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Paris may not be Rome, but it does have a few hills. Accordingly, I like walking up to the heights of Belleville to stop in at Le Baratin. Last night, I did this, and sat down to a nice terra cotta dish of tripe and veal foot stewed with chick peas and chunks of red bell pepper.
A glass of NV Lassaigne Vignes de Montgueux beforehand was shockingly, and wonderfully, vinous. Where had the green apples and the asparagus gone? It was all winey and deep.
The followup was intended to be a 2007 Foillard Morgon, but as it turns out, they were fresh out of stock, so the young barman suggested something I had never had nor even heard of prior to that instant.
2006 Foillard Morgon 3.14 - Yes, the name is a pun on Côte de Py, where the cuvée is from; yes, punning is contagious; no, I'm not proud. What I am is enthralled by this wine. I stuck my nose in the glass to smell a short pour and make sure it wasn't corked – and did a double take. No. Fricking. Way. Intensely aromatic, it was a sucker-punch of glorious fall berries. I looked up at the barman, as though to say, "You've got to be kidding." He nodded, the pantomime, "Eh, oui." I tasted it, and it sent my brain circuits briefly on the fritz. I was not in the Eternal City, yet here was some kind of big ecclesiastical mass of vinous choir and song and organ and vestment and hell, god, it was just so good. Trumpets.
It was in a decanter, which was all the better for its continuation, as it smoothed; there was something a slight bit coarse to the tannins at the start, like a pleasant cat-tongue, just to show it wasn't some kind of manufactured thing.
Because really, if someone in a lab could make this, well, I'd have it running out of a faucet in my pantry.
But let's come down from our cloud. My only niggle with the night was the rushed turnover of the tables. Mine I could squat only from 8pm to 9:30pm, so it was over to the end of the bar, after, to pay my last devotions to the 3.14. Which it resoundingly deserves.
At the bar at Fish, things were getting loud. We'd gone through some Gatinois champagne and some ethereal form of Alsatian riesling; now it was time to buckle down and go tannic.
2006 Gonon Saint-Joseph - I have had this wine a number of times in the past year, but this time, it was utterly brooding. A knockout nose of depth and berries and smoulder, yet on the palate, the tannins bruised. It softened a little with air, but this was some form of minor medieval warlord of a St. Joe.
A couple of nights later, it was on up to Montmartre, back to the rundown hole-in-the-wall I adore, the Cave des Abbesses, forthwith to order a bottle of:
2007 Graillot Saint-Joseph - Ah, here we were in a different idiom. No longer draped in crusty leather and holding a mace, this was light and harmonious. So slick, smooth. Something that plays around with your tongue and leaves you smiling. A witty, eighteenth-century St. Joe with nice calves.
Then, of a solitary evening, in recent days, I opened a bottle of 2007 Dard & Ribo Crozes-Hermitage. But, hey, to write about it would destroy the trinitary unity of this blog post. And as god knows, blog posts are all about classicism and coherency.
So, let's use the well-traveled literary device of the flashback.
2007 Dard & Ribo Saint-Joseph - It was spring in New York, and very hot. I was at the Dressner tasting and had just discovered the astounding white and red Châteaneufs of Eric Texier. I then made my way to an unmanned table, but was not, uh, unwomaned by it and was able to pour my own tastes. This was a wiry, coiled, energetic thing. It didn't have the same tangle as the Crozes-Hermitage (regular bottling), but had a kind of undertow that instantly gave the feel that it would age. How would I describe this St. Joe?
I dunno. My prose has run out of steam.
One weekend day this summer, I was deep within a cold cellar, talking with a fellow wine geek. We were slurping at a 1997 Clape Cornas (wonderfully funky, like an exploding cherry tinged with brettanomyces) and started evoking the visions of food that were beginning to shimmer into solidity in our minds as we tasted it. I was thinking something simple: a grilled piece of meat, or some such.
And then I had to admit that I carry around a little box of index cards in my head – this food goes with that wine; never pair such-and-such with such-and-such – but despite it all, and despite many pairings in the course of my life, I don't usually get much out of it. I'm never awed and pleased at a thunderously good pairing, or disgusted and outraged at something that skews wrong or falls flat. I guess you could say that, in short, things don't flow together, vinously and culinarily, creating a melded whole that works or does not, for me.
Instead of looking at me strangely, my fellow wine geek said there was a much simpler rule: just make sure the two don't fight. Not only jarring pairings, but the complexity angle. His rule, which I found persuasive, is that a complex wine needs a simple food for it to show its many facets; a complex dish needs a simple, well-built wine.
So here's to a tricky culinary act of complication with a frank and pleasant Dolcetto or Chinon, a standby Sauvignon.
And then to sipping at a lovely Jean-Marc Brignot Trousseau with a piece of meat. A gorgeously twisty and leesy Valette Mâcon-Chaîntré VV with some whelks. A bottle of really old moelleux Huet with foie gras. (Huh?)
I wonder what I might have with foie gras, actually.
I mean, it's really a staple.
In the countrysides, the harvests are getting under way, and in the cities, the fall Foires aux Vins are stocking shelves in air-conditioned supermarkets with gleaming bottles of Bordeaux. Special offers are sliding into mailboxes and popping up on computer screens.
It's la rentrée, and, as opposed to the more paschal renewals of spring, this is the golden-leaved time for revisiting wine. Soon, we'll be drinking a glass of carbonic bernache, or seeing just how much a favorite from last fall has changed before bottling. I've been giving in to the irresistible impulse to revisit things (I thought) I loved, just to see how they and my palate have evolved. It's a fun exercise, and also helps tame the overgrown cellar.
(And this will come as a spoiler to no one: I still love those Selosse champagnes.)
Last night, I opened a curio: the darkest rosé in the world.* It is the Domaine de Rapatel's "Ça, c'est du rosé?," purchased last year at the domain, which is situated just outside of Nîmes and whose wines are mostly in the Costières de Nîmes appellation. At the time, the wine had been slightly funky, still working in the bottle, a curious discovery.
