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The BB30 standard is over a decade old. It's hard to believe isn't it? In 2000, Cannondale introduced this groundbreaking standard that offered a multitude of improvements over the competing 24mm standard. An oversized, 30mm spindle and larger bottom bracket shell added torsional stiffness, providing a responsive and efficient pedaling platform without increased weight. Direct fit, pressed in bearings also eliminated the need for aluminum bottom bracket cups, further reducing weight. Cannondale licensed its technology, and now a multitude of frame and component manufacturers offer BB30 compatible products like SRAM's Red Exogram BB30 Crankset.
The first generation Red crankset used a foam core with a carbon structure wrapped around it to meet SRAM's ambitions for drivetrain performance and weight. While the stiff crank arms offered excellent response under load, one complaint that came from a handful of ProTour riders was that under load the front shifts sometimes lacked sufficient precision and crispness. SRAM's team of R&D experts set out to solve this gripe and the changes you'll find on the Red Exogram Crankset directly correlate to improved shifting.
The new SRAM Red Exogram BB30 Crankset has gone away from that original foam-core formula, and now has a significantly beefier arm shape with a true hollow cross section. Because of its larger carbon-optimizing structure, SRAM is able to use less material, effectively reducing weight without negatively affecting stiffness. This also allowed them to rotate the spider to take advantage of the large, flex-fighting crank arm.
SRAM chose to stick with the 130mm bolt circle diameter standard, ensuring compatibility with aftermarket chainrings, but they've arranged the spider to position a mounting bolt on the backside of the crank arm. By integrating a mounting location within the existing carbon structure, they're able to reduce weight and deflection from shifting-- effectively enhancing the accuracy, speed, and quality of front shifts. This reduces the number of spider arms to four and gives the cranks a sleek, air-splitting profile.
The Red Exogram chainrings have also received extensive reworking to boost front shifting performance, specifically focusing on integration with the rotating, Yaw-caged Red front derailleur. Coined X Glide R, these chainrings are machined from 5mm thick 7075-T6 aluminum, but this machining isn't of the Swiss--heese, punch-holes-everywhere variety. SRAM used extensive computer-aided finite element analysis to optimize stiffness first, followed by shift ramp profiles. Then they set out to eliminate any unnecessary material without affecting the structure. SRAM placed the new shift pins to correlate with your cadence and cut the ramps to into a profile that works seamlessly with the new Red front derailleur.
The Red Exogram BB30 Crankset comes in 170, 172.5, and 175mm lengths, and both 53/39 and 50/34 chainring configurations are available.
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Stiff, very stiff
Upgraded to this crankset just recently, and replaced the older Red version. And, I must say, it was immediately evident that these cranks are much stiffer. Nice work Sram.
is the 175mm 50/34 a 110bcd?
is the 175mm 50/34 a 110bcd?
Hey Summer,
Yes, that is going to be a 110 BCD.
Is this crankset compatible with the new...
Is this crankset compatible with the new 22 speed sram red grouppo?
You want the Red 22 crankset in the BB30. The regular Red crankset will probably have issues with an 11 sprocket cassette in terms of chain rub, etc.
great choice
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
i have a full Red group on my road bike and really love this crankset. its light weight,stiff and looks great mounted on a bike. Highly recommended.


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1. First, allow your cooked turkey to sit for about 20 minutes before starting to carve.
2. Beginning halfway up the breast, slice straight down with an even stroke.
3. When the knife reaches the cut above the wing joint, the slice should fall free on its own.
4. Continue to slice breast meat by starting the cut at a higher point each time.
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1. Cut the band of skin holding the drumsticks.
2. Grasp the end of the drumstick, place your knife between the drumstick/thigh and the body of the turkey, and cut through the skin to the joint.
3. Remove the entire leg by pulling out and back, using the point of the knife to disjoin it.
4. Separate the thigh and drumstick at the joint.
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1. Insert a fork in the upper wing to the steady turkey.
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1. Check with your local government. Many areas and subdivisions have restrictions against renting a portion of your property to someone else. While city laws may allow you to use your garage apartment personally for perhaps a guest suite for overnight visitors, many municipalities have laws preventing you from using the apartment as a source of income. So before you even start construction on your new garage apartment, make sure renting is permitted in your area.
2. Do your homework. Find out if there are any zoning regulations in your area. Some cities and neighborhoods require that you get approval from neighbors before you can lease your property to a renter. In most cases a notice is sent to your neighbors (i.e. anyone whose property boarders yours or anyone who lives within a specified distance, such as 500 feet, from the dwelling you plan to lease.) These people will be given a specific amount of time, such as 30 days, to object. If there are no objections you are given a permit to lease the garage apartment. If someone does object, your request will be denied.
3. Ask a competitive price. Take some time to research other garage apartments and apartment buildings in your area. Go look at them so you know what is being offered. Find out what price each one is renting for. Make sure your price is comparable to other units in the area of a similar square footage and amenities. If you price your property too high, you won't get any potential renters.
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We've noticed that hot rodders love to divide themselves into camps of brands and engine families—sometimes even specific years. We have to admit, a little friendly rivalry is fun, but for some guys, brand loyalty verges on religious fervor. When given the chance to break free of the bad news on TV, the infighting at work, the rush hour traffic, arguing with the kids, the apathy of customer service—you'd think people would want to chill out when it's hot roddin' time. Nope. For some guys, it's time to pop the knuckles, log on to the Interweb, and start clacking on the keyboard about what sucks about this guy's car or that guy's motor. Caps lock on.
The LS engine is one of those electrifying topics that turn an otherwise sane group of men into a hockey brawl. On one side, it's sacrilegious to pull out a small-block Ford and drop an LS in. It's not only an insult to everything good; you're screwing with the order of nature. Anybody doing an LS swap just isn't showing due respect to history. In some cases, you may be screwing up an irreplaceable car. And besides, we worked hard over decades to unlock the secrets of Oldsmobuick power—you just can't throw all that away and put some upstart engine underhood. LS guys not only disagree, they point to the fact that hot rodding has always been about building the wild, irreverent mash-up, so who are you to judge?
Yet it's a fact that if you put an LS motor into almost anything—even another Chevy—you're going to piss someone off. And isn't that the point? Hot rodders have an independent streak a mile wide. The LS swapper's philosophy: You're not going to tell me what to do. I'll put whatever motor I want in my car, and you can pound on your keyboard. And while doing an LS swap isn't the brain surgery it once was—thanks to Holley and other pioneers—there is a singular jaunty pride LS swappers exude that just irritates the hell out of traditionalists.
Of course, all the fuss at the Holley LS Fest is about GM's Gen III and Gen IV LS-series engine. Were it not for the LS's superior power density, light weight, massive aftermarket support, low cost, compact packaging, and high efficiency, there'd be nothing for us to talk about. As an engine family, the LS's overwhelming superiority is undeniable. Holley knows this, and so do the hundreds of LS fans and manufacturers who attended the LS Fest this past September. Putting an LS underhood is like taking steroids—it's a surefire way to bulk up your power for not a lot of work. You only have to look as far as the import drifters—of which there were many at the LS Fest—to see this at work.
The Holley LS Fest is not only a celebration of everything LS, it's arguably the best opportunity anywhere for LS fans to meet each other, show their stuff off, swap information, and learn about new products that will help them in their LS quest. It's also the only event a hard-core LS guy can go to where he doesn't have to defend his choice of powerplants.
