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State Sen. Brandon Smith made some interesting statements about Mars during a speech last week and he is receiving some pretty stiff criticism after he argued that Mars and Earth have the exact same temperature. The ill-advised comments were made at a meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment in an effort to protest against the Obama administration's new Environmental Protection Agency carbon emission regulations. The Huffington Post's report on July 8 also said that Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (R) claimed that man-made climate change is scientifically implausible.
"I won't get into the debate about climate change," said Sen. Brandon Smith, who owns a mining company called Mohawk Energy. "But I'll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There's no factories on Mars that I'm aware of."
Smith shared his belief that coal companies on Earth should be exempt from emission regulations because Mars doesn't have any coal mines and it is the same temperature as Earth. However, a quick Google search reveals that Mr. Smith is wrong.
Mars is a very cold place. It is colder than Earth because the planet is smaller, is farther from the sun and has a thin atmosphere. However, since Mars is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, it is also the best candidate for colonization.
Differing values have been reported for the average temperature on Mars but according to NASA, the average surface temperature on Mars is -81 degrees F vs. Earth's average temp of 57 degrees F.
This temperature varies with latitude and season. Thus, the temperature during the day in Mars can reach a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit or more, while at the poles in winter it can easily reach -225 degrees Fahrenheit.
These marked differences in day and night temperatures are due to the fact that the atmosphere of Mars is very thin, so it retains little heat. It also contributes to their remoteness from the sun and the low thermal conductivity of the soil.
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WordCamp San Francisco 2011! Starting this Friday and going on for three whole days with over 50 speakers and a thousand WordPress geeks. The perfect time to make new friends and learn new things, and the lovely part is that it's all about WordPress!
Unfortunately all the tickets have been sold out but $30/day and $65/day tickets will be available on the spot until the place is packed, so there still is a chance to get in. For the rest I'd suggest purchasing the livestream pass for $30 or one with a T-shirt for $45. More info on this page.
WordCamp San Francisco is the official annual WordPress conference and definitely the largest one. It was first organized in San Francisco by Matt Mullenweg himself in 2006, so this is now a tradition. There are many other WordCamps throughout the whole world and there may be one in your area too, check out the WordCamp Central website to find out.
We're very excited about this event and we've got one of our colleagues who landed in San Francisco last night. The rest of us will be watching the live streams from home and will hopefully get our T-shirts shipped later. We'll do our best to cover the most exciting topics at event as they happen, on our Twitter and here on the website.
Now that'll be tomorrow but luckily, you can start following the event right now! For example this tweet from Ryan Duff:
Tomorrow about 1000 WordPress lovers will descend upon San Francisco. I hope you're ready. #wcsf
Or this great offer from AppThemes and WPCandy:
Who doesn't love a deal? AppThemes offers 20% and 25% discounts for WPCandy readers during #wcsf http://wpcandy.com?p=25739
As you might have noticed, the official hashtag for WordCamp SF 2011 is #wcsf so don't forget to tag your tweets and photos if they're relevant. There's also the official @WordCampSF Twitter account that will probably tweet and retweet some of the exciting stuff that's happening during the event.
Program, Sessions & Speakers
As I already mentioned, three days — Friday, Saturday and Sunday, for developers and designers, WordPress power users, bloggers and content creators and of course a first-time user workshop (in a separate location on Friday). Here are the links for a detailed overview on each section:
Here's a short list of the sessions we're most excited about here at Theme.fm:
- Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My! by Mark Jaquith
- The Otto and Nacin Show by Otto Wood and Andrew Nacin
- Debugging in WordPress by Andrew Nacin
- Awesome Up Your Boring Theme: WordPress Post Formats by Ian Stewart
- Making Money And Having Fun Selling WordPress Themes by Drew Strojny, Lance Willett, Brian Gardner and David Cowgill; and of course
- State Of The Word by Matt Mullenweg
Mark Jaquith has also promised to blog about his topic if the video stream doesn't end somewhere on YouTube after the conference, so watch out for that too. A list of all the speakers is available here with photos and bios of each one. It's very nice to see new faces in the list too :)
There's also a huge list of attendees available, so spot your friends and co-workers and say hi to them at the conference :) That's it for now, we've gotta go prepare ourselves since we're in a different time zone with three long nights ahead.
Have you ever been to a WordCamp and are you following this one? Which of the sessions are you mostly excited about? Use the comments section below to share your thoughts and follow our RSS feed to stay tuned. Thank you for reading!

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I've just gone through the most stressful week, possibly of my life. I had two huge essay exams to write (about 30 essay questions total, with tons of research to go for them, to do in a week), along with a third exam to study for. At the same time, my BF moved in with me over the weekend, and we were completely unprepared. Basically, we spent the last week eating take-out (trying to be pseudo-healthy with it), drinking soda, and not sleeping nearly enough. Somehow, probably through stress, I somehow lost a pound. I had a melt-down, though, because in the last month, I'd gained a lot of weight and only lost one pound, while the BF lost 23.
Let me say that again: 23!!!
I'm super happy for him, but I freaked out with super sadness and we had an awful day, because in trying to make me feel better, BF kept making me feel worse. Eventually I got over it enough to remember that it's completely normal for men to lose weight at a super increased rate comparatively to women. I've just never done this with a male partner before. It's always been with a female friend or my mom. It's also rough because he doesn't let things go long enough for me to be sad for a few minutes and get over it. He immediately jumps down my throat with "be happy, be happy, be happy" that I end up getting mad at him, and even more mad at myself.
Anyway, I have one point of victory, even though the week completely sucked, and I didn't do well food wise. Under all this incredible stress, I didn't smoke even one cigarette! (harder than it seems when BF still smokes, and I have to walk through huge clouds of it leaving campus three days a week)
Academic victories, too. I got an 88% on one exam (highest grade in the class!!), and a 96% on another. Woohoo!! No grades up for the third yet, and I have my last midterm tomorrow. I'm not worried about that one at all, though. Also still unpacking BF's stuff and trying to make the apartment a livable home. Part of the reason that we've been doing take-out so much is because after moving all his stuff in, we literally couldn't get into the kitchen to cook. It's getting a lot better, though, as I'm unpacking stuff and getting it all onto shelves.
BF and I had a food discussion the other day, and I gave him an ultimatum. Basically, I said that if he was living with me full time, and actually worried about me being diabetic, that he has to start eating healthier and stop enabling me. He works part-time at a bakery, and brings stuff home from there all the time. He's agreed, but I don't think that he realizes how difficult it actually is in the beginning. Worse off, I don't expect it to last long, if he was serious in his agreement. We'll work it out eventually, though. We're trying to figure out how to afford to save money for an exercise bike at the moment. I have no idea where it'd go, but I like the idea. Some days I ache so much after doing TaeBo or a BL video that I can't physically do it again for days. It's really discouraging, so we're trying to figure out ways to do cardio until I build up enough leg strength that I can consistently do those videos.
I really do want to do this. I'm just...not terribly encouraged right now. I'm working on it, though. Hopefully inspiration will come soon.
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I've had a rough couple weeks too with being sick, it's tough, and with joey when one of us slips we both slip!
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I know you guys will get the food thing figured out. I think we both have to get our men on track without letting them know we are doing it.
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Goodwell, Okla. -- The University of the Incarnate Word baseball team was riding in first place in the Heartland Conference and came to Goodwell last weekend for Friday and Saturday double headers against the Oklahoma Panhandle State Aggies. The Aggies picked up a 2-1 win on Saturday in the four game set.
