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Grab the CHI ring from the scorpion's tail in Stinger Duel!
Journey deep inside the scorpion's cave with Shadowind to snatch the CHI ring caught on the stinging scorpion's tail. Attach Shadowind and Scolder to their Speedorz™, pull the rip cords and race to be first to take the ring. Attach the power-upz to take the duel to another level. Includes 2 minifigures with armor and 4 weapons: Shadowind and Scolder. Also features black lion Speedor, new scorpion Speedor with red fangs, scorpion tail, 2 rip cords, rocket-booster lion power-up, scorpion power-up, translucent CHI ring, 12 CHI crystals and 10 game cards. Put your skills to the test and challenge your friends in this game for 2 or more players.
Includes 2 minifigures with armor and 4 weapons: Shadowind and Scolder
Features lion and never-before-seen scorpion Speedorz™, scorpion power-up tail, 2 rip cords, rocket-booster lion power-up, translucent CHI ring, 12 CHI crystals, and 10 game cards
Weapons include a Lion CHI saw and hatchet for Shadowind plus a poison CHI wand and stick for Scolder
Attach the power-upz to take the duel to the next level
Battle for the 12 CHI crystals
Grab the CHI ring from the scorpion's tail… but don't get stung!
Compete with your friends in an action-packed game of skill
Scorpion's tail measures over 3" (8cm) high, 2" (6cm) wide and 1" (4cm) deep
Collect the entire LEGO® Legends of Chima™ Speedorz™ series to create combo games
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Year: 2014
Players: 1 or more
Ages: 8 and up
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Weight: 189 grams
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Transformational change results in a major change of direction for an organization, while incremental change makes small adjustments to current ways of doing things.
Transformational changes involve major redirection of the organization which comprise of changes in the organization's vision, strategy, structure and human resource. Whereas the incremental change does not go for a radical change, but brings necessary subtle changes in the products and processes of the organization to do the things in a better way, but not to change the whole thing.
The various factors which determine the type of change are:
• Time constraints: If the desired change is high and the time required to make the change is less, it would need the leaders to implement transformational change to make paradigm shifts. If the time is not small, the same transformational change would be easily implemented in small series of incremental changes.
• Resource: There may be instances wherein the resources are not enough to implement incremental changes over a long time. This happens in case of abject financial crisis or in response to any rapid change in external environment.
• Issues and Crisis: If the organization faces minor issues, these can be handled easily as they are likely to cause loss after a lot of time. Such cases require changes in the organization can be made incrementally. However if the crisis is present, changes might be needed to be implemented radically and thus transformational.
• External environment: The extent and the severity of the change that the external environmental factors (like political factors, economic factors, climatic factors, social factors, technological changes) have determine the change.
Thus, examples of scenarios which require transformational change includes mergers and acquisitions of organization, change in the top management philosophy, etc. Again, the examples of scenarios which require incremental change includes introduction of new shift timings for employees, change in the salary structure etc.

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Hi Nikon D7000-friends. I bought a Nikon MC-DC2 remote cord for my D7000. When installing there´s a total black out in my camera body. Any experiences of same kind?Kale SEspoo, Finland
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#1. "RE: Nikon MC-DC2 and Nikon D7000" | In response to Reply # 0
I have no such problem with my MC-DC2. But...With my old D80, I would sometimes experience a similar issue. I solved the problem with the D80 by turning off the camera before inserting the plug into the camera socket. Sounds like there might be a short of some sort when inserting the remote plug into the body with the camera turned on.
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Is the remote locked 'on'?
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Howdy, Kale. Sounds like you have a problem as what you describe is not normal even if it is locked on or you push the button on the remote while plugging it in. When I plug mine in nothing changes on the camera as I believe it is a passive component and not recognized by the camera until you press the button at which time it behaves identically to the built-in shutter button.
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Thanks to all for your comments. I´ll visit Nikon Finland and show them both of "the parties"; Body and MC-DC2.I´ll be back and tell you the diagnosis Kale SEspoo, Finland
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Funny things happen. This morning I connected again my remote control to the camera body. And guess what, it functioned! No idea what I did wrong earlier.I must say that I had read of connection problems in some Nikon discussion forums here in Finland. That´s why I thought, really, that it is more generic. Lucky me (and us Nikonians), it is not!I have been totally satisfied with my D7000 since I bought it in November 2010. My earlier Nikon bodies are D50 and D80.Kale SEspoo, Finland
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Today, I received a third party MC-DC2 remote shutter release with sliding lock function. It cost £2.44 including shipping from Amazon UK and works really well.I now happy with it because it can set up a 'Focus Trap' for me to shoot with 'Auto-Firing' in Continuous High-speed Release mode.No offence to Original Nikon MC-DC2, just wonder how can they sell things for £30 that can be beaten by £2.44 from third party?Hopefully my switch will serve my D7000 for a long time, with careful use and storage.
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#7. "RE: Third Party MC-DC2 from Neewer" | In response to Reply # 6
You do know that when using this remote, you do not change the Release Mode dial. That is set to REMOTE when using the IR remote. Instead, you just shoot S, CL or CH, and the switch fires the shutter.By the way. my MC-DC2 is not from Nikon. It was a $12 imitation from China.
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If you do not use AF-ON for the AEL / AFL button, you cannot set up a 'focus trap'. This is because whilst shutter release is locked down, the camera will seek focus and shoot non-stop.


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Pacquiao: I Can Make Mayweather Stand and Fight
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WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) is confident in his ability to make Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs), the WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion, stand and fight.
Pacquiao, who faces Chris Algieri on November 22nd in Macau, says Mayweather is too defensive of a fighter and moves around too much. The eight division champion would press the action and feels his style and aggression would give Mayweather no choice but to plant himself in one spot to fight.
"I know how to fight him. I know what I'm doing. I know what his style is all about. So, if he don't want to create action. I know how to create action. I know that I can make him stand and fight. Listen, this is me. I punch, and punch, and punch. This is boxing. If you don't punch, you don't deserve to win. For me, that has always been boxing," Pacquiao told Jerry Izenberg of The Star Ledger.
