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- May 12, 1986
- Vol. 25
- No. 19
It's Brother Vs. Brother—and Mother—as the Wine-Making Sebastianis Stage a Power Struggle Worthy of Falcon Crest
Though Thicker Than Water, Blood Is Also the Element of the Deadliest Passions. in This Issue We Begin a Series Examining Five Prominent Families Torn by Battles Over Power, Retribution and Money
For a time after August's death, that was precisely the way things turned out. Sam managed Sebastiani's 400-acre vineyards and winery. Don continued his controversial career as an archconservative state assemblyman known for his outspoken opposition to equal pay for women and antidiscrimination legislation for gays; he was one of only two assemblymen to vote against a recent resolution honoring Martin Luther King Jr. In 1982, after voting against a tribute to astronaut Sally Ride, Don explained with what now seems gruesome insensitivity, "I don't mind lady astronauts, as long as they only have a one-way ticket." Such comments, which nearly triggered a nationwide boycott of Sebastiani wines by the National Organization for Women and the NAACP, generated family friction as well. Concerned by the threat to the company, Sam, who had become Sebastiani's president, demanded that Don retire from politics or leave the winery. When Don agreed to quit the company, the boycott was narrowly averted. But Don was reportedly resentful over Sam's ultimatum, and so, it turned out, was his mother.
Although Sylvia, now 69, said nothing publicly at the time, she scolded Sam at a company sales meeting last November, warning him, "If you treat Don like you did before, I'm going to do something drastic." Snapped Sam: "I am a 45-year-old man. I don't want to be treated like a child." In fact Sam had previously ruffled family feathers by drastically altering the Sebastiani approach to wine making and marketing. Before he died, August's final instruction to Sam was to "go out and make wines that will make Sonoma County proud." And that was what Sam tried to do.
After he graduated from California's Santa Clara University with a master's degree in business, the handsome new president set about changing the very character of the $40 million family business. In an effort to steer the winery away from a jug wine market that seemed about to be taken over by high-powered multinational firms, Sam spent $6 million modernizing the Sebastiani winery, began buying more expensive, higher quality grapes and paid his second wife, Vicki, 41, a former real estate broker, $36,000 a year to promote the winery and cook for business parties. Sources close to the family believe that Sylvia may have resented her daughter-in-law, feeling she had usurped her own role as winery hostess.
Although Sam's upscaling strategy was endorsed by market analysts as well as by critics, who presented Sebastiani Vineyards with 95 awards for quality in 1985—as opposed to only 13 five years before—profits first dwindled, then disappeared altogether. Sebastiani's losses last year were about $480,000, after $38 million in sales. A high-ranking company executive says such dips into the red might have been accepted as the price of a costly but sound business master plan if Sam had been less extravagant and more considerate of his mother's feelings.
"Sam believed it was important to show flair and pizzazz," says the insider. "But it got to be insidious. There was a helicopter to take him to the airport, chartering private planes, personal housekeepers and baby-sitters, a $25,000 membership in a food-and-wine society and about 10 people doing largely personal stuff on company money. Not to mention about $200,000 in home improvements. The family could have looked the other way if the company was making money, but it wasn't."
Such criticism makes Sam see burgundy, particularly the suggestion that he improperly lavished company money on the sprawling, ranch-style home behind the vineyard where he lives with Vicki, their two children and her two kids by a previous marriage. (Sam also has four children by his earlier marriage.) "I don't know what the hell [my family] is talking about," he complains. "I don't know whether they're making all this up or they've just forgotten. Part of that [money] was a $125,000 loan from my mother to redo the house. I don't know where they get the other $75,000. This place was an entertainment center for the winery. Obviously I spent some company money to fix up my yard, but we did a lot of business here."
As for Sam's supposed insensitivity toward his mother, a family member says that, at work, Sam began calling her Sylvia instead of "Mom" and sometimes bought property without consulting her, though she still owns 94 percent of the company's stock. When he did let her in on his plans, they say, it was often by terse interoffice memo. Though family friends have jokingly begun referring to Sylvia as "Angela"—after Angela Channing, the domineering doyenne of Falcon Crest—she is described by one family member as more an easily influenced homebody than the shrike of the boardroom. There is speculation that her injured feelings may have been played on by Don, 33, who, with his wife, Nancy, and their two small children, also lives in a comfortable estate near the winery. His sister, Mary Ann Cuneo, 38, joined him in objecting to Sam's management of the company as well. "We've got to do something," Sylvia is reported to have told them at a meeting last fall. When Sam proposed in December that the family put the winery up for sale, Sylvia vetoed the idea. Sam, worried about his position, asked for a lucrative severance contract in the event he were dismissed. He told his brother, "You're not going to see as much output from me until I know the support is there." Don says his mother was "extremely upset" by Sam's demands. "She felt it would have broken the company," he says. When Sam followed up his ultimatum with a note reading, "Sylvia—either Sam gets put in charge or Sam quits," his mother saved him the trouble of leaving and fired him.
Although Sam was aware of tensions within the family, he had apparently underestimated his mother's unhappiness. "I thought she was a hundred percent behind [the changes in the company's direction]," says Sam. "I felt she would ride this thing out with me.... The least they could have done was to put me on the street in a nicer way." Now trying to hammer out a final severance agreement with brother Don, the company's new board chairman, Sam will soon be selling his own premium wine under a new label, Villa Aquila. "There won't be a chance of my brother or sister coming in to push me out now," he says with undisguised bitterness. "I've had my turn with the family business. Now it's their turn to prove themselves."
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LUCEDALE, Mississippi -- The George County Community Work Center is one of four slated for closure effective July 15, according to a news release from the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
MDOC Commissioner Christopher Epps announced Wednesday that four of the state's 17 community work centers are being closed.
A budget shortfall and fewer non-violent inmates eligible to be housed at community work centers are the reasons for the decision, Epps said.
Inmates at the work centers will be transferred to other MDOC facilities, and community work centers staff will be offered positions at other MDOC facilities.
A goal of the MDOC is to provide the greatest amount of public protection while making the most efficient use of the state's resources.
"Being a good steward of taxpayer money is part of my responsibility as commissioner. Closing these four facilities will save taxpayers about $2.3 million," Epps said.
The other centers slated for closure are Bolivar County Community Work Center in Rosedale, Yazoo County Community Work Center in Yazoo City, and Jefferson County Community Work Center in Fayette.
The release stated that offenders in the community work centers contributed $17,772,600 in free labor to local, county, state and non-profit charitable organizations throughout the state during Fiscal Year 2012.


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Candidates for U.S. House of Representatives District 7 are incumbent Terri Sewell and Tamara Harris Johnson.
The Democratic primary election is June 3. U.S. House District 7 includes most of Birmingham, parts of Tuscaloosa and Montgomery Counties, and most of the Black Belt region.