Incarnate Word 9, OPSU 6
In the opening game on Friday, OPSU pitcher Kyle Cremers was excellent through six innings of shutout baseball and his teammates, thanks mostly to a grand slam homer from catcher Mike Jameson, gave the Aggies a 5-0 lead through six innings.
However, UIW put together a power display in the top half of the seventh (and final) inning with nine runners crossing the plate for a 9-6 win.
Matthew O'Neill had two hits for the Aggies to go with an RBI and Clint Stottlemyre's double accounted for the other OPSU run. Outfielder James Fisher also had two hits for the Aggies.
Incarnate Word 16, OPSU 1
The second game on Friday belonged almost totally to Incarnate Word.
Hayden Patton, Brandon Hill, Mike Roche, Stottlemyre, Jameson and Fisher got the OPSU hits.
OPSU 2, Incarnate Word 1
In the first game of Saturday's double header, OPSU designated hitter Chad Thies smacked a two run single in the fourth inning - and behind some strong pitching from Jason Staudt - it was enough to give the Aggies a nice 2-1 win against a very tough team.
The Panhandle wind did not help either team and many times well hit fly balls seemed to die in midair, then drop.
Staudt (the winning pitcher) did a fine job on the mound, scattering six hits and giving up just one run over six innings. Jacob Rapp came on in relief of Staudt in the seventh and earned the save.
Incarnate Word 6, OPSU 1
In the second contest of the very windy Saturday afternoon, the Aggies mustered just a single run.
Getting hits for OPSU were Luke Korum, K.D. Bressler, Garrett Meek, Roche and Stottlemyre.
At the end of the day on Saturday, the OPSU season record stood at 5-12 and Incarnate Word (coached by former major league player Danny Heep) stood at 14-3.


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Dr. Don,
I've heard that foreign currency trading is one of the best investments
to make, having great returns. What's your take on this?
-- Shanna Spot-Market
Trading isn't investing, at least how I define
the two terms. It's more speculative in nature. I believe there's
room for some speculative assets in a portfolio, but it should be
a small percentage of the overall portfolio -- less than 5 percent
of portfolio assets.
Foreign exchange, or forex, offers such high potential
returns because you can leverage your money. Leveraging your account
balance by 100 to 1 means you can capture the change in value of
$100,000 worth of a currency with only $1,000 in your forex margin
account. Some accounts offer 200 to 1 leverage. In contrast, a homeowner
that puts 5 percent down on a home purchase only has 20 to 1 leverage.
A currency move can force liquidation of open positions if adequate
margin isn't maintained in the account.
There are different types of trading, from day trading
to position trading. For retail investors, the bid-offer spread
in the cash-foreign exchange market can be too wide to make day
trading currencies a realistic option.
The bid is the price at which you sell the base currency
to buy the other (counter) currency. The offer is the price at which
you can buy the base currency with counter currency. The spread
is quoted in pips, defined by Forex.com as, "The smallest unit
of price for any foreign currency. Digits added to or subtracted
from the fourth decimal place, i.e. 0.0001." The wider the
bid-offer spread the harder it is to be successful in trading currencies.
Position trading, where you are in the currency for a period of
time, includes the interest income/interest expense of the foreign
currency position.
Getting away from trading currency in the cash (spot) market, you
can also speculate on changes in currency values by using exchange-traded
currency options or currency futures.
Use a trading simulation to test your skills as an
forex trader before opening an account. Most shops offer demo accounts
that allow you to do this. Some brokerage firms also provide demo
accounts for options and futures trading. One problem with the demo
accounts is that you tend to be a lot more courageous when you're
not really taking a loss.
If you've got a fully funded emergency fund,
have made decent progress toward building an investment portfolio
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on trading Forex for fun and profit, go ahead. Just show some aptitude
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more than a small percentage of your investable assets.
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For years other hotel chains have had free wifi and Disney's only answer has been old style plugin internet at $10 a day! Eurgh!
Well Disney have been testing free wifi in the lobbies of several Disney hotels and have announced that they're installing Internet enhancements currently.
Could this be wifi coverage but still paid? or could it be a sign they're finally going to catch up with the cheaper hotel chains and offer free wifi across the hotels? we can only hope :yes:


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May 9th
hey Everyone please click me and see my comics please have a comment my comics!!
July 4th
a bit confused. are they waiting for santa?
Jan 16th
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April 4th
tee hee
March 9th
exellent scenery :D
March 7th
Ooh! This is wonderful!!
Dec 21st
comic made 3 yrs ago today
Dec 19th
key word........secret
Nov 27th
May 2nd
April 12th
April 12th
kewl place you made!
March 12th
cool r they gonna wait all night?
Feb 20th
..."Father Christmas," all that stuff.
Dec 27th
@below They are waiting for "Santa."
Dec 27th
what is she waiting for
Dec 8th
you just squished funny, chewed it up and spit it out
Nov 23rd
? What? Urm. Haa haa ha.. -.-'
Sep 6th
YOU! Take that '':derpface:'' back where it belongs, dude. This is bitstrips!
August 14th
Like it's not even Christmas yet, why am I looking at this? :Derpface:
August 12th
August 11th
They are on the naughty list.. FOREVER!!!
August 9th
July 22nd
July 22nd
please check out my new comic "Dr.sheldon"
July 18th
they wont get presents because santa dosnt come wen people are awake
July 15th
the girls in there are smiling......i hate it
July 14th
A bit late on the times.
July 3rd
cool... i guess
June 20th
Cute girls!
May 7th
April 15th
everyone commenting that it is boring is a toll! i think it is great you just shouldnt post dumb things if you think its boring dont say anything and just skip it and go read something else!
March 24th
MAD HAM is right
Feb 22nd
this is so pretty and cute good job
Jan 29th
A watched pot never boils..
Jan 9th
hes not coming, if you wait for him. dont you know? he has like, stalker radars r sumthin.
Dec 6th
meary x mas
Dec 1st
I like the dragon!
Nov 19th
that is so cool
Nov 1st
LKF, that is really good!
Oct 28th
haha thats funny!! :P
Oct 12th
never gunna hapen
Sep 25th
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Sep 12th
thats so cool how did u do the lighting please add me as a friend
August 26th
LKF.... this comic is awesome..... add me as a friend!
August 25th
I love Crismas but its the summer
August 19th
August 17th
i wold like to wait in there for my daddy to come home from work
August 7th
wow, how did u do it...?
August 6th
ooh .... :)
July 16th
cool lighting!!!
June 30th
awesome! lkf!
June 27th
omg i like it
June 18th
June 5th
oooow! AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
June 5th
cool light effect
May 23rd
you don't know how to do that
May 19th
How did you do this awesome effect with light and shadows?
May 13th
cool! but how do you make the light shine on them?
May 11th
@Bailey Hammond, it's christmas eve and they're waiting for christmas idiot look whos talking
May 8th
how do u people not get it they r waiting for santa duh......!
May 5th
ok what is the meaning of this??
May 4th
aww that's awesome!
April 25th
CUTE nice your really good at this!!!!
April 23rd
Good art work but you could'v done better.....
April 23rd
had great design but I didn't get sorry
April 15th
ummmmm is it finished
April 15th
that was not the best best but it was ok
April 7th
this is soo cute and adorable!!! check my strips!
April 7th
April 1st
March 26th
lol thats it? well it does make sense ok!
March 25th
@ Jessika8841- Santa fills the stockings not the tree.
March 21st
Um the presents are already there
March 21st
Whats happenin forum!
March 21st
r they waitin for santa
March 14th
i agree with u athena. chris1121 u need to go to school and thomasilly cool comiic.. lk
March 14th
u shouldnt say that being a lesbian is wrong! IM NOT A LESBIAN BUT BEING A LESBIAN IS JUST A DIFFERENT WAY TO LIVE!