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The LS Fest Country Cruise is a cross-country rally combined with a photo scavenger hunt. It takes about an hour, and our crew (from left: Bill Tichenor, Jarrod England, Travis England, Johnny Hunkins) had a blast. We took Holley's '74 Malibu Wagon project, which has a junkyard 6.0-liter topped with Holley's dual-quad intake and dual 390-cfm carbs. This thing was a blast to drive, has great street manners, and strong power.Drifting is to hot rodding what disco was to rock 'n' roll. Still, if you can stand the smell long enough to get close (we're talking about the tires) you'll find LS power underhood. Years ago, the LS swap was a convenient solution for Formula Drift racers when the high maintenance cost of turbocharged four-bangers became prohibitive. LS motors are now the weapon of choice.A big thumbs up to Chris Light of Cleveland, Tennessee! Teething problems with a fuel pump and personal injury while trying to fix it didn't stop him from getting his 5.3L LS-powered '68 Chevelle back on the road and running the track.This '93 Mustang (Jeremy Ross, Indianapolis, Indiana) is good for 9.20s—but there's not a Ford part in sight underhood, just a 383ci LS1 and a 125 hit of nitrous. A Turbo 400 trans—not a C4—channels the power.Dan Howe's mint-looking '84 Monte Carlo is powered by an LS1/4L60E combo, but its main claim to fame is that it's a testbed for the new Schwartz Performance G-Machine G-body chassis. We caught it here threading the cones on the autocross.Here's what the Popular Hot Rodding Speed/Stop Challenge looks like from the starting line. You launch off the Tree, then stop inside the cone box just after the eighth-mile timers. Here, Nick Licata of Camaro Performers magazine is about to make a run.
Many of our old favorites were there, including Randy Johnson and his '70 Camaro. The satin-black Forgeline CP3C wheels (18x10 and 19x12) with Nitto NT05s seem to be a recent addition for the stroked LQ4-powered beast.A steady stream of cool LS engine stuff has been gushing from the Holley laboratory, and one of the newest inventions is the dual-plane mini ram. Look close and you'll see it uses the dual-quad cathedral-port base with an adapter and a mini-ram on top. It's great for the street, with power hitting between 1,500 and 6,500 rpm. It's also a couple inches shorter than the original Holley Hi-Ram intake.Most hot rodders can't wrap their mind around Randall Farless's LS1-equipped '96 Nissan 240SX. It does, however, provide a handy physics lesson: It's 1,000 pounds lighter than a new Camaro SS, and runs high 11s instead of low 13s. Hello Chevy—are you listening?Jason Webber (Clinton, Tennessee) hit the LS Fest Show 'n' Shine with his 3-year-old son, Kaden. Jason did all the work on his '66 Chevelle, including the '00 Camaro powertrain swap and paintwork.Wanna make a Ford guy froth at the mouth uncontrollably? Just pop the hood of this Fox-body LTD. It was packing a fresh LS6 unit. The 17-inch Cobra wheels and five-lug conversion only hint at what this thing's capable of—that is, outside of provoking a riot at a Ford show.We caught Doug Flynn (Bowling Green, Kentucky) on the first shakedown run of his 6.0L LSx-powered '72 Nova. It ran a 10.38 at almost 136 mph. Doug took the Nova out to Hot Rod's Drag Week the following week.A big thumbs up to Chris Light of Cleveland, Tennessee! Teething problems with a fuel pump and personal injury while trying to fix it didn't stop him from getting his 5.3L LS-powered '68 Chevelle back on the road and running the track.Ray Bulach hoists the front tires on his '99 Camaro en route to the COMP Cams LSX Rumble win. Ray had the Camaro dialed to the 9.50 index, and had no problem with climbing his way to the top using a stick (T56) and 7,200-rpm shift points. The car might be a late model, but Ray does things old school!


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Breast reconstruction using your own tissue without the use of implants is called autologous (referring to your own tissue) flap surgery. An autologous flap procedure uses a combination of skin, fat, and/or muscle that is moved from areas such as your abdomen, upper back, upper hip, or buttocks to the chest where it is shaped into a new breast. Not every woman is a candidate for this type of breast reconstruction, and it is best to discuss the pros and cons of these procedures with your surgeon.
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The member states of the OSCE are not only the largest consumers of energy in the world – but some of its members, almost exclusively former republics of the Soviet Union, are among the world's largest producers of oil and natural gas, as well as having the world's largest proven reserves of natural gas. These member states also own and control unique pipeline systems which transport these essential fuels throughout the world.
However, in the chain between producer-transporter-consumer there exists another link, one which has shrouded the energy sector in murkiness and threatened the energy security of consuming states – it is the lack of transparency.
Barely a day goes by without the media reporting on some suspicious and opaque deal concerning energy in an OSCE member state – be it Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan or in such a vital transit country like Ukraine.
Let me list just a few recent examples:
- Russia's state-owned Rosneft oil company announced on July 2 that it bought the remaining assets of Yukos oil company from a murky Russian company called Prana which purchased these assets in May for nearly $4 billion, five times the starting price. The owners of Prana are unknown and the price which Rosneft paid for the Yukos assets were not reported. The chairman of Rosneft is Igor Sechin, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest advisors.
-Austrian police are investigating a huge money laundering scandal involving Russian banks which worked with Austria's Raiffeisen Zentral Bank in laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. The Austrian police suspect that high level Russian officials, connected to state-owned oil companies, are involved in this scam and are laundering funds for themselves into off-shore bank accounts. And while the Russian police have stated that no officials are involved, many Russian experts believe that the police and prosecutor's office are under orders from the Kremlin to avoid investigating these officials.
-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko recently asked Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych to investigate the activities of UkrHazEnergo, a joint venture between Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas monopoly, Naftohaz Ukraine and RosUkrEnergo, the controversial middleman company registered in Zug, Switzerland, which has the monopoly of overseeing Central Asian gas deliveries to Ukraine. RosUkrEnergo (RUE) is half owned by Russia's Gazprom and half by a Ukrainian citizen Dmytro Firtash. According to press reports and RUE officials, Firtash was paid $364 million dollars in 2006 as his share of RUE's profits for 2005. The company, RUE, owns no assets – no gas fields, pipelines or compressor stations.
-Turkmenistan's new president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, ordered an investigation into a bank account set up by his predecessor, Saparmurat Niazov, in a German Bank. According to published reports, Niazov placed over $1 billion in revenue from the country's gas industry into this account over which he had sole signing rights.
Reports similar to these have inundated the Internet and the press for the past 15 years – yet little has changed. If anything, the scams and opaque schemes have gotten bolder and nobody has been charged or prosecuted.
As a matter of fact, the only ones to suffer are those who have attempted to draw attention to these schemes such as U.S. citizen, William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, the largest private investment fund in Russia.
In November 2006 Browder was banned from entering Russia because the government claimed that he was a "threat to Russian national security." Browder had been a vocal critic of Russian's Gazprom for many years, charging that the state-owned gas monopoly was using opaque schemes to transport gas from Central Asia to Ukraine.
Efforts to encourage OSCE members into voluntarily forcing their national energy companies to adhere to international norms of transparency have met with only limited success in the states of the former Soviet Union.
For example, The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has been adopted by only three states in the region: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
However, it is questionable if even this has made a difference in Kazakhstan, the largest oil producing country in the region. Persistent reports indicate that President Nursultan Nazarbaev and his family continue to receive kickbacks from Russian and other oil companies.
In Azerbaijan the Initiative seems to have been more effective, but evidence of this is hard to come by and Western monitors rely more on hearsay then on hard facts.
Russia, the largest extracting country in the OSCE is, in my opinion, by far the most opaque. Not only does opaqueness surround private deals, but the government itself engages in shady practices when it suits its purpose – the Yukos prosecution being one such example.
The current goings-on at Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, and the gas transportation schemes from Central Asia to Ukraine by Gazprom and RosUkrEnergo are classic examples of the nexus which exists between the Russian government and its energy companies when it comes to hiding important dealings from the public eye.
What impact do Russian oil and gas opaque schemes have on the energy security of the United States?
Some Americans might be led to believe that it is not the business of the U.S. Government to police Russian corruption – as long as the pipelines are filled and vital fuels are making their way into the hands of consumers.
I believe this approach does not help either Russian business or U.S. consumers given the importance of energy in the world today. If U.S. oil and gas companies believe that their Russian partners are not playing by the rules of the game, and use non-transparent schemes to gain an advantage – then the U.S. consumer is the loser and U.S. energy security is threatened.
