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Diana Greene named deputy superintendent for Manatee County schools
Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 2:12 p.m.
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MANATEE COUNTY — Fessenden Elementary School Principal Diana Greene is one of two new deputy superintendents hired by the Manatee County School Board.
Diana Greene
Experience: Former teacher at Oakcrest Elementary School, 1986-92; elementary learning specialist at Dr. N.H. Jones, 1992-94; assistant principal of curriculum and discipline at Dunnellon Middle School, 1995-97; Sparr Elementary principal, 1997-2001; director of staff development, 2001-03; and deputy superintendent of schools, 2003-12.
Education: Bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of North Florida in 1985; master's in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University in 1992; and a doctorate in K-12 teaching and learning from Capella University in 2006.
Family: Husband, James; two children, ages 23 and 17.
Greene, 49, a former Marion County deputy superintendent of curriculum and a former candidate for Manatee superintendent, will take over academics and instruction for the district on May 2.
Greene lost the election for Marion County superintendent in November to George Tomyn and was demoted to principal.
Greene said Tuesday her last day as Fessenden principal is May 1. She has recommended that Assistant Principal Gay Street finish out the school year in her absence.
"Fessenden will be in very capable hands," Greene said.
School District spokesman Kevin Christian said the current administration, minus Greene, will finish out the year in command of the school. Tomyn will make his principal decisions at all schools by the end of May or early June.
Greene, a 1981 graduate of Vanguard High, worked her way up from teacher to the district's top administrative ranks in just 17 years. In 2003, she was named deputy by then-Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey, who retired last year.
"I want to get down there and get to work," said Greene, adding she is excited about getting back into helping develop curriculum for students. "We have a lot to do."
Greene was picked for the position by Manatee's newly appointed Superintendent of Schools Rick Mills. Greene was finalist a few months ago for Mills' post.
Greene moved to Marion County in the mid-1970s when her father retired from the military. Her mother is originally from Marion County. Greene said she will miss Marion County, considering she has spent most of the last 36 years in the area.
Greene will be getting a substantial raise. Manatee deputy superintendents make $132,500 annually, $24,000 more than in Marion County.
The Manatee district's other new hire, Don Hall, chief information officer of Minneapolis Schools, will take over operations.
Though the votes were unanimous, board member Bob Gause expressed tentative concern about the choices, but said he trusted Superintendent Rick Mill's decision.
Gause said he has some worries about the process used to improve student achievement in Marion, which like Manatee has fallen into similar spots on the state ranking system in recent years. Marion is ranked 44th, while Manatee is ranked 47th out of Florida's 67 counties.
"I'm on the record as having concerns but recognized that you need to have the ability to build your team," Gause told Mills. He said later he would support the new leader.
"I will do everything in my power to support Superintendent Mills and Diana Greene's work," he said.
Katy Bergen's original version of this story was published in the Star-Banner's sister paper the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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Most moth species are very small and are active only at night, so we don't often get to examine them up close. But in Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large, a new exhibition of oversized prints by Canadian artist Jim des Rivières, visitors can pore over the insects in glorious detail.
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The new Action Comics #14, published this month by DC Comics, reveals that even Superman visits the Museum's Hayden Planetarium—and not just to see the Space Show. The superhero, it turns out, comes once a year to see images of his far-off home planet, Krypton, said to orbit its home-star every 382 days. To locate the fictional planet in the actual sky, DC Comics worked with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Museum's Hayden Planetarium. Watch a video about the process.
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We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Recent research, however, has led to new discoveries about black holes.
In this podcast from a recent "Frontiers in Astrophysics," Caleb Scharf, Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center, describes how these chasms in space-time don't just vacuum up everything but release matter and rearrange the surrounding cosmos. Dr. Scharf's talk took place at the Museum on September 10, 2012.

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July 11, 2014
Image by Lasse Rempe-Gillen – click on the image to see a larger version.
To mark Germany's historic win over Brazil in the World Cup semifinal this week, Lasse Rempe-Gillen (from the University of Liverpool) created this beautiful image. It shows the behaviour of a model that describes the phenomenon of phase-locking, something that can be seen in the synchronising flashes of fireflies or when a roaring stadium of football supporters gradually clap or stamp in unison. The image is related to recent research and you can read more in our news story Maths, metronomes and fireflies.
The grey parts of the image show where the model behaves chaotically – here even small changes in where you start can cause drastically different results in the model. The coloured parts of the image show where the model behaves in a more regular fashion where small differences won't dramatically change the results. This is because the model has attractors, special sets of conditions that create similar behaviour, either settling on a single outcome (called a fixed point) or running through a predictable cycle of outcomes. And in honour of the historic 7-1 score from the match, Rempe-Gillen's image has attractors of period 7 (with a repeating cycle of 7 points) and period 1 (a fixed point).
In contrast his image below has no periodic attractors, symbolising the other, goalless, semifinal between Argentina and Holland.
Image by Lasse Rempe-Gillen – click on the image to see a larger version.
You can read more about chaos, fractals and football on Plus!
July 7, 2014
The Plus team cycling into the office… (Great video by St John's, Cambridge)
No theorems were solved at the Centre of Mathematical Sciences, home of Plus yesterday… Instead everyone was enjoying the Tour de France zooming through Cambridge! Whether it's finding the right gear, attacking the turns or building the perfect track, maths and cycling go together like lycra and shorts!
Gearing up for gold – how the invention of the chain drive and some simple ratios can give you speed on the flat and power up the hill.
Leaning into 2012 – why leaning into turns lets you go faster.
How the velodrome found its form – how maths helped create the iconic curves around this ribbon of track.
July 4, 2014
Sine, cosine, and tangent — we do love our trigonometric functions! So imagine our bliss when we recently came across a function we had never even heard of before. It's called the haversine and it's defined in terms of the sine function:
The dotted yellow line is an arc of a great circle. It gives the shortest distance between the two yellow points. Image courtesy USGS.
