wines that I want to drink in hot weather, I cannot imagine that Cornas would appear. Who wants to drink rustic and earthy northern Rhône Syrah when it's very humid and 94 degrees outside?
But the other night I had dinner with a good friend who is somewhat of a short rib master. I wanted to show off a new short rib recipe I've been working on, and so that's what we ate. Heat and humidity be damned.
I braised short ribs (Slope Farms, of course) with Chipotle peppers inflected liquid. Nothing complicated - here's the recipe:
Salt and pepper the short ribs a day or two before cooking. Brown them well over high heat on all sides in a heavy bottomed pot. Remove the ribs, pour out the fat from the pot, lower the heat to medium, and add some oil. When it is hot, add chopped onions and a clove of lightly crushed garlic and stir, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the pot. Add salt here, and then a 28 oz. can of tomatoes - I like to use whole plum tomatoes and crush them with my hands. Add some chicken stock, about 2 cups let's say, stir well, and then add two chopped Chipotle peppers.
I used La Morena brand peppers in adobo sauce. The peppers aren't very big, so you might be thinking "Wow, only two peppers for all of those ribs and sauce?" I want the smokey spicy Chipotle aromas and flavors to be present, not to dominate, and you're going to braise this for a long time. I put a tight lid on the pot it in a 225 degree oven at about 9 at night and don't take it out until the kids wake up at 6 AM.
This dish is good no matter what, but there aren't many ingredients. If you use really good tomatoes and home made stock, it makes a big difference.
After the braising is done I remove the ribs and pour the fat off the top of the cooking liquid and purée it. Now comes the creative part. You can shred the meat and serve it with the sauce over pasta or use it as part of a taco.
But these are short ribs, after all, so I do the shredding with the leftovers. I like to serve them as is, over the sauce, which I like to reheat with a little bit of cream to make it feel more luxurious, topped with a scattering of cilantro and scallions. If you eat a small portion, it works even in the heat of summer.
But what to drink with this dish? Probably beer, but I'm stubborn and we wanted wine. I remembered my friend Peter telling me a little while ago that Syrah is very flexible and can work with dishes like this. So Adam dug around in his cellar and produced a fantastic bottle of wine, the 1997 Auguste Clape Cornas.
This is totally unlike the 2000 I had not too long ago, which was delicious and compelling, but much more rustic. The 1997 Clape is without question the most elegant Cornas that I've had. Intense with black olives and earth, but focused and narrow on the nose. And perfectly balanced on the palate, great intensity of flavor, but nothing juts out, not remotely clunky. Very elegant, pretty wine. It worked very well with the smokey spicy meat, assertive enough to hold its own, but graceful too. A completely lovely and delicious Cornas. And somehow it felt like good summer eating and drinking.
I recently did some of my best cooking of the year. It's tomato season here. I started with a few Maxwell's Farm heirloom tomatoes.
Beginning at 12 o'clock and moving clockwise, that's a Brandywine, a Purple Cherokee, and a Green Cherokee. The Brandywine is the sweetest of the three, the Purple Cherokee the most deeply tomato-ey, and the Green Cherokee the brightest and most acidic, and my personal favorite.
This is a recipe that you definitely can do yourself - do not be intimidated by what you're about to see. It's a lot of work, but the end result is worth it.
1) Select ripe but not mushy tomatoes that appeal to your eye.
2) Store them on the counter - never in the refrigerator.
3) Slice the tomatoes and if you wish, sprinkle them with salt.
4) Using a knife and fork, and perhaps a piece of bread, eat the tomatoes.
The problem, I think, is figuring out what to drink with this lovely summer treat. I have arrived at only one pairing that really makes me happy - I need more options. So please, you be the sommelier - what would you open with a plate of heirloom tomatoes?
I've been thinking a little bit about birth year wines lately. I'm going to be 40 years old not too long from now (absurd, as I still like to think of myself as a 27 year old) and I hope to find a special bottle from 1971 to share with friends on my birthday. 1971 was a good vintage in Burgundy and also in Piedmonte, so it shouldn't be too hard to find something interesting and delicious.
What do you do, though, if your birth year was a bad vintage? It's fun to drink birth year wine, and I think it's worth trying to find something anyway. But it's not so easy to find a bottle of wine that's in good condition after 35 years, even from a good vintage. An off vintage makes it that much more challenging to find something delicious and expressive, not merely a wine with the correct vintage number on the label.
A good friend had a birthday recently, and later this month he will very generously share a bottle of wine from his birth year with me. His birth year is 1973, not a great vintage in most places. But he knows enough about wine so that his search was very specifically directed, and he found something from the Loire Valley that should be fantastic - I'll let you know how it goes in a few weeks.
I've been having a lot of fun thinking about and slowly accumulating birth year wine for my daughters. They are 23 months apart in age, born in 2007 and 2008. I want to save wines for them that are meaningful to me in some way, and also wines that are great wines, wines that should be beautiful and moving in 16 or more years. Here's what I have for them so far:
Older daughter - 2007:
Domaine Jean et Gilles Lafouge Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru La Chapelle, $27, Imported by Fruit of the Vines. BrooklynLady and I visited the Lafouges in 2006 when she was 7 months pregnant with our daughter. Okay, it's not Roumier or Lafarge, but I'd say that it's more meaningful. The daughter was there in the Lafouge cellars, inside her mommy's belly, when her mommy tasted this very wine (and spat, thank you very much). Middling vintages can sometimes be surprising, by the way. I recently had a 1995 La Chapelle and it was fantastic.
Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chênes, $120, Becky Wasserman Selections. For our 1st anniversary dinner, BrooklynLady came home with a bottle of 2001 Lafarge Volnay. So this producer is meaningful too. And it's Lafarge Clos des Chênes, it should be darn good when she's old enough to drink it.
