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|2012-05-16, 08:32
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|2012-05-17, 01:54
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Mayaka role in the story
I'm still a little puzzled (as of episode 4) about the role of Mayaka in the story. Houtara is the main character. Satoshi is to give him information, and Eru is his motivation. But so far, Mayaga doesn't really have a roll in the story. (Well, except for being cute when Houtarou solve a problem she can't. Not that I complain about that.)
Of course it is easy to dismiss it as the author just want to include a childhood friend character, but at this point I don't think that's the case. The usual childhood friend role and my best guess is to represent Houtarou's past, but Satoshi is kind of doing that also. So it seems unlikely.
Another thing is I'm torn between hoping she keep her romantic interest on Satoshi, so she's out of the usual cliché, and her switching to Houtarou since, IMO, she's at her cutest when she's pouting because Houtarou did something she can't. Maybe we can have both.
|2012-05-19, 02:31
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I believe her dislike for Oreki might come from before the novel, when they were in middle school ( remember the 3 of them were classmates? )
As for her role in the series, I completely trust the original author, a fellow writer, not to have put a main character just because. I'm pretty sure that her abilities and/or persona itself will become a big turning point. That said, the series itself is about growing up, and what are 2 boys and 2 girls going to do... huh
Just my 2 cents.
|2012-05-19, 10:18
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Making metal ... for fish
Age: 38
At this point in the series, Mayaka seems to serve as a sort of skeptical foil to Houtarou. Clearly, they have some sort of history from their time in middle school, so there's tension between them. She's smart and she views him as a kind of rival; so she's not apt to breathlessly accept Houtarou's deductions. So, having her around allows Houtarou to better explain his deductions to those of us outside the fourth wall. Recall that she, and Satoshi, tried (without success) to solve the mystery of the tome of history before Houtarou and Eru showed up. Mayaka was also the one who demanded that Houtarou explain how he convinced the newspaper man to dig up the Classics Club's anthologies for them.
|2012-07-23, 23:24
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Argentina
^^ The fact that Irisu's thread has more answers just shows how superficial this character seems.
Up until the last episode, I honestly didn't even consider her mildly interesting. Now that we know that the can draw and cook, and be something other than a cute face to balance the boy/girl ratio... I might consider her a better character.
|2012-07-24, 00:56
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Irregular Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2010
Age: 31
Because most of what have been said about her are in episode threads?
For someone who is clueless about guy/girl friendship, I like the few short scenes Mayaka and Houtarou are alone together. It feel like a real "just a childhood friend" to me. Take their walking to the clubroom in episode 12, for example. They know the distance to keep, which is just a little bigger than Houtarou/Eru or Satoshi/Mayaka pair. Houtarou also understand what's going on her mind and the right level of warning to say. Their "not a best friend, but stuck together for a long time" relationship is portrayed well.
|2012-08-09, 20:10
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Lusitania
Age: 30
An OK character since the beginning, but she is getting more and more interesting and sweet in the festival arc. She is very sensitive towards manga art and she is showing feelings for Satoshi. I am expecting a lot from her in the last episodes!
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How warm is the love in my heart for you
As warm as the sun in the sky of blue
How long will it shine if you say you're mine
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Country singer Patsy Cline
A ball, a bat and Bob Elliott.
They go together like peanuts and cracker jacks; like Harry Caray and a seventh inning stretch; like life and breath.
When country chanteuse Patsy Cline was singing about love, it could have been the soundtrack to Elliott's life in baseball. Next to wife Claire and family, the game is the dearest thing to the heart of the award-winning Toronto Sun baseball writer.
Born Sept. 10, 1949, he shares a birth date, appropriately, with Roger Maris and Joey Votto. At 62, Elliott is one of a vanishing breed — one of the original seamheads, a group of baseball writers and columnists that flourished in the '80s and '90s. They lived for one and only one purpose: Baseball. They covered it — and lived it — relentlessly 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Each February, they answer the siren call that beckons them to spring training.
"It's not complicated," says Claire, giggling. "I just think like he's not going to be there again until the World Series is over. Anything more is a bonus."
Such is life with The Boxer.
It is intriguing. It can be complicated. It is an adventure. It is midnight phone calls. And, if there is a ball player, or scout, of note anywhere between Havana, the Baja Peninsula and Fort McMurray, Elliott will know him and probably have met him.
The nickname? It got pinned on him after a night out with his baseball buddies, hollerin' and hootin' at a WWF card when that sport was at its frenzied heights.
