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Ozzy Osbourne, rock's minister of mayhem, is best known for biting the head off a bat and bringing a stadium full of heavy-metal fans to a head-banging frenzy with his howling vocals. It's hard to imagine him sweetly crooning, "Hi, honey, I'm home," to wifey and a nice little nuclear family. "People shudder when they think of what his wife and children must be like," says Sharon, Ozzy's Harriet of seven years. "They expect some blond bimbo with plastic boobs, in black leather and studs, and little children with pointed ears and fangs. But when they see me and the kids, they're always surprised."
Today those kids—Aimee, 5, Kelly, 4, and Jack, 3—are ricocheting around a Beverly Hills hotel suite strewn with clothes and toys. But bathrobe-clad Osbourne, 40—who's just finishing a tour for his already-platinum album No Rest for the Wicked—is in control. While Sharon showers, he herds his brood to the breakfast table and serves up Rice Krispies and bacon.
A few minutes later Sharon emerges immaculately coiffed and ready for another day's business. Besides being Ozzy's wife, Sharon, 36, happens to be his manager—a savvy, hard-driving veteran of the industry, who also handles metal maiden Lita Ford, Ozzy's partner on the Top 10 duet "Close My Eyes Forever." Says Ford: "Ozzy's a lunatic and Sharon isn't. That chemistry, I think, is responsible for how far they've gotten."
Their different styles are apparent as the Osbournes settle into a booth at the Polo Lounge for a late-morning business meeting. Dressed in a smart white suit, Sharon sips from a tall glass of Perrier. Ozzy, in jeans and a rumpled sweatshirt that reveals some of his 15 tattoos, quickly downs several beers. "We hardly agree on anything," says Ozzy. He prefers sloth, while she likes to socialize and take in the symphony, the opera and sentimental movies. "Really sloppy things," scoffs Ozzy.
For her part Sharon says that being married to Ozzy "is like living with several different people. One day he can be loving and romantic, but the next day he'll turn into this Jekyll and Hyde monster. I never know what I'm going to wake up with." Or what it may look like, given Ozzy's fondness for body art. "I'm aching to get another tattoo, but she won't let me," he complains. "I hate them," says Sharon, who, last time Osbourne came home with some new needlework, "took him to a plastic surgeon to remove it. But when the doctor explained the process, I was so nauseated that I had Ozzy take me home."
When disagreements do arise, Sharon says, they often entail smashing plates, overturning furniture and hitting and kicking. But Ozzy has an endearing way of making up. "After a big, crazy fight, I go out and buy her a diamond ring or a necklace," he says. "Yeah, they love him at Tiffany's," says Sharon.
Ozzy's drinking has started a lot of their fights. "My wife's had to drag me down so many hallways, I've got carpet burns on my a— ," he says. After drying-out trips to the Betty Ford Center and Hazelden Foundation and a fairly sober past year, Ozzy is drinking again. "I've had a long problem with alcohol, but I'd be lying if I said I was never going to have another drink," he says. "Basically I want to control it better." Says Sharon: "I'm not madly in love with his drinking, but I know how to deal with it better now." Drugs, however, she will not tolerate, and Osbourne says he has cut back to only occasional marijuana use.
When they met 18 years ago, Sharon was working as a receptionist for her father, London music wheeler-dealer Don Arden, who had just signed a heavy-metal band called Black Sabbath. "Ozzy walked into my father's office without shoes, with a water faucet dangling from his neck and sat on the floor," she recalls. "I was terrified." Ozzy took note of Sharon too. "She was always a very classy woman, smart and outgoing," he says. "I came from a totally different background, not as wealthy or educated, and I thought she was an impressive woman. Then one thing led to another, and I fell in love with her." That happened in 1979, when Black Sabbath dropped Ozzy, and Arden took on Osbourne as a solo act. Ozzy left his wife, Thelma (with whom he had two children), in 1981 and wed Sharon a year later, though not without several hitches. "We had five different engagement rings," says Sharon. "Every time Ozzy would ask me to marry him, we'd have an argument and I'd throw the damn ring out the window." She accepted only after "we'd spent two days combing the gardens of a hotel for a $10,000 diamond."
Sharon gained a husband but lost a family. When Ozzy's solo career began to pay off, she decided her father had cut her husband a raw deal. Amid lawsuits and threats, Sharon walked off with Ozzy as her new client—and never spoke to her father again. "It's absolutely disgusting, what happened," she says. "Because it didn't matter that he was my father. It was money that tore us apart."
That crisis, on top of years of high living, led to Sharon's nervous breakdown in 1980. But, she says, "I totally threw myself into getting well" and emerged as a teetotaling workaholic who soon made her mark as a manager. "The business is run solely by men," says Ozzy. "When they first saw her, they immediately assumed she was an airhead chick. But once they heard my wife yell and saw things thrown out the window, they went, 'Good God! She's the real thing!' "
Home for the Osbournes since 1986 has been a 20-room Edwardian mansion in Buckinghamshire, about 30 miles northwest of London. But Ozzy spends about eight months out of the year on the road, and Sharon is usually with him. The children, with their full-time nanny, join up on holidays and school breaks. "They've probably been around the world 10 times," says Sharon.
When Mom and Dad do get home, Ozzy surrenders to domesticity. He gets up every day to drive the kids to school in his Range Rover. He also handles the cooking, specializing in roasts and curries. But life with this father never remains quiet or cozy for long. "I'm home for a day, I look around a bit, play pool in my poolroom," Ozzy says, "and then I yell, 'Sharon, get me another tour!' "
—Montgomery Brower, Todd Gold in Los Angeles
Life with Ozzy Osbourne, Says His Wife, Sharon, Is a Heavy Test of Mettle
Todd Gold
updated 07/10/1989 AT 01:00 AM EDT
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Others might be more disturbed than we are but we rather expect this sort of thing to be happening and thus the amusement at seeing the numbers so proudly displayed upon the web.
We don't like to say we told you so but we told you so
Actually, that headline is a lie. We just love to say "We told you so".
And so it is with our repeated insistence that the vastly high price of British housing is caused by the idiot planning system currently in place:
Nostalgia Must Not Distort British Industrial Policy
The collapse of the British steel industry is not an easy process. The job losses from the closure of Port Talbot could cause serious social and economic problems for the local community, much as the loss of manufacturing industries around the UK has.
There is an important debate to be had about how to compensate the losers from trade. Perhaps deregulation and other market promoting policies will stimulate growth of new businesses and jobs. Perhaps the government should do more to fund and promote retraining programmes. Perhaps a basic income is the answer for easing transitional periods of structural unemployment that can result from creative destruction.
However, the notion that the government should step in and subsidise a private buyer or even nationalise Tata steel is absurd. The Port Talbot plant is out-dated and not profitable. Even without the present supply glut, British steel faces an uphill battle to be competitive. The money required to sustain the industry would astronomical. Imposing tariffs can and will cause a trade war and will harm industries that use steel. And, in the long run, the industry will collapse and the jobs will be lost anyway.
So why is there widespread enthusiasm for terrible industrial policy? At root, I suspect, it comes down to nostalgia. There's an odd romanticism that surrounds heavy industry, which comes from several, equally ill-conceived, notions.
There's the nationalist sentiment that bemoans the loss of Britain's former glory as a manufacturing powerhouse. There's the fetishisation of industries dominated by organised labour. And then there's the eternal pull of strategic trade policy hubris and the vanity of thinking that economic policy can be strategised and directed.
Most of all, though, I think that manufacturing nostalgia stems from the belief that manual labour is inherently morally superior to the service industry and, especially, finance. This may represent a hangover from the labour theory of value, and an emotive mistrust of capital and exchange. 'Real work' is obviously more important, more honest, and more inherently valuable, than facilitating, administrating, and furthering networks of production and exchange. The idea that prices are determined by supply and demand, and that value cannot be measured by effort and exertion alone, is either an alien concept or offensive.