The term "haversine" apparently comes from "half versed sine". To see why this function is useful, put yourself in the shoes of an intrepid traveller setting out on a sea voyage from Liverpool to New York. The first thing you'd want to know is how far you will have to travel. Ignoring islands, rocks, currents and other inconvenient factors, let's say that you will travel along the shortest path between the two cities. We know that the shortest path between two points is along a straight line, but that fact doesn't help you here. The straight line that connects Liverpool and New York cuts right through the Earth and you are not about to dig a tunnel.
You need the shortest path on the surface of the Earth, which is roughly spherical. On a sphere the shortest path between two points is along an arc of a great circle: that's a circle drawn on the surface of the sphere which is centred on the same point as the sphere and has the same radius. Any two points lie on a unique great circle, which they divide up into two arcs. The shortest path between the points is along the shorter of these two arcs.
So how do you calculate this great circle distance between two points and on the Earth? First, recall that the locations of the two points are given by their latitudes, for which we will write and and their longitudes, which we will denote by and Write for the radius of the Earth, which is roughly km. The great circle distance between and comes from the formula
(where the angles are measured in radians).
Solving for gives
You'll admit that this isn't the simplest of formulae. If you were are a seafarer hundreds of years ago, armed only with sine and cosine tables to help you, working out the distance would prove pretty cumbersome. There's a square root to take, as well as the inverse of the sine function .... argh!
But now let's replace any expressions of the form by the haversine function. Expression (1) above becomes
The distance is now
Working out the great circle distance between two points is so important in navigation that people in the old days produced tables giving the values of the haversine function and also of the inverse of the haversine function. This made seafarers' lives a lot easier. Working out the distance only involved looking up two cosine values and two haversine values, adding and multiplying them in the correct way, looking up the inverse of the haversine function and multiplying by — done!
The reason why the haversine function has come out of fashion is that with the help of calculators and computers it's easy enough to work out the distance straight from formula (2). That's why you don't find a haversine button on your average calculator.
Let's give it a go. Liverpool has latitude and longitude , and New York has latitude and longitude . These are measured in degrees. Converting them into radians (multiplying by ) gives and for Liverpool, and and for New York (rounded to three decimal places) Plugging these into expression (2), with the radius of the Earth , gives a great circle distance of around 5313 km. Quite a way to go!
July 2, 2014
Image produced by R.R. Hogan, University of Cambridge.
This pretty picture looks like something you'd see through a kaleidoscope, but it's more than a bit of fun. It's an image of a two-dimensional crystal — but not as you would see it if you looked at it. Instead, it shows the Brillouin zones of the crystal, which give important information about how waves, such as light or X-rays, pass through it.
The picture, created by R.R. Hogan, is one of the images that appear in the book 50 visions of mathematics, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
To find out more about crystals and what can happen when you bombard them with waves, read Shattering crystal symmetries.
July 1, 2014
Alex Bellos, one of our favourite maths authors, recently conducted a survey to find the world's favourite number. After polling more than 30,000 people from around the world, he found that the winner was ... 7!
We rather like 7 ourselves and decided that this is because 7 is the first prime number that really "feels" like a prime number, and because it's the most common result you get from throwing a couple of dice. Alex has come up with a different reason — see the video below. To find out more about the poll, see favouritenumber.net or read Alex's new book Alex through the looking glass (reviewed in Plus).
June 25, 2014
Image produced by Philip Dawid, using the program winCIG Chaos Image Generator developed by Thomas Hövel, © Darwin College, University of Cambridge, used with permission
This image appears to be a procession of elephants but is, in fact, a much-magnified small detail of one of the Mandelbrot set. The Mandelbrot set is a famous example of a fractal – mathematical objects whose structure is infinitely complex. Whether you're viewing them from afar or zooming in on them with a mathematical microscope, the same complexity is always visible. This self-similarity even extends to the some of the same structures repeating at all scales.
This unending complexity means that fractals live between dimensions. For example, there are shapes that are so crinkly, they are "more" than a one-dimensional curve, but not extensive enough to give a two-dimensional shape like a disc or square. Instead, they have a fractional, or fractal, dimension between 1 and 2, which is why Benoît Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, named them so.
Fractals famously appear in nature, from snowflakes to coastlines, and also have revolutionised mathematics by inspiring the field of chaos theory which is used in weather prediction and stock market analysis.
This beautiful image, created by Philip Dawid, is one of the images that appear in the book 50 visions of mathematics, that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
You can read more about fractals and an article by Dawid on Plus.


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Anurag slays appoggiatura
Education | Homeschoolers and hard-working Asian descendants continue national spelling bee domination
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Only at the very end did 13-year-old speller Anurag Kashyap lose his cool. Exsiccosis did not dismay him in Round 17, and he slew ornithorhynchous in Round 12. But so stunned was he when he won the 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, he shielded his face with his contestant number and dissolved into tears.
If Anurag was overwhelmed, it may have been because the whole room was cheering for him. Spellers knocked out earlier yelped in anticipation when the pronouncer declared appoggiatura as his final word, knowing it was a cinch for the eighth-grader from San Diego. Parents sprung to their feet in applause and remained standing as he hoisted the champion's gold trophy.
With his father at turns grinning and mopping his eyes with a striped handkerchief, Anurag could initially find only one word to describe his emotion. "Ecstaticness," he said, before the new spelling champ corrected himself. "I went up against 272 great competitors . . . this competition would be nothing without the camaraderie."
Even as the June 1-2 spelling bee was as fierce as it has ever been, camaraderie was in play throughout the competition. This year's national round drew the greatest number of spellers ever. Yet as they brought months of intense studying and a hunger to win to the stage, they also comforted one another and built friendships.