I've had a harder time with the whites. I've chosen wines that I think should age well. I'm waiting for vintage Champagne to be released, as 2007 is supposed to be a pretty good year. So far I've saved these white wines:
Domaine Huët Vouvray Sec Clos du Bourg, $29, Robert Chadderdon Imports. BrooklynLady and I love Loire Valley white wines, particularly Huët - who doesn't? This one should be great when she gets home from her prom.
Pierre Gonon St. Joseph Blanc Les Oliviers, $32, Imported by Fruit of the Vines. A weird one, in a way. A white wine from the Rhône Valley - do they age well? A lot of the time, no, but I think this one will. It's so intense and well balanced. We'll see what happens...
Gilbert Picq Chablis 1er Cru Vogros, $29, Polaner Imports. I love Picq's wines, I think they were great in 2007, and Vogros is their old vines 1er Cru that ages very well. I have high hopes for this one.
I would have saved something by Paul Pernot, who we also visited on that same trip, but his wines weren't supposed to be so great in 2007.
If you have more than one kid you'll know what I mean when I say this - the second child often gets the short end of the stick. I have hours of video of my first daughter. My second - perhaps 45 minutes. It's terrible. And so far, I have only one wine for her. I'll find more, but the 2008 Burgundies haven't really been released yet in NYC, never mind things like vintage Champagne. So far from 2008 I have:
Domaine Huët Vouvray Sec Clos du Bourg, $29, Robert Chadderdon Imports. There is going to be some overlap here. Younger daughter gets Huët Clos de Bourg too. And she could do a whole lot worse.
I was in Burgundy when BrooklynLady was pregnant with our second daughter, but I didn't go back to Lafouge. I visited Dujac, Roumier, Mugnier, Pierre Morey, Arlot, Rousseau, Pacalet, Le Moine, and Des Croix. 2nd daughter will definitely get something interesting from one or more of these producers.
Have I missed something? Was 2007 or 2008 fantastic somewhere and I should save the wine? What do you think about all of this birth year wine stuff. Please, share your thoughts.
The other night a friend and I unexpectedly wound up at Lupa for a light late night dinner. We ordered a few little things to start, Romano beans with ricotta (good), house cured tongue (ridiculously delicious), and clams with Fregola and basil. We then had the best Spaghetti alla Carbonara that I've ever eaten. A cloud of earthy pungency from the guanciale in every bite.
As good as everything was, it was the Fregola that I was thinking about the next day, a dish that had great potential but, if I may say so, was not perfectly executed. At Lupa the clams are very salty, I would say too salty. And the Fregola are perhaps cooked too long - they offer no resistance when chewed. Or perhaps they are using a brand that doesn't toast the pasta long enough, as they didn't have that nutty taste that I like. It didn't matter much because the dish tasted great - salty clams, Fregola, and the surprising lift of fresh basil. I decided that I had to try to make the dish at home.
I started with some Maxwell's Farm basil - very pungent. I salted and boiled a pot of water and cooked the Fregola for about 20 minutes, not longer. I like them to be just a little bit chewy.
I scrubbed a dozen Blue Moon clams and cooked them in a covered heavy-bottomed pot with butter, lemon, and a glug of white wine. I took the clams out of their shells and saved them and their cooking liquid.
I have no idea how they prepare the dish at Lupa. Onions? garlic? Neither? I decided that I wanted a little garlic and crushed red pepper as the flavor base. There was no red pepper in Lupa's version, but I wanted it. You got a problem with that?
Then I added the cooked Fregola and spoonful of their cooking liquid, then the clams and their cooking liquid, and simmered for a few minutes on very low heat, to try to marry the flavors and extract any remaining starch from the Fregola to get a little sauce. At the last moment I added the chopped basil and tossed the dish.
It was really quite good, and because my wife doesn't like clams, I got to eat the whole thing. One thing - the basil was not as lively and pungent in my version and I don't understand why. Should I have added it earlier and simmered it a bit?
What to drink with this dish? At Lupa, I was charged with selecting a wine and I tried to get something that would go with everything we ordered. I chose what I hoped would be a light and snappy red wine reminiscent of a Beaujolais, the 2007 Luigi Giusti Lacrima di Morro D'Alba, a wine from the Marche. It was fine, but not so great with the Fregola dish. At home I wanted a white, something saline and brisk.
I chose a Spanish wine (sorry MicheleColline, but I am not currently in possession of a bottle of Italian white wine), the 2009 Ameztoi Getariako Txakolina, $20, De Maison Selections. This is made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape, from very old vines - maybe 80 years old. It is only 10.5% alcohol, and it is dry as a bone. There is a little effervescence and the wine is crisp, salty, and absolutely refreshing. And if you step back and stop gulping it, which isn't easy to do, the old vine intensity and depth are unmistakable. It was a great match for the Fregola. The only problem was that although I got to eat all of the Fregola, BrooklynLady does in fact like this wine, so I had to share. I assure you that I will come up with some sort of scheme to avoid that in the future.
Just a couple more notes on new vintages of wines that I drink every year.
