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Yesterday, you had outlined your plan as to how you acquired a solid starting lineup when your entire organization had died in a freak plane crash in the Andes Mountains shortly after the 2007 season's conclusion and you were allotted $50 million by the Commissioner's Office for hush money.
The 2008 free agent class of starting pitchers was a weak one in every one's opinion. The selection included the likes of Carlos Silva, Kenny Rogers, Jeff Weaver, Josh Fogg and whatever is left of Tom Glavine's arm. These are not exactly your cream-of-the-crop, front-of-the-rotation arms. This why so many quality arms were traded during the offseason (Santana, Garza, Haren, Bedard) at a king's ransom. There was jacksquat on the open market. Unlike your competitors who had a vast surplus of minor league arms and bats to offer in trade, you have nothing. You must resort to scouring the leftovers in hopes of building a serviceable rotation - an act that felt like scraping the top of old Domino's pizza boxes in the efforts to make a semblance of a slice.
What's more is that after allocating $21.4 million on your starting eight in the field, you must divvy the remaining cash ($28.6 million) wisely enough to purchase not only the five starting pitchers but six (or seven) relievers and four (or five) bench players. Now it is time to analyze the starting five you secured.
The Rotation:
1 | RHSP | Kyle Lohse | 9 WSAB | $4.25 M
Kyle Lohse led the charge by throwing 200 innings with a solid 119/49 K/BB ratio and 3.89 FIP. You did consider making a play for Carlos Silva but realized that his asking price wasn't going to configure into your budget. Lohse wanted similar money at first but when the months passed without offers from other teams, his agent panicked and began calling around looking for employment. He graciously accepted your very reasonable offer and outperformed your expectations.
2 | LHSP | Randy Wolf | 4 WSAB | $4.75 M
The Lohse acquisition was followed by the left-handed veteran Randy Wolf. Wolf, creeping into his 30's, would spend substantial time on the disabled list from 2004-2007 making him a somewhat unreliable signing but in the time that he was healthy, he tossed 376.1 innings and boasted a healthy 288/72 K/BB ratio. A low-risk, one-year deal was offered and Wolf responded by throwing 190 innings with 162 strikeouts. His 4.17 FIP suggests that he performed a bit better than his 4.30 ERA.
3 | RHSP | Jorge Campillo | 6 WSAB | $400K
After Wolf, your pitching coach noted that the third best starter in the bunch might be minor league free agent acquisition, Jorge Campillo. The Seattle Mariners had originally signed Campillo away from the Mexico City Tigres. "He's not a thrower as much as he changes speeds, has command," then Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi said. "He's probably average-fast, maybe a little bit below, but he can get above when he needs to." In several short stints with the Mariners, his fastball was barely cresting 85-mph when he had to have reconstructive surgery on his elbow and miss significant playing time. The Mariners gave up on him after 2007 so you jumped on the chance to see if he was healed. During spring training, he attacked the strike zone enough with his assortment of pitches that you took him north. There, he pitched 159 innings with a 107/38 K/BB ratio and a decent 4.00 FIP.
4 | LHSP | Jorge De La Rosa | 3 WSAB | $1.025 M
You nab journeyman left-hander Jorge De La Rosa for a $1.025 contract despite not being sure where to put him: in the rotation or the bullpen. But that flexibility is why you decided on him in the first place. His fastball tops 90-mph on average so you think he could be a decent left-handed arm in the bullpen if you cut him loose, but your coaching staff suggests that he is capable of handling more innings. He gives you 130 good innings, racking up 128 strikeouts and a 4.06 FIP as your team's #4 man.
5 | RHSP | RA Dickey | 1 WSAB | $450K
This was suppose to be slotted for Mark Prior. You offered him $2 million plus incentives but no dice. Prior and his agent countered with $4 million...guaranteed. It was well known that Prior had wanted to play in warm weather and despised both the size of your team's city and the cold weather in the spring. Fine, Mark, you say. Enjoy San Diego. You moved on to the less discriminating pitchers and decide on Robert Allen Dickey. The one time first round draft choice had a floundering career with the Texas Rangers before he decided to pick up the ball with his fingernails and float the ball in the direction of the plate rather than throwing it. His 13-6 season with Milwaukee's AAA affiliate looked promising. He struck out 119 in 169 innings and only walked 60, an indication that he has command over the hardest pitch to harness. Though his introduction as a full-time knuckleballer was far from great (5.25 FIP, 58/51 K/BB) he did throw 112 innings working both as a #5 man and a long man out of the bullpen.
What did $10.87 million buy you for a starting rotation? One that compiled 3.54 Runs Allowed (RA) cumulatively average in 791 innings of work. Not completely terrible. You have $17.73 million left to acquire six/seven relievers and four/five bench players.


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earMUSIC has set an October 19 release date for "Blackoustic", the first-ever acoustic album by Finnish heavy metal singer Timo Kotipelto (STRATOVARIUS, CAIN'S OFFERING, KOTIPELTO) and guitarist Jani Liimatainen (CAIN'S OFFERING, ex-SONATA ARCTICA). The duo has been working together and playing acoustic shows for a while, and the idea of recording an acoustic album came from the fans.
Comments Kotipelto: "The fans were recording our shows with their cell phones and the've been telling us that we should make an album, so they could have better quality recordings of the songs to listen at home. At first, we were just joking about it, but after a while we thought, 'Why not? As far as we know, not many people have done it before, at least not within the heavier music genre. Our initial idea was to make a self-financed album with a relatively small pressing and then just maybe sell them at our shows."
But instead of making it a "fan-club release," the duo has opted to work with the label earMUSIC/Edel, which also releases STRATOVARIUS's work since the album "Polaris".
Most of the songs were chosen from the duo's live setlist, including familiar STRATOVARIUS covers like "Black Diamond" and "Hunting High and Low", but also songs like "Serenity" and "Sleep Well" from Kotipelto's solo albums have been given the new acoustic treatment; proving that behind great heavy metal song, there's very often a stunning melody "screaming" to come out. Furthermore, the album includes beautiful cover versions of PETE TOWNSHEND's "Behind Blue Eyes" and DEEP PURPLE's classic "Perfect Strangers".
"Blackoustic" also features a brand new composition, "Where My Rainbow Ends", written by Jani Liimatainen, who says: "I remembered a song I wrote last winter. Originally it was an instrumental track, but after listening back to it I thought that the melody would work very well with vocals. We re-arranged the song into our acoustic format and — as a slave of habit — I wrote the lyrics for it the night before our last day of recording. It turned out surprisingly beautiful and delicate."
