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Testimony on Revitalization of the NIH by Harold Varmus, M.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
March 6,1996
I am Harold Varmus, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and I am pleased to appear before you to discuss the revitalization of the NIH.
The NIH is a confederacy of twenty four organization units that
seeks to expand fundamental knowledge about the nature and
behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to improve
the health of human beings. The research undertaken by the NIH
assumes many forms, occurs in many places, and employs many
techniques. Some research is confined to the laboratory, and
often attempts to understand complex biological systems by
examining individual molecules, cells, or tissues; some addresses
normal human biology and disease in the context of living
subjects; and some is based on the study of human populations.
About ten percent of NIH-funded research takes place in the NIH
intramural program; the rest is conducted at nearly 2000
institutions which receive grants, contracts, and cooperative
agreements awarded by the NIH after competitive expert review.
Both intramural and extramural research activities address a wide
spectrum of biological questions with methods that range from
structural analysis of macromolecules to clinical trials to
behavioral studies. In addition, the NIH takes responsibility for
the training of new medical scientists through programs designed
to assist undergraduates, graduate, and post-graduate students in
both extramural and intramural settings.
These several genres of research activity are supported by funds
allocated to twenty one Institutes and Centers (IC's), each of
which has authorities defined by earlier legislation. Seven IC's
address specific health problems: the National Cancer Institute,
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Four IC's are
organized around biological systems: the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute, the National Eye Institute, the National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the
National Institute of Dental Research. Two IC's focus on stages
of human development: the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development and the National Institute on Aging. Five
other IC's study particular aspects of human health or area of
science: the National Institute of Mental Health, the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute for
Nursing Research, and the National Center for Human Genome
Other IC's provide research infrastructure. The National Center
for Research Resources supports research infrastructure including
shared instrumentation programs and centers for clinical research
located across the Nation; the Fogarty International Center
fosters international scientific collaborations; and the National
Library of Medicine collects, disseminates, and exchanges
biomedical information. The NIH organization also includes three
independent Divisions without budgetary authority. The Division
of Computer Research and Technology and the Division of Research
Grants carry out research management functions involved in review
of grant applications and maintenance of our information
infrastructure; while the NIH Clinical Center supports nearly 50
percent of all the federally-funded clinical research beds in the
Nation and helps translate basic science discoveries of
intramural and extramural investigators into clinical
applications that advance human health.
Although each of the IC's has a specific research orientation,
there are many commonalities. Most obvious are the shared
technical approaches to medical research and the common locations
for research within the intramural and extramural programs. In
addition, IC's often address different aspects of the major
health problems faced by our citizens. This feature requires
close interactions among the IC's; these may be informal, or they
may be guided by inter-IC committees or by NIH-wide coordinating
offices, some of which are located within the Office of the
Director, NIH. This rich matrix of research activity requires
collegial relations among the IC's and thrives in an atmosphere
that maximizes flexibility in the management of research
programs. A major objective of my administration at the NIH has
been the enrichment of these interactions and a strengthening of
the sense of unified purpose.
My colleagues and I will attempt to display these attributes of
the NIH in the presentations to be made by each of the five
panels that will testify during the remainder of this hearing.
The Committee will hear about four important problems in medical
science --- cancer, degenerative diseases, neuroscience, and
infectious diseases --- and will learn about the physical and
intellectual infrastructure that supports our work. In each
presentation, we will emphasize the multidisciplinary approach
that is undertaken by IC's working collaboratively to address the
Nation's health.
I will begin with an illustration of how the NIH does research,
describing a common condition that almost everyone in our country
worries about --- obesity. To some, obesity may appear to be a
simple problem: too much fat in a body that ingests too much
food. But, in fact, obesity is a problem with complex origins
and complex manifestations; as a result, it engages the energies
of many of our IC's, as well as other government agencies, and
demands a wide variety of technical approaches.
At least six major issues need to be confronted (Chart 1): the
definition and prevalence of obesity; the factors that contribute
to its cause; the other medical conditions to which it
predisposes; and the preventive and therapeutic strategies that
can be used to control it. At the NIH, the National Institute of
Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) leads the
efforts to confront most of these issues, both by supporting a
great deal of research on obesity and diabetes and by housing
several organizations --- the National Task Force on Prevention
and Treatment of Obesity, the Weight-Control Information Network,
and the Office of Nutrition--that help to coordinate research
activities and interpret and disseminate the findings. But at
least ten other IC's support studies of obesity and its
complications and participate in the coordinating functions. In
addition, several program offices in the Office of the Director,
NIH --- the Office of Research on Minority Health, the Office of
Research on Women's Health, the Office of Disease Prevention, and
the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research --- help to
guide obesity research in the areas of their expertise.
Largely through the work of the National Health and Nutrition
Examination Surveys, conducted by our sister agency, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, we know that obesity, as
currently defined, afflicts about 50 million adults, roughly one
third of the population over 30 years of age. The condition
disproportionately affects women, minorities, and the poor.
Unlike most other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such
as smoking, hypertension, and blood lipid levels, obesity has
become substantially more common in the past decade, especially
among children and adolescents.
The importance of obesity as a subject for research by the NIH is
underscored by its impact on the morbidity and mortality of our
citizens (Chart 2). Obesity is second only to tobacco as a risk
factor for disease, accountable for about 300,000 deaths per year
and an economic cost of between 50 to 100 billion dollars. Of
the diseases promoted by obesity, cardiovascular disorders and
diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus NIDDM ) are
probably best known; but obesity also increases the likelihood of
several cancers, stroke, gall bladder disease, gout, and
osteoarthritis, and is associated with eating, sleep, and mood
disorders. For these reasons, obesity is studied from many
vantage points by a large number of the organization units at the
The rising prevalence of obesity attests to our inability to
control it effectively, despite the fact that at any one time
about one third of our adult population claims to be engaged in
weight control activities --- dietary, pharmaceutical, and
behavioral modification programs. A recent NIH Consensus
Conference, organized by the Office for Disease Prevention in
collaboration with the White House Council on Physical Fitness,
strongly recommended greater attention to increased physical
activity as a means to control weight, in part because it
provides health benefits even in the presence of obesity. In
addition, behavioral research shows long-term benefits to obese
children receiving family-based therapies. But, in general,
weight loss is transient with the methods now in widespread use,
and the dangers of frequent cycles of weight gain and loss have
not been fully assessed.
In the long run, the best prospects for control of obesity reside
in a better understanding of its origins. Many factors are now
known to contribute to obesity (Chart 3). Several of these
(such as gender or socioeconomic status) are difficult or
impossible to alter, but others (such as dietary habits and
physical activity) should be amenable to change through
instruction. The difficulty in achieving long-term behavioral
changes accounts in part for the public excitement about some
remarkable recent discoveries of genetic factors controlling
obesity and obesity-associated NIDDM in animals.
Mice and rats with certain inherited mutations that predispose to
obesity and NIDDM (Chart 4) are now known to lack a hormonal
mechanism for maintaining healthy patterns of eating and
activity. Through this mechanism, the animals --- and,
presumably, human beings-- regulate diet and exercise through the
brain's response to a hormone, called leptin, that is produced by
fat cells. Although it appears unlikely that this hormone is
itself deficient in a significant number of obese people, the
isolation of the genes for leptin and the leptin receptor has
already deepened our understanding of metabolism and stimulated
additional fundamental research. Furthermore, applied studies
already underway in the private sector may yield more potent ways
to control body fat and thereby prevent NIDDM and other
complications of obesity.
Throughout the course of these hearings, we will present many
examples of excellence in NIH-supported research programs, the
basis for our Nation's uncontested role as the world leader in
medical research. But to remain strong, the NIH --- and the
American research enterprise generally --- must be capable of
adapting to very substantial demographic, economic, and other
changes in our society. These changes are already beginning to
affect the kinds of problems we study, the way we finance medical
research, and the recruitment and training of new scientists.