[QUOTE=Boxing Goat;14908318]Floyd hasn't had a legit KO in 7 years.[/QUOTE] Floyd is a master boxer not a puncher. Pacquiao on the other hand is a puncher who hasn't had a KO win in 5 years.Comment by Reloaded on 09-04-2014
Maidana is a tougher fight for Floyd , Manny will be easy you will all see . No fighter smaller than Floyd , a few pounds lighter than Floyd , can beat him .Comment by IR0NFIST on 09-04-2014
[QUOTE=mrjoeblive;14910628]My thoughts exactly. He will run right into the right hand left hook combo and get ktfo.[/QUOTE] Keep dreaming. Floyd's only chance of getting the KO is if Pac puts his hands down and looks at the ref.Comment by Chuckguy on 09-04-2014
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Washingtonville — When the Environmental Protection Agency decided to cancel a water delivery to Pennsylvania residents caught in the middle of the national fracking debate, it was Rob Spindler's company that got the call.
Spindler, co-owner of Spindler Bulk Transport on Locust Street, said he was hired by Frack Action, a Brooklyn-based activist group, to deliver 6,000 gallons of potable water to nine homes in Dimock, a village in Susquehanna County, Pa., where residents say their wells have been tainted by natural gas drilling.
The tanker delivery was ordered right after the EPA balked Saturday — for unexplained reasons — on a promise made the day before to deliver water to 11 homes. The homeowners had been relying on deliveries of water from anti-drilling groups since Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. of Houston won permission from the EPA to stop making the deliveries a month ago.
The families are suing the energy company, which was banned in 2010 from drilling in a 9-square-mile area around the village.
The battle has become a focus of the national debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling technique that has allowed energy companies to tap previously inaccessible gas reserves found in rock formations. The method, which blasts chemicals, sand and water into rock to loosen the gas, has raised concerns about environmental pollution. Energy companies say it's safe.
Anti-drilling groups, such as Water Defense, founded by actor and Sullivan County resident Mark Ruffalo, are demanding the EPA provide an explanation for waffling on the issue.
Spindler's usual water tanker deliveries are often to fill pools. His company was called once before by Frack Action to make the same delivery, he said. It's not a major account, Spindler said, but the delivery did have other rewards.
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BCTI Business Computer Training Institute false credentials, job promises, instilling false hope, preying on the weak Tacoma Washington
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During my enrollment, they asked if I was a high school graduate or if I had a G.E.D. I was honest and said no to both. They asked me to please get a G.E.D while taking their classes, and signed me up anyway. They told me that their school was nationaly accredited and that upon completion of the course I would be elegible for hire for almost any office job any where in the US. They told me that Boeing and Weyerhauser and other large local companies generally hired straight out of BCTI's graduating class. THEY LIED!!
A few months after I graduated I moved back up to Skagit County. I applied to every office job I could find. Banks, hospitals, clinics, schools you name it, I applied for it. Every single one turned me down because they didn't recognize BCTI's credentials. All my hard work to try to have a better life for my kids went straight down the toilet. And I'm expected to pay back over $8,000.00 for a federal student loan. For schooling that I have never been able to use.
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Houston County district three commissioner Frances Cook is seeking a fourth term.
Cook says during her tenure in office, she has managed to pave 16 dirt roads in her district and helped to obtain more than $6 million in extra funds to upgrade other roads and replace a number of bridges.
Cook says over the next four years, she wants to focus on developing a countywide water system and help to provide more jobs for Houston County residents.
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The New York Jets released wide receiver Stephen Hill on Saturday after they were unable to trade him.
Hill was a second-round draft pick in 2012. He struggled over two seasons, making just 24 catches for 342 yards with one touchdown his rookie year and following that up in 2013 with only 21 receptions for 252 yards with three TDs.
Six months after he was drafted, coach Rex Ryan admitted he did not want the team to draft Hill.
"Well, nothing told me he would [contribute]," Ryan told SI.com in September 2012. "Nothing. When I saw the tape [of his collegiate play] I was concerned. But [then-Jets general manager] Mike Tannenbaum and [senior personnel executive] Terry Bradway and all our scouts were adamant about this guy. They were adamant that this guy can do it. He can run all these routes, he had good hands and he's got 4.2 speed at 6-foot-5. He was the guy they all wanted, but honestly, when it came down to it, a wideout? Not my dream pick. But now that we have him, of course, I want to claim him: 'Oh, that was my pick.' But it really wasn't."
Eric Decker is the No. 1 receiver on a Jets team that is thin on talent after him.
The Jets also released quarterbacks Tajh Boyd and Matt Simms, meaning Michael Vick will back up starter Geno Smith.
Other cuts by the Jets included guard Will Campbell, linebacker Troy Davis, cornerback Brandon Dixon, linebacker A.J. Edds, defensive tackle Tevita Finau, wide receiver Clyde Gates, running back Alex Green, defensive lineman Kerry Hyder, linebacker Garrett McIntyre, safety Rontez Miles, tight end Chris Pantale, cornerback Johnny Patrick, cornerback Dimitri Patterson, tackle Brent Qvale, cornerback Jeremy Reeves, running back Daryl Richardson, guard Caleb Schlauderaff and defenslive lineman Zach Thompson.


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Two things for November I can count on; thankful posts all over Facebook and the Saviors or Thanksgiving workers.
Let me break down the last one. There are a lot of people who get on their soap boxes about not letting people work on Thanksgiving, saying you won't shop at a place that makes their employees come to work. Stop, please, stop. From a low income family, sometimes working Thanksgiving is a God send. When I was coming up in the world, I worked Red Lobster doubles for weeks and being able to work right before and right after the holiday boosted up my check big time.
When I begin working retail, I was 17 and taking care of my family, bills, and handling two jobs. When someone asked me to work extra, I did it, and I enjoyed it (sometimes). However, when people would get mad that the mall was opening at 7pm on Thanksgiving and gave the mall stores the option to do it, I was always confused. So you want me to be broke?
Do you know what working on Thanksgiving can do for a family who is either low or middle income? If you work 8-10 hours Monday through Wednesday (say 10 hours because you know holidays) that's already 30 hours. If you work Friday 10-12 hours (because you know, Black Friday. Let's say 12 hours) 42 hours now. If you work Thanksgiving (8-9 hours) 50 hours! Now if you work before and after a holiday, you get that lovely holiday pay, yes people get it regardless (sometimes), but if you work it, it could be time and a half and it's glorious when you see it on your check.
Let's break this down further. The Saviors Of Thanksgiving Day usually are women who want that break for everyone because they get it. I think that's great, but you also may have an income that can afford that break, most don't. The Saviors Of Thanksgiving may also be the wives of husbands who will go to one of those shops the wife is boycotting and be there when the store opens up at 7pm for Black Friday.
