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SAN JOSE--Nick Pino, one of the youngest artists Sunday at the Big Wow Comic Book Convention, still likes the look and feel of his fantasies and imagination printed on paper. But most of his friends read comics online.
"A lot of people are telling me, 'Dude, you've got to get online!' " said Pino, a 22-year-old art student from Fairfield with two fledgling comic books under his belt. "But I like how a comic book feels in my hands, how it looks as I turn the pages. I'm just not ready to give it up."
Apparently, lots of comic book fans aren't ready to drop their beloved, old-school, dead-tree, dinosaur form of fantastical, cartoon storytelling on bound paper pages. Hundreds of them turned out for the weekend festival to meet the artists, buy vintage comic books, attend drawing and storytelling workshops and generally commune together in the imagination.
Quite a few fans dressed up as their favorite superhero or -villain: There were at least four Wonder Women, two Lara Crofts, one Alien monster, a Jack Sparrow, a Thor, and a squadron of Star Wars storm troopers.
"She's a very strong female, leading character," said Rose May, 31, of Sacramento, whose Lara Croft costume included black smudges on her face and arms and a bow slung across her back. "She relies on herself to get what she wants."
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While costumed fans ruled the aisles, the comic book artists and writers mostly sat in their booths, autographed copies and chatted up their next line of comics. Conversations with a handful seemed to put the comics in the same sinkhole with newspapers, magazines and books -- printed media fighting for survival against the Internet.
"I think that's where the comics are headed," said Joe Benitez, an East Los Angeles comics artist since 1993. His newest creation is Lady Mechanica, a sexy, cyborg survivor of a mad scientist's experiment who becomes a paranormal investigator and solves crimes that stump Scotland Yard.
His drawings are highly detailed, filled in with elaborate colors and require the time and patience of a fine artist. Then comes the printing, shipping and paying off the publishers and retailers who will take their share of any profits from printed products.
In the end, Benitez said, what could save comics from death-by-Internet is the aftermarket sales and marketing of successful comic books. He said the real money comes from the second, third and subsequent runs, when prices typically are increased. Even better is when a comic book becomes a collector's item.
Todd Kamena, a dentist from Livermore, has been collecting comic books since he was 10. He stopped by Benitez's booth for an autograph.
"He can tell the story as compellingly through his pictures as with his words," said Kamena, who has about 8,000 volumes in his collection.
Kamena said comic book artists are cutting costs by drawing the outlines of their characters and background scenes and then having the colors filled in by digital artists. Still, it takes old-fashioned footwork and networking to get a new comic book off the ground.
Hard startup
Anthony Wayne Pettus, 59, left Los Angeles and a career in the movies for his native San Francisco and a shot as a comics artist. His first two series -- The Inheritors and the Fearless Army Ant -- feature African-American and other heroes of color battling evil in a futuristic world dominated by insects.
"It's really hard starting a comic," Pettus said. "A lot of people who come here already have their favorite books."
Like other new writers, he paid for the printing and costs of presenting his books at similar conventions like the Big Wow. The goal is to sign on with a publisher willing to market the books, give him a healthy advance for the next line and generally build his brand.
A few booths away, two women in the same entry-level stage as Pettus were showing their first books that were unlike any of the traditional comics around them. Instead of drawing panels, Etanna Zak and Lydia Harari, of San Francisco, take digital photographs of real people and places and rework the colors and outlines for a hot, electrified look. In another comic book, they start with water color paintings.
Their plots are unorthodox, too. There are no heroes saving the world or giant lizards stomping everything, just people ruminating about life.
"We're looking to explore the nature of reality and experience," Zak said, "this thing that happens and we call life."
Contact Joe Rodriguez at 408-920-5767. Follow him at Twitter.com/joerodmercury.


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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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3.2 Holocaust denial
3.2.1 Standing apart from this very substantial scholarly literature is the phenomenon of 'Holocaust denial'. This is the attempt by a very small number of writers to deny that there was any systematic or organized extermination of Europe's Jews by the Nazis; to suggest that the number of Jews killed was far smaller than five or six million; and to claim that there were no gas chambers or other specially built extermination facilities.1 In her book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt summarizes the deniers' arguments as follows:The motives of 'Holocaust deniers', Lipstadt argues, are varied, but many of them are extremists of the far right who wish to resurrect fascism and know that this historical blot on the reputation of fascism must first be removed if it is to stand any chance of political rehabilitation.
The Holocaust - the attempt to annihilate the Jewish people - never happened. Typical of the deniers' attempt to obfuscate is their claim that they do not deny that there was a Holocaust, only that there was a plan or an attempt to annihilate the Jewish people...The real crimes against civilization were committed by the Americans, Russians, Britons, and French against the Germans...The Germans suffered the bombing of Dresden, wartime starvation, invasions,...victors' vengeance at Nuremberg, and brutal mistreatment by Soviet and Allied occupiers...The postwar venom toward Germany has been so extreme that Germans found it impossible to defend themselves. Consequently, rather than fight this ignominious accusation, they decided to acknowledge their complicity....The central assertion for the deniers is that Jews are not victims but victimizers. They "stole" billions in reparations, destroyed Germany's good name by spreading the "myth" of the Holocaust, and...used the world's sympathy to "displace" another people so that the state of Israel could be established.2
3.2.2 Lipstadt's book is only one of a number of studies of the phenomenon of 'Holocaust denial'. The British political scientist Roger Eatwell(also an expert witness in the present case), a specialist in the study of fascism and neo-fascism, has argued for example along similar, if more differentiated lines. He notes that Holocaust denial takes a number of different forms and its exponents embark upon it for a number of different motives. Some are mainly antisemitic, some seek to deligitimise the state of Israel, some are overtly neo-fascist. It should not be a cause for surprise, therefore, that there are disagreements among them. Some are crude and overtly antisemitic in the presentation of their ideas, others - usually referring to themselves as 'Historical Revisionists' - are more academic in style. Both work in tandem, however. As Eatwell comments, 'there seems to be a dual strategy of using more reasoned arguments to appeal to the educated, and cruder arguments to appeal to the more stereotypical neo-Fascist activist.'3 Eatwell distinguishes four specific arguments common amongst Holocaust deniers, with variations of emphasis and accentuation.
- 3.2.3 First, they point to the absence of any document signed by Hitler and ordering the extermination of the Jews, and the absence of references to gassing in documents like the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. Pursuing this point further, they tend to argue that the language of supposedly incriminating documents is open to a variety of interpretations, some of them not at all sinister. Thus Arthur Butz, for instance, notes that the terms Endlösung (Final Solution) and Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) can be found in contexts where it referred to matters other than killing.4 As far as Holocaust deniers are concerned, Nazi antisemitism was largely a matter of rhetoric. Practice was very different. Postwar evidence from the Nuremberg trials is dismissed as the product of 'victors' justice', of poor court procedures, bias (it is alleged for example that there were a lot of Jews working for the prosecutors) and testimony extracted under torture and threats. A recent Holocaust denial work, for example, has asserted that the former commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, was 'beaten almost to death' and his wife and children threatened before he gave his testimony. Minor errors in Höss's evidence are taken as discrediting the whole.5
- 3.2.4 Secondly, Holocaust deniers discount or attempt to discredit the postwar testimony of survivors of the camps, again pointing out minor errors and contrasting this evidence with eyewitness accounts of Germans who were alive at the time.