U.S. energy security today is threatened by a number of factors:
1. Over-consumption of energy and rapidly dwindling national resources in the U.S.
2. Inefficient use of available hydrocarbons and insufficient use of alternative energy sources.
3. Reliance on extracting nations which use their energy resources as weapons to further foreign policy or ideological agendas.
4. Opaqueness in the extraction industry which often serves as a smoke screen for government officials and clans in various self-enrichment schemes and as a means of subverting their competition.
As long as oil and gas companies in OSCE extracting countries continue to use murky pricing and barter schemes and rely on non-transparent middlemen who serve no visible function in the production-transit-consumer chain - then the energy security of the United States and all OSCE countries will be threatened.
A possible solution might be for the OSCE to adopt a set of rules governing transparency in the extraction sector. These rules would be mandatory for all members and govern the activities of oil and gas companies, coal mining concerns and uranium mining.
The energy sector in the OSCE is too vital today to permit shadowy players to dictate terms of delivery and prices for fuels and, in certain cases, be given a monopoly for supplying entire countries with vital energy resources.


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I'd been having a hankering for some Loire cabernet franc, a hankering that had gone unsated for some time. Which is why it was propitious, then, to walk into Jay's apartment on a bright Sunday afternoon and see a handsome decanter standing next to an empty bottle with the pinkish label of Bernard Baudry's Croix Boissée. I walked up close to the artifact: 1996. A quick nose toward the top of the glass container indicated hints of just those savory, spicy qualities I had been thinking of.
Doubled was my pleasure when Chris appeared, an hour later, with a bag that included the unmistakable white-and-blue label of Olga Raffault's Chinon. A 1989 Picasses.
As the starting wines were poured (a lovely 1996 H. Billiot, deeply aromatic Ambonnay bubbles with a sapid quality and a nutty color; a surprising 1988 Piper Sonoma – Jay would say, "This does not have any right to be this good," and he wasn't wrong – followed by various Loire chenins, romorantins and sauvignons, including a 1924 Huet Le Haut-Lieu Moëlleux to pair with seared scallops), I thought on forward to the pleasures of the Chinons to come.
Good Chinon with age is like Chinon young. It hovers in timelessness, encapsulating the place with its bramble and dark fruit and violets.
Later, the Ligerian pair did not falter. The 1996 Baudry Croix-Boissée was smooth and fresh; perhaps a bit absent on the midpalate, but with good length sustaining it into its floral finish. And the 1989 Olga Raffault Chinon Picasses was a punch in the face, and I mean that in the most flattering way possible. Paired perfectly with leg of lamb, it was dark, brawny, rustic and perfect.
What more could one ask for?
Now I need some Breton Bourgueil to take care of the other side of the river, and all will be well.
I have had so many memorable wines of late that I have felt somehow cornered into silence. How to choose! How to talk about them!
But it's important to talk about them, of course - to get their texture and weave, to remember that morning you woke up with a curious aftertaste of 1983 Domaine de Chevalier Graves on your palate and puzzled over its gorgeous gravel before falling back to sleep for a little.
Or how you chased down a snappy NV Pierre Peters with a thick, heady pour of 2003 Radikon Jakot while stabbing bread into a dish of olive oil.
Or the awesome, yeasty surprise of 2000 Lassaigne Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature, which wore zero dosage with mastery and beckoned, and beckoned, and beckoned to have more of itself poured into your glass.
I want to talk about all of those things. The 2007 Dashe L'Enfant Terrible, still as nervy and peculiar and succulent as ever. The 2006 Lapierre Morgon with its silky langorousness swirling through the tastebuds. The 1998 López de Heredia Tondonia Rosado that starts out oxidized and then tightens into a dazzling burst of fruit and flowers. The floozily sappy 2006 Richaud Cairanne, the exquisite, tangled and complex 2005 Texier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc and crackling NV Peillot Montaigneux Brut.
Not writing about them creates the danger of forgetting them. And these are wines I don't want to forget.
I had never thought about it before, but there is something about the delicious minerality of a Puligny-Montrachet that goes well with the rain.
The other night I ran out with not one but two umbrellas (well, I was using one, and one had been loaned to me on some other rainy day, and I was returning it to its rightful owner, who would be on hand). Finally, despite wearing new shoes that kept wanting to remove themselves from my feet and go flying into a puddle, I managed to turn up at the set destination: a wine restaurant.
Once wet things had been cast off to some coat area, it was time to have a seat and ponder the wine list.
As the rain splashed lightly against the front window, a few minutes later, the sommelier opened a bottle of
1985 Carillon Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Combettes" - Well, as Tina Turner did not sing, I can stand the rain. In fact, the sound of cold patter on concrete was a great backdrop for this deceptively simple and increasingly enthralling wine. There's a term the French use that I like a lot: évidence. It indicates something's "of-course-ness." There was about this wine an ease of being, a raciness, a stony, high-handed purity, an évidence. It was youthful (not a drop of oxidation to its brisk yellow body) and a little shy until maybe a half-hour in. Then it bloomed. Blossoms under the rain.
A few days later, the sun was out. It was warm. A bunch of us decided to gather in the park, and I threw a slightly chilled bottle of López de Heredia into my bag, reasoning that the ambient temperature would warm it.
2002 López de Heredia Rioja "Viña Cubillo" - all part of my enthrallment with Riojas from this producer. Interestingly enough, I had had a bottle of this same, younger-drinking cuvée a week earlier at a wine bar: there, it was more austere, harder around the edges, tighter and more tannic. Here, under the sun, with a dog slobbering around (Peanut would eventually eat the Rioja cork) and people nibbling cut sausage, it was lighter in color (maybe the wine bar had been too dark), lighter-bodied, fresh and earthy. God, I said to myself as I cosseted it, it was such a pleasure of a wine to sip on a breezy, warm day. A wine for sun, clearly, with all its broodiness cleared away, replaced by a daringly rustic backwardness to it that had immense charm.
Since last I wrote, I have continued valiantly affronting my prejudices. Now, of course, we all have grapes we don't like. I know some highly recommendable people who have, shall we say, issues with Cabernet Franc or Grenache. (Actually, the most common bête noire among wine-drinking friends seems to be the oft-maligned yet intensely wonderful (well, to me) Chardonnay grape. I will have to get proselytizing). That said, I must reluctantly remind one and all that I myself am known for not consuming hogsheads of Chenin Blanc or Gewürztraminer, say.
But as ever, I like to be on the frontlines – or down in the trenches, pick your military image – of my own preconceptions, flighting that fight. Because, really, it's a voyage of learning, now, isn't it? Well, along with getting tipsy, carousing, and having shared mini-epiphanies with friends.
This week, two towers crumbled right down to the dust. How's that for Ozymandias?
2002 Huet Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec - this wine knocked me off my feet, and I sat down next to Brad Kane and nodded with that half-smile that indicates great pleasure and surprise. My notes from the evening I tasted it have long since disappeared into some dumpster behind a tony midtown restaurant; suffice it to say that this wine opened my eyes in a particularly crystalline way. I wanted to cup it to me, but of course that would have warmed it up, so I just stared deep into it, then gradually drank it away.
2006 Jérôme Prévost "La Closerie" - Eeeew, pinot meunier. That was the thinking. But this was immediately more imposing than other expressions I have had of that grape. A rich, vinous nose met me as I leaned into the glass. Dark amberish color, with just a touch of walnutty oxidative overtones. I was enchanted by its smell. On the palate, however, at first, this was tight, hard in its lines; very low in dosage, it was clear. The apple, quince notes were pleasant, but they were somewhat pushed aside by a hard mineral finish. This needed more age, and first, more air. So I let it open up, expand in the glass. It did come into its own with some breathing, broadening, becoming more smooth. Being a few degrees warmer also did it a nice turn. It does need age, but it is already an impressive drink.
I have been thinking about questions involving taste and smell lately, as, recently, an offhand comment from a friend surprised me and got the cogwheels turning. I was talking about a dish I like – a foodstuff/aromatic pairing that was once (when Alain Senderens boldly used it a couple of decades ago) shocking and deliciously offbeat, but which has now become fairly standard: lobster with vanilla.