This one comes courtesy of Keith Levenberg who seems to have abandoned his blog The Picky Eater (the guy has a new baby, give him a break). I enjoyed his Cellar Tracker note on the 2009 Coudert Clos de la Roilette Fleurie Cuvée Tardive, $26, Louis/Dressner Selections, and received his permission to re-print it here:
This is my first taste of 2009 Beaujolais so I don't know if some other examples are bearing out people's speculation that the vintage may be marked by fat, overdone fruit. That is emphatically not the case here. Steve Martin had a memorable line in his novella Shopgirl: "When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore. These gloves aren't like the hard-working ones sold by L.L. Bean; these are so fine that a lady wearing them can still pick up a straight pin." The 2009 Clos de la Roilette Cuvee Tardive is made out of the same material as those gloves. This is the old-vine cuvée from Coudert and indeed what makes this special is that unique ability of very old vines to deliver intense flavor out of physical material that is so sheer and fine it's practically not even there. This is practically waifish with a refinement that is already very pinot noir-like in the fashion of Burgundies with an Audrey Hepburn figure, but the flavors show gamay's tart wild-berry side seasoned with something I find myself calling "mealy" for lack of a better term, kind of reminiscent of cereal and multigrain, already past the primary.I recently drank two newly released wines by Bernard Baudry. I love Baudry's wines in general, although I am learning that I prefer the wines from the more difficult vintages to the "great" ones. But I might be in the minority here, so please take the following with a healthy dose of "I need to drink those for myself." Just my opinion, that's all...
If you've ever wondered what wines available for the taking today have the potential to turn into tomorrow's sought-after collectibles that you'll kick yourself for not picking up when you had the chance, this is a pretty damn good candidate. It's an iconic Beaujolais, costs a whopping $5 more than the basic bottling, and has a production level somewhere around the quantities of Roumier Musigny. Only one of two things can happen. The first possibility is that it remains an insider's wine and the only way to experience a mature bottle will be to cellar it yourself, because the people who have them won't be selling. The other possibility is that collectors of top Burgundy realize they ought to have some top Beaujolais in their cellars, with the usual price consequences. Either way I'm glad to have stocked up.
Business travel finds me in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm going for dinner, on my own, to Bari Ristorante e Enoteca. They have a nice sized all-Italian wine list, including a lot of wines by the glass. I don't know what I'm going to eat, but it's 103 degrees here and it will probably be something on the lighter side. I'm willing to spend$35-$40 on wine.
What should I drink at Bari?
Some of my favorite wines have just been released in new vintages. I haven't had all of them yet, but I figured I'd share the news about the group that I've had at home with dinner:
And by the way, if these wines are representative of what's happening in general, 2009 in Beaujolais really is as awesome as they say. Buy the wines and drink them. Sure, pick a few that you are most interested in and lay a couple of bottles down, but these wines are drinking beautifully right now. Don't miss it.
2009 Marcel Lapierre Morgon, $22, Imported by Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant. Ripe and enticing, pure and clean, very fresh, this is bursting with red fruit and as if to suggest what we would be eating with this wine if we were already in heaven, an undertone of earthy cured meat. This wine is not perfect - I find the alcohol to be a bit awkward, although the bottle says only 13%. But I wouldn't be surprised if it is in fact higher. And in any case, it juts out a little. The this is, the wine is still delicious. I cannot imagine cellaring it, as it tastes so good now, and doesn't seem to be holding anything in reserve.
2009 Coudert Clos de la Roilette Fleurie, $20, Louis/Dressner Selections. Ripe and aromatic, very generous, plushly textured and with good body and richness, but without crossing into the land of overdone or huge. In other words, it's a solid standard deviation away from the ripeness mean, but still within the realm of normal. Will this age well? I don't see why not. There is plenty of acidity and the wine is fundamentally in balance. In this case though, I'm having a really hard time imagining why I would try to hold it. The drinking really is just that good right now.
2009 Clos de Tue-Boeuf Cheverny, $16, Louis/Dressner Selections. Pure joy. Vivid red fruit, when served cool the texture is not entirely smooth and that is a big part of the charm, the acids are strong, the aromatics are lovely, the wine is clean and absolutely well balanced, and the finish lingers longer than it has a right to considering its humble pedigree. You blend Pinot Noir and Gamay somewhere near Touraine and you can make a decent wine. Even if you are Thierry Puzelat, the wine is not always great. This time, it's great. What else can I say - pure joy.
2008 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph, $25, Imported by Fruit of the Vines. As good as this wine is, it's a bit of a disappointment. The past several vintages have been wonderful and this wine is very tasty too, but it isn't as strong as its predecessors and this is clear. It has the dark fruit, the olives, the wet soil, the finesse that I know of Gonon and his plots in St. Joseph, but it is lacking the complexity that I have come to expect and with air, the emptiness of the midpalate really shows. The price is right and this is good drinking, but don't believe that this is the best that Gonon can show you.
2009 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet Clos des Briords, $16, Louis/Dressner Selections. This drinks differently than any young Briords that I've had, but that's okay because it's still absolutely delicious. This one is far more crowd friendly and approachable. The aromas are lovely and clear - lemon, a bit of yeast, spring water. The wine feels relaxed, as if it's already gone through that young tightly wound period. I've learned enough, however, about this wine to know that based on this one bottle, I have no idea what's really going on here. It certainly seems like it wants to be enjoyed early. And it tastes really good right now.
2008 Albert Boxler Edelzwicker Reserve, $16, Robert Chadderdon Selections. Sometimes the overall bigness and the residual sugar in Boxler's wines makes it hard for me to appreciate them on a practical level. Meaning, I respect what's going on, but I don't always want to open and drink them. Not so with this wine. This is the field blend of essentially every white grape grown by the estate. Yes, it is full bodied and big, unmistakably a Boxler wine, and there is residual sugar too. But the wine is very well balanced and actually feels lean and mineral on the finish. Herbs, pits, wildflowers, and bitter honey support and lend complexity to the wine, and it is so very satisfying. And flexible too - find something that doesn't eat well with this wine in the heat of summer, I dare you.