- 3.2.5 Thirdly, they argue that the alleged evidence of the Holocaust, including photographs, and documents such as Anne Frank's diary, is a postwar fabrication, and use population statistics to show that the figure of Jews who died must have been much less than six million.
- 3.2.6 Fourthly and finally they deploy a range of 'scientific' arguments to disprove the Holocaust. The French writer Robert Faurisson has been particularly active here, using parallel evidence from the gassings of individual capital offenders in the USA and from the commercial use of Zyklon-B. This line of argument, says Eatwell, was strongly reinforced by the 'Leuchter Report' in 1988.
These details will be discussed further below. The point to note here is that Eatwell, while broadly agreeing with Lipstadt, places particular emphasis on the argument that the evidence for the Holocaust was fabricated, or produced under duress or under psychological stress, after the war, as a central element of denial.
3.2.7 The distinguished French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, writing in 1980, outlined six major principles of Holocaust 'revisionism', along broadly similar lines. These were:
- There was no genocide, and the gas chambers never existed.
- The 'final solution' was merely the expulsion of the Jews to eastern Europe.
- The number of Jewish victims of Nazism is far smaller than has been claimed.
- Hitler's Germany shares the responsibility for the Second World War with the Jews
- The principal enemy of the human race was the Soviet Union, not Nazi Germany.
- The genocide was an invention of Allied propaganda, which was largely Jewish.
3.2.8 Vidal-Naquet also went beyond this list of core beliefs to elaborate an outline of 'revisionist' methods. Those who argued in this manner, he wrote, declared that 'any direct testimony contributed by a Jew is either a lie or a fantasy', and that documents describing the gassings and mass killings were either forgeries or falsifications, or were simply ignored. 'Any Nazi document bearing direct testimony is taken at face value if it is written in coded language, but unacknowledged (or underinterpreted) if it is written plainly.' Nazi testimony obtained after the end of the war is usually considered as having been obtained under torture, or by intimidation. The falsification and suppression of evidence are key methods. 'A vast pseudotechnical arsenal is mobilized to demonstrate the material impossibility of mass gassings.'6
3.2.9 Yisrael Gutman, author of Denying the Holocaust (Jerusalem, 1985), defined what is known in German as the 'Auschwitz-Lie' as
the slogan under which the murder of the European Jews by the National Socialists is denied, the losses amongst the Jews are portrayed as enormously exaggerated, the murder of the Jews as the result of a purposeful policy is disputed, and the tendentious and trivialising claim is advanced that this process was not unique but had precedents which even served as models...The most extreme are those who claim that the authorities of the "'Third Reich'" never planned to murder the Jews of Europe, that no extermination camps were constructed or operated, and that the claim that the National Socialists systematically murdered five to six million Jews is an invention.
3.2.10 Gutman distinguished between 'partial' and 'extreme' deniers, but noted that even extreme deniers conceded that between 200,000 and 400,000 Jews were killed (estimates varied) and that all deniers dismissed the testimony of Jewish survivors as worthless.7 Gutman's argument that the mention of parallels and precedents is an integral part of Holocaust denial reflects the time when he was writing, as a number of German historians were arguing along these lines, and is not typical of the broader literature on this subject.8 However, other writers on the subject concur that the denial of the uniqueness of the Nazi mass murder of the Jews certainly does belong among the central tenets of Holocaust denial.
3.2.11 The German political scientist Armin Pfahl-Traughber, writing in 1996, also using the German term 'Auschwitz-Lie', argued that it was going too far to include in it, as Gutman did, the argument that there was no concerted policy in National Socialism to exterminate the Jews, or that the extermination had parallels and precedents elsewhere, and preferred a more restricted definition, tied more closely to the political aim of the moral rehabilitation of Nazism. He pointed out that since the 1970s Holocaust deniers had tended to give themselves the label 'Revisionists' in order to suggest that what they were engaged in was a legitimate exercise in revising historical interpretations rather than (as was really the case) a pseudo-scholarly falsification of the historical record. Pfahl-Traughber suggested that there was a broad and a narrow way of understanding the phenomenon. In its broadest sense, 'Revisionism' was a general term under which all attempts to make National Socialism seem harmless could be grouped, from the denial of its responsibility for the outbreak of the Second World War to relativising comparisons (Auschwitz and Dresden). The narrow and in his view the more correct definition, was the denial of the mass extermination of Jews in the gas chambers of the extermination camps, or in other words the 'Auschwitz-Lie'. But while Pfahl-Traughber was correct to argue for a precise and quite restricted definition, he in turn went too far in narrowing it down. The reason for his extremely narrow definition lay partly in the common German usage ('Auschwitz-Lie' rather than 'Holocaust denial'), and partly in his wish to tie it exclusively to far-right and neo-Nazi politics, but mainly he was arguing for a narrow understanding of the concept because for a variety of reasons he wished to tie it to the legal definition in Paragraphs 130, 131, 185 and 189 of the German Criminal Code, which make it an offence to deny the Holocaust in the sense of denying the mass murder of Jews in the gas chambers. In view of the fact that the real centre of Holocaust denial by any definition is in the United States, it would be wrong for a general, internationally applicable definition of the term to be tied too closely to the understanding accorded it in German law. Moreover, what we are dealing with in the actual terms of the libel suit brought by Irving against Lipstadt and Penguin Books is of course the concept 'Holocaust denial', not the concept 'Auschwitz-Lie'.9
3.2.12 At the other extreme, perhaps the most elaborate of all check-lists of Holocaust denial beliefs has been drawn up by Limor Yagil, a researcher working for the Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University. He has argued, again with a somewhat differing emphasis, that 'since the 1970s there has been general consensus among Holocaust deniers on the following positions and principles':
- (1) There never was any genocide, and the gas chambers that symbolized it never existed.
- (2) Jewish victims of the Nazis number far fewer than 6 million.
- (3) Hitler's Germany does not bear primary responsibility for the Second World War, but shares this responsibility with the Jews, and perhaps should not be held responsible at all.
- (4) The main enemy of mankind in the 30s and 40s was not Nazi Germany, but Stalin's Soviet Union.
- (5) The "Final Solution" never called for more than expelling the Jews to Eastern Europe.
- (6) Most of the Jews who perished in pogroms or disappeared, had been in territories under Soviet, not German, control.
- (7) The claim of genocide was invented by the Allies - primarily by Jews, and in particular by Zionists - to serve propaganda purposes.
- (8) The Jews killed by the Germans were mostly subversive elements, spies, and criminals.10
3.2.13 Not all of these views, of course, relate directly to the Nazi extermination of the Jews; for the purposes of the present discussion, for example, number (4) in the above list can be discounted, and numbers (3) and (8) are less than central. However, a number of the views listed by Yagil do correspond closely to those cited by other writers on Holocaust denial in their surveys of the literature.
3.2.14 In most works on Holocaust denial, the issues are put more simply than they are by Yagil. Thus a relatively early writer on this phenomenon, Gill Seidel, in her book The Holocaust Denial: Antisemitism, Racism and the New Right, published in 1986, noted:
In various parts of the world, a small but increasingly vocal minority is claiming that the mass extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany never took place; that the gas chambers never existed; that Anne Frank's diary is a fraud; that the war atrocity photographs showing the heaps of bodies of camp inmates are also fakes. The Holocaust is presented as "a gigantic hoax" and "the myth of the twentieth century".11
3.2.15 Like other writers on this topic, Seidel observed that 'there is not one single version of the neo-Nazi myth denying the Holocaust and the gas chamber, but several', although she ascribed them all, as Eatwell, writing a decade or more later, no longer did, to the resurgence of international neo-Nazism.12 Seidel listed four central beliefs of Holocaust denial literature:These beliefs, she argued, were common to a variety of Holocaust deniers in Britain, France, the United States and elsewhere.