That was evident in the wide carpeted hallway outside the crowded competition room at Washington's Grand Hyatt Hotel. Reporters eyed tall double doors outside the "comfort room," a sanctuary where bee officials ushered contestants after they misspelled a word, waiting for vanquished spellers to emerge for perhaps tearful interviews.
Seattle homeschooler Claire Nieman, 13, knew the anteroom well. Last year she tied for 27th place; this year she tied for 37th with 14 other spellers after she stumbled on the word glottalize in Round 5. Minutes later she emerged from the comfort room with her parents and little sister, grateful she had been a contestant again.
"I really, really wanted to be up here, and I had to wait till sixth grade," she told WORLD, her voice rising with excitement. "I thought, 'I want to be at the national spelling bee someday.'"
She glanced down at her disappointed sister, who was clinging to her mother in a lilac sweatshirt: "Charlotte always cries when I get out."
With all her devotion to spelling, poring over obscure Latin derivatives has not been Claire's only passion. She has played the piano for seven years. ("She's pretty good," her father interjected.) She sings in her church choir. And she loves to read. Her favorite book? Eats, Shoots and Leaves, of course-the national bestseller on grammar and punctuation usage.
Two rounds later, Claire was outside the comfort room again. This time she was waiting with fellow contestant Dorian Burks (out in Round 4) for an also-fallen friend, Kimberly Campbell Olson, to emerge. So what's to comfort Kimberly in the comfort room?
"It's just a room where you can be private," Claire explained.
"And they have snacks in there," said Dorian, 13, "but it's hard to eat when you're traumatized." Both spellers said they just sipped Mountain Dew when they were inside. When a serene-looking Kimberly exited with family, Claire wrapped her in a bear hug. The 12-year-old Gainesville, Fla., homeschooler tied for 28th place, but had it tougher in some ways: Her sister Katie tied for sixth place in the bee last year and directed Kimberly's study schedule. "Towards the end I had to study more and more," Kimberly said. In all, she mastered some 17,500 words.
Homeschoolers have been increasingly successful at the national spelling bee, as well as other academic competitions. This year's bee saw 34 homeschool children who are not only accomplished academics, but musicians and athletes, too. Another group blazing trails includes children like Anurag, sons and daughters of South Asian immigrants who emphasize strong study habits. The top four spellers this year were Indian, as were three of the four previous champions since 2001.
If these children are some of the brightest in their generation, they also have a reputation for lacking social skills. But nobody would know that looking at 12-year-old Jonathan Horton of Gilbert, Ariz. Ousted in Round 7 in his first national spelling bee, Jonathan breezed through his media interviews afterwards like a savvy congressman on Capitol Hill.
"Spell your last name," asked one reporter with ABC, as Jonathan settled into a chair in front of the crew's camera.
"Y-O-U-R . . . L-A-S-T . . . N-A-M-E," he replied.
His mother, Michelle, shook her head as she watched on the sidelines. "It's his father's fault because he lets him watch The Three Stooges."
Wearing round spectacles and white Velcro-strap sneakers, Jonathan urged the reporter not to call him a favorite for next year. But he has been preparing for the bee since third grade, and told WORLD he has other competitions ahead next year in geography, math, and spelling.
"I was a little frustrated I didn't make it a tad further," he said. "Next year I'll be happy to get at least past this year. You have to want to win more than everyone else." Jonathan advanced through words such as arbuscle and exanthematic. But fustion, he said, pausing, "was my doom."
Not everyone appreciated the bee, however. On the sidewalks bordering the Hyatt about a dozen picketers paced up and down carrying signs. They were members of the Simplified Spelling Society, a group advocating more predictable spelling than they say the English language offers, as a way to curb illiteracy.
"Enuf is Enuf" read several of the signs they toted. "Enough is too much," read an alternative. "Ban the B in Bomb," read another, though it did not specify which one.
One protester was Nicholas Kerr, an Anglican clergyman who had flown from England for the event. Words like lead, he said, pronounced two ways, make it hard for children to learn to read.
"The language comes along and says, 'Don't be logical,'" he said. "Children are very logical." The spellers inside appeared to disprove his point. They are the "cream of the cream," he explained.
Among the cream, even with disappointments, there were few tears amid the lower-ranked spellers. Dorian, an eighth-grade homeschooler from Buffalo, N.Y., had an especially wrenching knock-out on a word he knew. Told to spell precative-an adjective meaning expressing entreaty, according to Webster's-he asked if it was related to the word precatory.
"Then I spelled precatory," he said, staring at the ground. Still, he knew he did better in the bee than he once expected. "My mom told me about it in sixth grade," he said. "I wasn't sure about it. I didn't think I was a very good speller." Thankfully, Dorian has other pursuits to return to; he has played piano for eight years, he figure-skates, and he works a paper route.
Contests like the spelling bee bring out the best of many participants' worlds: competitive excellence coupled with generous sportsmanship. If the bee is any indication, competition does not raise insensitive kids. As school systems slip in quality, the bee also offers an objective standard of achievement-and emphasizes expertise, said Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association.
"You don't want a guy designing a radar to say, 'if you get within a couple of degrees, it's good enough,'" he said. "Precision is important to almost every skilled endeavor."
But with so many talented homeschoolers and South Asian juggernauts dominating the bee, is it in danger of becoming elitist? "It's always been elitist," Mr. Farris said. "It separates the good spellers from the bad spellers . . . the kind of elitism we don't want is based on race or who your parents are or what side of town you're from-something other than hard work and achievement."
For champion Anurag, who has appeared twice at the bee, the prize is hefty: $22,000, a $5,000 college scholarship, a $1,000 U.S. savings bond, and sets of encyclopedias. Ever responsible, the California native said he would save the money for college. But right now, he has to figure out what to do with his time during spelling bee season next year.


