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This time the shots didn't ring out in a movie theater in Colorado, or outside of a Safeway in Arizona, or a spa in Wisconsin, or a temple or a college campus. This time it was children, elementary school boys and girls in Newtown, their bodies carted out like battlefield casualties.
A few days earlier there was the mass shooting of Christmas shoppers at an Oregon mall. The week before, it was the murder-suicide by an NFL player. And every day there were — and are — the less prominent shootings that claim 100,000 victims every year in America, 30,000 of them deaths.
We all know the post-shooting drill: Politicians will cue up their condolences, and run for cover from Americans demanding solutions to our nation's gun violence epidemic. It is "not the time" to discuss solutions, they will claim — then wait for the nation's attention to be diverted by the next turn of the news cycle.
There are two basic ways we can respond to America's relentless gun carnage. One is resignation at our leaders' failure to address gun violence as we do every other public health and safety problem, and acceptance that periodic mass shootings and 87 gun deaths a day is simply a fact of life in our country. This view assumes that Americans are simply more prone to violence than other peoples, and that we are unavoidably fated to live awash with guns, with no realistic way to ever control dangerous people's access to high-powered weaponry.
Give up, say the cynics. The gun lobby can't be beaten.
Reload, says the gun lobby. Arm the movie theaters, the temples, the colleges and elementary schools. You can't stop the shootings, you can only shoot back.
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We must reject that dark vision — and most Americans do. We believe that Americans are at least as decent and good and peaceful as people of other nations. We also believe that this great nation — which has led the world in war and peace, in economy and medicine and so much else — is at least as capable of tackling the problem of gun violence as the rest of the industrialized world has already done.
We are better than this, an emerging majority says.
Cynicism and resignation, we believe, are weapons as destructive as the semiautomatic AK-47 clones so readily available to dangerous people in America.
More and more Americans are raising their voices, and engaging in an honest, open, thoughtful conversation about the need to address our gun violence problem. This conversation is respectful of the now-recognized Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible citizens, while deeply aware of the public safety risks posed by guns, and open to policies that can keep guns out of dangerous hands and off the streets.
This conversation is happening in promising — often surprising — ways. Bob Costas introduced the subject of gun violence in America to "Football Night in America." Bill O'Reilly expressed support for stronger gun policies. Before that, George Bush's speechwriter Michael Gerson and Rupert Murdoch called for stronger gun laws.
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GOP pollster Frank Luntz found that 74 percent of gun owners and NRA members support expanding Brady background checks to all gun sales. (Under existing law, no background checks are required for 40 percent of gun sales.)
And the Supreme Court (per conservative Justice Antonin Scalia) has held that while the Second Amendment does not allow the government to deprive responsible citizens of guns in the home for self-defense, the Constitution also allows the people, through their elected representatives, to reasonably regulate guns and their use.
Victims who lost loved ones in Aurora, Tucson, and other mass shootings are leading the way, calling for action to spare other families the tragedies they have suffered. This week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said it was time to engage in this conversation and address what can be done to reduce gun deaths and injuries.
Americans are coming together in that vast middle policy ground, and speaking out for common-sense laws that will prevent much of the bloodshed to which we are far too accustomed. After all, in America it's often the people who lead.
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Dan Gross is president of the Brady Campaign and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence based in Washington. He wrote this for the Hartford Courant. Distributed by MCT.
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Murder has always been against the law.
Why then every time a person commits a mass murder the call goes out for new gun laws?
It has been reported that Connecticut has an "assalt weapon" ban. How did that work for them?
My heart goes out to those victims and their families, but a knee jerk move to ban guns is not the appropriate response.
Our mental health services are in shambles. This is the thread that links all of the recent shooting incidents, but few want to talk about that problem. Why is that?
Stop the hysteria and stop duping the gullible public you pathetic media manipulators.
When was an assault weapon used in one of these killings?
Clearly, one wasn't used in the latest school shootings, nor when the NFL player killed his girlfriend, nor was one used in the attack on Congree Woman Gabbi Giffords.
In the Giffords shooting the weapon was a 9mm Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. In the NFL murder suicide by Jovan Belcher the weapon was a handgun. In the Connecticut school shooting the weapon was a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle.
All of those weapons are civilian grade. You get one bullet ejected for each click of the trigger. They are not machine guns and they are not military weapons.
But, the author to illicit confusion and stir the common pot said, "Cynicism and resignation, we believe, are weapons as destructive as the semiautomatic AK-47".
An AK-47 wasn't used in these high profile mass killings. Nor was any similar military grade fully auto machine gun.
We don't need gun bans and limits, what we need is a cap on the media. An end to the 24/7 junk news cycle that prays upon victims to push political agendas and distort reality.
While 30,000 deaths a year is nothing to ignore, what kills more US citizens each year?
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 36,909
Oddly, homicide shows up much later down the list with about 17,000 deaths a year.
The AK-47 is a convenient dupe in the conversation too since it's not a machine gun, but operator select-able.