- 1. The Nuremberg trial conducted by the Allies at the end of the war to judge Nazi war crimes was a "kangaroo court" because prisoners were tortured to obtain confessions; and the judiciary were Jews or communists, or under their influence. It was therefore a case of "victors' justice".
- 2. The Holocaust is a "hoax", a "swindle", "a multi-million dollar racket" to make Jews rich (at the expense of Germany through war reparations) and to justify the Jewish state at the expense of Palestinians.
- 3. Allied bombings and atrocities, particularly crimes against the civilian population, like the bombing of Dresden, were on the same scale as, or even exceeded, alleged German atrocities.
- 4. Zyklon-B gas was used in the camps, but only as an insecticide, principally to contain the typhus epidemic. "Extermination" is a mistranslation: Jews died, but they were merely victims of war.13
3.2.16 How accurate and reasonable are these various characterizations of 'Holocaust denial'? Clearly there are some differences between them, and equally clearly, not all 'Holocaust deniers' subscribe to all the views mentioned by Eatwell, Gutman, Lipstadt, Pfahl-Traughber, Seidel, Vidal-Naquet or Yagil in their various definitions of the concept. However, an examination of the principal writings to which they refer, by people such as Arthur Butz, Robert Faurisson, Wilhelm Staeglich and others, which will be discussed below, makes it clear that a Holocaust denier would hold the following beliefs:
- (a)The number of Jews killed by the Nazis was far less than six million; it amounted to only a few hundred thousand, and was thus similar to, or less than, the number of German civilians killed in Allied bombing raids.
- (b)Gas chambers were not used to kill large numbers of Jews at any time.
- (c)Neither Hitler nor the Nazi leadership in general had a programme of exterminating Europe's Jews; all they wished to do was to deport them to Eastern Europe.
- (d)'The Holocaust' is a myth invented by Allied propaganda during the war and sustained since then by Jews who wish to use it to gain political and financial support for the state of Israel. The supposed evidence for the Nazis' wartime mass murder of millions of Jews by gassing and other means was fabricated after the war.14
3.2.17 It should be possible to ascertain whether or not any particular individual can reasonably be called a 'Holocaust denier' by examining his or her publications to see if these four basic principles of Holocaust denial are present.
1. Cf. the definition of Holocaust denial in Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things (New York, 1997), pp 173-252.
2. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust. The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (London, 1994), pp. 21-23.
3. Roger Eatwell , 'How to Revise History (and Influence People?), Neo-Fascist Style', in Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson and Michalina Vaughan, The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe (London, 1995), pp. 309-26, here p. 311. The element of diversity in Holocaust denial is also noted by Kenneth S. Stern, Holocaust Denial (New York, 1993), pp. 8-9.
4. Arthur C. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Southam, 1976), pp. 69-71.
5. B. Kulaszka, 'Criminal Prosecution of "Holocaust Denial", in eadem (ed.), Did Six Million Really Die? (Toronto, 1992), p. viii.
6. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Assassins of Memory. Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (New York, 1992), pp. 18-23 (originally published in 1980).
7. (Yisrael Gutman), 'Die Auschwitz-Lüge', in Jäckel (eds.), Enzyklopädie, Vol. I, pp. 1217, here pp. 121-4.
8. See Evans, In Hitler's Shadow for an account of the contoversy of the 1980's about parallels.
9. Armin Pfahl-Traughber, 'Die Apologeren der "Auschwitz-Lüge" - Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Holocaust-Leugnung im Rechtsextremismus, Jahrbuch Extremismus und Demokkratie, Vol. 8 (1996), pp. 75-101, esp. pp. 75-7
10. Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Limor Yagil, Holocaust Denial in France. Analysis of a Unique Phenomenon (Tel Aviv, 1995), p. 21.
11. Gill Seidel, The Holocaust Denial. Antisemitism, Racism and the New Right (Leeds, 1986), p. 38.
12. Ibid., p. 39.
13. Ibid., pp. 129-30.
14. For a similar listing - denial of mass murder at Auschwitz, manipulation of number of victims, etc. - see the volume edited by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes/Bundesministerium für Unterricht und Kunst, Amoklauf gegen die Wirklichkeit. NS-Verbrechen und ""revisionistische" Geschichtsschreibung (Vienna, 1991).
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The owner of a Harley-Davidson left his motorcycle unattended on Interstate 85 on Friday morning, causing a collision that engulfed a tractor-trailer and the motorcycle in flames, troopers said.
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Troopers charged Childers with leaving the scene of an accident and not having a Class M driver's license, which is required for those who operate motorcycles, Rhyne said.
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Looking for origin of life
Searching for the origin of life (while believing it was not designed) will cause a great deal of frustration for Dr. Jeffrey Bada (a Scripps graduate student of Stanley Miller).
He inherited all the materials of the 1953 experiment of Miller and Harold Urey and cannot help but persist in a chemical solution for life's origin, but has never found it.
Miller's imagined primitive atmosphere has been shown not to exist and had free O2 ("Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design," page 226).
All design observations were created by an intelligent source: the Morse code, the computer code and, by inference, the genetic code.
The latter is light years more advanced and contains more specified, functional, irreducibly complex information than the others....
Scientists holding evolutionary positions often cannot exchange their ideas for something antithetic to their thinking, regardless of its truth; it would be diminishing to their status, egos and funding. Where did the information come from in even the first living organism?
Irvin Forbing
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Those who have read President Obama's autobiographies know his formative years were spent in Indonesia, exposed to Muslim influence, a religion he speaks of fondly. As president, he seems to avoid acknowledging that America was attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11.
This leads me to wonder: Why did Obama's Department of Homeland Security classify a massacre of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood by a radical Islamist as "workplace violence," rather than Islamic terrorism?
Why has Obama dignified the Muslim Brotherhood by holding a meeting with White House officials and why are some U.S. courts considering Sharia law in America?
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What secrets are Obama and Clinton hiding about Benghazi?
What people or nation does Obama support when he proclaims, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"
Americans should know that the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to influence our government and is seeking a legal declaration that criticism of Islam in America should be considered blasphemy.
Where's Obama's allegiance?
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"This is the best harvest we've ever had. It's been absolutely great, just awesome," said Dave Moulton, owner and winemaker at Burrell School Vineyards in Los Gatos. "It's something that everyone is going to be talking about for years."
Vineyards throughout the mountains are seeing vines that are producing a higher number of clusters that are also larger than normal, making winemakers and wine aficionados giddy with anticipation for the products that will come from this year's fruit.
"Last year, 2012, has been written up quite a bit as the best [harvest] in all of California in the last 50 years," Moulton said, "and this year is exceeding last year."
At Burrell School, Moulton said that the yields this year on the nine varietals he grows are up roughly 30 percent from last year for the same number of plants. And in some cases, as with his cabernet franc, this year's yield is a 45 percent increase over last year. To put those numbers in perspective, Moulton said last year was a good year where he saw his yields up 10 percent from normal.
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"Everyone I've talked to has had the same experience this year. We've never seen anything like it," said Moulton, who is the president of the 74-member Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association. "I haven't talked to Napa and Sonoma yet, but I'm sure they are seeing similar results."