The annual salary for the office is $174,000.
Name: Tamara Harris Johnson
Age: 58
Residence: Birmingham
Hometown: Birmingham
Occupation: Attorney
Education:Howard University School of Law; Spelman College, B.A.
Political experience: Never held elected office, previously ran for Jefferson County Circuit Court in 2012, former Birmingham City Attorney
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: Two daughters
Name: Terri Sewell
Age: 49
Residence: Birmingham
Hometown: Born in Huntsville, raised in Selma
Occupation: Attorney
Education:Law degree, Harvard Law School; master's degree in politics, Oxford University; bachelor's degree in international and public affairs, Princeton University
Political experience: Two terms in U.S. House of Representatives
Marital Status: Divorced
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Working with the homeless, addicts, those in broken communities and the vulnerable, MPs from all political parties are invited to participate in voluntary placements for between 1 and 3 days with some of the most innovative poverty-fighting projects in Britain.
As well as providing a safe and meaningful way to interact with the real life people that make up terrifying national statistics, the CSJ Challenge is also an eye-opener on the diverse, creative and energetic voluntary and charity sector that is making huge, but often silent, impact across the UK.
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The Affordable Care Act includes a federal tax on those who elect not to obtain health insurance coverage starting in January 2014.
For individuals, the penalty for the entire year will be $95 per adult and $47.50 per child, up to a family maximum of $285 or 1 percent of the family's income, whichever is greater. The federal penalty will be applied to the income tax filing made at the end of that year.
In 2015, these amounts increase to $325 per adult, $162.50 per child, and a family maximum of $975 or 2 percent of the family's income. For 2016 and subsequent years, the full penalties will be $695 per adult, $347.50 per child, and a family maximum of $2,085 or 2.5 percent of the family's income.
Some people will be exempt from this tax. Those exemptions include:
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This hotel offers "the best of both worlds" to meeting attendees. Located on the largest private beach in South Florida, the secluded luxury resort is just at 10-minute drive from Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and minutes from chic boutiques, galleries, trendy bistros, fine dining, entertainment, and cultural activities. Nestled on 16 oceanfront acres, it embodies the epitome of the resort experience. Indulge in the 20,000 square-foot oceanfront spa, named one of the "100 Best Spas of the World".
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AT&T CENTER – The San Antonio Spurs took Game 1 of the 2014 NBA Finals defeating the Miami Heat 110-95 and lead the series 1-0.
Yet despite the 15-point win for San Antonio, the Heat were in the game and even threatened to steal home court advantage as they once took a five point lead in the second half. Miami used their stellar defense to cause the Spurs to turn the ball over 20 times.
After the game, Heat guard Norris Cole spoke with Project Spurs on the loss, positives Miami can take with them into Game 2 and more.
Jeff: Tony Parker headed into Game 1 reportedly not at full strength due to an injured ankle. How did he look out there when you were defending him?
Norris: My motto is if he is out there playing, then he's 100 percent. I wasn't looking for him to be hobbling. I wasn't even looking for that.
It looks like when Miami turned up its defense, that's when Miami rattled the Spurs. What happened to that defense late third quarter heading into the fourth quarter?
We knew we had to turn it up and create turnovers. That's part of our DNA. Being disruptive and we were effective tonight. We didn't make enough plays at the end.
What is a priority for Miami heading into Game 2? Is it defending the three-point line from the Spurs?
Not necessarily. It's defending the paint first. Most of the Spurs' threes came from when they collapsed the defense in the paint and then they kicked out for wide open threes.
Although it was a loss for Miami, are there any positives you can take away from this game?
Definitely! We turned them over 25 times. We had good open looks a lot of times. There's a lot of positives, I mean we were winning the game up until the last 4:33 seconds. So there's a lot of positives coming out of this game.
With the negatives, we'll look at them, own up to it and we will rebuild from it.
Game 2 between the Spurs and Heat will be this Sunday in San Antonio.


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Mickelson Laments American Tax Structure
After closing with a 6-under 66 and finishing in a tie for 37th place in the Humana Challenge, earning $22,400, Phil Mickelson told reporters he was considering a move from California and maybe the U.S. to get away from high tax rates.
He even hinted at moving away from golf. "It's been an interesting off-season," he said at the tournament site in La Quinta, Calif. "And I'm going to have to make some drastic changes. I'm not going to jump the gun and do it right away, but I will be making some drastic changes."
The 42-year-old, who grew up in San Diego and now resides in nearby Rancho Santa Fe, said he would further discuss his future plans this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, which starts Thursday at Torrey Pines in San Diego.
"I'm not sure what exactly I'm going to do yet," he told reporters. "I'll probably talk about it more in depth next week. I'm not going to jump the gun, but there are going to be some. There are going to be some drastic changes for me because I happen to be in that zone that has been targeted both federally and by the state and it doesn't work for me right now."
In November, California voters approved the first statewide tax increase since 2004 and, to Mickelson, the tax hike is troublesome. "If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent," said Mickelson, who earned about $60 million in 2012 and whose tax increase would amount to more than $1.8 million.
"So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do."
When asked if his decision to back out as a part-owner of the San Diego Padres was related to the tax increases, Mickelson responded, "Absolutely."
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In regards to dairy, I say if you don't get any ill effects from it, enjoy it. I'm in the same camp, I like it, therefore I eat it. If you haven't indulged in the primal world of meatza, do so. I make a taco meatza that's amazing. I really wish I could find full fat Fage or Chobani yogurt here. It's a PITA to find full fat anything in Ohio.
I find cream has a few bad effects for me. Cheese I can eat till it comes out of my ears, and milk is somewhere inbetween.
Aw Georgette why do you say that? You can do eeet! <3
Wasting time before work, thought I'd write a little post with more info about me just for funzies. <3
Sooo lesseee... well, again, my name is Meg, I'm 26 and I currently live in Tucson, AZ. I will soon be moving back to Los Angeles with the BF (here's around here on the forums somewhere---I don't think he's found my journal yet, bwahaha). I can't tell you how excited I am to be near the beach again. Beach sprints, here I come! (And of course my fave place of all time, Disneyland!)
One of my biggest passions is traveling, and learning other cultures and languages. I graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in East Asian Studies and Linguistics. Seems pretty random, right? Well, I lived in Japan for about 2 years... one year in high school, and one year in college. The first year I lived out in the middle of no where (rice paddies and everything) and the second year I lived in the city in Kobe (like Kobe beef ^^) Suffice it to say, it was an amazing experience.
I've also been blessed enough to be able to travel around Europe... Been to England and France twice, Italy, The Netherlands, and Belgium. Amsterdam and Paris are probably my favorite cities, but everywhere has been amazing! Right now I'd really love to go somewhere tropical--never been to a place like that before, and I've always wanted to go to Eastern Europe.
