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Ever on the outer limits of testing my palate, last weekend I dove into the Gironde, through the largesse of neighbor and friend Guy, and was able to whet my palate with two superb clarets.
I'd never had a Château Margaux before, and I found the 1989 ripe, mature, with a bit of a grainy texture coming on with age, with the kind of length on the palate that makes you go, "Woah, ho, ho..." as it draws on and teases out and does not finish but rather comes romping back to say "hi" again before flaring out in a splash of aftertastes.
I had been told to expect something special, so that confirmation was, while impressive, not a surprise.
What did surprise me, however, was the 1996 Ducru-Beaucaillou we drank that evening, too. Upon opening, it was a bit tannic and even green about the gills. But after a couple of hours' air on the mantelpiece, it had softened up. As we sipped it with the cheeses (nice raw-milk stuff), it made me feel happy, warm, and good.
I got to thinking that that is what I like most about wine. The sense it imparts of unexpected comfort when it is at the right age, poured at the right time.
This would happen again a week later, two nights ago, with a 2000 Allemand Cornas "Reynard." Wine for swooning, when you least expect it.
A recent discussion drifted over to this brilliant show from the early '90s.
Here's an on-topic favorite.
Empty bottles are everywhere! The carnage of holiday celebrations strews the floors and sidewalks and window-ledges of the world!
And I haven't written a post in some time, which needs quick remediation.
Now, as wine is something essentially convivial, it's all the better to have the best of good excuses to open things that "need a reason." Of course, I would argue that things don't necessarily need a reason - but I'm somewhat full of hot air in stating that, because you don't see me uncorking a Rousseau Chambertin when I'm home alone, now, do you? (Well, I'd make sure the shutters were closed.)
But crisis arises when it's time to navigate the multiple wants and tastes of multiple parties at a convivial, wine-involved affair. And, tragically, several people I know and often engage in conviviality with are averse to Burgundy, of one or both colors. (Note to self: try Marsannay rosé on them?)
So I consider it a small triumph to have garnered approval from Catherine, she who shakes her head at any and all Côte d'Or pinot noir up through and to (wait for it) La Tâche (why wasn't I there that day her generous friend opened it, instead?). We drank a 2005 C. & Cl. Maréchal Chorey-lès-Beaune, all masterful, streamlined fruit and acidity and gorgeously suave. She nodded her head: she liked it!
And for a moment, there was harmony.
As holiday season is here and we are undeniably in the thick of it, I thought it would be apposite to look back with a tear-filled eye at the vinous wonders enjoyed throughout the year. Some doozies, and some exciting new finds, including grapes and regions (Grüner Veltliner! Syrah from Switzerland!) I had never before gotten the chance to dip into. On the balance, I have to say I drank a lot of bubble. But there's no harm in it, and it doesn't even stain your lips.
I will take a little time to work on a blowout rundown, perhaps to be followed by Vinous Resolutions for 2009, but my overall impression is one of bounty and discovery. I even drank a lot of chenin! Who would have thought?
Going into the holiday season, of course, with its looming excesses and even more bubble, I decided to revise the classics last night with a very fine bottle of 2006 Domaine d'Etilly Chinon. Simple, pure crunchy fruit, and just the palate cleanser for what's next.
It's always a treat to get to check back in on things, even if it's your last bottle. Actually, it's best when it's your last bottle and you've caught it in the right place, like some unknowable particle you stop right there where it needs to be, when it could have been far adrift to either side just seconds earlier.
A month and a half ago, in celebration of Michel's birthday, we drank, on the heels of a magnum of Ruinart rosé (or was it the other way around?) a 1996 Pierre Moncuit VV "Cuvée Nicole Moncuit", which at the time I found disconcertingly evolved, quite amberish in the glass and with distinct notes of evolution and some intrusive oxidative overtones.
Flash forward to, well, now.
Chilling a last bottle of 1996 Pierre Moncuit VV was a snap choice. A planned champagne brunch with friends today was cancelled, but there was no question of giving up the party so easily. Hereabouts, there are standards to keep up, &c.
1996 Pierre Moncuit VV "Cuvée Nicole Moncuit" - while this is clearly not going to go the distance, it is drinking very prettily now. On the nose, a first flush of toast with lemon curd spread really very thickly on it gives way to some hints of walnut. On the palate, unctuousness and a bit of dosage tangle with pith and acidity to fine effect. Oxidative overtones are on the pronounced side, and the cork was thin, rather than expanded, so I would be preoccupied for its continued health, but its dandyish negligence is not without charm right about, well, now.
My current wine life is not unlike braille: everything stands out. You want to run your fingertips over these wines in appreciation, such good things have I had.
And that, from all angles and walks and stripes of vinification, age, grape, and climate. One day last week, I went from a 1976 Lopez de Heredia Bosconia GR to a 1990 Carbonnieux Blanc. Another day, I drank aged mourvèdre and young old-vine carignan as a chaser to Crémant du Jura.
Which creates a problem, here. In the lapse since I delved into rosy self-questionings nearly two weeks ago, there are too many things that have been poured under the bridge (or into the gullet) to roll out a detailed report: because, as we all know, long screeds of tasting notes are so bleedin' boring.
So maybe I can talk about the places that these things were drunk. Because that is part of it, too. Wine comes from a place, but it is also consumed in a place, and you're not going to have the same reaction to a pour of Rhône syrah out of an Enomatic machine at Lavinia as to a glass of prosecco on the balcony of a hotel in Rome's Trastevere neighborhood, where the apartment building across the way has shirts and socks on clotheslines waving in the breeze. A pink glass of Selosse Rosé tastes different in a white-tablecloth restaurant than in a broad chai full of barrels.
Maybe that would enliven tasting notes, actually. "Grüner Veltliner on a bridge." "Morgon Côte du Py with a picnic on the bed." "Volnay in a tiny, warm restaurant." Etc.
I'll do that. Just not right now.
Tasting notes, however, can be seen here, here, and here.
So, a kindly reader of this blog has asked me via private correspondence why I gave no mention of my rank in the world of wine bloggism.
Here goes, then.
Google's Top 100 Wine Blogs shows that Sharon's Wine Blog* is #6 and is the first "independent" on the list.
So, now that I have acceded to such rare heights, I would like to inquire of my readers what thoughts they may have about my blog's current format and structure.
Suggestions for improvements? Exhortations to stay the same? Bottles to send my way, just 'cause?
Thanks to all of you for reading me and following me in my vinous exploits and explorations, in any case. You are the best.
*Note the Ouroboros-style link.
If this keeps up, I'm going to have to rename my blog.
I cannot deny that the picture above represents one of the most beautiful sights in the world.
But let's backtrack. It was Monday morning, and it was early that I set out from Paris with David, to reach the small, obscure village of Congy. By an amusing coincidence, we, along with fellow oenophile Michaël and a friend of his from Germany, were scheduled to visit the domain Ulysse Collin. That is, precisely, the champagnes of Olivier Collin, whom I'd spent all Friday afternoon tasting with in Paris.
What followed was a genial two-and-a-half-hour visit of Olivier's cellar, a tasting of his wines from barrel and then bottle (a 2005 that was of quite a different character from his 2004, as well as 2006s in both blanc de blancs and rosé de saignée versions, the latter of an interesting "œil de perdrix" color with great depth of bitterness).