People losing their jobs and communities being faced with turbulence cannot be waved away. However, mythologizing manufacturing and propping up unviable plants is not only economically nonsensical but it creates and perpetuates a false and dangerous cultural narrative.
Panama, ethics and the law
Discussing the Panama Papers with the BBC's Moneybox presenter Paul Lewis, I said I thought it odious that politicians were deliberately conflating (illegal) tax evasion with (legal) tax avoidance – such that innocent people who simply park their money offshore because it would be taxed to death at home are lumped in with Russian mafia bosses and scumbag dictators concealing the proceeds of their thefts. Lewis was having none of it: there is a big difference, he claimed, between simple folk putting a few bob in an ISA, as Parliament fully intended they should, and smart advisers setting up short-lived paper companies in Panama just to get round the tax rules.
For some years, UK Chancellor George Osborne have been on the same bandwagon, criticising "aggressive tax avoidance" – such as companies shifting cash round subsidiaries in other jurisdictions in order to get the best tax treatment, celebrities billing the BBC from purpose-made companies so that they don't pay 40% income tax, people paying themselves in ways that are not liable to national insurance contributions, wheezes to avoid capital gains tax – and all that sort of thing. And Prime Minister David Cameron has fully signed up to that line.
Now he is being hoist by his own petard. As his father, a financial adviser, put clients' funds in Panama, people naturally wondered whether the Prime Minister benefited from Panamanian tax avoidance. He yielded to pressure to publish his tax returns. These showed that (among other things that will be pored over by the papers) he stood to save £80,000 in inheritance tax by using the 'lifetime gift' mechanism.
Millions of middle-class families do the same, of course. But when you have been so strident in denouncing 'tax avoidance', it looks – and is – hypocritical. The Prime Minister could, of course, do the Paul Lewis thing and say that 'lifetime gift' tax-avoidance is allowed by Parliament and is OK, but 'aggressive' tax-avoidance is shady and unpatriotic. But the distinction is lost on most people – who don't know what a 'lifetime gift' is and certainly would not have enough money to benefit from it.
The pressure is now on all politicians to reveal their tax affairs. The claim, by critics such as the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, is that this will expose tax-avoidance, self-interest and corruption. Some chance: smart accountants would have no problem concealing the affairs of their career-politician clients. What it would do, however, is to discourage talented people, such as those who have had a successful career in some other sector, from going into politics in the first place. You might be a model citizen, but would you want your finances, and those of your family, exposed in the national newspapers?
As the journalist Janet Daley says, this is the sort of mess you get into when politicians wander away from legislating and start moralising instead. The trouble with morals is that everyone has a different view on them. If you break the law, it is a matter of fact; whether your actions are moral or not is a matter of debate. Moralisers open themselves up to constant criticism.
The solution to this mess is quite obvious. Taxes on businesses and individuals should be so low that it is not worth evading (or even avoiding) them. And much simpler – the more complicated your tax code is, the more places there are to hide in it: and the UK tax code is one of the most complicated in the world. Indeed, George Osborne has made it even more complicated with all kinds of new reliefs, subsidies, schemes, limits and whatever else. If you are worried about money drifting off to Panama, you really need to start at home.
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Brexit and Britain reborn
Among the pro-EU misconceptions is the idea that Europe somehow represents "the wider world." The reverse is true. The EU is a self-seeking regional block of diminishing significance in the world. It is inward looking and self-regarding, often seeking to exclude, or at least delay, modern developments. By leaving the EU, the UK could step into that global movement and face its own future with confidence as it has done before.
I wrote some thoughts on this for CapX:
I have witnessed occasions on which the UK has undergone a break with the past and moved with confidence into an uncharted future determined to do things differently and to become better in consequence.
One was in the early 1950s. Exhausted by war and the privations of the post-war government with its continued shortages and rationing, the future seemed drab and bleak. In a short space of time three things happened to renew the nation's faith in itself and its confidence for the future.
The 1951 Festival of Britain showcased the nation's technical expertise in a reprise of the 1851 Great Exhibition a century earlier. It captured the imagination and boosted the country's self-esteem. Winton Churchill was returned to office, and his government began the deregulation and the end of rationing that closed the chapter on World War II. King George VI, beloved and esteemed for inspiring Britain through the dark days of war, died and was succeeded by a young Queen Elizabeth, aged 25, who represented the passing of a torch to a new generation. These three events renewed the nation and lifted its spirits.
You can find the full blog post here.
What tax dodging?
It's somewhat unlike us to come to the aid of any politician at all but we do think that this David and Ian Cameron story has got just a tad out of hand. As far as anyone can tell from the information we've got the allegation seems to be that Ian Cameron checked with lawyers to see that he was obeying the law. And David Cameron has, as his father did, obeyed every jot and tittle of said law.
That we live in a country where the powerful do indeed obey the law is something that we should all be rather happy about we feel.
As to the details of the arrangements Jerry Hayes tells us this:
Today I can tell you the truth about Blairmore Holdings. Not from any contact in Number 10 nor any friend of Cameron, but an old friend who is one of the leading tax specialists in London. This is not his opinion, it is a set of facts. This is what he texted me. I put it in direct quotes to show that I am not putting a personal spin on it.
"Blairmore Holdings was a perfectly legitimate offshore investment fund. It's underlying investments were very largely if not exclusively non UK. The fund was registered with the UK revenue as a 'distributer fund' which meant that it had to pay out to investors at least 85% of its income each year. The investors would be liable to UK income tax on those payments if UK resident. Equally, if they sold their investment they would be liable to capital gains tax"
So we know that the fund was legitimate. Question one. Was Ian Cameron a UK resident? Yes. Was David Cameron a UK resident? Yes. This really is a no brainer. Their can be nor could have been any possible tax be benefit under this fund for the Camerons. End of story.
That "men pay taxes due" becomes a film at 10 story makes us concerned for the metal health of society as a whole.
It's necessary to understand the details when discussing the steel industry
Of course, it's necessary to understand the details when discussing anything at all as well. Which is precisely what Gareth Stace does not do here. Stace being the head of UK Steel, the industry association.
FCA in Wonderland
The Financial Conduct Authority's latest attempt to justify its own existence should be datelined 1st, not 5th, April. Their 2016/17 Business Plan is primarily addressed to risk. For example, the Chancellor's decision to allow pensioners to spend their own money carries the risk that they will not do so as the FCA would like them to do. This is clearly intolerable. Fortunately "Our intelligence-led [sic] approach allows us to bring together information both externally derived and from across the FCA to develop a cohesive view of the risks, issues, challenges and opportunities in a particular sector, viewed through a number of different lenses." (p.12) Not a lot of pensioners can do that.
These lenses do not seem to include the problem the FCA itself has created by driving so many Independent Financial Advisers out of business and thereby depriving future pensioners of the advice they need. They do, however, recognise that their hounding of banks and others, e.g. for mis-selling, has led to larger financial institutions "de-risking" their products, thereby reducing consumer choice and competition.
"We know that de-risking by banks is causing problems for some groups of consumers. While we do not control this process, we are undertaking work to help address the issue. We will complete our de-risking impact assessment in Q1 2016, giving us a clearer picture of the nature, scale and drivers of de-risking. We will work with Government, firms and others to create a proportionate strategic response." (p.27).
The word "strategic" in that does not accord with the FCA's continuing efforts to micro-manage the sector. The strategy we need is to return the sector to being a normal competitive market with brands, variety, innovation and consumer choice. By all means let us have a Which?-type organisation to critique and compare offerings and of course the financial sector should be included within the remit of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to ensure fair trade. What we do not need is non-stop fiddling with detailed rules no one understands.
The risk-averse FCA 2016/17 plan contrasts with the speech of 6th April by Alex Chisholm, CEO of the CMA. The latter is broad in concept, technologically up to date and welcoming of innovation.