Anyhow... when I lived in LA before, I decided I wanted to try something completely different so I went to massage school! It was a great experience, and now I have a skill that I can use anywhere I choose to go.
Well I guess that's me in a nutshell... some fave bands are Paramore (obviously) and Muse, Silversun Pickups, Florence + the Machine, Robyn, Marina and the Diamonds, Placebo, A Perfect Circle, Imogen Heap... I also listen to quite a bit of Japanese music. Oh! And my fave movies of all time are Amadeus and Interview with the Vampire.
Okaaay I'd say that's enough--want to know anything more, just ask!
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I am using my first post EVER to say I love your Journal and you seem like a fantastic individual !
This is very weird - Jeffy's appearance made me go and check what my first post was (it was a now defunct solo journal) and I posted it a year ago tomorrow. How very random.
I think that I would like to see a much larger version of the picture at the Louvre. Cuz damn........................
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This course examines the totality of issues related to data collection, management and analysis for biologists: from the development of hypotheses, the design of experiments, measurement and sampling, to statistical analyses and final publication of results in formats acceptable for scientific reports and papers. Emphasis is placed on the application of a wide variety of statistical methods (using statistical software) rather than theory; the course stresses the practical aspects of biostatistics using a problem-solving approach to graduate research planning, data acquisition, analysis and publication.
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quote: his guy figured out things no one has ever been able to reproduce (ball lightning, wireless energy transfer, etc. ) even to this day. There are some notes that he didn't write a lot of things down that he figured out, and some that he did burned in a fire at his lab.


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Now that the state budget's done and the Legislature's gone and the summer season of vacation and tourism is here, I'm wondering whether Gov. Corbett follows the path of previous guvs and gives us a new state slogan.
I know it's not the most pressing state issue, what with cuts to general assistance recipients, unaddressed road and bridge woes and angst and lawsuits over the new voter-ID law.
But, hey, it is a state tradition.
Some guvs lay out a bunch of money, hire an ad agency to come up with a slogan and run an ad campaign to draw visitors to the state.


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Baylor data center deploys Rackable systems for power savings and performance.
By Kevin Davies
Sept. 5, 2008 | As the NIH 1000 Genomes project kicks into top gear, data center managers are racing to come to terms with the glut of data that they will have to manage from the next-generation sequencing instruments. "This is a problem for all the [genome] centers to deal with, as well as the repositories such as NCBI," says David Parker, Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center systems analyst.
Parker says the 1000 Genomes project not only represents a dramatic difference in the scale of the data that are being generated and collected, but "it also changes the compute characteristic." Parker says that the old Sanger sequencing instruments ("We loved those!") had a relatively low requirement for power processing. "We could typically have small, slow processors. We never bought the fastest processor because we didn't need that much CPU time. We could run on single-core machines, without much RAM."
The image analysis requirements with the new sequencing platforms change all that. The Baylor genome center chiefly uses 454 machines (as it did in completing the sequence of James Watson last year—See, "Project Jim," Bio•IT World, June 2007), as well as Illumina and most recently Applied Biosystems SOLiD machines.
Now, says Parker, "We're buying the fastest multi-core processors we can get with all the RAM we can jam in them." Network performance is a much bigger issue now, as Parker tries to squeeze every ounce of performance from the system.
In preparing for the 1000 Genomes project, Parker says, "We've really rethought our entire architecture and basically started from scratch." In a way, the timing was perfect: having run out of physical space, Parker's team was expanding the center in a remote location. For once, space is not a problem.
It's not much more than a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but Parker estimates that the center's storage requirements are set to expand by 150 Terabytes (TB) a quarter. "That's just for the original data, not workspace. Workspace is typically 50-100% of that. So roughly 250 TB/quarter," says Parker.
But there is some good news on the primary data front. Researchers are actually disposing of it. "We're making progress on it; it's always a fun subject!" says Parker. "I was buying beer for everyone in the center last week because we actually deleted 15 TB of old data!"
Rack 'EmOn the storage side, Parker says the platforms have to be more robust, scalable, and able to meet "a constant demand by the researchers for more storage." When it comes to storage, Parker isn't terribly picky and says he's considered just about everything. "We've looked at Sun… We've done pilots with Isilon, IBRIX, Panasas, BlueArc, NetApp, RapidScale (the old TeraScale stuff that Rackable bought)… There's no such thing as storage you can't use."
He still uses Hitachi SAN-based storage with its virtualization capabilities. "But it's expensive. I don't know that's going to be financially wise as we get into the multi-petabyte range. So we're looking at alternatives, like LUSTER and CLUSTERFS that can do the same for a lot less money."
One vendor that Parker is sold on is Rackable Systems, a Fremont, Calif. server/storage manufacturer that prides itself on its "ecological" equipment. Parker first started using Rackable servers about five years ago, after contacting "every cluster vendor on the planet," including IBM, HP, and Western Scientific, to assess the costs, benefits, and alternatives. "They have the kind of density for floor space I can get from blade servers, yet there is no cost premium for that density. Blade servers still cost more money than 1-U servers. And you don't have the flexibility. Blade servers are certainly wonderful things, but I can buy the same number of processors in the same footprint with Rackable, pay a lot less money and use a lot less electricity and generate a lot less heat."
The reason for Rackable's "green" reputation is that the servers use DC power—the servers feature rectifiers at the top of the cabinet. That improves efficiency and saves a lot of trees. "We estimate it saves 30% on the power and on the cooling," says Parker.
Parker says he's not sacrificing anything by giving up a blade server. "If you buy a blade server the motherboards are proprietary," he says. For example, if he buys from HP, he can only buy HP replacements. Rackable, on the other hand, uses off-the-shelf parts. "If I don't like the mother boards they ship me, I can buy them myself."
Aside from flexibility, lower cost, and a good number of processors per rack, Parker says, "I also like them because they just do excellent work. It rolls in; it's wired the way I want it; it has the network switches I want. It's just beautiful!"
Before joining Baylor, Parker had a consulting company with his brothers. But in 2001, he laughs, "Our customers went out of business!" He calls the past five years "a great adventure." It sounds like the fun is just beginning.
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When I was 12 and my oldest sister 16, she had the unbelievable patience to teach me how to lay out a pattern. She explained all the symbols, terms, sewing order etc. Had it not been for her ...
When I was 12 and my oldest sister 16, she had the unbelievable patience to teach me how to lay out a pattern. She explained all the symbols, terms, sewing order etc. Had it not been for her inspiring me at that age to sew, I would never have enjoyed over 40 years of sewing as I have!
Throughout the years, I have sewn about every craft possible, made my children clothes until they reached the peer pressure middle school years, untold household projects. I've even created patterns for accessories that I sold through various means online and at shows. If it has to do with sewing, I'm interested! now, enjoying full immersion into quilting!