Last night, it was angry. It had consolidated itself around a core of something it wasn't quite digesting, a kind of raspy backhand of not-quite-stilled CO2. Still, it had a top layer of fruit that was pleasing. This was utterly atypical fare. And as such, it made me smile as I looked at it, turned the glass, swirled, and thought, I am drinking the darkest rosé in the world. Ha ha!
A fitting close to the summertime months and their rounds of Bandol and Côtes de Provence and even, hell, the uncompromisingly taut and pale Baudry Chinon Rosé. Something dark, something not-quite-right, something transitional.
And soon, a new season.
*Readers may feel free to contradict and shoot me down, for my own edification.
In a week, a wine board I like to participate on will celebrate its first birthday. Realizing this, and thinking back over the many online conversations I have had, spanning from Tahiti to Burgundy, by way of Mount Etna, Rioja and Cornas, I thought it was an apposite moment to bring up the topic of why it's so important to have these venues for conversation, banter and arguments.
Knowledge and taste are such slippery, ever-changing things; our palates and opinions evolve, inevitably. And one great spur to their evolution is, along with the simple tasting and drinking of wines, discussing them with people who have a similar fervency, people who are informed, ask questions and spout thoughts.
What I have found fascinating in the eclectic, angry, roving, uncommon group of oenophiles on the Wine Disorder board is the challenge of it. In order to join in the fray, to confront a conflicting or ill-formed opinion, one's own opinion needs to be clear, expressible, and thought-through. Even to chip in with related commentary requires a cataloguing and systematizing act of the brain. Someone will call you out – and that's part of the fun.
This I love. I also enjoy the play with the rigor, the allusiveness, the humor, the extraneous, geeky nonsense. Because ponderousness is a bad old saw in the wine world, I like that I can flee preconceived notions and skip off to a playground for sharp winos.
My palate has changed and evolved over the past year, and this is in part due to the questions other oenophiles have put to my set of prejudices (which I also try to assail here, but in a less back-and-forth way). I would never, too, have thought to drink Overnoy Poulsard, say, or Clos Roche Blanche Pineau d'Aunis, or orange wines without the steady tide of fresh thoughts and tastings provided by that group.
Which is why I have decided to toast Wine Disorder with a nice glass of leesy chardonnay.
Mazel tov!
Baudelaire wrote that the shape of a city changes faster, alas, than the human heart, but in truth, the days of Haussmann are over. Paris has achieved a sense of equilibrium, and one can walk past the same buildings and shops, look in the windows, and see that what has changed are the vintages on the wines.
New producers sprout, too, though. Fittingly, while in recent days I have come back to favorites (last night's 2007 Graillot Crozes-Hermitage was fresh and lithe, just like I like it), there has also been room for discovering new fodder, including this interesting Chambolle-Musigny, pictured. Unfortunately, the photo's too dim for me – dim, too, it would seem – to read the producer's name any more.
But, oh well; there will be new finds. And of course, I know where I found it, so I can find it again.
I think it was Richard Juhlin who said that it was hard to make bad wine in Cramant.* I have to concur: that village on the Côte des Blancs turns out some of the most deep and racy champagnes there are, from Diebolt-Vallois and Lilbert Fils to the profound Vieille Vigne de Cramant from Larmandier-Bernier.
So, a small caviste in Montmartre was selling the champagnes of Lancelot-Pienne, from that burg. Why not? I thought, given that the rest of the store held some nice little gems. I was having a friend over for dinner, so I picked up a half-bottle of the NV Brut Tradition.
Night was flooding through the window when I popped the half-bottle and poured some of its frothing contents into two glasses. After handing over the one, I stuck my nose in the glass in hand. Mmm, that Cramant smell. Chalky and biscuity. On the palate, this was even-handedly dosaged, with good balance and a savory quality to it that was very pleasing – and very much of its place. Part of me wondered if its mature drinkability had to do with its being in a small vessel, because in recent months, I've had some champagnes that really did need more time (people don't give champagne enough bottle age, often). Whatever the case may be, this was a small, happy pleasure; a little drop of Cramant elixir to open the palate.
*Though, to be honest, he used it backhandedly to criticize a certain grower: how can one screw up Cramant? Look!
Last night I had a dark and cobwebby bottle of 1976 López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva. It was whitish with the work of long-dead spiders, and a thick black layer of something frighteningly giving lived in the punt. After a slight jump back (trying not to disturb the sediment, nonetheless), I opened the bottle over a trash can (wax covering the cork; one of those things that goes everywhere if one's heedless, the way I had been the first time I had a bottle of Clos la Néore), decanted for sediment, poured out said sediment, rinsed the bottle and put the wine back in it, cut off the musty end of the cork and recorked it.
A balmy night out. Up the street: a restaurant that allowed corkage. The preliminaries done, the waiter turned his attention to the bottle of wine standing there in all of its ashen glory. He saw it was already open, picked it up, pulled out the cork, then to pour it, took the bottle in the way waiters everywhere are trained to – thumb straight into the punt. A black hole of decades of cobwebby crap. He gave a start. He tried to smooth out his expression and continue pouring, but I leapt to his aid. I should have warned him, I said, and of course it was OK to pour holding the bottle around the side. This he did.
A bottle of 1973 Tondonia two days earlier had been youthful with that light, leafy fruit I so love, but there had been a hovering uncleanness that marred what was otherwise a lovely wine.
Here, none of that was the case. The 1976 López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva was straight-on lovely, darkly lovely. Inexplicably teasing and tangled on the palate, it was opulent yet firm, the kind of wine that makes you want to close your eyes, then open them, then go running around the room. A dream of a wine. A dark, hidden dream that had been coaxed out into the air.
The title here is a feint. I was scribbling messages with a friend and wondered what might be interesting to talk about on this blog. His suggestion? Knowing my proclivities: "Riesling: foe or waste of time?"
Of course, I countered that the answer wouldn't make for a very long post: "Both."
Now, I try to be open-minded in my approach to wine. I will even go back for certain punishments just to make sure I really, really don't like a vinous thing.