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Istanbul, Turkey (Sports Network) - In a rematch of last month's U.S. Open
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The eighth-seeded Chinese star Li improved to 1-1 this week with a 6-4, 6-3
handling of the fifth-seeded Kerber, who went a disappointing 0-3 in her
round-robin affairs.
Also on Day 3, seventh-seeded Italian Sara Errani is taking on ninth-seeded
Aussie Samantha Stosur, who replaced the 2011 WTA Championships titlist
Kvitova in the eight-woman field on Wednesday.
The four-player Red Group features Azarenka (1-1), Williams, Kerber and
Li, while the White Group boasts the 2004 champion and 2007 WTA Championships
runner-up Sharapova (2-0), Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska
(1-1), the French Open runner-up Errani (0-1) and the replacement Stosur.
The top-two players in each group advance to the semifinals, with
the winners squaring off in the lucrative finale on Sunday. Sharapova, like
Williams, has already secured a berth in the final four.
The winner of this $4.9 million event could collect as much as $1.75 million.
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Hola new Hikari. How's it going? I'm one of the less active people but i still hope to see you around! Btw, I <3 x 1000 your banner!!! =]
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I wonder where Hikari 1.0 is...
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wow. I didn't know people said heart on here. yay!
She's new, ergo she does not know yet that she shouldn't.
*shrugs* it's Friday, so piano probably.
I guess. TC is dying. I'm waiting for either Nanaki or Aden to say whether it's okay to invite people.
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Obviously not by accident, National Candy Corn Day is the day before Halloween. And if your office is anything like mine, you've been sneaking handfuls of the sickeningly sweet treats on a daily basis the last couple of weeks. The only way to celebrate such an important food holiday, of course, is by gobbling 'em all up.
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I am 6 1/2 weeks pregnant and just had my initial appointment with the doctor last week before being referred to a midwife (that's the typical MO here in the UK). The doctor assumed that I was planning a hospital birth and when I informed her that I was looking at either a home birth or birth center birth, her response was basically, "well, you're a first-time Mom so don't be disappointed if it doesn't happen." Is there any reason I should be concerned about being able to give birth outside a hospital? Any first-time Moms who did who could give me a little encouragement? Thanks everyone!
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Go for it! You can absolutely do it. I had a birth center birth (would have done home birth, but it was easier with insurance with the birth center) and it was completely natural, and a wonderful experience. It was challenging, but so rewarding. My husband is now totally a fan and supporter of natural birth, because he got to participate so much in the birth, even lifting our son out of the water to hand to me. Not to mention the emotional support he gave me when I was in labor. Like others have said here, totally empowering, and I wouldn't go to the hospital ever unless it was medically required.
I am a first time mom as well, 10 weeks along, and I am planning a homebirth. Throughout the pregnancy, my midwife will be monitoring how things are going. I will elect to have an ultrasound at 20 weeks to make sure the baby development is doing well and placenta is in a good spot.
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
By Llyod I. Sederer, M.D.
If you have a family member with mental illness, then The Family Guide to Mental Health Care by Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., is the book for you.
Usually, when symptoms begin, no one knows what to do or where to even begin to look for help. People enter an alien world, desperate for guidance and reassurance.
Dr. Sederer provides it. He is also no mere psychiatrist moonlighting as a tourist guide. He is the medical director of the New York State Office of Mental Health—i.e., "chief psychiatrist" for the nation's largest state mental health organization and former medical director and executive vice president of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.
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Occasionally, Dr. Sederer will explain scientific or medical concepts in ways that are not only friendly for a lay reader, but also entertaining. In "Getting the Right Diagnosis," he explains that the psychiatric profession knows that some treatments work, but not why—because we still do not know exactly what causes mental illness. But that's also not unusual, he notes. In the 19th Century, germs weren't "discovered" until after doctors realized that fewer babies (and their mothers) died if doctors washed their hands before delivering them.
In "Treatment Decisions," Dr. Sederer provides just enough information to allow readers to understand the concepts of "evidence-based practices," "measurement-based care" and "stepped care" without overwhelming them. Those concepts can be important in choosing between options, managing expectations and evaluating progress toward recovery. Similarly, in "The Places You May Go," he describes the alien terrain that many families may have never expected to visit: e.g., outpatient clinics and psychiatric inpatient units, followed later by mentions of transitional housing, group homes, supportive housing and other programs.
Dr. Sederer's last two principles are paramount: Prepare to take on the mental health system and never, ever give up. His book prepares the reader for that challenge. He sees families as partners in both trying to make the mental health system work—and to reform it. He also sees them as a source of knowledge and inspiration in their own right. In the book's acknowledgements, Sederer gives "special thanks" to NAMI members "who welcomed me into their meetings and lives and deepened my understanding of what needs to be done… I hope this book honors their efforts."


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Aylward Academy pupil Leroy James was stabbed to death after a clash between a large number of youths at Ponders End recreation ground in Enfield, north London, on August 17 last year.
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Oct 25 2012
Characteristics of Mediterranean House Plans
Designed to feature the architectural influences of the Mediterranean region, Mediterranean house plans most resemble the homes found in Italy and Spain. Their Tuscan and Spanish influences give them a classy and elegant air of distinction. Some or most of the following features are true of Mediterranean home plans:
- Commonly designed for warmer climates, these homes are predominantly found in Florida and California as well as other southern states.
- Sometimes referred to as Floridian house plans, Sunbelt home plans or stucco homes.
- Usually designed with one level although it is not uncommon to find a two-story Mediterranean house plan.
- Designed to maximize energy efficiency in warmer climates and feature a white or pastel color stucco façade and a red clay tile roof that hold up well in warm weather regions.
- The exterior features wide overhangs designed to block the sun's rays from windows and entries keeping the interior as cool as possible.
- Floor plans feature generously sized rooms, open gathering spaces and tall ceilings promoting and open and airy feel.
- Decorative features include arched entries and windows, wrought iron railings, fences and gates, and stylish columns which define individual spaces while maintaining openness with other areas of the home.