Demographic changes and disease incidence. Although public
health has improved dramatically over the past half-century, due
in large part to NIH-supported biomedical research, current
demographic trends are creating new health problems. The aging
of the U.S. population, for example, is leading to an increase
in chronic and degenerative diseases, as will be presented by one
of tomorrow's panels. More people are surviving acute illnesses
and injuries that were once invariably fatal. As the number of
minorities in the U.S. grows, diseases such as diabetes
mellitus, which disproportionately affects members of some
minority populations, will become more prevalent. These changes
and many others that affect the distribution of illness must
inevitably affect the emphasis we place on the study of various
diseases. They also demand that we have the flexibility to
respond as an institution to new health threats and to
recurrences of old ones. Current concerns about emerging and
re-emerging infections, as discussed by another of tomorrow's
panels. illustrate this problem well.
Changes in health care delivery and clinical research. Systemic
changes in the financing and delivery of health care also may be
producing substantial effects on the Nation's biomedical research
capacity. Most NIH-supported medical research, especially
clinical investigation, is conducted at academic health centers.
During the 1980s, these centers began to rely heavily on clinical
revenues to subsidize the costs of both teaching and research.
As more patients enroll in managed care organizations, however,
referrals to the centers could decline, because their multiple
missions drive up service costs. As a result, less clinical
revenue may be available to support biomedical research. In
addition, managed care providers are reluctant to support the
costs of clinical research by covering hospitalization and other
health care needs for patients enrolled in clinical trials.
These changes will affect the capacity of some academic medical
centers to conduct research, particularly patient-oriented
research. They may also affect the availability of research
subjects for clinical trials. In addition. as the States
increasingly adopt managed care plans under their Medicaid
Programs, recruitment of minorities and underserved populations
into clinical trials may be more difficult. These trends could
slow the discovery of new treatments for many diseases.
The NIH is attempting to respond to these changes by providing
better oversight of clinical research in both the extramural and
intramural sectors. The NIH Director's Clinical Research Panel is
seeking new sources of funds to support clinical research,
evaluating the programs for recruitment and training of clinical
investigators, and determining where clinical research can be
most effectively conducted. The NIH Clinical Center is also
undergoing major changes in governance, financing, and daily
function, as a result of a recent REGO II evaluation, and it has
strengthened its training programs in clinical research.
Yesterday, the NIH and Department of Defense announced a
demonstration project that we believe could serve as a model for
future partnerships in health care between the health insurance
industry and medical research community. The National Cancer
Institute and the DoD signed an agreement that formalizes the
process by which patients who are beneficiaries of DoD's health
benefits program can participate in NCI-sponsored clinical
Changes in the recruitment of new scientists. The number of
scientists working in fields supported by the NIH has increased
in the past decade. As a result, research scientists face more
competition for jobs, especially in the academic sector; a lower
likelihood of success when applying for NIH grants; longer
periods of graduate and post-doctoral training; and considerable
and justifiable anxiety about their long-term productivity and
career prospects. These problems have been offset somewhat by
increased hiring in medical research industries-including
biotechnology, research supplies, and pharmaceutical companies.
In addition, new Ph.D.s and M.D.s have pursued new career
options, including patent law, science policy, journalism and
The need for research in the health sciences is unlikely to
diminish in the decades ahead. Our ability to maintain the
momentum of recent scientific progress and our international
leadership in medical research depends on the continued
production of new, highly trained investigators. We do not plan
to reduce our efforts to recruit new investigators, especially
from under-represented sectors of the population, or to curtail
our training programs for graduate and post-graduate students.
We do, however, agree with a recent report from the National
Research Council that argues that trainees should be better
acquainted with the wide variety of new career opportunities that
have been created by the remarkable success of medical science.
I support the authorization process. and am pleased the Committee
has undertaken these hearings. Authorization can play a strong
role in facilitating NIH's ability to conduct research. NIH has
been working with the Department to develop authorization
proposals that will help NIH advance scientific excellence in
basic and clinical research. We look forward to sending the
Committee a letter from Secretary Shalala outlining these
authorization proposals in the coming weeks.
Our proposals will likely fall into four broad areas: research
training; improving NIH' s administrative efficiency and
flexibility, ensuring that all of NIH's Institutes, Centers, and
Divisions, including the National Center for Human Genome
Research, possess similar authorities; and extending the
authorization of the NIH Office of AIDS Research. Each of the
authorization proposals HHS submits to the Congress will help NIH
capitalize on new areas of scientific opportunity. Extending the
authorization of the Office of AIDS Research, which plans,
coordinates, and funds all NIH AIDS research, will guarantee that
NIH has the flexibility to respond immediately to the many
promising new avenues of research that will help us fight AIDS.
Central to this flexibility is retention of the Office of AIDS
Research's budgetary authority.
When I first appeared before this Committee on November 2, 1993,
as part of the process leading to my confirmation as Director of
the NIH, I pledged to remain firmly committed to scientific
excellence, to defend open-ended basic science, and to encourage
the extension of discoveries to clinical settings. I believe
that you will see many examples of the fruits of that pledge in
the course of our testimony over the next two days. I hope we
will convince you that the NIH continues to thrive and that its
reauthorization is richly deserved.
I look forward to working with the Committee on the
reauthorization of NIH and would be pleased to answer any
questions you may have.
**Attached are 3 charts.
Obesity Issues
Causative Factors
Associated conditions
Conditions Associated with Obesity
Obesity is in the middle with the following conditions pointing
to and from it.
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The empire had already included Asia Minor, the Balkan Peninsula, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Important changes took place in the reign of the emperor Justinian that effected a thorough-going reorganization of many of the principal features of the government in Egypt. At first sight Justinian's terms of reference look like the traditional ones and an overriding concern is still the collection of taxes. Justinian's policy was certainly the need to emphasize the role of Egypt as part of the fabric of the eastern empire, an empire whose integrity was more and more threatened by external as well as internal forces.
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Tsiros, Augoustinos, LePlâtre, Grégory and Smyth, Michael (2012) Sketching concatenative synthesis: audiovisual Isomorphism in reduced modes. In: 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 11-14th July 2012, Aalborg University, Copenhagen.
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WORCESTER -- According to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette*, City Manager Michael O'Brien is asking the Worcester City Council to transfer $150,000 so work can begin on designing a new multipurpose, synthetic turf field at the park on Lake Avenue. The hope is to get the work started on designing the facility, which will include a running track, new lighting and grandstands among other improvements, so it can be ready for use early next year.
Robert Moylan, commissioner of public works and parks, told the Telegram & Gazette there is a growing demand in the city for more rectangular fields. The growing popularity of rugby, soccer and lacrosse has meant that the grass fields in the city are taking a beating and don't have enough time to regenerate. A turf field would help meet the demand because it would be able to stand up to more regular use.
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The state would not contribute any funds to the construction of the new field.
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At some point in his career Tom Brady has made just about every NFL fan sick to their stomach. Patriots tickets holders may be excluded from that but the rest of us NFL fans have felt that hollow feeling in our stomachs when Brady gets the ball late in the game and has a chance at a game winning drive.
This week it was Dallas Cowboys fans who needed the dose of Pepto Bismol when Tom Brady lined up his New England Patriots at his own 20 with 2 1/2 minutes left in the game. He proceeded to complete 8 of 9 passes, taking his team the whole 80 yards, ending with an 8-yard pass to Aaron Hernandez for the winning touchdown.
It's enough to make you sick and it's a familiar feeling to the rest of the league. Of course, for Patriots fans it's probably the best feeling in the world to know that Brady is under center when the game is on the line. Maybe Colts fans like that moment also, when Manning is on the field. But for the rest of us it's time to head for the medicine cabinet.


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It's hard to find a more surprising success story from 2012 than the Oakland Athletics. With a traditionally low payroll, youth scattered across the diamond and the high-powered Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels sharing a division, little attention was paid to the A's through most of the season.
That is, before Oakland stormed through the second half and shocked baseball by winning the American League West by a game over the Rangers.
Now, with the rest of the league acutely aware of the upstart A's, the trick will be sustaining that success.
General Manager Billy Beane was busy during the off-season, auiring outfielder Chris Young in a trade with the Diamondbacks, signing shortshop Hiroyuki Nakajima out of Japan and handing manager Bob Melvin a two-year contract extension through 2016, after Melvin was named the 2012 AL Manager of the Year.
The same issues will present themselves in 2013, as Oakland's payroll, youth and division remain mostly unchanged other than a year of experience and the addition of the Houston Astros to the AL West.