2000 López de Heredia Rioja Rosado Viña Tondonia Gran Riserva, $24, Imported by Polaner Selections. I haven't actually had an entire bottle of this yet, just glasses on several occasions. But I'm very excited about what I drank. This wine is perhaps more grounded than the 1998, a wine that I think is absolutely excellent, but a wine that took a year after release to show as well as it does now. That's the thing with these Lopez wines - they release them when they think they're ready, but maybe they should get a little more time in your cellar anyway. The 2000 has a darkly spicy, very focused character, and it is more attractive to me early on than the more tropical 1998 at this point in its life. Blood orange, salt, sherry, and so clean and pure. I hope I have the self-control to hold onto a few of these.
The other night a few friends helped me to taste through a load of Santorini wines. I've discovered these wines only recently and am still just beginning to understand them. Here are the basics, as I understand them:
--Assyrtiko is the most important grape grown on Santorini. It is yellowish and fleshy, and it retains its vigorous acidity even when very ripe. The other grapes that commonly appear in Santorini wines are Aidani and Athiri.
--Santorini sees a lot of sun and a lot of heat. Vines are trained in coiled baskets in order to shield the grapes from the sun. Even still, alcohol levels tend to be high.
--Soils are primarily volcanic rock and pumice. The pictures I've seen make it seem as though there is little soil, as I understand soil to be, in the vineyards of Santorini.
--Vines are very old - supposedly the average age on the island is about 80 years old. And the vines are un-grafted, as Phylloxera seems not to have taken root, so to speak, on Santorini.
--The wines really do need a few years to settle, to show their graceful side, as they are intense and assertive early on.
I tasted some of these wines before and found them to be rather compelling. On this night I wanted to drink them with dinner. And that didn't happen. I had friends over, I made dinner and didn't get to focus as I would have liked. But there was wine left in all but two of the bottles and I sat down with them thoughtfully on day 3. I'll share some notes, but first a few thoughts.
There are some sulfur issues with these wines. It can be confusing - are those smokey volcanic rock aromas, or sulfur aromas? With some bottles it was clearly sulfur, with others I felt confused. Another thing - the alcohol can be a bit jerky, particularly with the barrel fermented wines. That said, the best wines show a truly unique character - there are elements of sea spray, legumes like lentils or peas, and the minerals really smell like pumice, like the rough stone your mom might have had in the shower. Lastly, the 2007 vintage seems to be my favorite, although it is not one that the wine makers said was particularly good. Here's what we drank, in order of drinking (all notes are based on day 3 drinking):
2009 Sigalas Santorini, $20, Diamond Importers. I've had this wine several times now (most recently with lunch on the day before this dinner) and it shows a little differently each time. This one was smokey and savory with vibrant citrus fruit. The acidity is strong and the wine feels energetic. The bottle we had on the previous day with lunch showed more fruit, this one was more savory. In the end, I think this will do well with a few years in bottle.
2009 Gaia Santorini Assyrtiko Wild Ferment, $24, Athenee Imports (This wine was received as a sample). As the name implies, this is fermented with naturally occurring yeasts. There is a strong floral element to the nose that I like. This is a powerful wine, very rich and heavy, intense on the finish. Although I recognize that there is quality here, it's just too weighty for me in the end.
2008 Gaia Thalassitis, $22, Athenee Imports. Even on day 3, the sulfur just obscures the wine for me. Actually, I thought it more difficult on day 3 than when we had it with dinner. I hear that this needs time in the bottle, but I'm just not convinced about this wine.
2007 Sigalas Santorini, price unknown, Diamond Importers (This wine was received as a sample). On day 3 this is without any question the best of all of the wines. It is perfectly integrated, graceful in its assertive power, pure, and clean. There is a top layer to the nose of white fruit, if that makes any sense. Under that there are stones, creamy lees, and sea spray. This is just a lovely wine, and if the 2009 is going to turn into this, then I'm in.
2007 Estate Argyros Santorini, $21, Athenee Imports. The nose was either very smokey or full of sulfur, and there was discussion about which was which at dinner. On day 3 there was no sulfur that I could detect. The nose was quite lovely with green peas or some sort of raw legume, and that smokey pumice sea spray thing that I get at the end of many of these wines. The palate, however, was not easy. The acids are so bright that it is literally like inhaling the spritz of a lemon, and it didn't feel balanced to me. Food helped, but not enough to make me go buy this again.
2007 Hatzidakis Santorini, $20, No import label (used to be Trireme Imports). This wine is 90% Assyrtiko, and then 5% Aidani and Athiri. I've had this wine several times now with different results each time. This bottle, sadly, was not the best one. There might be some botrytis, there is a lot of honey, some alcohol juts out. It shows on the palate too, the alcohol warmth, but it is basically a balanced wine. Other bottles have shown more of the sea foam and lentil thing that I find compelling.
2008 Sigalas Santorini Barrel Ferment, price unknown, Diamond Importers (This wine was received as a sample). At the big Santorini tasting in May I was bowled over by the barrel fermented wines. This time, I think I preferred the stainless wines. The alcohol here is 14% and the oak is still dominant. There is a kernel of something floral, but it's all about the oak right now. The palate shows intensity and something salty, but as much as I might like to, I just don't have the experience seeing these wines age and I can't tell you what's going on here.
2007 Sigalas Santorini Barrel Ferment, $33, Diamond Importers. Is it the vintage? The extra year of aging? Who knows, but on day 3 this shows much better than the 2008. There is oak still, but also smokey pumice and preserved lemon on the nose. It is balanced and energetic on the palate with a gentle touch of sea spray on the finish. The oak flirts in and out though. Will the oak integrate over time, allowing the other components to show themselves? If so, this could be really good wine.