When we are honest with ourselves, Thanksgiving is done once food has been served. Most people want to be at work with people that they actually like hanging out with. Or the possibility that a family could count on the store bringing in a potluck, so they can bring home food to their families (yes, it's a thing). We all aren't fortunate to have huge spreads, we all aren't fortunate to have family coming over or be able to go to families, we all aren't fortunate to have a job that wants to open on Thanksgiving.
As person who needed the money, I enjoyed taking someone's time who didn't want to work, especially if I had it off (didn't do anything anyways) and I would see the glory on my check. I know there are a lot of single parents who would love to spend the whole day with their kids, but they would also love to pay their bills, to give them that Christmas they couldn't afford last year. There are many kids who are helping their families pay bills, many fathers who just got a job after being unemployed for months or a mom who is finally in her own place with her kids and life is finally on track. We all aren't fortunate in this "great" country of ours. Thanksgiving isn't even a whole day (IMO) people are getting ready with food and fixings from 7a-2pm, dinner, and then football, believe me, I am working at home, I might as well go to work and get paid for it.
So, to all the Saviors of Thanksgiving day sit down. Please. If the workers of Target, Macys, Nordstrom's, Staples, Big Lots, Costco's, etc. haven't complained too much, please let them work and get money.


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Functional Central Limit Theorems for Triangular Arrays of Function-Indexed Processes under Uniformly Integrable Entropy Conditions
Functional central limit theorems for triangular arrays of rowwise independent stochastic processes are established by a method replacing tail probabilities by expectations throughout. The main tool is a maximal inequality based on a preliminary version proved by P. Gaenssler and Th. Schlumprecht. Its essential refinement used here is achieved by an additional inequality due to M. Ledoux and M. Talagrand. The entropy condition emerging in our theorems was introduced by K. S. Alexander, whose functional central limit theorem for so-calledmeasure-like processeswill be also regained. Applications concern, in particular, so-calledrandom measure processeswhich include function-indexed empirical processes and partial-sum processes (with random or fixed locations). In this context, we obtain generalizations of results due to K. S. Alexander, M. A. Arcones, P. Gaenssler, and K. Ziegler. Further examples include nonparametric regression and intensity estimation for spatial Poisson processes.
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Volume (Year): 62 (1997)
Issue (Month): 2 (August)
Pages: 233-272
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News Archive
Friday November 30, 2012
Girls VolleyballGirls volleyball state finals
Nov 30, 2012, 11:57 p.m.
When: Saturday. Where: Concordia University in Irvine. Admission: $12; students, children (5 and up) and seniors (65 and up) $8. DIVISION III Moraga Campolindo vs. Cathedral Catholic Time: 3 p.m. Scouting report: Cathedral Catholic (33-4), the No. 1 seed from the South, has won the state crown three times in ...
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Nov 30, 2012, 11:52 p.m.
It's not Qualcomm, but big 'E' measures up just fine
Nov 30, 2012, 11:51 p.m.
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FootballIt's not Qualcomm, but big 'E' measures up just fine
Nov 30, 2012, 11:51 p.m.
High School / PrepsPrep scoreboard (Nov. 30 results)
Nov 30, 2012, 11:48 p.m.
FOOTBALL San Diego Section Championships DIVISION I Eastlake 21, Mission Hills 14 Eastlake 7 7 7 0—21 Mission Hills 0 7 0 7—14 First Quarter E—Aaron Baltazar 1 run (Aeden Johnson Kick) Second Quarter E—Aaron Baltazar 1 run (Aeden Johnson kick) MH—Anthony Bautista 4 run (Isaac Gonzalez kick) Third Quarter ...
Philippines denounces China's plans to board ships
Nov 30, 2012, 11:47 p.m.
PREP FOOTBALL: Centennial a little two much for Vista Murrieta
Nov 30, 2012, 11:45 p.m.
MURRIETA ---- There's no changing of the guard just yet. Corona Centennial held off Vista Murrieta 30-28 to claim the championship of the CIF Southern Section Inland Division final Friday night. The Huskies (13-1) captured their seventh section title since 2000, downing a Broncos team that threatened the balance of ...
Eagles grind out title
Nov 30, 2012, 11:35 p.m.
ESCONDIDO — Anxious eyes watched from the sidelines in last year's championship game. Santa Fe Christian was in range for a game-tying field goal with seconds left. The football was snapped, and the kicker nailed it. But the 41-yard attempt sailed wide left, sealing the Division V title for Christian. ...
FootballEagles grind out title
Nov 30, 2012, 11:35 p.m.
PREPS: Results for Nov. 30
Nov 30, 2012, 11:34 p.m.
FRIDAY'S RESULTS BOYS BASKETBALL Big Daddy Tournament Championship semifinal Perris 52, Murrieta Mesa 43 MURRIETA MESA — Shane Staton 5 2-4 13, Khalil Sharpe 5 0-0 11, Austin Bryant 3 1-2 7, Andrew Smith 2 0-0 4, Trevon Session 1 2-2 4, Camry Smith 1 0-0 2, Shane Bryant 1 ...
Ohai lifts North Carolina past Stanford in 2OT
Nov 30, 2012, 11:33 p.m.
SAN DIEGO Kealia Ohai scored at 5:53 of the second overtime to lift North Carolina to a 1-0 victory against top-seeded Stanford in the semifinals of the NCAA Division I College Cup on Friday night. The Tar Heels (14-5-3), making their 26th appearance in the College Cup semis in ...
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Nov 30, 2012, 11:31 p.m.
Woman accused of hitting SDPD car while drunk
Nov 30, 2012, 11:23 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — A woman accused of striking a San Diego police patrol car while under the influence of alcohol was arrested Friday night after a short pursuit on eastbound Interstate 8. The incident began shortly before 9 p.m. when the woman hit the patrol car in the area of ...
Crime, Courts & FireWoman accused of hitting SDPD car while drunk
Updated Dec 1, 2012, 1:10 p.m.
SAN DIEGO A woman accused of striking a San Diego police patrol car while under the influence of alcohol was arrested Friday night after a short pursuit on eastbound Interstate 8. The incident began shortly before 9 p.m. when the woman hit the patrol car in the area of ...
Ram on the lam: Escaped sheep captured in Iowa
Nov 30, 2012, 11:19 p.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa A shaggy brown sheep successfully dodged police, his handlers and a few cars while trotting through downtown Des Moines after escaping from his trailer. But the ram's freedom only lasted about an hour Friday before he was cornered and tackled by about a half dozen of ...
PREP FOOTBALL: No separating Stevens from this game, despite ailing shoulder
Nov 30, 2012, 11:15 p.m.