"right thumb and has three settings: forward = safe, center = full-auto and backward = semi-auto"
But technically, the AK-47 is a machine gun and fully auto since it has the capability to be operator used that way with a simple selection at any time.
What exactly are they going to do? If someone wants a gun, they will get it. Ban or whatever won't stop them.
(Under existing law, no background checks are required for 40 percent of gun sales.)
This I didn't know.
I am an advocate for the Second Amendment, and always will be.
The sad part of all of this is the woman who owned those guns (the shooters mother) was killed by her own gun because she did not keep them locked up and away from a son whom she knew was mentally unstable. Once that son discovered he was gong to be sent away, he took action and it was not pretty.
Gun ownership comes with responsibilities and it appears this mother's lack of that cost her the biggest price of all, her life.
What Id like is the removal of the giant guns that have been pointed at my head my whole life. There is a reason we havnt put down the nuke tipped ballistic missles. The reason is we dont trust the other guys to. Nearly everyone saying that something must be done about firearms in our sociaty are taking a "do something, anything" stance. That is pretty damn silly.


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Later, friends and relatives would recall both as seemingly incapable of terrorism. The brothers were part of an ethnic Chechen family that came to the U.S, in 2002, after fleeing troubles in Kyrgyzstan and then Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus. They settled in a working-class part of Cambridge, where the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, opened an auto shop.
Dzhokhar did well enough in his studies at prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin to merit a $2,500 city scholarship for college.
Tamerlan, though, could be argumentative and sullen. "I don't have a single American friend," he said in an interview for a photo essay on boxing. He was clearly the dominant of the two brothers, a former accounting student with a wife and daughter, who explained his decision to drop out of school by telling a relative, "I'm in God's business."
It's not that Tamerlan Tsarnaev didn't have options. For several years he'd impressed coaches and others as a particularly talented amateur boxer.
"He moved like a gazelle. He could punch like a mule," said Tom Lee, president of the South Boston Boxing Club, where Tsarnaev began training in 2010."I would describe him as a very ordinary person who didn't really stand out until you saw him fight."
But away from the gym, Tamerlan swaggered around his parents' home like he owned it, those who knew him said. And he began declaring an allegiance to Islam, joined with increasingly inflammatory views.
One of the brothers' neighbors, Albrecht Ammon, recalled an encounter in which the older brother argued with him about U.S. foreign policy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and religion. The Bible, Tamerlan told him, was a "cheap copy" of the Quran, used to justify wars with other countries. "He had nothing against the American people," Ammon said. "He had something against the American government."
Dzhokhar, on the other hand, was "real cool," Ammon said. "A chill guy."
Since the bombing, the younger brother had maintained much of that sense of cool, returning to classes at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and attending student parties.
On the day of the bombing, he wrote on Twitter: "There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority."
But by Tuesday, when he stopped by a Cambridge auto garage, the mechanic, accustomed to long talks with Dzhokhar about cars and soccer, noticed the normally relaxed 19-year-old was biting his nails and trembling.
The mechanic, Gilberto Junior, told Tsarnaev he hadn't had a chance to work on a car he'd dropped off for bumper work. "I don't care. I don't care. I need the car right now," Junior says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told him.
Now, with the photos out, it was time to move. Already, one of Dzhokhar's college classmates had taken to studying the photo of Suspect No. 2 — nearly certain it was his friend, although others were skeptical. It wouldn't take long for others to notice.
The call to the police dispatcher came in at 10:20 p.m. Thursday: shots fired on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. Ten minutes later, when police arrived to investigate, they found one of their own, university officer Sean Collier, shot multiple times inside his cruiser. He had been monitoring traffic near a campus entrance, said Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas.
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Fate of German ss POWs in USSR post war
Posted 29 July 2012 - 12:16 AM
My user name Terang is just the local town near where I live . South west Victoria in Australia !
I was googling Wrangel island after learning that mammoths still lived there up untill about 4000 years ago and I read that many German SS POWs were sent there after the war and that none survived .
What a damn miserable death that must have been if true ? I tried a search of the forum on Wrangel island but no luck . I am wondering if any of you have knowledge of the fate of German ss POWs generally ? The ones who ended up in Soviet hands ?
Is it likely that they were worked to death slowly in far flung gulags ?
I have read a couple of books about the Soviet gulags .
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 12:39 AM
Funnily enough I got a couple of hits when I searched Wrangel on this forum.
Wrangel Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The wikipedia article claims that
The area is also a UNESCO heritage site.
However, despite the legends, there never was a Gulag camp on Wrangel
Googling Wrangel and gulag leads you down a wormhole of weirdness with claims of Soviet gulags on American soil and to some dubious websites.
It would take a lot of work to sort the worthwhile from the wacky.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 01:48 AM
This article from Military History Magazine.
In early April 1945, the United States was responsible for 313,000 prisoners in Europe; by month's end this total had shot up to 2.1 million. After the fall of the Third Reich, the number rose to a staggering 5 million German and Axis POWs. Of those, an estimated 56,000, or about 1 percent, died—roughly equal to the mortality rate American POWs suffered in German hands.
