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If you watched last week's game against Baylor and wondered aloud - 'what would West Virginia's offense do against its own defense?' - that question has already been answered.
Sort of.
Each year, at the end of spring ball, they play a scrimmage where they invite fans to pay $10 to watch, give the offense normal points for scoring, then assign various defensive points for a three-and-out, drive stop, fumble recovery, and interception.
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West Virginia's Stedman Bailey stands second in receiving yards in the Big 12, one spot ahead of teammate Tavon Austin.
Would you believe, somehow, some way, WVU's defense beat WVU's offense, 43-34, just a little more than five months ago with a bulk of the very same players that were on the field last weekend?
That has to go down as the biggest upsets in the history of college football.
A year earlier, when Dana Holgorsen was still putting his Red Bull offense in place, Geno Smith and the boys put an 83-17 whooping on the old 3-3-5 stack.
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Spread: Texas is a 6.5 point favorite
Series: West Virginia leads series, 1-0.
Broadcasts: Fox - (Gus Johnson - play-by-play, Charles Davis - analyst, Julie Alexandria - sideline). Radio, Mountaineer Sports Network - (Tony Caridi - play-by-play, Dwight Wallace - analyst, Hoppy Kercheval - host, Jed Drenning - sideline). Satellite Radio Broadcast - The West Virginia - Texas game can be heard live on Sirius Channel 85 and XM 85 with the MSN broadcast. Live Statistics - WVUsports.com. Twitter Updates - Twitter.com/WVUSportsBuzz; WVUSportsScores
Notes: This marks the second meeting between the two schools and the first between the two coaches. West Virginia won, 7-6, in the only meeting between the two schools in 1956, in Austin. As an assistant coach and offensive coordinator at Texas Tech, and as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State, WVU coach Dana Holgorsen has faced Texas and Mack Brown four times. Brown is 1-0 against WVU, having faced the Mountaineers as head coach at North Carolina in the 1997 Gator Bowl, winning 20-13.
Assuming you didn't take the Gold-Blue game for what it was - the last in a three-week set of practices - you might have thought this was going to be a banner year for defense in Morgantown.
You knew about the offense that was on the field last April. Smith was healthy and playing in the spring game for what seemed like the first time.
Smith completed 23 of 29 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns (one to Stedman Bailey and another to Jordan Thompson). Thompson was the leading receiver with eight catches for 66 yards that day.
More review of that game shows interceptions by Matt Moro, Brodrick Jenkins, and Will Clarke, plus a fumble recovery by Avery Williams. It also had seven drive stops and a pair of three-and-outs.
After the Gold Blue game, Holgorsen said they were playing a bunch of people who weren't going to be playing in the fall.
After the Baylor game, they said changes might well be forthcoming.
''We always look to make changes if we need to,'' Holgorsen said. ''College football is what it is. We can't call somebody and ask for a trade or try to pick someone up off of waivers. Those are guys that have played around here for a long time. We have to get them better. The freshmen have to continue to improve, and it is our job as coaches to get the young guys more experience in practice, so we can trust them a little bit more during the game. After the course of 92 plays, you have to play other people. You are going to see a dropoff. If there wasn't a dropoff, then those backups would be starters. The young guys are backups, and they have to get better with our coaching and experience.''
WVU vs. Texas
Yes, there's very little football history between West Virginia and Texas, assuming the details of that 7-6 victory in their lone previous meeting in 1956 have slipped the memory.
The Longhorns have a much more detailed history of winning, claiming national titles in 1963, 1969, 1970, and 2005. West Virginia is still in search of its first.
When you think of the University of Texas football, it's big money, it's big stadium, it's an all-around big deal. But the last three years, it's been fairly average.
In the last two-plus seasons, Texas is just 17-13 overall with a national ranking, this season notwithstanding, only a wish.
West Virginia, meanwhile, is 23-7 with a BCS-bowl victory.
Granted, the competition has not been the same, so this is a big deal for the Mountaineers. It's not every day they play in front of more than 100,000 fans. But it's not the David vs. Goliath some believe it is. If the Mountaineers are going to get where they want to get in the Big 12, winning games like this isn't an option. It's a must.
In the pros
One area WVU can't touch Texas is the number of players in the pros.
The Longhorns list 40 players on current NFL rosters, including names like Jamaal Charles, Jermichael Finley, Casey Hampton, Quentin Jammer, and Shaun Rogers.
The Mountaineers list 16 current alumns as NFL players, including first-round pick Bruce Irvin, but there's not a lot of Pro Bowlers in the group.
This means nothing to college football other than Austin is a place NFL scouts keep high on the GPS because top-level talent usually looks there for a home first.
Looking at WVU's current roster, they clearly missed on a few.
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City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. says allegations by two municipal workers that a Cincinnati councilman used a racial slur can neither be proven nor disproven, so the charge has been dropped as "unfounded."
In a three-page memorandum given today to the city's Human Resources Department, Dohoney announced that there will be no disciplinary action taken against the two workers due to the administrative investigation concluding "there were no unbiased witnesses to the incident."
Plans to put a culture tax in front of voters have been put on hold due to a potential conflict with a Cincinnati Zoo tax renewal levy that will be on the 2013 ballot. Backers of the culture tax — a 0.25 percentage-point sales tax increase that would raise $30 million annually — fear that overlapping the tax increase and levy could be confusing and potentially hurt the chances of either to be approved. The culture tax will likely be put on the 2014 ballot.
City Council this fall will consider a new form-based development code that will allow individual neighborhoods to create their own codes that supporters say will reinforce neighborhoods' existing urban fabric while aiding in development. Supporters include the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Cincinnati Inc. "For developers, there is more predictability and basically no battles. And once they know the parameters, (developers) can really turn their creativity loose," David Ginsburg, president and CEO of Downtown Cincinnati Inc., told The Enquirer.
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"total student loan debt is nearing $1 trillion, or more than
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younger are either unemployed or working in a job that doesn't use
the skills they learned in college." No word on whether Enquirer-endorsed Gov. John Kasich thinks his kids should skip college and go straight into the service industry.
A record number of participants ran in this year's Flying Pig Marathon over the weekend. The winners were Californian Sergio Reyes, who also won the men's race in 2009, and Rachel Bea, a Kenwood resident.
Joe Biden says he is "comfortable" with same-sex marriage, though he doesn't know the answer to the question of whether a second-term Obama administration would come out in favor of legalizing gay marriage.
Europe's election results have gone and spooked the markets, due to political uncertainty in Greece and the defeat of French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Socialist Francois Hollande.
Vladimir Putin is back in business in Russia, amid protests.
Al-Qaeda has released a video of an elderly American hostage who says he will be killed if President Obama doesn't agree to Al-Qaeda's demands, which include ending military strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
An ad campaign linking global warming believers to terrorists only lasted a few hours before public outcry forced the Heartland Institute, a libertarian organization funded by a bunch of corporations who don't want to stop polluting the earth, to take them down. One billboard included Ted Kaczynski's mug shot with the words: "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?"
Poll watch: "Romney polling well with independents as Obama campaign kicks off."
The supermoon was in full effect over the weekend, reportedly "wowing" viewers.