Afterward, we headed out with our vigneron friend to visit Les Perrières, a curious plot of vines with silex in the soil. It was pretty muddy, so Parisian boots were spackled grey, but that was no issue. It is always fascinating to see how the look and feel of the vineyard relates to what one tastes in the bottle. Grass grew here, and the four parts to the Perrières parcel were each positioned differently. An interesting and instructive glimpse behind the curtain.
Then we got back in our cars and sped off toward Avize.
We were late to Selosse's, but he received us with the usual expansive generosity. I hate to say it, but going to his chai always makes me feel the wonderment and joy of a small child. I know I'm going to taste fabulous things and have a curious and unpredictable conversation.
This was the case on Monday, with an even greater pleasure to find that all the wines were showing their best, most balanced attributes (it's true that since these are uncalibrated bottles, things of nature, they can sometimes show less brightly or off).
We tasted V.O., 1999, Rosé, Substance, Exquise and Il Était Une Fois.
The first, V.O., is Selosse's non dosaged extra-brut, and it was absolutely balanced, perfectly deep, the picture of "verticality," as he puts it.
The 1999 was a brawny thing, yet mastered. 14.2% alcohol, and no dosage, as he had disgorged it on the spot. It had great length and complexity, but was more a snapshot of a year, with that year's attributes, than the vertical, plunging and seemingly timeless V.O.
The Rosé, here, came off as more Cistercian than usual: as it turns out, Selosse had changed the dosage, lowering it for the same bottling compared to the shipment that went out to America a few months ago, and which he now prefers. This has about 2.5g/l, whereas the American version has 3.5g/l. However, I found great beauty and minerality in this version of the Rosé. I love, too, that his rosé is absolutely, just absolutely Selosse; its adjunction of red wine (from Egly-Ouriet) does nothing to obscure the particular character of his wines.
Substance was an opulent thing of beauty. Layers upon layers of heady pleasure, with dense bubbles and a full feel in the mouth. Once you've had this, there is never any going back.
The others were tasting Exquise, but I begged for a taste of the 2000, which was open and half-hidden. With a nod and a quick check that no one was looking, Anselme silently poured me some, then returned to pouring Exquise for the others.
The 2000 was unlike the previous vintage Selosses I've tried. Something more uncertain, for now. Anselme was very critical of it, but I think it's just struggling its way out of the starting blocks and needs some more time to find itself. But that's just me.
I had to catch up with Exquise, so I helped myself.
This was an interesting expression, but I cannot claim a preference for wines with sweetness. I does wear its 52g/l lightly, but I like the purity of the extra-bruts.
Then we got to taste the mistelle Il Était Une Fois - a "wine" made from excess grape juice that exceeded INAO regulations and couldn't be vinified. Selosse had been keeping this juice for 6 years. At the end, he added fine de Champagne to make the mistelle. It is 15% alcohol and about 168g/l of sugar! A sweet, sticky thing, I had tasted it in April and it had searingly pure Selosse character. Here, it had been marked by more aging and some oak and had taken on walnut notes and confited fruit. Curious; and a one-off experiment for him, whence its name, which means "Once Upon a Time."
For this tasting, unusually, we were in a bright room up top in the chai, which he decided to use because we were freezing and it was heatable, but which scribbled notes on the wall showed hadn't been used in a while - they were all dated 2004, 2005. I asked why, and he said that he'd just stopped using it. Well, at least I found a marker that still worked.
Though I forgot to date it.
Never enough bubbles, not ever!
Of late, my Champagne Tracker has been exploding like a carelessly opened bottle of the stuff. This is, of course, a very good thing indeed.
This weekend was Le Grand Tasting in Paris, and with two like-minded and highly willing co-conspirators, Peter Liem and David Rayer, along with an interloper in the form of genial champagne producer Olivier Collin, we ravaged the landscape assembled at the Carrousel du Louvre in the form of winemakers from the Montagne de Reims, the Côte des Blancs and even l'Aube.
It was like cramming for a test, if one can liken drinking several bottles of champagne later with dinner to a test. (Perhaps a test of stamina.)
The treat was in the nuances. I liked to sound off the heady extra-bruts from Veuve Fourny with the angry yet fascinating 1995 extra-brut from Fleury (this vintage from that house was declined in three versions, from 3.5g/l to 14g/l (the brut was, unfortunately, slightly corked, so muted) and then a whopping yet amazingly elegant 52g/l for the doux). I dipped into exciting new finds, such as Roger Coulon and J.-L. Vergnon, was disappointed by a large house or two, and found reassurance in the latest brut from Jacquesson, 733.
What did I come away with?
Thirst, and a renewed appreciation for delicately handled, very low dosage.
Now, I left my heart somewhere on the Côte des Blancs sometime back, and luckily, I'm going to be able to go back and look for it, because tomorrow, I am heading to Avize.
First a stop in with aforementioned Olivier Collin of champagne Ulysse Collin, and then on to Selosse.
And maybe I'll write about it, this time.
This happened on the other side of the Atlantic. I was in New York, and the night was cold and windy, very dark. It was last Monday, November 10. Forty-second street went stretching along, until a small set of stone stairs rose to some other street on another level of the world. This was where I was going: Tudor City. Needless to say, I had not been there before.
Inside the restaurant Convivio, my destination, the whipping wind was nowhere present, and all was warm and as though slightly blurred at the edges. A round booth coddled the three of us who were seated at the table. There was a hum to the warmth, sounds of pleasant murmur and soft silverware, smells of sausage and pasta.
And what better figure to enter the field of fairytale vision than a tall, smartly dressed and keen-eyed sommelier. Levi Dalton would whisk us (well, not too rapidly) through a series of wines, from bubbly to white to red, that I had never had nor, indeed, even heard of before.
Most memorable. Most shocking, a dish of gnocchetti with crab and sea urchin, and the wine I sipped by its side, so impossible, so impossibly lovely.
2007 Fontaleoni "Notte di luna" Vernaccia di San Gimignano - This white wine comes across on the nose with a robust nut-shell and dusky flower scent, and on the palate is flooring. How to unravel the things going on here? Such depth and complexity, a bit of oakishness and supple body not unlike a white Burgundy; it seems to do a pirouette, then to wrap and unwrap itself and spool out more, fresh tastes.
As the evening wore on, we came back to this with the cheese, and it had become even more fleshily wonderful.
An extraordinary surprise to the start of a week of the unheralded in New York.
Two nights ago, David brought a few special treats over in a wine bag. We were gearing up to treat friends from abroad (read: the USA - how exotic!) to Burgundy and some food. Things got screwed up on the food front - I have never dragged anyone, beloved or reviled, through such a shambles of a home-cooked meal - but the wines were delicious.
This one stood out. It's the oldest champagne I've had to date! And reminds me, with its ungainly bottle and weathered label, of the image in Rabelais of Socrates as a silène. Or, put more prosaically: good things can come in unexpected packages.
1971 Lanson Label Rouge. How the details of vintage, &c., were known to David escapes me, but I'll believe him. He knew what he was talking about, in any case. We poured this champagne, after I had tasted a drop and nodded with a bit of a gleam in my eye (oh yes, it was good). It was still-looking - nary a bubble in the glass - and of a deep ocher color. Yet the nose was exuberant, and as it turns out, the champagne was racy and alive on the tongue with bubbles, and it had a heady, slightly oxidative, mature note. A straight backbone and nutty and biscuity savors had me ignoring the tide of conversation around me, like some autistic Champagne Whisperer.