Those held in Soviet-occupied territory fared far worse. Officially, the Soviet Union took 2,388,000 Germans and 1,097,000 combatants from other European nations as prisoners during and just after the war. More than a million of the German captives died. The immense suffering Germany and her Axis partners had caused surely played a key role in the treatment of enemy POWs. "In 1945, in Soviet eyes it was time to pay," wrote British military historian Max Arthur. "For most Russian soldiers, any instinct for pity or mercy had died somewhere on a hundred battlefields between Moscow and Warsaw."
Josef Stalin's regime was ill equipped to deal with prisoners: In 1943 as more enemy units fell into Soviet hands, death rates among POWs lingered around 60 percent. Roughly 570,000 German and Axis prisoners had already died in captivity. By March 1944, conditions began to improve, but for economic reasons: As its manpower was swallowed up in the war effort, the USSR turned to POWs as a surrogate work force. While POWs were not technically part of the gulag system, the lines were often blurred. Camps and detainment centers often comprised poorly constructed huts that offered scant protection from bitter Russian winter winds. The Soviet Union repatriated prisoners at irregular intervals, sometimes in large numbers. As late as 1953, however, at least 20,000 German POWs remained in Russia. After Stalin's death, those men were finally sent home.
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My project is the collection of over 11,400+ RAAF Headstone/Memorial photos located in 70 countries during WW2 and the 360+ from WW1. Can you assist? Do you know someone that can?
My Signature photo is the Battalion history of WW2 and the patch of the 2/8th battalion. (Blood & Bandages)
My Avatar is my dad, Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow "C" Company, 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade, 6th Division AIF. Critically wounded on the first attack on Tobruk, January 21st 1941.
Posted 29 July 2012 - 01:51 AM
I find the subject of the People who have disappeared in the vast area of soviet Russia fascinating . I read that it is possible that as many as 700 000 German POWs may have died while in Soviet captivity post war . That is a hell of a lot of men . Even half that number?
No doubt there are people who do know . I suppose the truth is out there......
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 02:02 AM
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 02:20 AM
Hello Spidge , thanks for that . I think I have read this before somewhere and it leaves me wanting to know more . Where are the eye witness accounts from former soviet soldiers post war ? Men who were guards at camps etc . People of influence and so on ?
How is the weather in Melbourne today ?
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My project is the collection of over 11,400+ RAAF Headstone/Memorial photos located in 70 countries during WW2 and the 360+ from WW1. Can you assist? Do you know someone that can?
My Signature photo is the Battalion history of WW2 and the patch of the 2/8th battalion. (Blood & Bandages)
My Avatar is my dad, Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow "C" Company, 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade, 6th Division AIF. Critically wounded on the first attack on Tobruk, January 21st 1941.
Posted 29 July 2012 - 02:30 AM
Also, welcome to the forum!
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 03:10 AM
Thanks Orwell , I saw those links but there is really nothing in there about wrangel island .
I find the subject of the People who have disappeared in the vast area of soviet Russia fascinating . I read that it is possible that as many as 700 000 German POWs may have died while in Soviet captivity post war . That is a hell of a lot of men . Even half that number?
No doubt there are people who do know . I suppose the truth is out there......
700,000 is a huge number and that is only post war. Long after they had ceased to be combatants and well after the Nazi regime had disappeared. I'm sure many will have no sympathy but death/murder on that scale is a Holocaust in itself. The motivation was probably no different than that which resulted in the Katyn Forest murders.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 04:02 AM
All that said though , there must be plenty of people still around who know more .
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 05:37 AM
I have heard the number as high as 5,000,000. IIRC, Sepp Dietrich's book mentions that 5 million German POWs went into the gulag but less than half returned. Those who did return in the 1950s were interviewed by American intelligence personnel for amongst many things, any information they had on sightings of Allied personnel in the gulag. That was known as Operation Wringer (Japanese POWs returning to Japan from the Soviet Union in the 50s were also interviewed as part of this program).
WRINGER Collection - Federal Research Division,Libraryof Congress
Following World War II, thousands of German and Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps of the Soviet Union. These POWs were forced to help rebuild the Soviet Union following the Second World War. Beginning in 1946, the Soviet Union began releasing thousands of these German and Japanese POWs to their homeland. U.S. Air Force officers quickly realized the tremendous political and military information these ex-POWs possessed, and initiated an intensive interview program. From 1947 through 1956, U.S. Air Force personnel in the U.S. Zone of Germany interviewed over 300,000 ex-POWs. A similar program was initiated by the U.S. Air Force in Japan upon the return of thousands of Japanese POWs.
WRINGER sources ranged from common laborers to highly skilled technicians. These men were detained in forced labor camps throughout the former Soviet Union. The fact that an ex-POW had no particular knowledge did not make the individual valueless. Almost all German and Japanese ex-POWs had the ability to remember at least the broad details of the places where they had worked. Most importantly, some of them remembered meeting, seeing, or hearing about U.S. and allied servicemen who were also detained in the forced labor camps.