MURRIETA ---- Moments after losing to Corona Centennial in the CIF Southern Section Inland Division title game, Vista Murrieta High football coach Coley Candaele let the cat out of the bag. Quarterback Nick Stevens had been playing with a separated shoulder for the better part of four weeks. "No one ...
Analysis: Myanmar's Suu Kyi shows pragmatism
Nov 30, 2012, 11:13 p.m.
PREP FOOTBALL: Red-zone mishaps, other mistakes hanuted Vista Murrieta
Nov 30, 2012, 11:10 p.m.
MURRIETA ---- Tears flowed, heads were down, and many players and coaches on the Vista Murrieta High football team had a look of disbelief Friday night after losing to visiting Corona Centennial, 30-28 in the CIF Southern Section Inland Division football championship. During the past four seasons, Broncos coach Coley ...
Woman shot while driving on LA freeway
Nov 30, 2012, 11:05 p.m.
LOS ANGELES A 20-year-old woman has been shot while driving on a Los Angeles freeway by someone in another car. Police said the shooting occurred shortly after 7 p.m. The woman was shot in the upper body and taken to a nearby hospital. Authorities say the woman managed to ...
PREP FOOTBALL: Failed conversion halts improbable comeback attempt
Nov 30, 2012, 11 p.m.
MURRIETA ---- Even in the biggest of games, small things can make a difference. Vista Murrieta High found that out in the final seconds of its CIF-SS Inland Division loss to rival Corona Centennial. A delay of game penalty on the potential game-tying two-point conversion ended up hurting the Broncos' ...
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Nov 30, 2012, 10:44 p.m.
If you wanna go, it's gonna cost you, but not firstborn
Nov 30, 2012, 10:37 p.m.
Hal Pate stood in line 32 years ago with thousands of other University of Georgia students waiting to purchase tickets to see the Bulldogs face the University of Notre Dame for college football's national championship. "It wasn't really a line, it was more like a mob," Pate told Bloomberg News' ...
If you wanna go, it's gonna cost you, but not firstborn
Nov 30, 2012, 10:37 p.m.
Hal Pate stood in line 32 years ago with thousands of other University of Georgia students waiting to purchase tickets to see the Bulldogs face the University of Notre Dame for college football's national championship. "It wasn't really a line, it was more like a mob," Pate told Bloomberg News' ...
San Francisco defeats Montana 78-68
Nov 30, 2012, 10:29 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO Cole Dickerson scored 19 points and grabbed 20 rebounds to lead San Francisco past Montana 78-68 on Friday night, despite a 21-point effort from Kareem Jamar. Dickerson, who was 7 of 13 from the field, has posted four double-doubles in four games this season. Three other Dons ...
Winning numbers drawn in 'Mega Millions' game
Nov 30, 2012, 10:17 p.m.
ATLANTA The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 11-22-24-28-31, Mega Ball: 46 (eleven, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty-one; Mega Ball: forty-six) Estimated jackpot: $12 million
Penn State, N.C. reach NCAA soccer final
Nov 30, 2012, 10:17 p.m.
The women on Penn State's roster are from small towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio and even Winnipeg, Manitoba. They didn't grow up playing soccer in 300 days of sunshine. They don't necessarily produce the "beautiful game" as attractively as others might. What they lack in polish or pure athleticism, they ...
Penn State, N.C. reach NCAA soccer final
Nov 30, 2012, 10:17 p.m.
Lakers hit 17 3-pointers, win 122-103 over Denver
Nov 30, 2012, 10:13 p.m.
Tijuana site may contain up to 100 dissolved bodies
Nov 30, 2012, 10:08 p.m.
TIJUANA — Authorities searching a vacant property in eastern Tijuana may have found the remains of dozens of drug-war victims gone missing after their corpses were dissolved in lye by a man known as El Pozolero — the stew maker. "We believe that there could be more than 100 bodies ...
Border & BajaTijuana site may contain up to 100 dissolved bodies
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Penske offers Tony Stewart Indianapolis 500 ride
Nov 30, 2012, 10:06 p.m.
Aztecs women stomp Trojans
Nov 30, 2012, 10:06 p.m.
Courtney Clements and San Diego State's women's basketball team are out to prove all those who picked the Aztecs to defend their Mountain West Conference title right. It appears they are trying to get there at warp speed. San Diego State continued its solid showing during the nonconference schedule, rolling ...
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Nov 30, 2012, 10:05 p.m.
Stanford beats UCLA 27-24 to win Pac-12 title
Nov 30, 2012, 10:05 p.m.
PALO ALTO – Stanford's final numbers paled in comparison to the gaudy statistics UCLA put up in a close-fought Pac-12 championship game Friday night at Stanford Stadium. The Bruins finished with 461 offensive yards to Stanford's 325. But in the end, all the numbers in the world didn't matter. With ...
USD runs out of steam in fifth set vs. Michigan St.
Updated Nov 30, 2012, 10:07 p.m.
LOS ANGELES The ending wasn't one USD had pictured. The Toreros believed they could handle Michigan State, then test their mettle in the second round against highly regarded UCLA. But it didn't work out that way. "With the NCAA first-round jitters that people have to deal with and being ...
West leads Pacers past Kings 97-92
Nov 30, 2012, 9:51 p.m.
Giants don't tender contract to closer Wilson
Nov 30, 2012, 9:47 p.m.
Oregon St. falls short in loss to No. 10 Kansas
Nov 30, 2012, 9:46 p.m.
Judge denies bid to take down anti-Muslim film
Nov 30, 2012, 9:43 p.m.
Boycott-hit voting begins in Kuwait
Nov 30, 2012, 9:42 p.m.
Deer get onto racetrack, announcer plays along
Nov 30, 2012, 9:27 p.m.
WASHINGTON, Pa. Spectators who came to watch horses at a western Pennsylvania racetrack got a surprise this week when three deer got onto the course first and beat the horses to racing. According to KDKA-TV ( http://cbsloc.al/VdzJuq ), a race was about to begin Wednesday night at the Meadows ...
Kent State falls short in MAC title game
Nov 30, 2012, 9:26 p.m.
Arkansas falls short against No. 6 Syracuse
Nov 30, 2012, 9:24 p.m.
Four injured in Spring Valley collision
Nov 30, 2012, 9:24 p.m.
SPRING VALLEY — Four people were injured shortly after 8 p.m. Friday when a truck ran into the back of a sedan on rain-slickened Jamacha Road near Darby Street, authorities said. A white sedan was traveling east on Jamacha when the driver lost control and the car spun out, going ...