UK financial services are less at risk from Brexit, or remaining in the EU, than from the FCA's preoccupation with risk, much of it created by the FCA itself. The only strategy it needs is self-immolation.


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For the longest time, I thought that $25 spent on an Entertainment Book was wasted… until last night. Last night we went to Nichi Bei Kai, a Japanese steakhouse and sushi joint, with friends of ours and enjoyed a little Teppanyaki/hibachi dinner. Teppanyaki, also called hibachi (that's what we call it), is where they cook the dish at your table and give you a little demonstration of knife skills, flames, and cooking. If you've never done the hibachi thing, you should give it a try because it's a lot of fun and the food isn't bad either. At the end of the meal, my friends pulled out a coupon they pulled from an Entertainment Book that scored us $18 off our meal!
Entertainment books are usually around $25 – $30 full price, but you can usually get them for less if you're willing to wait until the year starts. Sometimes schools and other organizations use them as part of their fundraising drive and you can usually get discounts off the book that way as well. At the moment, 2009 books are all 50% off because they expire on November 1st, which is still seven months away.
What is Entertainment Book arbitrage? Arbitrage is anytime you can take advantage of a market imbalance to generate a quick profit. In this case, we have the benefit of knowing what's in the Entertainment Book before we buy it. We can look through it for the dollar discounts we can take advantage of and compare it with the cost of the book.
The Washington D.C./Maryland (2009) book, at 50% off, is only $15 and it contains a coupon we know we can use for $18 off a meal, an automatic gain of $3. If you sign up for their Annual Book Renewal Program, you can get $5 off which covers the $2.79 shipping charge (you can always cancel the Annual Book Renewal Program afterwards) and still gets you a few dollars off. If you aren't sure if it's "worth it" for you, go to the Entertainment Book website, enter in your zip code, select a book, and scan through the discounts to see if it's worth it.
I asked some people about the book on Twitter, here were their responses:
- @fcn – It's a good idea (in principle) that doesn't get fully utilized (in practice), but… We always at least earn our money back.
- @katekashman – I like the Entertainment Book. More than just restaurants: Safeway, dry cleaning, online, sports, natl. Great rates in hotel section.
- @zenshinji – I really like them because it is a great way of discovering local mom & pop restaurants, stores, etc., keeps my spending local.
- @richerbytheday – I only end up using a very small percentage of my entertainment book, but even so it still more than pays for itself.
If you're really looking to save money, you eat at home. If you're looking to save a little bit, one of these books might be helpful for you if they have a coupon for a place you already eat at.{ 15 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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Discovering the dangers getting fit
November 6, 2012 - Burton Cole (humor columnist)
Today, against all sense, reason or logic, I turned in my registration for the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. Why did I make such an unhealthy, insane choice when so many great philosophers did their best to warn me against it?
While I try to puzzle that out, here's a sampling of notes on the dangers of fitness (and other frightening facts about running):
"I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups." – Rita Rudner
"I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty." – Wendy Liebman
"Will run for chocolate." – back of a running shirt (Actually, those last two make sense.)
"Running a marathon – there's an app for that." – saying on a running shirt
"The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back." – Franklin Jones
"Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television." – Victoria Wood
"I overtrain so I can overeat!" – saying on a running shirt
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." – Martin Mull (also attributed to David Lee Roth)
"My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already." – Milton Berle
"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again." – Erma Bombeck
"Running is a mental sport – and we're all insane!" – author unknown
"If found on ground, please drag to finish line." – saying on the back of running shirt
And finally, one that might strike a bit closer to the truth:
"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." – George Sheehan
OK, folks, send in your registrations and huff and puff alongside me at the Turkey Trot!
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - As a wrap-up for orientation week, a model dorm room was set ablaze Saturday evening in the Shepherd University campus parking lot to promote fire safety.
A large plywood cube filled with furniture and other everyday items was lit with a match, signifying a cigarette butt smoldering after the resident had gone to sleep. The model dorm room was soon filled with smoke, and engulfed in flames shortly thereafter. The Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Department coordinated the event with Shepherd University staff.
Marshall DeMeritt, assistant director of EMS for the SVFD, explained the reason behind the burn.
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A model dorm room is set ablaze by a carelessly dropped cigarette butt.
"We have set up a dorm room demonstration. One of the points we really want to drive home is there's a problem with college students ignoring fire alarms," DeMeritt said. "It's not Shepherd-specific, it just happens."
According to DeMeritt, the burn scenario shows that time is precious once a fire starts.
"You don't have time to ignore it," DeMeritt said. "There's no time for you to lay back down in bed and think that it's just a drill."
DeMeritt and the other SVFD staff hope the students who attended the burn will learn something from it.
"It's a good way to get the semester started off on the right foot with campus fire safety in mind," DeMeritt said. "This is the first time we've done it. We hope to continue the tradition and make it a tradition."
DeMeritt said the number one cause of fires nationwide is careless smoking.
The primary cause of fires in Shepherd University residence halls is cooking accidents. DeMeritt also mentioned unattended candles, overloaded electrical outlets and old building construction can contribute to the start of a fire.
Holly Frye, assistant vice president of student affairs at Shepherd, grew up with firefighters and wants students to respect fire and understand how much damage it can do.
"We have been wanting to do a demonstration of a live burn so students can understand just how quickly a residence hall can go up in flames if they are not cautious," Frye said. "We want them to understand this can save their lives."
Frye said DeMeritt addressed the issue of fire safety with incoming freshmen during a Friday assembly. She said she would like to do a demonstration in front of more students once the semester begins, but there isn't enough open space once school is in.
"We specifically wanted to do this for the first-years now. Next week this parking lot will be very crowded. We may do it again so that all students can see it," Frye said.
Frye said the demonstration applies to more than just Shepherd campus residents.
"We're also trying to alert people who live off-campus as well, to make sure their landlords have smoke detectors and sprinklers in order to keep them safe there," she said.
- Staff writer Mary Stortstrom can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or www.twitter.com/mstortstromJN.


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Mission Codename: The Rhein's Heritage Meets Carneros
Operative: Agent White
Objective: Secure an allocation of a delicious Reserve Carneros Pinot Noir.
Mission Status: Accomplished!
Current Winery: Schug Carneros Estate
Wine Subject: 2007 Heritage Reserve Carneros Pinot Noir
Winemaker: Michael Cox
Some of our favorite California Pinot Noir comes from the independent Carneros viticultural area, a wine growing region which straddles the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley. Originally designated in 1983, the region's distinct Terroir and cool climate make it one of the best regions for the Burgundian varietals of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The first grapes were planted here in the early 1800s by missionaries. The cool Carneros region provides ideal growing conditions for Pinot Noir, which thrives here.
Wine Spies Tasting Profile:
Look – A lovely ruby red with dark black cherry juice hues and lighter streaks through its clear core. When swirled, this wine settles quickly and leaves randomly spaced thick legs along the side of the glass.
Smell – Bright red fruit including ripe black cherry mingles with both hot and baking spice, and woody toasted oak. A touch of earth, green dried herbs, mocha and floral lavender notes adds depth and invites a sip.
Feel – Soft, supple and expansive on the palate, almost creamy in its texture with well developed tannins and a vibrant acidity that frames the earthy fruit.
Taste – Generous plump and ripe black cherry leads the way and is complemented by pleasant spice, toasted vanilla, black tea. At mid palate, tarter fruit including cranberry makes an appearance along with subtle flavors of sweet tobacco.
Finish – Long with this wine's ripe and juicy cherry lingering as the spice, earth and other notes slowly tails off leaving behind hints of this wine's vibrant acidity and well developed tannins, drying the palate slightly and begging for another sip.