Researchers from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Persons Office (DPMO), Joint Commission Support Directorate (JCSD) have initiated a concerted effort to review the WRINGER reports. They are specifically searching for reports that may shed light on the numerous eyewitness sightings of U.S. servicemen reportedly held in Soviet forced labor camps. The WRINGER reports are now declassified and stored in 1,350 boxes at the National Archives' College Park repository.
In addition, the WRINGER reports have triggered considerable interest among many outside researchers. Scholars of the Soviet period have commented on the detail and accuracy contained in the reports, indicating the importance they have for their own inquiries into those individuals unaccounted-for in the Gulag.
The Wrangell Island stories have been around since the early 1930s when it was alleged that US POWs of the 339th Infantry who had fought the Bolsheviks during the Archangel intervention of 1918-19 were seen alive circa 1930.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 10:26 AM
Hard to show the slightest concern for SS troops tbh.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 02:23 PM
I was in Germany recently and heard firsthand about the treatment of captured German soldiers after the war. So the figures are probably true. But 2 wrongs don't make a right!
Regards Barbara
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Those German POWs in Russian hands who were regarded by the Soviet Union as not being tainted with Nazism,ie those who were not regarded as war criminals were generally released and by 1949 approximately 2 million had been returned to the two Germanys.Some 10000 were still retained in 1955 on the basis of being war criminals or for anti Soviet activity in the POW camps.After Stalin's death in March 1953 some thought was given to the release of these remaining prisoners and certain individuals were released to the keeping of the GDR.
Against this background in early 1955, the new Soviet regime wished to establish diplomatic relations with West Germany and with this new turn in foreign policy in mind,Adenauer was invited to visit the Soviet Union.Adenauer had his own agenda and saw the chance to negotiate for the release of the remaining POWs.What he did not know was that the Russian intended to release these criminals as a measure of goodwill during Adenauer's visit to Moscow.
The outcome was that after Adenauer's week visit in September 1955,the repatriation of German POWs began from October 1955.Progress was not smoooth and repatriation resumed after a number of Russians in German goals were released to the Russians but by the end of January 1956,all German POWs were released to the west.
Early in 1955,the notorious,widely abhorred Field Marshal Ferdinand Schoerner had already been released from Soviet captivity to face charges from the German Association of Returned Prisoners for his drumhead courts martial and his execution of soldiers without trial.One of the POWs released under the Adenauer negotiations was Wilhelm Moncke who although accused of the murder of British POWs in 1940 lived his life out in Hamburg, seemingly untouchable as regards being apprehended by the British authoritories.
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An integration of agency theory and socialization models is developed and used to explain the types of governance and organizational structures associated with self-initiated subsidiary innovation. This theorizing suggests that: 1) The hub structure is the greatest user of behavior-based contracting and engenders the fewest self-initiated innovations; 2) The federation structure is the greatest user of outcome-based contracting and engenders the most self-initiated innovations, but these are primarily oriented to business level strategy rather than corporate; and, 3) The network structure is the greatest user of goal internalization and is the strongest generator of self-initiated innovations which are oriented to corporate-level strategy. The empirical evidence from extant studies of other researchers in the field is consistent with these propositions. Implications for management practice, research and theory are discussed in the paper.
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Merlot, Part 1 - A Sideways Glance
I have always rooted for the underdog, drawn to the dark horse; sure things and odds on favorites need not apply…..My Dad would have said being a Dodger fan has taken its toll. And so it goes; when it comes to wines my preference also leans to the runner-up. I often pass on the popular choice and instead, opt for its viticulture next of kin. When Cabernet Sauvignon is what's for dinner, trust I will be sipping Merlot.
Not to say dark brooding Cabernet isn't tempting with its flirtatious undertones of blackberry, cassis, dark cherry and chocolate…..wait…..am I describing Merlot? Yes. In fact, on a palate chart Cabernet and Merlot are kissing cousins and easily confused. If you want to have some fun, (admittedly wine-geeky fun) invite a few friends for a blind-tasting featuring Cabernet and Merlot. Make certain the wines are of similar pedigree, bottles in the $25 to $45 price range offer worthy contenders. Castello di Amorosa's 2006 and 2008 Merlot are two of my favorite wines produced by Brooks Painter and his Castello team. Put these beauties in the lineup and even in the presence of well-seasoned palates, I predict a dead heat; a 50/50 split. In tasting panels Merlot is said to possess a softness or a roundness not typically associated with Cabernet. Why then the ridicule for this benevolent cultivar, which is, in fact, the most widely planted grape in all of France!? (Sacre bleu). Truth be told, Merlot is prolific in many regions and quite possibly this is at the root of its undoing.
Merlot could wear the banner "Just Because You Can Grow Something Doesn't Mean You Should" but we'll cover geography in Part 2. This over-abundance and plenitude eventually lead to Merlot becoming the marketing darling of the 90's. Finally a wine our thick American tongues could pronounce. (I wonder how many "peanut noyas" were ordered?) Restaurants eagerly filled their wine lockers with this fashionable red. However, this trend ran its course as the over-planted Merlot often bordered on insipid rather than inspiring and earned a "sideways" glance.