Then I get all bombastic and pretend I have set-in-stone tastes.
Thing is, for all of my railing against riesling (there's been a bit of that, as well as passing off glasses to friends, liberal use of a dump bucket, &c.), I have in my day quite liked quite a few.
Since I have my very own personal palate issues with residual sugar, the rieslings that have managed to curry favor with me have tended toward the Austrian and Alsatian side.
Yet exceptions abound. Some older Germans: yum, who knew? Some nasty Clos Sainte-Hunes: need to replace my tooth enamel!
So, roll it all up into a ball, and say, well: both, and neither. The exuberant aromatics of riesling can be enormously appealing; the body can be viscous; I do like that petrol thing. But the riesling grape is not a reliable friend. It's a friend who sometimes kicks your dog and sometimes gives you a bunch of lilacs tied with a ribbon.
So I'll stick with the chardonnays and the romorantins and the grüner veltliners of the world. Until their green-blue corks start heralding premature aging and walnutty oxidation.
Then I'll have no recourse but chenin....
This blog post is a public service announcement for those interested in wine. The picture of the seemingly harmless bottle above is one you should stamp into your retinas and retain. Blink twice. You see this bottle, here, now, safely virtual. If you see this bottle in the real world, flee. Or else give in. I'll have warned you.
Sometimes wine crosses you over to the dark realms of craving, though it's not often. Well, the bright and sunny bottle you are being shown here in fact hides a terribly addictive philter within its glass confines.
2008 Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon Nº2, with its headily aromatic nose and will-breakingly deep palate, redolent of all those things you want in a sauvignon (lemon zest, rocks, white flowers, and then a fleshy hint of calisson or apricot), bests a whole host of Sancerres and other supposedly higher-end regional fodder. Sip it alone, sip it with shellfish, sip it at the beach or at the Buttes-Chaumont or on a deck festooned with striped deck umbrellas or in a city apartment.
Then be prepared for the consequences. You will want more.
A vaporous collaboration with VLM, who let me drink almost all of the Radikon
I was sitting at my desk on a dark, cloudless spring night with a lamp shining indirect, yellowish light. I had a bottle on the glass desktop, next to the MacBook. The bottle was cool to the touch. The label was minimalistic, hand-drawn, and from the side peeked out the recognizable font of the LOUIS/DRESSNER importer label.
Opened and poured into a large stem, the wine shone ocher through the glass. I swirled and smelled. 2006 Cà de Noci "Notte di luna" has heady perfumes of spice, cardamom, orange peel, gingerbread. I sipped and felt it expand in my mouth, sending floods of complex quince and tannin over my palate. This is god wine.
Before last fall I had never had an "orange" wine, and did not even know they existed. That a disparate and geographically diverse handful of natural winemakers would choose to produce pungent, tannic skin-contact white wines in an unmistakable style, relying on barefoot crushing, on wild yeasts, and, for some of them, on amphorae, hadn't been part of my wine lexicon. Especially as there wasn't anyone doing it in France.
So, my first dalliance with Notte di luna was memorable, and I blogged about it at the time. But I didn't realize that what we had on our hands had been, for all of its remarkable uncommonness, of a style. Thus, I was still the novice several months later when, during a dinner, my friend SFJoe got out a skinny 500ml bottle with a blue label. I rolled my eyes, thinking he was once again slinging the sweet stuff, as he is wont to do. Wrong. And how.
2003 Radikon "Jakot" - A dry, bright wine with hidden depths. This hits your nose before you get anywhere near the glass. What I loved about the wine was its offhand, palate-flattering approach, which then spirals wildly into great length and complexity. It's both easy and tricky. Its name is a joke, too, being the backwards of Tokaj, which is its grape, but which it is not allowed to be called any more. This is a natural wine that is impudent, jokey, the fool, and foolishly good. (It also fools you by making you think it's light in alcohol; then you find yourself tipsy and realize that despite its balance, it carries 14% abv.)
The Radikon was both an epiphany and a spark in my mind: I wanted more of this. But "this" was both a particular and a category. If other wines out there could bring the heady category confusion of Cà de Noci and Radikon, I wanted to taste them, to test them.
One day, when it was raining really, really hard, it was time to open a Gravner, after having kicked off shoes so wet they could have been wrung out.
2002 Gravner Ribolla Gialla "Anfora" - A more austere wine, in comparison to the Radikon. Deep amber in color and with heft on the palate, it stretched out in dark slices of pain d'épice, but was as tight as a fist. Closed and stern, it was fascinating like someone who won't tell you what he's thinking. This needs far more time – years – but promises to be a gorgeous butterfly when it gets out of its cocoon. It'll have stories to tell. It'll spill the goods.
I had now sussed out what this orange wine phenomenon was all about, and was all knowing with another bottle – this I enjoyed less, and didn't retain the producer's name – quaffed at the restaurant Convivio over a plateful of crab and sea urchin malloreddus. Yet to my mind, I thought it was an Italian thing.
Flash forward.
Last night, Josh Raynolds came at me with a bottle bearing the brown-toned label of the California winery Wind Gap. I waved him away. "I've had their wine before!" I demurred, recalling a very even-handed (12.5% alcohol!) unoaked chardonnay about which I'd thought: Sure, but they can do this in France in their sleep.
Josh said, "But this is an orange wine."
I turned around (yes, I'd already turned my back on him and was retreating toward the last sip of a glass of Donati Malvaisa frizzante). He smiled wickedly and poured a healthy pour into my now emptied glass.
2008 Wind Gap Pinot Gris Here we go; clove and quince and thick delightfulness. "Look at that color," he observed. Slightly cloudy, it was deep. And as it opened and unfurled in the glass, I found those tastes again.
Those unnaturally natural orange wine tastes.
This post is part of the natural wine month series at saignée.
It has been pointed out to me that of late, I have been doing more of the tactile (tasting, drinking) approach to wine than the cerebral (writing). That must change, now, as I have agreed to parnter up with VLM, of the stupendous wine blog The Vulgar Little Monkey Translucency Report, for a pair of posts about natural wines.