- The living areas are often arranged around an open courtyard or pool for entertaining purposes.
- Large outdoor living spaces such as verandas, patios, terraces promote relaxation.
- Two-story versions often feature balconies.
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Backing Bynum: Cleveland Cavaliers Center at Career Crossroads
Not so long ago, Andrew Bynum was a pivotal piece in the Los Angeles Lakers' back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. After a failed first year away from California as the key figure in a supposed rebirth of the Philadelphia 76ers, Bynum signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers after sitting out every game the previous season.
His return as a Cav was supposed to be a risk-free, low-salary maneuver aimed at luring LeBron James back to the team during the superstar's upcoming free agency. But the early portion of the season has been a nightmare for everyone in the Cleveland organization. Recently, the Cavaliers announced they have suspended Bynum indefinitely and will either look to trade him or release him by Jan. 7, when an escalator clause in his contract is scheduled to kick in. Should Bynum be released by the team, where will the big man with chronic knee issues and a penchant for strange behavior turn next? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.
Riley: No matter how bad his attitude or how bad his knees are, there's always going to be a market for Bynum considering his 7-foot, 285-pound frame and scoring ability. At one point, Bynum's name was in heavy discussion as the best center in the NBA. Things haven't gone well in Cleveland so far this season with poor play and team turmoil stunting the team's growth. Bynum's previous year in Philadelphia was also surrounded by a failing organization, so it's an overstatement to say he was the cause of failures in his last two stops.
Green: Between the funny hair, the funny attitude and the trick knees, I think the NBA is getting ready to see the last of Bynum. It was a great run by the center, but unless a top-shelf organization like the Miami Heat or Lakers are bringing him in, he simply doesn't respect the league enough to give it 100 percent. The Cavaliers were a good option for him, and somehow he managed to squander that and get himself suspended from the team. There were reports claiming he said he "wasn't interested in basketball," and you're expecting him to land on another roster? I don't think so.
Riley: Reports, rumors and media-made stories aren't going to cloud NBA executives' minds if they're trying to find a proven center. That's exactly what Bynum is. The extra drama is obviously a bit much, but teams have put up with more from other players that aren't nearly as good as Bynum. Even at 80 percent, Bynum can be a difference-maker on a team, as we saw when the Lakers faced the Boston Celtics with him in the lineup. He can still make a huge difference just by clogging the paint and raising his arms. Cleveland may have been a bad idea, and Philadelphia obviously didn't work out. But glory tends to cover gaffes and the title-controlling center that Bynum used to be will be all general managers and player personnel guys consider if Bynum is actually released from Cleveland.
Green: I think Bynum's fate was sealed when the Lakers took Dwight Howard over him two summers ago. The Lakers don't just let prime time talent leave for other pastures, but that's exactly what happened. Los Angeles is obviously a premier franchise so when they don't put up a fight to keep a player, then you have to know that something's going on. Two teams have followed the Lakers and both scenarios have ended horribly for Bynum. There may be a desperate team out there willing to make a gamble, but don't expect the money to be anywhere close to what both Philadelphia and Cleveland offered. Maybe Bynum can use his unique personality in a post-career TV role. I hope so, because his playing career is done at this point.
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Sir Paul McCartney shut down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Monday night for a televised street gig.
The former Beatle performed a 15-song set as part of an appearance on late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
McCartney played two songs from the roof of the El Capitan Theater before heading down to street level to complete the show for an estimated 10,000 fans.
As part of his set, the singer/songwriter performed a handful of classics and three songs from his forthcoming album New, which will be released next month.


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A sample of this new South African brandy came my way last week accompanied by a little cocktail recipe. Not expecting much I gave the cocktail a try out - wow! Combined with the glorious summer we are experiencing in the UK this can only be described as a thirst-quenching wonder. Some may say this is even more drinkable than the ubiquitous summer Pimms!
African Mishale is from the KWV operation in the Western Cape. Would your life be improved if you were enlightened that it is blended from double distilled pot still and column still brandies? Probably not. More interesting is the specific that the cocktail recipe, African Spice, was created by London Barman Gerry Calabrese of the Hoxton Pony, EC2.
Its highly drinkable, as the now empty bottle of Mishale indicates, and we did have to substitute the suggested Vanilla Sugar/Vanilla Syrup with plain old sugar syrup but this worked a treat.
African Mishale Brandy is available from the re-emerged Wine Racks 17-store chain. Normally retailing for £13.49 it is currently on offer until the 18th July 2010 at £9.49.
"Named after the word 'spear' in Swahili, Mishale is pronounced mi-sha-lay. Bright and golden it's a proud blend of brave African spirit and the fine tradition of brandy distilling."
African Spice Cocktail
Shake with ice and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Top up with a dash of Ginger Beer. Delicious.
The dorona vineyard is spread out from the restaurant to just beyond the abandoned chapel with tower. The strip of land running from the central pond to the lefter-most corner of Mazzorbo island, with the bridge to Burano, are now bursting with vegetables used by the islanders and of course the restaurant. Towards the jetty on he left are fruit trees used for the same purpose.
A gentle stroll from the hotel, through the vineyard, over the connecting bridge takes you to the island of Burano. Here the tight streets buzz during the day with tourists, but is so attractive and colourful (photos on Spittoon Extra) that it is well worth a wander.
On a hot summer's day there's nothing better than a refreshing beer to cool us down. But do you often find a trip down the pub with your friends leaves you sticking to the same tipple, purely because you have no idea what the difference is between an ale and a larger and don't want to risk a bad pint? Or maybe you dismiss it based on the myths around it being bad for your health? When in fact, when drunk in moderation there are several health benefits.
If so you might be one of the millions of Brits missing out on the truly phenomenal range of beers now on the market. So how do you open your mind and palate to what else is on offer?