This friend recoiled. "I can't stand the taste of vanilla in savory foods. It reminds me too much of horrible overoaked Chardonnays."
Not only was my plan for a lobster bread pudding with vanilla sauce sent spiraling right down the drain, but the comment got me thinking. Does tasting and drinking wine transform our vision of food?
I know it transforms our way of smelling in the world. Sometimes when I walk out into the street, I am overwhelmed by one odor or another. I pick things apart. Leather from jackets hanging in front of a clothing store; roasting chickens with thyme and tarragon stuffed in them; and of course, the manifold unsavory scents we have to endure. There are places in the world, too, that smell corked. (I remember the unmistakable corkedness of a street off Leicester Square filling my nostrils in London last fall.) My nose is sharper than before I was interested in wine, obviously. Those muscles have been trained.
People are taught not to wear perfumes or use strong-smelling soap before tastings, but some wine geek friends eschew them always (well, maybe they're always drinking?).
But, getting back to tastes: I wonder if loving wine, and especially certain types of wine, has broadened my palate for food. Are there some foods I liked less, which I now enjoy because they evoke some flavor component in a wine I have come to love?
Fodder for thought.
I don't usually taste wines blind. But last night, Chris showed up at Brad's with a bag. Two wines were within. Somehow, a 2006 Ridge Monte Bello, previously decanted and rebottled, metamorphosed upon the table, where we were eating thick-cut dry sausage (it's better that way, per Brad) and hacking into some stinky cheeses.
Chris felt best to repair to the balcony to pour his mystery wine into a decanter.
It awaited us on the table, thereafter.
So, accordingly, some time later, with steaks, we poured the mystery wine. I swirled and sniffed. Hm, very young and fruity. But with a richness to it that wasn't of a young wine from a cold climate. It reminded me of the nose on young Côtes du Rhône. I sipped. Smooth, lacking any hard angles, and very pleasant to drink.
"This has got to be Syrah," I opined. (And we'll smooth over the fact that I don't like that grape.)
Brad said, "But no, there's no peppery, garrigue thing going on..."
I shook my head. "It's got to be that! There's a kind of loamy taste there."
We debated the wine's tastes for a while, and finally, Chris showed his hand.
Good god!
Yes, it was Gallo Hearty Burgundy. No vintage noted.
Chris described having drunk this (or watched it being drunk by his parents) many a year ago, before the American wine world's new flowering. A jug wine, now utterly reviled as a distant, benighted drink of yore.
But, amusingly enough, this was more than "correct" to drink. It was even quite proper.
We surmised it might be a blend of Zinfandel and Petite Sirah, perhaps somewhat highly cropped, resulting in lower alcohol levels.
But not a bad mass offering by any stretch of the imagination.
A truly unexpected, wonderfully nostalgic thought!
Bring out the rumaki.
(Marc Ollivier of the Domaine de la Pépière wrangles tasters)
Last night, I had a great conversation with Eric Nicolas of the Domaine de Bellivière. Not only did I have the unusual chance to bring him up to speed with the latest cutting-edge news about New York wines (eh, oui!), but we discussed a little about the winemaker's multifunctional role.
Turns out, Eric, being a Renaissance stripe of person, enjoys what has always seemed to me to be a crazily dispersive element to the job of vigneron. How, I always thought – all the while loving the non-commercial, passionate aspect of visits to domaines – can one person do the work in the vines, the work in the cellar, and then – ooh! presto-chango! – turn around and suddenly be greeting visitors, pouring wines, selling them, doing trade shows, traveling, talking the talk, etc. All the activity of a salesman, in its cold, clear-cut-ness – which most of the passionate vignerons I have visited, obviously, do not have as part of their natural fiber.
But Eric, far from frowning on or lamenting the need to get the wines tasted and to meet the (potential) hoi polloi, was enthusiastic about that element of the winemaker's life. In fact, he opined, it helped broaden horizons. It helps, he said, to leave the plots of land and the cuves.
And I couldn't help but be reminded of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who always thought that a long, three-league walk through the Lake Counties was the thing to jog the poetic spirit and get the juices flowing afresh. A change of pace, brought on by a contrast of activity.
Though he did think that laudanum was pretty good, too.
A few days ago, I opened up this one, a 1996 Ridge Geyserville.
Now, as far as American wines go, I have a soft spot for Ridge. A glorious 1987 Ridge Monte Bello remains one of my most rapturous wine-tasting experiences. And not so long back, a 1999 Geyserville had impressed and astonished a group of friends who had never tasted the Zinfandel grape in their Gallic lives.
I was looking forward to trying one with a little more age, even, than that – which, while still young, had taken on a good openness, a suppleness, of nearly ten years.
But the 1996 was an animal of a different stripe.
Poured into the glass, it was inky dark. On the nose, very appealing. Ripe, spicy, with plums and dark fruit. I sipped it. Hrm. It seemed to lack elegance. It was tight, tannic, hard-nosed, with an off-putting raisiny note. Aggressive stuff, brawny and unbalanced.
I listlessly finished a glass, hoping with a little air it would improve. No dice.
As it was late, now, I left the bottle on the counter and went to sleep.
In the morning, walking into the kitchen, I saw that it had remained stranded, open, there, and mechanically put a cork in it.
At the end of the day, coming back with a bag full of food to prepare and a hankering for something white, I nevertheless looked at the 1996 Geyserville, which was still standing (with, as you'll note, streaks of disdained juice down its label like tears) on the counter. I uncorked it and poured a quarter of a glass.
Hey! This was more like it. Swirl, sniff: still that pretty nose. But now, on the palate, it had gotten very elegant. There was still a lurking little bit of overripe fruit to it, but otherwise, the pepper and dark cherry and meaty notes had coalesced into a very pleasant wine.
That, I would never have imagined. A small pleasure.
Spring is here. It's over sixty degrees out! (Fahrenheit, for those of you in the Anglo-Saxon world.) And what better way to bask in the newfound warmth than to open some fresh whites – and fresh reds.
I'd chilled the 2007 Lapierre Morgon. It came out of the fridge. So it was no wonder that at first, it was muted and basically said "Brr!" to the palate. But the table is warm. Conviviality is warm. And with half an hour in the glass, with the ambient temperature pushing it past the threshold of coldness into gentle coolness, this wine flowered.
A lovely, fruity, fresh Morgon that suddenly buzzed and sparked with all kinds of tinder. God, this was gorgeous. God, I took another sip and sipped in air and sloshed it around my mouth and loved it. I treated that wine with attention, as its finely unfurling gamay fruit merited.
Perhaps I had been too zealous in its chilling, one could argue. But then, it's always a fine trick to see the dove fly out of the hat.
This was definitely a dove-out-of-the-hat experience.
Everyone has a different idea of which things in one's life one does alone and which must be done with others. Sometimes it seems to me that the variations and possibilities are as broad and manifold as the different types of likes and aversions in enjoying food. So, as it happens, just as I like every foodstuff on the planet except dill and bananas (as a fairly newfound convert to previously disliked Comté cheese and vin jaune; merci Philippe!), I am someone who prefers to go to the movies alone. I am someone who would rather enter a restaurant after someone else. I don't like to talk on the phone.
But what about drinking wine? Is the experience perceptually different when the wine is shared as opposed to when it's drunk in contemplative solitude?
So much is made of the difference between drinking wine in situ – with a meal, with other wine lovers – and sipping and spitting at a tasting. Different wines prevail; enjoyment factors and levels are tweaked, skewed and become unrecognizable from one platform to the other.
But what of the human context? If I open, say, a 2000 Rousseau Chambertin* for my own self in the privacy of my own living room with nice stemware and some food I've prepared with care, am I missing out on something?
My thought, my gut reaction, is: yes. Being able to share impressions and enthusiasms with someone or a group of friends is very important to the experience of wine drinking. Something is lost when there is no echo, no quick glance, no shared smile, no nod.
So my new stance will be, if ever I should find myself eating alone and wanting a glass to pair with the meal, to choose something novel; to make it a learning experience. But not to try for enthrallment, for emotion.