2008 Hatzidakis Nykteri, price unknown, Trireme Imports (This wine was received as a sample). The back label says that this wine is made from grapes of perfect ripeness harvested at night. I like Hatzidakis, but none of the wines showed particularly well on day 3, and this one was the most difficult. The alcohol is 15% according to the label and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it were higher. The aromas are floral and very heady, but also hot, and there is something soapy in there. The palate is ripe and rich and to my taste, a bit overdone.
2004 Hatzidakis Nykteri, price unknown, Trireme Imports (This wine was received as a sample). Also 15% on the label, and still a huge wine, although a bit easier than the 2004. Based on the way these Nykteri wines showed, I'm more interested in the stainless wines from Hatzidakis.
I think I might have decided on my favorite rosé of the summer, so far. I'm not considering things like Tempier, Pradeaux, or the other Bandols. I think of those more as Bandol wines than as rosé anyway. But among the summer flood of generally inexpensive rosés - I think I've found a favorite.
I've always enjoyed white wines from Schloss Gobelsburg, but I'd never had the rosé until this summer. I'm not sure, but I think that 'Gobelsburger' is the second wine of Schloss Gobelsburg. This wine's name recalls the monks who managed the winery until 1995, and it is made from Zweigelt and St. Laurent grapes. It should cost about $15 and honestly it's great rosé, case-worthy, in my opinion.
2009 Gobelsburger Rosé Cistercien, $14, Terry Theise Selections / Michael Skurnik Imports. This is not a fruity rosé, so let's just get that out of the way first. There is fruit in this wine, but it shows up on the finish in a controlled little burst of red. The main body of the wine is more about the steely and sleek tone, the acidity and focus, and the aromas and flavors are more mineral than fruit. This wine reminds me very much of the 2008 Bernard Baudry Chinon Rosé in that it drinks more like a white wine than like a rosé. It is bottled under screw cap and a bit reductive at first, so open it 15 minutes before you want to drink it or just give it a vigorous swirl in the glass.
I love how versatile this wine is with food. Unlike rosés that are on the fruitier side (which I also love), this wine can elevate foods that are complex and to me anyway, not always easy to pair. For example, I never know what to drink with pesto.
Although in some ways they are polar opposites, the wine was great with this classic dish. Intensely herbal anise-tinged notes from the basil, umami from Parmesan cheese, savory walnuts...would that work with rosé? Yes, when it is a steely high acid and very pure wine. I'm telling you, when you deal with your summer basil, think of this wine.
On another evening, I knew that I wanted to drink this wine before deciding what to eat. Drinking this rosé, I can detect traces of that sour cream, white pepper thing that I often get from the Gruner Veltliners, and so I decided to try to eat something that would go well with Gruner.
I thinly sliced a smoked duck breast and roasted some small white turnips and pink radishes. There is nothing Austrian about Fregola, the Sardinian pasta balls made from coarse semolina that are toasted after being dried. But I like the way the nutty tasting Fregola absorb simple flavors like butter and white pepper, and so that was it. This pairing was more about synergy - the flavors of the wine seemed to recognize the smoked duck and the radishes, to understand that white pepper is friendly.
I hate the idea that $15 wines, particularly rosés, are not serious wines. This is a serious wine, and unless you clean the racks I will be drinking a lot of it this summer.
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Tour de France Preview: Americans to Watch
- By Jason Sumner
- Published Jun. 24, 2011
- Updated Jun. 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM EDT
- Top three after the champagne fight. Leipheimer, Horner, and Danielson. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com
- 2011 Tirreno-Adriatico, Tyler Farrar podium. Photo: Brad Kaminski
- Hesjedal went on the attack several times at this year's Tour of California, mostly just to test his fitness. His focus was on July. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com
- 2011 Tour of California, stage 4: Chris Horner on Sierra Road.
- Hincapie tuned up for the Tour at the Tour de Suisse. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com
- 2011 Tour de Suisse, stage 9: Levi Leipheimer. Photo: Graham Watson | grahamwatson.com
- 2011 Tour de Suisse, Christian Vande Velde. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com
- 2011 Tour de Suisse, stage 9: Tejay van Garderen. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com
Barring the unforeseen, it's unlikely an American will contest the top step of the final 2011 Tour de France podium. That battle belongs to Spaniard Alberto Contador and Luxembourg's Andy Schleck.
But this year's Tour field boasts a deep wealth of Yankee talent, including a top sprinter, a quartet of potential top-5 finishers, one of the sport's most promising young riders, and a star-crossed veteran who will be starting his record-tying 16th Grand Boucle.
Here's an alphabetical look at those seven select Americans, plus one Canadian who could also make some noise at the 98th running of the Tour de France, which kicks off on July 2.
Tom Danielson (Garmin-Cervélo)
In 2005, Danielson was the toast of the cycling world following his dramatic triumph at the Tour de Georgia, a race then-teammate Lance Armstrong helped him win. In the aftermath, the Colorado resident was heralded as the next great American grand tour threat; VeloNews even labeled Danielson "Heir Apparent" in reference to a soon-to-retire Armstrong.
Six years later, it's clear the appointments placed on Danielson were misguided. While by no means a bust (he was top 10 on GC at last year's Vuelta a España), Danielson never developed into the world beater some had predicted. In fact, this year marks his first chance to even start the world's biggest bike race.