Crime, Courts & FireFour injured in Spring Valley collision
Nov 30, 2012, 9:24 p.m.
SPRING VALLEY Four people were injured shortly after 8 p.m. Friday when a truck ran into the back of a sedan on rain-slickened Jamacha Road near Darby Street, authorities said. A white sedan was traveling east on Jamacha when the driver lost control and the car spun out, going ...
Pac-12 notebook: RBs Stepfan Taylor and Johnathan Franklin rush into record books
Nov 30, 2012, 9:22 p.m.
PALO ALTO – If the last two weeks have been any indication, the college football conference landscape is morphing again. But at this point, the Pac-12 plans to stay out of the shuffle, thanks very much. "We feel great about the makeup of our conference at 12 teams. At this ...
AztecsPac-12 notebook: RBs Stepfan Taylor and Johnathan Franklin rush into record books
Nov 30, 2012, 9:22 p.m.
Today in History
Nov 30, 2012, 9 p.m.
Today is Saturday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2012. There are 30 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, which was read aloud by the Secretary of the Senate. In it, Lincoln called ...
MURRIETA: City contends manager's pay not subject to cap
Nov 30, 2012, 9 p.m.
Shortly after Murrieta voters approved Measure E in November 2010 along with two other initiatives designed to limit terms and cap compensation for council members and top city administrators, Councilman Rick Gibbs issued a warning. Enacting Measure E -- which was designed to set a limit on the pay for ...
Suspect arrested in graffiti incident in Rancho Bernardo
Nov 30, 2012, 9 p.m.
San Diego police arrested a 23-year-old man Thursday suspected of vandalizing a park in Rancho Bernardo. Officers went to Rancho Bernardo-Glassman Recreation Center on West Bernardo Drive after someone called at 4:25 a.m. and reported seeing taggers spray painting walls, police said. When they arrived, they spotted two men, who ...
No. 1 Stanford women roll past UC Davis, 87-38
Nov 30, 2012, 8:59 p.m.
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Nov 30, 2012, 8:49 p.m.
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Nov 30, 2012, 8:44 p.m.
Navy dolphins, sea lions losing out to robots
Nov 30, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
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MilitaryNavy dolphins, sea lions losing out to robots
Nov 30, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Fallbrook creates 'Old Fashioned Christmas'
Nov 30, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
The Fallbrook Historical Society will hold "An Old Fashioned Christmas" on Dec. 8 on the museum grounds, 1730 Hill St. Carolers, cookies and cider and tours of the museum are among the highlights of the free event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. From 1 to 3 p.m., children can ...
Penn State advances to women's soccer final
Nov 30, 2012, 8:23 p.m.
SAN DIEGO Christine Nairn scored in the second minute of overtime to help Penn State beat Florida State 2-1 on Friday night in the NCAA Division I women's College Cup semifinals Friday night. The Nittany Lions (21-3-2) advanced to the championship game Sunday against North Carolina, which beat Stanford ...
AP Exclusive: Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship
Nov 30, 2012, 8:22 p.m.


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John Araujo
Public health informatician
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public health research and practice have changed dramatically in the past 15 years, mostly because new information technology tools are available to help identify emerging diseases and epidemics more quickly. Rising Star John Araujo is in a unique and cross-disciplinary niche: He is advancing the role of IT at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
His dual role of working for both the chief science officer and chief information officer as a public health informatician at CDC puts Araujo at a crucial intersection in conceptualizing and applying IT solutions to pressing public health concerns and disease research.
The 55-year-old former physiology researcher and IT whiz joined CDC in July 2008 to help shape policy and operations. He reports jointly to Assistant Science Officer Lisa Lee and CIO James Seligman.
In one project, Araujo developed a baseline workforce study to analyze CDC's public health informatics needs. The resulting data will enable the agency to hire the right people to meet those needs. In another project, he is helping to plan and implement development strategies for the agency's IT infrastructure. In a third project, he demonstrated at a national public health event how to quickly set up a wireless network to facilitate communications in a disaster.
"John crosses disciplines — research, IT, project management, evaluation and public health informatics," said Maurine Goodman, CDC's scientific review officer, who nominated Araujo for the Rising Star award. "He has the meticulousness of the scientist but can apply his ideas effectively in an administrative and policy environment. He is unique."
Araujo has had a circuitous career that parallels the emergence of public health informatics. In that discipline, informaticians use IT tools to address social problems in new ways. He earned a master's degree in human development, followed by a doctorate in special studies related to physiology research. He then left academia to work for more than a decade in IT operations at various companies, including Sprint. He earned another master's degree in health services administration in 2004.
Although he's only been at CDC for a year, Araujo has already completed major projects. "This is his first public health informatics position, and very quickly, he has established credibility inside and outside the CDC," Lee said.
"John has insight and a scientific approach to problems, as well as analytic tools, that make him a very valuable and unique employee," Seligman said.
Araujo said he enjoys tackling a broad range of policy and operational challenges. He refers to his dual reporting responsibility as a "beautiful arrangement."
"I was modeling informatics before there was such a field formally," Araujo said. "I have a passion to bring together science, research and information technology. They have to tell me to go home. I am having the time of my life."
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Kraton (polymer)
Kraton is the trade name given to a number of high performance elastomers manufactured by Kraton Polymers (NYSE: KRA), and used as synthetic replacements for rubber. Kraton polymers offers many of the properties of natural rubber, such as flexibility, high traction, and sealing abilities, but with increased resistance to heat, weathering, and chemicals. It was first made by the chemical division of the Shell Oil Company in the 1950s.[1] Shell sold its Kraton polymers business to private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings in March 2001.[2]
Kraton polymers are styrenic block copolymer (SBC) consisting of polystyrene blocks and rubber blocks. The rubber blocks consist of polybutadiene, polyisoprene or their hydrogenated equivalents. The tri-block with polystyrene blocks at both extremities linked together by a rubber block is the most important polymer structure observed in SBC. If the rubber block consist of polybutadiene, the corresponding triblock structure is: poly(styrene-block-butadiene-block-styrene) usually abbreviated as SBS. Kraton D (SBS and SIS ) and their selectively hydrogenated versions Kraton G (SEBS and SEPS) are the major Kraton polymer structures. The microstructure of SBS consists of domains of polystyrene arranged regularly in a matrix of polybutadiene, as shown in the TEM micrograph. The picture was obtained on a thin film of polymer cast onto mercury from solution, and then stained with osmium tetroxide.
The glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polybutadiene blocks is typically -90 °C and Tg of the polystyrene blocks is +100 °C. So, at any temperature between about -90 °C and +100 °C Kraton SBS will act as a physically crosslinked elastomer. If Kraton polymers are heated substantially above the Tg of the styrene-derived blocks, that is, above about 100 °C, like 170 °C the physical cross-links change from rigid glassy regions to flowable melt regions and the entire material flows and therefore can be cast, molded, or extruded into any desired form. On cooling, this new form resumes its elastomeric character. This is the reason such a material is called a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). The polystyrene blocks form domains of nanometre size in the microstructure, and they stabilise the form of the moulded material. Depending on the rubber to polystyrene ratio in the material, the polystyrene domains can be spherical or form cylinders or lamellae. The hydrogenated Kraton polymers named Kraton G exhibit improved resistance to temperature (processing at 200–230 °C is common), to oxidation and to UV. SEBS and SEPS due to their polyolefinic rubber nature present excellent compatibility with polyolefins and paraffinic oils.
Kraton polymers are always used in blends with various other ingredients like paraffinic oils, polyolefins, polystyrene, bitumen, tackifying resins, fillers to provide a very large range of end-use products ranging from hot melt adhesives to impact modified transparent polypropylene bins, from medical TPE compounds to modified bitumen roofing felts or from oil gel toys to elastic attachments in diapers. It can make asphalt flexible, which is necessary if the asphalt is to be used to coat a surface that is below grade or for highly demanding paving applications like F1 racing tracks. Kraton based compounds are also popular for use in non-slip knife handles. The earliest commercial components using Kraton G (thermoplastic rubber) in the automobile industry were in 1975.[3] American Motors (AMC) used this polymer plastic on the AMC Eagle for the color matched flexible wheel arch flares that flowed into rocker panel extensions.[4] Some grades of Kraton can also be dissolved into hydrocarbon oils to create "shear thinning" grease type products that are used in the manufacture of telecommunications cables containing optical fibres. Another use is the creation of "gel candles", which can be formed by dissolving Kraton G1650 into a white-oil (liquid paraffin) and adding colors if required.
- ^ "CEO's message". Kraton Polymers. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ Cousins, Kieth (2001). Polymers for Electronic Components. Rapra Technology. p. 101. ISBN 9781847351982. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ Thermoplastic elastomers II: Processing for performance: Papers from a one-day seminar, Volume 2. iSmithers Rapra Technology. 1989. ISBN 9780902348417. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ Cranswick, Marc (2012). The Cars of American Motors: An Illustrated History. McFarland. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-7864-4672-8. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
A plastic polymer material bearing the trademark name "Kraton" was used for the wheel well extenders, rocker moldings and lower door panel protectors.
- Lewis, PR and Price, C, Electron Microscopy of sym-SBS block polymers, Polymer (1972), 13, 20-26.
- Micro Plastics Material Data sheet for Kraton G polymers based on SEBS (styrene ethylene butylene styrene), retrieved on 4 November 2012.
- Official corporate website


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By Kenneth Blair Hogue, USAMITC Public AffairsMarch 14, 2011
FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS - Entering the impressive cyber work space, you're struck by the fact that this looks like a call center; and indeed it is. But this isn't just any call center. This is the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center's (USAMITC) Enterprise Service Desk (ESD), whose goal it is to provide outstanding customer service and information technology assistance.
USAMITC, being the information technology service provider for all U.S. Army hospitals and clinics worldwide, supports Army Medicine 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year by providing direct information technology support to customers who are comprised of Army medical personnel: doctors, nurses, hospital staff and any other medical professionals who are located at U.S. Army hospitals and clinics worldwide and anywhere within the Department of Defense. All told, this is an impressive service rendered to the 80,000 customers, or end users, who use the ESD services.
This mission is accomplished by USAMITC's Enterprise Service Desk, which is the information technology helpdesk for Army hospitals and clinics from anywhere in the world. "The ESD handles incidents and service requests, and it promotes a smarter, more efficient way of doing things through improved processes and shared knowledge," said Mr. Joseph Nystel, USAMITC's ESD Operations Manager. He said an incident is anything causing an interruption or reducing the quality of service; whereas service requests are requests for something new or requests to change something. "The ESD's mission is to support the Army Medical Department's desktops by providing remote desktop support and to be the window or central point for these customers to report any and all IT issues from around the world. The ESD affords customers the opportunity to call one central number into USAMITC for IT support," he added. "If a customer has an IT issue, they can call one number and they'll receive the same level of service no matter where they are, globally," Nystel explained. The ESD builds a ticket and most of the time, can remote into the customer's PC to resolve the issue.
USAMITC's ESD started in 2006 as a test which took place at Darnell Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas. The test far exceeded expectations, so the Army Surgeon General, Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker, sent a memorandum to all his commanders directing them to support the ESD.
The standards at the ESD are very high. "The goal is for all phone calls to be answered within 30 seconds or less 90 percent of the time, and to have an abandoned call rate of less than four percent," said Nystel. "Abandoned calls are calls that have been in the que for more than 30 seconds. The ESD also strives for a first-contact-resolution, or where the problem is resolved in one phone call, of greater than 60 percent," he added.
By taking care of a broad range of IT issues for customers and by providing service to all of the U.S. Army Medical Command, the ESD has built a shared knowledge database, which should only improve customer service. "With a shared knowledge database, an ESD technician who finds a fix for an incident can share that knowledge by putting it in the global database," Nystel said. "If someone at another site is having that same issue, a technician can go into the database, find the best solution, and quickly resolve the problem." Nystel also said that all Army medical facilities work together and have access to that shared knowledge database. "With ESD technicians always looking for new fixes and better ways to do things, efficiency stands to continually increase," he concluded.
The ESD is government managed and is made up of more than 130 employees including both civil service and contractors. The latter are leads, agents, technicians and trainers.


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David Addington, a real-estate investor who has struggled to help revamp San Francisco's mid-Market Street neighborhood, is now deep in bankruptcy proceedings, highlighting the hazards of trying to turn around the troubled area.
Mr. Addington's company, Fair Market Properties LLC, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in January. The company owns a vacant, two-story building at 1028 Market St., near Sixth Street, that once was home to businesses including a pool hall and strip club.
Steps away he has invested separately in the historic Warfield Theater, but has sought to sell it and said in bankruptcy filings that proceeds could be used to prepare the boarded-up 1028 Market St. building for new tenants. Mr. Addington recently sold an office tower attached to the Warfield.