Next to baseball, Bob always loved the wrasslin'.
He is a Wrangler jeans kind of guy. A moustache and chew, a little shy, a little stubborn, and a little Garth Brooks.
"He's a loon … a walking time warp," laughs his daughter Alicia. "He is a character … not everyone is lucky enough to grow up with this kind of individual for a father."
And not everyone gets to grow up with a father who ends up getting cosy with the lords of baseball.
This week, Elliott goes to Cooperstown. The Sun baseball columnist, father to Bob Jr. and Alicia, and father figure to dozens of Canadian minor leaguers, becomes the first Canadian ever to receive the Taylor Spink Award.
It is awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America for exceptional contributions to the game of baseball.
A writing career that started at his local Kingston daily has seen him move to Ottawa and, ultimately, to the Sun in 1987. It has seen him chronicle the Blue Jays' World Series victories. He has been a champion of Canadian baseball and, while he has walked in the cathedrals of the sport, from Yankee Stadium to Fenway and Wrigley, he counts his two greatest moments in the sport as the World Baseball Classic in 2006.
Chase Field, Phoenix: Canada 8, Team U.S.A. 6. Team U.S.A. had four or five future Hall of Famers.
"But we took it to 'em. It was like being there for Paul Henderson's goal," Elliott once reminisced.
He was there when the Expos were young and when they vanished into history, he was there with his Mississauga minor baseball teams in victory and in defeat, he was there when son, Bobby, hit a home run and he was there when Joe Carter hit his. It has never mattered much to Bob where the baseball is being played, or who is playing it. It just matters that it is being played.
"I can remember we'd be sitting at the dinner table and he'd be worried about what was happening to one of the kids on the (minor league) team he was coaching, or something," said Alicia, now accounts director with BrightRoll, an online marketing/advertising company.
"I can also remember when I was really little, he'd dance with me after dinner. And, in high school, it was a little different because boys would always want to talk to me about baseball and my dad instead of about going on dates.
"That," she says, laughing, "was kind of awkward."
Life with the Boxer.
Ah, yes.
As when, if he isn't at a Blue Jays game (and I'm not sure it is legal for them to play without him), the phone will ring at the Sun seat in the press box. Now, this is an adventure in itself.
First, it's difficult to hear because people insist on cheering into one ear, and I'm half-deaf in the other. So after his: "Aaaaaah … what's up?" there is usually this long, awkward pause while I try to think of something to say that isn't totally inane and meaningless.
Bob is the architect of the pregnant pause.
It doesn't last nine months, but it sure can seem like it. And I dare anyone to out-wait him. There have been no-hitters thrown in less time than a Boxer Pause.
Conversations drift. He'd ask about a play, or whether he could help. Or if I was OK. Once, in my first year on the beat in the late '80s, my first road trip sent me to Oakland, L.A. and Seattle. This, with insufferable East Coast newspaper deadlines, was baseball hell for a beat writer.
He called every night after the game to make sure I was OK. Considering it was past 2 a.m. back in Toronto, I figured he was staying up late just as a courtesy to me. It wasn't until much later that I realized Bob does some of his best work after midnight. He works on Pacific time.
Sometimes phone conversations have so much dead air we'd forget our original topic or what city we were in. Eventually, one of us would figure it out, and the conversation could resume. There is never such a thing with Bob as a short phone call.
"Sometimes it's like, 'Are you going to say ANYTHING else? Have you had a heart attack? Should I call 911?" says Claire, laughing. "He is unique. Quirky … a bit of an absent-minded professor."
How strong was my love from the very start
How long will it last in my happy heart
How much would I cry if we'd ever part
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Patsy Cline
Life with the Boxer.
"Humbling," said Elliott from Dallas, where he was covering major league baseball's winter meetings when the announcement came last December that he was headed to Cooperstown, after being nominated for the Spink award by the Star's Richard Griffin.
"They handed out the release with the names of past winners on it. You look at a guy like Jim Murray or Dick Young, you see Damon Runyon or Ring Lardner. Then you see my name and it's like that Sesame Street thing — you know, where they ask: 'Which one of these doesn't belong?' "
For once, Elliott was wrong. He has always "belonged" anywhere there has been baseball.
As a kid on the sandlots of Kingston, Elliott grew up idolizing Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews. Another of his favourite players while covering major league baseball was George Brett.
Sports, in particular baseball, has been deeply rooted in the Elliott gene pool. His grandfather, Ed, played for the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball club and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame as a referee. His father, Robert Sr., was the head coach of the Queen's University Golden Gaels, managed the local baseball nine to championships and curled his way into the Brier and is in the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame.