March 14th
March 14th
i think they are supposedly waiting for santa. and that person below who said i dont get it...are stupid :P lol and no they are not suppose to makeout there girls. Lesbiansa re wrong!
March 12th
i just really don't get it!?
March 11th
Wow this person made this look so... briliant.
March 10th
@malicats:i think they are just jealous of what a beautiful and breath taking art this is and how mny people like it.They are just plain mean and ignoant!
March 5th
March 5th
Why are there SO MANY ignorant trolls on this comic?
Feb 22nd
santa is fake...
Feb 21st
That's so beautiful! I can see how you captured the mystical essence of... well... EVERYTHING! This is quite brilliant and incredible.
Feb 21st
I'm putting everyone who made an ignorant comment on "ignore" status.
Feb 20th
lol look at all the trolls under me
Feb 20th
is this a comic or a scene
Feb 19th
that is sweet
Feb 16th
Awww! Waiting for Christmas! The innocence! The tree and shading rock!
Feb 11th
it look s so real
Feb 6th
Feb 5th
awsome! there waiting for santa
Feb 1st
Aww are they waiting for santa?? :) lol good job it looks really cool!!!
Jan 31st
that is really good
Jan 31st
or nononono they are waiting for he who should no be named
Jan 30th
i think their waiting for santa badmas1
Jan 30th
what are they watin for
Jan 29th
It's really awesome! Please make more! I love the shading and the tree!!!! <3 it!
Jan 27th
what ???
Jan 27th
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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Jan 14th
O.O Wow, that is fantastic. You rock bitstrips!
Jan 12th
this is so good it is unbelievable
Jan 9th
i lov it it's adorable and cute
Jan 8th
This is adorable, and amazing! I love the treem and the lighting. :)
Jan 7th
not that good but the positions and everythings good.you should have made them sleepy.
Jan 6th
Why the heck are so many people saying "I don't get it"? What's not to get?
Jan 4th
Pretty nice. I myself like the tree. What's with the dragon?
Jan 2nd
@sammy_b: they are waiting for santa to come. use your imagination!
Dec 30th
Dec 29th
i dont fully get it but its still funny :) lol
Dec 25th
Thats what me and my sisteer do EVERY year
Dec 22nd
like me and my sister kudos to you
Dec 21st
pretty cool
Dec 21st
i....i dont get it?
Dec 20th
I like this.
Dec 20th
hee hee that highlited!!!
Dec 19th
awww...im going to that!!!!
Dec 19th
How cute!
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Well, the Red Wings went from their best period of the series to... Something less.
The first period was amazing. Whether it was due to their backs being up against the wall or the return of Henrik Zetterberg or the other line changes or a need to play better in front of Jonas Gustavsson, who got the start on late notice when Jimmy Howard came down with the flu, Detroit came out strong and had Boston on their heels. Niklas Kronwall's power play blast put Detroit out in front. Then early in the second Pavel Datsyuk made it 2-0 and the Wings were rolling.
Unfortunately, it didn't last. We've heard all series that the Red Wings can't let Boston get a chance on the power play. In the second period, the Bruins got 13 seconds. They only needed two. Suddenly it was 2-1. Milan Lucic was left alone cutting to the net early in the third and things were tied up. And Detroit was never really in it again.
Yeah, Justin Abdelkader had his partial breakaway chance in OT but he never really had the puck control that he wanted. Boston outshot Detroit 12-3 in the extra frame. The Wings didn't really have a chance.
And then the Bruins got the bounce. Off Luke Glendening, off Danny DeKeyser, in behind Gustavsson, it's over.
I can rant about how I hate that the Bruins get away with getting their sticks up or late hits or whatever but I don't think that's been the difference in this series. Outside of Game One, the Red Wings just have not had the ability to play a complete game against these Bruins. Boston has simply been the better team.
Do I think the Red Wings can turn it around? Sure. Do I think they're going to? Not particularly. It would take them flipping a switch, playing three consecutive games like they did in Game One. They haven't been able to get one more of those all series, so I don't see how they're going to get three.
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The World Beat Center in Balboa Park will hold a tribute to Maya Angelou on June 20. This venue serves as the perfect celebratory place, as it's founding was rooted in the teachings of Maya Angelou. Founder Makeda Dread was very much moved and influenced by Angelou, so much that she followed her dream of creating this place of culture and celebration 20 years ago.
The World Beat Center in Balboa Park, San Diego is a non-profit multi-cultural arts organization dedicated to promoting, presenting & preserving the African & Indigenous cultures of the world through Music, Art, Dance, Education & Technology. This center is as vibrant on the inside as it is on the outside. More often than not, music and celebrations can be heard from within, as well as dancing and celebrations can be seen on the outside. This is a gathering place celebrating one life and one love.
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Recently one of my profs (other than my advisor) told me that I am not doing well in his subject. Should I tell this to my advisor? Actually the reason of me not doing well is doing other jobs assigned by my advisor to me like advising undergraduates. Undergraduates don't let me do my work. And whenever I am busy doing my own research and due to this when I politely refuse them, they say that they will go and complain about me to my advisor. Please help I am really stuck as to how to deal with the situation?
Yes. Talk to your advisor.
It is really important you learn to, in a good way, think of yourself. Right now, the undergraduates are happy (they get help) but your work is suffering. I can imagine that helping undergraduates is part of your job description, but not to the point you cannot work anymore yourself. You need to sit down with your professor and your supervisor and discuss that your undergraduate workload is too much. Best is to have a proposal ready yourself, e.g. that you want to spend a day a week helping undergraduates and that that is the limit. Once you get both your professor and your supervisor to agree, no undergraduate can manipulate you into helping him/her. In addition, everyone is clear on their expectations, this is the professional way of dealing with this in my opinion.
If you do not set boundaries, you will be the only one suffering. The professor and supervisor will feel somewhat bad, but the undergraduates will find a new person to stalk, while you are left without a PhD.


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March 16th, 2012 by cgraser under Questions. 2 Comments.
In the R. H. Smith School of Business, we are excited about this Advanced Executive Coaching Program that begins on May 17-18, 2012. As you review the curriculum for the six-month program, we are interested in what is important for you in each of these modules. What do you want to learn, what will help you most in your coaching, and what are you curious about?
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Published: Tuesday 13 November 2012
The corporate state, faced with rebellion from within and without, does not know how to define or control this rising power, from the Arab Spring to the street protests in Greece and Spain to the Occupy movement.
Published: Friday 26 October 2012
The alternative to cynicism is to become more involved in politics. Help create a progressive force in this nation that grows into a movement that can't be stopped.
Published: Tuesday 16 October 2012
You, the citizens, use our common government to make this country what it is.
Published: Saturday 13 October 2012
However, critical as such short-term fact checking is, it misses the much bigger news embedded in all the subterfuge. In short, it misses the genuinely mind-boggling fact that a Republican nominee for president is now campaigning for president on a promise to not cut taxes on the wealthy.
Published: Friday 5 October 2012
So why didn't the President play this winning card last night? Why aren't more Democrats using it? It's as if they've all signed a secret pledge to appear fair and reasonable.
Published: Thursday 4 October 2012
If owning-class volunteers aren't stepping forward in our movements, then movements need to learn how to support the visionaries wherever we find them.
Published: Wednesday 26 September 2012
"Consider then-candidate Obama's description of working class people in Pennsylvania, made in the heat of the 2008 campaign."