Until there was no more, alas.
This weekend, glass in hand, I got to explore my deep and abiding love for Burgundy. Not only was there the legendary annual Burgundy tasting at Caves Augé, but there were other bottles of the Côte d'Or's fine chardonnays and pinot noirs hiding, it seemed, behind every corner (all right, every bar and wine rack).
To make an exhaustive list would exhaust me and certainly frighten you, gentle reader, as to my liver. So let's just say that what seems interesting to me at the tail end of the marathon is the principle of less-is-more applied to Burgundy.
I've always applied this to "little" wines like Cahors or Corbières - the high-end stuff is invariably overoaked, overextracted, etc. But Burgundy? Well, where more up can you go than a Lafon Meursault Perrières? Now, I'll tell you: a Chassorney Saint-Romain.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not purporting that the little crus will amass and destroy the grand ones. Last night (I'll say this all offhand, like) we drank a 2000 Rousseau Ruchottes-Chambertin that left one just askew with longing. But what is key, here as elsewhere, is balance, simplicity, what the French call évidence.
And I have found that a few times in the past days, in curious new places.
I was walking toward the Seine yesterday under blue autumn skies, and as I headed down a narrow street with a 17th century convent on it, I noticed a bistro with a big white banner across the window: "LA BERNACHE EST ARRIVÉE." Ah! 'Tis the season of the sweet, yeasty pink fizz. The sign's peppy excitement made me smile (and made me realize, too, that it's time to get back up to the excellent L'Estaminet du Marché, a table d'hôtes in the 3rd arrondissement where they pour and sell bernache at this time of year).
On the face of it, bernache shouldn't be my kind of drink. It's carbonic, muddled, funky, and especially, pretty darn sugary. Bernache is, in the Loire Valley, Sologne and Berry, the not-yet-wine that gets bottled for timely consumption while the yeasts are still at work. It's weirdly tasty. And it has to be bottled with a rubber stopper with a hole, lest the bottle explode.
What I like about bernache is that it is the embottlement of the fleeting joys of wine, its seasonality; like a liter full of harvest festivities. You can sling a couple into a cloth sack and head out for a picnic near a lake.
Disappointingly, I won't be able to pour any, lakeside, this fall. But I like the nifty little reminder of nature and impermanence.
After vying for the worst pun in a blog title, I will now move on to the worst blog photography. In fact, this one, snapped last night early in the evening (you wouldn't know it, would you?), can stand as a marker for the unbridled excesses to come.
One thing I am proud of is - at last! - having broken out of the "hipster" wine mode. All my recent posts have been about Amphibolite this and Puzelat that. Well, yesterday we shifted into the stately realm of classic wines.
A first toe-dip into the evening was NV Agrapart "7 Crus" - a favorite of mine for its offhand elegance; this was no exception. It was a very pretty wine. And before you go clamoring that it's biodynamic and all that, see here: it has 10 g/l of dosage! Look, ma, no Extra-Brut!
After we sat down at the table (table and home being that of the most gracious hosts in our neighborhood, or many a neighborhood, Guy and Anne) and espied foie gras with onion and juniper compote on the small white, green-rimmed plates, it was a bottle of 2006 François Villard Condrieu "De Poncins" that was poured into our glasses. As, curiously, I was playing ringleader for the dinner, Guy had allowed me to tip the scales for a wine with the foie gras. Now, he had some Sauternes, but as I don't like sweet wines, I thought this would be interesting and probably floral enough to pair well with the fatty liver. It did; it was a very lush, very floral wine that impressed me with its balance. Viognier is tough to rein in, but this was both opulent and completely mastered. Nice.
With the New England-style palourde chowder it was time to move on to a white Burgundy, and I had brought a bottle of that 2002 Mestre Santenay 1er Cru "Passe-Temps" described two posts back. I opened it and poured a dash in the glass: TCA city. Corked wretchedly. Back to Guy's kitchen and pour it down the drain, then have a quick, minor pow-wow, as no other whites seemed presentable other than, as it turns out, a curious Muscadet he had in the fridge.
The 2006 Louis Métairau Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine "Grand Mouton" came in a small black plastic bag tied with a plastic string. The bag was opened, and inside, the bottle was crusty, with faded red wax covering the cork. Apparently this producer keeps his wines under the sea. This bottle was very saline, with broken shells and sea wind. It was a little light for the cream-based chowder, but it was quite an interesting drink.
With the cheese platter, involving some Tomme de Chèvre, Pérail, Camembert, Langres and 2006 vintage Swiss Gruyère, we opened a 2002 Philippe Alliet Chinon Vieilles Vignes. Like a little homecoming; sometimes Alliet just blows me away with the precision of his wines*; he takes Chinon up a notch while remaining absolutely true to the tastes and tangs that make it Chinon. Like a dream of Chinon, like Platonic Chinon. This was still young but was drinking well and was flawless.
And as we wound into a blackberry crumble tart, out came more bubbles: 2000 Ruinart. I am helpless against the fizz, and I drank a lot of it. Which may explain my inability to tell you the least thing about it. But it must've been OK.
And it clearly wasn't a hipster wine.
*Except excessive oak in some Coteau de Noiré, but I have been told that he is backing off it, so I may give those another taste.
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Yesterday I got a call from a friend who said (and apparently he had told me before) "Tomorrow's the day, Marc." Me: "What do you mean?" "You need to get the first picture of a bare legged woman on a bike. You got a reputation to uphold."
'Rokjesdag' means 'Skirts Day'. Or 'Short Skirts Day'. Most literally, 'Little Short Skirts Day'. This is a once proclaimed and poetically described day by a Dutch writer. It's the day when women en masse get rid of their pantyhoses or tights and leave the house with bare legs.
Trying not to sound redundant, but today it really was that day. A fact well forecast that had been buzzing around all week (which wasn't bad either, as you've been reading about.
So, I ventured out this afternoon, moving my way from one terrace to the other and aim my lens while comfortably enjoying a couple of beers with my friend Gabemac. Yes, I haven't gotten up once, you could call it 'arm chair lazy ass shootin".
Anyhoo, I took a lot of pictures, but I have to say, not every woman on a bicycle either got the message or found the morning too chilly for comfort. Still, the second best was good enough.
See the rest of the pictures here. And have a great weekend!

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|Yuma proves tough, Dragons set to travel to Highland
|Written by Chris Lee
On a windy, rainy and snowy night, the Holyoke Dragon football team traveled to Yuma to face yet another tough conference foe. Yuma jumped out to a big lead early, winning the contest 49-6.
The game pitted the Dragons against a third straight team that has a legitimate shot at winning a state title.
Coach Rod Trumper said Yuma's starting lineup consisted of mainly seniors compared to the Dragons' younger team. "We're playing hard," he said. "We're doing good things at times. We just need to be more consistent."
Indians control game
Holyoke began the game by kicking off to Yuma. Trumper opted for an on-side squib kick but Yuma wasn't fooled as they recovered the ball at midfield to begin the game.
Two runs later the Indians put the first six points on the board. With just over 11 minutes left in the first quarter, Yuma made the extra point to take the early 7-0 lead.