It's good to scale back, sometimes.
Now, to head out to a big wine-geek dinner. Thank god there are others of us out there!
*The cool thing about hypotheticals is that you can go as high-end as you want. And the 2000 Rousseau Chambertin is a damn lovely wine.
I have to say that I hadn't thought a lot about Picpoul de Pinet in my time. I'd had it a few times and found it a sprightly, uncomplicated southern French white (from the Languedoc, for those geographically uncalibrated to the appellation).
Then a couple of weeks ago, at the end of a rather protracted evening, I found myself in a wine bar with some friends, and here, we worked in a bottle of 2007 Félines Jourdan Picpoul de Pinet. Hey! This was not what I had been expecting. (To be honest – and I hope throngs of Picpoul producers will not come at me with pitchforks – I had seen Picpoul as a kind of southern Gros Plant... thin, spritzy, thoughtless. But shh... no more of that, oh, no.) This was not that. This captured my attention.
My recollection being hazy, I decided it was time to revisit this interesting wine, so a few days ago, I opened another bottle of the 2007.
A very expressive aromatic palate met my nose on swirling. And, tasted, it had so much character. 13% alcohol, so no frail creature, it had a bright, transparent body to it and on the palate was fresh, floral, with an excellent lime-y, peppery bite to it. It was spring in a bottle, just the thing for a late February cold snap, reminding you of warmer climes and warmer times.
And with smoked salmon, a perfect match.
Crazy ideas need a crazy followup. One such crazy idea was hatched on a recent evening when a friend of mine suggested preparing fish with mushrooms. Fish with mushrooms? Every rustic bourgeois Frenchwoman deep within my soul turned in her rustic French grave. (Please, just go with the image.) So what better wine to pour alongside a papillotte of monkfish with black chanterelles, minced Serrano ham and shallots than, of course, an aged red Rioja?
I was skeptical. But with the perfect uncloudedness of hindsight, I see that that was an inspired choice. And not just the pairing: the wine. Oh, the wine! This was one of those wines that make you realize why you spend 2/3 of your waking time* thinking, reading and writing about wine, as well as drinking it.
1985 López de Heredia Viña Tondonia - a gorgeous nose of strawberry and underbrush immediately grabbed my attention. I had in my glass that magical thing, a wine you want to coddle and sniff for a long while before even sipping it. Such glorious aromatics. At last, though, I struck out to discover if it was going to be an interesting sip, to boot. Zounds. On the palate, it was even better than what its heady scents promised. Such death-defying complexity! Waves of silky, elegant fruit and earthiness, with a sudden twist of sap and bark right in the middle, and then playing out forever, until I was wide-eyed and shaking my head. Wow.
And, some time later, as the level of the wine in the decanter got dangerously low, I savored its last sips in their full bloom, along with the utterly nosh-worthy monkfish decked out in minced black mushrooms.
Not so crazy, it turns out. Just insanely good.
*Depending on the day.
I think I'm usually pretty lucky. There are some things that haunt wine lovers. Corked wines. Premature oxidation of white Burgundies (and, some are now sinisterly saying, of Alsaces perhaps and next, who knows, Muscadet?). Brettanomyces. Other sundry flaws that leave you aghast and pouring out glass and bottle into the nearest drain. I don't usually run into those specters. My corked bottle rate is so low you'd think I had some kind of saran wrap secretly hidden in my fingers.*
But recently, alas, my luck was out. I had the most alarmingly, awfully flawed bottle of wine I have perhaps ever had the misfortune to taste.
2003 Léon Barral Faugères Tradition. Now, I had the 2005 version of this usually lovely and straightforward wine a few weeks ago. It was, well, lovely and straightforward.
Flash forward to its 2003 incarnation. Uh, oops! Who poured nail polish remover into my Faugères? The nose was acetone and ungainly. It could only be less marked on the palate, I reasoned in my benightedness. Slurp. Ugh, no! It was in fact worse. Along with the nail polish remover taste was a dirty, rotten uncleanness in the background, hovering and killing all fruit and pleasure.
For once, for me, one sip was enough.
*For, as old wino's tales tell us, dipping saran wrap into a glass of corked wine whisks away the corkiness (along with some fruit and other flavor components, but you can't have everything).
Yesterday, I was remembering the very first time I had a glass of wine. It was in Williamstown, Mass. It was cold, the dead of winter, with 10º snowy blasts of air cutting under my coat as I walked across the campus to the home of my French professor, Prof. P., who wanted us all to call him by his first name. Who was hosting a dinner for the French club. We'd all help, and I was to prepare the stuffed mushrooms.
He poured me a glass of white Burgundy and set it beside me as I hunkered down over the mushrooms, stuffing them just so with the farce I had prepared from various finely chopped ingredients, and then painstakingly basting the tops with melted butter.
He came over to me and said, "Look at you basting those! You're like an artist trying to get just the right touch."
I was something of a laughing stock for the rest of the evening.
So I turned my attention to the wine. First that white Burgundy, which came on, to my young American palate, like something that was going to be lush and sweet, but... it just wasn't sweet; it had a hard angularity to it that was unlike other things I'd had to drink. Some kind of tannins, some kind of minerality. So odd. I didn't like it, but I was intrigued by it and could only mark it in my mind as something I would have to learn more about.
A lush and fruity red was then poured as the guests laughed and chatted in broken, heavily accented French and ate the various bites we had prepared. This wine I understood more. There was no hard spine to break over my palate, just soft fruit.
"Don't worry," said Prof. P. in French, coming back around. "Last fall, you didn't know how to use the passé simple. Now you're reading Flaubert."
He wasn't wrong. A couple of years later, I would find myself in Ligré, quaffing rustic Chinon.
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Vice president plans Wisconsin visit Friday
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is planning to campaign in Wisconsin Friday.
President Obama's campaign announced Tuesday Biden will travel to Beloit and Superior. No specific details have been provided. The campaign says the trip is subject to changing weather conditions.
President Obama remains at the White House Tuesday, dealing with the federal response to Superstorm Sandy. He canceled a campaign stop in Green Bay.
Biden events in Ohio on Tuesday and in Pennsylvania on Thursday were canceled because of the storm. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney canceled Tuesday rallies across Ohio and Iowa, while vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is in La Crosse.
BELOIT (WIFR) -- Vice President Joe Biden will be making a campaign stop in the Stateline. He'll rally voters in Beloit at Aldrich Middle School at 9:00 a.m. Friday.
The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for the entrance. One ticker per-person will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Wednesday, October 31 at President Obama Campaign Offices in Beloit and Janesville.
Beloit Office: 314 State Street
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Good stuff
-installation = easy after adding that missing zimbra user
-really good web interface
-search/tags etc. Lots of good comments from our staff
-adminstrative stuff
Bad stuff
-IE= broken and slow
-Opera = no go
-Safari = no go
-Firefox = some complaints of slowness from users. I didn't see any slowness
-missing shared folders
The test server is dual 2.3ghz G5 XServer with 3GB memory and hw raid disks. So I can't understand why the server feels sluggish sometimes. Must the Mac OS X server os. Also it is unusable due to problems with different browsers. The complaint of slowness is "page loads in 4 seconds, after logging in it takes 8 seconds to show that something is happening". However people really liked the tag/saved search stuff. They actually thought it was some sort of gmail system.
From admin point of view I couldn't figure a way to see how many users are logged in and what they are doing. Also some performance monitors would be cool to see what is happening with the server from the admin console.


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News and Announcements
|18 October
|Sky & Telescope to Celebrate Seventy Years!
It's not only the AAVSO that is celebrating milestones this month. Our close personal friends, Sky & Telescope magazine is celebrating its 70th Anniversary in its own style.
|18 October
|Group Photo from the AAVSO's 100th Anniversary Meeting
Click on this link for a downloadable high-resolution group photo (1.7MB)
Click on this link for a downloadable KEY to the photo (877kb pdf)
Downloadable key includes list of those who attended but were not present for the photo
|09 October
|New HQ Officially Dedicated
The AAVSO's new headquarters was officially dedicated at a ceremony during the 100th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, part of our 2011 centennial celebrations.