Mary Lindsay, co-owner of Los Gatos' Muns Vineyards and president of the Viticulture Association of the Santa Cruz Mountains, says she is hearing the same thing from everyone she has talked to.
"This harvest has just been really fabulous," Lindsay said. "Everybody is really jazzed and is feeling that this has been an extraordinary year in so many ways."
The reason that this year's harvest is so stellar can be attributed to one thing--Mother Nature.
"We had a very dry winter," Lindsay said. "For the most part, we got all of our rain in November and December. Up at our place, we practically got our full annual rainfall in just those two months. That caused us to have a very long and even growing season and allowed the vines to charge along unimpeded."
For vines that are extremely sensitive to moisture and cold, warmth and a lack of rain can make all the difference. It's important during the spring, when buds are breaking on the vines and the blossoms are setting. And it's just as important in the summer as the fruit, which is susceptible to fungus and mildew when there is rain, develops on the vine.
"The conditions in the spring were very conducive to lots of blossoms, which meant lots of clusters, and ultimately those developed beautifully into the finished grapes," Moulton added. "There was no rain and the fog stayed away during the growing season so the fruit developed perfectly--heavier clusters than normal, big full, fat clusters."
For many vineyards, the weather not only brought outstanding fruit, it also allowed for an early harvest, with some wineries beginning the process two to three weeks earlier than normal and with more crop. Some vineyards, according to Lindsay, started picking as early as mid to late August.
At Saratoga's Savannah Chanelle, the harvest process began the first week of September. The winery was set to pick 72 tons but ended up with close to 80 as its harvest ended around the second week of October.
"I can't believe we already have this much wine in the barrel. We're really hopeful this year," said assistant winemaker Marc McGinnis.
Burrell School was also ahead and began picking Sept. 1, about three weeks earlier than normal. Moulton anticipated being finished on Oct. 14, in contrast to last year, when he was harvesting into November.
"Last year we were picking as late as Nov. 7 and we were still getting wine into barrels in December," Moulton said. "Right now we're weeks to a month ahead."
Though the early harvest doesn't really make a difference in the winemaking process, it just moves everything the winemakers are already prepared for up a bit. The increase in the amount of crop they are seeing is causing some adjustments to be made at the wineries.
"We're utilizing every barrel we have and buying more," Moulton said. "We're also going to be utilizing every single space that we have" to store the additional wine.
Most Santa Cruz Mountains wineries are able to operate at capacity this year due to the increase in crop. That increase is also allowing winemakers from outside the region who typically can't get their hands on too much Santa Cruz Mountains fruit a rare opportunity to have all they want.
"Usually our fruit is in short supply," Lindsay said. "This year, anyone that wanted Santa Cruz Mountains fruit could get it."
And though this year's crops are bringing smiles to the faces of local winemakers, many say harvest time is reason enough to be happy.
"This time of year is the most fun for me," Moulton said. "I mean it's nonstop and something is going on every single day, but it's fun."
Moulton said that part of the fun is seeing the different set of flavors and profiles that are produced each year.
"You are always looking for a treasure. You are looking for a surprise, for something different," he said. "As a winemaker, I know as soon as the grape is picked what is going to happen. I'm either extremely impressed like this year with new flavors, deeper flavors, more intense flavors, or perhaps somewhat disappointed in a year like 2011 where it wasn't quite as brilliant and bright fruit."
McGinnis, who worked 37 days straight during harvest, agrees that it is a lot of work.
"The logistics of a harvest are you are doing a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time. It's crazy busy, but it's crazy fun," he said. "You only get one chance at it."
"We're in this industry because we like making wine, so it's an exciting time of year," he added. "It's busy around here. You have people that are passionate about the same thing you are. They work long hours for little pay and they love it. We have a lot of fun doing this, and when we get tired we just tell ourselves we aren't and we keep going."
For more information on the vineyards and wineries of the Santa Cruz Mountains, visit scmwa.com.


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"The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired."
― Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
I always feel like I am coming home when I go to the Athletics' Spring Training site. My second batting practice outing was with the A's and I had a lot of fun. I was also at the A's complex several times when I attended MLSB Scout School. So, I was happy to be back and thankful for the chance to talk to their minor leaguers about earning their college degree at Northeastern University.
A mutual friend introduced me to A's General Manager, Billy Beane, at the 2010 Baseball Winter Meetings. Right then and there, I asked him if I could throw BP to his team. He looked at me, paused for about 5 seconds, and said yes. "Wow", I thought. "My dream is going to actually happen. Billie Beane believes in me."
When I present to teams, what I want the players to know most, is that I believe in them. I want them to know that I understand their baseball dreams. And that I am proof that dreams come true therefore I know their dreams can come true too.
But I also need them to know that they have more than just their baseball dream. Understanding that they are more than just baseball, is key to successful career transition and a confident and satisfying athlete identity.
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As I looked out at the young, A's minor leaguers, I told them I believed in them. That I believed in dreams. And that I also believed in an education. Whether they make it to the majors or are forced onto another path, they have a future. And with an education, that future provides a lot more options.
At the end of our presentation, over 40 players came up and asked for more information; It was our biggest response yet. I think it's because the A's believe too.
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Last week I got an email from a faithful reader wondering what to do with with some veggie-based shrimp she had picked up. At first, I was jealous about the shrimp. I had some once at a Chinese restaurant in Philly and it was great. If memory serves, it is actually a type of mushroom. It was with shrimp on my mind that I sat down to come up with a special meal for Vegan Mom and I (you really have to try and keep a date night when you have four kids!). I settled on Oyster Mushroom Scampi. The dish is lemony and garlicky, and the mushrooms are wonderfully delicate. I made a thin fettucine noodle (rolled out to number 6) but you could use linguine as well.
Serves 2 for a romantic dinner
- 1/2 pound fresh pasta (linguine or thin fettucine)
- 3 cups large oyster mushroom pieces
- 2 tbsp margarine, plus additional tbsp
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 shallots, small dice
- 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
1. Prepare pasta. While waiting for the water to boil, rinse the mushrooms and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Set aside.
2. Heat margarine and oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add shallots and garlic and saute for 5 mins, until soft and translucent. Add mushrooms to the pan and saute for another 5 mins, until soft.
3. Add wine and lemon juice to the pan with the additional tbsp of butter and parsley. Bring to bubbling, and when maragrine has melted, add cooked pasta to the pan. Stir well and cook until most of the liquid is absorbed. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve immediately.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Oyster Mushroom Scampi
Last week I got an email from a faithful reader wondering what to do with with some veggie-based shrimp she had picked up. At first, I was jealous about the shrimp. I had some once at a Chinese restaurant in Philly and it was great. If memory serves, it is actually a type of mushroom. It was with shrimp on my mind that I sat down to come up with a special meal for Vegan Mom and I (you really have to try and keep a date night when you have four kids!). I settled on Oyster Mushroom Scampi. The dish is lemony and garlicky, and the mushrooms are wonderfully delicate. I made a thin fettucine noodle (rolled out to number 6) but you could use linguine as well.
33 comments:
- Dairy Free Betty said...
YUM!! This looks sooo good!!
To bad my hunny doesn't like mushrooms!! :)
- December 7, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- rachel said...
I live in Philly, and I've had some vegetarian shrimp dishes and such at places around here. My boyfriend said a lot of them use yams as the fake shrimp.
I have no idea how though.
- December 7, 2009 at 11:12 PM
- I'm Philippa O said...
this sounds amazing!