But with one of the better pitching staffs in baseball and the unquestioned savvy of Beane and Melvin, nobody will be counting the A's out this year.
Last season
With the lowest payroll in baseball at $59.5 million, the A's managed to hang around the .500 mark through the first half of the year but were never considered a playoff threat.
A 51-25 tear to close the season, however, brought them right into the thick of things, and they swept the Rangers in the final three games of the season to win the AL West, becoming the first team in major-league history to erase a five-game deficit with nine to play.
The start of the playoffs mirrored the regular season for Oakland, as the team fell behind 2-0 to the Detroit Tigers in the American League Division Series, only to win the next two games. A dominant outing by Justin Verlander in Game 5 ended that story line, however, as the Tigers won 6-0 to eliminate the A's.
Question mark
Other than Cespedes and outfielder Josh Reddick, who posted 32 home runs and 85 RBIs, the A's offense was suspect at best in 2012. The team finished 14th in the majors in runs, 28th in batting average and 24th in on-base percentage, the holy grail of Beane's "Moneyball" approach.
Oakland has the pitching staff to compete, with such talented young arms as Brett Anderson, Tommy Milone and Jarrod Parker highlighting the rotation.
The additions of Young and Nakajima to the lineup will help, but it remains to be seen whether the A's will have enough firepower to repeat as division champs.
Star to watch
Eyebrows were raised prior to last season when the notoriously frugal A's signed Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to a four-year, $36 million contract.
But Cespedes backed up that move and then some, hitting .292 with 23 home runs and an .861 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in 129 games as a rookie.
If the 27-year-old can stay healthy and continue to thrive in Oakland's cavernous O.co Coliseum, that contract may end up going from a bargain to the deal of the century.


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Viewpoint: Let the Hawaiian language live
Recently, on a damp and blessed morning in front of Paia School, I stood amongst fellow supporters of the Hawaiian language immersion program. Many of those present have lives that overlap. Indeed, our community is full of active, talented, educated, passionate and loving people. We are a dynamic community of Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians alike, with a common belief that the children of Hawaii have the right to be educated in ka 'olelo 'oiwi, or the native language of this land.
The concept of employing a lottery to determine who will be allowed into an immersion school is oppressive in nature. Most recently, the single-handed decision of a school principal to lottery 40 spots among 53 applicants to Paia School has impacts far beyond the 13 children who would be denied. Although, the immediate goal is to stop the lottery, we believe systematic change is needed to ensure the Hawaii Department of Education is not allowed to gamble with our children's education.
Should the state allow a lottery, it is choosing indifference in a time that requires due diligence, recognition and thoughtful consideration of state responsibilities to na kupa o ka 'aina, or natives of this land. Commit ongoing support to revitalize Hawaiian language because we are in the midst of actual progress and growth. It is not acceptable to hold us down by refusing support an equal opportunity for education on Maui.
Learning our language is a right, not a privilege.
This right was legally banned from 1896 to 1978, and public education helped to implement this ban. As a result, a generational gap occurred in the usage and what would have been the natural evolution of our mother tongue. In fact, by the 1980s, Hawaiian language was near extinct.
A generation later, against amazing odds, our language lives. We actually celebrate that as many as 53 children, not including additional families who missed the March 1 deadline to apply for a geographic exception, are knocking on the door.
That said, the process requiring families intent on accessing immersion education to petition for a geographic exception is inappropriate. Paia School is our central elementary home school because there is no other immersion school on this side of the island. Likewise, Princess Nahienaena Elementary serves West Maui for the same purpose.
Even so, families seeking immersion education have complied to deadlines and processes that have not been imposed upon English programs in the same way, not only at Paia School but across the state. For example, applications for geographic exceptions shall be received at times when unforeseen circumstances arise (e.g., student relocates). However, it is fact that families who have moved to Maui whose children have only known Hawaiian language immersion education have been turned away from Paia School due to imposed space restrictions and deadlines.
Finally, our language is as vital as the food we eat, carrying with it ancestral knowledge and universal wisdom that help many of us find our way in the current landscape. At this time, a call for change in policy is warranted to protect immersion education and ensure the continued revitalization of the language, culture and people of Hawaii.
Rather than lottery, let's work together to find solutions for fair and equal access to education for all. E ola ka 'olelo Hawai'i.
* Kalele Kekauoha-Schultz is a parent of children in the Hawaiian language immersion program, an educator and a Hawaiian cultural practitioner with a bachelor's degree in Hawaiian studies and a Master of Science in counseling psychology degree.


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Archive for the 'Local Sacramento' Category
Independent Coffee Culture in Sacramento
Our Local Roots Food Tours guide team LOVE their "Cup of Joe" and always have their radar on Sacramento's Independent Coffeehouses and the Culture that is Perking throughout our Community. So many options and venues to saturate one's palate; whether you are a straight up black coffee drinker, a mocha latte lover or espresso sipper….we have a special coffeehouse for you to fulfill those coffee cravings!
- Temple Coffee Roasters – 1010 9th Street, Sacramento and 2928 S Street, Sacramento
- Insight Coffee Roasters – 1615 16th Street, Sacramento and 1014 10th Street, Sacramento
- Coffeeworks Roasters – 3418 Folsom Blvd, East Sacramento
- Chocolate Fish – 4749 Folsom Blvd, East Sacramento and 400 P Street, Sacramento
- Old Soul Co. – 1716 L Street, Sacramento
- Tiferet Coffeehouse – 3020 H Street, East Sacramento
- The Mill – 1827 I Street, Midtown, Sacramento
- Naked Coffee Roasting – 3527 Broadway, Oak Park, Sacramento
- Pachamama Coffee Co-op – 919 20th Street, Midtown, Sacramento
You might be a wine connoisseur who wants to learn more about the nuances of coffee….what better way than to take your wine knowledge and apply it to the love of coffee! You will be surprised on how transferable the knowledge of one can apply towards the other! (courtesy of blogger Paul Gregutt)
Were you aware of the coffee beans three basic regions and what their flavor profile looks like?
The Americas
• Sweet and mild?• Bright and balanced?• Often fruity, with spicy highlights
Africa/Saudi Arabia
• Pungent, wild and spicy?• The most acidic, but least bitter?• Often with fruit notes and moderate sweetness
Pacific Islands
• Big chocolate and cinnamon aromas?• Dark, nutty and smoky?• Thick, often with an almost syrupy texture
We bet you didn't know these 5 things about coffee….
1. There are about 100 different strains of coffee, but we only drink two. Robusta is the easier-to-grow, more bitter and caffeine-packed bean and is often used in cheap commercial brands. The milder and more complex Arabica is the go-to choice for gourmet coffees.
2. It's a Super Food The long list of anti-oxidants in coffee may help guard against some cancers, cardiovascular disease, gout, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's, according to recent studies.
3. Terroir Matters Like wine, a coffee's flavor is greatly affected by soil, altitude and climate.
4. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Yes, the flavors are bolder, with higher tannin levels, but these coffees can show some bright red?and black fruit flavors on the mid-palate.
5. Acid Trip Coffees with high acidity, like those from Ethiopia, will often show nuanced citrus flavors.
The Wine Coffee Connection
Your wine palate is a terrific guide when choosing the right coffee style. Just remember, the two rarely mix well.
You Love: Off-dry Riesling ?Coffee You Ought To Drink: Ethiopian?Scents of white flowers and citrusy, tangerine flavors are important to both the wines and the coffees.
You Love: Chardonnay? Coffee You Ought To Drink: Arabian Mocha-Java?Chardonnay's apple and pear flavors, along with accents of lightly roasted, buttered nuts, are paralleled by the spicy, buttery flavors of these aromatic blends.
You Love: Pinot Noir? Coffee You Ought To Drink: Central American?Red fruits and bright acidity are in play in many fine Pinots, and the floral highlights and light chocolate notes in Costa Rican and Panamanian coffees offer similar elegance and definition.
You Love: Merlot ?Coffee You Ought To Drink: Central American?The straightforward nature of these plush, fruity wines is matched by these crisp, citrusy coffees.
You Love: Syrah? Coffee You Ought To Drink: Dark Italian Roast?A classic espresso roast has the dark, smoky richness, along with a compelling earthiness, that matches similar strengths in your favorite Syrah.