My latest love is quilting! I recently upgraded from a Sweet Sixteen mid arm quilting machine to a Gammill Charm Quilter and will enjoy practicing and learning the joys of free motion quilting. The possibilities are now truly endless!
In between making gift quilts for family and friends and special orders for customers, I make unique and fun quilts for Project Linus. Project Linus is a national program for people to make quilts and blankets for very sick children in hospitals. Since I began quilting in May 2012, I have donated 12 quilts as of December 2012. I will continue to donate to this very worthy and wonderful cause as long as I can sew!
Well, it's one year ago I began quilting, and I am more in love with this form of creativity than ever! I was talked into entering a quilt to be judged at the Annual North Carolina Quilt Symposium in Fayetteville NC and actually took 2nd place in my category! Needless to say I was shocked and pleased! Well, the pressure is on now to create and compete again and see if I can continue to improve!
Update November 2013: My sewing endeavors have taken on yet another turn! My dear Mom passionately served on the board of her local Meals On Wheels for the last 15 years of her life. She not only did that, but did multiple fundraisers, delivered meals, everything she did she loved being involved with Meals On Wheels.
So in honor of her memory and the fantastic job Meals On Wheels does every day with a predominately volunteer staff, I decided to make gifts for all the volunteers at that location (30 currently) and to make quilted placemats for all the current meal recipients, which I am told is 105.
My desire is to recognize this very worthwhile operation and I'm happy to be able to do that!
In addition to that, I've gotten back to the creative side of me as well and am designing a series of patterns I'm making available here on Craftsy as well as selling in quilt stores. I was inspired by the owner and staff of my favorite quilt shop to do so and am enjoying the process of creating and teaching classes once again! Not to mention it helps fund my charitable works of producing quilts and such for Project Linus, Veterans and Meals on Wheels!
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Republican candidate for Tiffin City Council member-at-large Jim Green is focused on increasing the city's fiscal responsibility, creating economic growth and improving the safety of its citizens.
Green has lived in Seneca County for 24 years and has spent 42 years as an agent with State Farm Insurance. He is president of North Central Ohio Conservatives, treasurer for the Seneca County Republican Central Committee and treasurer for the Ohio Liberty Coalition.
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He said that for anything to be successful, including his marriage and government, it takes courage, conviction, commitment and character.
"I believe that it takes the four C's," Green said. "It takes courage in whatever endeavor you enter into, and it takes conviction of those principles and those values, and then it takes commitment to follow through, and then that will reflect the individual's character."
One issue Green would like to focus on is the security and safety of Tiffin residents.
"The first thing that government has to provide for is safety of their citizens, and that's with police, fire and infrastructure," he said. "How do we bring business or people into the community? ... We have to have a city that they can drive on."
Green said that although the city is to have a $2 million carryover, it should save the funds for future use instead of spending it.
"It's small for what we need for infrastructure," he said. "We have to build up a little treasury."
He also wants to focus on the economic growth of Tiffin and the fiscal responsibility of the government.
"My long-term vision is to build a tax base that will potentially reduce the current tax rate that people are being charged in our community," he said. "That's why I'm open to tax abatements to businesses coming into the community."
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December 17, 2009 - John Mehno
Steelers safety Ryan Clark had a mini-meltdown yesterday, apparently spurred by a nasty fan letter. Clark addressed that, then turned his attention to the media, claiming writers and broadcasters are pinning the blame on the wrong players in Steelers losses.
"Y'all don't know," is what Clark said about efforts to assign the blame.
Mostly he's correct. A defensive back trailing a receiver who's just caught a pass may be trying to cover for a player who missed his assignment. So while the tendency is to blame the defensive player who's closest, that may not be correct. You would have to know who had what responsibility, and the Steelers don't distribute playbooks to the media or invite reporters to sit in on meetings and tape study.
That doesn't mean reporters are clueless. Reporters ask questions. Sometimes coaches answer them honestly. There are ways to find out, and there are some plays where the failure is obvious. But not always.
TV guys in particular seem to like to draw instant conclusions. There was a gasbag a few seasons ago who proclaimed that one of the Steelers' offensive linemen had a terrible game. A guy close to the team checked with the assistant coach in charge of the line. The coach told him he didn't think the accused player played badly, but he couldn't be sure until he watched and graded the tape. If the coach didn't know for sure, how could the TV guy know?
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LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
I believe just about everyone by now has checked out a LEGO game so you'll know what's on the menu. An appealing license, tons and tons of blocks to shatter or build up, gameplay for young and old, and of course a decent dose of humour, action and collecting anger. And things aren't much different from that with this new LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.
Unfortunately we now leave the old trilogy for the new TV series, but let's not have that spoil the fun. What immediately gets noticed are the much improved graphics that seem to profit from the better lighting effects, more detail, quite beautiful particle effects and better surroundings and locations. Second note; there's tons of game fun and content, also here again, but the makers should have put a bit more effort in making it more accessible. I believe even the kids will grow tired of this and the same goes for everyone during the game itself. At times you just have no clue what to do and for a series that's meant for families you get stuck just a tad too often. Long live Google in that case.
This abundance also has quite some good things going for it. There are tons of characters, different settings that vary from cities over plains and from futuristic ships to cosy villages. On top of that themakers have added a lot of new features in both the gameplay and the characters so that also spoilt and ADHD kids that are robbed from their pills won't grow tired of this game. Think of the burning of passages through doors with your light sabre or commanding other men. You also get new Force powers to use and a sniper rifle with cool zoom function!
But you do need some patience. There are a lot of puzzles that require quite some thinking and precision and the controls of the game are still too floaty and clumsy to not frustrate after a while. Just like with f.i. LEGO Indiana Jones returning enemies will cause unnecessary swearing when you just want to do a jump onto something or pick something up. Why is this respawning necessary Telltale Games? Luckily you can bear such things better when playing with kids or other people in co-op, but it's clearly time that some more work is put in a new control scheme or engine. And while you're at it, check out the cameras, dear devs, as also these unnecessarily tamper with the experience in difficult parts.
Completely new are the sections where you need to perform some sort of real-time strategy missions including building a base and defeating a hostile army by conquering multiple objectives. This delivers more shouting on the battlefield (where you can move over yourself as well), but also the possibility to produce and buy structures, upgrades and units with lego blocks you first have to earn. Admitted, it's not worked out as deep as Starcraft and younger gamers will break their teeth on this, but some variation, spectacle and an experiment here and there are always good.
Even happier we became from the vehicle parts in this LEGO game. Of course we previously already got the chance to get into a jeep or plane, but this time we're talking about space combat where laser effects and explosions fly around your ears. You immediately feel like Luke Skywalker, even if he doesn't have much to do with the Clone Wars. Grumpy guys will nag that you're not flying in a real 3D environment, like in Wing Commander or X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, but this does remain a LEGO game.