A longtime Cincinnati councilwoman who also was the city's first female mayor recently was inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.
Bobbie Sterne, 91, who served for a quarter-century on City Council, was given the honor during a ceremony May 26 at the Capitol Theatre in Columbus. She joins more than 350 people inducted into the Hall of Fame since its creation in 1977.
As Cincinnati officials consider deep budget cuts to avoid a $60 million deficit, one of the early proposals calls for possible layoffs in the Police and Fire departments.
The Charter Committee, Cincinnati's de facto third political party, will host a forum Nov. 17 to outline the problems facing the city. Featured speaker will be Lea Eriksen, Cincinnati's budget director, who will provide background information on municipal finances, and outline the city's revenues and expenses.
But hours before City Council expects to make a decision, it's unclear whether the legislative body has the six votes necessary to overcome Mayor John Cranley's veto and restart construction for the streetcar project.
The deciding vote will most likely come from Charterite Kevin Flynn, who says he's working behind the scenes with undisclosed private entities to get the streetcar's operating costs off the city's books. If that deal pulls through, Flynn would provide the sixth vote to keep going.
The project already has five votes in favor: Democrats David Mann, Chris Seelbach, Yvette Simpson, P.G. Sittenfeld and Wendell Young.
Three council members have long opposed the project: Republicans Amy Murray and Charlie Winburn and Independent Christopher Smitherman.
It's a big financial decision for the city.
If the city goes forward with the project, it would cost $53.9-$68.9 million, depending on whether the city convinces courts Duke Energy should pay for $15 million in utility costs, according to an audit from consulting firm KPMG.
If the city cancels, it will incur $16.3-$46.1 million in additional close-out costs, the same audit found. But it will get nothing for those tens of millions spent and could face costly litigation in the future.
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The prosecutor's office is waiting for more information about the arrests from state police.
That information is expected this weekend, and the prosecutor's office says Dunnings will likely decide whether to charge the protesters once he receives the reports.
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Several challenges face the housing market that will prevent a boom from taking shape, particularly tight lending conditions that have prompted the recovery to be marked by slow, rather than rapid, growth. We have strong job creation in the private sector, though a little slow in our local area. Auto sales are quite strong, home sales are coming back and we do have interest rates at a 50-year low. That, along with job growth and low inventory, means that the housing market is recovering. Perhaps the reason housing isn't booming is because the government has responded to the economic downturn by trying to fight the wrong problem. The problem is not that there is not enough money, because the Federal Reserve has poured a lot of money into the economy. We have too much money out there, not too little money. The problem is loan availability. Strict credit score requirements have led to 40 percent of potential buyers unable to qualify for a loan today.There are major concerns looming with the "fiscal cliff," a number of tax increases and spending cuts that are expected to go into effect next year, if lawmakers are unable to reach a deal before the deadline. Although we don't know what's going to happen, we do know taxes will be higher. A lot higher or a little higher, we don't know. It will hurt the housing market because there will be less money in the system. But how big an effect it will have will depend on which tax increases take effect. With prices attractive and interest rates still historically low, it's not just a tagline that now is a great time to buy, especially for younger households. But the National Association of Realtors' recently released 2012 Home Buyer and Home Seller Survey shows younger households are struggling to get in at this advantageous time. Instead, we're seeing a strengthening in the older, married, higher-income, move-up buyer market, and the reason appears very much related to the biggest housing policy challenge facing the federal government today: Getting banks to return underwriting standards to the safe and reasonable standards they employed prior to the housing boom.Jessica Lautz of NAR Research at the 2012 Realtors Conference & Expo in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month walked the press through the latest survey findings and they were striking: A drop in the young, single female buyers who had been growing into such an important part of the market in the last several years; first-time buyers still trying to come back to historically normal levels; and big gains by older, married, move-up buyers, including those who already own a second home.What the trends suggest is the restrictive mortgage environment is making it hard for younger buyers to get into the market, leaving a good share of it to more established households, including those with two incomes.Local market updateIn the local Rifle, Parachute, Silt and New Castle areas, there are still a lot of short sales under contract. Several new short sales are being added to the inventory every month. Most of the current inventory is pretty well picked over. When a new listing of good value comes on the market, we are getting multiple offers at over the asking price, and these are usually under contract within a week. The current inventory of good properties is the lowest I have seen in several years. The real estate market is picking up and I have been busier than I have been in the past four years. I would like to introduce a new broker in our office, Amie Marx. She and her family came here from New Mexico. She has been a school teacher and has decided to try real estate sales. We will be working together on a lot of new projects, including possibly building some new homes in Rifle and Silt.I am looking forward to a better year in the local economy for 2013. All indications point to a good improvement. I think we will see more activity in the natural gas industry than we have seen in the last couple of years. In talking with several local business owners, they indicate a strong improvement recently.We want to share a little secret with you. We don't spend our time cold calling or prospecting people for business. Instead, we focus all our efforts on giving such outstanding service, people naturally think of us when a friend, neighbor or family member needs a caring and competent Realtor.We would like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank a few of the special people in our lives who've helped build our business with their enduring support and referrals. We couldn't do it without you, so thank you! We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a great and prosperous New Year.Glenn Ault and Amie Marx are brokers at Bray Real Estate in Rifle.
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2004 Vote | The Democrats have little chance of gaining ground in this year's election
Compared to the trench warfare for the presidency and the Senate, House races seem relatively quiet this year. The lack of excitement on the part of national Democrats is due largely to cold mathematical realities: 218 lawmakers make up a majority in the 435-member body, and Republicans figure they have 214 safe seats. That means they need to win just four competitive races to maintain their majority.
For Democrats, the math is much tougher. They have to win most, if not all, of the 10 open seats in addition to ousting several Republican incumbents. In all, they need a net gain of 13 seats-the sort of turnover that hasn't been seen since the Republican Revolution of 1994. Their task is made even harder by redistricting in Texas, which could dislodge up to five Democratic incumbents.
One more thing stands in the way of would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi: momentum. After the GOP's astonishing 54-seat gain in 1994, the party lost seats in 1996, 1998, and 2000. But Republicans reversed the trend in 2002, picking up six seats and nearly regaining their 1994 majority.
Georgia 13
Max Burns is considered the GOP's most vulnerable incumbent in the House. In fact, the freshman Republican has taken to dropping his party label in television ads and-with the exception of a single fundraiser with Dick Cheney-has all but rejected visits from the Republican leadership. The district, which cuts a path through heavily Democratic eastern Georgia, was drawn by state Democrats after the 2000 Census to be a safe Democratic seat-something challenger John Barrow hopes to take advantage of.
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What's in a name? Maybe everything, if the name happens to be Clooney. Democrat Nick Clooney, father of Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, will soon learn whether Tinseltown connections help or hurt in conservative northern Kentucky. Judging from the harsh campaign advertisements, Mr. Clooney and Republican Geoff Davis are in a tight race, despite tens of thousands of dollars flowing to Mr. Clooney from Hollywood stars like Warren Beatty, Drew Barrymore, Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, and of course his own son.