This we are doing as part of saignée blogger Cory Cartwright's month of guest scribblings. The man has been bold enough to ask mad vinous web log scribes to churn out prose on the topic of, funnily enough, natural wines. It may be an unnatural turn of events for a blog you never thought would see the word "fuck" used on it, but a natural affinity for natural wines can churn up all kinds of unnatural antimatter, now can't it?
I mull this over as I sit here letting the last vapors of a hangover produced by quite a bouquet of natural wines waft away from my being. I am at the keyboard ready to sing of the rosy-fingered dawn of orange wines.
The posts go up tomorrow as part of the series that's running on the site linked to below.
As Joe Dressner would say: Enjoy.
Spring is for lightness with a bit of residual sugar, I've decided. Light whites, Loire whites, chenins, romorantins, weird Monts-Damnés Sancerres from hills so aslope, their aromatics explode and they persist on the palate with a heady blend of alcohol and sweetness.
These things we can deal with, now that the sun is out and flowers bloom in buckets in front of florists' stores. You want to mash basil with a mortar and pestle. Sauté some seasonal greens. Eat fish that only come around once a year, and maybe their roe, too. And pour things like the following, for a start.
1991 Pichler Ried Dürnsteiner Kellerberg Riesling Smaragd - an Austrian riesling with age and smoothly matured aromatics. A lovely thing, long and sinuous on the palate. Great while scarfing down focaccia.
2006 Bornard Arbois Melon "Le Rouge-Queue" - Oxidative delight! A Jurassian chardonnay that delivers ample funk, like a mountain stream in an opium dream. Let it tangle with your tongue. Who knows who the winner will be?
2000 Brégéon Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Gorgeois - Long, involved, complex, noble of brow, yellow. Deep and ponderous and lovely. And something to slurp oysters down with – if ever one should admit to eating oysters at this point in the season.
NV Mayragues Vin de Table de France Brut de Mayragues - a méthode ancestrale bubbly made from 100% Mauzac. With its lazy bubble, slow and happy on the palate, like a turtle sitting contentedly in the sun. Somewhat lavish, despite zero dosage; round, fruitful, good, made to quaff.
2007 A. & P. De Villaine Bouzeron - City mouse and country mouse, at once. Expressive, floral, and stony; another mountain stream – this time, sans opiates. Sharp, sleek, too: a flash of light off the hood of a very shiny car, which you walk into, because you're momentarily blinded.
2007 Ostertag Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes - once, this wine had an off-putting dill note to it; now it has a bit of honeyed oxidation. Ah, that's certainly more like it. A heavy-hitter of a sylvaner, but still, true to its sylvanerism, affable and easygoing. A patch of sunlight in the grass back onto which to lean after you've had a couple of glasses and are feeling blithe.
2008 Clos Roche Blanche Sauvignon Nº2 - perfect. A platonic spring wine. A platonic wine. A wine that is soon no more, because you drink it all. And I mean all.
Others, of course, could be added to this roster. More keep sprouting like new buds and stalks. And I haven't even gotten to the Tale of the Bubbles.
It's time to step out for some air and light.
Mark and I sat at the bar and sipped Rioja while picking from a huge pile of olives on a glazed terracotta platter in front of us. There would be a long night of sipping and quaffing ahead, but here we were reconnoitering and enjoying the solidity of heavy, tall bar chairs. I leaned back.
When Carrie and I walked into Ten Bells, it was dark and crowded, but the instant Jorge splashed a taste of sparkling pink Bornard poulsard into a low coupe, the room went bright.
The cork was crumbling, and even after twisting it off the corkscrew, left bits in the worm, but Joe had managed once again to best the elements that were rife with treachery for any lover of older wines. He reached for a round glass decanter and poured the ocher liquid seamlessly from the raised bottle.
Nathan swaggered over with a magnum of some 1982 Brovia and in a hesitating half-step, seemed to wonder if it were really worth it to continue punishing me over an inability to taste German riesling – not to mention the fact that I had bogarted the 2003 Radikon Jakot. Would he relent and tilt some Brovia into my empty glass?
The phone rang on a Tuesday morning. "Hi, it's Michaël. Do you want to go visit Selosse in Avize next week?"
"This is really good," George said, looking deep into his glass of 2000 Marquis d'Angerville Volnay. "It's like an Oregon pinot noir, only so much more elegant."
The room was turning around in the dark. Dark tendrils of Chambertin ran through my mind in swirls and whorls. There was the bed; it looked low, soft and flat. Voices next door may have been wondering where I was, but the bed was speaking in a silent rush of softness. I could sneak beneath the covers and dream of smooth, dark-cherry opulence.
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A must watch youtube video. Without tea leaves or so much as a crystal ball Robert Welch, Founder of the John Birch Society gives a 1958 speech that predicts our future.
Why am I starting to feel like a Jew living in 1938 Germany? How much time do we have to bail the water out of this sinking boat we call the United States?


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|Wallace blood drive collects 30 units
The Wallace Student Council and National Honors Society teamed up with the local Red Cross to host a blood drive in the school. The drive, which ran from early morning to mid afternoon, collected 30 much needed pints of blood. Hurricane Sandy has canceled many east-coast drives at a time when blood banks are at an extreme low. Further, with the holidays and many people on the road, blood donations are critically important. Donors and volunteers were greatly appreciated. (Courtesy photo)


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Age no barrier to novelist
Iranian immigrant Zohreh Ghahremani used to be a dentist. Now, as a writer, she does a different kind of drilling, into the heart of what it means to be a daughter, wife and mother.
Her first book, "Sky of Red Poppies," was a One Book San Diego selection in 2012, a rare honor for a debut novelist. Her latest, "The Moon Daughter," opens a window on Iranian culture, its treatment of women, and the hard choices they face in trying to make lives for themselves.
The La Jolla resident, who jokingly describes her age as "30 something, and the something is secret" (she's in her 60s), will be at the San Carlos public library on Sept. 13 at 1 p.m.