You Love: Cabernet Sauvignon ?Coffee You Ought To Drink: Indonesian?Cabernet, the quintessential steakhouse wine, has thick, chewy tannins. Dark-roasted coffees from Indonesia have the same syrupy depth, with flavors of bittersweet chocolate.
Appreciation Ticket Sale for Veterans & Active Duty Families
We want to thank all those veterans who have served and their families during our annual Veteran & Military Food Tour Ticket Sale.
Book your food tour ticket(s) for one of our scheduled walking culinary tours within the date range specified:
Origins of Sacramento Food & History Walking Tour
Gourmet on K Culinary Walking Tour
Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour
Receive $15.00 off each ADULT TICKET by using promo code: HONOR.
Ticket sale is valid for tours schedule on Friday, November 7, Saturday, November 8 and Tuesday, November 11th ***VETERANS DAY.
Our culinary walking tours are 3.5 hour long in length and offer the opportunity to taste and drink from 6 to 8 establishments within the local routed area. If you are a food lover, love to get outdoors and walk and enjoy great company – come check out Local Roots Food Tours and know we appreciate everything you do for our country. For more details on our tours please visit us at: http://www.local-food-tours.com
Flavors of the Season Food Tour Ticket Sale
Air is turning crisp, nights are short but simmering with wonderful flavors in our kitchens.
Why not join us for a fall walking food tour and explore the new flavors of the season!
Between October 15th thru November 15th you can SAVE $5 per adult ticket by using promo code: FLAVOR
Our tour menu has 4 wonderful options to choose from….once you participate in one of our tours, you definitely will want to experience the rest!
Our Walking Food Tour Options:
Urban Art Food, & Libations Walking Tour Offered Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Gourmet on K Culinary Walking Tour Offered Wednesdays and Saturdays
Origins of Sacramento Food & History Walking Tour Offered Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
Murphys Food & Wine Walking Tour Offered Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Slow Food Sacramento: Thank You McDonalds
Thank You McDonalds (by Lisa Frank)
Picture angry Italians protesting with bowls of penne at the base of the iconic and beautiful Spanish Steps in Rome shouting "We don't want fast food… we want slow food! It's not a scene from a Fellini movie, but how Carlo Petrini started Slow Food. He and his pasta-wielding compatriots were outraged that a McDonalds was going to open there (and it did.)
His protest against the commercialization of a beloved landmark with the "Golden Arches" turned into an international organization founded in 1989 that today has over 150,000 members in more than 150 countries.
Slow Food's mantra is good, clean, fair food for all. They want you to eat what is seasonal and local; respect the farmer and the produce/product; nurture the earth. Sound familiar? They believe that food should taste like, well, food and eating should take some time. Slow Food calls it the "pleasures of the table." And it is not possible when a clown is looking over your shoulder. Or a creepy looking king. Or in your car. Or at your keyboard.
Slow Food opposes the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Life is diverse. Culture is diverse. Food is diverse. It should not all look or taste alike. Preservation of traditional or heritage foods, methods of preparation, and the culture associated with them is a worth while effort. That is the entire focus of the Center for Biodiversity. The premise is that if unique and tradition food products that are endangered can have an economic impact they can be saved from extinction. Enter the Presidia – local projects that devise a pathway for bringing a food or method of preparation back from the brink of being lost. The Ark of Taste is a catalog of foods worldwide being preserved through the efforts of Presidia. And these projects are not somewhere else. They are here: Blenheim Apricot, Charbono wine or Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple sound familiar? Clarksburg's Chenin Blanc grape is close to be being listed.
Petrini wanted to make the connection between the plate, the palate and the planet. He calles it an "eco-gastronomic" movement that connected environmental sustainability (eco) to the study of culture and food (gastronomy). He took this idea even further by creating the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy (full disclosure, I'm an alumni) to create a new type of food professional, one who understands the entire food-production spectrum, from agricultural origins through industrial transformation and distribution, with particular attention to environmental and sustainability issues. These leaders, or Gastronomes as he calls them (us?), understand how to connect food processes to economic as well as communication systems, and the relationships within food-and-wine tourism, marketing of high-quality products, and promoting of the rich value of regional food traditions.
On the local front, California is now it's own Slow Food Region. Our local chapter, Slow Food Sacramento bestows their annual "Snail of Approval" award upon local businesses that best represent the Slow Food Principles of good, clean, fair food for all. And to toot our own horn, Local Roots Food Tours has received the Slow Food Sacramento Snail of Approval because of our commitment to support business using fresh, local, organic, seasonal and sustainable, or as we say FLOSS!
We congratulate our partners have also received a Snail of Approval for their use of seasonal, local and organically grown foods, including Centro, Café Bernardos, Hot Italian and Kupros.
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Celebrating the American Cheese Plate in Sacramento!
Sacramento Hails The Big Cheese by Lisa Frank
Move over Cheese Whiz and Velveeta, for the first time in over 10 years the American Cheese Society (ACS) is coming to Sacramento with over 1700 craft cheeses. Whey to go Sacramento! It's quite a Feta in our cap. (By Lisa Frank)
Celebrating the American Cheese Plate! will highlight the growth of the artisan and specialty cheese community throughout North America. Nearly 1,000 industry leaders are expected to participate in the four-day event. Tuesday, July 29 – Friday, August 1. The conference also includes:
a cheese competition to be "Best In Show" from over 1700 cheeses entered in 20 categories like Cheese Curds, Rindless Blue-Veined Cheese, Cheese Spreads or Butters along with the usuals like Cheddar, Fetas, and Soft-Ripened Cheese;
the Certified Cheese Professional Exam – if you think you know enough to be a cheese sommelier;
Educational seminars from how to build a cheese cave to improving industry standards, to cheese spider grafts explained.
While most of the conference is for those in the cheese industry, the public is invited to several events:
Festival of Cheese, will feature the cheeses entered in the cheese competition, highlighting the winners. In addition to a staggering number of cheeses, the Festival will have artisan producers and local purveyors of cheese accessories, such as crackers, charcuterie, preserves, honeys, and craft beer. It's a Muenster cheese tasting. Friday August 1, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm at the Sacramento Convention Center. Tickets for the general public are $60 via Brown Paper Tickets.
Cheese Sale, this is your opportunity to buy the best cheeses made in North America at a great price. Feeling adventurous, buy a $25 cheese grab bag and see what you snagged. Proceeds from the Cheese Sale benefit the American Cheese Education Foundation. Cash is king, but credit cards are accepted. Edam while you can, it's a ewe-nique opportunity. Saturday, August 2nd, 11:00 – 2:00 at the Sacramento Convention Center, admission is free. Brie there or brie square. Okay I'll stop.
And if you think Sacramento is curd-less, think again. While specialty grocery stores usually carry a nice variety of cheeses, we have several cheese-centric locations that bring you craft cheese every day!
The Rind, 1801 L Street, opened 11 am until at least 10 everyday. 916.441.RIND (7463)
The Rind is a cheese bar where you can taste unique artisanal cheeses paired with interesting wines and beers. Cheese-heads can sample everything, from buttery to blue, nutty to stinky. And if you need more than a taste, try their grown-up grilled cheese sandwiches or mac & cheese. Definitely not a blue and yellow box with electric-orange powdered cheese.
The Cultured & The Cured, 3644 J Street opened Tuesday – Sunday, 11am until 9 pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; 10pm on Friday and Saturday; 5pm on Sunday; Closed Monday. (916) 732-3600 This East Sac shop focuses on local and west coast cheeses and charcuterie, bringing to Sacramento the tradition of a cheese monger who will help guide you to find exactly what you're looking for even when you don't know what you're looking for! Soups, salads, charcuterie plates, grilled cheese, mac & cheese, sandwiches, and pantry items, this shop takes their cheese seriously and so will you.
The Block Butcher, 1050 20th Street, 916.476.6306 11AM to 12AM every day.
Block Butcher Bar is a boutique salumi, spirits and wine bar. The menu features charcuterie, fine artisanal cheeses and seasonal bites. Choose from the "pickled, cured, fermented and marinated" selections; make your own charcuterie boards or cheese slabs; or salads and sandwiches. With over 30 cheeses (cow, sheep, goat and blues) to choose from it's hard to limit it to 3/5/7 choices. But they are there to help. And over 100 different whiskeys – it's kind of hard to leave.