Conclusion – The 2007 Schug Carneros Estate Heritage Reserve Carneros Pinot Noir is yet another classic Pinot from one of our operative's favorite wineries. Classic California Pinot with bright red fruit on the nose and palate, approachable complexity and a feel that is smooth, rich and ripe. Pair this very drinkable wine with grilled chicken or pork at your next barbecue or cellar for three to five years as it continues to evolve in the bottle.
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SUBJECT: Michael Cox
WINE EDUCATION: Started working in Sonoma wineries out of high school. Graduated form UC Davis in 1991
CALIFORNIA WINE JOB BRIEF: Winemaker for Schug Winery since 1995
Don't get to fancy, let the vines and the yeast do their stuff. Just don't mess up what mother nature intended.
WINEMAKER QUOTE: From Tao Te Ching: "The hard and stiff will be broken, the soft and supple will prevail."
FIRST COMMERCIAL WINE RELEASE: 1993 Napa Valley Chardonnay from DeMoor (Napa Cellars)
AGENT RED: Greetings, Mike. We are thrilled to be showing your fantastic 2007 Carneros Chardonnay, Heritage Reserve today. The wine is really wonderful. Thanks so much for the wine, and for taking some time to answer questions for our Operatives today.
MICHAEL: Thanks Red, we are so happy that you continue to love our wines. We always enjoy your detailed reviews – and these sit-downs!
RED: The pleasure is all ours, I assure you. How long have you been making wine?
MICHAEL: My first job in a wine cellar was when I was 19. I got a summer job working at Hacienda Wine Cellars (pre Bronco – then family owned by the Cooleys).
RED: Was there a specific experience in your life that inspired your love of wine?
MICHAEL: Not sure if it is specific, but that summer of 1987, working on the bottling line, cleaning barrels, driving all over Sonoma County sampling vineyards, long wide ranging conversations on music and farming with the winemaker, Eric Laumann all combined to sell me on the idea that growing and making wine would afford me the ability to continue to live in Sonoma Valley.
RED: And where did you learn the most about winemaking?
MICHAEL: Hmmmm. Tough one. I spent my formative years from 1987 -1991 at Hacienda, a year at Dry Creek Vineyards, got my first'Winemaker' job at Napa Cellars/DeMoor, and have spent coming on 14 years here at Schug with Walter. I'd probably have to say my time at Napa Cellars. I was 25 and they gave me the keys and said 'drive'. I learned to get things done, not to waste time or money, and how to pull together a wine from vineyard to bottle. For all the talk of art, it is also a big logistics game.
RED: What is your winemaking style or philosophy?
MICHAEL: I'll happily steal from Robert Mondavi here: 'The first glass of wine should invite the second.' I don't like flabby, heavy, ponderous wines. I want brightness and zip. Elegance is foremost.
RED: Walter Schug is a legend in the wine business. How has he influenced you?
MICHAEL: Walter has been, and continues to be a mentor. I am very fortunate that Walter saw in me someone with the kernel of his own winemaking style that he could nurture and develop. He is a font of knowledge that I can tap into at any time. With just about any situation he's seen it in his own experience here, at Gallo, or as consultant, at least twice.
RED: What wine or winemaker has most influenced your winemaking style?
MICHAEL: We already talked about Walter being a mentor, but Eric Laumann, who gave me my first job was also very important. He certainly instilled a confidence in myself and the wines that make. He also is a reminder to not
take yourself too seriously, just the wine.
RED: Who do you make wine for?
MICHAEL: Myself foremost. Plan D is always to just drink it all ourselves, so it better be good.
AGENT RED: Please tell me a little bit about the wine we are featuring today.
MICHAEL: This is the 2007 Carneros Pinot Noir, Heritage Reserve. Every spring I go through the cellar and taste all the individual barrels of pinot we have and the ones that I feel have a special charm get a chalk mark. I then spend a few weeks trying different blends with the owner and his father, massaging the blend until we come up with something that, we think, best represents the vintage and the Schug style. In our case "Reserve" is a small, handcrafted selection of our very best barrels we have to offer.
RED: What is your favorite pairing with today's wine?
MICHAEL: Mushroom ragout, Thanksgiving/Christmas Dinner (I know it is not the season). Fresh caught salmon, grilled.
RED: Whoa… Umm, YUM! Tell me, what makes the Carneros region so special?
MICHAEL: It is a small region, so within our borders there is a lot of consistency. Appellations like Sonoma Coast and Russian River just don't have the same climate conditions throughout the appellation. We have two main dominating features: the wind and the water. Wind is where the cool ocean air forces it's way though the Petaluma Gap into the bay and interior valley. It cools us in summer and brings the fog. The water is the San Pablo Bay and the wetlands that surround it. In winter, it buys us a few extra degrees and gets the vines going early. Between the wind and the water, the growing season in Carneros can be up to two weeks longer than our neighbors. At the same time, we don't have to push the growing season into late September/early October, so rain is not normally an issue. On top of that Carneros is pretty dry as far as Northern California goes, though this year it has been downright silly. 1" of rain in June? The record in the past 20 years was less than a quarter of an inch…
RED: What is one piece of advice that you would give to someone that is considering a career as a winemaker?
MICHAEL: Trust yourself and your palette. Don't chase a style or someone else's opinion. Be ready to work and get down and dirty. Don't expect a lot other than the reward of the wine itself.
RED: What is occupying your time at the winery these days?
MICHAEL: Thinking about the 2011 vintage, planning meetings for the vineyard, evaluating barrels, tasting the 2010's, planning bottlings, catching up on paperwork, walking the vineyard to keep an eye on the current crop, getting ready for a wine club event….
RED: Please share one thing about yourself that few people know
MICHAEL: Considering how much I enjoyed NASCAR, I may well be a closet redneck.
RED: Nice. What is your favorite 'everyday' or table wine?
MICHAEL: Well until recently it had been Laurenz V.'s Gruener Veltliner, either the Singing or the Charming, but I have been drinking a lot of our dry Rose of Pinot Noir of late.
RED: How would you recommend that people approach your wines, or wine in general?
MICHAEL: Well wine is for sharing with friends so have some people you like around and start opening bottles. Schug wines always get better of the course of a meal as the layers start to unveil themselves. Don't rush into it. Relax and enjoy.
RED: If you could choose any one wine to drink (regardless of price or availability), what would it be?
MICHAEL: The Holy Trinity from E. Guigal – La Turque, La Mouline, La Landonne. Odd for a Pinot maker, but I could drink those all night.
RED: What is the one question that I should have asked you, and what is your answer to that question?
MICHAEL: Hmmmm. How about: 'If you couldn't make wine, what would you do?' And to be honest, I am not sure of the answer… I always say that my retirement plan is to move to Hawaii (Kauai – westside) and make rum, but that's a bit close to winemaking… So perhaps a historian and author. 18th and 19th century European to be a bit more precise.
RED: Very cool. Thank you so much for your time. We learned a lot about you – and about your wine. Keep up the great work, we are big fans!
MICHAEL: No problem. Thanks again for having me. I hope I covered what you wanted to know. Glad you like the wine, I hope your Operatives do, too.
And here is a recap of Agent Red's original interview with Walter Schug:
I had the incredible great fortune to meet with one of the wine industry's most respected and renowned wine craftsmen in California wine history.
Walter Schug, owner and winemaster at Schug Carneros Estate, was born into wine in Germany in 1936, where his father was winemaker for one of Germany's top Pinot Noir Producers.
As a young man, Walter worked throughout Europe, honing his craft. In 1966 Julio Gallo asked Walter to oversee all grapegrowing and quality control for the company. Seven years later, after Walter's reputation had grown, Joseph Phelps asked Walter to become Phelps' winemaker at his new Napa Valley winery.
Walter helped to create the Insignia label and some of the finest and most sought after Bordeaux-style blends in the country. Walter crafted wines that set the high water mark for excellence in winemaking.