"Jani's new song is a beautiful ballad," adds Kotipelto. "We have quite a few ballads on this album, as even the more rock oriented songs tend to sound more ballad-esque when performed by a duo."
"Blackoustic" was recorded at Kotipelto's cottage at Lappajärvi and mixed and mastered by the STRATOVARIUS guitarist / studio wizard Matias Kupiainen.
The duo will also hit the road in Finland in support of the album, although the first show was on the sea, performing at the Radio Rock cruise on the Baltic Princess on September 8.
"Blackoustic" track listing:
01. Sleep Well
02. Out In The Fields
03. Black Diamond
04. My Selene
05. Behind Blue Eyes
06. Hunting High And Low
07. Where My Rainbow Ends
08. Speed Of Light
09. Perfect Strangers
10. Coming Home
11. Serenity
12. Rainbow Eyes
13. Karjalan Kunnailla
The official trailer for "Blackoustic" can be seen below.

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A la Mobile, a small developer based in San Ramon, CA, has assembled what it calls a "first Android prototype": a suite of apps based on Google's Android mobile platform, and running on a Qtek 9090 handset from HTC. HTC is one of the companies in Google's Open Handset Coalition, a group which plans open Linux-based phones.
The prototype, according to a la Mobile, includes a browser, phone dialer, audio player, maps, camera, games, calendar, contacts manager, calculator, tasks manager and notes.
According to a la Mobile's press release, their intention was not only to create a suite of apps, but to present a full "mobile Linux system stack, including device drivers, Linux kernel, system utilities, mobile middleware (such as security, device management, provisioning, etc.), an application framework (such as Android) that supports JAVA services, browser, and miscellaneous applications for the end device."


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The million dollar question on everyone's mind is what cause Caroline Manzo to break down in tears during part 2 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion? Well Danielle claims the real reason is below in her new bravo blog –
"As for the end of the Reunion, when Caroline said such horrible things to me, I had no idea at the time what "disgraceful" acts she was referring to. I only found out later what she was talking about, from someone in her own family. I simply gave a phone number to her ex brother-in-law to contact proper people with questions that he had concerning something that was absolutely none of my business. I was asked to give this information to him. If I had to do it again, I would have declined and preferred not to get involved. But I think my minimal involvement did not justify Caroline's behavior towards me."
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Inositol and OCD
By Frederick Penzel, Ph.D.
At the American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference in 1996, a paper was delivered on the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with inositol, one of the B-vitamins. It seemed to indicate that this might be a viable treatment for OCD. As someone who treats OCD and related disorders, I am always on the lookout for new approaches. I did some further research, and found that since the early 1970s, a number of papers have been published on the use of inositol in the treatment of OCD, depression, and anxiety. It seems that inositol is converted by the body to two secondary neurotransmitter chemicals that enhance the action of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin, as we know, is a brain transmitter chemical that has been implicated in OCD and related disorders. Not all of these studies were conducted in the most scientific manner, but nevertheless, my curiosity had been piqued.
After several discussions with one of the psychiatrists at my clinic, we looked into its safety and possible interactions with other drugs. It appeared that most people took in an average of about 1 gram of inositol each day in their diets. We discovered that apart from some harmless digestive tract side effects, it appeared to be quite tolerable, and would not interact harmfully with any of the SSRIs our patients were taking for their OCD. At about the same time, (September, 1996) a double-blind placebo-controlled study on the use of high doses of inositol was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Dr. Mendel Fux and colleagues in Israel conducted the study. Although it was only a small study involving thirteen individuals, inositol was found to have a significant effect upon the symptoms of OCD. It was shown to work as well and as quickly as the SSRIs Prozac and Luvox. The patients in this study had either not been able to find relief via standard medications, or were unable to tolerate medication side effects. Dosages in the study were gradually built up to 18 grams per day.
The article proved to be the convincer for us. We had a number of OCD patients, who were only getting partial relief from prescription antidepressants, so we decided to suggest the possibility of their trying inositol as an augmenting agent, in addition to what they were already taking. I should mention here that our clinic is a rather busy treatment center, and unfortunately, not really geared toward conducting research, so we really didn't collect any data on this. I know my learned colleagues will shake their heads at this, and they would be right. In any case, we started to see some positive results among some of those who tried it. In most cases, these results ranged from at least mild to moderate relief of symptoms. A few reported even more improvement. We have generally built up our patients over a six-week period, starting with 1 teaspoon (2gms) twice per day, and going as high as 3 teaspoons, three times per day. It turned out that not everyone required the full 18 grams used in the Fux study. One person was seen to improve on just 2 grams daily.
Since that time, we have also seen some positive results child cases as well. I have also received some positive e-mails and phone calls from O-C around the country who have heard of inositol, and tried it. Although it was probably not as precise as we would have liked, we based our children's doses on body weight, figuring roughly that a 40-lb. child could tolerate a maximum dose of up to 6gms. of inositol per day.
I do not believe that inositol is a 'miracle drug' for everyone with OCD. There are no miracle treatments. I am sharing this information with sufferers out there in hopes that it may help at least some people who have not otherwise been able to get relief, or who are too afraid of prescription medications to try anything. I also decided to write about this because I felt that some people might hear of this through some other sources, and try inositol without any guidance.
**Please note the following: This advice is purely informational, and not in any way meant to be a substitute for treatment by a licensed physician. Do not try this, or anything else, without first consulting your physician. If your M.D. has not heard about it, refer them to the American Journal of Psychiatry article and let them decide.
Obviously, before you run out and try anything new, you should always consult your physician. If your physician recommends trying this, you might also want to mention the following information to him or her:
sure to use a measuring spoon) for an adult:
A child can be built up to 3 teaspoons per day over the same six-week period. Dosages for adolescents can be adjusted according to weight. In either case, it is best to allow side effects to be the guide. If they begin to occur, it is not considered wise to increase the dosage unless they subside.
Once a person has reached either the maximum dosage, or the greatest amount they are able to tolerate, it is best to try staying six weeks at that level to see if there is any noticeable improvement. If there is none by the end of that time, it should probably be discontinued. As with any treatment, those who are absolutely positive that it will help are only setting themselves up, and may wind up more than disappointed. Everything works for someone, but nothing works for everyone.