The Dragons began their opening drive on their own 30-yard line. The offense couldn't get anything going against a tough and physical Yuma defense and was forced to punt. Mark Gertner booted a 65-yard punt pinning the Indians down at their five yard line.
The Dragon defense held the Indians to two short runs forcing a third and long. On the third down play, Yuma found an open hole and broke loose for a big gain and a first down. The Indians put together a long drive keeping the ball on the ground on their way to a second touchdown, extending their lead, 14-0 with 4:17 left in the quarter.
After a squib kick, the Dragon offense began with great field position at their own 47. In the power-I formation, Jaydin Goldenstein began the drive with a two-yard run followed by a quarterback keeper where Logan Krueger broke loose taking the ball down to the Indian 40-yard line for a first down. With the momentum, the Dragons moved the ball five more yards on runs by Broc Pelle and Brett Cumming. The drive stalled on fourth down as the offense came up just short of the first down, giving the ball back to the Indians.
With the first quarter coming to an end, Yuma managed to move the ball down to the Dragon 25-yard line. The second quarter began with a 10-yard run by Yuma. On second down, the Indians tried an option play but Carper sniffed it out, stopping the play for no gain at the nine yard line. The Indians were able to push into the end zone a few plays later to take the 21-0 lead with 9:44 left in the half.
The Yuma defense gave the Dragon offense trouble as Holyoke was unable to move the ball and was forced to punt. On the first play, Yuma found running back Joel Rhodes open on a pass play and he went 55 yards for the touchdown. It was Rhodes' fourth touchdown of the game. He finished the game with five.
Yuma went on to score two more times before the half as the Dragons were unable to find anything to get by the Indian defense. Yuma led 42-0 at halftime. The clock would run continuously in the second half and only stop for time outs and injuries due to the score.
The Dragons' opening drive of the second half showed promise as they were able to move the ball with runs by Pelle, Cumming and Goldenstein. Krueger connected with Parker Redfern for a nice 15-yard pickup followed by a Goldenstein run into Indian territory. Yuma's defense stiffened, pushing Holyoke backwards. On fourth and 18 from the 44-yard line, the pass was batted down at the line of scrimmage.
With the clock running down Yuma took the ball and moved it down the field into Dragon territory for their seventh and final score of the game.
Holyoke didn't quit and was able to find pay dirt on their final possession of the game. Carper returned the kickoff to the 34-yard line. Runs by Pelle and Cumming moved the ball to the 40 and on fourth-and-three Goldenstein lowered his shoulders and picked up the first down. Krueger hit Carper for an 11-yard gain on the first down play. Goldenstein and Pelle combined for a couple of runs before Krueger found Ryan Baumgartner for a nice gain. Yuma was flagged for roughing the passer, giving the Dragons the ball at the 14-yard line.
With three minutes left in the game, Holyoke tried a play that was seen in the season opener in Imperial, Neb., and this time it worked. Carper took the reverse 14 yards for the touchdown. The two-point conversion was unsuccessful and the scoreboard read 49-6.
Yuma ran the ball a couple of times on the final drive of the game running the clock down.
Trumper said the team continues to show the desire to get better. He mentioned they come out every practice and work hard.
Holyoke will travel to Ault to face Highland on Friday, Oct. 16. The Huskies opened the 2009 season with three straight wins but have gone on a three-game skid since. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
Trumper said the Huskies will be an option oriented team. "They're a pretty solid team," he added.
Stats recorded
Krueger was 4 of 8 passing for 41 yards. Jaydin Goldenstein led the rushing with 40 yards on four carries. A run of 31 yards was his longest. Carper and Krueger each tacked on 14 yards while Pelle added one yard.
Baumgartner hauled in two passes for 16 yards, Redfern had one catch for 13 yards while Carper finished with one catch for 12 yards.
Krueger led the team in tackles with 14. Casey Sage finished with seven, Francisco Diaz and Pelle each had six, Luke Garrett and Cumming recorded four each while Redfern and Carper each had three. Astolfo Rojo had two tackles while Reid Baumgartner, Goldenstein and Gertner all finished with one tackle.
Gertner punted the ball four times with a long of 65 yards. He averaged 33 yards a punt. Goldenstein's two kickoffs went for a combined 65 yards with a long of 50 yards.
Carper had four kickoff returns for 27 yards. Krueger and Pelle each had one return.
The Dragons finished with 100 yards of total offense.
Other North Central action
Other North Central Conference teams played Friday, Oct. 9.
Akron beat Highland 33-6 and Wray won against Wiggins 59-20.
JV blows out Akron
The junior varsity team traveled to Akron on Monday, Oct. 5 to face the Rams and came away with a convincing 30-6 win.
Trumper said the Dragons dominated both sides of the ball. Pelle scored two touchdowns with Goldenstein and Cumming each adding a touchdown. Holyoke converted three two-point conversions. Akron's only score came on a kickoff return for a touchdown.
Holyoke played host to Yuma on Monday, Oct. 12 and was unable to come away with the win. They lost 20-14. The game went into overtime where the Indians were able to score and hold Holyoke out of the end zone.
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DECATUR, Ga. -- The roof of a car belonging to a Decatur woman was crushed on Monday night due to block of ice that fell from the sky.
According to the woman, Comola Roberts, the block organically fell from the sky around 6:15 p.m. knocking out her windshields and crushing the roof of her car.
After the incident, Roberts called the local authorities who didn't believe her until they came out and actually saw the ice and the car, for themselves.
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This model shows how to combine different types of material nonlinearity, such as creep and elastoplasticity. In this specific example you will perform a stress and nonlinear strain analysis on a thick cylinder under a nonproportional loading: an initial temperature increase followed by a fluctuating pressure applied to the internal surface of the cylinder.
This load case involves two different nonlinear material behaviors: elastoplasticity and creep. The plastic behavior is introduced during the temperature increase and the rapid change of the pressure sign. The creep behavior develops under the constant pressure load applied to the pipe for a sufficiently long period of time.
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We arrived at that 576-tonnes-of-greenhouse-gas figure with the help of Vancouver-based Climate Smart, a foot printing organization that takes a unique approach to auditing by empowering businesses to measure themselves.
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|County adopts 2010 budget
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Phillips County Commissioners adopted the 2010 county budget Dec. 11. The county mill levy has remained at 28.28 since 1992, and commissioners again adopted the mill levy of 28.28.
Phillips County's assessed value has increased $9,351,724 from $48,975,446 in 2009 to $58,327,170 in 2010. That increase includes $470,980 of new construction in the county. The majority of increase in assessed value is due to the addition of new natural gas production in the county.
General fund budget was increased from $2,352,540 in 2009 to $2,533,509 in 2010. Changes in the 2009 budget include a number of capital expenditure requests, a flat $13/month of additional pay per qualified employee, regular employee step increases and increased health care costs. Most other budget items remain stable. The salary compensation plan put in place Jan. 1, 2000 will also be adjusted for cost of living in 2010 by one percent.
Medical insurance for the county increased four percent, but there were no increases in dental, vision or life insurance. The county does pick up the lion's share of the increase, but employees also pay from 20-35 percent of the premium, depending on the insurance and the plan they have selected. Their costs increased proportionally.
Other considerations for the 2010 budget include some major capital outlay requests from the elected officials and department heads.