But don't be put off by his Tour rookie stature. The 33-year-old is an elite climber with better than average time trialing skills, a fact borne out by his third place finish at May's Tour of California and a ninth place finish at the Tour of Switzerland. If Danielson can keep a cool head (something he struggles with at times) a stage win and/or a top-5 overall finish are not completely out of the question.Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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J. Cobb Scott, PhD
Dr. J. Cobb Scott completed a B.A. in Psychology at Wesleyan University, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specialization in Neuropsychology at the University of California, San Diego, and clinical internship at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Dr. Scott joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in 2013. Broadly, his research interests include the cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology of neuropsychiatric disorders. More specifically, Dr. Scott is interested in characterizing dysfunctional neurocircuitry in PTSD; using fMRI and neuropsychological methods to investigate the overlap between PTSD and substance abuse; and the relationship between neuropsychological and everyday functioning outcomes in psychiatric disorders.
1999 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, BA in Psychology
2006 SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, MS in Psychology
2009 SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Specialization in Clinical Neuropsychology
2009 VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, 2009 Predoctoral Internship - Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology (APA-accredited)
Academic Positions:
2014-pres Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2013-2014 Clinical Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2012-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
2012 Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Hospital and Administrative Appointments:
2013-pres Staff Clinical Psychologist, Philadelphia VA Medical Cente
2011-2013 Staff Clinical Psychologist, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
2014 - Blue Ribbon Award, American Psychological Association, Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology)
2011 - NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program Recipient, NIMH
2006 - Benton-Meier Scholarship, American Psychological Association, Division 40
2007 - Theodore H. Blau Student Poster Award, National Academy of Neuropsychology 27th Annual Conference
Selected Publications:
Scott, J. C., Matt, G. E., Wrocklage, K. M., Crnich, C., Jordan, J., Southwick, S. M., Krystal, J. H., & Schweinsburg, B. C. (in press). A quantitative meta-analysis of neurocognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychological Bulletin.
Pietrzak, R. H., Scott, J. C., Neumeister, A., Lim, Y., Maruff, P., Ames, D., Ellis, K., Harrington, K., Lautenschlager, N., Szoeke, C., Martins, R., Masters, C., Villemagne, V., & Rowe, C. Anxiety symptoms moderate the effect of cerebral amyloid on memory decline in healthy older adults: A three-year prospective cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry, in press.
Scott, J. C., Pietrzak, R. H., Southwick, S. M., Jordan, J., Silliker, N., Brandt, C. A., & Haskell, S. G. Military Sexual Trauma Interacts with Combat Exposure to Increase Risk for Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in Women Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, in press.
Scott, J. C., Pietrzak, R. H., Mattocks, K., Southwick, S. M., Brandt, C., & Haskell, S. (2013). Gender Differences in the Correlates of Hazardous Drinking Among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 127, 15-22.
Tsai, J., Whealin, J. M., Scott, J. C., Harpaz-Rotem, I., & Pietrzak, R. H. (2012). Examining the relation between combat-related concussion, a novel five-factor model of posttraumatic stress symptoms, and health-related quality of life in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 73, 1110-1118.
Schweinsburg, B. C., Scott, J. C., Schweinsburg, A. D., Jacobus, J., Theilmann, R. J., Frank, L. R., Weber, E., Grant, I., & Woods, S. P. (2012). Altered prefronto-striato-parietal network response to mental rotation in HIV. Journal of Neurovirology, 18, 74-79.
Pietrzak, R. H., Scott, J. C., Harel, B. T., Lim, Y. Y., Snyder, P. J., & Maruff, P. (2012). A process-based approach to characterizing the effect of acute alprazolam challenge on component processes of visual paired associate learning and memory in healthy older adults. Human Psychopharmacology, 27, 549-558.
Scott, J. C., Woods, S. P., Vigil, O., Heaton, R.K., Schweinsburg, B. C., Ellis, R. J., Grant, I., & Marcotte, T.D. (2011). A neuropsychological investigation of multitasking in HIV infection: Implications for everyday functioning. Neuropsychology, 25, 511-519.
Scott, J. C., Woods, S. P., Vigil, O., Heaton, R.K., Grant, I., Ellis, R. J., & Marcotte, T.D. (2011). Script generation of activities of daily living in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 17, 740-745.
Scott, J. C., Woods, S. P., Carey, C. L., Weber, E., Bondi, M. W., Grant, I., & The HNRC Group. (2011). Neurocognitive consequences of HIV Infection in older adults: An evaluation of the "cortical" hypothesis. AIDS and Behavior, 15, 1187-1196.
Iudicello, J. E., Woods, S. P., Vigil, O., Scott, J. C., Cherner, M., Heaton, R. K., Atkinson, J. H., Grant, I., & The HNRC Group. (2010). Longer term improvement in neurocognitive functioning and affective distress among methamphetamine users who achieve stable abstinence. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 704-718.
Scott, J. C., Woods, S. P., Matt, G. E., Meyer, R. A., Heaton, R. K., Atkinson, J. H., & Grant, I. (2007). Neurocognitive effects of methamphetamine: A critical review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review, 17, 275-297.
Scott, J. C., Woods, S. P., Patterson, K. A., Morgan, E. E., Heaton, R. K., Grant, I., Marcotte, T. D., & The HNRC Group. (2006). Recency effects in HIV-associated dementia are characterized by deficient encoding. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1336-1343.
Woods, S. P., Delis, D. C., Scott, J. C., Kramer, J. K., & Holdnack, J. A. (2006). The California Verbal Learning Test - second edition: Test-retest reliability, practice effects, and reliable change indices for the standard and alternate forms. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 413-420.
Neylan, T. C., Jasiukaitis, P. A., Lenoci, M. A., Scott, J. C., Metzler, T. J., Weiss, D. S., Schoenfeld, F. B., & Marmar, C. R. (2003). Temporal instability of auditory and visual event related potentials in posttraumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 53, 216-25.