Just like wine varieties, there's a staggering array of beer to match anyone's taste. And what about finding the perfect beer to match the perfect meal?
Well, if you want some help in your quest to find the perfect summer ale then log onto our live WebTV Show where beer expert Kamini Dickie and Dr George Philliskirk from the Beer Academy will let you into the secrets of the perfect pint with a live beer tasting class.
Kamini Dickie and Dr George Philliskirk are live online at http://studiotalk.tv/show/beer_appreciation_masterclass on Monday 21st June at 3pm to give you their top tips for finding the perfect beer.
Odd shaped 50cl bottles held what was described as Bisol's first grape squeeze from its resurrected Dorona vineyards, it turned out not to be so. I lent back into a more comfortable posture.
The wine was made from the vanishing Dorona variety but not by Bisol and not from the vineyard spread out in before us. And there was me thinking those few rows of vines were the last remaining plantings of this variety in the world. Bisol initiated the project in 2002 finally replanting the estate with this 15th century variety. (The best over-view image I could find online is this one, tiny but you can just make out the hotel/restaurant complex bottom right, the vineyard with chapel tower bottom centre and the island of Burano behind.)
High walls surround the Scarpa Volo vineyard, an attempt to keep the surrounding lagoon at bay, with Bisol giving over half the land to soft fruit trees, vegetable plots and seating areas. It dominates one end of the island of Mazzorbo. Escape the tourist throngs on Burano with a short walk over the bridge to the vineyard and settle yourself into the restaurant for a long lazy lunch. Ristorante Venissa, is run by famed Italian chef Paola Budel. (Not being up on famed Italian chefs Paola was trained by Michel Roux amongst others).
Did my Englishness display result in such a miniscule sample being dropped into my glass and a subsequent mess of our table not having the correct number of glasses? Pettiness is not a trait I like to honour but still it got a bit annoying...
The meal - pictures of which I'll post over on SpittoonExtra - was very fine, with the dessert 'Crostatina con crema Chantilly e ciliegine' perhaps my favourite dish despite being served with a "strawberry skid-mark" and being a touch too sweet to match with the superb Bisol Cartizze Prosecco.
But the La Dorona was what the fuss was all about; frankly it was a little disappointing. Remember though that this is not from Bisol or the Scarpa Volo vineyard so it will be interesting to see how skilfully they can extract something of interest from their young vines next year.
This sample came in at just 11% alcohol, slightly lacking in acidity but with a decent minerality and weight. Enjoyable, indeed I even leant forward in anticipation (especially under the smiling glare of the PR woman) for my initial sniff and sip. As the forthcoming releases of Bisol's Doroma are unlikely to be cheap and offered by allocation only that might have been my first and last taste of Doroma.
Perhaps the saltiness of the cheese was the main culprit or the raw red onion clashed with the slight tart finish to the wine. Or more likely I just wasn't paying attention; the summer sun and those sultry days of a few weeks back (remember them?) can do that.
Now Rkatsiteli as a grape I am familiar with (much planted in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and of course the Ukraine) but Mtsvane? According to the Georgian Wine Society, who supplied this wine, Mtsvane means "new, young, green" (referring to the unusual colour of the fruit when ripe), is often blended with Rkatsiteli adding a fruity, aromatic balance. Here the Mtsvane dominates, comprising 85% of the blend. (Either way its another addition to the Wine Century Club list of tasted varieties)
The wines of Alsace are a particular speciality of mine, they are oft mentioned as the perfect accompniment to the mix of spicy, salty, sweet and sour flavours found in Asian dishes. Beer is the first on the list of drinks people reach for - especially those Friday night curry nights with the lads. If people do think of buying a wine to drink with it, the idea that a wine can compliment a spice seems rather odd, but far from it. In fact the right grape variety can add to a home delivered (or home cooked!) Asian meal.
TV chef Ching He Huang and leading wine journalist and food and wine matching expert Joanna Simon are linking up for a live webchat, where they'll be offering guidance on which wines bring out the best in each Asian dish; from the fruity, floral tastes of the more elegant Alsace wines such as Riesling through to luscious or spicy whites like Pinot Gris or Gewurztraminer.
Ching He Huang and Joanna Simon will be on StudioTalk on Friday 18th June at 13.00 to demonstrate how Alsace wines can compliment Asian food. You can post a question in advance via the same link.
Since 2008, the champagne house has organised a series of gastronomic dinners to "celebrate the beauty of the world", basically a "once in the lifetime gastronomic experience orchestrated by a Michelin star Chef" all as part of a true and authentic expedition alongside a real adventurer.
The first expedition in July 2008, was to Greenland and an iceberg drifting in the middle of Sermilik Fjord. This featured a gourmet meal orchestrated by two-star Michelin Chef Sylvestre Wahid. The second journey went to Antarctica to the very same spot where Commander Charcot spent the winter in 1904, alongside three-star Michelin Gérard Boyer, while the last visited the Great Barrier Reef where Mauro Colagreco Chef prepared a gastronomic lunch on a pristine sandbank.
Where will the fourth MUMM EXPLORER EXPERIENCE be next? To get a chance to discover it and win a place to this unique expedition, G.H. MUMM is appealing consumer's creativity and photography skills.
To participate, simply log onto www.mumm-the-game.com. Take the best snapshot of what you think is the best set of a "stunning dinner to celebrate the world's beauty", and upload your picture on to the site. To increase your chances of winning, you can even ask your friends to vote for your picture.
The deadline is 7th July. While the image doesn't have to include a bottle of Mumm Champagne is does need to feature a dinner setting; so I am wondering if the image here is too subtle? Either way you can vote for it on the site (when it appears).
The 10 submitted pictures with the highest number of votes will be reviewed by a G.H. MUMM jury panel and Mike Horn. The lucky winners of the competition will be announced on 14 July together with the revealing of the MUMM Explorer Experience destination. Thee eight runners up will be delivered with a bottle of MUMM Cordon Rouge champagne.