Seemingly overnight Merlot became 'persona non grata' in tasting rooms as an often quoted movie line rang through the wine country. Out went Merlot and in came the next grape of favor. (shh, don't tell me chateau Petrus!)
Well, fear not Merlot loving readers! Merlot is back with a vengeance and it's better than ever. Next I'll cover a few regions that are cultivating this classic with new vigor and excitement.
Until then, go drink some Merlot!
Mary Davidek C. S., S.W.
We're a corporate retreat for team-building!
On April 30, 2013, The New York Times wrote about the trend where wineries are hosting retreats for corporate team building. Here's an excerpt:
IT seems counterintuitive for companies to take their employees somewhere where the alcohol begins to flow even before lunch is served. But wineries around the world are increasingly accommodating businesses asking for meeting space, catering and even wine-making lessons for their workers. In the Napa Valley, the vineyards producing the region's famous cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay have long welcomed tourists and about 10 percent of them are traveling on business, according to the Napa Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau, so it is no wonder that many of the valley's wineries encourage corporate gatherings.….Castello di Amorosa, a castle and wine estate inspired by 13th-century Tuscany, where Mary Pham, digital marketing manager for Toyota, recently held an event for auto dealers. Other businesses that come for work-related meetings might want to advise their employees to dress down, because team-building activities here could mean stomping grapes.
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Ragin' Cajun spices things up at the Castello
On Saturday, April 20th, New Orleans came to the Castello for our Ragin' Cajun party. As the sun went down, the beads and beats came out, and the Castello was transformed into a sizzling scene full of live music, tarot readings, and hot and spicy Cajun foods paired with our Castello wines!
The main event featured Gator Beat, a high-energy Zydeco and New Orleans R&B band based out of Sonoma. They kept the Cajun beats going throughout the evening out in our courtyard, where guests dressed in their best Creole "style" danced the night away.
In all I'd say it was a "ragin'" success, but you can see for yourself in the photos below!
You know it's going to be a great night when Fantasia is flowing!
Gator Beat getting the party started out in the courtyard.
A few of our favorite Wine Club members with the Voodoo King.
Guests enjoying some of the delicious Cajun cuisine (and Castello wines!) in our Great Hall.
So many good things in one pot!
All of the delicious Creole cuisine at the party was provided for our guests by Oak Avenue Catering. Ca c'est bon!
Way to rock that New Orleans style!
The featured cocktail of the evening was the "Hurricane di Amorosa," a tantalizingly effervescent mix of our Fantasia with orange sorbet. Santé!
Who wants to hear their future? Tarot card readings in the chapel.
Feelin' the love!
Ragin' Cajun Ladies
Willard Blackwell on washboard keeping the Zydeco beats bumping through the night.
Out on the dance floor. Laissez les bon temps roulet!
Il Barone himself, Dario Sattui, made an appearance later on in the evening.
Our wonderful events team celebrating the fruits of their labors. Merci boucoups for throwing such a great party!
Another fantastic Wine Club event at the Castello. We're looking forward to next year already!
Photos by Raymond Ibita Photography. Check out his album here or visit our Facebook page!
2011 Napa Valley Chardonnay is the St. Helena Star's Wine of the Week
Wine of the Week: Castello di Amorosa 2011 Napa Valley Chardonnay
This is a crowd-pleaser of a chardonnay. It has nice aromas of vanilla and toffee along with flavors of red apple, pear and spice, which will appeal to lovers of oak-influenced chardonnays. Yet the wine is not over-oaked. It is balanced with a freshness that allows fans of crisper white wines to appreciate it as well. With this chardonnay ($28), you won't need to stress over which style to choose for your next dinner party.
Not only does Castello di Amorosa's winemaker, Brooks Painter, continue to roll out beautiful wines, but the winery's schedule is jam-packed with fun events. Next weekend there is the Ragin' Cajun Party followed by a Midsummer Medieval Festival, and then Hot Havana Nights — among many others. It is likely you will find something intriguing!
You can read the full article in the Napa Valley Register here
2009 Sangiovese is
Enofylz came to visit and chose the 2009 Sangiovese as Wine of the Week. With our thanks…here's an excerpt of the review, with more at the link below:
The fruit for this wine is primarily from the Castello di Amorosa estate. In addition to Sangiovese, this wine also includes a bit of Merlot. Carmine color with cherry, mushroom. and dried rose petal aromas. On the palate, it's medium-bodied, and fresh with a smooth texture and sour cherry, strawberry, vanilla flavors with a savory undertone and a lengthy finish.
Rating: A- (90pts): I really enjoyed this wine. It has a nice balance of fruit, oak and earthiness.