Mr. Addington said in the filings that he spent years ridding 1028 Market St. of seedy tenants and spent $400,000 on a seismic upgrade but was unable to find new occupants. He blamed "a combination of the Great Recession and the continuing troubled nature of the mid-Market area."
Mr. Addington didn't respond to multiple requests for comment, and his lawyer declined to comment.
The bankruptcy filing came despite recent efforts by the city to improve mid-Market. Last year, the city created a special zone exempting many businesses from a 1.5% payroll tax for new hires.
"David Addington was one of the lone pioneers [in mid-Market] for a couple of years, before the city really stepped up," says Amy Cohen, director of neighborhood business development in the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
City officials say they don't see Mr. Addington's bankruptcy as a sign of larger problems for the area, which has experienced several positive developments.
Earlier this year, American Conservatory Theater committed $18 million to purchase and develop a second stage at the Strand Theater, about a block and a half west of the Warfield. Farther west, in a better part of mid-Market, a revamp of the giant Market Square building is under way in anticipation of new tenants including Twitter Inc., online retailer One Kings Lane Inc. and customer-contact technology firm CallSocket LLC.
CallSocket co-founder Allan Young says new tenants in mid-Market are seeking to get "ahead of the curve on the changes in the neighborhood," which is "the next logical place" for young tech firms that can't find vacancies in places such as South of Market.
Still, Mr. Addington's failure to revitalize the roughly 30,000-square-foot 1028 Market building is a setback for the area, which also has been hurt by the disappearance this year of redevelopment funding that was to be used to improve the area around Sixth Street. A new police substation that had been expected to open this summer in the neighborhood has been delayed as a result of the withdrawn funds.
In his bankruptcy-court filings, Mr. Addington said he moved to San Francisco in 2003 and "became convinced of the tremendous potential for the mid-Market area." In 2004 he bought 1028 Market—which was occupied "largely by adult businesses"—for more than $6 million, he said in the filings.
The neighborhood has been rough for years. Jenner Davis, a local blogger, says she was at the pool hall Hollywood Billiards, formerly housed at 1028 Market, one night in 2003 when a quadruple shooting occurred. "There was all kinds of crime going on," she says.
In tandem with city efforts to improve the area, Mr. Addington said in filings, all the adult-business tenants were removed from 1028 Market by 2007. In 2009, he and the owners of the Mission District restaurant Foreign Cinema opened Show Dogs, a sausage eatery, in a building adjacent to 1028 Market.
Foreign Cinema co-owner Gayle Pirie says Show Dogs' business can be slow when nearby theaters aren't having shows. The restaurant is "a clean, vibrant imprint on a neighborhood that came probably five years too soon," she says.
Also in 2009, Mr. Addington put up $300,000 for what turned out to be a failed city ballot measure to permit flashy advertising signs in the area, he said in the filings.
In 2010, Mr. Addington said in the bankruptcy filing, he moved with his wife and 18-month-old daughter into an apartment atop the Warfield.
In his court filings, Mr. Addington said he still has high hopes for mid-Market.
Mr. Addington's vision for the area once included a three-floor restaurant in the Warfield building run by the owners of Foreign Cinema, which bills itself as "industrial chic." Those plans came to naught. He has said in recent bankruptcy filings he may now rent his vacant property to tenants more in keeping with the neighborhood's past, including a "99¢ Only" store and city-funded adult probation programs.
But East West Bank, which holds the building's loan and has sought to foreclose on the property, has objected to the plan as unrealistic, according to filings. A spokeswoman for East West Bank declined to comment.
"It's too bad, because the guy is such a passionate person," says Ms. Pirie. Mr. Addington "wants so much for there to be an amazing renaissance down there, and we do, too."
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On (At Long Last) Planting a Proper Vineyard1
It has been a long time, indeed almost twenty years, since the tragic demise, grace à la maladie de Pierce, of the Estate vineyard in Bonny Doon. In the relatively short life of the vineyard, initially planted in 1980, we went through one episode of replanting – grubbing up and/or grafting over the Pinot noir, Chardonnay and bordelais cépages to what I was convinced were more proper varieties, Marsanne and "Roussanne."2 (We also planted a half dozen acres or so of Syrah in the southeast corner of the vineyard, and this produced heart-breakingly beautiful fruit and extraordinary wines.)3 In retrospect, I think it was quite miraculously that I managed to accidentally hit on such a felicitous pairing of varieties and site.4) The loss of the vineyard was a deep wound that took me many years to process; it did not immediately make me stronger. Instead, I remember feeling incredibly hurt and betrayed by the universe. The cosmos had built me up, or so I imagined in my hubristic fashion, by placing me on the cover of the Wine Spectator5) (I don't think my megalomania had yet come to full fruition at the time; maybe this was to come a bit later with the explosive growth of Big House), but I did wonder at the time how it was I was going to lead the benighted Chard and Cab-swilling masses out of the wilderness without an exemplary vineyard. I was therefore compelled to do my best with grapes that we purchased for Cigare Volant – ironic, indeed that our "flagship" wine was not made from our own grapes, but rather from those over which we had but a most ephemeral modicum of control.6 It really wasn't until much, much later, that we are able to even begin to stabilize the quality of the grapes with which we were working.7
I had actually started to plant a new vineyard in Soledad at about the same time I just begun to observe the symptoms appear at the Bonny Doon Estate. In honesty, I can't really remember why I chose to plant a vineyard in funky or at least challenging Soledad, rather than plant one in a location where I might plant most of the relevant grapes for Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Memory is a funny thing, and I think that perhaps the perspective of time has altered the chronology of causality. In my recollection, I planted the vineyard in Soledad because I was fairly certain that the area was not susceptible to Pierce's Disease, as I could not bear the thought of losing two vineyards in a row. But if I planted the Soledad vineyard before the appearance of Pierce's in Bonny Doon, maybe it was more a question of really overreaching ambition – the land was quite inexpensive, and I thought that for now I would defer that whole vin de terroir thing; I'd make an interesting, inexpensive, high concept wine that it was as close to a "sure thing," as one could find.8,9 I would make money with my pan-Piemontese blend, and worry about the great Cigare vineyard another time.10
The loss of the Bonny Doon Estate was a bit like losing a beloved friend or perhaps like being dumped by the Great Love of one's life. So utterly unfair! I was determined not to have my heart broken again, and I would begin by putting all thoughts of trying to plant a "great" vineyard out of my mind. Distraction is a great strategy for the avoidance of existential issues. I became distracted with maintaining the very large company that the Big House/Cardinal Zin-supercharged Bonny Doon behemoth had become. Sales were good, but the debt incurred to finance these impressive numbers had also grown proportionately and was quite vertigo-inducing if you looked closely enough. Again, I was able to convince myself that it was just not the time to make the additional investment in a great Cigare vineyard. "Later, grasshopper," I counseled myself.