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Video: Home video shows police killing dog after being captured
Video: RAW VIDEO: Home video shows police killing dog
Police say the dog was dangerous but some neighbors say officers went too far.
When Kenny Collins called police about an unfamiliar dog loose in his neighborhood, he had no idea his neighbor was dog sitting for a relative. He had no idea it would end with the dog dead.
"I called police because I saw a dog wandering loose out front," Collins said.
Collins' neighbor was watching a large breed dog for her cousin who was out of town for the holidays. The woman, who did not want to comment at this time, said she left the 3-year-old dog named Chloe in the garage when she left to go shopping. She thought she closed the garage upon leaving, but it seems the dog tripped the sensor forcing the garage door open. That's when Chloe started roaming the neighborhood.
"He never came at me in an aggressive manner," Collins told 9NEWS on Sunday.
However, in his two 911 calls to police on Saturday, he described the dog as aggressive.
"We're the Collins family. We got a dog that's aggressive out here," Collins told the 911 dispatcher. "It's like a big pit bull mix something. He's outside of our house, barking out our windows and stuff. [He's] barking at our neighbors. He's a big one. If I tap on the window he keeps barking at us [and] being confrontational - and we're in the house."
Sunday Collins told 9NEWS he never feared the dog, but just wanted animal control to pick it up since it was loose. But, when two police officers arrived, things took a different turn. Collins' son shot video with a cell phone of the whole incident.
"He's basically back in the garage or whatever, staying away from police," Collins said.
Collins said for about 30 minutes, the dog just sat inside the open garage door near her bed while officers decided what to do.
"You see the dog Tased whenever you see the dog drop," Collins said.
One police officer uses his Taser twice on the dog driving her back into the garage. Then, as the dog tries to run out of the garage, an officer pulls out his gun and shoots at the dog.
"[The dog is] coming out and [the animal control officer] just noosed him," Collins said.
After the first shot, the dog is captured by the animal control officer on the catch pole. But, after it is captured, a police officer fires four more shots at Chloe, killing the dog. Collins said the video shows that the animal control officer appears upset.
"You can see her or whatever," Collins said. "Obviously, she was distraught."
He said he is also troubled by the fact that at least one stray bullet hit the animal control officer's car with neighbors and kids all around.
"That bullet was fired in my direction with me standing across the street," Collins said.
Commerce City Police initially released this statement reading in part, "An animal control agent was able to place a 'catch pole' around the dog's neck. The pit bull remained extremely agitated and continued to attempt to attack the animal control agent. Due to the dog's size and aggressive demeanor, it could not be controlled on the catch pole. For the safety of the animal control agent and the community, a police officer shot and killed the dog."
But, Collins said from what he saw and from what the video shows, the dog was simply trying to run away scared.
"I totally disagree with it, totally," Collins said. "The dog was not attacking people and that's not what I said when I called 911."
Commerce City Police Detective Mike Saunders tells 9Wants to Know animals can still be dangerous and have even bitten officers while restrained.
"Yes, the dog was on the catch pole. But, it was the officer's concern that the animal control agent wasn't able to maintain control of the animal and the fear was that the animal was going to come off the catch pole and attack the officers or get loose and run back into the neighborhood putting citizens in danger," Saunders said. "They attempted to tase the dog twice however that had no effect on the dog."
Saunders says Commerce City police are now reviewing the video.
"We need time to look at the video. We need time to look over the officer's report. And we need time to speak to the officer before we can comment," Saunders said.
Saunders said if there is any wrongdoing, the department will say so.
"Obviously, this kind of force is a last resort for our officers. It truly is a tragedy any time a member of our department has to use their weapon to ensure community safety. Our initial review of this incident indicates that the officers responded appropriately to the 911 call and used the force necessary to protect the public," Chief of Police Chuck Saunier said in a statement.
Read the full statement here.
"I have ordered a full investigationof this incident that is already underway. I am optimistic it will determine all of the facts of this tragic event. The home video is disturbing, however until the investigation is complete, it is inappropriate to speculate on the incident because we don't have all of the facts," added Saunier.
When 9NEWS tried to contact the dog's owner, who is currently traveling in California, he could not be reached for comment.
9Wants to Know showed the video to Alicia Hall, an animal behavior technician with the Dumb Friends League.
"The animal could still potentially be a danger, but if the catch pole is being used appropriately, the animal should be restrained safely. As far as I can see from the video, it looks like the dog actually walked right into the catch pole as it was coming out of the garage and was safely restrained," Hall said.
Hall added a frightened dog can be dangerous if cornered.
"The video, it's pretty far away and kind of fuzzy, so it's hard to see a lot of the dog's body postures, but what I did see is that the dog did retreat quite a bit from the police officers and the animal control officer. It ran into the garage rather than coming out of the garage. And even when he was coming out of the garage, it didn't look like he was coming after them, it looked like he was trying to get away from them," Hall said.
WARNING: The video attached is graphic.
All involved officers remain on active duty. Police reports will be released at the conclusion of the investigation.
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|European corn borer, western corn rootworm now infesting corn
|Written by By Assefa Gebre-Amlak, CSU Extension specialist
European corn borer moths began to emerge and lay second-generation eggs in some of the pheromone trap locations in northeastern Colorado. Second-generation flight can last for four weeks. Damage due to second brood in corn may contribute to lodging and ear drop losses.
Second-generation egg masses are generally found on the underside of the leaf, usually within three leaves above or below the ear leaf. These egg masses appear flat and white with black spots appearing as the eggs mature.
Generally, late-maturing cornfields are more attractive to second-generation egg-laying moths than early-maturing fields. The female summer moth prefers to lay eggs in corn that is tasseling and in the green silk stage.