To this day, Walter Schug's early influence on the industry lives on, with wineries across California and around the world emulating his winemaking style.
With Phelps, Walter Schug's goal was to make the best Bordeaux-style blend possible. Today, Walter Schug's philosophy remains largely unchanged. There is one big difference, however; Where a bottle of Insignia may cost you $200 or more, a Schug wine of comparable quality with cost you less than $60.
On arriving at the Schug winery last week, I am greeted by Axel Schug, Director of Marketing for the winery and the son of Walter Schug. Axel, with whom I had met previously, introduces me to his father, and then escorts me through the bowels of the winery, to a tasting room buried in a wine cave. The long table the stretches down the tunnel is surrounded on both sides by seemingly every vintage from Schug's history.
As I am escorted to my seat, I notice several magnums of Insignia wine and I spot one bottle in a special wooden display. Walter Schug sees me looking at it and he takes it from the display and shows it to me. The bottle is from Joseph Phelps himself, and a touching tribute to Walter Schug, from Phelps, is engraved on the back.
What follows is a partial transcript of our conversation:
AGENT RED: Mr. Schug, thank you so much for making yourself available today. It is an honor to meet you!
WALTER SCHUG: Welcome, Agent Red.
AGENT RED: Let me first say that your wines blow me away. The winery is beautiful as well. I love Carneros and wines from the region. You are really a pioneer of the region. When it came time to build your own winery, how did you come to settle here?
WALTER SCHUG: When I was with Gallo, I sourced fruit from Carneros. I recognized the region as having great potential for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Given my passion for Pinot, settling in Carneros was a natural.
AGENT RED: And, when you did settle, you produced a fair amount of Chardonnay, did you not?
WALTER SCHUG: Yes, and it was excellent, too. It still is. Back then, Chardonnay subsidized my passion for Pinot Noir! It allowed me to perfect Pinot here.
AGENT RED: This Cabernet Sauvignon we are drinking [today's 2003 Heritage CS] is incredible. How has your philosophy changed from your Insignia days?
WALTER SCHUG: Very little. The goal now, as it was with Phelps back then, is to create the very best wine that we possibly can. And, to do so without recipe or formula.
AGENT RED: Ahh. Whereas I have heard that Insignia is more formulaic in its approach to winemaking today. Instead, your proportions or even fruit sources may change a good deal – if it means making wines that are that much better. Am I correct?
WALTER SCHUG: Yes, this is true. This Cabernet is streamlined and far more European in character. This is a wine that has elegance, delicacy, finesse – this is what I strive for in all of my wines!
AGENT RED: Again, this is a great wine and I am sure that our Operatives will love it. I also look forward to bringing them your Pinot Noir, during a future mission.
WALTER SCHUG: If they appreciate wines that are made for the best enjoyment, they will love this wine. In the end this wine is not made by going to the vineyard and knowing what you are going to get. Rather, it is the result of meticulous blending of wines made from the best fruit. Again, it is my mission to create wines that are the best expressions of place. It is my mission to make wines that are to be enjoyed.
AGENT RED: Mission accomplished, Mr. Schug, Mission accomplished!
WALTER SCHUG: Thank you, Agent Red.
We talked a great deal about Walter Schug's history and his influence and impact on the wine industry. While I was certainly impressed by his incredible history, I must say that what impressed me the most – what seemed to matter to me the most – was what the Schug Carneros Estate winery was doing today. Today, Schug is crafting remarkably beautiful wines that are a true delight to drink and enjoy!
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If one knew then what one knows now, would anyone ever take a risk, especially at love? That's the question that comes to mind watching this rueful, elegant film by accom-plished French director-cowriter Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) as it tracks, in reverse, the dissolution of a marriage. Viewers first glimpse Marion (Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles (Freiss) as their divorce is finalized and they head to a hotel for one last, forlorn sexual coupling. Four subsequent segments trace key moments in their relationship back to a first meeting at a resort. (Five chapters, two people-hence the title.)
The structure is similar to that used by Harold Pinter in his 1978 play Betrayal, and the results are equally powerful. These characters wound each other and themselves, never realizing until too late the damaging groundwork they've laid. Bruni-Tedeschi gives a performance so heartbreakingly pure, it hangs there shimmering long after the movie has ended. (R)


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In the early 1900s, Miss Jessie Williams opened a brothel on 10 acres of land outside the city limits of La Grange, Texas. The sprawling 14-bedroom farmhouse with chickens in the side yard became known as the Chicken Ranch, and many a politician and lawman passed behind its whitewashed walls.
Prostitution was illegal in Texas, but Miss Jessie ran a neat and tidy business and the local sheriff turned a blind eye to goings-on at the Chicken Ranch - except to keep tabs on any crime-related tips from its employees. Meanwhile, if any customers started acting up, Miss Jessie ran them out of the house with an iron rod.
Things went along just fine until the 1970s when a nosy TV reporter got folks riled up, and the Chicken Ranch, then owned by former prostitute Miss Edna Milton (Miss Jessie's protege), finally faced the last act of its illustrious career.
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It's a true story and an intriguing one, and it makes an enticing plot for "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," opening Friday night at Wailuku's Historic Iao Theater.
Kristi Scott directs the Maui OnStage musical production, which features 53 local actors, including some fresh faces in Maui theater.
Natalie Raynes stars as Miss Mona, the role made famous by Dolly Parton in the 1982 film version of "Best Little Whorehouse" with Burt Reynolds.
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*"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" opens Friday and runs through Sunday, Aug. 2. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for students and seniors, $15 for Sunday matinees; available at If the Shoe Fits in Wailuku and Lava Java in Kihei, online at www.mauionstage.com or by calling 242-6969.
*"Mulan" runs through July 19 at Steppingstone Playhouse at Queen Ka'ahumanu Center. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for kids 12 and younger; available at the mall's customer service kiosk, online at www.mauiacademy.org or by calling 244-8760.
Raynes' Southern accent is so convincing, I ask her where she's from in the South. She laughs delightedly and tells me she's from California, and spent 10 years acting in L.A. before moving to Maui last year.
"I thought I'd have to trade in my acting career to come live in paradise, but I'm thrilled to find such talent and a wonderful theater community here," she says.
Miss Mona brings class to the world's oldest profession, requiring her employees to dress nicely and act respectably. As Raynes says: "I don't hire 'hookers'; they're my girls I've got my house full of girls, and I'm like the mother hen at the Chicken Ranch."
Playing one of Mona's "girls" is Casey Murphy, who moved here last year from a lifetime of acting in Virginia, and now makes her Maui debut as Angel.
"My character is on the streets, and she seeks refuge at Mona's," Murphy says. "Even though the play is about 'whores,' it's also about female empowerment. They are protected from the men, they take care of themselves, and they have some pride."
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Caple met MOS Executive Director Alexis Dascoulias and "Whorehouse" musical director Steven Dascoulias in a New Hampshire theater program when he was in 5th grade. He kept in contact with them after their move to Maui in 2007. "When I heard they were doing 'Whorehouse,' I sent Alexis an e-mail saying, 'If you need a choreographer ' " Caple says.
The show is one of his favorites, but he didn't know what to expect when he arrived on Maui for the first time after auditions. "It was a little scary because I left a lot of things open," he says. "I did dance call on my first day just to see what I'd get (and) I was impressed by the quality."
Caple says the real showstopper will be "The Aggie Song" - a male dance number that Murphy and Raynes describe as "nonstop energy and testosterone and sweat and shirtless boys!"
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"I think people are just shocked by the word 'whorehouse,' " Caple says.
"But compared to some of the stuff you see when you turn on the TV, it's nothing!" Murphy points out.
One thing's for sure: "The show is gonna get people talkin'!" Raynes says.
And then in her best syrupy Southern drawl, Miss Mona adds: "Y'all come back now!"