When Bob was in his final year of high school, he was offered a permanent job at the local Whig-Standard newspaper. His mother, aghast, burst into tears, imploring young Robert to go to Queen's, like his father.
Ken Fidlin, Elliott's longtime colleague and fellow baseball beat writer, recalled, "He got a more favourable hearing from Bob, Sr. 'You can go to work, on two conditions,' said his dad. 'One, you have to finish Grade 12. The other … don't you ever be one of those (expletives) like those writers in Boston who kept Ted Williams out of the Hall of Fame just because they didn't like him.' "
Bob's dad would die less than two years later, his mom six months after that. More than 40 years later, their son this week will join Williams, Mathews and Brett in Cooperstown.
As Fidlin noted: "How perfect is that?"
Or perfectly awkward.
As Elliott's son, Bob Jr., a manager at Toronto accounting giant Grant Thornton, cheerfully counts off the achievements of his ancestors, he notes: "So, let's see … father is (in Cooperstown); great grandfather is in the (hockey) Hall of Fame and grandfather is in two halls of fame. So what Hall of Fame does that leave me?
"Like, no pressure, eh?"
Life with the Boxer means that a sense of humour is essential. At a recent dinner in Kingston that turned into a mini-roast, nobody howled louder or had more fun than Bob.
It has been almost four decades since he and Claire met at a friend's home in Kingston.
"He was kind of shy. We had our first date on New Year's and that was kind of funny. We had a corner lot with two sidewalks. My dad cleared the one that went from the street to the side door.
"Bob, being the gentleman, decided to come up the sidewalk to the front door. It hadn't been cleared, of course, and seeing as we were going to a party, we weren't wearing boots. So out the door we go and, as we're saying good-bye, I fell off the top step and down the stairs.
"He looked kind of surprised. I giggled. He kind of looked around to see if anyone else had seen."
They were married in 1972. He was 23. She was 21 or, as she prefers to recall it, "I was a child bride."
They've been falling for each other ever since.
This year, on Oct. 7, will mark the 40th anniversary of a tale of love; the tale of a man devoted to a wife, a son, a daughter … and baseball. Although Claire figured out a long time ago it might not always be quite in that order.
"We had to plan our wedding around the Kingston Ponies' schedule. We had to pick a date that wouldn't interfere with (Canadian championships) or the playoffs because a lot of those guys were going to be on the guest list."
So she and Bob decided October would be a safe choice.
"He was working for a small paper then and he wasn't covering major league baseball. Turns out we picked a date right in the middle of World Series time. We didn't realize he'd end up being away. Now he's never home on my anniversary but," says Claire, laughing, "I do get lots of roses."
And as long as the tides of the ocean flow
As long as the trees and the flowers grow
So long, oh my love, will I love you so
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Patsy Cline
Cooperstown is the end point. Getting there took a decade of scribbling about harness racing, hockey and the local ball teams, before Elliott even got his first Major League game assignment. Once there, it would morph into 33 consecutive Opening Day assignments … and countless headlines.
"He has a memory. He never forgets. You do something stupid when you're 12 and he still harps on it. There was never any sneaking anything past him like who I was dating," says Alicia. "He'd ask questions in so many ways he always found out what you were up to."
In home, as at work. Just ask Blue Jays' management. Questions. Questions. Elliott drove them to distraction, particularly during the pennant runs of the 1990s when he'd break stories almost weekly — stories the team didn't necessarily want broken quite yet.
Like the one in 1993. Despite the fact the Jays were about to play their second consecutive World Series thanks in part to the fact John Olerud, Roberto Alomar and Paul Molitor had finished 1-2-3 in the American League batting race, Elliott scored headlines across Canada and the U.S. when he reported hitting coach Larry Hisle would not be invited back the following season.
The story broke prior to Game 1 against the Phillies. Hisle, a media frenzy exploding around him, noted, "Evidently, the people making decisions are not happy."
Asked about Boxer's story, Hisle replied, "I'm assuming that it's true."
As gospel goes, there is Matthew, Mark, Luke and Bob. Elliott's reputation preceded him. People knew that he knew.
The first major league game he covered was the Montreal Expos' 1978 home opener. "The Mets won 3-2, Skip Lockwood got the win, Rudy May took the loss, and Tom Grieve homered," Elliott recalled, reaching into his memory bank.