Louisiana 3
Like Nick Clooney, it's likely most people in Louisiana's 3rd District have heard of Republican Billy Tauzin III. His father, Billy Tauzin Jr., has represented the area's sugar cane farmers and petrochemical workers in Congress since 1980. While his 30-year-old son hopes to replace him, he'll first have to survive a six-way "jungle primary" on Election Day to make it to a runoff.
Louisiana 7
In traditional Louisiana style, the five-way race for the congressional seat in Louisiana's 7th District has become heated-and a little weird. Democrat Willie Mount contends one of the two Republicans is making her look bad with "push polls" that slam President Bush. (Ms. Mount worries conservative voters will think she's behind the attacks.) Meanwhile a national Democratic congressional groups says Republican newcomer Charles Boustany Jr. tried to buy an English title of nobility.
New York 27
Both state lawmaker Brian Higgins and county comptroller Nancy Naples are letting their parties' congressional campaign committees pound it out on the airwaves, with Democrats decrying George W. Bush and Republicans charging Mr. Higgins with wanting to raise taxes. Despite-or perhaps because of-the attack ads, the candidates in the neck-and-neck race have yet to define themselves in the minds of their Buffalo-area constituents.
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Texas Democrat Max Sandlin could be another victim of the state's redistricting, after Republicans separated him from key parts of his East Texas Democratic stronghold. Mr. Sandlin, a Ways and Means Committee member, released an internal poll showing he had a slim lead. His opponent, appellate court Judge Louie Gohmert, produced his own poll showing it was he who had the edge.
Texas 19
A Texas Tech University poll two weeks before Election Day suggested West Texas Democratic Rep. Charlie Stenholm was in deep trouble, trailing by 30 points. In the lead: District 19 incumbent Randy Neugebauer. As a result of redistricting, Mr. Stenholm, the top Democrat on the Agriculture Committee and a 26-year congressional veteran, was forced to run in a district that could easily give George W. Bush 70 percent of its vote on Election Day.
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Once identified by liberal 527 group MoveOn.org as one of four House races to really get behind, Arizona's 1st District race has become a laugher. Party leaders thought Democrat Paul Babbitt (whose brother, Bruce, served as Arizona governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior) could unseat freshman incumbent Rick Renzi, who won with only 49 percent of the vote in 2002. But strengthened in part by campaign appearances with Vice President Cheney, Mr. Renzi led in preelection polls by more than 20 points.
Colorado 3
With two weeks left in the campaign, Democratic hopeful John Salazar had some bad news to deal with. Not only had his big lead over Republican Greg Walcher slipped to just 5 points, but a campaign staffer inadvertently sent a fundraising e-mail which included foul language directed at his Republican opponent (think Dick Cheney). The gaffe may be enough to spoil the Democrats' chances of picking up this open Republican seat.


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Q. We regularly seem to experience our largest number of customer complaints and callbacks on concrete placed in the late summer and early fall. What can you suggest to help keep hot weather concrete production free from these common problems?
A. To answer your question, we sought help from Gary Nielsen, regional sales manager for Axim Italcementi Group of Middlebranch, Ohio. "Many of our customers, especially in the Midwest, report that September and October are their busiest periods. Unfortunately, hot weather precautions are necessary even in the non-summer months," said Nielsen.
A veteran of numerous concrete-placing seasons, Nielsen finds advance planning is necessary when preparing concrete to be placed at temperatures higher than 77° F (25° C). "Since hot weather has negative effects on a number of concrete properties, producers and their contractor-customers must develop a production plan during their pre-job meetings," he said.
A production plan should suggest you prepare for the four main environmental factors contributing to most common concrete problems reported in the late summer months. These factors are high ambient temperatures, low relative humidity, solar radiation, and strong winds. When mixing and placing concrete in hot months, producers and contractors can suppress these factors by implementing a number of practices outlined in "Hot Weather Concrete," ACI 305.
Since warm weather increases the rate of cement hydration, contractors could find their mix will yield higher early strengths and lower 28-day strengths. "Order requirements must be agreed on before the job starts to ensure that the delivered product will meet the necessary strength requirements," said Nielsen.
Hot weather increases the rate of set, making the mix difficult to work with when placing and finishing. Accordingly, high temperatures may also increase the rate of slump loss, said Nielsen. "Producers need to remind the contractor that the addition of water to the mix results in a higher water/ cement ratio, which can cause a loss of strength and durability in the final product," he said.
A good pre-job discussion also includes curing procedures. "Accelerated evaporation of moisture from the fresh concrete surface contributes to plastic shrinkage cracking," said Nielsen. He suggests producers team up with admixture specialists to customize a mix design using the appropriate admixtures to counteract hot weather effects on each application.
Chemical admixtures can help control the adverse effects hot weather may have on the properties of the concrete mix, he added. There are two types of additives used specifically to control the set time of concrete: retarding admixtures and those that stop the set.
The formulation of these additives may appear to be chemically similar. Yet in the field, the effects are quite dramatic. A retarding admixture slows down the rate of set of freshly placed concrete, offsetting the accelerating effects of high temperatures by preventing premature stiffening.
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Just how tough are new voter identification requirements in
Texas? Apparently tough enough that former U.S. House speaker Jim Wright
reportedly was denied a voter ID card on Saturday.
was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID,"
Wright, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 1989, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about his experience at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.
The 90-year-old told the newspaper he realized last week that
he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He was refused
a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his
faculty identification from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth,
where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted
in 2011.
Election officials have said voters without a
valid photo ID can cast a provisional ballot by signing an affidavit
attesting to their identity. That's what Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis
and Attorney General Greg Abbott, who are likely to face each other in
next year's gubernatorial election, had to do recently. The names that
Davis and Abbott use on their driver's licenses don't match the ones
that are on the voter rolls.
"I earnestly hope these unduly
stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of
people who vote," said Wright, who in the early part of his political
career pushed to abolish the poll tax. "I think they will reduce the
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PARKERSBURG — Business and county officials on both sides of the Ohio River said a cracker plant in Wood County would be a major boost in struggling economic times....
Create pipe dreams and the only thing that will be coming about will be tax breaks for corporations and political contributions and increase taxes for the taxpayer. How can the revenue be down with the boom in gas and oil but that is what WV keeps stating in the news?
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Glad to see you all are so glad to get anything new here, I forwarded a plan that would create jobs from the beginning to end of lines when cos. extract or take any of our resources to which would give tax breaks all the way to zero if you would say cut timber and take it all the way to flooring or furniture in Wv. I sent the plan to the local state reps and Storck and Ferns did not reply to it but Keesler did and said that it had some great ideas in it so when your own reps don't answer you when you have questions or comments on legislation upcoming you should keep that in mind and also when they say that is not on the docket now, they may want to get it on the docket. So next time you vote see who has voted which way on items of importance and they do not answer questions you ask that may be deciding factor also. Mancin and McKinley always answer even if I don't like the answer at least they or staff do so. Rockhead never answers now that he is not running again and hardly answered
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Politicians and all the others who live off the taxpayer can make you think a cracker plant is being built on every corner in every city. Trust but verify all this PR would be a good idea for all taxpayers to remember in casting your vote in the next election to make sure they did not sell out the voter for election donations. Real jobs should be created and not be promised to get the vote.