Ancient China comes to life at Steppingstone Playhouse with the opening of "Disney's Mulan Junior." Starring Mikeila Yamamoto as brave Mulan, the Maui Academy of Performing Arts production features 48 students from MAPA's Sum'R Musical Theatre Camp as they recreate the fantastic tale about the Huns invading China. Director Kathleen Schulz designed the costumes, and musical director Marti Kluth and choreographer Barry Brinker Jones added their guidance to the many musical numbers.
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For the last month, 47 students enrolled in Theatre Theatre Maui's 17thsummer program have been immersed in daily vocal, dance and acting lessons at LahainalunaHigh School. Led by program director Ashlie Welte, a team of theater professionals - including Vania Lee Jerome, Aly Cardinalli, Lauren Olsen, Dan Rib and Genie Calagna -have been sharing their creative energy with the young performers. All their hard work will pay off next weekend, when TTM presents "Disney's Beauty and the Beast Junior" at The Westin Maui Resort & Spa. The musical runs for one weekend only, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18; and 5 p.m. Sunday, July 19. A special morning matinee for Summer PALS and the Boys & Girls Club will be held on July 16.
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Maui OnStage will hold auditions this weekend for the '09 - '10 season-opening production of "The Odd Couple" (Female Version), directed by Mark Collmer. Neil Simon updated his classic play in 1986 to create this witty version, which features Olive and Florence moving in together after Florence spontaneously ends her marriage.
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Sept 15, 2005 | Researchers at the BioSciences Group of Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation, working with a commercial partner, have developed a new technique for generating enhanced in silico ADME/Tox predictions.
The work started out as part pure research, part a project to demonstrate the application of high-performance computing to a life sciences problem, and part a collaboration to help a customer solve a real-world problem.
"The goal was to conduct a study and prove the capabilities of Fujitsu in this space and show we could produce a commercial offering in the ADME/Tox [arena]," says Ian Welsford, manager of application science at Fujitsu.
The effort took a look at in silico ADME/Tox by exploring the use of some computational techniques that previously might not have been considered because of their huge computing requirements.
The idea was to use the new techniques to get around some of the shortcomings of the commonly used approaches. For example, many approaches use database or quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) modeling techniques. The database approaches often rely heavily on text-mining searches of literature, looking for entities with similar pathways. The limitation to that approach is the in silico predictions are only as good as the curation process.
Welsford notes that the shortcomings of QSAR approaches are that they are molecule-centric and often poorly represent the underlying biology. Additionally, the QSAR mathematical techniques and algorithms frequently are proprietary and are hard to integrate into an organization's computational workflow.
New ModelThe Fujitsu project used a docking-based approach that combined off-the-shelf and purpose-built software components and required very large amounts of computer processing power. "We needed massive processing and an intelligent pipeline," says Welsford.
To that end, the BioSciences Group developed a computational workflow that builds metabolite models, identifies and models active sites, and then runs the results through a high-throughput docking algorithm that docks the database of predicted metabolites against all Cytochrome P450 (CYP) models. This produces a metric for relative distances of the docked configurations to determine how much a compound and its derivative classes interact with differing CYP models.
To accomplish these steps and perform the various tasks, the group used a handful of existing Fujitsu technologies including life sciences and mathematical modeling software such as ADMEWorks, BioMedCAChe, a neural network program called Neurosim L, and a curated database of CYP interactions called BioFrontier P450. Additionally, some software was developed specifically for this project.
The researchers used Fujitsu's BioServer, the company's massively parallel grid computing device. The BioServer is used to perform the numerous, simultaneous high-throughput docking simulations.
When evaluating a drug's ADME/Tox properties, the process starts with an initial assessment of a drug candidate's properties using ADMEWorks. Results are assessed and promising variations are rerun with CYP interaction information.
Next, a knowledge base of the metabolites is developed using neural net techniques and custom pattern recognition technology based on a class of algorithms called support vector machines§.
Next CYP data is used to build homology models. This step uses crystal structure data from the Protein Data Bank to identify and model possible sites for dockings.
Then the database of predicted metabolites is docked against all of the CYP models. The computational burden to perform these numerous dockings is huge, according to Welsford. "Essentially, you are running all-against-all," he says. That is where the processing power of the BioServer comes in, running the jobs in parallel.
Alternative ApproachesA point of differentiation with this method is it combines two docking approaches. One, which is commonly used, uses a rigid target and allows flexibility in the ligand being tested. The BioSciences group also uses so-called flex-flex docking where both the target and ligand have flexibility. Often, this yields more realistic results.
At this stage, an in-house-developed tool called the Ligand Interaction Distance (LID) Score is applied. This application quickly derives a composite score of the relative atom distances for a compound across active sites.
Initial work for this project was done with a client-partner investigating cancer and drug-resistant infectious diseases. To validate the new predictive ADME/Tox modeling work, Fujitsu used several datasets including the National Cancer Institute diversity data sets for initial calibrations and error estimates and a proprietary database that included loading dose and efficacy data from animal models (from the partner).
The results are promising. The key, says Welsford, is the combination of the varied in silico techniques, the high-throughput docking approach, and wet lab validation.
At the time the new technique was announced during the late summer, Michael McManus, vice president of business development for the BioSciences Group, expanded on this point: "Conventional ADME/Tox 'black box' approaches alone are not capable of telling researchers everything they need to know about the multifactorial processing involved in drug reaction in a living system. The Fujitsu view is that different problems are going to involve different levels of in silico modeling support and different amounts of wet lab validation."
The BioSciences Group is now offering its expertise in this area as a form of consulting service to help companies develop in silico ADME/Tox predictive results.
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In its second weekend, 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' remained on top at the box office, relegating four new movies to second-banana status. But the film did receive a stronger-than-expected challenge from 'The Help,' while the other three new releases opened well below expectations.
The second-weekend take for 'Apes' was an estimated $27.5 million, about 50 percent of what it earned when it opened. That drop was about what was predicted, given the onslaught of new movies this weekend. Still, it means 'Apes' is holding up very well, having crossed the $100 million mark after 10 days of release.
More surprising was the close-second finish of 'The Help,' with an estimated $25.5 million earned over the weekend. Despite rave reviews and a built-in audience of fans of Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel, early predictions guessed that the movie would open around $18 million, with a likely third-place finish behind 'Apes' and 'Final Destination 5.' After all, it was expected to appeal to an older, female audience, the sort of moviegoers who wait for word-of-mouth before seeing a movie rather than rushing out opening weekend. But 'The Help' generated that positive word-of-mouth by opening on Wednesday. (Adding mid-week receipts, the movie's five-day total is an estimated $35.4 million.) As such past August releases as 'Eat Pray Love' and 'Julie & Julia' have proved, movies about strong women based on literary sources are smart counterprogramming in a late-summer season starved for substance.
Coming in fourth was 'The Smurfs,' down just 35 percent in its third week to $13.5 million. That was to be expected, given how little family fare is currently playing in theaters. Like 'Apes,' 'Smurfs' also crossed the $100 million line this weekend.
Opening at No. 5 was '30 Minutes or Less,' which had the misfortune of straggling in near the tail end of this summer's long line of R-rated comedies. Last week's poor premiere showing for 'The Change-Up' seemed a sign that the market for these movies had finally been saturated. Nonetheless, pundits had predicted a debut of just under $18 million. Instead, it opened with an estimated $13.0 million. Expect it to drop as quickly as 'The Change-Up,' which fell six slots this weekend to tenth place.
The weekend's fourth new wide release, 'Glee: The 3D Concert Movie,' didn't even debut in the top 10. Pundits were predicting just a modest $9 million opening, but the film mustered only an estimated $5.7 million to open at No. 11. The movie had strong word-of-mouth among moviegoing Gleeks, who were primarily teenage girls and women under 25, but most of that demographic was probably spending its weekend movie dollars on 'The Help' or 'Final Destination 5.'