- December 7, 2009 at 11:14 PM
- Oraphan said...
Oh, this looks and sounds absolutely fantastic! I'm a big fan of oyster mushroom, Mmmm!!!
- December 8, 2009 at 1:47 AM
- T said...
Ooh, just found some oyster mushrooms! This looks great.
- December 8, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
I live in Philly. What are "veggie-based shrimp" and where did you get them?
I love mushrooms and will make this tonight!
- December 8, 2009 at 4:48 AM
- Quiltbug said...
Thanks. This looks great and I'll try to pick up some white wine soon. The shirmp are actually seaweed based
Nelakee is the brand.Some of the photos in the following website from Ottawa are not appealing to me but scroll down the bottom for the shrimp. They do not list the seaweed but it's the first item on the package. They are packaged frozen so they might get to you by mail OK during the winter.
- December 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- No More Sad Geraniums said...
This looks simple but wonderful! I've never had oyster mushrooms, so this would be a good opportunity to try them.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Vegmom23 said...
This looks so good my stomach is growling! I'm out the door now to get some oyster mushrooms. Thank you.
- December 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- Kim and Megan said...
Sounds delicious!
- December 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Lindsay (Happy Herbivore) said...
I do a vegan scampi just like this and love it -- and it is romantic -- and yes date nights are a must!
- December 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Kris said...
How lovely! As I still eat shelf fish, I just posted a shrimp scampi today too. this looks delicious!
- December 8, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- Shelby said...
My husband and I had this for dinner tonight. It was absolutely delicious! Even my non-vegan husband loved it. I found that it made four servings instead of two. No worries, this will taste great for lunch tomorrow :).
- December 8, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Veggie Runnr said...
This. Looks. Delicious. I can't wait to make it. Thanks for sharing!
- December 9, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
looks yummy, I tried veggie shrimp once it tasted so good!! I brought some home and I used it in vegan alfredo
- December 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Olivia said...
I find lobster mushrooms to taste exactly like shrimp; maybe that's what the fake shrimp you're thinking of were made from?
- December 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Evelyn Perri said...
This was absolutely delightful. I made it for my husband tonight. Thank you for the wonderful recipe.
- December 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- HeatherFe said...
I made this tonight for dinner, very yummy! Thanks again for another great recipe.
- December 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM
- dining room furniture said...
This recipe looks like it is going to be a hit at home. We all love pasta and pasta alone. We can't live without any pasta dish even once a day. Thanks for sharing.
- December 15, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- David said...
Made this Sunday night - delicious!!
- December 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- Linda B said...
This sounds really good. I know you like cooking shows and I do too. I tried to veganize the pasta and shrimp from the Gordon Ramsay Cookalong on Fox TV Dec 15th here in the states. I should have made your's instead. Next Time I will. Thanks for another good recipe.
- December 16, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- ihugtrees said...
We made this on Friday night and it was amazing! Totally in love with oyster mushrooms now! Can't wait to try the vegan shrimp I'm hearing about.
- December 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
This was such a great dish! The oyster mushrooms were delicious and I have say I'm a fan of them now. I am saving this recipe for future dinners!
- January 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Erin in AK said...
I just cooked this for my husband and I... it was amazing! This has jumped onto my top 10 favorite recipes list!
- January 14, 2010 at 11:28 PM
- Randi said...
Hi! I want to try making this over the weekend but I am having trouble finding oyster mushrooms. Any suggestions for other types of mushrooms that would go well in this?
- January 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
I suppose cremini or even white mushrooms would work.
- January 27, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
This was sooo goood!! Thanks! ~leila
- January 27, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Sarah said...
We made this last night (including the fresh pasta), but it turned out waaay too lemony. Blasted gigantic Whole Foods lemons! They are just too much lemon sometimes - lemons vary so much in size, its hard to get it right.
- February 18, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- jodi_0 said...
Wow! This was SO delicious. I made two separate batches (because my sister doesn't like mushrooms) both using spaghetti. I used juice of 1/2 lemon for each and it was just enough lemon for me. I made mine with a mix of wild mushrooms, hers with spinach and cherry tomatoes, and both were divine!
- April 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- morgan said...
Simple but delicious flavours. Thanks, Vegan Dad! Yum!
- May 28, 2010 at 10:03 PM
- Dumb Okie said...
Hi Vegan Dad,
I just made this for my honey and me, and it was a big success.
Thank you!
- November 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Dumb Okie said...
Hi Vegan Dad,
I just made this for my honey and me and it was a big success. Thank you!
- November 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Jules said...
Wow - I had oyster mushroom scampi at 3 brothers pizza in Rockville Centre NY. (they have a vegan menu) and I made this recipe last night, it tastes EXACTLY like the one at 3 brothers. I have a feeling they got their inspiration from you ;)
It was perfect. I've been craving it ever since I had it there about 5 months ago, and now I can have it at home without the hefty price tag. Thank-you!
- May 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM


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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The A's are in trouble this season if Yoenis Cespedes can't work his way out of his current funk.
There are exactly two weeks left for the Oakland left fielder to emerge from the .111 average he has now in time for the opener March 31 against Cleveland.
"My mind is OK," Cespedes said after Sunday's 7-6 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, in which he went 0 for 2 with a walk. "I'm going to be good (for the season)."
The A's are counting on Cespedes to be the cleanup hitter as they go for their third straight A.L. West title in 2014. But Cespedes came into Sunday's game with seven RBIs and two extra-base hits, both doubles.
Manager Bob Melvin talks about balls Cespedes has hit hard without results, but there are plenty of at-bats when he's not hit the ball well. Melvin has noticed the frustration of his third-year left fielder.
"Maybe, yes," Cespedes said when asked if he's feeling frustrated. "I try to do my best, but there's nothing going on."
He hasn't been very patient during his at-bats. His first-inning walk Sunday is his only base on balls in 39 trips to the plate this spring.
Cespedes came to spring talking about wanting to develop a shorter swing. And about six mornings out of seven, before formal workouts begin, he can be found in the batting cages behind the right field wall at Phoenix Municipal Stadium working with hitting coach Chili Davis.
But taking the results from the cages into games has been more difficult than expected. Davis said Cespedes, a .292 hitter as a rookie in 2012 before falling to .240 last year, is pushing for perfection, and that's getting him in trouble.
"Ces expects perfection every time," Davis said. "It frustrates him that he's not perfect every time. It's not a bad thing, but you have to understand that this game is an imperfect thing. That's why hitting .300, you're great. I'm just trying to get him to hit the ball hard seven times and hope that three of those seven fall in for hits."
After hitting 23 homers as a rookie in 2012, Cespedes' total climbed to 26 last year. But there was the 52-point drop in his batting average, and his strikeouts increased from 102 to 137 in only 42 more at-bats. His power was more streaky.
"He puts in some really hard work," Melvin said. "Sometimes he'll get angry and want to hit the ball a mile."
That's a pattern the A's say Cespedes needs to avoid.
"He's going to get power from that short swing," Davis said. "I want him thinking, 'I don't need to force it.' I don't want him to work from the frustration standpoint. The thing I keep preaching to him is to just focus on the swing. Just focus on what you are trying to accomplish. It's not going to be perfect every time. You can make great swings and pop the ball up."
Cespedes, who said he's trying to stay mentally strong, says he's having trouble transforming his long swing into a shorter one, that his leg rotation is still not right.
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This is a classic case of the naturalistic fallacy; that is if it is in or from nature it must be better.