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A valve company was coming to Weirton to build a new factory but now are in Beech Bottom and will be moving to Wheeling and maybe to some other place base on the best deal they can get from WV or some other state. Giving away all these tax break dollars only hurts the taxpayers. Long term commitment is the only way WV should be giving any tax breaks.
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A probably locate plans but will only they will make plans after you give away the state or Ohio or PA gives away their state. Remember the article about how many jobs created by the gas boom. The State of WV cannot get the information about the jobs. We do not know if they are out of state worker, permanent job, or temporary job.
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What an extraordinarily long vapor trail of an article. All speculation and dream diary, founded on mythology about the size of the shale gas resource and the hopes and dreams of the poltically-minded sunshine pumpers. And, note, the high-employment construction phase would be transient, and would likely rely on transient, migrant labor from out of state, as does the current drilling and pipeline laying. The number of permanent jobs would be a drop in the bucket, relative to the need. What pointless froth. More wasted ink. As per "dyingov", yes, call us when you actually do something.
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Call us when you start processing gas......
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Shoulda coulda woulda.... ain't over until the fat lady sings.
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1939 Cadillac LaSalle - Little Old Lady From PasadenaWritten by Brian Brennan on May 13, 2011 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen Really, This '39 Lasalle Was Sold To A Little Old Lady From Pasadena
Anytime a hot rodder hears the phrase, "little old lady from Pasadena" it entices a chuckle, a furrowed eyebrow, and the hope that this could be the "lost car in the barn" story we all like to hear. Bill West of Copperopolis, California, found this '39 Cadillac LaSalle at a small gas station in Oakley, California, in May 1978 and paid $4,300 for it-a steep price then for a used car.
But the story gets better. Upon closer examination Bill found out that the car was originally invoiced by Don Lee Cadillac in Los Angeles for $1,115 on Nov. 17, 1938, and then in turn sold on Apr. 15, 1939, to a lady from Pasadena. (Since the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913 establishing income tax, we can only surmise this lady knew she was getting a hefty return so she went out and bought herself a new car.)
Bill owned the car for nearly 30 years before "jumping" into the deep end of the pool. The five-year project was taken on by Leonard Lopez, of Dominator Street Rods of Tracy, California, and the build was on. Starting with an Art Morrison Enterprises (Fife, Washington) tubular chassis supporting a 120-inch wheelbase with 4x4-inch outer 'rails and 2x4-inch front and rear crossmembers, the Opera coupe was about to receive a modern independent suspension.
The IFS is based on Art Morrison components in conjunction with QA1 (Lakeville, Minnesota) coilover shocks, a Flaming River (Berea, Ohio) power rack-and-pinion twisted through a Flaming River tilt and telescopic column topped with a '51 Buick wheel from Quality Restoration. Wilwood (Camarillo, California) supplied the spindles, Dynalite calipers with 13-inch drilled rotors, and proportioning valve, all operated by the DSR custom pedal assembly with the brake work handled by Tyler Jones, who was also instrumental on other aspects of the build. The Dominator IRS utilizes a Ford 9-inch centersection with 3.73 gears, outboard Wilwood Dynalite calipers joined to drilled 13-inch rotors, QA1 coilover shocks, and a Speedway Engineering (Sylmar, California) antiroll bar. Schott Performance Wheels (Los Alamitos, California) are used at the corners; these one-off wheels are reminiscent of '57 Cadillac Eldorado wheels and measure in the front 18x8 with 41/2-inch backspace, while the rears are 20x10 with 5-inch backspace and wrapped in BFGoodrich g-Force rubber; 225/40ZR18 and 265/35ZR20.
Power comes by way of an '05 Cadillac Northstar 4.6L modular motor assembled by Rebello Racing (Antioch, California) incorporating one of their camshafts. A Steve Long (Indianapolis) brass radiator with a SPAL (Ankeny, Iowa) 2,650-cfm-rated electric fan is used along with a water-cooled alternator, yep water cooled, to handle the cooling of the 550hp and 548 lb-ft motor. DSR fabricated the valve covers as well as the exhaust system. The exhaust is based on 13/4-inch primary tubes welded by Lopez, while the 21/2-inch exhaust pipe was fabricated by DSR's own Craig Watts, utilizing a pair of MagnaFlow (Rancho Santa Margarita, California) mufflers. Hustling this power rearward is a 700-R4 prepped by Stan at Brentwood Transmissions (Brentwood, California) outfitted with a shift kit, a Lokar Performance Products (Knoxville, Tennesee) shifter, and a steel driveshaft from Kevin's Prop Shop & Driveline (Antioch, California).
The coupe body has undergone a subtle chop and section modification. Mickey Gallaway was in charge of the chop/section: The front (windshield) was chopped 21/2 inches slopping upward to a 2-inch chop at the back of the roofline. The body was sectioned 13/4 inches far forward slopping upward to no section toward the back of the body. When the time came for bodywork it was DSR's own Paul Blatt who prepped the LaSalle for the DuPont Sandstone applied by Rick Valdez of Creative Images (Lodi, California). The DSR lightly (no pun intended) modified the head and taillights as well as the rear bumper. Once it was time for brightwork this project was handed over to the experts at Sherm's Custom Plating (Sacramento, California).
The interior is elegant by street rod and LaSalle standards as DSR maintained the unmistakable original design elements and expanded from there. The stock-appearing dash while repainted in Sandstone does feature a DSR insert outfitted with LaSalle gauges that received modernization by Classic Instruments (Boyne City, Michigan). DSR's Ron Morlan was responsible for the Arc Audio head unit and Vocal speakers; front (61/2 inch), rear (6x9 inch). Robert Wyrsch handled the installation of the Vintage Air (San Antonio) heating/air-conditioning system that blows through VA vents and is controlled by a DSR fabricated panel; the panel also houses the power window, trunk, lights, wiper, and ignition switches, all mounted in the DSR custom center console. A pair of Cerullo (Pomona, California) seats are upholstered in cream and tan leather by Dave Putnam utilizing aircraft-style seatbelts. The DSR-fabricated door panels feature paint, custom molding, and more cream and tan leather. The flooring and trunk feature cream and tan square-weave carpeting and leather side panels.
Owning a Cadillac LaSalle is a great reason for getting out onto the open road. These were great road cars in their day but Bill now has the benefits of a modern powertrain and suspension, ergonomics, and all the comforts of a spacious interior to fully enjoy the "long and winding road."
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As I type this, so many of our customers, partners and my colleagues are in the "brutal" 88°F* weather learning more about storage and software & system innovation.
IBM Storage
Since much of my focus is around product announcements, I wanted to point folks to the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1 announcement that happened yesterday (Announcement Letter 212-189).
For content coming from the conference, a number of the marketing team are on the ground at Edge and tweeting. Be sure to follow Maria, Martha and Branavan (and of course, @ibmstorage) as well as the hashtag #ibmedge.
IBM Innovate
The Rational team have a number of exciting new announcements around Jazz and they will be talking quite a bit about mobile, cloud, industry solutions and a few other things including DevOps.
For us service management folks, DevOps translates into tangible benefits we can bring back to the business; like fewer errors and faster time to resolving errors if they do occur.
Back at Pulse 2012, we announced, among other things, the Beta for IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery (see the blog post and press release).