Major requests include another vehicle for the sheriff's office for $27,500, copier for the treasurer and assessor for $5,000, courthouse steps and sidewalk for $20,700, new mower for maintenance at $13,450, a used pickup for maintenance at $13,000 and a used tractor for the landfill at $10,000. Road and bridge again submitted requests for new maintainers and a new loader in 2010.
Those purchases are under review and will be considered on a case by case basis, depending on the budget flow throughout the year.
Phillips County Sheriff Rob Urbach again secured the Court Security grant. Included in the $41,494 grant is $29,994 for personnel services, $10,850 for security equipment and $650 for training.
Commissioners noted the grant will continue to pay 70 percent of the costs for a fourth officer employed for court security. The sheriff's office currently is staffed with four people—the sheriff, the undersheriff, a deputy and a court security officer. Commissioners again reiterate their desire to see ways the county and two municipal law enforcement forces can work together to more efficiently serve the citizenry.
The 2010 grant will also provide monies for teleconferencing in the court system.
Phillips County's road and bridge budget increased from $1,622,737 in 2009 to $1,743,785 in 2010. Highway Users Tax Funds (HUTF) from federal and state gas taxes continue to be the major revenue for road and bridge. The estimated HUTF income for 2010 is $940,811, down $9,874 from 2009 projections.
The mill levy for road and bridge will remain at 4.23 for 2010. Major equipment purchases continue to be a challenge for the department. Colorado is now limiting grants that are available for new equipment, which makes major capital purchases a challenge.
In 2009, the county road and bridge department again worked very little overtime, hired very limited part-time summer help and purchased almost no capital equipment, all in an effort to bring the road and bridge fund balance back up. Progress has been slow but sure.
A major event for the commissioners in 2009 was the completion of the new Event Center building. There is still one outstanding grant—the Enhancement Grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation. That grant will be used to complete the sidewalks, landscaping and parking area around the outside of the new building.
Work will not begin on the outside until weather permits in the spring. Since there was a shortfall in fund raising, the county will enter a lease purchase agreement with Bank of the West in January to complete financing of the project.
Other county fund budgets include the Social Services Fund at $775,556 which is an increase of $52,198 over last year, Contingency Fund at $160,148, Conservation Trust (lottery funds) at $88,000, E911 Fund Budget at $108,950, the Economic Development Fund with a budget of $21,000 and a Capital Expenditure Fund budget at $202,600.
County Fair Fund has a 2010 budget of $88,500. The county will give $11,500 of tax funds toward that effort, which is the same amount given in 2009. The Fair Board utilizes ticket sales, contributions, income from stock car races and the current fund balance to fund the remaining amount.
While the county does maintain and improve the facilities at the fairgrounds, those funds are taken out of the General Fund allocation for fairgrounds improvement. The county will also continue to provide $4,000 toward the Haxtun Corn Festival.
Other business
In addition to working on the budget in the month of December, commissioners:
—put a sign on the outside of the Event Center to recognize the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) grant used for the restrooms.
—noted Dragon's Wagon Preschool, Phillips County Adult Education Services and the Phillips County Extension office all moved in or are in the process of moving in to the Event Center. The preschool plans to open Monday, Jan. 11 and will have a separate inspection by officials.
—held a public budget hearing.
—received notice of several well permits in the Amherst area.
—noted recommendations from the Northeast Colorado Board of Health on proposed Individual Sewage Disposal System Guidelines. A concern is that the regulations will hit rural areas hard with expensive fees for thorough inspections of septic systems.
—noted the Haxtun district traded for a new John Deere mower at MV Equipment.
—advertised bids for the Event Center enhancement project to complete landscaping outside the building. Two bids the county was considering were both over budget, so commissioners will be rebidding within a month or so.


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Testimony :: The Honorable Christopher H. Smith
Co-Chairman - The Helsinki Commission
Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening this hearing on Romania's leadership as Chair of the OSCE. I join you in welcoming my friend, Foreign Minister Geoana, and look forward to his testimony.
The Commission has frequently held hearings to examine various aspects of the OSCE - in the past two months alone, we have held hearings which have examined police training issues in the OSCE region, U.S. policy towards the OSCE, and the efforts of the OSCE in resolving the situation in Moldova. We have been fortunate, at many of these events, to hear directly from OSCE officials, including Mission Heads and the Representative of Freedom of the Media. I look forward to the insights that Foreign Minister Geoana, serving in the OSCE's most senior political position, can bring to us today.
Minister Geoana, as you know, I, along with several other Commissioners, had a number of concerns about Romania's readiness to serve as the OSCE Chair-in-Office and, indeed, we wrote to Secretary of State Albright to express those concerns in 1999. I have to say that I have been deeply impressed with your leadership, engagement, and commitment. Thanks to your skills, Romania has received high marks for its stewardship of the OSCE community. I particularly appreciate your initiative in spearheading OSCE meetings on trafficking and on Roma.
In fact, being the top man or woman in the OSCE seems to bring greater and greater demands each year, with the plethora of conflicts and crises that continually erupt in the OSCE region. Unfortunately, the events of September 11 have added to the challenges the OSCE community faces.
While I commend you for your own role in serving the OSCE community, I must express some disappointment about the situation in Romania. When we wrote to Secretary Albright in 1999, we did so in great measure because of human rights issues in your own country. The country that serves as OSCE Chair should, in my view, lead by example. Unfortunately, many of the problems we described in 1999 persist. Statues celebrating an executed war criminal stand on at least four pieces of public property, there has been no move at all to repeal Romania's criminal defamation law, and much needs to be done to improve respect for the basic human rights of Roma.
I am particularly concerned about the recent proposal by the Mayor of Piatr Neamt - a town which hosts an Antonescu statue, by the way - to create a walled, guarded ghetto for Roma. I welcome Prime Minister Nastase condemnation of this outrageous plan, but the very fact that an elected official could offer such an idea to the public says a great deal about the climate of intolerance that Roma continue to face in Romania. I am encouraged by the fact that the OSCE's Senior Advisor on Roma Issues, Nicolae Gheorghe, and Romani CRISS, one of the leading NGOs in Romania, is working to address these issues and I hope your government will support them in their efforts. There is still time for the Romanian Chairmanship to lead by example.
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The shooting happened on the 600 block of Cedar Avenue between Baker Avenue and Donald Lee Hollowell Road.
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The word "acne" typically summons images of pimples on the complexion, but many people develop acne breakouts on other parts of their bodies. Although acne can be triggered by a variety of factors, all acne blemishes stem from infections in the pores or openings in your skin. These infections develop due to clogs or blockages within the pore tubules. Dirt, dry skin and excessive oil can all form blockages, which trap bacteria under the surface of the skin.
Due to the conditions of the skin beneath your hair, your scalp is nearly as susceptible as your face is to acne breakouts. If you have oily hair, the sebaceous glands on your scalp produce a surplus of oil that can clog the pores and lead to breakouts. Dry, flaky skin is also common on the scalp, making the area rife with particles that can become lodged in the pores. Individuals who do not wash their hair regularly, and those who use styling products that can clog pores are more prone to acne breakouts underneath their hair.
Although scalp acne is usually invisible to those around you unless you suffer from thinning hair, the condition is often very uncomfortable. Scalp acne causes pain, particularly when you style your hair, touch your head or wear hats. On rare occasions, people with severe scalp acne report hair loss as a result of the condition.