Published: Tuesday 25 September 2012
"These are people who pay no income tax," Romney told his well-heeled audience in Boca Raton, suggesting that voters who don't pay income taxes comprise the same alleged 47 percent who will vote in lockstep for the president.
Published: Friday 21 September 2012
"Nowhere was this more clear than when the 800-member House of Delegates — empowered teacher representatives from each CPS school — called a two-day timeout to carefully review the tentative agreement that had been initialed by the Chicago Teachers Union leadership on Sunday."
Published: Thursday 20 September 2012
In today's United States we can ask, if the battered labor movement were not still a progressive force, then why is it so important to Scott Walker and the rest of the 1 percent to destroy the unions?
Published: Wednesday 12 September 2012
"Incomes for the middle fifth of American households—the heart of the middle class—would have been an average of $19,000 higher per year by 2007 if the share of growth claimed by the richest households had not grown so much over the past 30 years."
Published: Saturday 8 September 2012
"These were the last months of the George W. Bush administration. It was when Bush launched both the Wall Street and Detroit bailouts, not because he found them ideologically agreeable, but because it was that or the abyss."
Published: Friday 24 August 2012
"The large portion of it really deals, as the title says, with the FBI's attempts to—through surveillance and repression of student radicals and university professors."
Published: Tuesday 21 August 2012
The union people found that "know-it-all" middle class people can actually listen, and the activists found that "rigid hierarchical" working class people sometimes work with a different set of responsibilities.
Published: Monday 20 August 2012
"Oddly enough, while poll after poll shows that most Americans no longer trust our basic institutions, they continue to believe the people who run them got where they are on basis of superior merit and talent."
Published: Thursday 2 August 2012
"The Republican definition of what it means to be a liberal is false and fictitious but has now become so infused into the political vernacular and fixed in the public mind that simply setting the record state requires a Herculean effort."
Published: Thursday 19 July 2012
"Pro-cyclical fiscal policy worsens the dangers of overheating, inflation, and asset bubbles during booms, and exacerbates output and employment losses during recessions, thereby magnifying the swings of the business cycle."
Published: Thursday 19 July 2012
Obama Administration looking to reform the presidential pardon.
Published: Wednesday 13 June 2012
"Only if young people are reminded that the large response that sprang up in Wisconsin and Occupy last year is really there waiting for their talent, will they learn the craft that can actually make a difference: the nonviolent direct action campaigns driven by people power."
Published: Wednesday 6 June 2012
"Since the launch last month of a major campaign by big business, the Pentagon and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry to gain LOST's ratification, some two dozen Republican senators have signaled their opposition."
Published: Monday 4 June 2012
Published: Sunday 3 June 2012
The debt-ceiling absolutists grossly underestimate the massive adjustment costs of a self-imposed "sudden stop" in debt finance.
Published: Tuesday 8 May 2012
"The Reagan Recession Ended With Interest Rate Cuts, Which Aren't Possible Now."
Published: Monday 20 February 2012
"Citizens for Tax Justice reports that the 280 most profitable U.S. corporations sheltered half their profits from taxes between 2008 and 2010."
Published: Monday 13 February 2012
"But Scott Walker is not the next Reagan. Not yet."
Published: Monday 30 January 2012
"Obama previewed his election arguments in a philosophically aggressive way."
Published: Saturday 28 January 2012
"It would have been far better if Obama had simply read out selected portions of Mitt Romney's tax returns, which the Mormon millionaire released yesterday with spectacularly bad timing."
Published: Saturday 7 January 2012
"The real history: Reagan was forced to raise taxes because his cuts didn't 'pay for' themselves, as the mythology also insists — and he didn't raise taxes enough to avoid a legacy of deficits that only Bill Clinton's 1993 tax increase on the top tier began to remedy."
Published: Monday 12 December 2011
"A White House that just a few months ago was obsessed with the political center is now not at all wary."
Published: Monday 7 November 2011
"This was not only war against the poor, but the very "class war" that Republicans now use to brand just about any action they don't like."
Published: Wednesday 26 October 2011
"A rising tide," as President Reagan put it, "lifts all boats." The sum of his wisdom being: it is in your interest when the rich get richer.
Published: Wednesday 24 August 2011
"Conservative outlets took it upon themselves to finesse the fact that Barack Obama just helped overthrow a terrorism-sponsoring tyrant into their preconceived notions about foreign policy."
Published: Friday 19 August 2011
"Perry has exactly the wrong approach when he says the federal government needs to stop "dictating" school policy when this is precisely what needs to be done."
Published: Saturday 6 August 2011
From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's downward slide?"
Published: Wednesday 27 July 2011
"Obama long ago recognized the power of dropping Reagan's name, and Reagan did say many reasonable things that hard-righters wouldn't love today."


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Preparation for positions in business with an emphasis on the areas of financial and managerial accounting, systems and controls, auditing, and taxation.
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The selection of 18 credits of study based on an individualized plan of study submitted by the student and approved by an adviser. The option allows the tailoring of a program of study to suit specific student needs.
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An emphasis on the skills and knowledge necessary for the business professional to function in community and regional centers of commerce.
Entrance RequirementCompletion of MATH 022 (College algebra 2) or higher (MATH 040, 041, 110, 140).
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For the B.S. degree in Business, a minimum of 120 credits is required, 15 of which must be at the 400 level.
The detailed list of requirements for the major can be found in the Undergraduate Degree Program Bulletin.
Also available are recommended academic plans for the three options, which show the typical sequence of courses at Greater Allegheny.
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New Jersey's medical marijuana program was scheduled to take effect six months after it was passed in January 2010. The bill gave New Jersey's Department of Health and Senior Services three months to figure out licensing and regulations to open six dispensaries to the state's qualified medical pot patients.
Now, three years later, only one medical cannabis dispensary is in operation. Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, which opened last December, has a waiting list 1,000 patients long. And according to some patients, there just isn't enough pot for those in need.
Legal supply of medical cannabis is unlikely to increase any time soon as the five other dispensaries are still months away from opening.
Many blame Gov Chris Christie for "stonewalling" the program. New Jersey already has what many consider the most restrictive medical pot law in the nation and Christie is accused of making the dispensary approval process nearly impossible. Christie also put a former police veteran who had specialized in criminal records in charge of the program.
However, others blame the Dept of Health and Senior Services for the program's problems. One of the 199 physicians allowed to recommend pot to patients in New Jersey accused the Department of being unorganized and treating the program's implementation as a "criminal enterprise."


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Sayulita's Beach Clean-Up Days Return
Published Aug 22, 2013, 3:51pm - (Updated Oct 21, 2013, 12:32pm)
As in years past, Punta Sayulita, in conjunction with Ocean Conservancy, is restarting their ongoing beach clean-up days in Sayulita, the popular destination in Riviera Nayarit, less than an hour north of Puerto Vallarta. Then next event will take place on Saturday, September 7, beginning at 9:30 am. The event kicks off at the Punta Sayulita Beach House located next to Don Pedro's Restaurant. At each event, volunteers take over the beach, cleaning trash and debris in a spirit of friendly camaraderie.
Based in Washington, D.C., Ocean Conservancy is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group that helps formulate ocean policy at the federal and state government levels, based on peer-reviewed science. Together with them, Punta Sayulita, a real estate development company, successfully produces community-minded events to enhance the overall Sayulita experience, of which the most popular is the annual Punta Sayulita Longboard and Stand-up Paddle Classic.
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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Dippermouth Blues (alternate review)
Dippermouth Blues
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings (Archeophone OTR-MM6-C2)
Joe 'King' Oliver (cornet), Louis Armstrong (cornet), Honoré Dutrey (trombone), Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Hardin (piano), Baby Dodds (drums),
William M. Johnson (banjo).