Of course, at Innovate there's a lot more to talk about with DevOps. Including the announcement from last week of IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management 7.5 (Announcement Letter 212-143).
Along with IBM SmartCloud Control Desk and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning Manager (among others), it's about developers and testers having access to the same tools, data and information that operations uses and leveraging them to fix problems before they occur. And if problems do occur, the linkages with tools like Rational Application Developer and Rational Performance Tester allow the developers and testers to quickly resolve these issues as everyone and everything is connected.
As stated before, fewer errors and faster time to resolving errors if they do occur. This translates into using time to be productive and being innovative. Innovation is what provides value back to the business.
There's a good press release from yesterday, "IBM Expands Collaborative Software Development Solutions to Cloud, Mobile Technologies" that highlights some of the integrations and new solutions (including Application Performance Management).
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Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks attended a south London police station today to hear she faces trial in the phone hacking scandal.
Mrs Brooks arrived at Lewisham police station without her husband and wearing a sober black trouser suit.
Elsewhere, her husband Charlie Brooks – who also faces charges, attended Hammersmith police station.
Meanwhile, Mrs Brooks's former PA Cheryl Carter is suffering the most "unhappy period of her life" as she faces charges of perverting the course of justice.
Henri Brandman, said his client "vigorously denies" the allegation that she removed boxes with Mrs Brooks from News International.
"Cheryl Carter understands that she is to be charged today with attempting to pervert the course of justice," he said.
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The 21-year-old suspected of shooting a teen will make his first court appearance Monday.
Tremain Kellam of Kinston is scheduled to appear in Lenoir County court Monday morning, for the shooting of 16-year-old Tashawn Burney Thursday at the Simon Bright Apartments.
WITN contacted Vidant Medical Center early Monday morning for an update on Burney's condition, but was told they didn't have information for him. However, we do know that the teen was upgraded to serious condition over the weekend.
We'll keep you posted on the case against Kellam.
A suspect has been charged with the shooting of a 16 year old teen, who is now in serious critical condition at Vidant Medical Center.
Tremaine Kellum, 21, is charged with attempted first degree murder, according to the Lenoir County Jail. He was booked just after 9 p.m. Thursday, five hours after 16-year-old TaShawn Burney was shot at the Simon Bright Apartments. Police say they picked up Kellum on Colgate Dr. shortly after the shooting.
Burney remained in critical condition early Friday morning, according to officials at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. He is a student at Sampson School, the alternative school in Kinston.
The suspect, Tremaine Kellum, a convicted felon. His rap sheet includes a stolen car and assault by pointing a gun.
A teenager is hurt after an afternoon shooting in Kinston.
Officers were called to Simon Bright Court about 4:00 p.m. Thursday.
They say they found 16-year-old TaShawn Burney with a gunshot wound.
Officials report Burney was taken to the hospital in Greenville by an EastCare helicopter and was listed in critical condition.
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Just as universities are letting out for summer and many students are planning to take on paid or unpaid internship roles in the business world, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York determined some Fox Searchlight Inc.'s unpaid internships were illegal.
The lawsuit was filed by Eric Glatt and three other plaintiffs who worked on the production sets of various films. Glatt and another intern, Alex Footman, worked on the production of the Academy-Award winning film "Black Swan."
As one part of the lawsuit, Glatt and Footman argued they were employees of Searchlight and thereby entitled to payment under the Fair Labor and Standards Act. Searchlight argued the plaintiffs were not employees.
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Walla Walla dreamin' - sleep walking down Second or was it Rose or Main Street in the middle of the night, tasting the delicious 2008 WWV Roller Girl Red from SuLei, eating fabulous Burrito Lengue, the tongue Burrito from the Taco Truck, strawberries from Klicker's, possibly the best in Washington - so sweet. Walla Walla, a small banking center for an off-the-beaten-path farm community devoted to raising sweet onions and wheat, was transformed into a wine and food Mecca in less than 20 years by pioneers such as Norm McKibbin who took the chance of converting his apple orchards into two of the best vineyards in the state - Pepper Bridge and Seven Hills. Speaking of sweet, we had a nice chat with Norm at Pepper Bridge winery. He is such an easygoing unassuming guy, just down home and obviously intelligent. He told the story of how he recruited and retained his outstanding winemaker, Jean Francois Pellet. Pellet has really settled in in Walla Walla, building himself a rather large vaguely Swiss looking home right in the middle of the vineyards. It turns out Jean Francois is no conservative Swiis banker type though, but a really cool adventurer who, if I remember correctly, has spent time in the Amazon and the Sahara. Lisa, the wine club manager is no slouch either. She has done her rounds on the race track! So the principals at Pepper Bridge show the same balance of excitement and order found at Cayuse, only on a much lower key. Speaking of low key, Debbie Hanson comes to mind. She and her husband come from long standing Walla Walla farm families and now own vineyards in the "Cailloux" right near Cayuse. In contrast to Christophe at Cayuse, she is modest AND an outstanding winemaker. Cristophe, of course, is his own flamboyant self AND a great winemaker. The Norms and Deborahs and Christophes are the personalities that made Walla Walla what it is today. There are a huge number of excellent winemakers in Walla Walla today. There must be a hundred excellent wineries in Walla Walla. What a great venue for the third annual winebloggers conference #WBC10. For me, the highlights were the wine tasting events - wines from Lake Chelan, Yakima Valley, Red Mountain, Australia, and Spain, even though I really would have preferred a Grand Tasting of Walla Walla wines. Fortunately I drove from Seattle so I was able to get to some of the excellent wineries not represented at the conference. To be continued...
Glencorrie produces only 700 cases of wine, but they are some of the best wines in WallaWalla. This has been a well kept secret. Even Walla Wallans don't really know about it. This is great stuff made under the supervision of Charlie Hoppes of Fedelitas fame. What is the crime? The new Hy 12 bypass, totally bypasses Glencorrie and a bunch of other outstanding Walla Walla wineries including Three Rivers, Reininger, and Cougar Crest. So your driving along Hwy. 12 from the Tri-Cities, you stop at Woodward Canyon and L'Ecole and then expect to see the other wonderful wineries west of Walla Walla. Instead you end up on the rnew improved Hwy 12 which by-passes all of the wineries on the old road. The road is blocked at the west end. There are side roads that could lead to the wineries, but no blue Hwy winery signs from the DOT indicating wineries. It is not clear whether the wineries are allowed to put out their own signs on the highway. This is criminal - a taking of private property rights from businesses that contribute to the Walla Walla and Washington State economies. These are some of the best wineries in Walla Walla and the DOT doesn't seem to want you to visit them. What a crime? YOU should make your way to them anyway despite the Department of Transportation. From downtown Walla Walla head toward highway 12 ,but before you get ther turn left onto W. Pine St which is the old highway 12 and just follow it out maybe 5 miles. You won't regret it.