One further note. I know personally of one case where an adolescent with trichotillomania was administered a combination of inositol and a substance known as 5-HTP, which is a breakdown product of the amino acid L-Tryptophan. The body manufactures serotonin from 5-HTP, and serotonin is believed to be one of the brain transmitter chemicals implicated in trichotillomania. Taking this is believed to raise serotonin levels in the brain. This adolescent got partial results with inositol, and seemed to get a complete remission of the urge to pull with the addition of 100 mg. of 5-HTP daily. 5-HTP can cause drowsiness, and is usually taken at bedtime. It should never be taken with any prescription antidepressant (such as an SSRI) or herbal products such as St. John's Wort, as it can cause a very serious condition called serotonergic syndrome.
Again, none of the above is meant to be a substitute for expert medical advice. As with inositol, 5-HTP should not be taken without the supervision of a licensed physician. I find reports such as this rather interesting. and further study is clearly needed. It may have implications for the future treatment of trich.
*** As an interesting side note, a study was published (Seedat et al, 2001) since this article was written, in which three women with hair pulling and compulsive skin picking were treated with inositol. All three were seen to improve and this improvement was seen to continue through a 16-week follow-up period. Hopefully, there will be further studies on the usefulness of this compound.
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, you may be interested in his self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide To Getting Well And Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can find out more about it at www.ocdbook.com.
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Judy Moran – Is she an evil lady
When you think of famous crime families, you tend to imagine the Hollywood version of a Mafia family with such names as Luchesse, Gambino, and Genovese, but in reality they sometimes come with everyday names, although the level of drama is still the same. One such family operated in the streets of Melbourne, Australia, and while the Moran's became a legendary name in the Aussie crime scene, it was the matriarch of the family, Judy Moran, who ended up achieving celebrity like status before her sordid past caught up with her.
It was perhaps due to the fact that Judy came from an entertainment background, her mother a dancer at the famous Tivoli, that made her love the spotlight so much. She was always quick with a one-liner, or anecdotal story, all of which made her a somewhat beloved figure on the media circuit. She also helped her public persona by claiming that she was just a wife and mother maintaining the family home, and one who was completely unaware of any shady underworld type dealings that any of the family might be involved in. That seems like something of a stretch, especially when you consider how well they lived, and how badly so many of them died.
Judy was born in December, 1944, and seemingly lived a fairly normal life until she met and married Leslie John Cole, or Johnny as he was better known. The couple had a son named Mark, who would later go on to take the Moran name. Johnny was known to be involved in the drug scene, and in 1982 he was gunned down in a drug-related incident, although by that time the couple had divorced and Judy had fled to the arms of Lewis Moran. Although they never married, Judy legally changer her last name, as well as that of her son's to Moran. They in turn had a son named Jason, and while on the outside it may have looked like one big happy family, that was an image that would soon be shattered by a number of violent events.
While Judy always claimed that she was a regular housewife, she was also one that loved the finer things in life, and even in her autobiography she claimed to have no idea how Lewis was able to afford her with such an affluent lifestyle. The same must be said for her two sons, both of whom were living large, despite being out of work for extended periods of time. The deaths of all three men should have been enough to tip Judy off that something wasn't quite right, that is if we are to believe her story of being kept in the dark all those years.
Her boy's activities in particular should have raised suspicion, with Mark, a pastry chef by trade, albeit an unemployed one, owning a $1.3 million home in Essendon. Jason had spent some time in jail, and despite having no job, or any other sign of income, he could be spotted driving around the city in a flashy looking silver BMW. It turned out that the pair was involved in the manufacture and distribution of amphetamine powders and ecstasy, an occupation that cost them both their lives. Mark was shot and killed in 2000, with Jason suffering the same fate in 2003.
It was known that Lewis had a penchant for crime, although most of it was of the petty variety. Pickpocketing and theft were his signature crimes, but the lure of the big bucks, probably fuelled by Judy's insatiable appetite for the 5-star lifestyle, led him into business with the boys. Lewis's brother Des, also known as Tuppence, or Tuppy, was also a part of the family business, although not always on a permanent basis. Working side by side with his brother meant spending time with Judy, and it was no secret that the pair despised one another. Even after Lewis succumbed to the bullet in 2004, Des steadfastly maintained his hatred for Judy, and hated the fact that she continued to carry the Moran family name.
The feud between Judy and Tuppence continued to rage in the years following Lewis's death, and when Tuppy was found murdered in June of 2009, the spotlight was immediately turned on Judy. Des had been helping Judy pay the bills for quite some time, and when he threatened to cut her and the grandkids off, the pressure became too much to handle. Judy had long has a bit of a love/hate relationship with Suzanne Kane, sister-in-law of her son Jason, but they saw eye to eye long enough to go after Des. Kane's partners Geoffrey Amour, as well as another individual, who was later released by police, were all thought to be in on the murder of Tuppence.
The police alleged that Judy had hid the getaway car in her garage, and under surveillance, they caught her disposing of a pair of white gloves which were alleged to have been worn by the driver. A search of the Moran home led to the discovery of a safe, which contained guns, masks, and clothing, all of which witnesses to the crime had reported seeing the assailants wear. That was more than enough to take the case to trial, even though, on the police video of the search, Judy is seen talking to a police officer claiming to know nothing about the safe or its contents.
Almost two full years after the death of Tuppence Moran, Judy was found guilty of the murder, and sentenced to 26 years in jail, of which she will have to serve at least 21. It's fair to say that her champagne lifestyle will come to a complete halt on the inside, but what is not clear is whether or not she is deserving of the title of Evil Lady; that is up to you, the reader, to decide.
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I am happy to report that my little man is back to normal. :-)
I'm wondering if he just had a case of the flu or something, as we all get sick, pets included.
He's jumping, running, playing.....so I thinking he's going to be alright.
I'm hopeful that he will make it another two years. Boots is just so special to me.
Thank you for all of the kind words. :-) The kids are happy and so am I!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Kitty Update
I am happy to report that my little man is back to normal. :-)
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
My little man is sick.
Last night while I was sitting there putting some things together and working on the computer, I noticed my oldest cat had not ventured out to greet me upon my arrival home. Thinking nothing of it, I wandered the house looking for him, with the younger cat in tow, crying and carrying on. Eventually I found my little man, curled up under my bed struggling to breathe.
I quickly pulled him out and began assessing him. Surely nothing could be wrong because one week to the day he had been to the vet for his annual vaccinations and his senior blood work. And all of his blood work came back normal.