Composed by Joseph Oliver & Louis Armstrong.
Recorded: Richmond, Indiana, April 6, 1923
Rating: 100/100 (learn more)
Joe 'King' Oliver is often remembered in jazz histories as a mere footnote to the more illustrious story of Louis Armstrong - he was the man who gave Satchmo the break that brought him out of New Orleans and into the limelight of Chicago nightlife. But this account fails to do justice to Oliver's own artistry. "Dippermouth Blues" is one of the first great recorded masterpieces of jazz - and not just for Armstrong's contribution. Oliver's solo serves as a much-needed reminder of what jazz could do before Armstrong changed all the rules. It is to the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens what great medieval art is to the Renaissance masters - not an inferior predecessor, but rather the final flowering of a purer, more rarefied style.
Early New Orleans jazz was about the quality of sound rather than the quantity of notes, and Oliver was the great master of getting the cornet to speak with a vocal tone. His range is limited here, and his phrases are built on only two or three notes of the scale. But his down-and-dirty sound captures the ethos of jazz as it emerged at the dawn of the American century. The vitality of his playing comes through despite the passing decades and inferior recording technology of the era (although the sonic fidelity is much improved on this reissue compared to earlier releases). Even today, jazz virtuosos could learn lessons about phrasing from this too-seldom-heard classic from 1923.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
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Program Completion and Estimated Costs
This web page provides information about Career Technical Education Certificates of Achievement offered at College of Marin. In order to provide program completion and cost information for certificates that are awarded each year, disclosure forms are posted for each certificate. The information is currently provided for certificates awarded during 2011-2012 and more information will be posted by October, 2013, for additional academic years.
The following Certificates of Achievement were awarded during the 2011-2012 academic year:
The following information supports AB 2086, which requires colleges to publish CA license exam passage rates for graduates of its undergraduate programs leading to employment for which a California licensing examination is required. The following are the links to school examination statistics for the Court Reporting, Dental Assisting, Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Nursing Programs.


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1. How long has the business been operating and how did it start?
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Now that we have established that God is our refuge and strength, we can hit the pause button and wait on him. Yes, we are trembling. Yes, our minds and hearts are racing. Yes, we want to give up. Yes, our resources are limited. Yes, it feels like we are all alone. Yes, some of the details surrounding our circumstance are unfair. Yes, we've messed up, but be still. We do not have to rescue ourselves. That is the job of our Lord.
Wait on him. I know we have doubts about his faithfulness to deliver us, but wait anyway. Waiting is not a negative thing. The Bible says in Isaiah 40:31, "But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
God knows those situations are sapping our power, but he is going to renew our strength. He will give us victory over those painful, overwhelming, burdensome issues by placing us high in the sky like an eagle. Then we will have enough strength to run and sashay into his next divine mission for our lives.
Prayer: Father God, the creator of everything and everyone, I bless your name. You are powerful. You are loving. You see my situation and is using the good and the bad events to transform me into the image of Christ. Forgive me for not trusting in you. Forgive me for idolizing my problems instead of dropping them on the altar. Cleanse my soul, Lord. Strengthen me with your joy. Help me to keep my mind on Christ so peace will abide in me. I surrender my life to you, Jesus, and I know you will work everything out for my good. I bind up the spirit of bitterness, depression, rejection, anger, frustration, impatience, pride, poverty, sickness, divorce, rebellion, and deception. I also rebuke every immoral thought in the name of Jesus! I thank you Holy Spirit for maturing the fruit of the Spirit in me: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in my life. Amen.


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The Mann Act: Anatomy of a Law
April 2, 2012 04:22:00 am
An image of a "white slave" adorned the cover of "Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls," published in 1910.
In the early years of the 20th century, nationwide hysteria about "white slavery"--selling white women into prostitution--led to a federal law banning interstate transport of women for "immoral purposes." Many years and several iterations later, the Mann Act is still in effect today. It has been applied to international sex trafficking cases and famously became a factor in the saga of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's secret dalliance with a New York City escort in Washington D.C.
Today, The Crime Report inaugurates an occasional series aimed at exploring the insights history offers to contemporary criminal justice scholars and policymakers, based on material drawn from the digitalized archives of the Lloyd Sealy Library at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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"We gather to worship God with our whole being, to mature as disciples, and to actively go out into the community to share the Good News of Jesus Christ"
Wildwood United Methodist Church is a "Church for the Whole Family" We welcome you to visit any of our Sunday School classes that start at 10:00a - 11:00a on Sunday mornings (Pre-K - 2nd grade and 3-4-5 grade), Jr/Sr High School Sunday School Class, Young Woman's Class and the "Searchers" Older Adult Sunday School Class 9:30a. There is also a free breakfast that is served at 8:45a preceding the New Life contemporary worship experience. We also have a nursery for those that have little ones that need to be taken care of during Sunday School and the Sunday morning services. We are located one block off Hwy 301 (see our directions page) and only 1 mile from the new Village's Brownwood Square.
Wildwood United Methodist Church is a vibrant, intergenerational, multi-cultural church that meets the needs of its worshiping community; growing together as fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ; and constantly looking for connectional ways to serve the mission field.


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Some Pics From the Mavs Party Inside the AAC
Our web team posted a gallery earlier, and here are some images taken today by our staff snapper, Elizabeth Lavin.Read More
Making Dallas Even Better
Our web team posted a gallery earlier, and here are some images taken today by our staff snapper, Elizabeth Lavin.Read More
Check out this new study of online consumption of local news by a fellow named Matthew Hindman. He studied 100 metro areas and found that people in Dallas/Fort Worth don't consume much local news online. For instance, in the top city, Salt Lake City, a typical web user generates 89 pageviews per month of local […]Read More
I'll let Big Bob give you the details, because he's the one who found them. But it seems to me like grieving parents lashing out in the wrong direction. (Problem for the Morning News, though, is that a jury — if it goes that far — just might side with those grieving parents.)Read More
You know actor Michael Rapaport loves basketball. How much does he love it? At the 2010 NBA All Star Game celebrity game, he stole the MVP award from Terrell Owens, who had won it previously for two years straight. So Rapaport just happened to be in Dallas today, not for the Mavs parade, but holed […]Read More
Since we can't get enough of writing about what the Observer is writing about this week, remember last week's cover story about how Dallas and Houston are now cooler than Austin. Yeah, FrontRow's Christopher Mosley is not buying it. And this, he adds, just indicates how ignorant the Observer's music writers are of what is […]Read More
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Much ado about nothing, if you ask me. But several alert FBvians have sent me this video and the news story that it occasioned. How do two guys have so much fun at DFW Airport without security putting a kibosh on it? STUCK from Joe Ayala on Vimeo.Read More
Since the rest of us either don't like parades, got downtown too late to catch the happenings, or prefer to let infographics speak for us, we dispatched three of our dedicated D Magazine summer interns to share their amazing, true tales of this morning's Dallas Mavericks victory parade. Each patrolled a different segment of the […]Read More
Sometimes, I think professional sports association commissioners sound like the occupants of the front pew, worrying about what's wrong with kids today while fighting off a wicked case of the vapors by flapping their lilac-scented, embroidered hankies. For real. Take former MLB commish Fay Vincent, who opined on ESPN's The Herd that Mark Cuban's passion […]Read More
…if you purchase $50 of official Mavs merchandise, and are one of the first 200 people to show up at the Macy's NorthPark Center tomorrow at 6 pm. One of those things will not be hard to do, especially if you have not already bought your commemorative T-shirt. The other might require playing hooky from […]Read More
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As I type this dispatch from the cool confines of D Magazine headquarters, high atop St. Paul Place in downtown Dallas, droplets of sweat are still rolling down the small of my back. Yes, I went to the Mavericks parade. No, I didn't stay long enough to see the Larry O'Brien Trophy pass by. The […]Read More
Reports from the field are already coming in. It's hot. Water is scarce. Some intrepid PR person sent me a press release targeted toward a very specific subgenre of Mavs fans who happen to be considering a vasectomy. People are, in a really, really shocking turn of events, using DART. I was getting Tweets from […]Read More
We're enjoying seeing the pictures of women you've nominated so far (we're seeing lots of wedding dresses, dogs, and wine glasses), but we need more! We know you're surrounded by beauty in this town, so think of the ladies that make your heart beat faster and send them our way. Nominate now.Read More
I'm a huge Mavs fan, going back to the glory days of Rolando, Aguirre, and Harper. That said, I wouldn't go anywhere near the parade end of downtown today. I honestly don't understand why anyone would. When I try to list the pros and cons, I come up with plenty of cons: the heat, the […]Read More


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On behalf of the 2013 Trooper Brinkerhoff Memorial Race Series promoters (Tom Butler, Paul McDonnell, and myself), we would like to recognize everyone that provided essential support for this year's event:
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I don't think anything excites me quite as much as finding a small producer of wine that is off most people's radar and discovering that they are making tremendous wines. I'm always in a tricky position when I do this, because by virtue of publicizing great winemaking on a small scale, I make the wine harder to get for everyone, including myself. I do occasionally also get some e-mails from ticked off wine lovers bemoaning the fact that I've divulged one of their secret sources for great wine.