As we already suggested, the biggest strength of The Clone Wars remains in the co-op possibilities and these work better than ever. Next to going through the singleplayer campaign together, something that will take more than a handful of days, you can now also play the RTS parts against each other. Not really too fascinating, but again something extra to try..
The LEGO-series ran and still runs the danger of repeating itself, but with LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars the makers at least try to postpone that point a bit. Better graphics, more possibilities in gameplay and with characters, and still a very fun co-op and tons of content make for again a family must-have. The devs do need to urgently find a solution for the frustrating controls, and next time some more attention has to be given to the menus and explaining the various possibilities as well as showing solutions when you get stuck in the game.
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Northwest wine makers struggle just to keep sales flat
RICHLAND, Wash. – Northwest wineries are working harder than ever just to keep sales flat. That's what winery owners and market experts are saying as wine lovers gather this weekend for the Columbia Valley's Catch the Crush event.
"We pay our bills," one winery owner told me. "There's a lot of extra wine out there," said another.
Many wine owners are traveling more often to sell wine to restaurants and wine shops. They're setting up wine clubs to market directly to consumers. And they're producing higher volumes of lower-cost wines.
"It is still a good time for wine," says Wine economist Mike Veseth, who wrote the recent book "Wine Wars."
"This decade, when we are through with it, we will look back and say this was a good decade for wine in America, the world and the Pacific Northwest." He adds, "but we'll say the period between 2008 and 2014 was very trying."
Northwest wineries aren't cropping up at the same rapid pace as they were in the last decade. But the Washington Wine Commission says the industry is still growing overall.
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HOUSTON (AP) - Pete Harnisch is making life miserable for his old teammates.
Harnisch pitched eight strong innings as the surging Cincinnati Reds moved ahead of Houston for the National League Central lead, beating 20-game winner Jose Lima and the Astros 4-1 Tuesday night.
Harnisch (15-10) has a 5-2 lifetime record against the Astros and he's 4-0 this season.
And he did it while hurting. He skipped a start because of the shoulder injury that has plagued him all season.
"It felt sore warming up, so I made an adjustment, and it felt OK," Harnisch said. "I had really good movement on my fastball. That's basically all I had, but fortunately it had a lot of movement. You throw them strike one, and they don't want to see strike two. They swung at a lot of pitches."
Harnisch allowed four hits. He threw 75 pitches, 59 for strikes.
The Reds now have a one-game lead with four games to play.
"It beats being one game behind," Harnisch said. "We have a lot of fun on this team. We have a lot of fun in this clubhouse. We don't think too much about anything beyond today."
The largest baseball crowd in the history of the Astrodome, 54,037, saw the Reds win their sixth straight game and send Houston to its third loss in a row.
"This was definitely a playoff atmosphere," Reds shortstop Barry Larkin said. "I know I was amped up. I think that was evident by my early throws. Everybody was charged. We have to win this series. Every game from here on is a playoff game."
Cincinnati had not been in first place since Aug. 19 when it was tied with the Astros. Houston took over the lead the next day.
Despite the defeat, the Astros held their 1 1/2-game lead over New York for the wild-card spot. The Mets lost to Atlanta 9-3.
"Maybe this is good," Astros manager Larry Dierker said. "We've had the pressure of them pushing, pushing. Now the pressure is off because we're not in the lead any more. Let them see how it feels to be pushed. There's still time."
Harnisch (15-10) helped the Reds improve to 5-0 at the Astrodome this season. Cincinnati leads the season series 9-3 going into tonight's wrapup, which matches Steve Parris against Houston's Mike Hampton.
Harnisch struck out three and walked none.
"Pete's been a lifesaver; I can't tell you how much he's meant to this team to get us where we are today," Reds manager Jack McKeon said. "He's a great competitor. He did a heck of a job today."
Scott Williamson pitched the ninth for his 19th save.
Sean Casey hit his 25th homer in the first, and the Reds added two more runs in the second against Lima (20-10) on singles by Eddie Taubensee and Pokey Reese.
Lima was in trouble again in the third. Taubensee's infield hit scored Barry Larkin for a 4-1 lead with two out. Lima walked Bret Boone to load the bases but Reese grounded out.
Lima lost his third straight decision since getting his 20th victory Sept. 11 against the Chicago Cubs. Lima went six innings, allowing four runs - three earned - and eight hits with eight strikeouts.
"I only made one mistake, the fastball to Casey," Lima said. "I'm disappointed we didn't get the win, but I'm not disappointed with the way I pitched. I was trying to keep my team in the game, and I did."
Craig Biggio hit a leadoff single in the Houston first, and Harnisch retired the next 12 batters. Biggio, however, scored on Jeff Bagwell's grounder.
NOTES: The Reds have the best road record in baseball at 50-27. ... Astros right fielder Derek Bell returned to the lineup for the first time since he pulled a rib cage muscle in Sept. 10. ... Greg Vaughn leads the majors with 14 homers in September and has tied the Reds record.
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Peer Pressure Affects Brain ChemistrySierra Black
A new study mentioned in the NYT Well Blog shows that teenagers' brains are affected by peer pressure. Even very subtle peer pressure.
Believing a friend is watching them play a video game from the next room motivates young teenagers to take risks they wouldn't otherwise take. In the study, kids who thought their friends were watching them crashed their video game cars 60% more than those who thought they were playing alone.
The peer pressure there is pretty subtle: the kids weren't directly encouraged by peers to take the risks, they just did it when they thought their friends were passively watching.
The effect did not appear in adults or college students in the same experiment. It seems like peer pressure is a powerful force on young teens. We all knew that. But this study shows us a little more of why. See, the study participants were hooked up to an MRI while playing these games.
The young teens who took more risks had the pleasure centers of their brains lit up while playing. Sure, they were being promised cash if they did well. But teens who were playing only for cash were still prudent in their driving. Those who thought their friends were looking on took more risks and went for bigger wins.
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It was as if the presence of friends, even in the next room, prompted the brain's reward system to drown out any warning signals about risk, tipping the balance toward the reward.
"The presence of peers activated the reward circuitry in the brain of adolescents that it didn't do in the case of adults," said Laurence Steinberg, an author of the study, who is a psychology professor at Temple and author of "You and Your Adolescent: The Essential Guide for Ages 10 to 25." "We think we've uncovered one very plausible explanation for why adolescents do a lot of stupid things with their friends that they wouldn't do when they are by themselves."
We all knew kids take risks with their friends. Even my 6-year-old will do risky things to show off when she's hanging out with her friends. Peer pressure is powerful stuff. The question is, what can we as parents do about it?
Since the response seems to be hard-wired into the kids' brains, probably we can only do so much. For some tips on how to boost kids' self esteem and help them resist peer pressure, you can check out this slide show from EmpowHer.