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Congrats Hai-Etlik and a really great map!
Created in: Quantum GIS / Inkscape / Fontforge
Hai-Etlik specialises in using 'real world' mapping software to make fantasy maps. He also writes his own code to place forests. This is a map of the world of Britannia in the popular Ultima series of games.
Original threadsOriginally Posted by Hai-Etlik
Click here to view the Finished Map thread.
Last edited by RobA; 10-10-2012 at 07:31 AM.
Congrats Hai-Etlik and a really great map!
My finished maps
Mapping Worlds (My blog about mapping)
Imaginary maps (My facbook page devoted to mapping)
I ganked a whole lotta people in that world. Good Times!
Great map! Congrats Hai-Etlik.
Wow, thanks everyone.
I do intend to clean up the software I wrote to do this and turn it into something that normal people can use at some point but I've been rather busy with my new job. I will be doing a presentation on wang tile stippling for map symbolization to some of my co-workers and I'll be sure to post it to it here afterwards.
Well deserved, my Ultima fondness aside. Very well executed!
That is one sweet map, dude.
Very nice!
Britannia, WOW; does that ever bring back fond memories. Hours spent running from seeking arrows... followed ya' right into town...
Great Map Hai-Etlik !
Ultima... <sigh> Those were the days...
Fond memories indeed. Ultima III, IV, and V were the ones I played for like forever.
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Your column ("Rec center history shows issue faces a bumpy ride," Feb. 21) suggested that if we took a ride from Parachute to Gypsum we would find that every town has some sort of recreation center.
That is the case in Fort Worth, where I live, too. We have many 24-hour fitness facilities, YMCAs and other for-profit gyms and training centers. All of these are paid for by the people who use them.
If there is a need in Rifle, private entrepreneurship will discover it, do a feasibility study, sell the idea to investors and then build it, if it all makes sense. Which of the communities along I-70 that you mentioned have what Rifle has: new parks, a wonderful library and City Hall with underground parking, a subsidized multi-screen movie facility, a great fairgrounds facility, a mountain park, and tons of new infrastructure, including sidewalks, attractive street lights, good roads, an attractive entrance to the city and many great schools. Should all these other communities go into debt in an effort to keep up with Rifle?
Private enterprise will invest where there is a real need, accompanied by the needers' willing to pay. Give private enterprise a chance to meet the need, if it is real. City charters are not in place to compete with private enterprise.
By the way, the city of Fort Worth is scratching its head about what to do with a large golf course (Boaz) it can no longer afford to operate. Private enterprise has supplied many beautiful golf courses in our city.
I'm speaking not just as a Texas resident but as a property tax, sales tax, and bedroom taxpayer in Rifle for the past 37 years.
Bob Cross
Fort Worth, Texas
Editor's note: The following two letters were addressed to David Kubeczko, oil and gas specialist with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
I live, work, recreate, and will someday procreate in and around the Thompson Divide area. I grow a garden, drink the water, breathe the air, and generally live a healthy life. All of these activities require clean water and air. Hydraulic fracturing, as it stands today, has a well-documented atrocious environmental track record.
I am asking that you please do everything in your power to stop fracking efforts in Thompson Divide. I beg you.
Dan Whitney
Thank you for honoring our deepest concerns for protecting our pristine wilderness in the Thompson Divide area, as well as the clean water supply for our rivers, fish, our ranchers, food growers, wildlife and our thriving community that depends on the preservation of our wild lands and the vitality of our valley. Our community is very supportive of maintaining the quality of life we have worked hard to grow and develop for generations to come.
Please hear the voices of those of us who depend on our environment for our economic well-being. As a resident of the Roaring Fork Valley for more than 40 years, I have lived through the boom and bust type of economy in oil and gas exploration, as well as coal production in this valley and on the Western Slope. The temporary gain does not outweigh the long-term issues and sacrifices. Thank you for preserving our limited resources.
Lisa Dancing-Light
This headline of a Feb. 20 Forbes article, written by Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University and a Fellow of the Claremont Institute, really got my attention:
"As country club Republicans link up with the Democrat ruling class, millions of voters are orphaned"
As one of the "orphaned voters," this term resonated and prompted my interest, as I hope it may with others who feel betrayed by many of our leaders:
"On Jan. 1, one third of Republican congressmen, following their leaders, joined with nearly all Democrats to legislate higher taxes and more subsidies for Democratic constituencies. Two thirds voted no, following the people who had elected them.
"For generations, the Republican Party had presented itself as the political vehicle for Americans whose opposition to ever-bigger government financed by ever-higher taxes makes them a 'country class.' Yet modern Republican leaders, with the exception of the Reagan administration, have been partners in the expansion of government, indeed in the growth of a government-based 'ruling class.' They have relished that role despite their voters.
"Thus these leaders gradually solidified their choice to no longer represent what had been their constituency, but to openly adopt the identity of junior partners in that ruling class. By repeatedly passing bills that contradict the identity of Republican voters and of the majority of Republican elected representatives, the Republican leadership has made political orphans of millions of Americans. In short, at the outset of 2013, a substantial portion of America finds itself un-represented, while Republican leaders increasingly represent only themselves."
It is long, but very meaningful and enlightening. I hope you will read it online. Needless to say, you'll not find this in the liberal press.
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- Healthy Body, Healthy Mind presented by Alzheimer's Association
- Celebration of Significance Luncheon
- Tech Savvy Afternoon Seminar
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- Keith Ewing Art Show and Student Photography Exhibition
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My Zimbra service was running well in these months, however, it stopped suddenly yesterday. After reboot, I tried to start the Zimbra service, but got the following problem of logger and MTA. Anyone can help me ?? I can't get back my emails now.
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