Sacramento Road Trip Adventures in July
Summer Is In Full Swing! (by Lisa Frank)
Go out and EXPLORE your own backyard w/ these fun & tasty July events in & around Sacramento:
Bonjour Bastille Day. If your vacation is now a "staycation" July is the time to get your French on and storm Midtown! The Sacramento Chapter of the Alliance Francaise will be celebrating Bastille Day, when the peasants stormed the Bastille Prison and started the French Revolution, with their Annual Waiters' Race & Bastille Day Street Festival. July 13th 12 – 3pm at 18th & L Streets, Sacramento
Don't lose your head at the 12th Annual "Let Them Eat Cake!" Fundraising Event.
Sample Sacramento's finest French foods and outstanding local wines and coffees, enjoy live music, and feast your eyes on magnificent and mouth-watering cakes created by talented local bakeries and chefs. There will be a cake raffle and a silent auction as well. July 14th 5:00 pm until 9:00 pm at The Grand Ballroom 1215 J Street $40 in advance; $50 at door
Are the Islands calling? Grab a lei or make a grass skirt and head to the Summer Luau Beer & Wine Tasting at New Glory Brewing. Celebrate summer in Hawaiian style at this fun wine and beer sampling event! The evening will offer tours of the brewery, and playing beer and wine trivia for prizes. Food trucks will be on site selling delicious food. July 13th, 1 pm at New Glory Craft Brewing, 8251 Alpine Ave $20
Feeling more local? GATHER is a unique event that takes place in the Oak Park neighborhood. It is a social experiment based around the idea that a neighborhood that eats together, stays together and strengthens the community.
Outdoor communal tables encourage a sense of community while you enjoy the warm (hot?) summer nights. The event offers a craft beer area, artisanal food vendors, designers, food demos interactive are, live music and a modular kids park. July 10th 5 – 9pm or August 14th 5 – 9pm in Oak Park at Broadway & 3rd Avenue
Something edgier? SactoMoFo's Food Truck Mania will be at McKinley Park. It's great music, lots of kid fun, a beer garden, and all your favorite food trucks! July 11th or August 8th from 5 pm – 9 pm at McKinley Park on Alhambra Blvd.
This camp has more than s'mores! Mad Food Science Fun Camp makes food and science in fun and educational. Campers learn nutritional concepts and explore the scientific properties of food through a series of fun hands-on experiments, including magical floating eggs, color changing milk, ice cream making and more. The week of July 21 through July 25 1pm – 4pm at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive $130
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Donut Dreams in Sacramento – Drool Worthy!
Dreaming of Donuts in Sacramento? (by Lisa Frank)
Raised, glazed or crazed, donuts in their many forms are once again glamorous. The lowly fried hunk of dough has recently been elevated to the ranks of the highfalutin croissant with a bastardization called the cronut (trademarked name FYI) or the dosant or doughssant. The buttery goodness of a flakey croissant with the deep fried crunch of a donut, it might be what has been missing in your life. It could be another fad like the donut hole craze (there are cronut holes too) or the ill-fated expansion of the South's beloved Krispy Kreme franchise (there are still a few around), but then again, donuts have been around in one form or another since at least the 1800's so they clearly have staying power.
Sacramento's donut scene is clearly keeping up with players in the big cities. So here is where to fill the need for all that yummy, fried goodness, whatever country it originated in.
Donut meet Happy Hour: Ella's has a Fried Brioche, with Bourbon Butterscotch Glaze and Candied Almond Dust. How can that not be good? And for only $5 during their award-winning happy hour menu – order me up 2 batches, please! Okay while not technically a donut, it is fried dough so counts in my book. Ella Dining Room, 1131 K Street (Corner of 12th & K Street, Valet parking available), Sacramento. Happy Hour Monday thru Friday 3pm to 6pm.
Estelle's Patisserie supports TGIF. Check out their Doughnut Fridays with a filled brioche donut, or Croixnut Tuesdays AND Sundays. With flavors like Vanilla Earl Grey, Salted Caramel or Cinnamon Sugar, your taste buds will thank you. If you want to dream donuts all day, visit their mouth-watering Facebook page where they post their amazing croixnut and donut "fresh out of the oven" photos. This is where you can keep up to date what their flavors of the week are! Estelle's Patisserie, 901 K Street (9th and K Streets), Sacramento.
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Explore Sacramento! Fun Activites & Things To Do
Exploring Sacramento Has Never Been Better Than Spring! And once the pollen has died down, there will be no end to the fun just waiting for you! So get out and get going 'cause spring will be summer in no time at all.
It is the beginning of festival season in the Sacramento Region. Calendars ready? Adventure out to the colorful and educational Pacific Rim Street Fest in Old Sac & Downtown Plaza May 18th from 10am to 5pm – great food, amazing costumes and family-friendly! If you are looking for something fun, energetic and different check out Spanglish Arte's unique Pinata Festival at Southside Park in Sacramento May 24th from 11am to 6pm. Have you ever been to a pinata-hitting contest? Guaranteed laughs….and of course lots of candy! Ready to get down and dirty? Kick it up a notch with crawfish and blues? Cajun and Blues in Isleton, the grand daddy of jazz festivals will be June 14th and 15th (Father's Day Weekend).
You are probably asking….but where is the FOOD DRIVEN EVENTS and FESTIVALS? Good point….we got you covered! If you want to spend A Day on The Farm you can visit American River Ranch on May 18th for a day of learning, eating, music and celebrating the local farms bounty…..even cooking classes will be offered. Two great events to consider on Saturday June 7th - Sacramento VegFest – a food event celebrating plant-based foods and products with some world-class speakers. All takes place at the Red Lion Hotel – 11am to 6pm. Wanting more that weekend…head on over to Cesar Chavez Plaza for Sacramento Region's Premier Wine & Food Festival – Grape Escape. Over 60 of the region's wineries and 40 local restaurants – you won't walk away hungry or dehydrated for sure! Advanced ticketing required for this event. If you are looking for a more Intimate Affair with food and smooth tequila then reserve your seats for a Pre-Father's Day Tequila Pairing 4 Course Dinner at Mayahuel Tequila Museo Friday June 13th at 7pm. You can book your tickets thru Local Roots Food Tours who is sponsoring the event! Buy Tickets Here.
Futbol is here, fellow soccer fans! Say hello to the Sacramento Republic FC. Now that we have a team, let's join the rest of the world and call it futbol. The Republics are currently tied for third place in the USL Pro standing. A great match up against LA Galaxy II should be your next sporting event in Sacramento – Saturday May 17th at Hughes Stadium. A few pointers: It is a match, not a game. It is a pitch, not a field. There are no time outs.
The boys of summer are back! The Sacramento River Cats are well into the swing of their season. And home games abound. Forget about Fix50, pull into Raley Field and take in American's pastime on June 13th and 14th when they vs. Iowa. And for the second year, fireworks after every Friday night home game and Saturday game. If it's good food and good beer you are after then you have come to the right place! Sure there are peanuts and cracker jacks, but also An Honest Pie – a food truck featuring sweet and savory pies, as well as an expanded menu from Broderick Roadhouse in the Jack Daniels Solon Club. There are gluten-free and vegetarian dining options. And don't forget the beer garden. Going to a game has never been this delicious before.
You might not need a pig, but you definitely need to go to a market and ALL of our local Certified Farmer's Markets are open. Over 11 to choose from in the area!! Find a market near you: CLICK HERE If you are looking to learn about the farm before you pick up your fork you should check out Sierra Foothills Farm & Wine Tour in Placer County on Saturday, May 31st or Friday, June 6th. Meet farmers, vintners and a pig named Gordo! Buy Tickets Here
Local Roots Food Tours will be going strong all summer long offering farm to fork walking food tours! What better time to learn about Sacramento and the hidden neighborhood eateries. They have Sacramento covered: Downtown, Midtown and East Sac all have delicious and interesting tours. Want a day trip? How about the charming town of Murphy's in the foothills or a farm to fork tour in Placer County? Check out their food tour menu and dates to go: Local Roots Food Tours
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Special Culinary Events in Sacramento
Local Roots Food Tours Partners with Local Venues for Exclusive Culinary Events
We are thrilled to announce our first quarterly series of special culinary venues for our loyal customers and their friends & family. We listened to our customer feedback and one of the biggest request we received was special culinary venues with local establishments. We are excited to announce our upcoming culinary venues in downtown Sacramento. These food events are limited seating and only being offered for a specific date and time. No time to think it over, these seats will be spooned up quickly. Sure to please everyone's palate and appetite to learn more in our delicious culinary community with our local chefs and purveyors. Keep checking back with us on a quarterly basis for more event offerings. We are on a roll now!