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"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
your nature ride with coffee sounds lovely and I think it's great to feel overwhelmed with gratitude for one's many blessings. However, on the whole I would vote for one thing at a time. I don't even like background music much, but leave the house quiet when I am home alone.
Except perhaps walking and talking Had a beautiful walk with my dd yesterday and we talked almost the whole way. Then we sat on a log and watched the waves and birds etc without talking. Very very nice.
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Definitely not, except in some cases listening to music while doing something else. I don't consider drinking coffee or tea while watching a video or on the internet as multitasking.
One thing at a time allows me to 'go into it' which is very pleasurable to me.
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." - Alston Chase
I know that when I put a call into my mother once a week that I'll be on
there no less than 90 minutes, so I make sure my kitchen is NICE AND DIRTY
(which is always, ahem) before I call her.
She's 70, so the Usual Topics are: Weather, Illness (other people's), Neighbors,
Books and Movies. Every.Single.Time. Sometimes some small anecdotes about her
childhood. The.Same.Ones.Every.Time. Not MY childhood... but hers... I'm pretty
sure mine never existed. I think I was born and adult... but anyway, not bitter.
Moving on - SO! When I'm done having her talk at me for the 90 minutes, my kitchen
is sparkly clean and I have NO IDEA who did it!
I usually blame it on the cat when my husband gets home.
"Look honey! The cat cleaned the kitchen again!"
and he usually replies "oh, nice, how long were you on the phone with
your mother -this- time?"
What? What are you talking about? IT WAS THE CAT.
Anyway, so that's what I like to do when I'm on the phone with my mother.... otherwise,
if I have nothing to clean or no laundry to put away.. I would usually put away a bottle of
wine instead.
Cleaning for the win. Snort.
Curiously, my mother hates it when I'm cleaning whilst talking to her; "honey, what
are you doing?" She wants my undivided attention to her superfluous rhetoric. So I have
to remind her "hey, either you listen to me clean, while my two kids are out playing, or
you have to get interrupted 500 times while they're IN the house, because when you pick
up the phone to answer it, or call someone, your 8yo and 11yo become helpless infants that
can't do shit for themselves and neeeeeeeeeeeeed something about every five seconds.
She ultimately chose the cleaning.....


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Thinking back on college, I know there's no way I could do 100% Paleo alone. There's simply not enough time to cook and go to the grocery store and farmer's market. Also, there's a cost factor since grass-fed beef is expensive. In college, it really needs to be a group effort.
Think about starting a Paleo club on campus. That way, the shopping, cooking, and cleaning duties can be split among you. Heck, you might even be able to get some money from your school to bring in speakers and buy food. If you could somehow arrange to live with other Paleo people, that would be optimal. Moreover, the social element helps with accountability and not missing workouts.


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Big Oil concedes that it cannot yet mount an adequate response to another well blow-out in the murky depths, but promises it will be able to do better six months hence. A year after that, the story goes, a whiz-bang containment plan will be available to deepwater drillers everywhere.
Even if all that it is true, we face the prospect of a very hairy interlude because President Barack Obama's drilling moratorium expires Nov. 30. But the feds are not about to sit around and do nothing.
They figure, if we are going to court disaster again anyway, the risk is somewhat reduced so we might as well get on with it. Michael Bromwich, who heads the Bureau of Ocean Management, Regulation and Enforcement, says the rigs may be allowed to resume operations ahead of schedule. Bromwich says the moratorium may be lifted early because of the "unprecedented" spirit of co-operation that has seized Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Conoco since the Deepwater Horizon blew up.
Any pretext to lift the moratorium will suit Louisiana just fine, and although the clean-up plan will not be in place, the oil companies have a powerful incentive not to risk a spill in the first place.
Their $1 billion joint venture, Marine Well Containment Corp., shows that the oil industry "gets it or is beginning to get it on oil spill containment," Bromwich said. Sure, it is heart-warming that companies befouling the seas and the coasts have hit on the idea of a rapid clean-up plan. It's a shame that a major explosion was required to concentrate their minds, though.
While BP shovels billions into its compensation fund, the decline in its share price since the explosion has cost former chief Tony Hayward and his four fellow executive directors about $45 million. There is no need to shed any tears on their behalf, however. They held shares and options worth more than twice that.
Still, we may be sure that the other oil companies will learn from BP's travails and adopt a risk-averse approach to deepwater drilling. That will be in sharp contrast to the Deepwater Horizon, where, it seems, the signs of impending catastrophe were plain to see. The only question is whether BP can stick Transocean, which owned the doomed rig, with some of the compensation costs.
Regardless of how that plays out -- and Louisiana will not much care who pays, so long as someone does -- it is impossible to believe that the derelictions catalogued in a just-released audit will ever be repeated.
According to British press reports of the audit, prepared by BP seven months before the explosion, Transocean had failed to complete 390 "maintenance tasks" on time. The equipment allegedly neglected included the blow-out preventer and the emergency well sealing mechanism. Safety regulations posted on the rig were dated 2002, and maintenance records were missing crucial information. Transocean maintains it is not liable for clean-up costs, but BP says it is, if gross negligence occurred.
Of the 126 workers on the rig when it blew up, six were BP employees. Transocean employed 77, including nine of the men killed. The other two worked for a subcontractor.
Transocean denies any laxity with worker safety, and claims that the backlog of maintenance tasks was overstated because of "a job duplication problem in the conversion of maintenance management software systems."
As if that weren't reassuring enough, Transocean reports that "all items identified as critical were addressed immediately" and "the rig was found to be in good condition by a third-party inspector" a few days before the explosion.
We'd better watch out for that guy if the moratorium is lifted.
Note: Sunday's column made fun of Tony Falterman, a member of the LSU Board of Supervisors, for a "grammatical howler" he made in a written statement. The very next paragraph of the column added to the merriment; it followed a singular subject with a plural verb.
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ProtractorsEngineering & Drafting
By the end of the 18th century, protractors were routinely manufactured by machinery, with the invention of dividing engines, such as Jesse Ramsden's, particularly important for enabling the precise division of a circle into fractions of angles. Makers produced protractors that read minute fractions of angles, particularly when a vernier was added to the instrument.
Mechanics or machinists also used protractors to draw designs for new types of machinery. For instance, there were several forms of limb protractors for draftsmen that both functioned as T-squares and provided angle measurement. Similarly, protractors assisted with the preparation of architectural drawings. The instruments were only displaced by the advent of computer-aided drafting in the late 20th century.
"Protractors - Engineering & Drafting" showing 2 items.