Q: You have an interesting history. When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
A: All my life. I have always been a writer but I was encouraged by my family to pursue a different direction in my education and I did, being the obedient daughter that I was, and I became a dentist and a very successful one. But I never stopped writing and then one day I heard on the radio if there's something you've always wanted to do, do it.
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A: It was on NPR. I was living in Chicago, on my way to my practice, and I heard it. I pulled into the parking lot and went down and asked my secretary to run an ad, "Practice for sale." And I made a U-turn in life and it is the best thing I have ever done.
Q: How long ago was that?
A: That was the year 1998 and it took my husband and me a couple of years to relocate from Chicago to San Diego. He's still teaching at UCSD (he's a radiologist at the medical school) and I became a full-time writer.
Q: What themes were you interested in exploring for "The Moon Daughter"?
A: I wanted to bring about a subject that we rarely talk about, and that is the women's situation around the world, in particular Muslim countries where men are still allowed to have up to four wives and having a little fling seems to be the fashion. How do women deal with that? How does a woman share her man?
Also, my bicultural profile will always be reflected in my writing. So I wrote the book in two sections. Part two deals with issues of second-generation young people, those like my own children who come here and are brought up as Americans and yet they have to deal with their parents' otherness, if you will.
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|Dragon golfers face tough competition in Eaton, Sterling
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Holyoke High School's boys' golf team stayed busy this past week as they hit the road for tournaments in Eaton Thursday, Aug. 15 and Sterling Friday, Aug. 16.
The Dragons competed with 21 other teams at the Eaton Invite for the second tournament of the season for HHS. Gage Garnas posted a score of 82 on the par 72 course to lead Holyoke.
Tristan Sullivan carded a 102 and Kody Timm shot a 109 to give the Dragons a team score of 293. Playing in his first varsity tournament of the season, Xander Nelson shot a 111 for the round as well.
Silver Creek nabbed the top spot in the tournament with a score of 223. Noah Brownell of Fossil Ridge posted the best individual score with a 72.
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Sofia, Bulgaria (Sports Network) - Nadia Petrova cruised to a straight-set win
over Caroline Wozniacki on Sunday to capture the season-ending Tournament of
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The second-seeded Petrova polished off the former world No. 1 Dane and top
seed with a 6-2, 6-1 pasting in the final.
Petrova claimed her 13th career title and third of 2012. She also won the
Wimbledon tune-up in Den Bosch and captured the Pan Pacific Open in September.
The 13th-ranked Russian improved to 13-11 all-time in finals and beat
Wozniacki for the second time in six lifetime meetings. Petrova took the first
matchup back in 2008.
Wozniacki had won four straight in the series, including a three-set triumph
in the lone previous title match at the 2010 New Haven event. The two hadn't
met since 2011 in Doha.
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Monday. She fell to 20-12 lifetime in finals, including 2-2 this year.
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With much regret, I have to inform you that I've closed the megathread regarding conference realignment.
This was not an easy decision for me to make. In fact, megathread was like a child to me.
But after doing some research, our team found that based off of the way VBulletin is set up, it's best to not let threads get that long. When they do, the number of database queries skyrockets and it's just not good for the site in general. Plus, the thread was pretty off-topic anyways.
So I apologize but thought you should hear it from me, and not the gossip guy in the cubical next to you today.
Megathread --- Rest in peace.
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You monster! How could you?!?!
Not even a heads up...it was like a car crash, I never got to say goodbye...
It had an amazing run. What was it 13 months? Now to a Meathead 2.0?
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
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You monster! How could you?!?!
Hey man, somebody had to put old Yeller down.
Too bad we couldn't just delete all the geek posts about feeding megathread and post count comments. Probably could have cut that thread in half.
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Can I get bereavement for this?
Time for Megathread, Part 2 (or Deux)?
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February 8, 2012
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Whose feeling lucky in Oregon?
I would tip over if I drew a tag! .20 percent chance at elk (0 points)and 2 percent for deer (3 points). I have 14 points now for speed goat but waiting two more years for that, so just did a PP there. Was lucky last year on a sheep tag (hoping somone I know draws one this year) so not expecting anything in 2012. Good luck to everyone! By the way results posted on ODFW website on the 16th the last two years so maybe we will know early.
Thanks for the early draw info, hoping to get a West Murders Creek elk tag. How was the Sheep hunt?
The sheep hunt was difficult, hot, long, and not many rams, but successful and very rewarding. I sent the story to EHJ, maybe it will be published someday.
Lol. Hope we didn't put in for same sheep tag because I'm feeling pretty good about my odds at 300:1. Lol. As for deer and elk im pretty sure im in for second choice. Of course it's hard not to get general archery tags unless I dumby up and flat forget!
Based on last year, results should be posted this afternoon. I figured to have a 50/50 shot at the NR Mt. Emily bow tag before I saw 3 other guys post they were jumping in this year so now I figure my chances are 20% at best. Looks like WY lope is my last hurrah. I expect one if not both of these to post results today late.
If I draw nothing I may look at one of those leftover MT combo tags.
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Not expecting any tags but anything could happen. My money is on results being posted this afternoon so that the internet and phone lines have all weekend to calm down.
Good luck everybody! We should know mid morning Monday is my guess.
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Adam Gibson has been a martial arts competitor and instructor for the past 15 years. A student of Bill "Superfoot" Wallace for the past four years, he is the only Canadian instructor certified to teach the Superfoot System.
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Bill "Superfoot" Wallace is a martial arts legend. Known as "Superfoot" for his awesome left leg, he retired as the Professional Karate Association (PKA) undefeated middleweight champion after 15 years of competing in both full-contact and point tournaments. During his competitive years, Wallace captured the U.S. Championships title three times, the U.S. Karate Association (USKA) Grand Nationals title three times, and the Top Ten Nationals title twice.