Eventually I calmed down enough to call my husband and tell him he has to come home as soon as he can because we have to get Boots to the emergency vet. By the time my husband arrived, Boots could hardly stand up, his eyes were rolling in the back of his head, and his tongue was hanging out.
After what seemed like the longest drive ever to the emergency vet, he was half heartedly diagnosed with asthma. The vet is bordering on heart disease, but since his blood work came back clean the week before she's hoping that it's just asthma. So after two x-rays, Lasix, medicine and breathing treatments, three and half hours later he came home...at almost 2am.
Needless to say we are exhausted as we both had to come into work just a few short hours later.
I wish I could say I had happy news, but Boots is hanging on. He has two meds that I have to give him and if those don't work then we have to get him some additional help of some kind.
My heart aches to see my little man in such a sad state. He's 13 years old, which is relatively old in human years. He's a fighter though and I pray with all that I have that he overcomes this and we can find the best course of treatment for him. I've had Boots since he was weaned from his Momma so it will be emotionally draining for me the day I have to let him go.
If you have room on your prayer list, send up a little prayer for Boots. He's been such a wonderful companion these last 13 years. Life without him would never been the same.
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Water conservation: "Landscape 2030" forum tackles Colorado landscapes' future
Two weeks out from the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, wide-ranging conversations about Colorado's future are still taking place.
"Landscape 2030," a forum slated for Wednesday, July 31, at the Denver Botanic Gardens will tackle what kind of yards, gardens and public spaces we'll be able to water in the next two decades.
The free forum is open to the public; the gardens' staff merely asks that you RSVP in an e-mail.
The panelists should give you an idea of how serious, and how important, the discussion will be:
– Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead;
– Hydrologist and environmental scientist Dan Luecke;
– Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken;
– and Sterling Ranch Managing Director Harold Smethills
Sterling Ranch is the housing development in Douglas County that incorporated water conservation into its planning process, with the botanic gardens' help. It was also selected as the state's first rainwater harvesting project.
But the forum won't be one of those canned presentations with four Powerpoints and the audience "fading out" by the last 15 minutes, said the gardens CEO Brian Vogt. "We want a casual conversation with the panelists free to engage one another. It'll be much more of a dialogue." Vogt will throw the panelists some questions, and they'll take it from there, with, it's hoped, some time for questions from attendees.
"We want to get and more predictable handle on the availability of water for the next 20 years," he said. "Clearly we'll have less, but how much less? How it will affect each ecosystem is different. I'm excited about getting real-life climate scientists to talk about that."
While the public appetite for new water projects is very small, Vogt said, demand for water keeps growing, he added. If more people understand the big picture about water needs and the future, "we'd make better choices."
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Although largely disregarded since the humanistic turn of ecocriticism at the beginning of the 21st century, nature writing has continued to play an important role in nurturing trans-Pacific, and transnational, literary environmentalism. Euro-American traditions dominate this literary genre, but it nevertheless involves cross-cultural traffic of ideas and thoughts. Its trans-Pacific presence, mostly through American influences on works in Japan, demonstrates in three ways how American nature writing has been cultivating Japanese literary soil and has in turn been nurtured by it, albeit less conspicuously. First, Henry David Thoreau's influence on Japanese literary environmentalism, especially his philosophy of plain living and high thinking, helped engender a tradition of nature writing in Japan that began with Nozawa Hajime—often called the "Japanese Thoreau"—and has been developed by those who followed, including Ashizawa Kazuhiro and Takada Hiroshi. Second, interactions between pastoralism and a new mode of environmental awareness show that the seemingly American notion of "wild awareness" and the Japanese concept of aware have materialized as a new environmental sensitivity in Japan and in the United States, respectively, reflecting cross-cultural nurturing of environmental ideas, thoughts, and practices. Finally, there has been a subtle yet radical impact of American counterculture on Japanese nature writing, exemplified by Nashiki Kaho's literary hybridity, based on her integration of the traditional with the radical.
Keywords: nature writing, ecocriticism, American literature, Japanese literature, Henry David Thoreau, counterculture, pastoralism
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Seattle construction workers unearth mammoth tusk
A Seattle museum official says construction workers have found a tusk from an ice age mammoth.
KIRO-TV reports that the construction workers stopped digging when they found the fossil and called the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
The museum's Christian Sidor said Tuesday that museum experts have examined the fossil and, in his words, "we are confident that it represents a tusk from an ice age mammoth."
Since the fossil was found recently on private property in the city's south Lake Union area, Sidor says it's up to the landowner to decide what to do with the tusk.
Sidor calls it "a rare opportunity to directly study Seattle's ancient natural history."
According to the museum, the ancient elephant relatives lived in Washington until approximately 10,000 years ago and their fossils have been found throughout western Washington.
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Grundfos is facilitating the specifier's transition to BIM by offering a wide range of models. These models match the designer's common workflow. They are presented logically, mirroring a hierarchical selection process. Models also integrate with building systems by providing piping and electrical connection points for system analytics. The entire library of models is available for a growing number of dominant BIM standards and guidelines used throughout the world
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BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday as opinion polls show their battle for the White House has tightened to a dead heat.
With 15 days to go until the November 6 election, the two candidates turn to foreign policy for their third and last debate, which starts at 9 p.m. (0100 GMT on Tuesday).
The stakes are high, as the two candidates are tied at 46 percent each in the Reuters/Ipsos online daily tracking poll.
The debate will likely be the last time either candidate will be able to directly appeal to millions of voters - especially the roughly 20 pct who have yet to make up their minds or who could still switch their support.
Obama comes to this debate with several advantages. As sitting president, he has been deeply involved with national security and foreign affairs for the past three-and-a-half years. He can point to a number of successes on his watch, from the end of the Iraq war to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
But Romney will have many chances to steer the conversation back toward the sluggish U.S. economy, a topic on which voters see him as more credible. He will also try to use unease about a nuclear Iran and turmoil in Libya to sow doubts about Obama's leadership at home and abroad.
Romney launched his candidacy with an accusation that Obama was not representing U.S. interests aggressively enough, but after a decade of war voters have little appetite for further entanglements abroad. After a clumsy overseas trip in July, Romney will have to demonstrate to voters that he could ably represent the United States on the world stage.
"What he needs to do is get through this third debate by showing a close familiarity with the issues and a demeanor in foreign policy that is not threatening," said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University.
Presidential debates have not always been consequential, but this year they have had an impact.
Romney's strong performance in the first debate in Denver on October 3 helped him recover from a series of stumbles and wiped out Obama's advantage in opinion polls.