That's in my world of course, the reality being a little more humble. The vodka was real enough mind. The chat was with Mr Bob Bob Ricard himself, Leonid Shutov, a most generous and genial host. He, I am assured, is not a member of the Russian mafia, might well be an oligarch, but is certainly a Russian.
It's not often a jaded and life-worn old soul like myself gets a revelatory moment; the vodka and food tasting session was one such incident. We were instructed not to treat the vodka as a wine. No pre-sniff, no little sips, no rolling around the palate but to engage in a shoot and eat. The palate was singularly purified and enlightened.
These ultra vodkas are distilled and filtered to the nth degree. Purity is the key. In comparison a Stolichnaya seemed oily, heavy and disjointed. With the palate enlivened and cleansed by the ice-cold vodka shot the food, little Russian-inspired tapas style bites, took on a level of intensity and purity that was sensational. 'Quite Nice' is my stock in trade saying for a highly enjoyable experience; these were bloody amazing.
Marinaded cucumbers (£2.50) heavy with dill were superbly clean cut and intense, the Beluga Caviar topped belinis were revelatory and the tongue in aspic simply delicious.
There was a different vodka with each dish. The Jellied Ox tongue (£7.50) was served with Kauffman Collection Vintage 2006 (yep, a vintage vodka, distilled 12 times and several different filtrations), the Caviar with Kauffman Luxury Vintage 2003 and some home cured herring (£3.50) an Imperial Vodka (filtered four times, distilled 8 times). And it was insisted that the vodka was chilled down to -18 degrees.
These are standard dishes/vodkas on the Bob Bob Ricard menu. A 25ml shot works out at £4.75 for the Imperia, £7.50 for the Kauffman Collection 2006, and £11.50 for the Kauffman 2003. I won't mention the price of the Beluga Caviar...
There was more to the meal after the excellence of the vodka; (the excellence of the 'Beef Wellington, 28 Day Aged Fillet of Aberdeenshire Scotch Beef
With Truffle Gravy' (£34) has to be experienced!) more Bob Bob Ricard pictures on SpittoonExtra. I have to admit the experience at Bob Bob Ricard was really quite nice indeed.
But this is a red wine, another dividing food stuff though in being made from Pinotage, but a different style of Pinotage, the original 'coffee and chocolate' pinotage. An experiment which began 9 years ago to discover a style of Pinotage that would appeal to younger drinkers has created a unique style, the launch of which each year involves a vineyard party. Gone are the rustic edges, the off-putting rusty/rubber dimension (not that all Pinotage arrives with these characteristics of course) and in comes a toasted coffee and chocolate led palate, all down to toasting the oak in which the wine is aged apparently. There is a ripeness, a soft drinkability, a depth of sumptuousness that doesn't really overpower the pinotage-ness of it all.
I can't say I really picked up on any overly powerful coffee-style flavours being more entranced by the smokey, dark fruits and pepper notes. It's young so expect more pruney edges to develop with age. It also went superbly with my liver dish!
Last year, while in South Africa, I was lucky enough to pick up a recipe collection by famed South African chef Reuben Riffel (Reuben Cooks, which I don't think is available outside South Africa). Each dish comes with a wine recommendation and it just so happens the Pan-Fried Liver with Colcannon and Brown-Onion and Marsala Gravy was paired with Diemersfontein Pinotage! Result!
For those no-liver indulgers (bet you hate Marmite too!) the wine would be equally good with steak, game, and as Fiona Beckett suggests Moroccan spiced quail. For me though its the liver...
ARSE of course stands for Andrew's Really Secret Event, a tight gathering of wine and food bloggers and tweeters, rolling into a tapas bar near Kings Cross before heading off on the Piccadilly Line to Green Park.
The tasting venue itself was the Naval Club in Mayfair. I should take a moment to thank the Club hugely for letting us utilise their grandiose bar on a Sunday afternoon.
We were most fortunate to have Riccardo Tomadin in town to showcase a 'new to the UK' range of Prosecco's. The easy drinking Riccardo Prosecco Brut, the finely bubbled, creamy Riccardo Prosecco Extra Dry and the superb Riccardo Prosecco Cartizze. The latters 28g of sugar appearing little sweeter than the Extra Dry's 18g (per litre) making for a fine rendition of the pinnacle of Prosecco production.
When you ask a disparate group to bring along a bottle of something interesting you can be sure of an equally diverse and unique offering. This motley bunch didn't disappoint. We kicked off with a strident Vin Jaune, dividing all into a large 'dislike' group and a few brave-palated 'likers'. A crisp, lip-tingling Manzanilla sherry, limited production, hardly seen, followed before we slid into the white wines. A Croatian Chardonnay anyone? Distinctive, lightly oaked, delicious. A South African Sauvignon Blanc offering its own take on pungency, un-ripened strawberries and gooseberries all with a refreshing zing. And then quickly into the reds...
Those kind fellows at Bibendum had sent over two reds for us to sample - a full bodied Mexican wine, a first encounter for many at the tasting of Mexican vino and a Cotes du Roussillon Villages. The slightly baked, gravelly tannins of the Mexican, complete with vibrant, delicious fruit is a surprise on so many levels not least is the medley of grapes: Petite Syrah, Cabernet Sauvingon, Barbera and Zinfandel. The Roussillon was equally praised for its balance and ripe flavoursm and dark, brooding fruit. Both highly recommended.
A third red, from Ribera del Duero, more than managed to compete with these two blockbusters with its Spanish credentials rising to the fore. A superb Tempranillo with hints of sweet spice and deep black fruits. A excellant addition to the tasting!
To conclude something 'really interesting'. A red dessert wine from Italy, unavailable in the UK. More rosé in colour and with a lightness of sweetness that had us thinking of dark chocolate or a bowl of raspberries as an accompaniment.