But that's all occupational hazard for me, and doesn't outweigh the joy of being able to say things like this: Listen up people. There is some seriously amazing wine being made in a little out of the way place in the northernmost part of California's Sierra Foothills AVA (American Viticultural Area). At the hands of soft-spoken resident winemaker Gideon Bienstock, Renaissance Vineyards is making small lots of Bordeaux and Northern Rhone style wines that are pretty much unlike any other wines being made in California -- in a really good way.
Renaissance Vineyards is not some upstart young winery that is pioneering new things in a new region. Rather, they are more like a wild-eyed hermit, that disappeared into the mountains years ago to live in the valley that he believed was the promised land, showing up in town every once in a while for supplies. Some people have known about them for years, but for others, the winery elicits the scratching of heads. There are a few such wineries around, one of my favorite examples is Calera Vineyards, whose founder Josh Jensen staked out territory in what most people considered to be middle-of-nowhere, California and proceeded to make phenomenal Pinot Noir for decades.
Calera Vineyards found Mount Harlan, and Dr. Karl Werner discovered the steep hillsides of the North Yuba river valley in the upper reaches of what was not even yet the Sierra Foothills AVA. It was not until 1987 that the appellation of the Sierra Foothills came into existence, and by then Renaissance Vineyards had been making wine for 8 years.
Just how Renaissance Vineyards and Dr. Karl Werner starting making wine in North Yuba is quite a unique story for a California winery.
In 1971 an organization known as The Fellowship of Friends, already well established at that time, purchased nearly 1300 acres in North Yuba County in the Sierra Foothills. The Fellowship of Friends was, and continues to be, a religious organization that many regard as a cult, built around the charismatic founder Robert Earl Burton who serves as the spiritual teacher of the organization. Its members tithe 10% of their gross monthly income to the organization, which has used those funds since the mid Seventies to completely transform this land into a spiritual retreat for the organization. One that also happens to have a very large, very impressive vineyard.
The group didn't set out to have a vineyard to begin with, but one of its early disciples was a man named Dr. Karl Werner, who in addition to being a devotee of the spiritual teachings of the organization, also happened to be a very accomplished winemaker back in his home country of Germany. Apparently on his first visit to the Fellowship's property, he recognized the potential for grape growing, and his enthusiasm for the project, as well as the attraction of the craft itself, convinced the organization to undertake a vineyard development project that lasted several years -- clearing, terracing, and planting the hillsides with vines. The first harvest took place in the fall of 1979.
Today the organization continues to own the vineyard, but is perhaps less involved than it was in the past. Dr. Werner passed away in 1989, just after the winery's first commercial release, and after being run for a time by Dr. Werner's wife Diana, winemaking operations were turned over in 1994 to Gideon Bienstock who has spent the last 13 years transforming Renaissance Winery from a broad, almost experimental winery, to a more focused winery with a clearer vision of what it wants to accomplish.
Dr. Werner's vision was originally for a winery that combined the best of the Bordeaux and the German traditions, which meant that a lot of Cabernet, Sauvignon Blanc, and Riesling were planted to start. Over time, Bienstock discovered that Rhone varietals performed particularly well, and now the winery focuses primarily on Bordeaux and Northern Rhone varietals. In addition to "learning the terroir" as he puts it, Bienstock has gradually increased the focus of the winery, reducing yields, reducing production, phasing out the use of commercial yeasts, pump-overs, fining, filtration, sulfur use, and cold stabilization. In addition he has moved the winery to 100% organic viticulture, and will introduce some Biodynamic farming techniques in the most recent vintages.
If you ask him, even after 13 years of winemaking, and nearly 20 years of experience in the Sierra Foothills Bienstock will tell you that he is still figuring out the terroir of the area, which he believes to be quite possibly the most remarkable of any in California, but if the current releases from the winery are any indication, he's had it dialed in now for some time.
"Some time" means at least since 1995, only a year after he took over as full-time winemaker, and the year of one of the winery's current releases. Not content to be the sole winery in what is now its own North Yuba AVA, under Bienstock's leadership Renaissance is defying all the common sense of traditional winery marketing and release schedules. In the past six months, the winery has just released a 1995 Cabernet, a 2001 Syrah, and a 1991 Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc. The only other winery in California that I know of which approaches this sort of delayed release program is Kalin Cellars, whose current releases are typically aged about 10 to 12 years. To any normal winery, such delayed release dates would be financial suicide, but Renaissance vineyards has never operated like a normal commercial business.
Leaving aside the financial and operational considerations, such a move takes guts, and a particular vision for what your wines can be and ought to be. From Bienstock's perspective, it's a simple question -- he lets the wines tell him when they're ready. "We originally scheduled the release of the '95 Cab to be around 2004 or 2005 but the wine was still completely "dormant" and did not cooperate with that idea, so we had to postpone it until this year," he says.
This sort of intuition and old world thinking pervades Bienstock's winemaking, resulting in wines that are strikingly unique in character and personality, not to mention long-lived. Such character may well be a holdover from Dr. Werner and his wife's vision for the winery's potential, something which Bienstock continues to draw on for inspiration. Werner was known as one of the Rhiengau's top winemakers for long-aging sweet Riesling wines, and set out from the beginning to make long lived, late harvest wines at Renaissance.
Most wines undergo very long fermentations, the reds in open-top oak fermenters with frequent hand punchdowns, the whites in stainless steel. Oak aging, which some of the late harvest wines receive as well, is done primarily in a combination of French and American oak between 1 and 5 years old. The late harvest Sauvignon Blanc was aged in German oak barrels for about 4 months before being moved into bottles. Some of the top reds are aged for up to 30 months in barrel before bottling.
The winery currently has two sets of releases, those older wines that it has chosen this year to release, and more current vintages that follow a more traditional release schedule. Both are exceptional in quality, and worth the time and effort required to seek them out, as they are distinctive expressions of a unique place and a unique vision in the world of California wine.