First, I am not going to deny that there are a number of chemicals created by plants that have beneficial properties for medicine (aspirin for example). What I am addressing is the bifurcated claim that these remedies were in some way created FOR us and that they are somehow safer and better than man-made chemicals.
This issue was directly addressed earlier this year in a speech given by Dr Henry Oakeley, the garden fellow at London's Royal College of Physicians at the opening in Dublin of the medicinal garden at Trinity College[1].
Oakeley raised a few eyebrows when he stated that "PLANTS HAVE been trying to kill us, not cure us". When asked why herbalism has persisted for over 3000 yrs. he responded that "Because they believed in the tooth fairy. They had no concept of illness or of chemistry or biochemistry. They believed all plants had been put on the earth by the creator for mankind's use. So if the plant had a particular shape, it indicated that the creator had put it on the planet for a particular use."
Now, I mentioned that current medical research uses the similar rhetoric…'nature is our pharmacy'. However the methodology is completely different. Medical research is based on modern scientific techniques and the scientific method. Herbalist believed that the powers-that-be, be they gods or sprites, left clues as to the 'intended' purpose of plants. An herbalist job is to decipher the code.
Sometimes herbalists get lucky; Ginseng[2] looked like a human figure and has been interpreted as a symbol of divine harmony on earth. It is used in 'traditional medicine' to improve sexual dysfunction, anti-agent, fight fatigue, boost the immune system and more[3]. It also has a number of compounds that medical research has shown actually does seem to help in reproduction[4] and other positive effects.
Sometimes it's ridiculous, for example it was…sadly still is believed, that ground tiger penis in a soup[5] or tonic would increase a man's virility. This of course is the best example of symbolic herbalism; tigers are strong and 'virile', therefor eating their 'male essence' will imbue that power to the consumer. This continued insanity has in no small way helped make Asian tigers an endangered species.
Sometimes it's dangerous, for example, blue liverwort was once cultivated as a liver tonic because its three-lobed leaf mirrored the shape of the human liver. However, this tonic was in fact a toxin that produces jaundice[6]. More commonly seen "Aloe Vera Juice" can cause stomach cramps and is a suspected carcinogen[7].
Let us not forget either that cocaine, caffeine, hemlock, tobacco and pot are all natural herbs. However, most herbs are just medically inert and if they provide any benefit it is purely a placebo…an effect that can be the quite dangerous if it delays proper medical treatment.
Now to be fair herbalism is not completely limited to this sympathetic magic view. Over the years a certain degree of trial and error has 'advanced' herbalism beyond the simplistic symbolic notion of nature however until recently it has not been possible to extract, when present, the effective chemicals from the chemical stew that a plant may contain. I am not trying to imply that Chinese or native healers are inferior or that somehow westerners are smarter, no; what we have is a confluence of happenstance. Until the adoption of the scientific method, modern chemistry and technological advancements of the late 18th century, 'western medicine' was on the same methodological footing I am here criticising.
The scientific method allowed for a systematic reductionist view of the world allowing the identification of specific compounds/chemicals that are the true source of medicine; modern chemistry (and later biology and bio-chemistry) provided a framework for interpreting the results of experiments…showing links between cause and effects; and technology provided the tools to identify, purify and manipulate the compound with the aim of making them better.
Thus, if we continue with the pharmacy metaphor, modern medicines are like opening a bottle of aspirin and popping a pill to cure a headache. Herbal medicines are like pouring all your pills into a bucket, adding in your kitchen spices and maybe some random plants from outside; then taking a handful of this mix in the hopes you get the one pill that will reduce our headache.
Oakeley said "Herbalists say these things are pure and don't have the same side effects as Prozac, [but] they have other side effects . . . That's the problem with herbal medicine, there is no proper long-term check on the side effects. The thousands of years of plants being used as medicines have actually taught us very little. The basic concept that most people have missed is that [many] plants are poisonous. We just have to find a way of using the poisons in plants to our advantage".
This I think lies at the heart of the naturalist fallacy for herbalism. It's not that there are not useful chemicals to be found in nature but that these chemicals were ever intended to be medicinal. The term used is nature's pharmacy, a more accurate description is a chemical armoury…a cornucopia of chemical weapons we extract as a kind of chemical waste product and re-task to a useful role for humanity. The chemicals we find in plants are there for a purpose, that is true, but for the plant's ends not our own.
Plants create chemicals in an effort to provide for themselves an evolutionary advantage. Many times these efforts are aggressive; that is the plant benefits at the expense of its cohabitants…an example when a plant grows thorns it reduces the ability of herbivores to graze on them, what benefits the plant (less leaf loss) harms the grazer (less food). Many times these efforts are symbiotic…that is a benefit to the plant and its cohabitant…an example of this is the fig and fig wasp[8]. It's also important to remember when plants do have these symbiotic relationships they are very species specific relationships; nectar is a common bribe for animals to pollinate plants but even this is very exclusive because the shape of the flower and the proboscis of the nectar eater are so extreme only one (or a limited set) animal can actual access the nectar. The plant does this to ensure that the bribed animal visits similar plants and thus increases the chances of successful pollination.
The chemicals we extract fall into three broad groups. First are those the plant produces to promote its own health…compounds that make the plant itself healthy and which coincidently we find useful as well; such as salicylic acid i.e. aspirin. If these compounds are useful to humans it is merely accidental/coincidental.
Second compounds created to make the plant more attractive to animals for the purpose of seed dispersal and rarely predation (ie Sundew plant); such as nectar, fruit and aromatics. These compounds are often useful to humans but their PURPOSE IS NOT FOR OUR WELL-BEING but merely a bride or scam to get animals to help the plant.
The last category, the one ironically we have found most useful, are those intended to attack…compound a plant used to fend off fungal infections (terpenes) or make itself unfit for animal consumption plant predators (capsicum i.e. pepper). These compounds are not only not intended to be beneficial they are created by the plant explicitly as a hostile act. None of these were intended for humans nor are they specifically 'safer' for us than man-made chemicals. In fact the opposite is true.
Current research is done by extracting chemicals, testing their properties and interactions, attempting to tweak the chemistry to remove 'side-effects' and strengthen the desired property. Once this is done the resulting, naturally derived but whole-ly man-made, compound becomes a drug…no longer a herbal remedy (with dubious efficacy but medicine with empirical evidence of its effectiveness). Because we have a purer form of the active ingredient which has been stripped of the superfluous chemicals along with their potential side-effects; we can say that on a equal footing the man-mades are innately safer.
Last note, although I think scientific medical medicine is innately better than herbalism; I am not saying that 'big pharma' should be blindly trusted…they make errors as well. That is why I always and consistently support rigorous and thorough regulation and independent oversight of any industry (that would include the herbalist industry as well, as ineffective as i may think it…remember it is a MULTI-billion dollar a year industry[9])
[4] Murphy and Lee Ginseng, sex behavior, and nitric oxide, Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 May;962:372-7 PMID
[6] IrishTimes
[7] Elvin-Lewis M., "Should we be concerned about herbal remedies". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 75 (2001) 141-164.


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HERE comes one of my favourite illustrations of economics in action. For many decades in the 19th century, Britain sent its convicts to Australia. Only 50 per cent survived the trip. One day Edwin Chadwick, the early public health inspector, took a walk with Jeremy Bentham by the Thames watching one of these grim hulks loading its human cargo.