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Since scalp acne is tucked away beneath your hair, it can be very difficult to treat the condition. To care for breakouts at home, shampoo daily and avoid keeping your head covered as much as possible to allow the air to reach the blemishes and heal the infections. Always wash your hair after strenuous activity and exercise to remove sweat that can build up along the hairline and exacerbate acne. Never pick or squeeze scalp acne blemishes as this can damage your hair follicles and cause permanent scarring.
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For severe cases of scalp acne, your doctor can prescribe topical medications to help treat the condition. One commonly prescribed drug is tretinoin, a form of vitamin A, which hastens the skin cell turnover process in the areas where you apply the cream. By exfoliating your scalp, you remove the particles of skin that clog the pores.
Antibiotic ointments like clindamycin and erythromycin also play a role in healing scalp acne by eliminating the bacteria causing the infections within the pores. Unfortunately, topical treatments are often difficult to apply to the scalp area, decreasing their effectiveness. Some people are also unable to use prescription formulations due to side effects like redness and flaking.
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Some doctors prefer to prescribe oral versions of the topical medications used to treat scalp acne for those with large blemishes or cysts underneath their hairlines. Oral erythromycin and clindamycin can both cause gastric discomfort, dizziness and other side effects. In addition, prolonged use of antibiotics can make the drugs less effective when they are needed to treat other types of illnesses. Because of this, most doctors will only use oral antibiotics at the start of scalp acne treatment and then have you switch to topical treatments after one or two courses of the drugs.
Light Therapy
Light therapy is a new innovation used to treat acne, though it is not widely available in many parts of the United States. During a light therapy treatment, focused beams of light are aimed at the scalp for a period of several minutes. Although doctors do not fully understand why, light has a harmful effect upon bacteria and helps cure the infections that lead to blemishes. People with very sensitive or fair skin or those who have previously been treated for skin cancer may not be eligible to receive light therapy; the treatments have the potential to cause redness, swelling and stinging that are similar to sunburns.
Over-the-Counter products for scalp acne are the preferred treatment methods for many sufferers of the condition because they have fewer side effects and often are just as effective as clinical interventions. The easiest and most convenient way to treat scalp acne is through the use of hair care products. Although you'll have a difficult time finding products that are specifically labeled for scalp acne treatment, you can identify beneficial products by reading the ingredient labels and looking for items that are effective in the fight against acne.
Salicylic Acid
Salicylic acid has long been used to treat acne all over the body. The acid belongs to the beta hydroxy class of acids and was originally derived from the bark of willow trees. Modern salicylic acid preparations are usually made in laboratory settings from the amino acid phenylalanine. When used in hair care products, salicylic acid promotes the exfoliation of the scalp and helps to eliminate clogs from the pores.
Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is a natural oil with a light yellow color and an odor that is similar to camphor. The extract is obtained from the leaves of the narrow-leaved paperbark or narrow-leaved tea tree. Clinical studies have found tea tree oil to have antibacterial properties, allowing it to treat the infections that lead to blemishes. The oil also soothes scalp irritation, which can make you feel more comfortable while acne heals.
Eucalyptus Oil
The eucalyptus is a flowering tree native to Australia and Southeast Asia. The oil distilled from the leaves is found in a number of hair care products. Like tea tree oil, eucalyptus has both antibacterial and soothing properties that promote the healing of blemishes and decrease discomfort associated with scalp acne.


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The Sea of Naples
A dip in the splendid waters of the gulf, even out of season (weather permitting), is perhaps one of the best things about the city of Naples.
Practically all year round, Neapolitans - real devotees of the sun tan - never miss an opportunity, one way or another, to enjoy the sunshine, and why not, to have a swim in the sea, even in the few hours of their lunchtime break.
It is impossible not to notice the bathers who venture out onto the rocks along Via Partenope and Via Caracciolo, especially on the small and extremely crowded beach next to the Rotonda Diaz, known to most as "mappatella beach", right up to the little port of Mergellina.
Without doubt, opportunities for enjoying a day of sunshine are not lacking in the city.
The ideal places are the two boat landing-places (that can also be reached by land) at Marechiaro and La Gaiola, in the most famous residential zone of the city, along the green hill of Posillipo that descends gently towards the sea, dotted here and there with splendid villas.
A number of the city's historical "baths" are found along Via Posillipo.
They open with the first summer sunshine and stay open till the end of September.
Among the most exclusive and popular (especially at the weekend) there are: "Bagno Elena", that combines the historical tradition of swimming establishments on raised decks with the modern idea of swimming tourism, with its postcard views of the island of Capri and the Sorrento coast; the "Bagno Ideal" and the "Lido Sirena" on either side of the imposing Palazzo Donn'Anna and, further along, the cosy establishment at the "Rocce Verdi".
Further along, on the left, there is the road that leads down to Marechiaro, with a few establishments, including the exclusive "Villa Imperiale" and many famous restaurants.
For a dive into the wonderful waters that give their name to this place, once you are in the little piazza and reach the foot of the stairs, you continue to the right for the "Lido delle Rose" or to the left; here, for a few euros you can be ferried to the adjacent tufa rocks where sunbeds and refreshment areas have been set up.
In the months of July and August the rock piers of Marechiaro are very crowded; the ideal months to go are May, June and September.
In any case, they are worth at least a visit.
Another splendid landing place, which also has land access, is the nature reserve of the Gaiola, an ever popular place with splendid water.
On the adjacent promontory there once lay the grandiose "Villa Pausilypon", (a Greek word that means "pause from pain", indicating the quiet and delights of the place) that gave its name to the whole area on the tufa stone hill that overlooks the sea.
Departing from Santa Lucia or Mergellina, you could also opt for a trip on the water and rent a small boat, dinghy, sailing boat or canoe (in the grottos of the beach adjacent to the Palazzo Donn'Anna).
Along the coast you can notice: Villa Pavoncelli, Villa Marino, Villa Cotrau; you can admire the small Cala di San Pietro ai due Frati, surrounded by scenery of natural caves, with the graceful pagoda of Villa Roccaromana and the splendid Villa Pierce.
And then, you arrive at the enchanting Baia del Cenito.
Despite the fact that in the summer it is the destination of countless recreational boats, here is a great place for a swim in a setting that is made all the more picturesque by the presence of an enormous trapezoidal cave dug into the tufa stone rock and by the splendid buildings that crown the landscape.
Almost a continuation of the back of the Posillipo hill, there is also, finally, the "Isthmus of Nisida", the extreme outcrop before the plain of Fuorigrotta, through which you arrive at the Phlegrean Fields.
Even in this area there are plenty of possibilities to enjoy the sun and the sea of Naples, in the many establishments that lie along the coastline, including among many others, the "Arenile", situated on the beach of Bagnoli.
It is open almost all the year round, in the evenings, too.
This lido is a popular venue, with a restaurant-bar and solarium, and is animated during the whole summer season by concerts, musical groups and evening entertainment shows. (Simona Virgilio)
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Peoples Art of Portland, Po Boy Art/Jason Brown, and Chris Haberman presents
Featuring Chris Haberman & Marq Spusta
Special feat Back Gallery: F*CK CANCER
K.C. Cowan and Jan Baross, (for Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
Reception: Saturday, October 19th. 5-9pm.