Obama fared better in their second encounter on October 16, but that has not helped him regain the lead.
The Obama campaign is now playing defense as it tries to limit Romney's gains in several of the battleground states that will decide the election.
Romney could have a hard time winning the White House if he does not carry Ohio. A new Quinnipiac/CBS poll shows Obama leading by 5 percentage points in the Midwestern state, but another by Suffolk University shows the two candidates tied there.
More than 60 million viewers watched each of their previous two debates, but the television audience this time could be smaller as it will air at the same time as high-profile baseball and football games.
Much of the exchange, which takes place at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, will likely focus on the Middle East.
Campaigning in Canton, Ohio, on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden reminded voters of Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Afghanistan in the next two years and pointed out that Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan have made no such guarantees.
"They said, quote, it depends. Ladies and gentlemen, like everything with them, it depends," Biden said. "It depends on what day you find these guys."
At their second debate last week, the two presidential candidates clashed bitterly over Libya, a preview of what is to come on Monday evening. They argued over Obama's handling of the attack last month on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
The Obama administration first labeled the incident a spontaneous reaction to a video made in the United States that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad. Later, it said it was a terrorist assault on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
This shifting account, and the fact that Obama went on a campaign trip the day after the attack, has given Romney ammunition to use at Monday's debate.
"The statements were either misleading by intention or they were misleading by accident. Either way, though, he's got to get to the bottom of this," Romney adviser Dan Senor said on NBC's "Today" show.
Obama and his allies charge that Romney exploited the Benghazi attack for political points while officials were still accounting for the wellbeing of U.S. diplomats.
Regarding foreign policy overall, Obama's allies accuse Romney of relying on generalities and platitudes.
"It is astonishing that Romney has run for president for six years and never once bothered to put forward a plan to end the war in Afghanistan, for example, or to formulate a policy to go after al Qaeda," U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee, wrote in a memo released by the Obama campaign on Monday.
Romney has promised to tighten the screws over Iran's nuclear program and accused Obama of "leading from behind" as Syria's civil war expands. He also has faulted Obama for setting up a politically timed exit from the unpopular Afghanistan war, and accused him of failing to support Israel, an important ally in the Middle East.
The Republican challenger is likely to bring up a New York Times report from Saturday that said the United States and Iran had agreed in principle to hold bilateral negotiations to halt what Washington and its allies say is a plan by Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
The 90-minute debate, moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS, will be divided into six segments: America's role in the world; the war in Afghanistan; Israel and Iran; the changing Middle East; terrorism; and China's rise.
Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Mark Felsenthal and Susan Heavey; Writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Karey Wutkowski, Paul Simao Claudia Parsons


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Travello App: Delivering a "market-of-one" mobile application for travelers on Google Cloud
About Travello App
Travello App is a social application that enables travelers to connect with like-minded people in destinations they are visiting.
Using Google Cloud Platform, Travello App delivered a highly personalized app that enables travelers to contact others heading to or at the same destinations and view services such as local tours, activities, and hotels.
Google Cloud Results
- Runs a highly personalized mobile application used in 180 countries
- Supported growth within two years to over two million feed events and tens of thousands of new connections
- Accommodates traffic peaks without any deterioration in speeds
Achieves application response times as fast as half a second
Meeting new people is a welcoming part of the experience for traveling Australians. However, according to Ryan Hanly, there was no "really good" way to connect digitally with other people while on the road. So Hanly and fellow avid traveler Mark Cantoni decided to create a mobile application that would operate as a social network for travelers.
"We started planning an application that would be highly personalized—in other words, tailored to a market of one," say Ryan Hanly, CEO and Co-founder, Travello App. "We wanted to curate the application around travelers, their interests, and locations."
Hanly and Cantoni wanted the application to enable travelers to enter details themselves or authorize the collection of their information from social channels. The application would then use that information to connect users with like-minded travelers.
"Our feed algorithm would be based around your interests and locations, so we would show you posts from places or locations you were going to," Hanly says. "We also wanted to add features that would, for example, enable you to add planned trips to your profile and to see who is expected to head to the same destination at the same time."
Scalability and a global presence key priorities
The business partners established scalability and a global presence as key priorities for the platform that would run the application. Following experimentation and development in a Parse environment, the business decided to deploy the application—called Travello App—in a microservices architecture. This architecture would run in a cloud environment that supported open source technologies.
"Google Cloud Platform—and Google Kubernetes Engine in particular—was designed perfectly for our mobile app and web presence business as it had the flexibility and scalability we needed."—Richard Barge, Technical Lead, Travello App
After reviewing available cloud services, the founders decided to deliver the application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). "What really brought us to Google Cloud Platform was Google Kubernetes Engine, the Kubernetes-powered managed environment for delivering Kubernetes applications," Richard Barge, Technical Lead, Travello App, says. "Google Cloud Platform—and Google Kubernetes Engine in particular—was designed perfectly for our mobile app and web presence business as it had the flexibility and scalability we needed."
GCP also met the Travello App requirements for a low-cost infrastructure. "Google Cloud Platform was a significantly better value than alternative options and its range of services was a closer fit for us," Barge says. "In addition, we didn't want to be locked into any one cloud services provider. Google allowed us to use the resources and products we wanted when we needed them."
Travello App then deployed its application on GCP. "The move took a few months, but most of this time was dedicated to rewriting code rather than actually shifting to Google Cloud Platform," Barge says.
"Because we were moving to Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, there was a lot of help freely available on the internet and the process itself was quite intuitive."—Richard Barge, Technical Lead, Travello App
Intuitive process aided migration
The Travello App team completed the project using internal resources and expertise. "Because we were moving to Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, there was a lot of help freely available on the internet and the process itself was quite intuitive," Barge adds.
After initially running the application on Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud SQL, Travello App completed the move of the application to a microservices architecture. Google Cloud Pub/Sub message-oriented middleware links each microservice on the platform.
The business now uses Google Cloud Natural Language API to extract information and sentiment about locations from travelers' social media feeds, while Google Cloud Vision API classifies images for travelers to view relevant photos of cities, beaches, or other attractions.
Google Cloud Vision API also enables Travello App to filter out any inappropriate content, while Google Stackdriver provides monitoring and logging capabilities to help ensure the Travello App applications and architecture are running in line with business requirements.