Private Tequila Tasting Dinner – Friday, June 13th @ 7:-00pm
Experience the true way to pair some of the smoothest tequila with the tastiest meats and produce. Get up close and into the action pairing tequila with a taste of Mexico. Get your tequila notes ready and join us on Friday, June 13th at 7:00pm for a magnificent evening by advanced ticketing only. The dinner is being offered by Local Roots Food Tours and Mayahuel Tequila Museo in Sacramento. Come learn & taste your way thru Mexico with a bountiful 4 course meal with a hand-selected flight of tequila. Each course will be paired with the right tequila to perfection. One of Mayahuel's Tequila Master will educate and entertain the participants with their wealth of tequila and all its nuances – participants will walk away from the event knowing more than they ever thought they would about tequila and unique ways to pair food with it. After your palates are replenished you will be leaving this exclusive culinary event with the knowledge on what type of tequilas pair nicely with what food. Bring your spouse, your best friend or your lucky neighbor and enjoy an evening you will always remember. Call 1-800-407-8918 for more information. Limited tickets available – intimate evening. Click Here to Purchase Tickets Online. $75.00 Per Person Not Including Ticketing Fee. Additional Tequila Cocktails Can Be Purchased w/ Ticket Purchase As Well.
Agriculture Days Spreading Nationwide in March
It's time to celebrate all about agriculture in the month of March. Taking time to appreciate how food and fiber are produced and recognizing those who do the work. Without agriculture, where would are country be? What a great opportunity to get back to our roots and celebrate the bounty before us, no matter where you live in this nation. Check your local agriculture department for events in your area. National Ag Day is March 25, 2014. Mark you calendars and go out and support our local farmers and what they provide for all of us all year round!
California Ad Day – Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 – State Capitol Park, Sacramento
Whether home is the rural countryside or the population dense metropolis, California agriculture affects us all. This leads to the importance of educating consumers and how agriculture enriches our daily lives. The smell of livestock wafting down L Street can mean only one thing: It's Agriculture Day at the state Capitol. Festivities get under way at 10:30 a.m., when lawmakers and their staff are invited to explore the booths (and tractors) around the Capitol grounds near the west steps. The public gets to meander through from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
National Agriculture Day – Tuesday, March 25, 2014
"Agriculture: 365 Sunrises and 7 Billion Mouths to Feed."
National Agriculture Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together to recognize the contributions of agriculture.
The National Ag Day program encourages every American to:
- Understand how food and fiber products are produced.
- Appreciate the role agriculture plays in providing safe, abundant and affordable products.
- Value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a strong economy.
- Acknowledge and consider career opportunities in the agriculture, food and fiber industry.


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Corvus the Crow is the celestial equivalent of quintessential spring migrating birds -- robins, phoebes and swallows -- that return to northern yards, houses and barns to nest. The kite-like, four-star constellation soars in the southeastern sky above our familiar landscapes, appearing on spring evenings after earthly birds have quieted down and settled close to the land for the night.
In May, Corvus is well above the horizon when darkness falls.
The crow keeps wonderful company. It glides to the right of blue-white Spica, the brightest star of Virgo the Virgin, and leads the way for golden planet Saturn. Although the crow is a small constellation that has no first magnitude stars, it is outstanding where skies are dark.
About half an hour after sunset, before the stars appear in the southeast, look to the west-northwest where the moon is beginning a new cycle today and the return of planet Venus as Evening Star is anticipated.
New moon, when the moon is invisible while passing in front of the sun, occurred at 8:28 last night. Although Luna will be too close to the setting sun to be seen with the naked eye tonight, it is there and might be glimpsed half an hour after sunset with the aid of binoculars.
Brighter Venus is 2 degrees above and to the right of the moon. Do not look at the sun, which sets at 8:02 tonight. Venus sets at 8:59.
Tomorrow, an eyelash of a crescent moon will be visible below Jupiter and above Venus low in the west-northwest soon after sunset.
To contact Judy Isacoff go to www.naturesturn.org


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So much for that content of character thing. Focus on pigment! At least if you're talking about minority voters! That was the message black conservative Kira Davis delivered to GOP Chair Reince Priebus in an open letter. She believes the Republican Party is identified as an "old white man" party and needs to embrace diversity to win in 2014. Isn't that nice? Even conservatives are now against evil ol' white men! But she's a minority. She can say such things. Say no more.
Davis' letter is proof why her idea to wipe white men from the face of the Republican Party won't work. Minorities vote on pigment and government social programs. So rather than vote for the best person for the job, Davis says to put that all aside. We need to vote for the best minority for the job! Then the 98% of black women who voted for Obama will be happy. Of course, they'll still vote 98% for the next Democrat but they won't view the Republican Party as the party of evil old white men. They'll view the Republicans as the party of old white men who have put a few Uncle Toms on camera.
Here's part of her letter:
Then I turned on the TV and saw you discussing diversity in the GOP with some media talking head. I saw Jeb Bush making the rounds in what looks like a precursor to a 2016 run. I saw Karl Rove pontificating about diversifying the party. In short, I saw a bunch of rich, middle-aged white men talking about how we need to change the perception of the GOP as a party of rich, middle-aged white men.
Hey, don't get me wrong. I love older white guys. My Grandpa was an older white guy and I'm not going to lie — I wouldn't kick Sean Connery out of my bed…even now. What I'm talking about is a paradigm shift; a complete public image makeover.
Mr. Priebus, in 2012 the GOP missed a HUGE opportunity to push out some more "diverse" faces to bring the message of liberty and smaller government to their communities. There is a sizable community of Black Republican/conservative bloggers who highlight that message every day. Many work in their spare time. Can you imagine what they would have been able to do for the GOP if there had even been a tiny amount of party dollars behind them?
Shouldn't a minority candidates's ideas alone propel him or her to the top without a Republican Affirmative Action plan? Conservatives have shown great loyalty to minority conservatives in electing Tim Scott, Allen West and supporting Mia Love. Pigment doesn't enter the equation for conservatives. That's for racist liberals and the politically correct like Kira Davis.
She continues in her open letter:
We've already blown that opportunity but another one presents itself. As we begin to think about 2014 and 2016 we need to continue thinking about how we change our image. Exit polls showed that many minority voters liked Mitt Romney's message but in the end did not feel comfortable voting for him because they didn't "trust" him. We need to give them a reason to trust us.
I'm sorry, but throwing a rich white guy in front of a bunch of people who have been taught from kindergarten to distrust rich white guys is not going to cut it. I have a suggestion for a new strategy, and some people will not like it because it involves a few people getting out of the way and/or making room for new faces. Some people will have to decide if their status is more important to them than their country.
So if Romney was black, he'd be the President? Hardly! Ask any black person on the street how they feel about Clarence Thomas? Or any other black Republican. No, Ms Davis, election data shows Romney lost because millions of conservative voters stayed home rather than vote for another moderate RINO Republican. And they'll do the same in 2016 whether the RINO is white or black.
If Kira Davis believes blacks will vote for a Republican because they happen to be black, she is as stupid as Karl Rove and the rest of their ilk who will sell out conservative principles to chase a vote that will never appear! This theory that the right minority candidate will bring a landslide of minority votes is a pipe dream. And a racist pipe dream at that!
AWD was widely criticized for writing a column a few years ago that stated that the majority of black people hate white people. Didn't Kira Davis essentially state the same thing about people being taught to distrust (hate) white people since kindergarten? Well, she should be smart enough to realize those haters will never vote for a Republican. Ever. Not as long as Democrats out-welfare Republicans.
She continues:
Mia Love and Allen West are two powerful voices running upstream of the narrative. Republicans know these people, but non-political Americans generally don't. Right now, when someone says "Republican" the image is a Karl Rove-type. We need to make "minority" synonymous with "Republican"
And both West and Love lost their races. It would be interesting to see what percentage of the minority vote each pulled. I guarantee you it would be less than 10%. I rest my case!