Protractor Signed by Cox
- Description
- This semicircular brass protractor is graduated to half-degrees. It is marked by tens from 10° to 170° in both directions, from left to right and from right to left. A brass rectangle with a curved notch has been soldered on at the origin point. The rectangle contains a small hole for locating the vertex of the angle being measured. The base of the protractor bears the maker's mark: W. C. Cox, Devonport. The letters DB are scratched near the maker's mark.
- William Charles Cox, a British instrument maker who worked in Plymouth and Devonport, had his shop in Devonport from 1830 to 1851. He presumably made this protractor during that period. The Smithsonian purchased this instrument in 1959 from the estate of Henry Russell Wray via an auction conducted by Maggs Bros. Ltd. of London.
- Reference: Gloria Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 (London: National Maritime Museum, 1995), 69–70.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1840
- maker
- Cox, William Charles
- ID Number
- accession number
- 228694
- catalog number
- 316927
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Isometric Protractor Presented to Alexander Leslie
- Description
- This brass drawing instrument consists of a narrow 10" arm joined to a base (4-1/8" by 1-1/16") with a thumbscrew. The arm may be placed in two positions: horizontally and at 150° (30° if measuring an angle opening to the right). Since it only measures 30° angles, this device is an isometric protractor. An isometric protractor is used to create three-dimensional drawings by depicting an object from an angle at which the scales on the three axes are equal. The technique was popular in the 19th century for its simplicity and ease of use. In the 20th century, isometric projections were typically created on specialized graph paper marked with triangles. In the 21st century, isometric engineering drawings and the isometric protractors used to prepare them are both created with computers.
- The base of this protractor is engraved with a presentation mark: TO (/) Alexander Leslie C. E. (/) FROM (/) Mortimer Evans. Leslie (1844–1893) was a civil engineer who was especially known for constructing waterworks in Scotland. From 1871, he partnered with his father, James Leslie (1801–1889), in Edinburgh. James was the nephew of the mathematician John Leslie. He trained under the architect William H. Playfair and worked with George and John (Jr.) Rennie early in his career. He was a founding member of the British Institution of Civil Engineers. Alexander was elected to the society in 1869. In 1871, he was elected to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, while Mortimer Evans became a member of that institution in 1876. Little is known of Evans or of when and why he presented this isometric protractor to Leslie. Evans lived in Glasgow in the 1870s and then moved to the Piccadilly area of London, where he patented a precursor of a motion picture camera (with William Friese-Greene) in 1889.
- The protractor is stored in a leather case lined with blue satin and blue velvet. The lid of the case has a protrusion to accommodate the thumbscrew.
- References: William Farish, "On Isometrical Perspective," Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1 (1822); William Ford Stanley, Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments, 6th ed. (London, 1888), 268; Catalog of Eugene Dietzgen Co., 12th ed. (Chicago, 1926), 41, 44; Institution of Civil Engineers, "Alexander Leslie," Minutes of the Proceedings 116 (1894): 366–368.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1870
- recipient
- Leslie, Alexander
- producer
- Evans, Mortimer
- ID Number
- 1983.0474.01
- accession number
- 1983.0474
- catalog number
- 1983.0474.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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Mike Burke: Holyoke boxing fete rekindles memories
As many of you know, if you know me, boxing is my special sport and I had that reinforced on March 16 at the Log Cabin Banquet and Meeting House.
That evening, co-owner Mick Corduff and his crew at the Cabin, with a lot of help from people like Al Valenti, chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association in New England, and many others, put on one heck of a show. Not only were there excellent boxing matches, but there was quite a dinner as well. More than 320 people enjoyed the evening, with Mick promising more in the future, on dates to be announced.
The boxing was excellent, as I said, and the winners will go on to the U.S. Boxing trials at Lake Placid, N.Y., in May and then, if successful, to the U.S. finals in June in Denver.
The evening always brings back memories of my years with the Western Mass. Golden Gloves Tournament as run through the Holyoke Boys' and Girls' Club.
So many folks put so much into that tournament and it was very successful for a long time. Unfortunately, circumstances reduced its popularity toward the end and it has become just a memory for so many of us.
But Holyoke remains a boxing town as represented by the enthusiasm of the fans at the Cabin last week.
The days of the Valley Arena, when you could on a given Monday night see the likes of champions in the ring like Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Sandy Saddler, Jimmy Carter, Chalky Wright, Beau Jack, Paddy DeMarco, Tony DeMarco, Wallace "Bud" Smith and so many others, have long gone.
And, the days when local battlers such as Sal Canata, Bobby Little, Dan Buckley, Myer Cohen, Chick West, Bobby Courchesne, Pat Bartlett, Les Epperson, Joe Dominck and others are also fading into history....
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My fellow band geeks and I would like a word with all you ''cool'' kids who laughed at us in school.
That's the word. Try not to stumble over it.
See, the Journal of Neuroscience published a study by Northwestern University that shows that kids who took music lessons command sharper minds as adults.
Here's a sharp-minded test for you. What did the flautist say to the trumpeter as the band marched in the snow? "Watch out for ice because if you don't C-sharp, you'll B-flat."
If you're chuckling or groaning, congratulations, you're probably one of the smart bandos. If you're scratching your head, probably not. Either that or my dog has fleas. (Ask a ukulele player to tune you in to that one.)
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Anyway, the scientists hanging out at Northwestern discovered that the auditory brain stem - the thing that processes sensory and cognitive cues - reacts faster in people who played music as kids. By the time we hit our mid-50s to late 70s, our cognitive skills are firing a bit faster than the dullards who didn't.
Remember all the times you tried to practice at home and your family yipped at you to knock off the racket? I remember stuffing sweat socks into my trombone to muffle notes.
It now occurs to my musically honed cognitive skills that I wasn't as rotten a musician as everyone thought. I bet those awful sounds had something to do with damage caused by smelly sweat socks.
Anyway, it turns out I wasn't blistering ear drums; I was fortifying my brain.
So when will science vindicate the rest of the stuff people used to harp at us about?
For example, running with scissors. Seriously, has any eye ever been poked out by someone running with scissors?
I bet if science studied it, it would prove that kids running with scissors improves dexterity, agility, alertness, quick-twitch muscle reactions, heart rates and all sorts of other benefits. Maybe not in the kid doing the running, but certainly in everyone else in the room.
What about baths and boys? If science studied this one, it probably would find that moms who forced their kids into the tub every day erred by washing off the protective layers boys built up to keep him safe from all manner of germs, bugs and viruses. At least that's what I tried to tell my mom at bath time.
Maybe science also would discover that Play-Doh crumbs actually improve the life of carpets.
Science might even prove that dirty clothes left to air out on backs of chairs or draped on doorknobs clean themselves after a while, thus saving hampers and the environment. At least that's what I thought I discovered in college doing personal research in the men's dorm.
How about daydreaming? My teachers and my parents forever sniped at me to pay attention to my work. Dad was particularly painful upon this point whenever I was the one driving the tractor in the hayfield. No good can come of daydreaming, they insisted.