Bentham asked Chadwick about the nature of the contract with the charter ship owners. Chadwick said the owners were paid a fee for number of convicts boarded. Bentham suggested a minor adaptation. Let them be paid instead for those disembarked at Botany Bay. The death rate fell from 50 to 2 per cent as the convicts were now better fed and tendered.
There you have it. Private enterprise, properly directed, can transform an ugly situation. The government can still be the procuring agent. It need not perform the task.
If I were to take any single Scottish institution which was demonstrably failing I confess I'd shortlist the dreadful nature of too many schools but I would have to plump for the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) for No.1.
It costs us £32,700 to keep each of our 7,000 prisoners in custody. What do we get back ? More than half will re-offend. Very often they will have refined their skills in theft or other criminal expertises.
Michael Howard had a mantra "Prison Works". I'm baffled. I can think of no entity that works less well at such vast expense.
The Scottish Prison Service is the very essence of socialism in practice. It is a failure. "Prison does not work".
Note, I am not arguing Tony Cameron, supremo of Scotland's prisons, and his SPS colleagues, are inept, lazy, cruel, incompetent or anything worse. Far from it. In fact I detect high-minded good intentions in the prison service yet I stand amazed that a prison such as Barlinnie only stopped the degrading "slopping out" after 122 years of saying this was the intention.
I do not want to be starry-eyed about prisons. It seems to me a good proportion of captives are better understood as psychiatrically ill. In 100 years' time everyone will express astonishment we treated the mentally wounded in such a cruel fashion. Again, this is not so much the turnkeys' fault. It is the courts which seem to fail to understand the nature of mental illness.
Another big proportion of prisoners strike me as less than villainous.
They come from those other great failing Scottish ideas - council estates and dross schools. Most prisoners are broken souls demoralised by blighted youthful years. A lot cannot write, count or read, however many millions have been wasted by local authorities in "education". Here is the nub of my argument.
We need private prisons with contracts paying the bulk of its awards based on cutting the re-offending rates of "graduates".
Prisoners who have truly learned social skills and have been taught commercial roles will not all be model citizens - but their success rate has to be higher than the present miserable story.
"Committed to Correctional Excellence" is the motto of the Scottish Prison Service. Top marks for the sentiment. More modest marks for the reality. Of course this is not just Scotland.
The prisons of England and Wales score even worse by most criteria - £35,000 a year per prisoner for example. Scotland incarcerates 135 people per 100,000 of population. The USA is an alarming 726. Japan 59 per 100,000.
The United Kingdom Detention Services Company is bidding for the new prison mooted for Addiehall in West Lothian. Yet as I understand it, the efficiency savings are purely in the "hotel" functions.
The real meat would be to award enhanced fees if prisoners did not re-offend. It may be that this needs real intimacy.
Rather than a huge plc, the relationship could be with one or two particular prison officers - with chunky awards if their pupil prisoner really got a job and lived a useful life. This would cover many decades.
I can think of no greater machinery of waste and cruelty than prisons. To bang up people with schizophrenia or related disorders is simply a scandal about which we are silent as prisons are a sort of waste bin.
Yet saving on the porridge or the soap bill is scarcely the point. The special jargon of the SPS is "Recidivism". Let the income of the prison staff be linked directly to this, and a miracle as big as Chadwick's more than 100 years ago could be achieved.
Let me end by quoting Liberal peer John Stuart Mill: "A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands will find that with small men no great thing can really ever be accomplished."
John Blundell [2]
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The runaway winner of this year's Kentucky Oaks, Untapable unleashed a devastating rally on Saturday at Belmont Park to capture the Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose by 9 ¼ lengths.
Trained by Steve Asmussen for Ron Winchell, Untapable entered the Mother Goose undefeated in her sophomore campaign, having captured the Grade 3 Rachel Alexandra and Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks at the Fair Grounds before taking the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on May 2 at Churchill Downs. In those three starts, the 3-year-old filly's slimmest margin of victory was 4 ½ lengths, and she earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 100 or higher in each race.
On Saturday, Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez replaced regular rider Rosie Napravnik - who was injured in a training accident on June 15 - aboard Untapable, and Velazquez was immediately put into a precarious position when the pacesetting Princess Violet came in after the start, forcing his mount to steady.
Following the momentary trouble, Untapable settled into a nice rhythm, tracking the early pace of 23.30 seconds for an opening quarter-mile and 45.95 for a half. Entering the far turn, Velazquez shifted his mount to the outside and the Tapit filly did the rest, soaring past the early leader and coasting to an easy victory.
"I'm very pleased with her race today," said Asmussen. "I loved how quiet she was pre-race and in the paddock. She turned off right after a little trouble at the start and was pretty relaxed. She picked it up when she needed to and appeared to be looking around quite a bit in the stretch, but it was her first time [at Belmont]. All of her previous victories had been where she was training, so I think that this was a pretty good step. I think she's a very special filly."
Untapable's dominant score in the Mother Goose may lead to a showdown with males, according to the filly's trainer.
"There's definitely the thought of running her against the boys," said Asmussen. "I think that this was a very good obstacle for her, as far as shipping and running, because of how bad her Breeders' Cup was. Maturity, time, confidence, how she acted pre-race in the paddock today, all of those are steps in the right direction, and it will be an interesting conversation with [owner] Ron [Winchell] after today's win. She'll ship up to Saratoga to train on Monday. [The Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks on July 20 at Saratoga] is a very lucrative race that is there, but I don't want to speak for Ron at this point. We're aware that [the Haskell] is there and the timing is excellent. It's nice to have a horse like her because you can consider races as good as these."
Untapable covered the 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.48 and returned $2.10 on a $2 win bet.
Princess Violet finished a neck ahead of America in second, who was 3 ¾ lengths in front of House Rules. Aqua Regia completed the order of finish.
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SONOMA -- On a chaotic Sunday when the outcome of a race and its implications on the season championship took more twists and turns than the serpentine Sonoma Raceway road course that served as the stage, the ultimate results weren't too surprising.
Scott Dixon, who ended his winless drought with a last-to-first drive at Mid-Ohio at the start of the month, continued his strong finish to 2014 by claiming victory in the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. And Will Power, the Verizon IndyCar Series championship leader, extended his points lead.
But the manner in which those feats were accomplished made for a very entertaining and unpredictable afternoon.
Dixon, who scored his 35th career victory to match Bobby Unser for fifth place on the all-time list, drove a perfect strategy that capitalized on the fuel deficiencies of Tony Kanaan, Graham Rahal and Mike Conway.
"It was tough," Dixon said. "There were so many strategies going on, and they were just slightly off. I didn't know who could make it and who couldn't."
With Dixon running fourth and good on fuel heading down the stretch of the 85-lap race, he saw the three drivers ahead of him either pit or adjust their driving styles to stretch mileage. Kanaan needed to pit on Lap 73 from third place. Rahal was next to fall, pitting from the lead with three laps to go. Then Dixon moved into first when he passed Conway, who was in conservation mode.
Conway eventually ran out of fuel on the last lap and coasted over the finish line in 14th place.
Power, who entered the race with a 40-point championship lead over Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves, looked as if he would virtually clinch the title in wine country, where he is a three-time winner. He dominated the early stages of the race, then nearly threw everything away when he spun in Turn 7 and fell to the back of the field. The mistake by Power was unthinkable.
"It was such a shock," he said. "I thought someone hit me, we went around so quickly. But that's racing."
Power rallied to a 10th-place finish, eight spots ahead of Castroneves, and actually stretched his points lead to 51.