Wallace was named to Black Belt magazine's Hall of Fame three times within seven years, twice as Competitor of the Year and once as Man of the Year. He is now a regular columnist for Black Belt and has written three martial arts books: Karate: Basic Concepts & Skills, Dynamic Kicking & Stretching, and The Ultimate Kick. He has also appeared in several movies.
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With an NBA championship and nine NCAA Tournaments as both a player and coach on his resume, Corey Williams knows what it takes to be a winner. He also knows that it doesn't happen overnight.
Named the 21st head coach in program history on June 3, 2013 -- less than 10 weeks before the start of the school year -- Williams guided Stetson to a 7-24 record in his first season with the Hatters.
In his second season roaming the sidelines at the Edmunds Center, Williams guided one of the youngest teams in the country to a second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament appearance. With a lineup regularly featuring two or even three freshmen, Williams kept the Hatters competitive throughout the 2014-15 season while also laying the foundation for a strong future.
The young talent last season was evident. Guards Grant Lozoya and Divine Myles earned spots on the A-Sun's All-Freshmen teams, while fellow freshman Angel Rivera set the program's record for assists by a freshman with 120. He and Myles also became the first teammates, regardless of class, to each record 100 assists in the same season.
After opening his rookie coaching season with eight consecutive games away from home, Williams earned his first career head coaching victory with a 56-52 win over Volusia County rival Bethune-Cookman on Dec. 3, 2013 in DeLand.
Williams has been blessed throughout his basketball playing and coaching career to be surrounded by and learn from some of the finest minds in the game, including Phil Jackson, Eddie Sutton, Bill Self and Leonard Hamilton.
A native of Macon, Ga., Williams played point guard at Oklahoma State. He had a lengthy career as a professional player, spending his rookie season in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls where he was a part of the 1993 NBA Championship team, before starting his coaching career.
"I'm excited," Williams said at the press conference announcing his hire. "To be able to lead this program means an awful lot to me and my family. I knew back when I first started out in this profession that my ambition was always to be a head coach. For Stetson University to give me this opportunity, I'm very grateful. I'm humbled, I'm grateful."
"Stetson University is privileged to be able to call Corey Williams our new men's basketball head coach," Stetson Director of Athletics Jeff Altier said that day. "Corey is a winner, he has worked with and played for some of the finest minds in the world of basketball and as such he understands the discipline, commitment and strategy that is needed to be successful. Everywhere Corey has played or coached his teams have won and won big, and I am excited to have him as a part of the Stetson team."
Prior to taking the reigns at Stetson, Williams spent six seasons as an assistant at Florida State. His career with the Seminoles coincided with the team's winningest five-year period, beginning in 2007-08. During this time the team won its first ACC Championship, enjoyed a school-record run of four straight NCAA Tournament appearances, four consecutive years of double digit wins in ACC play, produced five NBA Draft picks, recorded 16 wins over nationally ranked teams and appeared in the national rankings in four straight seasons.
Williams assisted in the development of the Seminoles into one of the best programs in the ACC with the perseverance that has also made him one of the nation's top recruiters. He was instrumental in Florida State's run to the 2011 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 as well as the 2012 ACC Championship.
Before joining the Florida State staff, Williams was an assistant coach for seven seasons at Oral Roberts where he aided the Golden Eagles in achieving an average of 18 wins per season, including 20 or more wins in each of his last three seasons in Tulsa. ORU captured the Mid-Continent Conference regular season and tournament titles in 2006 and 2007, advancing to play in the NCAA Tournament each season. The 2006-07 squad not only finished with a 23-11 record, but the Golden Eagles also stunned the college basketball world when they defeated then-No. 3 Kansas, 78-71, in an early-season game at legendary Allen Fieldhouse.
Williams played collegiately at Oklahoma State from 1989-1992. He finished his career eighth on OSU's career scoring charts with 1,320 points. During his collegiate playing career he helped lead the Cowboys to consecutive NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearances under Coach Eddie Sutton in 1991 and 1992. The Cowboys were ranked 14th in the final Associated Press poll of the 1991 season and 10th in the final coaches' poll following the 1992 season. With Williams in Oklahoma State's line-up for 128 games during his four-year varsity career, the Cowboys ranked as one of the top teams statistically in the nation.
Following the conclusion of his collegiate career, Williams was a 2nd-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls, but that wasn't his only professional opportunity. Despite having not played football since junior high, the Kansas City Chiefs selected Williams in the 12th round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He was the only OSU Cowboy drafted that year.
As a rookie in the NBA, Williams was a member of the Michael Jordan-led Bulls as the franchise captured its third straight NBA title. Following his one season in Chicago, Williams played parts of the next season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, while also playing for the Oklahoma City Cavalry of the CBA. He returned to Oklahoma State as a student assistant in 1994, serving as a member of the Cowboys' staff during their 1994 Final Four campaign. Williams then played and coached professionally in Taiwan, from 1995-98.
Williams, 45, earned his bachelor's degree in education from Oklahoma State in 2002. He and his wife, Nicole, have two children: Jourdan (16) and Corey, Jr. (12).


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Monica Niculescu an her unorthodox game faced off against former WTA Penthouse resident Jelena Jankovic today in Dubai. Unfortunately, JJ made quick work of her Romanian foe besting Monicu 6-3, 6-2 in the second round.
So you know what else is really unorthodox? Monicu's competition faces. I mean, really. You're hitting a tennis ball, not giving birth on court (because that would be, like, really gross.)
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
PHOTO OP: Monica squashed by JJ in Dubai - but how do you explain her faces?