Here's her plan:
From now on the official party strategy should be to only send minority Republicans to do public events/interviews/appearances. Every picture, every brochure, every interview, every meet and greet, everyTHING the GOP does between now and 2016 should have a non-white face at the forefront.
Ah yes, style over substance! And let's not forget to stick a knife further into us old white men who built this country for the wild pipe dream that we will win minority votes.
Now her real agenda emerges:
Stop investing millions of dollars in professional political consultants who bring you the same results you've seen in the last TWO presidential cycles and throw a significantly less amount at bloggers and activists who are ready to persuade, debate and win hearts where it counts the most. Alfonzo Rachel, Chris Arps and the team at MoveOnUp.org, SooperMexican, Project 21, (and of course me, Kira Davis -YouTube personality and dangerously attractive IJReview blogger) are just a few of the legion of minority pundits and bloggers waiting for the chance to fight on a larger battlefield for our values.
Put more blacks (especially Kira Davis) on TV to represent the Republican Party or you will be a racist. She doesn't actually say that but is it difficult to imagine that being the underlying message? Nothing is stopping those minority conservatives from appearing on TV shows or radio. Several black conservatives have radio shows already. Others have popular blogs. Why should Priebus put Davis on TV just because she's black? Wouldn't that be racist? Conservatives don't care about her pigment and blacks will only view her as an Uncle Tom. I do agree with her recommendation that the Republicans stop spending millions of dollars on the Karl Rove's of the world. They have the same viewpoint as Davis….black = good, white = bad. And they lose elections!
I'm one who tries to live the dream of MLK. I try to judge people by their actions. While I'm very disappointed with the overall performance of blacks in America, I try not to hold that performance against individuals who act and live responsibly. I'm a trashist. I don't like trashy people of any race. And that includes blacks. And whites. And Hispanics. And every other.
Voting for pigment is for racists. I vote on principle. That is why I once endorsed Allen West for President until he voted for the racist Pigford settlements. I knew then he, like Kira Davis, only viewed the world through the lenses of race.
I will not sell out my belief system to chase votes from racist minorities. Even if it gets me on television. Too bad Kira Davis doesn't believe the same. But, of course, there's a difference between Kira and me. She's a racist.
Once again I ask….what's so wrong with voting for the best person for the job? I'm trying, MLK, really, I'm trying!
You can read her letter in its entirety here.


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Louisiana pro Greg Hackney needed a strong finish in the final full-field event of the 2014 BASS Elite Series to cling to his narrow Angler of the Year lead.
Well, you can't do much better than first.
Hackney demolished the rest of the field Sunday, finishing with a nearly 10-pound lead over second-place finisher Todd Faircloth to claim the winner's purse at the Elite event at Cayuga Lake, N.Y. The Gonzales pro pocketed $105,500 and grabbed a slot at the 2015 Bassmaster Classic.
Hackney also opened up a 16-point lead over Aaron Martens in the Angler of the Year race. The two will be among the 50-angler field fighting that out Sept. 18-21 on Bays de Noc in Escanaba, Mich.
Hackney's win Sunday broke an eight-year drought of Elite victories for the popular and charismatic angler, and it continued his hot streak for 2014. Hackney won an FLW Tour event in June.
Cayuga is a long way from Hackney's home waters on the Atchafalaya Basin, but it's got a similar element -- submerged aquatic vegetation. That's what Hackney keyed in on while fishing Cayuga. His primary spot was a grassy ledge that dropped off from 4 to 10 feet.
Rather than targeting numbers, Hackney focused on pulling up only the brutes.
"You don't get many bites fishing like that -- doesn't matter what part of the country you do that in," he said. "I fish like that when there's deep grass. When you catch them, they're typically bigger fish on average."
The ones Hackney caught sure were. He had a nearly 4 1/2-pound average for the tournament, and demolished the rest of the field without even catching a limit every day. On day three, Hackney could manage only four fish.
Throughout the tournament, Hackney fished a Strike King Hack Attack jig in blue-craw color almost exclusively. He used a blue sapphire-colored Rage Craw trailer to mimic the bluegill he felt the bass were feeding on in the area.
He caught only one of his bass on a different bait -- a Strike King Shim E Stik that delivered a 5-pounder on the tournament's first day.
Hackney has never won a BASS Angler of the Year title. The closest he's ever come was in 2004, his rookie year, when he finished second to Gerald Swindle.
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MAX MEADOWS – October surprises normally pertain to election year politics. Grayson County nearly pulled one on the football field.
Fort Chiswell vetoed a Blue Devil two-point conversion attempt with 1:07 remaining and survived Grayson's upset bid, escaping with a 14-13 Mountain Empire District win Friday at a blustery C.F. McKinney Field.
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The rise of the tension between revolutionaires
Henri de la Roche Jacquelein at the battle of Cholet, October 17th 1793. Author: Paul Emile Bouligny
France, at war against Austria, needed to find men to fight the enemy. The Convention, led by Danton, asked 300,000 men to join the French army. The first revolts bloomed in the country, especially in Vendee where the peasants denounced the authority of the Convention and the idea of the Revolution.
They asked for the reestablishment of the Monarchy. A real civil war took place in the French countryside, between the Vendeen and the republican guards. From March to September 1793, more than 100,000 people died from this opposition.
On April 6th, 1793 the Convention created the "Comite de Salut Public". This new government, led by Robespierre, took urgent measures to stop the Vendeen insurrection and the French military defeats in Belgium. A few weeks later, the Girondists, were held responsible for the military crisis. 22 representatives of the Girondins were guillotined. The original revolutionary system was breaking apart.
The Reign of Terror
Marie Antoinette execution on October 16th 1793.
In September 1793, the "Reign of Terror" spread all over the country. This was a cruel period when France was killing its people by hundreds in a frightening movement of rage and decadence. People were arrested and executed without trial if they were accused of being enemies of the revolution. It is estimated that about 40,000 people died during this 15 month period.
Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI was executed by a Guillotine in October 1793. She died because she represented the King's heritage and was the perfect illustration of the fear that reigned at this time.
The all new constitution was suspended. Some say Robespierre became a despot, who thought anything was justified when it came to the revolution's rights. He changed his views on the death penalty, saying it was justified against enemies of the Republic. He reinstalled censorship, especially in the press and acted for a secular state. To this effect, he changed the calendar and in November 24th, 1793 he set the Revolutionary calendar as the new benchmark.
In February 15th, 1794 the French Flag was created, with 3 colors, the Blue, the White and the Red, disposed vertically. The blue was the color of for the Parisian bourgeoisie, the White was the color of the chiefs of army and the Red was the symbol of the blood poured during the wars.
Quickly, Danton himself became the victim of the Terror. He was considered too moderate and then, arrested and executed on April 5th, 1794.
One of the darkest periods in French history soon ensued. The Great Terror began in June 1794. Robespierre tyrannised the Comity of Public Safety and the Convention. He was strongly supported by the Montagnards and the Sans-Culottes.
Robespierre was in a mission against the counter revolutionaries and against the Church. Thousands of people who were suspected to be anti-revolutionists were executed savagely. A campaign of dechristianization took place all over the country.
On May 8th, 1794 the Assembly introduced the "Culte de l'Être Supreme" (The cult of Supreme Being), as form of deism. On June 8th, 1794 Robespierre, the President of the Convention, participated in the "Fête de l'Etre Supreme" (Supreme Being celebration) in Paris. However, these celebrations were mocked by the Parisians and Robespierre lost his credibility.
Robespierre execution
The arrest of Robespierre
In July 1794, Robespierre was finally accused of dictatorship and tyranny and evicted from the Convention. The members voted for his simultaneous eviction and execution, without allowing him to defend himself. The following day, Robespierre was beheaded to an ovation by the people of Paris. His death was the symbol of the Reign of Terror's end and the end of the democratic movement at the same time.