Well, 78,000 cases isn't exactly rare in Walla Walla, but wines priced at $12 and $15 are. Waterbrook winery produces some of the best values in Walla Walla. The 2008 PInot Gris has a round soft easy style with tropical fruit flavors - a great patio wine @ $12. The 2007 is a good dry quaff with hints of citrus, again for only $12. The reserve 2007 Chardonnay has a great stony, minerality at only $15. The 2009 Sangiovese Rose ($12) has a hint of orange zest in the nose followed by an amazingly dry wine in the mouth. Truly an amazing feat for an American Rose - competes with the best from Provence. The 2007 Riesling($12) at 1.4% sugar has an interesting sweet and sour character and the 2007 Reserve Cab has great black cherry flavors for only $22. Frankly the more expensive wines had little to offer at any price, but Waterbrook is a source of possibly the best values in Walla Walla
No, not the ultra expensive spice, the restaurant in Walla Walla. For our pre-Wine Bloggers' Conference we went to Saffron the hole in the wall vaguely Spanish bistro with raciones and bigger plates beautifully prepared and a very interesting wine list which they apparently consider to be "top secret." When we asked for a copy so we could write about it we were informed that it is against their policy. Vinoterrorism, foodiesocialism, green communism, industrial spying?How to promote a really great wine list? Whatever! Excellent lamb tartare, baby octopus with ganbanzos, excellent roasted bluefish accompanied by 2009 Bleue Maison "Au Contraire" Chardonnay which despite the great name was good enough, but not great. NV Prosecco Brut Ca'Vittoria was good , but not dry enough, like the 2008 Verdejo El Quintanal. 2008Rotie Cellars Syrah/Mourvedre, a good rich fairly big red. Good food, good wine, great service and a weirdly guarded wine list.
Here is the grand finale of my Woodinville reporting. These are my "bests"
from the wines tasted. Of course, some of my favorite wineries would have turned
in many "bests," too - Hestia, Adam's Bench, Brian Carter, Januik, Novelty Hill, Baer,
DeLille, Gorman, Mark Ryan. Here are "the Bests":
Best Rieslings
Woodinville Passport was a moveable feast. So many outstanding wines, so many great winemakers, so much fun and pleasure. When I "have to" taste a hundred wines or more I always spit, well, almost always. Every once in a while I involuntarily swallow. Really, I can't help it, the wine makes me do it. Sometimes it is just so good that I swallow it. One swallow does not a summmer make, but one swallow tells me how much I love the wine and think it is fabulous. When I write notes I use a three star, or three swallow system. One star wines are wines I swallow, two star wines are wines I wish I could keep swallowing, three star wines are wines where I wish I could swallow the whole thing - slowly. So for me:
* - Excellent - Gold
** - Outstanding - Double Gold
*** - Extraordinary - Platinum
+ - Best Buy + Good Value
There were an amazing number of swallows at Passport this year. Here are my faves organized by rating, but in no particular order within each category.
Under $30
* 2007 Sparkman "Widerness" ($28)
* 2006 Gifford Hirlinger "Vireo" ($23)
* 2008 Des Voignes "The Groove" ($20)
* 2005 Mathews Red (?)
* 2008 Airfield "Bombshell" ($16) +
* Darby "Chaos" ($28)
* 2007 Davenport " R.H.D." ($24)
* 2007 Davenport "Continuity" ($24)
* NV Woodslake Due Ani ($17)+
* 2007 Robert Ramsay "Mason's Red" ($19)+
* 2007 Two Vintners "Lola" ($25)
** 2007 Elsom "Red" (?)
** 2008 Airfield "Mustang" - Rhone blend ($25)
** 2008 Airfield "Spitfire" ($25)
*** Patterson "Big Daddy" ($18) +
Other Reds
* 2007 Dusted Valley Walla Walla Cabernet Sauvignon ($28 * 2007 Elsom Cabernet Sauvignon (?) * 2008 William Church "Bad Habit" Cabernet Sauvignon ($17)+
* 2007 Two Vintners Syrah ($21)
* 2007 William Church Syrah ($28)
* 2006 Gifford Hirlinger Estate Merlot ($22)
* 2008 Covington Barbera ($29)
* 2005 Zefina Sangiovese($25)
* 2007 Gifford Hirlinger Petit Verdot ($26)
* 2007 Elsom Malbec (?)
* 2008 Chatter Creek Grenache ($18)+
* 2007 Chatter Creek Malbec ($24)
* 2007 Barrage Cabernet Franc (?)
* 2007 Barrage "Secret Weapon" Syrah (?)
* 2008 Two Vintners Zinfandel ($20)
*** 2007 Pomum "Tinto" Tempranillo ($25)+
Over $30
* 2005 Canon De Sol Meritage (?)
* 2007 Pondera Salon II (?)
* 2007 Des Voignes "Solea" ($30)
* 2007 Irlandes Reserve Syrah ($34)
* 2007 Covington Cabernet Sauvignon ($35)
* 2007 Irlandes Reserve "Karma" ($44)
* 2007 Sparkman "Kingpin" ($56)
** 2007 Pondera "Cuvee" (?)
** 2007 Robert Ramsay Mourvedre ($42)
***2007 Pomum Syrah ($36)
***2007 Robert Ramsay Cabernet Sauvignon ($38)
* 2007 Red Sky Semillon ($18)
* 2009 Efeste Riesling ($10)+
* 2008 William Church Viognier ($21)
* 2006 Pomum Riesling ($18)
** 2008 Isenhower "Snapdragon" Roussanne blend ($19)+
* 2009 Covington "Josie" Rose ($15)+
* 2009 Patterson Rose ($18)
* 2008 Chatter Creek "Dry" Orange Muscat ($18)+
* 2009 Patterson Late Harvest Roussanne ($22)
Truly a movable feast! How sweet it is! These days we need some sweet endings. BTW, Northwest Totem's Late Harvest Viognier is consistently good and another sweet thing. Almost all of the wines that Hestia, Adam's Bench, Novelty Hill and Januik offer up almost always make me want to swallow. You will, too! Almost never a bad wine from these outstanding wineries. You can pretty much count on quality from them and the other wines rated here. The 2007 vintage is profound. You must stock up on these wines. The 2007 vintage was one of the best in Washington and many of these wineries have reduced their prices by about 15%. This year for the first time in a while, I could have used $20 or $25 as a cutting point rather than $30. Twenty dollars is a lot closer to the $14-$15 price point that most consumers use. Why were there so many swallows? Because 2007 was an almost perfect year in a "Perfect Climate," Here you have over 50 recommendations not counting at least another 25 from my top faves - Hestia, Adam's Bench, Novelty Hill and Januik (see Tour Des Favorites - 9/9/09 in the archives). There must be at least another 25 from wineries I didn't get to - DeLille, Betz, Brian Carter, NW Totem, Gorman, Mark Ryan, Darby, Baer, Edmonds, etc,. - so over 100 top wines from over 100 wineries. That's why the annual Wine Bloggers Conference should come to Seattle/Woodinville next year! Here is proof that you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for truly excellent wine. These are special wines. Vintages like this don't come along that often and the wines are affordable. So much pleasure, for relatively little expense. Okay, so maybe it's a little more than twice as much as you usually spend for wine, buy half as much and double your pleasure. I wish the Washington wine commission would pay this shill a commission :) Enjoy!