Labels: Dubai, Monica Niculescu, photo op, tennis
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- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Constipated much? Lol. Actually, she looks a bit like a female Federer.ReplyDelete
BTW, the Feds has withdrawn from DC and Dubai to rehab his back. Too bad.
anon: "female Federer" OMG - that's soooo good!!! I totally didn't see it until you mentioned it. HA!ReplyDelete
She looks a bit more like Roger's dad than Roger to me. Although we all know that Roger will look just like his dad in a few decades; it's a shame too because I find Roger quite attractive.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2009 at 7:57 PM
C'mon man...love your work, but why do women tennis players need to conform to some kind of 'pretty' standard when hitting a tennis ball?? Men equally contort their faces, grunt and do whatever else to win a point. Seems it's unacceptable when it's a women. She's out there to win a match, not a beauty pageant.ReplyDelete
- AllisonFebruary 17, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Actually in photo #2 she looks like she's giving birth.ReplyDelete
anon 10:57 - you miss my point. it has nothing to do with pretty or not pretty. it has to do with the effort monicu looks like she's putting into hitting a tiny ball. by her facial expressions alone you'd think she was giving birth, not hitting a tennis ball.ReplyDelete
same goes for some of the shrieks out there too - do they really need to be THAT loud when hitting a ball? really??
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2009 at 3:41 PM
All players, male and female exhibit some form of facial exertion. It may not have anything to do with pretty, but inadvertently this suggests that this facial expression is 'not appropriate'. What should she be doing? Smiling? Perhaps it's just a sensitive issue, considering the way women players are hounded about their weight, boyfriends and sex appeal. Now they have to worry about their facial expressions??ReplyDelete
Looks like she picked up her playing style (double handed forehand and backhand) from Monica Seles. I'll bet she picked up the facial expressions from the same source too.ReplyDelete


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1973-1987 Chevy C10 & GMC Truck Dakota Digital Gauge Cluster Install - Gone DigitalWritten by on October 1, 2009 '73-87 C10 & GMC
There's any number of reasons to switch the gauge cluster on a '73-87 Chevrolet C10 or GMC truck. In the case of the '79 C10 Chevrolet Big 10 CCT readers know as the Americruise truck it was for several reasons. The first reason goes back to a 1985 Cadillac Eldorado I owned in the '90s that had the digital dash cluster option. Reflecting on what I really liked about the Eldo's digital gauge cluster was how precise the readings were, and how easy they were to see. For example, the oil-pressure would read 23 lbs pressure at idle cold and then drop like a stone to 7 or 8 lbs if the Caddy's poor little underpowered 4.1 V-8 was running hot. Looking to the Cad's speedometer and tachometer would reveal exactly how many revs the engine was turning at exactly how many miles per hour. Add this to the fact that the Caddy gauges were easy to read in any kind of light and it becomes clear why I chose a Dakota Digital cluster for my '79 C10, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
If CCT readers recollect one of the major modifications I did to the '79 in the short three weeks of ownership before I took off across the United States to participate in Americruise was to install a 4L60E automatic overdrive transmission from the guys at Gearstar in Akron, Ohio. Going to the computerized version of the 4L60, designated by the E, meant complete external control of the transmission with a Compushift computer, but the stock C10's mechanical speedometer was history. Not a big deal because the stock speedo needle bounced like a Barbie doll with rubber butt cheeks, so I was looking forward to a good excuse to lose it. Another one of the reasons I won't miss the stock dash cluster is when I remember how hard it was to read while I was blasting down the back roads late at night through Colorado. Having to break out a flashlight to see how much gas was in the truck or if I still had oil pressure was a real pain in the neck (literally, because you really have to bend your neck to do that).
Beyond those reasons and the fact Dakota Digital's bright blue numerals look great with the C10's stock blue interior are the features no one ever dreamed a stock analog dash could offer. For instance, the tachometer will recall the highest number of revolutions reached and ditto for the speedometer reading. In addition, 0-60 times can be recorded along with quarter-mile elapsed time and speed. I can hardly wait to make some performance modifications and see if they really made an improvement. Installing the Dakota Digital C10 cluster was pretty simple, but there are some areas to pay special attention to if one wants the job to turn out right.
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The oil-pressure sending unit on 305- and 350-inch Chevy engines is at 1 o'clock in relation to the distributor. This a common area for oil leaks to occur, so we made sure the fittings were tightened.The Dakota Digital oil-pressure sending unit must be used, and it is critical no thread sealant is applied because it might interfere with establishing a proper ground.The stock water-temp sending unit must also be replaced with the Dakota Digital sending unit included with the C10 cluster. It's located on the driver side bank of the cylinder head in between the spark plugs.This is the stock Chevrolet sending unit and should be saved in case the price of scrap brass ever goes up. The stock Chevrolet fuel gauge sending unit can be reused with the Dakota Digital gauge cluster.This is the Dakota Digital sending unit with the necessary thread adapter included in the kit installed.Once the new oil-pressure and water-temp sending units were installed we progressed to removing the stock C10 analog gauge cluster.It was necessary to remove all the Phillips screws holding the gauge cluster and the hex-head screws holding the stock blue dashpad down.The stock TH350 cable operated shift quadrant intended for a three-speed auto will be replaced with Dakota Digital's four-speed electronic unit in next month's edition when we install a Dakota Digital compass and thermometer.
The stock gauge wiring harness will be reused to install the Dakota Digital cluster. The installation and operation manual includes a schematic that provides a list of which color connects to which gauge.Then we checked to see if there was 12-volt current flowing to the pink wire with the black stripe. Ignoring something as simple as checking this blown blade-type fuse could have cost us additional time.The best spot we found to mount the Dakota Digital control box was on a brace above the steering column and behind the stock speedometer cluster. Spacers were used under the black Phillips screws between the brace and the control box, so the aluminum ears would not be bent.Special attention was paid to cleanly routing the stock Chevy gauge wiring harness to the Dakota Digital control box.To connect the Dakota Digital tachometer an additional wire (blue) had to be run from the tach terminal on the GM HEI distributor (Davis DUI in this case) through the existing speedo cable hole in the firewall and connected to the tach terminal on the control box.To mount the two pushbutton switches necessary to set the Dakota Digital instrument readings we used existing holes located under the dashboard. One hole was the correct size and the other had to be drilled out slightly.Next, to obtain a flush fit we used a stack of three 3/8-inch SAE washers and one big mother that allowed the switches to be tightened down completely.