"Thanks to Google Kubernetes Engine, our deployment process is now seamless and foolproof, with no user downtime."—Richard Barge, Technical Lead, Travello App
Highly automated delivery
"Because our architecture is Kubernetes-based and supports a continuous delivery system, any code committed to the deployment process is automatically pushed into staging," Barge says. "Pushing the code from staging to production simply involves updating Docker version numbers. So thanks to Google Kubernetes Engine, our deployment process is now seamless and foolproof, with no user downtime."
Using Google Kubernetes Engine has also enabled Travello App to maintain a small team without DevOps or system administration specialists. This team can focus almost solely on application development and associated activities aimed at expanding the business and improving the user experience.
Rapid response times
"Our key focus is on response times for our users," Barge explains. "Because feed data is curated for each person, our back-end systems generate a lot of activity in matching feed posts to travelers' interests. We've been aiming to keep response times between half a second and one second and—based on data obtained through the Google Stackdriver Trace API—we're achieving that. We're quite proud of that outcome."
Meanwhile, autoscaling delivered through GCP accommodates traffic peaks generated during marketing campaigns without any deterioration in response times. While the Travello App GCP environment is located in the us-central1 region, Google Cloud Load Balancing helps ensure response times in all markets remain fast and well within business requirements.
Supporting more than 2 million feed events
The GCP architecture for Travello App now supports over 2 million feed events and tens of thousands of new connections. Looking forward, the business is excited by the potential of Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine and artificial intelligence to deliver more predictive capabilities for the application.
"We want to learn what people want to see almost before they do so themselves," Barge says. "That will be particularly important as we extend the range of services we're showing customers beyond tours, activities, and hotels."
Travello App is now preparing to build on its early high-growth phase. "We're still in the early stages of where we want to be," Hanly says. "We've got a global domination focus and there's huge room for growth in our niche industry vertical. While we're used in 180 countries already, we aim to increase our density of use within key markets such as the United States and Asia," he adds.
About Travello App
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Portraiture is one of the oldest types of subject matter in the history of art. Even prehistoric cave painters represented themselves by registering their presence in their paintings by blowing paint over their hands, creating a unique signature (actually, quite eerie). I make it a point to do a self-portrait of myself every couple of years just to keep in practice, although I stink at portraits of other people (just ask my sitters). David Gilmour Blythe has piqued my interest for some time after reading nineteenth-century newspaper articles about his antics. Apparently he was quite an eccentric, but, what is fascinating about him is his absolute conviction about the importance of art and its connection to American society. His veneration of the French hero of the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette, in the years leading up to the Civil War (1861-1865) is quite revealing of his reverence for the new republic and just how art fit in as an important component.
Fine art during the Colonial period consisted almost entirely of painting. In the early colonial period, painting was confined to signs, mantle overpaintings, carriage decoration, and advertising. When the colonies began to be prosperous, and up until the Revolution, portraiture was the primary subject matter of painting. This was due in large part because of the colonists' aspirations to demonstrate their prosperity in the same way as their English forbearers through commissioned art.
Sculpture was limited to architectural ornament, as well as gravestone and sign carving. After the Revolution, the influence of the Neoclassical style in European art helped encourage an increasing appreciation of sculpture in America among the growing, affluent middle class. While most of the sculpture produced in the first half of the nineteenth century consisted of neoclassical portrait busts and allegorical and mythological figures, a vein of naïve, self-taught sculpture did exist. Like naïve painting, many of these sculptors were self-taught.
Blythe was born to immigrant parents on the Ohio frontier. He showed an aptitude for art at an early age, producing portraits of family and neighbors, caricatures, and satirical depictions of local events. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a wood carver and produced whittled emblems and architectural decoration. A restless romantic, Blythe spent years thereafter wandering the length of the
Blythe's skill as a portraitist earned him the commission to carve a figure of Lafayette (Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 1757- 1834) for the Fayette county courthouse in Uniontown. He carved the figure of the Revolutionary War hero using an adze which gives it the rough-hewn quality. Although the figure is well-proportioned, it is stiff and lacking the refinement of Blythe's contemporaries, such as Clark Mills, Hiram Powers, or even William Rush. The rigid pose is reminiscent of the formality of ancient Egyptian figures.


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The Dolphins could benefit from Mike Pettine's decision to bolt from Buffalo.
Patriots WR Danny Amendola won't need surgery to repair the groin he injured way back in Week One.
Asked what he would have done differently during his one-year as coach of the Jets, current Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said, "It's too long to tell you. I'd do what I'm doing now."
Florida State QB Jameis Winston posed for a photo wearing Bills gear.
Former Browns QB Bernie Kosar is talking up former Louisville QB Teddy Bridgewater.
Ravens K Justin Tucker is looking forward to the chance to get the higher paycheck that goes to the players who win the Pro Bowl.
Steelers WR Jerricho Cotchery is helping prospects prepare for the Scouting Combine and their Pro Day workouts.
Bengals DT Domata Peko has had a sandwich named after him.
With the third pick in the draft, the Jaguars will trade up. Or trade back. Or stay where they are.
Titans CB Alterraun Verner is providing video updates of his Pro Bowl experiences for the team's website.
Colts WR Reggie Wayne is eager to re-join the young receivers on his team.
Texans LT Duane Brown and DE J.J. Watt are enjoying their time at the Pro Bowl.
The family of the late Chargers LB Junior Seau has formally objected to the proposed concussion settlement.
Broncos LB Paris Lenon has landed in the Super Bowl after once playing in the XFL.
The Raiders need K Sebastian Janikowski to bounce back from a bad year.
The Chiefs could be the Seahawks, if the Chiefs could develop the same kind of secondary.
Eagles RB LeSean McCoy will be trying to strike the right balance in the Pro Bowl; "I plan to have fun and play, but also to be smart," McCoy writes in an online diary. "I don't want to do anything to jeopardize next season, because I'm so excited about what we are as a team and what we're going to be."
Retired Giants OL David Diehl got permission from his seven-year-old daughter to stop playing pro football.
Is the Cowboys bring back DL Josh Brent, how will the fans react?
Redskins QB Kirk Cousins recently visited the U.S. Senate . . . wearing his jersey over a shirt with a button-down collar.
Lions RB Joique Bell is one of three NFL players who'll have a cameo next week in the Broadway show Rock of Ages.
The Bears' official website looks at whether the Bears will re-sign DT Henry Melton.
After a two-week delay arising from litigation, a $468 million bond sale for the new Vikings stadium will begin on Monday.
It won't be cheap to keep the Packers' receiving corps together.