Show runs October 19th November 10th.
Peoples Art of Portland Gallery OPEN Thurs-Sunday, NOON-6pm.
Featuring 100 works by Portland Artist Chris Haberman
150 + posters, prints handbills and originals by national artist Marq Spusta, AND SPECIAL PRINT RELEASE
Special F*ck Cancer exhibit by author/artists K.C. Cowan and Jan Baross
This month at the Peoples Art of Portland is a vast and colorful trip through characters, mythology and real life. Chris Habermans theme ranges over 100 works covering Cartoon icons, fantasy figures and legendary Tricksters throughout folklore and pop culture. Marq Spustas private world made-public consists of intricate cartoon-folk creations transferring the viewer into another world, childrens book and rock poster in hand. Special exhibition of 2 Portland Cancer survivors (K.C. Cowan/Jan Baross) covers whimsical emotive response paintings and text of their personal battle with the disease, in tribute to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Artist Bios, Show descriptions below).
Featured Poster Artist of the Month
Marq Spusta
Peoples Gallery features a nationally recognized poster artist each month. This months artist is acclaimed California based Marq Spusta, exhibiting recent posters, art prints, original drawings and other oddities. and special glow-in-the dark works in our special DARK ROOM INCUBATOR. We will also be having a special print release from Marq at the show!!!
Marq Spusta was born in 1977 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was drawing prolifically within moments of leaving the womb. Marq continued developing his art along side graphic design while attending the UW-Stout. Marq has been living and working on the West Coast for nearly a decade, creating concert posters, album covers and all kinds of prints. His variety of subjects and projects are related in the same mind-spring that his illustrative and cartoonish nature can muster. His variety of projects ranges from designs of concert posters (Dinosaur Jr., Widespread Panic, Soundgarden, Further) to exhibiting intricate paintings, prints and beer bottle packaging. His world of characters is reminiscent of a fresh and original memory of Alice In Wonderland meets Where The Wild Things Are, doused with an arty hot-sauce formula that is the signature of the cartoonish intricacy that makes it a Marq Spusta.
The Tricks of the Totemic Toonery Trade: Art of Chris Haberman
Chris Haberman is a Native Portlander, working as a painter, writer, muralist, and gallery curator (co-owner, Peoples Art of Portland Gallery). Aside from painting, he has published journalism and fiction and poetry and is a lifetime member to the Academy of American Poets. He is also the art curator/coordinator for TV show Portlandia (Season 3 -4) and in 2012, he recorded selling his 10,000th painting since 2003.
This show of Totems, Toons and Trickery explores mythos from Native American symbolism to pop culture and Trickster icons through literature and folklore (from Loki to Bugs Bunny and everything in-between). His colorful works are created primarily on recycled objects and found material creating integrated puzzle-poems of figures and text, creating text of subject and most importantly, a good story. A totem is a being, object, or symbol representing an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe, reminding them of their ancestry (or mythic past). A toon is a cartoon silly!! Trickery is the well known practice of crafty underhanded ingenuity to deceive or cheat, sometimes playful, sometimes not shown throughout history from the Norse God Loki to toon icon Bugs Bunny.
SPECIAL FEATURE Back Gallery: F*CK CANCER
K.C. Cowan and Jan Baross, (for Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
K.C. Cowan is a native Portlander who has spent much of her life in front of a TV camera, as a reporter and story producer for KGW-TV and OPB-TV. She has always had a passion for the arts and took up painting while working on Oregon Art Beat. She has written many articles for local newspapers and regional magazines and two books, The Riches of a City for the Portland Chamber of Commerce and They Ain't Called Saints for Nothing with artist Chris Haberman.
Cowans paintings originated as a result of being diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2013. In her words, Painting was the way I processed all the emotions about becoming one of the nearly 300,000 women diagnosed each year in America with either invasive or in situ breast cancer. It's like being told you are now a member of the world's largest sorority that no woman wants to join. I am forever changed by the experience.
Jan Baross career began with a BA in painting, which led to photography, and eventually documentary filmmaking and teaching at Oregon State University. She has also been a screen writer, journalist, novelist, playwright and film critic. She has published a book, Jose Builds a Woman, several illustrated travel books on Amazon. Currently, she is cancer-free, writing, painting and illustrating books.
In her words, On September 11, 2001, everything ground to a halt for America. It also ground to a halt for me. I was told I had breast cancer. Because the experience was so traumatic on so many levels, I began this series of paintings to release what I could not fully articulate. After three operations and six weeks of radiation and five years of tamoxifen, I continue to be healthy and cancer free.
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Katrina | Disaster relief in Orange County, Calif., has an unusual twist: A faith-based organization is in charge
Watching Hurricane Katrina's building fury, Rachel Coleman, 19, evacuated from New Orleans to Texas on Aug. 27, two days before the storm stomped ashore. Her experience with other hurricanes told her she'd be back at her job as a placement-service secretary in two, three days max. But after flood waters swept through the Crescent City, there was little left to go back to. Her single mom had died the previous year of breast cancer, her extended family had fled across four states, and her job was under water.
In Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told Ms. Coleman she was "not a serious case." So when a friend offered her refuge in Orange County, Calif., she headed west. En route, at a Tucson motel, she signed onto the internet and found Operation OC, a Katrina relief group in Orange County.
The group's website advertised immediate help for Katrina victims. Ms. Coleman sent an e-mail containing her name and cell-phone number. The next day, as she rolled west down a lonely ribbon of desert interstate, her cell phone rang.
"This is Jessica at Operation OC," said the voice at the other end. "How can we help you?"
"I thought, omigosh, you're calling me and offering help?" Ms. Coleman told WORLD. "People just don't do that."
Perhaps not, if they work for traditional, big-government disaster relief operations. But Operation OC isn't one of those. Instead, it's a collaborative effort of Orange County government agencies and nonprofits-with an unusual twist: The Orange County Rescue Mission (OCRM), an evangelical Christian outreach and recovery program for the homeless, is in charge.
After most domestic natural disasters, government agencies call the shots while faith-based organizations (FBOs) fit themselves in wherever they are allowed. But in Orange County, under the collective moniker Operation OC, OCRM is guiding government agencies-including the Orange County board of supervisors, county schools, the housing authority, and sheriff's department-along with county nonprofits in providing 341 evacuees from 151 families with comprehensive aid. And it was the county government that asked the mission to take control.
"What we decided to do instead of the rescue mission trying to be the first, or the only, group to assist, was to invite other nonprofits to participate," said OCRM president and Operation OC director Jim Palmer. "That goes back to our philosophy: We're not just trying to minister to our homeless clients, but to everyone."
OCRM didn't leap into its lead position overnight. The concept of faith-based groups partnering with local governments in leadership takes a tremendous investment, Mr. Palmer said. "It takes years of being involved in serving the community in different capacities, of building strong relationships, and earning the trust and confidence of elected officials."
For example, OCRM's vice president of finance serves on the local jobs board, while various OCRM board members serve in building- and health-industry associations. Meanwhile, Mr. Palmer, formerly chairman of the county's housing authority, now serves as chair of Orange County's homeless issues task force.
"In many counties, FBOs feel like second-class organizations," said Mr. Palmer. "In our county, we have faith-based leaders at every decision-making level."