Pair with: I enjoyed this wine with lasagna (if it grows together, it goes together after all;-), but don't limit your pairings to pizza and red-sauced pasta. Pair with caprese salad with fresh basil, Italian bread soup, wild mushroom risotto, rustic paella, grilled fare, and a variety of cheeses. For example consider pairing with mild blue-veined cheeses like Gorgonzola or Cambozola.
You can read the full review by Enofylz here
The Terroirist reviews our 2008 La Castellana
With our thanks to Terroirist for reviewing the 2008 La Castellana:
91 points: Intoxicating aromas of wild raspberries, sweet plums, some violets, fig paste and cedar. Fresh red and black fruits start off the palate, raspberry, plum, fig, even some notes of dried apricot. Flavors of soil, coffee, cedar and hazelnut add complexity. The tannins have smooth edges, making this easy to drink now, although I think it could be cellared for five years easily. The acid lingers onto the finish along subtle notes of vanilla bean and toast. A fruit-forward yet elegant blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot and 16% Sangiovese. Simply delicious
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SipSwirlSavor reviews our
Our thanks to SipSwirlSavor for reviewing our Sangiovese:
A sensible Sangiovese from the Napa Valley
Italian grape varieties are fairly uncommon in the Napa Valley. That being said, the few Napa Sangioveses I've had in the past have tasted less like their Italian counterpart and more like a Napa Cabernet. Which made me wonder why a Napa winery would even bother making anything besides Cab. And yet, Castello di Amorosa has committed itself to producing Italian-style wines from Napa-grown grapes.
Charmed by the architecture and the chickens roaming the landscape, I felt transported to Tuscany when I visited the Castle in Calistoga for a brief tasting in 2010. Since then, the winery has hired a new consulting winemaker and the vineyards have matured in ways that do the Tuscan varieties justice.
I recently opened a bottle of the 2009 Castello di Amorosa Napa Valley Sangiovese. Upon my initial quaff, the wine was tight and restrained. I poured a little more through a WineSoiree and swirled it around in the glass while my eggplant parmesan warmed up in the oven. It wasn't long before this wine started singing a beautiful tune.
The perfume of rose petal, dried herbs and red cherry hits a very similar note to that of Chianti Classico. On the palate, notes of cranberry and currant shine alongside excellent acidity and dusty tannins. Despite it's Calistoga birthright, this wine definitely has an Old World sensibility.
The wine's high acid was the perfect match for the tomato sauce with my eggplant parmesan. It was a delightful pairing that continued to get better as the wine continued to flourish. By the end of my meal (and my second glass of wine), sweet aromas of black cherry and ripe plum dominated the nose of this medium-bodied Sangio. Rhubarb and cocoa became more pronounced on the palate, and the finish lingered with juicy cherry and spicy vanilla.
Talking about our Gewurztraminers
WineWiseWeb reviewed three of our 2011 Gewurztraminers: "…a trio of beautifully made 2011 Gewurztraminers from Dario Sattui's dream winery in Calistoga. Winemaker Brooks Painter shows his deft hand with the variety with three different styles…Gewurz brings different varietal characteristics forward at different sugar levels. Each of these wines delivers excellent quality and complexity of aroma and flavor….
Castello di Amorosa's Gewurztraminer Dolcino
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Enofylz chooses La Castellana as
Our thanks to Enofylz for choosing the 2008 La Castellana as his Wine of the Week:
Here's a taste of his review:
"Every Thursday I feature a wine I particularly enjoy, whether it's something new and different, is a great value, or from a producer worth checking out. For this week, my Wine Of The Week is the 2008 Castello di Amorosa La Castellana. Opaque dark garnet color with aromatic dark red fruits, toasted oak,and spiced tobacco aromas. On the palate, it's voluptuous and smooth with well-integrated soft dusty tannins, good balance, and blackberry, plum, bittersweet chocolate, and spiced vanilla flavors. Long finish. Rating: A- (91pts). Pair with: Hearty fare such as grilled steak, sausages, Venison Stuffed Mushroom Caps, Shepherd's Pie, Braised Lamb Shanks, Veal Parmesan or Rigatoni with a wild boar ragú."
And there's more: http://enofylzwineblog.com/2013/03/28/wine-of-the-week-castello-di-amorosa-2008-la-castellana/
Dario Sattui donates $1 million to Boys and Girls Club of Calistoga
Dario Sattui, owner of V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena and Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, has pledged $1 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Helena and Calistoga for its future construction of a permanent Club facility in Calistoga.
Listen to Dario's interview on KGO 810:
"I am really proud to make this small contribution to the future of our community, and believe this will make a positive impact. Let's hope the Club can raise the rest of the money quickly and open the new Club, "said Sattui.
Dario Sattui with the Board of Directors and Staff of the Boys and Girls Club of St. Helena and Calistoga
"This is a landmark moment for our organization," commented Club Executive Director Jay Templeton. "Mr. Sattui's magnificent lead gift provides us the framework to begin focused discussions of our Calistoga project. The Boys & Girls Clubs and Mr. Sattui share the same values of respect for the environment, and the importance of agriculture, nutrition, exercise, academics, entrepreneurship, technology skills and guidance in preparing today's youth to be productive 21st century citizens."