Panthers LB Luke Kuechly is making a very good impression in Hawaii.
Saints S Roman Harper doesn't want to leave New Orleans.
Former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne had good things to say about new Buccaneers G.M. Jason Licht.
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In 2005, a family owned business headed by inventor Larry Mackiewicz started to sell a tabletop cooling device called the CoolCover. The problem it solved was straightforward: how do you serve foods that should be chilled? The traditional answer to that problem is often unattractive and messy. Fill a large tub with crushed ice and place the chilled food in the ice. For foods that need to be kept below 40°F, the ice method is still the best around, but for foods that only need to be served chilled or kept lower than the ambient temperature, the CoolCover is certainly one of the better solutions.
The CoolCover is simple in design, but well thought out. Essentially, it's just a lid that covers food and holds an ice pack. The lid is made out of a strong, clear plastic (GE Lexan polycarbonate) with two handles. The handles are placed in such a manner so that the lid can be tilted by lifting the front handle (pivoting on the back edge of the lid) with the second handle acting as a stable stand. This allows the CoolCover to be opened (and stay open) while someone is helping themselves to caviar hors d'oeuvres or
proscuitto e melone
. The clear plastic serves as an attractive viewing window to whatever food is being kept cool (and clean) under the cover. There is also a frosted area of the cover which can be written on with a washable marker to label the food. I suspect it's actually frosted to make it harder to see the CoolPack clipped to the underside of the cover. In any case, the frosted area does work to make the lid attractive. In fact, you don't really notice the CoolPack is there at all.
The CoolPack is a liquid filled (actually a food-safe CMC, carboxymethylcellulose, based gel) plastic (polyethylene) container that needs to be frozen prior to use (if you intend for the CoolCover to keep your food cool). Obviously, the CoolCover can be used without the CoolPack if the intention is to simply keep dust, insects, or falling leaves out of the food being served (especially useful at a backyard party). Once the CoolPack is fully frozen, it is snapped into place on the underside of the lid. For me, it was a bit more difficult to snap in than I expected - the support bar needed to be flexed quite a bit before I could get the pack in, but once in it held very snuggly. Having used the device many times, I now realize that the CoolCover is very sturdy, and I just pop the CoolPack in without worrying about snapping off some plastic. One CoolPack lasts about four hours for me. It's actually still cold after four hours and stays cold for another couple hours, but doesn't seem to effectively keep food as cool as I would have liked after four hours. Additional CoolPacks can be purchased (for $5 as of September 2006) which can be swapped in after the first pack has warmed up. I did not have multiple CoolPacks to test.
I used the CoolCover in a variety of ways in my testing. Mainly I used it to keep cool foods cool. Appetizers, dips, and desserts were kept cool much longer than if they had been standing out in the open. As expected, if you place something relatively large, dense, and cold under the CoolCover, it lasts a much longer time than a few small items. For example, the tiramisu pictured kept cold for more than four hours while being served in an office environment. We're not sure how long it could have lasted, because Tina's coworkers had consumed all of the tiramisu before the CoolPack had warmed up.
Because the CoolCover only reduces the temperature of the air under the lid, it's not efficient at cooling items placed under it. Items that need to be kept cold should be thoroughly refrigerated first before being placed under the CoolCover. The CoolCover then provides an environment about 10 F&176; lower than the ambient temperature. Not lifting the lid can allow the temperature to drop even further, but not by much. This means the temperature is not really low enough to chill anything, but it does lengthen the amount of time it takes for an object to warm up. To help matters, an insulating pad is supplied with the CoolCover that helps reduce thermal conduction through the surface (like the table or counter) the food is placed on.
I also used the CoolCover as just a clear cover (without the CoolPack). It was an attractive way to store and present pastries as well as pies. The cover is actually quite nice when serving semi-sticky foods (like
Rice Krispies Treats
) in a dusty or breezy environment (like a flowering garden). When used outdoors, you don't want to put it under direct sunlight or it becomes a GreenhouseCover. It might be interesting to see how people make use of the heat trapping properties, but I didn't play around with that aspect.
My only real complaint about the CoolCover is one that can't be solved by the designers. I don't have a place to store it. The CoolCover is around 16-in. by 12-in. and is almost 6-in. tall. This is a great size for serving food, but when I'm not using it I didn't know what to do with it. The top surface is not completely flat, so I can't easily stack other things on top of it while it is in storage.
If you like serving food buffet-style outdoors, this is definitely a device you'll want to look at buying. Imagine how your guests will react when they help themselves with hot food from a chafing dish and cold food from under the CoolCover! The cover is also really useful if you like to keep your food covered and away from settling dust. (A place to put prepared snacks for your kids where they can see it, perhaps?) It's currently available through order on their website at
and as of September 2006 is $35 for the CoolCover, CoolPack, and foam pad. Not a bad price considering how much transparent buffet covers cost.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:59 pm
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Here's another option: Put on any cover that will go over the food--bowl, pan etc. Then get a frozen pac, wrap it in something to catch drips, and stick it under the cover with the food. I've done that often.
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I've already filled my Xmas list by browsing your site!
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Aissa Galoso
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:36 am
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That's an ingenious invention!
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 1:31 pm
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the url code for coolcover doesn't go to their site. Looks like a nifty product.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:19 pm
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the url code for coolcover doesn't go to their site. Looks like a nifty product.
I wasn't able to find their new website and their phone numbers seem to be disconnected. I'm afraid they may have gone out of business.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:10 pm
Post subject: Cool Cover
Instead of buying an ice pack or some fancy [and expensive] cold box just use a cake cover and a spare kitchen tile...
Freeze the tile 20 min before use. When serving, hide it under the food tray. Lasts about as long as a small cold pack (bit more if stacked). Tiles don't take up much room in a freezer and they won't leave a pool of water on the table like a cold pack will.
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I am unable to find any trace of CoolCover or their website. Did they vaporize or did someone gobble them up?
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Post subject: Re: CoolCover has Vanished?
senebraskaee wrote:
I am unable to find any trace of CoolCover or their website. Did they vaporize or did someone gobble them up?
It's been 8 years... My guess is they went out of business.
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Heirloom apples: comeback in a cider bottle
In the summer of 1990, Carl Sutton was working at a winery after dropping out of Sonoma State, and lived in a shack in the middle of a 50-year-old Gravenstein apple orchard.
"I remember how wonderful it was to wake up and grab a couple of apples off the tree," he says. "They're just so delicious."