Operation OC's collaborative model centralizes families' application for a wide range of types of aid-food, clothing, money, counseling, medical help, housing, and employment referral-at the Village of Hope, an OCRM residential project located in converted barracks on Marine Corps Base Tustin. The idea is to avoid compounding victims' suffering by subjecting them to the endless bureaucracy of relief-migrating from agency to agency, appointment to appointment, line to line.
Most of the storm victims streaming into Orange County held jobs on the Gulf Coast, and many were homeowners. A significant number are Vietnamese families looking to resettle near Santa Ana, where a large Vietnamese population thrives. Some are seniors who lost their homes and are looking for warmer, storm-free climes in which to resettle. Others, like Tom and Lisa Allison, are young married couples seeking only temporary refuge.
Parents to Christian, 2, and Katherine, 16 months, the Allisons own a home in Mandeville, La., 20 miles north of New Orleans. The family evacuated in advance of Katrina's landfall, then returned to find their home had escaped serious storm damage. But the absence of water and power-and the putrid floodwaters lapping at the edges of their neighborhood-rendered their home unlivable. So the Allisons decided to seek temporary shelter.
Through a staffing agency, Mr. Allison, 29, a registered nurse, landed a temporary position at Orange County Children's Hospital. Days later, Mrs. Allison, 32, a stay-home mom, found herself sitting in Operation OC's resource center, applying for help, while her kids crawled around in a colorful play area, fiddling happily with toy trucks and telephones.
As a middle-class homeowner, Mrs. Allison said she finds her family's displacement "extremely surreal."
"You watch the effects of [Hurricanes] Ivan or Andrew and you think, gosh, that's terrible," she said. "But then you can click off the TV and go back to your life."
This time, she's applying for food stamps.
To keep victims from bouncing around in a maze of aid services, Operation OC assigns each individual or family a single volunteer, who provides a listening ear and walks them through the entire process. That doesn't always work perfectly. After a long day at the resource center, Mrs. Allison carted her kids to social services to pick up enough food stamps to last until the family returns to New Orleans next month.
An Operation OC volunteer phoned ahead to let the office know a Katrina victim was headed their way. But when Mrs. Allison arrived, no one remembered the call. Then, a clerk told her she was too late to file her paperwork that day and would have to return the next.
"The office was packed with screaming children. I was tired. The kids were tired," Mrs. Allison said. "By the time I got in to talk to a counselor, I just started crying." She realizes that with an intact family and home to return to, she's better off than most storm victims. Still, she suggested that Operation OC's link with social services could have been made smoother by having a liaison onsite at the food-stamp office.
That may be a possibility. One difference Operation OC has been able to offer Katrina victims is speed and flexibility, the ability to staff creatively and color outside regulatory lines. For example, the group is marshaling aid from an array of entities that government relief models might have left on the sidelines.
Operation OC is asking local churches to sponsor a year's worth of apartment rent-about $18,000 in Orange County. It tapped corporations to underwrite 30-day bus and metro rail passes. And the group also asked the folks at Disneyland to put together "welcome baskets" containing towels, blankets, hygiene items, bus passes, laundry soap-and quarters to take to the Laundromat.
For Operation OC, the next relief phase is actually being able to house Katrina victims for the long term. To that end, OCRM is fast-tracking completion of its Village of Hope project. The Village was designed as a Christian residential program that would provide more than 60 fully furnished apartments to homeless individuals and families working toward self-sufficiency. Originally set to open next year, OCRM is fast-tracking completion so that, within the next 30 to 60 days, it can open occupancy to as many as 70 families displaced by Katrina.
Since the Allison family registered with Operation OC on Sept. 19, the aid group "calls me pretty much every day to make sure we have everything we need. One day they called to see how my little girl's rash was doing, and had we seen a doctor?"
Mrs. Allison told WORLD her "little bitty brush with government" at the food-stamp office made her glad she was able to get other necessities through a private aid group. "If I had had to get everything through the government, I probably would have had a nervous breakdown," she said. "Operation OC is a really good connection to have."


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Re: The Fed makes a big profit lending us our own money
not just another.
all vampire squid's mother.
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Why don't we just take it? It's ours!
Simpler than possible, no doubt, but looking at the money flow, the Fed looks like just another vampire squid to me....
not just another.
all vampire squid's mother.
It's rather new, by Hogeland, and well worth a read. Failures are lack of notes and weird tangents to complain about historians that would work better not placed in the middle of the book. It could also be longer.
Here's the thing, this financial issue as a defining matter of our politics stretches all the way back to before the revolution. Our most deified founders fell squarely on the side of elite finances rather than the populist finances that more common Americans clamored for. If Hogeland's reading is right, the whole point of the Constitution was to enshrine elite finances: a strong federal government with the right to tax so that the bondholders could get paid their 6% interest. Most bondholders were rich and military officer class. Hamilton never planned on paying off the debt when he assumed state debt. Assumption kept the states from devaluing it.
And our very first domestic tax was carefully formulated by Hamilton to reduce cash flow of small farmers who made whiskey from their grain which could be sold at a higher price to the Army and back East. It effectively taxed small producers much higher than large producers and was designed to help/create big business distilleries. As the tax had to be paid in coin before distilling, it effectively removed popular access to cash since the tax was higher than most yearly incomes. No money, no power.
It's not ours, and it was never meant to be ours. Not from the time of Robert Morris funding the revolution with his national bank or the framing of our blessed little Constitution, which many quotes from those framers indicate was exactly to quash the populist economics and politics championed by the tenant farmers and craftsmen who made up the majority of the population.
Maybe we should think about a live blog?
second the motion


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Finger pressure applied at predetermined strategic points along the body's surface to have a positive impact on all levels of functioning, including emotional, mental and spiritual.
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A relaxation technique that achieves a state of profound relaxation, inner harmony, and increased mental awareness through focsing on the breath, a word, an object, a silent prayer, etc.
Energy pathways located in the human body that connect acupuncture points and internal organs.
The burning of an herb (Mugwort) over an acupuncture point to elicit a healing response.
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Pronounced "Chee"- the life force in all body functions, including breathing, heartbeat, metabolism, and even emotions.
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A way of stimulating the internal organs and increasing blood circulation to all areas of the body through the compression of reflex points on hands or most commonly, the feet.
Reiki is a Japanese touch therapy for relaxation and pain relief that also promotes healing. Although Reiki is "hands-on", unlike massage, Reiki is administered through a very gentle touch. While the patient is seated or lying down and fully clothed, the practitioner's hand are placed along energy centers and pathways on the head, neck, shoulders, upper chest, abdomen, legs, and feet (similar to those used in acupuncture).
Manipulating the fascia by using pressure and lifting or a spreading motion to loosen up and re-organize the soft tissue of the body.
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Promotes health and relaxation by relieving muscle tension and improving circulation.
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Two semicircles of light and dark which form a complete circle and merge into each other is known in Chinese as the Tai Chi, and represents moving harmony (see image). The theory of Yin-Yang holds that every object or identity or phenomenon in the universe is composed of two opposite aspects (as represented in the symbol). The relationship between Yin and Yang is the principle, the cause, the force, and the balance for the flourishing and perishing of all things in the universe. They stand for heaven and earth, sun and moon, day and night, heat and cold, positive and negative, etc.
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