Currently the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Helena and Calistoga operates an after-school program located at the Calistoga Elementary School on Berry Street. In 2012, registered youth membership at that site was 395 with an average daily attendance of 129. The Club also operates a Teen Center located in the city's Monhoff Center on Grant Street adjacent to the Calistoga Junior-Senior High School.
"For some time, the Board of Directors has discussed a Calistoga project," said Templeton. "Our St. Helena facility was opened in January of 2008 following a successful capital campaign. The next vision has been to establish a permanent facility in Calistoga through community fundraising."
On April 26th, the Board of Directors will hold a Board retreat specifically to discuss the Club's Calistoga future, including discussions on a potential location, cost, size, fundraising and timing. "We hope to come out of that day with basic direction and to set the course for a new Boys & Girls Club building in Calistoga," remarked Templeton.
Sattui will attend the Club's Board of Directors meeting at noon on March 20th to present two $500,000 checks. Each of his local businesses, V. Sattui Winery and Castello di Amorosa are contributing jointly.
The Sattui donation is the second lead gift received for the future Calistoga project. In November of 2012, the DeLong-Sweet Family Foundation made the first contribution, a $250,000 pledge arranged by Calistoga residents Paul and Pamela Ingalls. The Boys & Girls Club hopes these early donations are an indication of the support it will have and need in order to complete the Calistoga capital campaign and the construction project.
The children of the Boys and Girls Club of St. Helena and Calistoga with Dario Sattui and staff.
Noted Board of Directors President, Kathleen Herdell, "We are thrilled by the generosity of Dario, Paul and Pamela. Their contributions will touch the lives of Up-Valley children for generations to come. 'Thank you' just doesn't adequately capture the gratitude we feel for these visionaries and role models. They are helping to give the kids a safe and positive place to be after school and all summer long. Having watched the excited faces of kids as they enter the St. Helena Clubhouse, I can't wait to give the Calistoga children that same experience."


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In 2006, GAO investigated companies selling direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests and testified that these companies made medically unproven disease predictions. Although new companies have since been touted as being more reputable--Time named one company's test 2008's "invention of the year"--experts remain concerned that the test results mislead consumers. GAO was asked to investigate DTC genetic tests currently on the market and the advertising methods used to sell these tests. GAO purchased 10 tests each from four companies, for $299 to $999 per test. GAO then selected five donors and sent two DNA samples from each donor to each company: one using factual information about the donor and one using fictitious information, such as incorrect age and race or ethnicity. After comparing risk predictions that the donors received for 15 diseases, GAO made undercover calls to the companies seeking health advice. GAO did not conduct a scientific study but instead documented observations that could be made by any consumer. To assess whether the tests provided any medically useful information, GAO consulted with genetics experts. GAO also interviewed representatives from each company. To investigate advertising methods, GAO made undercover contact with 15 DTC companies, including the 4 tested, and asked about supplement sales, test reliability, and privacy policies. GAO again consulted with experts about the veracity of the claims.
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I'm working with one team right now that has gotten really good at calling their shots... but... people keep getting pulled in and out of the team. Having a stable velocity is predicated upon the team working together, staying together, and learning how to estimate and plan together. The constant churn at the team level is making it really tough to establish a consistent velocity iteration over iteration. While the team is great at calling their shots, they are still not able to really say what they can get done... and by when.
I'm a big believer that if we can't get some idea of what we are going to deliver, and when we are going to deliver it... pretty quickly after spinning up a team... agile is almost a non-starter for most companies. Many of the companies I work with are not prepared to make an indefinite investment, with no idea of what they are going to get in return. Sure... agile teams fix time and cost, and vary scope to meet iteration objectives... but we have to have some ability to look ahead and manage the expectations of our customers. We have to have good data to help them make good decisions.
What I am really saying here, is that while calling your shots is essential, calling your shots isn't really enough. You also have to get good at understanding the size of your bucket. What does that mean? It means that iteration over iteration, I need to establish some kind pattern for how much feature functionality I can deliver back to the business. Out of the gate, I don't really care what the team delivers... or even how much they deliver... I want to know their delivery capacity over time. Not a hard fixed number, but a stable trend that I can base product decisions.
Over time, we will remove the teams blockers and help them deliver more effectively, but initially... they need to get good at calling their shots... and establishing the size of their bucket. So please... let me know what you think. Am I expecting too much from our agile teams? Should teams just be able to do what they can with no expectation of committed delivery? Even at the iteration level?
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The Flyer is not even out and we have news of a new tablet from the Taiwan mobile giant prepared to come to AT&T. Nicknamed the HTC Puccini, this true 4G enabled tablet supposedly sports a 10" display panel and probably the first true 4G band supported tablet across any service provider.
It is safe to assume that the Puccini will run Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. Expect it to have the scribe pen support that will be available in the Flyer as well.
The Puccini is rumored to be out in June, but pricing is not yet known.