I became a writer. One of the coolest things about being an author is legalized daydreaming. When I'm staring out the window, or even resting my eyes in my easy chair, I am NOT goofing off. I am hard at work plotting out my next book.
I'm sure there are more examples of worthy scientific research that needs to be done. Tell you what, I'm going to pick up my trombone and cogitate for a while. Pass the sweat socks. They should be aired out by now.
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Reigning champions and favourites take until fourth quarter to finally kill off team ranked No 31 in the world
The United States women's basketball team have spent much of the build-up to their Olympic title defence insisting that the burden of life as a gold medal favourite is one they willingly accept.
That boast looked hollow as Croatia, ranked No 31 in the world, pushed the defending champions into the fourth quarter before losing 81-56.
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At any rate, I decided to use the hubbub over the New York Times story to make a comment about a relationship we know existed, the one that produced the campaign-finance law Republicans hate.


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Our national security is under serious consideration, but Senator Inhoffe's amendment to the defense appropriations bill (S. 1416) is not a rational energy or national security plan. It provides millions in grants to traditional fossil fuel producers for the next 10-12 years. It opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration in hopes of giving the United States a six-month supply of petroleum, and we would have to wait 10 years to receive it. While it provides user grants for alternative energy, they will cover new and old installations for only the next five years.
Apparently, some industries are hoping to use the current alarm in our country for their own financial benefit. We also have many people in our own government with strong and direct ties with the oil, coal and nuclear industries. I would hope that all would provide unbiased leadership to the public, but that's not always the case. Our leaders and we, the citizens, must be vigilant and make wise decisions in all areas, especially during a crisis such as the one we are currently facing. It's important that we not destroy what's left of our pristine natural lands simply because we're desperate to solve another lingering problem. Destroying the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would not solve our national security problem. It would only add to further degradation of our planet.
Reasonable energy solutions must be sustainable for the long haul. Energy that is clean, safe and renewable, such as solar and wind, will allow us to provide energy for generations to come. Much of our vulnerability stems from the fact that we're so dependent on fossil fuels that worldwide are quickly being used up. It's also a fact that we're wasting tremendous amounts of energy. This is quite troubling when you consider that the sources for that energy are limited. This habit of shortsighted and wasteful behavior is not sustainable and is a recipe for future disaster. When fossil fuels are gone, they are gone. Large-scale, comprehensive conservation will save more petroleum than we could ever find in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and it will buy us time while we wean ourselves off dead-end energy sources like oil, coal and nuclear. Our future and our national security depend on true energy independence. Alternative energy technology is available now. The manufacturing ability, brains, sun and wind are already here.
What we need is the will to pursue an inevitable and rational future ‹ to create new jobs that are responsive to our current needs, improve the quality of our environment for our children and grandchildren, improve our national security and invest in our sustainable future. We do not need to pursue old, outdated technology that pollutes, warms our atmosphere, puts nuclear waste where no one wants it and wastes our tax money on an investment that has no real future.
This is an exciting and interesting time to be alive. I trust that our nation will commit to developing the technology for using renewable energy now, rather than later. I would rather give up nonrenewable, polluting and dangerous energy sources now, while we still have a choice, than to wait until it is no longer a choice. Investing in a renewable, clean and safe energy will lead us to energy independence and a sustainable future for all. Please call, write or e-mail your senators, representatives and the president to voice your opinion on this very important matter. You really can make a positive difference.
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Accretion disks are the engines driving the exotic phenomena observed in X-ray binary stars. The physical structure of disks feeding neutron stars or stellar mass black holes is pooly understood because they are too distant to resolve directly and are often low-luminosity sources compared to their stellar hosts and companions. Consequently ideas concerning the nature of disks in X-ray binaries such as advection-dominated accretion flows, irradiation-induced warping, tidal distortions and flip-flop instabilities remain untested. We have developed "Echo-tomography" to address this problem. We employ simultaneous monitoring of X-ray pulse or flare events from the compact source and their subsequent echoes at lower energies which result from reprocessing by the atmospheres of the companion star and accretion disk. Reprocessed pulses are delayed from the X-ray events due to light travel times across the binary. The result is a transfer function which defines an iso-delay curve over the surface of the reprocessing atmospheres. Samples of curves can be built up over an orbital cycle to produce a spatial map of disk structure using inversion techniques. The nature of this type of experiment requires the use of multiple satellites and ground-based observatories, but with the suite of X-ray and optical instruments comprising the payload onboard the upcoming X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, echo-tomography will be feasible from a single observatory.
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Fettucine, Linguine or Ravioli *
Homemade Manicotti *
With Homemade Marinara, Vodka Sauce, Alfredo, Carbonara, Bolognese, Pesto, or Primavera
With Fresh Tomatoes, or Cream, or Garlic & Oil, or
Red or White Clam Sauce *
Your Choice of:
Garden House Salad, Caesar Salad, Tricolore
or Greek Salad *
Served with Two (2) Vegetables and Potatoes or Rice
Prime Rib of Beef
Boneless NY Shell Strip Steak
Stuffed Breast of Capon with Wild Rice or Bread Stuffing
Whole Stuffed Cornish Hen
Chicken Francaise
Chicken Marsala
Chicken Parmigiana
Chicken Sorrentino
Veal Marsala
Veal Parmigiana
Veal Chop
Grilled Swordfish (upon availability)
Poached Salmon with Dill Sauce
Shrimp and Chicken Francaise (Combined)
Shrimp Francaise (Under 8 to a lb.)
Shrimp Scampi (Under 8 to a lb.)
Stuffed Filet of Sole with Crabmeat or Florentine
Broiled Seafood (Filet of Sole, Scallops, and Shrimp)
Stuffed Loin of Pork with Homemade Apple Gravy
Surf and Turf (8 oz. of each Filet Mignon and Lobster)
Potatoes: Red Roasted, Candied Sweet
Potatoes, Oven Baked
Or Potatoes Grand Chalet - Mashed with Cheese and Herbs and Browned in the Oven
Vegetables: String Beans Almondine, Steamed Broccoli, Sautéed Spinach, Sautéed Escarole, Zucchini, Carrots, or Mixed Vegetables
Select One
Sheet Cake of the Occasion
Ice Cream
Chocolate Mousse
Rice Pudding
Fresh Fruit
Available Options (at an Additional Charge)
Cocktail Hour - Price Varies with Selections
Champagne Toast
Unlimited Soda
Unlimited Wine, Beer and Soda
Open Bar (Premium Liquor 4 Hours)
Open Bar (Premium Liquor 5 Hours)
International Coffee Station (with or without cordials)
Assorted Pastries - Trays on Each Table
Fresh Fruit - Trays on Each Table
Ice Cream Bar
Viennese Table