As we mentioned, we skipped a lot of oldies but goodies to make room for some newcomers, but you should not skip them. They are fabulous, reliable and sometimes hard to get - Adam's Bench, Andrew Ross, Betz, Brian Carter, DeLille, Doyenne, Gorman, Mark Ryan, Novelty Hill, and Januik. These wines are so good and so reliable that if you see a bottle grab it or better yet visit these wineries and taste. You will not be disappointed..
Newbies to check out include Elsom, Portrait Cellars, Swede Hill, Tempest Sol, Davenport, Robert Ramsey and Two Vintners made by the winemaker at Covington Cellars under his own label.All of these "new" wineries are producing excellent wine. Elsom, Two Vintners and Robert Ramsey are standouts! Did I leave anybody out?
How many cities have over 100 wineries and tasting rooms within their metropolitan areas? Paris? New York? San Francisco? Try Seattle! Seattleites are so used to being able to taste wine at the Tasting Room downtown or heading south a few miles to the South Park industrial zone that they sometimes rebel at the idea of a trip to Woodinville "out in the sticks". Of course, MIcrosofties who work right next door, would tell you it's worth it to drive a mere half an hour to reach some of the best wineries in the world.
This year there were a disproportionate number of outstanding wines to taste and purchase. Is that because 2007 may have been the greatest vintage ever in Washington State or because the wine makers have been honing their skills? Wine in Seattle? Where do they grow the grapes? Not in rainy Seattle? Grapes are trucked over the Cascade Mountains in small lugs for the Puget Sound artisans to make their wine. Recently, the grapes have been followed by Eastern Washington wineries from the AVAs such as the Yakima Valley and Walla Walla. Save three to five hours of driving time by going to Woodinville. As Willie Sutton said, you go where the money is, and as Vladimer Putin said, you do what you have to do. So it was a pleasant surprise to find Brett Isenhower setting up his tasting room for the weekend. Brett's wines are excellent. Some other wonderful interlopers from Eastern Washington include Goose Ridge, Airfield, Alder Ridge, Canon De Sol, Irlandes, and Dusted Valley.
You really should organize your trip to Woodinville geographically, otherwise you will drive yourself crazy driving all over Woodinville and getting lost. Fortunately the vast majority of wineires and tasting rooms are pretty much concentrated in a few areas. In the northern end of town are two warehouse districts full of wineries. North of North Woodinville Way you will find dozens of wineries tucked away in a commercial zone. Enter the zone and you will be barraged with cool wineries such as Barrage, Sparkman, Gorman, and Patterson to name jsut a few. Efeste is an outlier just up the street on the opposite side. BelowWoodinville Way is another "warehouse" district buried in the midst of newly built housing. "Would you run down to the winery, dear, and pick up a bottle of wine for lunch." Here you will find giants such as Hestia, Covington, Pomum, and Chatter Creek. If you not exhausted and anesthetized by now head down to the intersection of 140th Pl NE and NE 144th St. Here you will find most of the refugees from Eastern Washington.
Further south on HY 202 you will find such bright stars as DeLIlle and Betz wineries. Although(they were closed and didn't participate in Passport, they are must taste wineries, as are Januik, Novelty Hill, Brian Carter and Adams Bench which is "out in the stick" less than a mile down NE 146th Pl. Tune in next time (whenever that is!) for some new wineries, some tasting notes, and the Best of Woodinville using my new "three swallow" system.
BTW, you don't have to wait 'til Passport weekend to taste Woodinville wines. Most of the wineries are open weekends and some everyday.
I was so excited when a friend brought this white from the Languedoc. It is so difficult to find wines from the Southwest of France and they almost always are great values. Langue D'Oc, language of the Occitan, probably antedates the Roman occupation of Gaul. This Picpoul speaks the language of the South of France. Fresh, dry, and fruity with hints of peaches, pears and a hint of lemon. Although frequently recommended as a pairing with oysters, IMHO the Hugues De Beauvignac is not dry enough for such a match. With a profile somewhat similar to a dry Riesling, this is a perfect patio wine or aperatif for those who say "dry", but prefer a little hint of sweetness or at least some fruit ($11-$14)
A Woodinville Passport will transport youfor a few hours of paradise whether yours is a rockin' time, a sexy date, or a dreamy smooth red. Don't let your Evil Twin, Bully you into joining the Riff Raffin the Wilderness. Be an Outlaw for a few hours, get in touch with your Dark side, step into the Chaos with your Big Daddy and Barrage your friends withfine wines. Duke it out with your best friend over who is really in the Groove. Enjoy the Continuity and Serendipity of the Final Final wines next week @seattlewineblog.
Every year Taste Washington produces a new crop of wineries. Some of these wineries may not be brand new, but they are new to me and of recent vintage. They are listed in alphabetical order:
As usual Taste Washington was a great experience. Over 800 wines from over 200 wineries, just scratch the surface of the Washington wine field. Washington State winemakers have established a tradition of not following tradition and thinking outside the box. They are willing toexperiment withanything that works. Washington grapegrowers grow all kinds of varietals including such Rhone varietals as Mourvedre, Counoise, Cinsault.Looking for Tempranillo, Zin or Pinot Noir, look no further. Want an inexpensive everyday wine? How about Boomtown, Revelry, Dama, Balboa, Barnard Griffin, Columbia Crest or Red Diamond. Looking for an "affordable" cult wine ( I know, it's an oxymoron),try Quilceda Creek, Leonetti, Cayuse or Delille's Grand Cru. Oreven more affordable and more available - Andrew Will,Pepper Bridge, or CadenceThere are so many outstanding Washington wines, it's a crime to only be able to taste a hundred or so, but given the time available I would have only 10 seconds to taste each wineand travel to the next booth. This time, even though I was tempted into tasting from the first part of the alphabet by such beauties as Buty, Cadence and Caderetta, I did manage to get to the the other end with such wonders as Willis Hall. Unfortunately, there is a big hole in the middle.Again, the section featuring vineyards was fascinating. I tastedDeLille's excellent Harrison Hilland several bottles made bythe family that owns Upland vineyard. Since I will be reporting on Woodinville Passport this Apriland the Third Annual Wine Bloggers conference in Walla Walla this June, I tried to avoid Woodinville and Walla Walla wineries this time around. Although it seemed that attendance was down, quality was up. The 2007 vintage produced many outstanding wines and may well be the best Washington State vintage yet.
This year, I am trying a new approach to my Tasting notes. I recorded my impressions and winemakers' discussions of their wines we will see how it comes out. Of course, later we will have the usual lists of bests and faves and new wineries. This kind of reminds me of the "live" blogging we did at the first wine blogger's conference in Santa Rosa in 2008.
For reasons unknown, Pine and Post came up first.. As usual, the Chardonnay from 2007 is a good quaff at a reasonable price. Ben Smith is so excited about his new vineyard and the amount of control he can exercise over the fruit. This year he had an opportunity to to make a blend with 30-40% Petit Verdot. The 2007 Taptiel was deep and linear, needed some age as usual. The Bel Canto was indeed Belle. - "almost a fruitbomb, but not in your face - beautiful!" 2007 Camerata - 85% Cab S, 15% cab, Fr., 15% merlot.Cadence winemakers Gaye and Ben have exceeded their usual high standards. Great stuff. Buy the 2007s. Speaking of which, right next store, the lovely Virginie Bouguefrom the Luberon in France, wasexplicating on her 2007s..She makes wine inan expansive style which still retains the character of the Northwest - the perfect balance of American fruit and French charcter and backbone. The 2007 Syrah has some Sangio and other things in it - "that is fabulous, it even has a little bit of chocolate in the back, this Syrah is a standout wine.."Virginie, you are very outgoing." Yes I have a different personality." "Hey, Jeff, how are you?" "All of these wines are spectacular." Premier wines - rhone style blend, like Chateauneuf Du Papes-.