By this time last year, the domestic box office had already passed $7 billion. This year's take is 3.9 percent behind, at $6.8 billion, though that gap closes a little more every week. Receipts for August are up 16.4 percent (or $71.4 million) over the same part of the month last year, which saw such late-summer hits as 'Eat Pray Love,' 'The Expendables,' and 'The Other Guys.'
The full top 10:
1. 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' $27.5 million (3,691 screens), $104.9 million total
2. 'The Help,' $25.5 million (2,534), $35.4 million
3. 'Final Destination 5,' $18.4 million, (3,155), new release
4. 'The Smurfs,' $13.5 million (3,427), $101.5 million
5. '30 Minutes or Less,' $13.0 million, (2,888), new release
6. 'Cowboys & Aliens,' $7.6 million (3,310), $81.5 million
7. 'Captain America: The First Avenger,' $7.1 million (2,835), $156.9 million
8. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' $6.93 million (2,635), $55.4 million
9. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,' $6.88 million (2,414), $357.0 million
10. 'The Change-Up,' $6.2 million (2,913), $25.8 million
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - The situation with the West Virginia Conference, or a proposed breakaway league, could become clearer on Monday.
Shepherd director of athletics B.J. Pumroy announced during the school's football media day on Saturday that an announcement concerning the conference situation would be "coming on Monday."
Pressed on the issue, Pumroy declined to say anything more than an announcment was pending, though he left the impression that the announcement would be significant.
Pumroy said the announcement will be coming Monday morning from spokesman Reid Amos at West Liberty.
Amos made the original announcement in June that a group of nine member schools of the West Virginia Conference would be leaving one of the oldest small-college affilations in the nation in hopes of forming a 12-team association.
The nine are all schools that have football programs, including Shepherd.
West Liberty, Glenville, Concord, Fairmont, Charleston, Seton Hill and West Virginia State were among the other schools listed among the spinoff group. Notably, Alderson-Broaddus, which is starting a football program this fall, was not among the schools looking at forming a new league.
Meetings between presidents and officials of the schools, both the breakaway and current conference members left out of the proposed new alignment, have apparently been ongoing since the original release.
"The consensus among the leadership of the WVIAC institutions currently playing football is that it is in the best interest of their institutions to align as part of a new 12-member, all-sports conference that will create increased exposure for its members across a regional footprint,'' Amos said in his original announcment.
The new conference, as it was announced, is slated to begin play in 2013.
In July, though, after a meeting of some conference schools - including announced breakaway members Charleston, West Virginia State and West Virginia Wesleyan - at the league's headquarters in Bluefield, Charleston president Edwin Welch said, "We are committed to rebuilding the WVIAC to assure that it meets the needs of its member institutions and their student athletes."
Football coaches attending the WVC media day several weeks ago declined to discuss the subject or said they knew little about the proposed league or how they fit into a continuing WVC.
They'll get an idea on where all the schools stand on Monday.


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The 6 Best Baby Care BooksCeridwen Morris
There's a great scene in the movie "Raising Arizona" where Nicholas Cage, who has just kidnapped a baby, tosses his wife Dr. Spock's, "Baby And Childcare" and says, "Here are the instructions."
I always thought that was hilarious but as a parent I know it's actually kind of true: Sure, infants are not DVRs, but let's face it some basic instructions would help.
Back in the day, an extended family of wise women would be around to reassure parents about weird gurgling noises, breastfeeding "latch," and infant acne. But for most modern Americans, that wise old aunty comes in the form of a big fat baby book.
But which one? There are a lot out out there, but the 6 I've picked here will teach you what basic things there are to know about babies and how to keep them safe, healthy and relatively happy.
For the 7 Best Birth Books, look here.
Your Baby and Child, Birth to Age 5 by Penelope Leach 1 of 6Bottom Line: Thorough, thoughtful, responsive parenting advice.
Book available for purchase here.
British child-rearing expert and psychologist Penelope Leach has been a major force in bringing child-led parenting to the mainstream. When her first books, Babyhood and "Your Baby and Child: Birth to Age 5" hit the shelves in the 1970s, they were considered revolutionary. She was one of the first experts to present issues from the child's point of view. Parents and babies, she argued, are intertwined, so whatever's in the best interest of the baby benefits its parents as well. While she definitely advocates putting your baby's needs first, Leach doesn't prescribe any particular means to that end. Co-sleeping is no better or worse than crib-sleeping in her book— there are pros and cons to each, for her.
The Baby Book by Dr. William Sears 2 of 6Bottom Line: Attachment Parenting attitude, non-alarmist medical info.
Book available for purchase here.
The Sears' "attachement parenting" philosophy encourages a more "natural," "responsive" parenting style. They emphasize what they call the 7 Baby B's: baby-wearing, sleep sharing, breastfeeding, and responsiveness (as well as balance and boundaries, but those last two B's tend to be slightly less reinforced throughout.) Whatever your take on the AP ethos, The Baby Book offers excellent medical advice. Sears' straightforward and relaxed style makes the book feel far less alarmist than most MD child-care books, and his information is clear and well-researched. While some medical books tend to undermine parental confidence with an authoritative tone, Sears places an encouraging amount of trust in parents' judgment in medical as well as emotional matters. The Sears website, askdrsears.com, contains even more detailed information about things like medication dosage and common illnesses.
The American Academy of Pediatrics. Caring For Your Baby And Young Child 3 of 6Bottom Line: Comprehensive, official, dry, heavy on the milestones.
Book available for purchase here.
This is a good one for getting the lowdown on infant development. As it comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics, you'll o get the basic medical guidelines on all things from vaccines (do them) to breastfeeding (recommended) as well as checklists about when babies start to smile, crawl, walk, chew, roll over and all that.
The New Baby Basics by Michel Cohen 4 of 6Bottom Line: Reassuring, easy-to-read, not much on growth and development.
Book available for purchase here.
Hip, New York-based, French pediatrician Dr. Michel Cohen delivers the baby basics in his signature "laissez faire" style. Cohen has developed a bit if a pediatric empire in NYC for his confidence-building vibe-- he's not an alarmist guy. (Full discloser: I work for an off-shoot of his pediatric practice, Tribeca Parenting but I read his book before I worked there and loved it.) This book is fun and easy to read and crystal clear on all crucial stuff, from fevers to baths to idiosyncratic (though surprisingly common) questions like, Why does my baby seem to have no chin?
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock and Robert Needlman 5 of 6
Book available for purchase here.
It's an oldie but a goodie. The updated version is chock-a-block with information not just about medical concerns but also strategies for getting a baby to sleep, responding to crying, trouble-shooting breastfeeding problems, etc. I still love the Dr. Spock motto: "trust youself, you know more than you think you do."
From The Hips by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris 6 of 6Bottom Line: Agenda-free basics about baby-care and feeding.
Book available for purchase here.
It's a bit awkward to promote your own book, but Rebecca and I put a ton of work into our baby care section, consulting pediatricians, lactation experts, sleep counselors and postpartum doulas. We wrote this book largely out of a frustration with the strong agendas accompanying most of the parenting advice we encountered-- we wanted to put all of the baby sleep & feeding philosophies in one place and encourage parents to pick the approach that felt right for them.


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A Prineville woman was hospitalized after losing control of her SUV on an icy corner north of Prineville and slamming into a power pole, knocking out power in the area, Crook County sheriff's deputies said. Her two children also were in the vehicle but were unhurt, they said.
Deputies, Prineville police and Crook County Fire and Rescue medics were dispatched around 9:20 p.m. to the reported injury crash on Lamonta Road, near McBethCourt, two miles north of Prineville, said Sgt. James Savage.
Deputies and officers made contact with Cindy Kusmider, 32 and her two children, Savage said. Kusmider suffered serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Pioneer Memorial Hospital, where she was listed in fair condition Wednesday morning.