The event was broadcast live on U-Stream. A video archive is still available on their servers.
Sky & Telescope has a nice news article covering the dedication and events surrounding it.
|29 September
|Charts and Sequences Update September 2011
The following stars (objects) have new or revised sequences as of September 29, 2011.
Please update your charts if you observe any of these objects.
|26 September
|New eJAAVSO preprint: Recent Minima of 146 EB Stars by G. Samolyk
ej151: "Recent Minima of 146 Eclipsing Binary Stars" by G. Samolyk
|23 September
|Astronomy Now Interview w/Williams and Saladyga
Astronomy Now has posted an interesting dialog with the authors of Advancing Variable Star Astronomy: Tom Williams and Michael Saladyga.
|22 September
|Special Notice 257: Reminder to observe V455 And for HST observations
September 22, 2011: As detailed in AAVSO Alert Notice 448, Dr. Paula Szkody has requested monitoring of the WZ Sge-type cataclysmic variable V455 And through October 10. Observations tonight - September 22/23, tomorrow, and Saturday are crucial.
|16 September
|Request to Take Astronomy Knowledge Survey
Dear AAVSO Members and Observers,
|16 September
|Special Notice #256: Request for fast optical time series of SN 2011fe
September 16, 2011: Dr. Bradley Schaefer (LSU) requests fast time series of SN 2011fe over the next several weeks to attempt the detection of fast optical variations in supernova light.
The following request was prepared by Dr. Schaefer which we forward at his request:
|14 September
|Special Notice 255: Cataclysmic Variable in Draco = PNV J18422792+4837425
September 14, 2011: IAU CBAT Central Bureau Electronic Telegram 2818 (Daniel W. E. Green, ed.) announces the discovery by Hideo Nishimura, Miyawaki, Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken, Japan, of a cataclysmic variable in Draco on 2011 Sept. 5.529 UT at magnitude 11.8 (reported by S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan). The variable was designated PNV J18422792+4837425 when posted on the Central Bureau's TOCP webpage.
|14 September
|Three new eJAAVSO preprints
ej148: "Deep Infrared ZAMS FIts to Benchmark Open Clusters Hosting delta Scuti Stars" by D. J. Majaess, D. G. TUrner, D. J. Lane, T. Krajci
ej149: "Delta Scuti Behavior Detected in HD 349422" by G. Turner, R. Kaitchuck
ej150: "A Search for Eclipsing Binary Light Curve Variations Among MACHO Project Light Curves of 3,256 Fundamental-Mode RR Lyrae Variables in the Galactic Bulge" by M. W. Richmond
|14 September
|Supernova Photometry Chat with Dr. Michael Richmond
On 13 September, 2011, we had the good fortune to have Dr. Michael Richmond, Physics Professor and Observatory Director for the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York chat with us about SN 2011fe and supernova photometry in general. Here is the transcript from that chat session.
|12 September
|Alert Notice 448: Request for observations of V455 AND in support of HST observations
September 12, 2011:
|11 September
|Alert Notice 447: Nova Sco 2011 No. 2 = PNV J16364440-4132340 = PNV J16364300-4132460
September 10, 2011
|10 September
|Special Notice #254: T Pyx Campaign continues
September 10, 2011: The outbursting recurrent nova T Pyx is past solar conjunction and is widely observable again. Arto Oksanen in Finland has been following it through July and August and reports it currently at 10th magnitude. Please add T Pyx back to your observing schedule if possible to follow the decline of its outburst.
|10 September
|Special Notice #253: Request for Observations of MAXI J1836-194
September 10, 2011: Dr. Gregory Sivakoff (U. of Alberta) requests observations of the X-ray binary star MAXI J1836-194 as part of the JACPOT collaboration studying stellar radio jets from compact binaries. There is no predetermined duration for this campaign, but observations are requested now to coincide with ongoing X-ray and radio observations.
|09 September
|Supernova Chat 13 Sept at 4:00PM ET
Supernova 2011fe has been gaining a lot of interest, and not just among astronomers, either! News of SN 2011fe made "The News Hour" for instance.
|08 September
|Special Notice #252: Upcoming Eclipse of Zeta Aurigae
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|06 September
|Supernova 2011fe: La supernova más brillante de los últimos 20 años
|06 September
|Special Notice #251: Possible transient in Scorpius
September 6, 2011: John Seach (Chatsworth Island, NSW, Australia) reports the detection of a transient object in Scorpius, having a magnitude of 9.8 on 2011 September 6.37 UT (JD 2455810.87). Observations were made with a DSLR and 50mm f/1.2 lens and 5 second exposure, with limiting magnitude 10.5. The object is visible on four separate frames taken after the discovery was made.
|05 September
|New Supernovae Photometry Discussion Forum
|02 September
|Supernova 2011fe: The brightest supernova in the last 20 years
|02 September
|AAVSO Receives National Science Foundation Award
The AAVSO has been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation. This one is for 3 years and ~$660,000. As with Citizen Sky, it is from their Informal Science Education program. It is titled "Two Eyes, 3D: Studying Stereoscopic Representations in Informal Settings". Aaron Price is the PI with Co-PIs from Tufts University (Dr.
|01 September
|Visual Observing Manual - Portuguese Version
Thanks to the hard work and perseverance of David Duarte and his colleagues at the Centro de Estudos Astronômico de Alagoas (CEAAL), there is now a version of the AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars available for download here:
We hope that this manual will be helpful to all of our many Portuguese-speaking observers and that you will feel free to share it with others.
|30 August
|New eJAAVSO preprint: "Secular Variation of the Mode Amplitude-Ratio of the Double-Mode RR Lyrae Star NSVS 5222076, Part II, by D. Hurdis and T. Krajci
"Secular Variation of the Mode Amplitude-Ratio of the Double=Mode RR Lyrae Star NSVS 5222076, Part II, by D. Hurdis and T. Krajci


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A few months ago I signed up for a FYE back stage pass, which I basically took to be a CVS extracare card type of thing. It turns out they've been taking $10+ dollars out of my account every month even though they never told me that it had a monthly fee, and I never provided my card for that purpose. So I call them to try and get it closed, and they won't let me because I don't know my membership number which I'm 90% sure they never provided me with. All they gave me in the store is a cheap key ring card to scan for 10% off.
Wtf am I supposed to do about that? I'm honestly about to just say I lost my debit card so I can get a new one, would that work? I've also been planning to change banks for awhile anyway so I might do that before the month is up.
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The victims were taken from all around Ohio, including Cincinnati. The report found that 63 percent of the victims had run away from home at least once, 59 percent reported having friends involved in selling, 47 percent were raped more than a year before being trafficked and 44 percent reported to be victims of child abuse.
In Cincinnati, the most common risk factors reported were dropping out of school and having an older boyfriend. Rape was third with 40 percent of Cincinnati victims reporting being raped.
In all of Ohio, the most common buyers for victims were law enforcement. Businessmen and drug dealers were second and third, respectively. In Cincinnati, the most common buyers were drug dealers, followed by factory workers, then truckers.
The report highlights the severity of human trafficking in Ohio. A 2010 report by the same commission found that 1,000 American-born youth had been trafficked in Ohio over the course of the year, and as many as 3,000 American-born youth in Ohio were at risk for trafficking.
Since the 2010 report, Gov. John Kasich has signed H.B. 262 into law, which outlaws human trafficking and enforces tougher rules.
However, the commission does not believe current law is enough, and it's pushing for more rules against human trafficking. The new rules would identify trafficking as child abuse, place a focus on arresting and convicting buyers and invest in responding to adult sex trafficking. The commission also wants a better response to youth runaways, and it wants to establish better protocols for dealing with at-risk youth, especially in correspondence with school officials.
When contacted by CityBeat, the Ohio Attorney General's office said they have no suggestions to specifically deal with law enforcement officials, which topped the list of buyers, who are involved in human trafficking.