I ultimately sold off the Big House and Cardinal Zin brands, with the intention of at long last shrinking down the company and planting the great Cigare vineyard somewhere. But there was a bit of a problem or at least a hesitation about planting The Great Cigare Vineyard in Bonny Doon itself, which would, of course, be the logical place to do it. In the intervening years, I had been spending a lot of time in France, thinking deeply about terroir, and I had developed perhaps something like an idée fixe that Bonny Doon (the climat), while capable of growing grapes that would yield balanced and intense red wines (we'd doon it once before, remember), but somehow, in light of its very sandy and highly eroded, mineral-depleted soil, was somehow not a place where one would find a great cru.11,12,13
The good news is that ultimately I was able to identify what I believe is a great cru in San Juan Bautista, a beautiful Estate that we call Popelouchum. It's not perfect; there are some sections of it that seem to have more interesting soil profiles than others.14 The less than thoroughly brilliant sections I am thinking to plant to varietal grapes15 (maybe Rhônish ones?) and the crazy, interesting soils will be dedicated to the somewhat speculative project of creating a highly heterodox field blend of diverse grapes grown from seed.16,17
The project has been stalled the last several years, as (in somewhat of an understatement) we've been chronically short of free cash. But it looks as if our picture is improving quite significantly, and we can at least begin to do more than make mere token efforts. While it would be great to plant a slew of proper vines out in the field, we're not quite ready for that. There is still quite a bit of infrastructure that needs to go in – mostly related to the storage of water to keep the young vines alive through their first years.18 But, for now, we've taken delivery of our little Vitis berlandieri seedlings that we were able, with the help of Dr. Andy Walker, to harvest from wild grapes in the hill country of Texas.19 Many of the vines seem to be rather too small to be out on their lonesome for now,20 so these will be planted in the nursery rows in San Juan Bautista, where they can be carefully nurtured. But most significantly, we are establishing mother blocks of source vines, from which in a few years we will carry out our breeding trials. The intention is to create a vast amount of diverse germplasm, which, considered as a suite, might create wines of great complexity, and possibly, as the discreet varietal characteristics disappear, may allow for the emergence of unique soil characteristics in the wine.21,22 This is the pivotal centerpiece of the Great Terroir Experiment – a proposition so hubristically audacious that I have dared not bring to mind in the last year. It is potentially so vast and wide-ranging a proposition: we (or most likely, my heirs or successors) will select some particular clones of some particular grape varieties and assume the Olympian authority to pronounce them more apt or congruent to the site than others.
So, I'm trying not to focus so much on the very top of the mountain, but rather look at the very discreet path that lies immediately ahead. My last blog post was indeed a bit of a dooner, as it were, lamenting the number of most tortuous detours it seemed I was bound to take before I might move smartly into the Promised Land. The last several weeks, however, have brought things into a slightly different focus. I was heartened to meet with a very large corporate account that expressed a great willingness to support the company in truly doing the right thing – making wines (and other fine products) of transparency, authenticity and above all, a sense of place. Just the other day, I met with a grower who expressed the wish to grow grapes for us in a deeply sustainable fashion – dry-farmed, with the intention of achieving the highest degree of vibrant soil health, integrating livestock into the vineyard to the greatest extent possible. Perhaps it is premature to imagine a great sea-change in the public's thirst for "real wine," but there is every reason to believe that some new doors are opening, and for that I am incredibly grateful. Carpe doonum.
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Wonderful to hear about the positive direction of Popelouchum.
Thanks so much for your very kind comment. It's rewarding to write, but certainly it's now time for more matter, less art.
randall…always nice to read your erudite prose. miss hearing from you. mort
Lovely to hear from you, Mort. Will try to be a less than hopeless correspondent.
your "experiment" seems fascinating, Randall. So, will you graft this vitis berlandieri ? how are you going to choose the scions ? are you also growing them from seed ?
This vitis berlandieri will most likely be used as rootstock for conventional varieties (like Ruchè, Rosesse or Sagrantino), which will make perhaps 1/2 (maybe a bit more) of the vineyard. The real interesting part of the vineyard project will be to figure out what sort of crosses to make, and the resultant seedlings will be planted on their own roots. Now how to figure out who the parents are to be? This is really a tough one, and one that really calls for great imagination, creativity, inspiration and most of all, great luck. The problem – no, it's just one of an infinite number of problems – is that you can't simply say I want to make a wine that tastes like a blend of the grapes that are conventionally blended together, i.e. let's cross merlot with cabernet franc, or let's cross petit verdot with malbec. The grapes that are conventionally blended together generally come from common ancestors so they are genetically too close to breed really healthy offspring. It seems that (truly, what do I know?) what you want to do is take grapes from very different lineages – and somehow imagine what their progeny might be like and then more or less just go for it. It's either that or throwing the I Ching (which it may come down to , after all.)
Wow, what a lot of work! No wonder our paltry two rows of grape vines are hardly producing enough juice for one bottle! It's more of a decorative vineyard than a producing one, being in our side yard here in the non-heart of wine country (Wake Forest, NC), but we live grapes and wine and it's fun to dabble. By the way, my wife Lana is the Allman Brothers Band Queen of Peach, and she bought Big House wine years ago because that was the name of where the band lived back in '69-70 in Macon, GA, back where it all began… and we liked the wine too!
Thanks so much. It is indeed a tremendous amount of work, but there's nothing else in the world I would rather be doon.
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One of Airman First Class Camrin Northrop's lifelong goals has been to pursue and lead a life of service as a firefighter.
Northrop has been actively following this path since his early teens, first as a junior firefighter in the Port Jervis Fire Department and then joining the ranks as an active firefighter and officer of Tri-States Hose Company No. 6.
Northrop, who joined the United States Air Force last year, left this week for a new assignment at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. He spent some time with his local firefighting colleagues while home briefly this month.
His local fellow volunteer firefighters say they could not be prouder of Northrop as he pursues a college degree while serving as a career firefighter in his military unit.
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Returned-not a good product
I had purchased the "same" sheets in the past. When they arrived, I was very disappointed. They were not the same sheets. The quality was very poor. The fabic seemed slick, not soft and fairly thin. I normally don't return items, but I returned these sheets. I knew I would not want to sleep on them and didn't feel they would hold up very long at all.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? a little darker than site color
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. poor
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? OK
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