Savage said Kusmider was driving north on Lamonta Road when she lost control of her 1995 Ford Explorer on the icy corner and struck a Pacific Power power pole.
Several homes in the area lost power for a brief time, and Lamonta Road was closed briefly while crews repaired the damaged power lines.
Speed is believed to be a factor in the crash, Savage said, but no citations were issued.
Savage reminded drivers to slow down in winter conditions and allow extra time to reach your destination.


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Judge approves exhumation of lottery winner's body
CHICAGO -- A judge Friday granted prosecutors permission to exhume the body of a Chicago lottery winner who was fatally poisoned with cyanide just as he was about to collect his $425,000 payout in a bid for clues that might help solve the mystery.
Authorities want to do a fuller autopsy on Urooj Khan to confirm earlier but less-thorough toxicology tests, as well as to rule out that natural causes contributed to the 46-year-old's sudden death, according to documents filed with the motion for an exhumation.
Khan's July 20 death was initially ruled a result of natural causes. But a relative asked authorities to look deeper, triggering more exams that led to the conclusion in November that the businessman was poisoned.
Navy reviews fire safety of working uniforms
NORFOLK, Va. -- The Navy said Friday that it is reviewing whether flame-resistant clothing should be made available for every sailor at sea after a test revealed the camouflage working uniforms most of them wear are flammable.
In October, a test conducted by the Navy Clothing Textile Research Facility in Natick, Mass., showed the 50/50 cotton-nylon blend uniforms worn by most sailors aboard ships will burn and melt until they're completely consumed. In contrast, Army and Marine combat uniforms are designed to be self-extinguishing and are made of a mix including flame-resistant rayon.
The test results didn't surprise Navy leaders. The Navy removed the requirement for all sailors to wear flame-resistant uniforms at sea in 1996.
Feds: Washington travel agent stole airline miles
SEATTLE -- A former agent at a Washington travel company was charged Friday with stealing nearly 3.7 million airline miles from high-end clients, then using them to buy plane tickets for herself and her family.
Karen Yeakel was fired from her job at Stellar Travel in Bellevue in June 2011, after discrepancies in the frequent-flier account of one of her top clients turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg, said company partner Susan Bluhm.
According to a wire fraud charge unsealed Friday in federal court, Yeakel used the airline miles to buy 135 flights for herself and her family, worth more than $109,000 -- but that's not all. She's also accused of using the credit cards of some clients to buy $180,000 worth of plane tickets, then providing those tickets to other customers at steep discounts.
U.S.-born Taliban fighter wins prison prayer lawsuit
INDIANAPOLIS -- A federal judge ruled Friday that an American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana.
Barring John Walker Lindh and his fellow Muslims from engaging in daily group ritual prayer violates a 1993 law that bans the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest, U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled.
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Charlie Sheen's wife, actress Denise Richards, gave birth to the couple's first child in Los Angeles on March 9, a publicist for the "Two and a Half Men" star said in a statement issued Monday.
The baby, a girl the parents named Sam Sheen, weighed 7 lbs. 3 oz. at birth, and both mother and daughter "are doing great," the statement said, according to Reuters.
Sheen (real name: Carlos Irwin Estevez), 38, has a 19-year-old daughter, Cassandra, from a previous relationship, with Paula Profit. His father is "The West Wing" star Martin Sheen, 63, and his brother is actor Emilio Estevez, 41.
Richards, 33, an Illinois native, was last seen in the horror spoof "Scary Movie 3."
The couple married in June 2002. As PEOPLE reported, they first met while shooting the movie "Good Advice" in 2000. But it wasn't until Richards guest starred on Sheen's sitcom "Spin City" in fall of 2001 that a romance began to blossom.
On their first date, on Oct. 4, 2001, they hung out in Sheen's condo to watch San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds tie the major league home run record. Between innings, Richards tried to steal first base. "I made the first move kissing him," she said. "He was Mr. Polite, such a gentleman."
By their second date, Richards recalled "I knew that this is the one, but I wouldn't tell him that. I didn't want to scare him away by saying, 'You're my future husband!' and have him run for the hills."
Over the next two months they discovered a mutual interest in yoga and a shared aversion to crowds. "We're both very introverted," said Sheen. Another point in their favor, said Richards: "We don't try to change each other."
Let's see how the baby changes things.
Sheen, Richards Welcome a Baby Girl


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The already determined winners make me think of "B" students two days after a stunning 2,300 performance on the SAT, awaiting the official score posting on the secure Web. (It no longer comes in the mail.) The already determined losers make me think of victims of a deadly poison that will not kick in until 8 p.m. on vote-counting day, and then with absolutely lethal effect.
Every player in the election process now acknowledges this voting pattern, with all serious candidates sending out their expensive mailers and third-party media endorsements publicized before the mailing of the absentee ballots. So, with the election basically finished, I turn to making a historical record of this election, unique in so many ways, and also providing a short lesson in constitutional law.
Let us consider the issue of candidate signage. A few "truisms" relate to this issue locally. Experts state unequivocally that campaign signage negligently affects the outcome of local elections, yet in every election one sees accusations and now videotape of sign theft (or attempted theft) and vandalism.
City officials state clearly that city workers will (and have) removed campaign signs found in the public right of way. Add to this an assertion that incumbents erect signs that violate the local ordinances regarding size, and one is left scratching their head wondering if Santa Clarita achieved a state of anarchy and lawlessness with everyone shirking the valid laws.
I will assert the fact that most (read all) of the city's ordinance regarding campaign signage and other unique campaign issues, like contribution limits, completely violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment right of free speech. Everyone knows it, including the city attorney, who throws a "shoulder shrug" when questioned about violations in open meetings.
He shrugs his shoulders, not due to a charley horse, but because he realizes these laws would collapse upon any serious constitutional challenge. So, one should not hold his or her breath for the imposition of a find or other punitive action against rogue candidates and campaigns.
The reasons revolve around four terms. "Fundamental" and "non-fundamental" rights, and "strict scrutiny" versus "rational basis."
A fundamental right includes one of the many rights enshrined in the First Amendment and, more recently, the Second Amendment to the Constitution. A nonfundamental right includes obtaining a driver's license (a "privilege not a right," quoting Coach Anderson, my high school driving instructor).
Any law limiting a "fundamental right" will face "strict scrutiny" in any constitutional challenge. Under strict scrutiny, the government must show a "compelling interest" for the law and prove it most narrowly tailored the law to achieve that compelling interest.
In any law limiting a "non-fundamental right," the government must only prove a rational basis for the law, and the person challenging the law must prove it over-reaches.
Consider the case of the driver's license. Since obtaining a license does not constitute a fundamental right, the government possesses great latitude in regulating their issuance with only a showing of rationality. Therefore, a government can decide that the minimum age for a license should increase to 18 without a factual showing of a real relationship to the government's compelling interest of safety.
But now consider the issue of campaign signs, certainly related to one of the most fundamental rights of political speech. Can the city show a compelling interest in keeping campaign signs below a certain size and out of the public right of way?
The only possible compelling interest might relate to traffic safety, but then the city would need to factually show (not just believe) that citizens distracted by campaign signs - particularly large campaign signs - regularly use their cars to mow down pedestrians and crash into other motorists.
Constitutional law history shows every law limiting a fundamental right ends up reversed when held up to strict scrutiny, or, in this case, the shrugging of the city attorney's shoulders.
Tim Myers is a Valencia resident. His column reflects his own views and not necessarily those of The Signal. "Myers' Musings" appears Sundays in The Signal.


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We wish to place emphasis upon three main points which we intend to make in this report. The first is that disturbances of the intervertebral disks may be but a part of a more general dysfunction involving the vertebral and related structures. We feel that these lesions which do not show frank pathologic changes in the disks should receive greater emphasis than they have in the past. The second is that we recommend uncapping of the nerves (especially
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