Lots of tannin, Buty- tasted wines made for restrants such as the Herbfarm and Canlis - outstanding "house" wines....
Even though Washington and Wall Street have declared the recession over, the rest of us know that we are still up to our eyeballs in it. As early as the beginning of 2008, Patterson Wine Co. in Woodinville, Washington offered a 2006 Recession Red. Made from Cab grapessourced from such classy vineyards as Klipsun Vineyards on Red Mountain,they hadn't quite gotten it, pricing itin the $20 vicinity. Along came Recession Wine Company makingdecent plonk for about $4 according to http://www.splashfood.com/. Most consumers have cut their price point, but not their consumption. If you were paying $10 you've moved down to $5, $7 you're down to $3.one world wide web wag sent around a "hoax" alleging a consumer survey showing that Chateau Traileur Parc was the winning name for Walmart's branded wine, Oak Leaf We recentlyoffered a tasting class ofRecession Reds. The rule was no bottle over $5, but wines could be purchased on sale. For under $75, I was able to purchase 14 bottles of wine. The tasters were average consumers who like wine.
The most interesting resultwas that,for the most part, the wines were not bad, similar in quality, and quality didn't correlate with price.We started with NV Barefoot Pinot Noir from California and there was universal agreement that the wine was unpleasantly acidic.Next we tasted seven lowpriced Merlotsblind.They were:
1)NV Southern Point- Walgreen's - $3
2)NV Charles Shaw - Trader Joe's - $3
3) NV Double DogDare - Total - $3
4) NV Oak Creek- CVS - $3.50
5) 2008 Searidge - Safeway - $4
6) 2008 Turning Leaf - CVS - $5
7) 2004 Columbia Crest "Two Vines" - Safeway, $5
There were no statistically significant differences among the wines. There were no really bad wines and no real standouts - just good enough wine for great prices. It was just a matter of personal preference. I preferred the Columbia Crest and the Charles Shaw, but then you might call me a wine snob. Most of the tasters preferred the least expensive wines without knowing the prices.
The same procedure was followed for a tasting of six Cabernet Sauvignons:
1) NV Pacific Peak - Total - $2
2) NV Inglenook, Chile - CVS 1.5 L - $5
3) NVQuail Oak -Safeway -$3
4) NV DoubleDog Dare - Total - $3
5) 2009 Charles Shaw - Trader Joe's - $3
6) 2008 Searidge - Safeway - $4
Again, there were no meaningful differences among the average scores.I had a slight preference for the Inglenook.
So, guess what folks, you can get a pretty decent everyday quaff for just a few bucks. So kick back and enjoy while you wait a few more years for the recession to be over. BTW, what do you think Greenspan, Paulson, Geithner, and Ken Lewis are drinking?
This is thefourth annual Unofficial Classification of Washington State Wineries. The 2009 Unofficial Classification Of Washington State Wineries represents my personal, perhaps, idiosyncratic or eccentric, opinions of the quality of Washington State wineries. Out of more than 650 wineries, thereare at least a hundred producing great wine. About half of the wine produced in Washington comes from wineries owned by Chateau Ste. Michelle. The other 600 some odd wineries are mostly small artisanal family enterprises typically producing 2000-3000 cases, in some cases up to 20,000 cases or more. The AP reports that Washington wineries are increasing their production.The emphasishas beenon quality rather than quantity. Let us hope it remains so.In contrast to other classifications of wine such as the 1855 classification of Bordeaux, the Unofficial Classification of Washington Wineries is not set in stone and changes every year. Since it is retrospective, it does not necessarily predict future rankings, past performance is no guarantee of future results.This has been a difficult year with so many people unemployed, retirement funds cut in half, and a housing market that is limping along at best.In general, it appears that most people have lowered the price they are willing to pay for a bottle of wine,but have not cut consumption.Wines at the topof the list be special wines for special occasions, whereas wine in the "Cinqieme"group tend to be outstanding values. Exclusion from this classification, in no way represents a commentary on the quality of a winery. In many cases, it may simply mean that I am not familiar enough with the wines or winemaker to form an opinion. On the other hand , not all Washington wines and wineries are great, so only the best that I am familiar with are listed here. Wineries are listed in alphabetical order and not ranked within each category. Wineries are listed as "deferred", if I have reason to believe they are worthy, but haven't tasted enough of their wines recently.
Premier Grand Cru ( Extraordinary)
Quilceda Creek
Deuxieme Grand Cru (Outstanding)
Andrew Will
Long Shadow
Pepper Bridge
Spring Valley
Troisieme Grand Cru ( Exceptional)
Adams Bench
Brian Carter
Cougar Crest
Fall Line
Five Star
Mark Ryan
Note Bene
Ross Andrew
Sleight Of Hand
Quatrieme Grand Cru ( Excellent)
Basel Cellars
Bergevin Lane
Canoe Ridge
Desert Wind
Dusted Valley
Flying Trout
Gifford Hirlinger
Mountain Dome
Nicolas Cole
Novelty Hill
Red Sky
Seven Hills
Terra Blanca
Thurston Wolfe
Three Rivers
Vin Du Lac
Walla Walla Vineyards
Walter Dacon
Willis Hall
Cinqieme Cru ( Very Good)
14 Hands
Airfield Estates
Barnard Griffin
Columbia Crest "Two Vines"
Goose Ridge
Gordon Bros
Martinez & Martinez
Nelms Road
Pavin & Riley
Pine & Post
Red Diamond
Ryan Patrick
Saint Laurent
Willow Crest
Agate Field
Canon De Sol
Chatter Creek
Columbia Crest Reserve
Glacial Lake Missoula
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McKinley Springs
Soos Creek
Terra Blanca - Onyx
Two Mountains
Woodwark Canyon
Yellow Hawk
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ATLANTA -- Early voting in metro Atlanta expanded Monday, with a whole new set of polling places open to accommodate voters.
Over the weekend, some voters waited as long as eight hours to cast their ballots.
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Monday morning, the wait was down to 1.5 hours in Gwinnett County, where five locations are now open compared to one last week.
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Fram, yes, I think it can take that long. I moved into an 800 sq ft apt (1 bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room) with 3 very adept and efficient movers with a 45 minute drive between places, and it took a lot of the day (seems to me about 6 hours) and cost $1000. It was under what they estimated, and they did such an excellent job I never regretted the cost for a second.
beware the movers that quote you much less. Either they really are that cheap and they are careless and horrible, or you end up paying far more than the estimate because they tricked you into choosing them.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (March 5) -Florida A&M Head Football Coach Earl Holmes announced today, that the contracts of wide receiver coach Steven Jerry and defensive back coach, Jimmie Tyson will not be retained.
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