The report was issued by the Attorney General's Human
Trafficking Commission. It was authored by commission member Celia
Williamson, who is also a professor at the University of Toledo. The full report can be found here.
Activists continue to protest Western & Southern's treatment of the Anna Louise Inn, which has been helping women in the Lytle Park neighborhood for more than a century. CityBeat last week reported the details of Western & Southern's failure to purchase the property when it had the chance and the company's subsequent attempts to force the Inn to leave the neighborhood anyway.
The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, released a statement on Saturday describing the protest banner as proof for local and national leaders that Western & Southern's actions won't be tolerated. The statement read: "We will continue to up the ante until you stop attacking the hard-working women of the Anna Louise Inn."
Josh Spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, said in an email to CityBeat that the plane flew for two 30-minute stints on Sunday. Spring said protesters distributed 2,000 flyers outside the tournament's gates and that the people who learned what Western & Southern was doing generally expressed frustration. The banner was made possible by contributions from several local organizations, including Occupy Work and Wages, Amos Project, the Homeless Coalition, SEIU Local 1, Mount Auburn Presbyterian church and other concerned citizens and groups.
The banner asks people to go to stpws.com to learn more. The website redirects to www.southernwestern.net, which is the site where activists finally were able to publish a satirical video parodying a Western & Southern spokesperson proud of his company's attacks on the Anna Louise Inn. The video was originally posted in June to YouTube and Vimeo, but was removed for copyright infringement shortly after Western & Southern found out about it. Western & Southern didn't return CityBeat's calls back then asking whether or not W&S was involved in forcing the removal of the video. The website includes a change.org petition asking Western & Southern to stop suing the Anna Louise Inn.
Cincinnati's Historic Conservation Board is scheduled to hear arguments on Aug. 27 that could lead to a conditional use permit and allow the Anna Louise Inn to move forward with a renovation Western & Southern stalled by suing the Inn. It will take place 3 p.m. on the seventh floor of 805 Central Ave.
Read this week's CityBeat cover story on the issue here.
The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Greater Cincinnati recently held its annual membership meeting and elected leaders for 2012.
Rusty Lockett and John Maddux were elected to another term as board president and vice president, respectively. Lockett formerly served as the center's clerk before first being elected president in early 2010. Also, he has served as event chairman for Pride Night at Kings Island in September and is convener of the local LGBT Episcopal worship group, called Integrity.
Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson has some explaining to do after being caught yesterday receiving a shipment of 2.5 points of weed to his home. Authorities found another 6 pounds inside the Crestview Hills house, which Simpson owns. Here's how the incident will affect your fantasy football team, should you have made the mistake of drafting Jerome Simpson.
A federal judge has ordered police to stop ticketing Occupy Cincinnati protesters after the group filed a lawsuit against the city for banning people from Piatt Park when it closes. The city has already ticketed protesters approximately $25,000.
J. Robert Linneman, one of the attorneys who filed the suit, according to Bloomberg Businessweek:
"This case is not about the whether you agree with the political views of Occupy Cincinnati or Occupy Wall Street; it's about the right of the people to assemble in a public park and to engage in protected speech."
The report chronicles 30 different human trafficking investigations, which have resulted in 15 arrests and 17 prosecutions over the past year. Some of the investigations are still ongoing.
A small group of protestors from the controversial "God hates fags" church in Kansas marched outside downtown's Duke Energy Convention Center this morning to oppose another religious group holding its nationwide meeting there.
The group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., picketed the North American Christian Convention, the annual meeting of churches, colleges, institutions and missions programs associated with the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ organization. About 10,000 people are expected to attend.


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Arthur (2011)
Arthur SynopsisIn this fresh new look at a classic story, Russell Brand re-invents the role of loveable billionaire Arthur Bach, an irresponsible charmer who has always relied on two things to get by: his limitless fortune and the good sense of lifelong nanny Hobson (Helen Mirren) to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge--choosing between an arranged marriage to ambitious corporate exec Susan (Jennifer Garner), that will ensure his lavish lifestyle, or an uncertain future with the one thing money can't buy, Naomi (Greta Gerwig), the woman he really loves. With Naomi's inspiration and some unconventional help from Hobson, the one person who always believed in him, Arthur will take the most expensive risk of his life and learn what it means to be a man, in this re-imagining of the romantic comedy "Arthur."
Arthur Release Date
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Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Greta Gerwig, Luis Guzman, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Garner
Written by: Peter Baynham
Directed by: Jason Winer
Produced by: Larry Brezner, Kevin McCormick, Chris Bender, Michael Tadross
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Melanie Brown has been cast opposite Hollywood veteran Rob Lowe in upcoming sitcom "The Pro."
The former Spice Girls singer will appear alongside Lowe, who stars as a professional tennis player in the comedy. It is not yet known what role Brown will play in the show.
Lowe confirmed the news via Twitter.com over the weekend, writing, "It's a casting avalanche! Spice Girl Mel B joins us on The Pro."
Brown has also signed up as a judge on reality TV show "America's Got Talent," which kicks off in May, and she is currently a coach on "The Voice Kids Australia," which will hit screens Down Under later this year.


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Syracuse, NY (Sports Network) - Dyshawn Davis had a 52-yard fumble recovery
for a touchdown, Brandon Sharpe registered four sacks, and the Syracuse
Orange snuck by the Pittsburgh Panthers, 14-13, Friday in their final Big
East matchup against one another at the Carrier Dome.
The game marks the final meeting of Syracuse (2-3, 1-0 Big East) and
Pittsburgh (2-3, 0-2) as Big East foes, as both teams are slated to move to
the ACC next year, where the rivalry will continue.
Although Syracuse gave up 346 yards of total offense in the game, the
Orange defense made enough big plays on the night to walk away with a
victory, despite their offense not scoring any points after the game's opening
drive. Syracuse gave up just 27 yards on the ground and forced the Panthers to
go away empty on two occasions when they had scoring opportunities.
The most critical was near the six minute mark in the fourth, with Pittsburgh
trailing by one and having moved the ball down to the Syracuse 17-yard line.
But on 1st-and-10, Sharpe sacked Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri for a 15-
yard loss, and Brandon Reddish followed the next play with another sack for a
loss of nine.
After a 3rd-and-long pass from Sunseri fell incomplete, the Panthers were
forced to punt from the 41 yard line with 3:13 remaining, and Syracuse was
able to lock up the game with a couple first downs on its ensuing possession.
Orange quarterback Ryan Nassib was 19-of-30 for 185 yards through the air
-- with no touchdowns and an interception -- and also gained 22 yards on the
ground. Justin Smith had a team-high 61 rushing yards on 10 carries for
Sunseri threw for 319 yards on 25-of-33 passing with no touchdowns and Ray
Graham carried the ball 24 times for 57 yards and a touchdown in defeat.
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CLEVELAND -- A new member of the Cavaliers is partnering with a local organization to give local students a better shot at succeeding.
Cavs guard Jarrett Jack spent time with more than 100 kids in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland Saturday afternoon.
They of course spent time on the basketball court. But they also got Nike bags stuffed with plenty of school supplies.


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MARIETTA, Ga. -- Like many little boys his age, 3-year-old Carter Vaughn of Marietta loves playing with his toy cars and trucks.
But he won't be playing with one of his newer ones any more.
His mom has taken away a Mattel Matchbox tow truck, but not because of anything Carter did.
"Very shocked; it kinda made me mad," Mandy Vaughn told 11Alive News on Monday.
That was her reaction after she jokingly asked her mother to call the phone number printed on the fender of the toy tow truck that she'd given her grandson.
"I called the number and I got a real shocker," said Jan Barnett.
"It was a sex line," Carter's grandmother added.
We called it, too, and sure enough, it is.
Barnett realizes her 3-year-old grandson doesn't understand, but she worries about kids who aren't so young.
"If it had been an older child, you know, they could have known to call the number," said Barnett.
"What if they came and said, 'Hey, mommy, I can talk to hot girls'," she said.