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Video of BottleRocket's The Flash hits the net
After the break is a video for the canceled superhero game, The Flash game.
It's the one BottleRocket was making before its publisher, Brash, hit the skids.
The footage you will see is just six months worth of work, and there was still at the least a year to go on it.
Too bad, really, it looked rather appealing for a superhero title.
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I have a "Data" directory, that I rsync to a remote NAS periodically via a shell script.
However, I'd like to make this more efficient. I'd like to detect if something has changed in "Data" before running rsync. This is so that I don't wake up the drives on the NAS unnecessarily.
I was thinking of modifying the shell script to get the latest modified time of the files in Data (by using a recursive find), and write that to a file every time Data is rsynced.
Before every sync, the shell script can compare the current timestamp of "Data" with the previous timestamp when "Data" was sync'd. If the current timestamp is newer, then rsync, otherwise do nothing.
My question is, is there a more efficient way to figure out if the "Data" directory is modified since the last rsync? Note that Data has many, many, layers of sub-directories.


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James Carl "Jake" Walker Sr., 90, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Houma, died Saturday, June 11, 2005.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to funeral time Monday at St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church. Mass will be at noon Monday at the church, with internment in Magnolia Cemetery.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 66 years, Felicie Wurzlow Walker; six children, Jake Walker Jr. and wife, Sarah, Bernadette Walker Day and husband, Winston Day, of Baton Rouge, Thomas Walker and wife, Mimi, Daniel Walker and wife, Georgiana, Mike Walker and wife, Lorelei, and Sally Walker Kerns of Houston; 11 grandchildren, Jay Walker and wife, Amy, Kathy Mella and husband, David, Tom Walker, Alice Walker, Ben Walker and wife, Alexis, Chris Walker and wife, Rebecca, Wendy Walker, Brian Walker, Michael Walker and wife, Beth, Walker Kerns and John Kerns; seven great-grandchildren, Meghan Mella, Ashton Mella, Nicolas Walker, Joseph Walker, Jacob Walker, John Paul Walker and Delaney Walker.
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SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) _ A suburban Kansas City man says he didn't know that a nail was driven deep into his head until his buddy spotted it stuck through his cap.
Speaking Wednesday on NBC's "Today,'' George Chandler of Shawnee, Kan., said his friend, Phil Kern, was using a nail gun to mount lattice on Chandler's deck when a hose on the powerful tool became caught.
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Extract fragrances from your favorite plants, using steam.
This all started when my Mom was exposed to radiation and developed a super-power.
At 58, my mother was treated for cancer with injections of radioactive iodine. When it was over, her cancer was gone, but she'd developed an unnaturally acute sense of smell, which seems to be permanent. She soon became fascinated with perfumery and aromatherapy, and one day asked me, "How do you capture a natural fragrance?"
The trick is called steam distillation, and it's little known today because the fragrance industry has replaced the independent perfumer, who used to sweat in solitude over a bubbling basement still. But in 18th-century France, the perfumer's knowledge of steam distillation amounted to a kind of practical alchemy — the ability to capture a beautiful, ephemeral sensation and preserve it for sale.
Here we extract the earthy scent of rosemary, but almost any fragrant plant should work well for this project. The technique is simple: steam rises through a strainer full of plant matter, vaporizing volatile oils and other fragrant compounds, which condense on an icy bowl and drip into a small receiving bowl. Start your essence!
CAUTION: Do not use glass cookware in this project unless you understand how to prevent breakage due to thermal shock. Even borosilicate glass can shatter explosively if heated or cooled too rapidly. Also, be very careful to avoid steam burns while inspecting the still and/or emptying the receiving bowl.
Decide what kind of fragrance(s) you would like to extract. Generally, the stronger your plant matter smells to begin with, the better. Rosemary, lemon verbena, vanilla, scented gardenia, lavender, and wild rose are just a few of the many possibilities.
Set the pot on the stove and fill it with water to just below the bottom strainer when it's in place. Tap water is fine. Then put the strainer in place.
Fill the bottom strainer with an even, loose layer of your plant matter. You may compact the plants a bit, but be sure to leave them loose enough to allow steam to pass through from below.
The small receiving bowl sits on the bottom of the uppermost strainer. If you have only 1 strainer, you can just set the bowl on top of the plants, or you can clear a space in the plant layer for the bowl to rest. Just make sure that it's centered in the pot, and as level as possible.
Fill the large condensing bowl generously with ice and position it in the opening of the top strainer, as shown. Make sure that it's level and centered over the receiving bowl. Your still is complete. I named mine the VapoShrub.
Essential oils can be used to scent homemade soaps, lotions, or candles. Drop a cup of floral water into your bathwater for a scented bath, or heat some in a vaporizer for aromatherapy. Mom adds some to her humidifier, or to a dishcloth that she tosses in the drier to scent the laundry. Experiment!
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The "More info" link on the bar has picked up the colour of the links in the theme sidebar (I think). Since that is a dark purple it is almost invisible against the black bar. The hover colour is dark grey, though that is not one I have set in the sidebar.
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