Full disclosure: I received these wines as press samples.
2006 Renaissance Vineyards Viognier, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
A bright yellow-gold in color, this wine smells of apricots and candied kumquats. In the mouth it has a classic oily texture that is often found with Viognier, and beautiful bright acidity that holds flavors of peaches in light syrup that persist through a long and satisfying finish. Score: around 9. Cost: $30. Where to Buy?
1991 Renaissance Vineyards Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
A distinctive pale orange color in the glass, this wine has an astonishing nose of cloves, orange rind and fresh honey. In the mouth it is lightly sweet with no hint of syrupiness, and remarkable acidity given its age. Its primary flavors are of orange blossom and honey, both of which linger with herbal tones on a nice finish. This is quite a distinctive wine that may not have the depth and complexity of some of the world's great dessert wines, but could compete with some of them on personality alone. Score: around 9. Cost: $50. Available from the winery's web site.
2001 Renaissance Vineyards "Granite Crown" Red Blend, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
Inky purple in color this wine has a beautifully savory nose of stewed prunes, black olives, licorice, and Worcestershire sauce. In the mouth it is gorgeously silky with flavors of cassis and damp, wet earth. Dusty tannins add to the complex, resonant flavors that are somewhere between burly and delicate. Let's call it "burlesque" with a long finish that has just a hint of playful grapeyness to it at the very end. Quite a unique wine that throws an enormous amount of sediment in the aging process, something which I always take to be an excellent sign. This wine is still a baby and can go another decade at least. Score: around 9.5. Cost: $40. Available from the winery's web site.
2000 Renaissance Vineyards "Granite Crown" Red Blend, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
Dark garnet in the glass, this blend of Syrah and Cabernet has an alluring nose of smoked meat and black fruits. In the mouth it is rich and complex, though without a hint of sweetness or jammyness as it unloads flavors of cassis, chocolate, and blackberries. Velvety, dusty tannins play counterpoint to great acidity to make this an extremely satisfying wine. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $40. Where to Buy?
2000 Renaissance Vineyards Merlot, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
Medium ruby in the glass, this wine has a nose of cedar, raisins, and cocoa powder. In the mouth it is soft and slippery on the tongue with flavors of plum and other red fruits buoyed by good acidity and a light tannic structure that persists into the finish. Score: around 8.5. Cost: $30. Where to Buy?
1995 Renaissance Vineyards "Estate Premiere Cuvee" Cabernet Sauvignon, North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of dates, candied plums, and something I can only describe as a light funk, perhaps in the key of George Clinton. In the mouth it astonishes with a lightness of step and clarity that is almost never found in California Cabernet. Tart cherry flavors play through silky textures to dance with velvety tannins all of which express a beautiful essence of fruit without a trace of oak, alcoholic heat, or sweetness. Lovely and ready to age for another 10 years without blinking. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $65. Available from the winery's web site.
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I've been working through grandmother Edna's archive of letters, news clippings, photos, and memorabilia of the New York State suffrage movement and have barely scratched the surface. The next step is to weave these snippets into an overall story that highlights what it took to win the vote on the local level. There's a digital storytelling movement underway nationwide, and it seems timely to move these tales into a chronology and then choose a core story around which to organize the material. Blogs are a way to document the process when the world around us changes so quickly. I like to keep inching forward with this project. Even the TV fall lineup for 2011 is into storytelling, which I believe reflects a basic instinct to listen to, enjoy, and pass on story. We think and dream and live story. I'll be sharing more of Edna's stories as the focus on her life grows tighter.
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Putin Spearheads Innovation Effort
- By Anatoly Medetsky, Alex Anishyuk
- Mar. 04 2010 00:00
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the Cabinet's high-tech commission would take on broad new powers to enforce its modernization agenda, significantly raising the body's profile on his first day as its chairman.
"The scale of the goals to be achieved requires an expansion of its authority," Putin said while opening the meeting. The body's decisions will now be binding on other state agencies, he said.
The commission — created by President Dmitry Medvedev — had been headed by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov since its inception last year. Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin's first deputy chief of staff, said in an interview last month that "consolidated power is the instrument of modernization" and that Putin would be taking the commission's helm.
On Wednesday, the prime minister said the government would spend more than a tenth of its budget on science and innovation this year, with funding for major scientific projects to be carried out on a competitive basis.
"We have assigned about 1.1 trillion rubles [$36.8 billion], or more than 10 percent of the federal budget, for fundamental and applied sciences, higher education, high-tech medicine and specialized federal programs," he said.
The government spent 300 billion rubles more on these goals in 2009 than in the previous year he said.
Weaning the country off its dependence on commodity exports by encouraging a knowledge-based, high-tech economy has been the hallmark issue of Medvedev's presidency, with "modernization" and "innovation" becoming buzzwords on the lips of businessman and officials alike.
Putin's decision to spearhead the efforts at the Cabinet level may help them gain traction, but it also gives him a leading role in something that had exclusively been Medvedev's agenda. The two members of the ruling tandem, as they've come to be known, have said that only one of them will run for president in 2012.
Nearly two years into Medvedev's term and after billions of dollars in spending to promote innovation, the economy has made only gradual steps forward, however.
The INSEAD business school on Wednesday released a global innovation ranking, which evaluates the innovation-readiness of 132 countries. Russia came in 64th in the index, between Kazakhstan and Oman, though up from 68th a year earlier.
"Over the centuries Russia produced a number of scientists and inventors and was among the leaders in science and technology. … But it has slipped from its position as a leader," the report said, criticizing Russia for exporting mostly energy and arms and mistreating foreign investors.
Putin indicated that the measures to promote high-tech businesses would include changes in the way the state buys products and services. Officials must start giving preference to innovative options when they choose winners of tenders, he suggested.
Vneshekonombank, the state development lender, will probably be ordered to spend a certain amount of its funds on high-tech ventures, Putin said.
VEB had primarily invested in infrastructure before the financial crisis in 2008, when it also took on responsibilities as a bailout bank. Another state corporation, Rusnano, was established to stimulate investment in nanotechnology.
Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said after the meeting that the federal and regional budgets have a combined 4 trillion rubles ($134 billion) annually in spending to buy products and services — even a portion of which could create significant demand for high-tech businesses.
The ministry is drafting legislative amendments that would give agencies legal grounds to pick goods based on the latest technology instead of cheaper but older counterparts, she said.
"It's rather the quality than the price parameters that will play a role," she said.
The government is still discussing how big of a quota VEB will be given, she said.
"We would like VEB to be more vigorous in searching for innovative projects," she said. "It's important to find the best projects that don't exist anywhere else in the world."
Onexim Group chief Mikhail Prokhorov briefed the commission on his project to build hybrid cars at a new facility in cooperation with Yarovit Motors. He said the plan, which he has already discussed with Putin, won general approval from the commission.
The plant, to be built in AvtoVAZ's hometown of Tolyatti and have the capacity to churn out 10,000 cars annually, will start production in mid-2012, he said. Construction will begin in January, he said.
Investment in the project will reach 150 million euros ($204 million) before the first car rolls off the conveyor line, Prokhorov said, adding that the venture was hoping to recoup the investment in four to five years.
"Our country has a chance to compete in this area," he told reporters after the Cabinet meeting. "It's an absolutely rational business project."
Earlier in the day, a government official brushed off Prokhorov's project as "science fiction." He was speaking about the government's strategy to develop the car industry at a pre-Cabinet briefing on condition of anonymity, which is standard policy for such occasions.
Putin said a key focus of the commission would be finding long-term investment in scientific sectors that would not rely on budget funding.