Perhaps those acronym nay-sayers were miffed because they weren't invited? Those that did make it had a ball. How could they not with such a superb, interesting, range of wines!?
A full list of the wines is below complete with links were available. The photo above shows the participants. From left to right we have Riccardo Tomadin, Tara O'Leary [whose report on the tasting is on her Wine Passionista blog), Niamh, Jeanne, Douglas Blyde, Sara Belizaire-Butler, Rupert Taylor and Louis Villard. Thanks all for making the day such fun and playing along with my ARSE.
My love of the medium, photography and blogging, I trust shows; well it must do as I have been nominated for the Wine Blog Awards. Not just once either, but twice! There it is, Spittoon.biz, listed in the voting line up for 'Best Graphics, Photography, Presentation' and 'Best Wine Reviews'. I am well chuffed.
Over the last few years the readership of Spittoon has grown substantially. Where once I was astounded that 1,000, then 5,000 and then 8,000 subscribers read my scribbles though RSS (let alone the number visiting the site direct or subscribing to updates by email) the number now stands a little shy of 28,000 according to Feedburner. Unbelievable. Thank you one and all.
If just one percent of you could just pop over to the Wine Blog Awards voting page and show your appreciation for those years of slog and spitting that I've pummelled into this little drink blog I would be really, really grateful. ;-)
After six years of blogging a little award would mean a lot. I realise I don't stand an earthly when compared with the fine blogs Spittoon is competing against but even one vote would mean plenty to me. Huge thanks if you take the time...
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The wines were made by Gerardo Vernazzaro, an Italian from Naples. The wines mostly made from Falanghina, a white variety that I thought delicious and as charming as Gerardo himself. And how do I know he is charming? I've met him!
As myself, CookSister and The Wine Sleuth, scurried around the London International Wine Fair, I spied the distinctively packaged wines on a stand... and there he was Gerardo Vernazzaro himself. He took us through his range, several listed by Naked Wines. A the conclusion Denise the Wine Sleuth took a little video, cooksister holding the camera. I hate to steel her thunder (she does after all still owe me a tenner) but while they were videoing, I too recorded the encounter on my new camera. The video is totally unedited (hey, I was amazed the video came out at all!) but should work.
The wine they are tasting is the Falaghina Strione 2007 listed by Naked Wines (the only UK stockist) for £11.99.
Surprisingly I even recognise the parallels present in the results from Bibendums World Cup of Wine. Having missed the initial play offs I was keen to attend the semi-finals. Each team had two reds and two wines compared against similar bottles from the opposing team. A strident showing from Australia was pitted against a strong South African line up and on the other table the French, fielding a couple of classic styles, was lined up against Italy and being Italy these were rather idiosyncratic wines.
The wines were duly sampled and compared. Quite some discussion resulted. Was this Aussie Chard just a little too oaky? Did the length of the South African Chenin really pull it ahead? The discussions and re-tastings took the place of post match discussions and video replays of near misses and crowd pleasing action. There was a similar amount of spitting too.
Perhaps surprisingly South Africa fought off the strong Australian line-up, particularly the Chenin Blanc (Graham Beck, The Game Reserve Chenin Blanc, 2009, Robertson) which simply knocked everyone's socks off (well in my group anyway). It was a close run thing between two Pinot Noir's though. Was the sweeter, Aussie-sun lashed fruit of the Marchand & Burch Mount Barrow Pinot Noir, 2008 preferable over the more Burgundian, fungi-tipped, Newton Johnson 2009 Pinot Noir from South Africas Walker Bay? A close run thing but price played a part too and pushed South Africa into the lead and winning the match.
A different story over at France v Italy. Were the French a little too complacent and relieing too much on tradition and terroir to see off the Italians stylish showing? The result was a complete trouncing of France and a mammoth victory for Italy. In play two Italian wines really shone and come with a 'must buy' ticket.
On the red bench the Nicolis Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso 2005 is a hard sell apparently (why when it is such a delicious wine?) Deep, rich, wonderfully rich, with power and concentration but at the same time offering pure drinakable pleasure. Stylish in that Italian manner with a nod to elegance and food matching potential. Superb. This was the wine I went back too for a post-match slurp.
On the white bench the choice of a Soave, those easily dismissed, lemony, watery wines made fom dull old Trebbiano, was a pleasant surprise. Until the time came to try it. A whiff of weed, citrus pith and a delicious floral edge. Great acidity, lovely weight. A worthy winning player.
June the 9th, I believe, is the date set for the Bibendum Wine Cup Finals. Should be a tense and fun game!
Rather nicely utilising more of the, overly expensive, rose water purchased for a fruit smoothie the flavours added such an exotic edge that it threw me for a while for which wine to serve with them. A red wine for lamb chops would be the obvious choice but the strident flavours rose water threw this out thinking a clash would result with anything too tannic (Bordeaux or Rhone red would be the first bottles I'd reach for normally) and felt anything new world would be too overpowering.
A panic in the isles of Waitrose?!
Step round the corner to the rosé shelves, whispered that shoulder lounging devil.
The recipe is again taken from Miss Masala by Mallika Basu but involves little more than puréeing various spices (garlic, root ginger, cinnamon stick, a red chilli, nutmeg, coriander and pepper) and mixing with Greek yoghurt, slathering this over the lamb chops and leaving them for a couple of hours. (Thanks to the PR people for KitchenAid for sending me a blender the other day, the puréeing would have taken a while otherwise...)
And the wine choice? A bottle of Marques de Calatrava Tempranillo Rosado 2008, complete with 'man-styled' label and 12.5% alcohol. A hearty coloured rosé from La Mancha. Not expensive, and on offer until 9th June, at £4.99 but punches above this price point brilliantly.
Stock up on a few to accompany those summer barbeques...
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