Sutton eventually founded his own winery, Sutton Cellars, now located in San Francisco. But he never forgot those apples. Last year, he joined a handful of local hard cider makers who are providing a new outlet for the endangered Gravenstein and other heirloom varieties.
"There are just all of these great apple trees getting ripped out in Sonoma County and getting replanted with crappy Pinot Noir. Why not try to do something interesting with them?" said Sutton, who produces a few hundred cases of cider a year, including a brand-new release of unpasteurized and unfiltered cider made with a blend of organic apples.
Sales of hard cider were up by 50 percent in the United States in the past year. While the majority of ciders on the market are commercial brands made with apple juice concentrate and artificial carbonation, local cideries are emerging with naturally effervescent, food-friendly bottlings inspired by tart styles in Europe.
They're joining a robust list of established Northern California cider producers like Ace, Two Rivers, Philo Apple Farm and AppleGarden Farm in Tomales.
'A misconception'
"There's a misconception with hard cider. People think of apple-y, sparkly sweet juice," says Ozgun Gundogdu, co-owner of Upcider, a gastropub that opened on Polk Street in August and serves 90 varieties, including soft and elegant pours from Normandy, bracingly sour Basque ciders and barnyard-evocative bottles from England.
Northern California is joining other American apple-growing regions in its rediscovery of one of the country's original libations, and a craft that was almost forgotten during Prohibition.
"What we're really trying to do is bring back cider apples and bring back cider in a different way than what Americans are used to," says Ellen Cavalli, pouring a glass of Tilted Shed cider in her Sebastopol kitchen.
Bumper crop of apples
Cavalli and her husband, Scott Heath, got into cider while they were farmsteading in northern New Mexico and had a bumper crop of apples. In 2010 the couple bought a few acres on Highway 116 - the Gravenstein Highway - and planted a cider orchard with 23 varietals like Kingston Blacks, which are praised for their bitter and acidic qualities and are not for eating out of hand.
"They call them spitters," says Cavalli. "They add a lot of structure and nuance. What we are looking for is ones with high levels of tannins, as well as acid, sugar and aromatics."
The couple buys organic fruit from local growers to produce 1,200 gallons of cider a year, including the semidry Graviva, made from 50 percent Gravenstein.
Though cider has a similar alcohol level to beer, cider making is more like winemaking and much simpler than brewing. The apples are shredded, then pressed, and the juice is almost always blended. Cider makers either rely on wild yeasts found on the skin or add yeast to control fermentation, which can last for several weeks or several months. Then the cider is allowed to settle, and often can be ready soon afterward.
Jason and Molly Drew currently have a batch of cider from November's harvest in barrel for their first commercial release in June or July. When they bought property in Mendocino County for their Drew Winery in 2004, it came with a historic 15-acre apple orchard.
"They're heirloom varieties in a beautiful location, and they taste like candy. We always wanted to do something with them," says Jason Drew.
The Drews plan to sell about 35 cases of the cider at their tasting room near Philo. The current batch is about 50 percent Philo Gold, a local variety; 25 or 30 percent Rhode Island Greenings, a snappy, tannic apple; and about 20 percent Jonathan. Drew might allow the cider to undergo malolactic fermentation, which can softenits acidity, and intends to let it fermentuntil fully dry, so that no sugar remains and it will be stable enough to bottle unfined andunfiltered.
"To me that's more appealing," says Drew. "The apples are in more of a pure state and you're not having to manipulate it as much - you're really getting a sense of the terroir."
Another cidery in the works is the Farmer's Wife Craft Cannery & Kitchen, which Kendra Kolling plans to open at the Barlow center in Sebastopol next year with a cider press and fermentation tanks on site. Kolling and her husband farm 400 acres in Sebastopol and have a line of applesauce and juice called Nana Mae's Organics, but the rising cost of packaging is causing them to look for a better return on their harvest.
"It's another avenue to showcase the fruits that my husband and I grow," says Kolling.
'In danger of extinction'
Other recent arrivals include Apple Sauced from Devoto Gardens in Sebastopol, and Bite Hard from Boonville Cider House. Both mention the Gravenstein on the label, which is recognized by Slow Food USA as one of 200 "delicious foods in danger of extinction."
Cavalli of Tilted Shed points out that she can buy apples with blemishes that can't be sold as market fruit, and at a higher price than juicers.
"It can't compete with premium wine grapes," she said, pointing across the Gravenstein Highway to a winery. "But we can give people another alternative revenue stream."
After much sleuthing, she and her husband recently got access to a couple of abandoned orchards growing old cider varieties. They won't reveal their location, but they share the trees' long-kept secrets in bottles of hard cider.
This article has been corrected since it appeared in print editions.
A taste of California ciders
Look for ciders at Rainbow Grocery in S.F., Berkeley Bowl, Andy's Produce Market in Sebastopol and elsewhere.
Apple Sauced Raspberry Sebastopol Gravenstein Hard Apple Cider ($7/22 ounces; 6% alcohol): Made from organic Gravenstein apples and raspberry juice, this cider has a dry finish and fresh raspberry flavor that belie the fruit punch on the nose. One of two Gravenstein ciders made by Devoto Gardens in Sebastopol, its crispness brings to mind Lambic beer.
Boonville Cider House Bite Hard Gravenstein Apple Cider ($9.69/four 12-ounce bottles; 6%): Made by Brooks Schmidt, with Anderson Valley Gravensteins from his aunt and uncle's nearby Philo Apple Farm, this has a dry finish reminiscent of an English cider, with maple and banana on the nose. It's mostly available in Mendocino County, including at the Boonville Hotel, but other Bite Hard ciders are sold at Flour + Water, Delfina and other restaurants in San Francisco.
Sutton Cellars Sonoma County Hard Apple Cider ($6/22 ounces; 6%): Unlike Sutton Cellars' other cider made entirely from Gravenstein apples, this is made from a blend of six organic Sonoma apple varieties and indigenous yeast; it's unfiltered and cloudy. With candied apple on the nose, this is a bone-dry cider similar to those from Normandy, with very mild carbonation and a rounded finish.
Tilted Shed Ciderworks Lost Orchard Cider ($14/750 ml; 8%): One of three ciders offered by this Sebastopol cidery, this dry version is made from Roxbury Russet, Nehou and Muscat de Bernay apples from abandoned orchards in the Sebastopol area. With the highest alcohol level of the four ciders tasted, it is full-bodied with fresh apple pulp notes. Also available at Upcider in S.F.
- Tara Duggan
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