"Of course, we'll tend to increase expenses on development in the future, but this will not have the required effect if we don't learn to make use of existing resources in a more organized and competent way," he said.
Budget expenses should be distributed on a competitive basis, including spending on the projects in fundamental science, he said.
"We should avoid financing scientific institutions on the basis of faceless cost sheets," Putin said. "We can't afford to maintain 'brands' that have nothing but a famous name or maybe even a glorious past. We can't pay for research that is not up-to-date, that duplicates other work and, in some cases, that is literally pulled from dusty closets. This is wrong. This is flawed, costly and inefficient."
Russia has about 4,000 scientific institutions and six academies of sciences, Putin added, warning that quantity does not always mean quality.
He singled out the Kurchatov Institute, a top nuclear research center in Moscow, as the sort of institution that the government would be counting on to lead the way forward.
"The Kurchatov Institute serves as a model to fine-tune all aspects of establishing national research centers," he said.
It will become a new kind of pilot center under the government's project to build major scientific centers, uniting with the St. Petersburg Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Institute of High Energies in Protvino, outside Moscow and the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in the Moscow district of Cheryomushki.
The Kurchatov Institute will receive 2.5 billion rubles from the budget this year and another 10 billion rubles in the next three years under the project, Putin said in January.
The government will spend a total of 50 billion rubles on the creation of research centers, Putin said Wednesday, and another 90 billion to support the leading universities.
Companies pursuing innovation will also get the government's support that will be granted through tax discounts, Putin said, tasking the Finance and Economic Development ministries with monitoring the efficiency of the existing tax breaks and preparing suggestions on new ways to support innovative sectors.


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It's a week later and you're still craving Will and Kate? Welcome to The Pimm's Cup - it's easy, it's delicious, it's about as close to a Royal Wedding nod as this Outblusher can go; because the Brits - they love this concoction!
James Pimm, a London oyster bar owner, invented this delightful liquer in the 1840s to help aid digestion. This gin based spirit, with a dark reddish tint, has tastes of spice and citrus that shine through.
There are tons of Pimm's Cup recipes out there, this is just the one I happen to adore!
2 ounces Pimm's No. 1
Sliced cucumber
Sliced strawberries
Mint sprigs
Ginger Ale
Pour Pimm's into a Collins glass filled with ice. Add cucumbers, strawberries and mint. Top with Ginger Ale, and enjoy!
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Dave Holland: Four Winds
Four Winds
Dave Holland (bass)
Conference of the Birds (ECM 1027)
Dave Holland (bass), Sam Rivers (reeds, flute), Anthony Braxton (reeds, flute), Barry Altschul (percussion, marimba).
Recorded: New York, November 30, 1972
Rating: 99/100 (learn more)
Dave Holland said the inspiration for his album Conference of the Birds came from the birds that gathered outside his London apartment early in the morning, and you can hear it in the music. The opener, "Four Winds," is a high-flying number that has the saxophones of Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton fluttering above the frenetic interplay of Holland's bass and Barry Altschul's stick work. Things move so fast it's hard to imagine how anyone kept track of the tempo here. Conference of the Birds is Holland's masterpiece, and it was his debut as a leader! This may be the most auspicious freshman effort in the history of jazz.
Reviewer: Steve Greenlee
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I'm so excited to be able to share with you all that I have successfully marked off the first thing I decided to tackle on my "My 2011" list! I want to show you all the (super easy!) steps I took to get it from this …
to this …
First, a little history: this dainty little dressing table has been a part of our family for a very long time. I have all kinds of memories of this dressing table when it was in my sister's room (I used to sneak her journals out of it and READ them. I know, so naughty!) and later in my room. It has since been moved at least a dozen times until finally my parents decided it was time to say goodbye.
I knew I had to save it. And, although a dressing table is adorable to have in a little girl's room our daughter's room has no space for another piece of furniture.
That's when I got the idea to use it in our basement which we are in the process of turning into a functional and kid-friendly family room. Still no need for a dressing table there, but a desk would be nice for our daughter to one day use. So, the mission to turn this memory-filled dressing table into a desk was on!
You can't quite tell in the before shot, but the dressing table had all sorts of cracking veneer on the drawers. On one drawer I had to carefully pick off all of the veneer to get a nice, even layer.
Next, I sanded the drawers and the entire dressing table using my mouse with a fine grit sandpaper (220) to get a nice, smooth surface.
To fill in the cracks, holes and dents I used spackling paste. I let it dry overnight and on day 2 I sanded everything with spackling paste on it down by hand until I had a flat, smooth surface.
Next step was cleaning the surface to prep for painting. For quick clean-up I used my Shop-Vac to vacuum all the dust up and then went over everything with TSP+water in a squirt bottle and wiped everything down clean with a towel.
As you can tell the center area is specifically for a dressing table, not a desk. My next step was cutting a piece of wood to fit into that space.
Using a jigsaw I measured twice, cut once and in no time I had myself a piece of furniture that was quickly resembling a cute, little desk!
To make the new addition look like it was a part of the furniture all along I added a trim (that I actually had on hand from another project). I cut and secured it to the side of the wood using Liquid Nails. And, day 2 was done! So I thought …
On my way out I picked up one of the drawers to move it and the bottom portion of it snapped off. Boo. I secured it back on with Liquid Nails and one small nail.
On day 3 I spackled the drawer to hide the crack, waited for it to dry, sanded it down smooth and we were back in action!
Again, using Liquid Nails I doused the center portion of the dressing table and layered my new desk piece on top.
On the top, back part of the desk was a space where a large mirror used to be. I still remember the day when it fell off, falling right behind the dressing table and shattering into a million pieces. It scared the living daylights out of me! My dad gave me the idea of getting a 1″ piece of wood to cut, glue on and make it look all the more "repaired" and whole again. I thought it was a fantastic idea, but started to wonder if I could do something even more creative with that little mishap of a place … As my wheels kept spinning I moved on with the project.
Next step was caulking the edges of the new desk top so that once painted it would look like it's always been there.
Everyone has their own way of caulking and smoothing. I have no fancy way of doing it. I simply caulk and then using my finger I run it over the caulk to fill in the space and smooth it out. The excess that exists at the end gets wiped on a paper towel.
And day 3 in the books!
For the remainder of the days (when I would paint) I decided to move from my work room to the living room. Not sure that was the best idea, but at least I got to watch TV and elicit my husband's help when needed. : )
Day 4 brought the first round of paint: a trusty, Kilz primer.
Day 5 and 6 brought two layers of fresh paint (so satisfying!). We are planning to paint our basement a rich, gray/brownish color so I wanted to go with something in the gray family, but light and airy. I decided on Heavy Goose by Martha Stewart Living.
After I painted on the first coat I was kicking myself for getting eggshell. I personally like furniture to have a little bit of shiny sheen to it so I don't know what I was thinking. Luckily, I was able to paint on a coat of Polyurethane which will protect the paint and added a perfect, subtle shiny'ness to it. Problem solved!
And, to my go-to store, Anthropologie, for some simple, vintage, glass-knobs. Love, love, love!
And, remember that indented area where the mirror used to rest? I got the idea of securing a 1″ dowel rod with a small hinge on the side. This way I was able to add a roll of art paper (which can be found here) and replace when necessary. I love how it looks like it was there all along, don't you?
And, there you have it! It really was NOT hard to make this little piece of furniture functional and new. I hope this post inspires you to make something old in your home new again.
Please, please ask me any questions in the comment section. I'd love to help!
p.s. The banner shown in the "after" photo was bought from this Etsy designer.