The last step before installing the Dakota Digital gauge cluster into the dashboard was to plug it into the control box. We left a large loop of the lengthy wire loose to ease the installation and reached behind the dashboard to tuck it away.So as not to damage the Dakota Digital gauge cluster we cautiously checked to ensure it fit properly. It was necessary to bend the dash sheetmetal outward to clear it (this might vary from truck to truck).Then we installed the super-trick-looking Dakota Digital aluminum trim plate insert by drilling four 1/8-inch holes into the four lower holes and using the eight stainless steel screws included with the aluminum trim plate.


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There is growing recognition of the role of forests in storing carbon and the emerging approach of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is gaining acceptance at the international level. The challenge now is to make it a reality on the ground and ensure that it delivers benefits to both people and biodiversity.
REDD, as with all other efforts to restore the world's forests, needs to respond to social and economic realities. Restoration projects must be designed with a full understanding of the many perspectives that exist, from the local villager to the head of a multinational timber company, and that there will be certain trade-offs.
For many years, IUCN has been learning from experience about how to negotiate a balance between human and environmental needs and these lessons are being fed into national and international policy. One of its key initiatives is Livelihoods and Landscapes through which dozens of projects are underway across Africa, Asia and South America. The aim is to sustain the flow of goods and services from forest landscapes for the benefit of local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. Lessons from Livelihoods and Landscapes are feeding into the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, of which IUCN is a key partner.
IUCN is central to an emerging initiative called Growing Forest Partnerships (GFP). Funded by the World Bank, this supports partnerships and initiatives developed by forest-dependent people and those who use, manage or regulate forests. Around the world, local people, governments, businesses and local organizations are finding fruitful ways of working together but big challenges remain: Local and indigenous communities are marginalized in decisions over natural resource use; large organisations working on forest conservation struggle to co-ordinate their joint work; while smallholders and forest communities often lack clear land rights and access to markets.
In response GFP is establishing a wider platform for civil society dialogue involving the various stakeholders about the approach toward developing forestry policy at the national and local levels. Using this partnership and dialogue approach allows IUCN and its partners to tackle the root causes of the world's most pressing issues, including poverty, biodiversity loss and climate change.
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A very interactive storytime that engages children ages two to five and their favorite adults in stories and songs in which everyone participates. After storytime, we invite you to stay and play with us! We'll have fun toys, games and activities to enhance your child's early literacy learning!Library: Fountain Library - 230 S. Main Street
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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School students want to create a winter wonderland for their children after last Friday's tragedy in Newtown. You can help.
With their old school still designated as a crime scene, the children will resume classes at Chalk Hill, a former middle school in the neighboring town of Monroe, Connecticut.
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Lorna "June" Doud, 80, of Le Mars died Thursday, May 27, 2010, surrounded by family at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City following a brief illness. The funeral service will be Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Le Mars with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Le Mars will be after 3 p.m. Monday, May 31, 2010 where there will be a Catholic Daughters of America and Christian Mothers Society rosary at 4 p.m. and a Vigil Prayer service at 7 p.m., all at the church. The Feuerstein Funeral Home in Le Mars is in charge of arrangements.
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Never used ZCO until last week (always used Web Client).
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This poster map was commissioned by the Geeks who Play who run a D&D Podcast Tales from Telrain. It's done in Photoshop and its original size is 27"x33".
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Hope you'll like it! As usual, feel free to rate, rep or run away
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Excellent work as always. Forests are sparse and it works well for this style. There, I managed to say something in particular rather just "hey, dat's purty." LOL
Upon the Creation of the World the First Dragons cast their seed in the light of a Sun and a Thousand Suns, beneath the Moon and a Thousand Moons, on a World and a Thousand Worlds.
I really like the frame in this one. Looks very good.
I myself can't get used to this sparse forest style. As a geographer i just do not see sense in it And "fashion" choices are no-go for me
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I am a fan of this map. Everything flows together nicely into a simple style.
I second Eliathen, I love your frame on this one (I mean, you always do good frames, but this one is really blending perfectly with the map).
And the mountains are awesome too. Are there geeks who actually don't play? For me, it's part of the definition of "geek"


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Initial World Generation
In terms of random generation through FTPro, I've normally gone for larger land sizes and smaller sea percentages so that I could trim things down to where I wanted them. With this map, I'm doing just the opposite.
The very first tutorial I found when I came to the guild was Waldronate's FTPro Tutorial (http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/CGTutorial/index.html). To this day, it is still one of my favorite tutorials. After reading through it dozens of times, it struck me that it might be applied to even better effect on a random world that started out with smaller land masses and larger seas. The logic here is that there would be more room for shaping and expanding continental masses and oceans without things becoming too crowded.
Not wanting to go overboard, I tweaked the generation settings in FTPro a little bit at a time until things were close to what I wanted. Then it was just a matter of finding a world that inspired me. Honestly, I went through dozens upon dozens of worlds before I finally settled for this one;
Several areas of this world caught my eye, four of which looked prime for development as major continents, including a pair that could be set up as a combination of continents similar to the combination of North and South America. There were also a few areas that I could see as developing into minor continents and/or island groupings. And, of course, there were those areas that could be left "unexplored" or "untamed" for the time being. So, I shifted the position of the North Pole such that what I saw as the major continental bodies would be generally centered, cranked up the editing resolution and set to work on the initial round of editing.


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Author William Kent Krueger at Paynesville Library September 14
Saturday, September 14 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., author William Kent Krueger will visit the Paynesville Public Library to discuss his books, writing, and his latest title, Ordinary Grace. Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O'Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage — part Irish and part Ojibwe.
Krueger's work has received a number of awards including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. Northwest Angle (2011) and Trickster's Point (2012) were New York Times bestsellers. Attendance is limited to 60, and pre-registration is recommended. You can register online or by calling or stopping by the Paynesville Public Library during open hours.
This program is supported by the Minnesota Book Awards through a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education – State Library Services and the Minnesota Library Foundation. The Minnesota Book Awards is a project of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, in partnership with the Saint Paul Public Library and the City of Saint Paul. For more information on the Minnesota Book Awards, visit www.thefriends.org.