The season finale Saturday night at Auto Club Speedway is a 500-mile, double-points race. Technically, five drivers still can win the championship. Sunday's second- and third-place finishers, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Simon Pagenaud, are 92 and 81 points behind, respectively. Dixon trails by 103.
But thanks to Power's comeback -- he was as low as 20th place Sunday -- he's still in control with one race to go.
"It was a good recovery," Power said. "We maintained the points lead. Now we go to Fontana with a lot of points on the table. We'll see what we can do."
The Team Penske trio of Power, Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya had to evacuate their Napa hotel after the 3:20 a.m. jolt. When they couldn't return to their rooms, they came to the track. No one was injured.
"I thought it was all over, the end of the earth," said Power, a native of Australia. "That was really unbelievable. I thought I was going to die."
Said Montoya: "The bed moved two feet off the wall. Anything in the bathroom went to the floor. Every table was turned over. It was bad."
Hunter-Reay and Pagenaud were housed in motor homes parked up the hill from the track.
"This was pretty wild," Hunter-Reay said. "Being in a bus it felt like it was going to tip over. And we were right on the cliff. In my head I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, we're going over the cliff.' "
Said Pagenaud: "I actually went outside in my underwear and checked how far the cliff was because I thought we were going to tumble down."
Newgarden, 23, is completing his third season for Fisher Hartman. He has shown steady improvement in 2014, despite racing for a one-car team.
In 2015 with the merged teams of Carpenter and Fisher Hartman, Newgarden will finally have a teammate to share information and compare setups.
"I have seen Josef mature a lot over the past few years, and I really look forward to working with him and continuing his development," Carpenter said. "I see him as one of the premier talents in this series for the future, and we are very proud to have him on our team."
Said Newgarden: "I decided to stay here because I believe in our group and everything that we've built and where we are going. It's a very strong situation that's on the rise, and I think next year is the year to capitalize on it."
The identity of Newgarden's teammate will be determined. It could be the combination of oval driver Carpenter and road/street specialist Conway, who shared the No. 20 car this season.
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STOCKTON - Mayor Anthony Silva will deliver his first State of the City address on May 16 in an event that is expected to sell out.
This marks the 15th annual event hosted by the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce. Silva's speech is expected to lay out his plans for the future of Stockton.
The event will be held at the Port of Stockton in Shed 20. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. so guests can view exhibits by local businesses and agencies. Lunch will be served at noon, followed by Silva's speech.
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by calling the chamber at (209) 547-2770 or by visiting stocktonchamber.org.
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Due to a sharp rise in influenza infections throughout the area, Redwood Area Hospital is temporarily restricting patient visitors until the influenza outbreak subsides.
Visitors to hospital and same-day surgery patients are being limited to immediate family or designated caregivers age 18 and older, who have no fever, cough or other flu-like symptoms.
The restrictions are part of a multi-step approach to protect patients and prevent the spread of influenza in our community. The temporary initiative includes:
• Patients may receive no more than two adult visitors at one time.
• Children under 18 are not permitted to visit the hospital without prior approval from healthcare providers and for special circumstances.
• Visitors are urged to perform hand washing frequently, including when entering and leaving the building. Hand sanitizer dispensers are available throughout the buildings, and are effective against influenza virus.
• Anyone with fever, cough or other flu-like symptoms should stay home.
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DON'T MISS: "Family Guy" -- How did this happen? The absurdly irreverent animated series once canceled by Fox has now lived long enough to celebrate its landmark 200th episode. In "Yug Ylimaf" ("Family Guy" spelled backward), Brian breaks Stewie's time machine, causing reality to run in reverse and forcing them to quickly fix it before Stewie becomes "unborn." The episode is followed by a tribute that features interviews with creator Seth MacFarlane and voice talent Mila Kunis, Alex Borstein and Seth Green. 9 p.m. Sunday, Fox.
SUNDAY: Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise host the "National Salute to Veterans." It's a collection of highlights from past National Memorial Day concerts, plus fresh footage. Retired Gen. Colin Powell and actors Forest Whitaker, Jason Ritter and A.J. Cook are among the participants. 8 p.m., PBS.
SUNDAY: "The Good Wife" continues to attract quality guest stars as Christina Ricci drops by tonight. She plays a comedian who is sued for indecency after baring her breasts on a late-night talk show. 9 p.m., CBS.
MONDAY: Some accused Oliver Stone of stretching the truth in his film "JFK," but the director stuck to the facts for the "Untold History of the United States." It's his 10-part documentary devoted to pivotal-but-overlooked events. 8 p.m., Showtime.
TUESDAY: Josh Brolin narrates the crazily ambitious "Mankind: The Story of All of Us," a 12-part miniseries covering the entire history of the human race. Sounds like a laborious homework assignment to us. 9 p.m., History.
TUESDAY: We've learned our lesson: Never watch "Parenthood" without a box of industrial-strength tissues at hand. Tonight's episode finds Adam and Kristina (Peter Krause and Monica Potter) trying to juggle the demands of daily life with her breast-cancer treatment. 10:01 p.m., NBC.
WEDNESDAY: The critics hated it, and viewers mostly ignored it. Still, "Whitney" was renewed and launches its second season tonight, replacing that sitcom with a monkey that critics hated and viewers ignored. 8 p.m., NBC.
WEDNESDAY: "Eddie Murphy: One Night Only" is a special that celebrates the career achievements of the actor-comedian. We're guessing that they'll want to gloss over "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." 10 p.m., Spike.
THURSDAY: "Crossfire Hurricane" is an electrifying new documentary that tries to squeeze the 50-year history of the Rolling Stones into 105 minutes. Included: Interviews with band members, archival footage and lots of great music. 9 p.m., HBO.
FRIDAY: "We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston" has Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion, Usher, Britney Spears and others paying tribute to the late pop superstar. We can only hope it blots out the reality TV stain that is "The Houstons: On Our Own." 10 p.m., CBS.
SATURDAY: Sappy TV movie alert: Marilu Henner and Harry Hamlin star as former love birds in "Holiday High School Reunion," a film that might force us to hit the egg nog a little earlier than we expected. 8 p.m., Lifetime.
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LETTER: Additional traffic unwelcome in neighborhood
Published: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 10:46 p.m.
Dear Editor: I live on Harrison Street and would like to address several letters regarding Aspen Heights off Hargrove Road. Like Rick Dye, I respect the owner's rights to pursue rezoning as they should respect my opposition to it.
We have lived here 17 years, my husband's family since 1947.He grew up here. We experienced changes during the recent construction on the corner of Hargrove Road and Prince Avenue. A detour increased traffic in front of our house. It was necessary but unwelcome. Once built, the 475-plus bed complex will feed traffic to Prince Avenue. We don't need the additional students speeding on our street at all hours.
I appreciate a college town, and not all students party and are bad neighbors, but divide the number in half and it's still too many. Our son and daughter in-law live on this street and one day our grandchildren. They deserve to grow up and play in the neighborhood we know and bought into.
Stacey Mitchell's point that 26 beds per acre seems low-
density. Consider the other projects she mentioned. Are they in a densely populated area with single family homes? Susan Joyner, Franklin, Tenn., voiced her opinion, but this is a local issue. While we appreciate support of Alabama football and Tuscaloosa, does she have a dog in this fight? And to Janet Wyatt, Ralph, just because Auburn has a development like this doesn't mean we need one. I look forward to the City Council's decision on July 9, I urge the council to deny.
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