Mattel was not aware of the issue until 11Alive News contacted them Monday afternoon.
Company spokesperson Rachel Cooper e-mailed us this statement:
"We apologize that this has happened. Mattel's products are designed with children and their best interests in mind. Many of Mattel's employees are parents themselves and we understand the importance of child safety - it is our number one priority. The Matchbox GMC Tow Truck vehicle was released in 2000 and is no longer manufactured. Mattel has a policy in place prohibiting the inclusion of phone numbers on toys."
Mattel points out most of these tow truck models are now sold on secondary markets like auctions.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Nausea, the chills and hair loss are just some of the side effects of chemotherapy. One survivor saw a way to help herself and others through the grueling treatment. Then a troop of Girl Scouts said they wanted to help cancer patients, too.
Thursday morning we were joined by survivor and creator of My Chemo bag Paolo Domenge and Jennifer Vdareney with the Girl Scouts. They talked to us about the Chemo Bag and what's inside that could help you cope with the side effects of chemo. The Girl Scouts are also making blankets and delivering them to hospitals.


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Prepare to watch a daily video pictorial of the aging process, from birth to 21 years. Over 7,500 images of the same person have been condensed in a little over 6 minutes.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Adulthood and Aging.
To stimulate the critical thinking skills required to assess the validity of statements about the key concept using an Agree/Disagree Table.
To emphasize students' understanding of key words and practice applying the definitions of the vocabulary words to examples and drawings using the Frayer Model.
Looks at Alzheimer's disease as a way to study modern molecular techniques applied to medicine. Covers human biology and cell functions.
Find out how bonds formed early in life can effect people for their whole lives.
This study guide outlines the events that occur between fertilization and old age: implantation, embryo and fetus growth and development, pregnancy and childbirth, infancy, adolescence, and adulthood.
These flashcards help you study important terms and vocabulary from Adulthood and Aging.


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Richmond, Va. (September 8, 2010) – The NASCAR Nationwide Series will mark their third ever race in the Nationwide Series new car this week at Richmond International Raceway. The new car debuted at Daytona International Speedway on July 2 before its second appearance at Michigan International Speedway on August 14. This weekend at Richmond, Michael Annett will be behind the wheel of the No. 15 Germain.com Toyota Camry with Pilot Travel Centers carrying an associate position for the 27th race of the 2010 Nationwide Series season.
Making an effort to incorporate the new car into races at all of the different types of tracks that NASCAR competes on, Friday night's Nationwide Series Virginia 529 College Savings 250 will mark the first short track race in the new car before its full integration into the series in 2011.
In the first two Nationwide Series new car races, Germain Racing driver Annett finished 12th at Daytona International Speedway and 16th at Michigan International Speedway in his No. 15 Germain.com Toyota Camry. The second year Nationwide Series driver qualified 17th for both races.
In preparation for the series' first race at Richmond International Speedway in the new car, an extended practice day has been added to the schedule for Thursday with practice sessions from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Thursday's extended practice is free for fans to attend and features a free autograph session afterwards at 4:30 p.m. at the Richmond International Raceway Amphitheater located outside of the track near turn one. Annett and several of his Nationwide Series competitors will participate in the autograph session. Wristbands for the signing will be handed out to fans at 3 p.m. on Thursday at Gate 40.
NASCAR Nationwide Series new cars hit the .750 mile track for final practice on Friday from 10-11:30 a.m. Qualifying at Richmond International Raceway starts at 4 p.m. and the green flag drops for the Nationwide Series Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at 7:30 p.m. Live coverage of qualifying and the race can be seen on ESPN 2 with the race broadcast beginning at 7 p.m. All times are ET.
For more information on Michael Annett, check out www.MichaelAnnett.com and www.GermainRacing.com. Get live updates on Twitter @MichaelAnnett.
For information on sponsors of Germain Racing's No. 15 Nationwide Series team, please visit www.Germain.com and www.PilotTravelCenters.com.
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WALTHAM (CBS) - Rescue teams were called in to save a couple of deer Friday morning that had gotten stuck.
An incident on the Cambridge Reservoir was ongoing. A deer appeared to be stuck on the ice in the middle of the reservoir.
A number of rescue crews were on scene and had begun making their way out onto the icy reservoir.
Crews were wearing cold weather survival suits and had brought in ice sleds and boats to assist with the rescue.
Earlier, a deer fell through the ice at the Stony Brook Reservoir near the end of Turner Street.
The fire department said it ended well.
By the time they arrived at the scene, the deer had pulled itself out of the cold water and ran off.


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Hi everyone,
We use Zimbra Calendar to keep track of employees birthdays (or any other general events).
Our HR personnel is now add/remove dates on her own calendar then share with everyone.
If she'll leave the company someday, we can't edit, delete or view her calendar (/w unshared items like birthdays) properly (actually we can, first we reset her password, then log onto her account etc. etc.).
Now, we want to use a common calender (like Google Calendar birthdays' calendar) shared by everyone which can edit by zimbra administrators (or any user) so even if user left out our company, we can simply remove him/her from calendar admins and we can continue working.
Is this possible?
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I am new about zimbra, i setup successfully my server. send email is also working fine . Now i want to use send emails function form my other linux machine as client . my client machine connect with server and send email... i try but i got this error any help please....
root@quwic-s08 ~]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: 554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined
554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
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You can use your computer to create and save your own customized ringtones for your mobile phone.
To use the ringtone capabilities of Windows, your device must be compatible with Device Stage and support creating custom ringtones using Device Stage. You can create a ringtone in Device Stage from an existing sound file or from a new sound that you record on your computer.
Turn on your mobile phone, and then connect it to your computer using a USB cable or wirelessly.
Open Devices and Printers by clicking the Start button , and then, on the Start menu, clicking Devices and Printers.
Your device might be listed with a name that doesn't seem to be related to the make and model of the device. The Devices and Printers folder displays whatever name the manufacturer gave the device.
Double-click the device in the Devices and Printers folder.
If Device Stage doesn't open, then your device isn't compatible with Device Stage.
If Device Stage opens but Set ringtones isn't shown, the device might not support creating custom ringtones using Device Stage.
If you don't see your device in the Devices and Printers folder, make sure the device is turned on, has fresh batteries, and is fully charged.
If Device Stage doesn't open, the device manufacturer might not have specified Device Stage to open when the device is connected.
If your device isn't compatible with Device Stage, it's likely that AutoPlay will open when you first connect the device.
Turn on a compatible mobile phone, and then connect it to your computer.
Double-click Set ringtones in Device Stage.
Select one of the following options next to What would you like to do with this ringtone?
If you want it to be used as the primary ringtone that plays when your phone rings, click Make it the primary ringtone, and then click Send to phone.
If you want the ringtone to play when a specific person (or people) calls you, click Assign it to a contact, and then click Next. On the Assign to contacts page, select the person (or people) that you want to assign the ringtone to, and then click Send to phone.
The Assign it to a contact option only appears if the device has one or more contacts on it. For more information about syncing contacts, see Sync music, pictures, contacts, and calendars with a mobile device.
If you just want to save the ringtone but not use it, click Just send it to my phone, and then click Send to phone.
On the Choose a ringtone page, click Create new ringtone.
On the Create a new ringtone page, choose one of these options:
To create a ringtone from an existing sound file, click Open sound file, click OK in the Please respect copyrights of others message, browse to an existing sound file, and then click Open.
To record a new ringtone, make sure that a recording device, such as a microphone, is connected to your computer, and then click Record. Begin recording the sound that you want to use as your ringtone, and then click Stop when you're done recording.
On the same Create a new ringtone page, do the following to select the part of the sound file to use as your ringtone, and then click Save.
Drag either edge of the selection area to choose the length of the ringtone.
If you want the sound to fade in or out when it plays, select the Fade in or Fade out check boxes.
On the Choose a ringtone page, choose the ringtone that you just saved, and then specify how you want the ringtone to be used on your phone by selecting one of the options next to What would you like to do with this ringtone?