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Archive » November 6, 2008
Trail Talk
By Lynn P. Kirst
Farewell to Ailie Chamberlin
On a Saturday evening this past summer, Ailie Chamberlin died at 102 years of age on her beloved Rancho Los Potreros, a fitting place considering that some of her most memorable life moments were equine-related. For those who don't know Spanish, potreros translates as "a grazing field for horses," and during the seventy-five years she spent on the 6,000-acre ranch in Los Olivos, Ailie bore seven children, buried three (as well as her husband and one granddaughter), outlived her seven younger siblings, and lived a life that seems more like a novel than a true story.
I've thought a lot about Ailie since her death on August 16, and decided that she deserved a story beyond the obituary facts, although those death notice tidbits are what drove my curiosity to learn more about the stalwart woman who earned them. By the time I met Ailie, the mother of my good friend Sarah Chamberlin, she was in her mid-nineties, confined to a wheelchair and suffering from the congestive heart failure that would ultimately claim her life. But the spark was still there, discernable through the sun-creased face and frail body that could no longer gallop bareback across hillsides covered with California poppies and blue lupine.
It seems entirely appropriate that Ailie's life began with the great San Francisco earthquake. The seismic waves sent her mother into labor, and Ailie greeted the world the next day, April 19, 1906, across the Bay in Oakland, California. Christened "Helen Adele Elizabeth van Loben Sels," she was called after her mother and grandmother, both named Helen. To differentiate among the three, she was known by her initials "H.A.E." But even that proved too much of a mouthful for one of her younger siblings, who could only pronounce "Ailie," although "Aftershock" might have been a better nickname given how she rocked tradition.
Ailie grew up on her family's Amistad Ranch in the Sacramento delta, where eighty teams of Percherons (160 horses) were needed to till the vast farming fields. "When Mom was growing up, her father insisted his children ride bareback until they were fifteen, then they could ride in a saddle," recalls Sarah Chamberlin. "Her mother rode side-saddle. As a girl, Mom and some of her younger siblings would help drive a herd of young Percheron horses to the high Sierras to get them out of the swampy areas during the summer. This was pre-World War One, and they rode a hundred-fifty miles over three days, fifty miles a day, bareback." (For reference, a twenty-mile horseback ride is considered a very long day for modern pleasure riders, and riding bareback is far less comfortable than using a saddle.)
"All four of Mom's brothers went to Thacher School in Ojai. Her brother, my Uncle Maurits, rode from their ranch in Courtland [south of Sacramento] to Ojai by himself. But on the first day of his trek he had to go to the dentist, so Mom took his horse and started the ride for him. When Maurits finished at the dentist's, their father drove him in a car to catch up to Mom. He got on the horse and continued alone to Ojai. It was like a relay," said Sarah.
Ailie Chamberlin's most celebrated story as a "long rider" is the trek she made at age twenty-two. The tale has oft been repeated, but deservedly so. Her brother Peter was bitten by a rattlesnake while attending Thacher, and was deemed too ill to continue his studies. Ailie's father gave her fifty dollars, and put her on the train to Ojai with instructions to buy horses and ride back to Grass Valley (in the Sierra foothills), where the family was temporarily staying. "They rode over the Sespe into the Cuyama Valley and dropped into the upper part of the Salinas River drainage," relates Sarah. "They decided that following the inland route would be too hot, and so crossed over the coastal mountains from the Paso Robles area and arrived at the coast in Cambria. From there they rode up the Big Sur coastline following trails. At that time Highway One was only just under construction by convict labor. They camped or stayed with local ranchers."
But how could a boy who was too sick to study possibly ride several hundred miles by horseback? "I was an adult before I thought to ask Mom about that, because it's what everyone wants to know," laughs Sarah. "Her answer was: 'We really didn't push it. We didn't ride more than twenty miles a day. We took it in easy stages.'" Again the irony is not lost on us modern riders, tenderfoots by comparison. Another assisting factor was word-of-mouth provided by the local mail carriers, who were spreading the news about these two young people doing this long ride. It was entertaining, so Ailie and Peter were well received by farmers and ranchers along their route, including the Hearsts in San Simeon.
The ability to spend long hours in the saddle belied Ailie's intellectual accomplishments, fostered by parents who met at Cornell University and believed that girls as well as boys should be well educated. Initially, Ailie learned at home under a series of governesses. "Mom's first governess was Dutch, so for the first few years she spoke Dutch," said Sarah. "Her next governess was French, so she learned mathematics and other subjects in French. She spoke very good French all her life." Ailie matriculated at Stanford University, where she referred to herself as one of the "Stanford 500," as there were five hundred women in the student body. She graduated from Stanford in 1929 with a degree in biology, and then went on to Cornell where she received a Masters degree in entomology.
Space does not allow for the rest of Ailie's story, which includes a career as a plantation governess, high school teacher, pioneer rancher's wife, revered mother, dedicated community volunteer, political activist as a self-described "staunch Republican," (her son Willy Chamberlin served on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors), world traveler and elephant-riding parade marshal. Perhaps someday we'll all have a chance to meet Ailie at "The Big Roundup in the Sky," and she can tell us first-hand the tales of her long and remarkable life.
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Looks like tickets for the San Francisco Giants-Philadelphia Phillies series are being listed at a higher price and fetching more money than for the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and Rangers.
Kerith Gabriel of the Philadelphia Daily News reported Friday that the price of tickets to the Giants-Phillies NLCS "increases by the minute" on secondary ticket websites. FanSnap.com indicated that the average price for a ticket to Saturday's Game One at Citizens Bank Park was $552, "up $34 from a holding average of $518 the day before the Giants closed out the Braves" in the NLDS.
Prices on StubHub.com for Game One, he wrote, "ranged from $168 for a standing-room-only seat to $1,143 for a ticket in the Diamond Club behind the batter's box." Seats in the infield "start at $439 and averaged $689." Meanwhile, outfield seats are "averaging $510 and are as low as $305," and base line seats "start at $350, but are retaining an average of $593." StubHub as of Thursday afternoon had 3,206 tickets remaining for Game One.
The Dallas Morning News reported Friday that Dallas-area ticket brokers are "keeping busy as fans scramble to be a part of" the Yankees-Rangers ALCS.
The series is the first ALCS appearance for the Rangers, but the Yankees are "adding to the demand" as well -- Yankees-Rangers games are "usually among the best-sellers MLB during the regular season," according to a story written by Mark Norris. An ALCS involving the two teams has "forced fans to seek tickets on the secondary market," as "only a handful of single and standing-room tickets remained at the Rangers ticket office Thursday evening" for Friday's Game One and Saturday's Game Two at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Texas Tickets is "selling upper-level seats for $75 to $100 and lower-level seats for $150 to $750," while at Metro Tickets, "upper-level seats are just under $100, lower-level seats $250 to $600."
Metro Tickets owner Robert Lodes: "The most recent sports phenomenon was the Mavericks' run from 2006. It definitely compares to that."
Friday's SportsBusiness Daily linked to both stories.


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Ritz-Carlton Chef Matt Murphy, who suffered from a major infection that almost took his life last year, will appear in two segments on the'Today Show' Friday morning. In the first hour of the show, Murphy and his family will be featured in a health story in which he will talk about his recovery from nineteen surgeries, learning to walk again and the experience of receiving last rights.
Murphy and his wife, Alicia, will appear on-air around 8 a.m. and at 8:40 a.m. Murphy will conduct a cooking segment that'll feature showcase Louisiana cuisine, including: New Orleans barbeque shrimp, jambalaya and sticky toffee pudding.


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Almost halfway through the NBA season, the Washington Wizards look almost exactly like what fans thought they would at the beginning of the season: a middle-of-the-pack team, who could make the playoffs if John Wall stays healthy.
The only thing that's changed since those original predictions is how poorly other teams in the Eastern Conference have played, making the Wizards look like a favorite to make the playoffs even with a sub-.500 record.
Washington has been arguably the most inconsistent team in the NBA this season, failing to break the .500 mark all season. They've put up two, four-game losing streaks (with a possible third coming if the team can't beat the Charlotte Bobcats Tuesday night).
But when the Wizards are able to have consistency in the lineup when players are finally able to get and stay healthy, especially the starting five.
So which players have been able to play in the most games and make the biggest impact? You'll just have to check out the power rankings for the first half of the 2013-14 season.
Note: All statistics are as of Jan. 7 and are prior to the Wizards' game against the Charlotte Bobcats.