There have been thousands of games since, thousands of stories and a thousand heroes and villains, from Dave Winfield's double down the line, to Robbie Alomar's Great Expectorations. Still, it is his passion, his borderline obsession, with Canadian players for which he has become best known, and for which he is receiving the Spink award. The Canadian baseball family will remain forever grateful for his spotlighting of so many unsung accomplishments from the grass roots to the minor leagues.
"Writing is how he makes his living but I think what he really loves is coaching," confesses his son. "He's always said that baseball is the one sport that has a level playing field; it's one on one. You can't gang up on people … I believe he sees it as a microcosm for life.
"There are countless guys I know who he coached when we were kids who still come up to me and say he taught them as much about life as baseball. It's always been about more than the game, how to throw a ball, or how to hit. I just remember him talking about how the game … teaches you about keeping your emotions in check, dealing with pressure and keeping a good head on your shoulders."
Elliott has chronicled countless stories at the community, provincial, national and international level, and somehow keeps abreast of not only how many Canadians are playing in the U.S. on scholarships, but how they are doing.
He has a website, canadianbaseballnetwork.com, that tracks top Canadian candidates for the draft, Canadians in college, Canadians in the minor leagues, Team Canada updates, and everything in-between.
"In 1998, there were 66 Canadians in the minors — today there are well over 100, and another fifty-plus on independent professional teams. In 2000, there were 490 kids playing in U.S. colleges — today, there are more than 700," Elliott says.
On a cross-country tour in February after winning the Spink award, he spoke in Oyen, Alta., at the second annual Baseball at Dusk fundraiser for the Badlands Baseball Academy.
Attended by approximately 200 people, the event raised money for the academy that opened a new facility last December that features three batting cages and two pitching mounds in a renovated hog barn.
"I don't know if it took a few cocktails or a visionary to look at a hog barn and say, 'Hmm, this looks like a perfect place for a baseball academy,' " Elliott wryly noted during his address. "But it works."
He doesn't much like public speaking. He jokes about his own proclivity for mumbling through TV and radio interviews. His wife recalls someone who had heard him on Bob McCown's talk-radio show, once asking on Twitter if he was drunk. Which is kind of funny, because he rarely drinks anything stronger than his omnipresent Diet Coke. It goes with him everywhere. "
You know how some people bring a bottle of wine when they go to someone's place for dinner? Well, we bring a case of Diet Coke," jokes his wife. "It started in the '70s with Diet Fresca and then he moved up to the Diet Coke. We just have an IV pole downstairs in his office. Hook him up, and he doesn't even have to stand up and go to the fridge."
'Cause if you weren't there to share my love
Who cares if the sky should fall
For anyone can see how much you mean to me
You're my life, my love, my very all
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Patsy Cline
Life with The Boxer.
While Bob is good at a lot of things, being a handyman is not one of them. On the upside, Alicia points out he's pretty adept at keeping up with the latest electronic gimmicks and social media. He's hard-wired to a cellphone. Email is his friend. He's on Twitter.
On the other hand, good intentions do sometimes get short-circuited. Claire recalls him buying a car once and "we're all sitting in this thing while he signs the final papers. He came out and he's so happy and proud and tells us, 'You know this car has remoteless.' Bobby thinks about this for a second and then asks, 'Uhhm, Dad, haven't we already always had a remoteless?"
And as for that handyman stuff?
Let's just say we all need to work to our strengths. Carpentry? He's a wordsmith. Gardening? The only thing in the dirt he's interested in seeing is a really, really good sinker. Plumbing? Bob's strength is finding leaks, not fixing them.
Claire does the painting, takes care of the house and, if necessary, finds someone else to come in and fix the appliances when they rebel. "I remember a guy coming to fix the furnace, or whatever, when we were first married. He says, 'Oh, I forgot my Phillips at the last place, can I borrow your husband's?' I tell him Bob doesn't have a toolbox.
"Fortunately, I do. So I gave him mine."
What he was interested in is "dialogue," says Alicia. There were long talks around the dinner table or he'd invent games on long car trips — such as telling him the three people in history they'd like most to have as friends. And behind that sometimes gruff exterior is a man with soul — in life, in musical taste. What many acquaintances don't know is that his taste in rhythm and rhyme doesn't stop at the nearest hoe-down. In fact, says Alicia, she can remember him liking soul and rhythm 'n' blues so much that her mother finally refused to go "to one more James Brown concert."
"As I hear it," she says, laughing, "he even wanted to rent a cape."
His wife recalls him enjoying the Beatles and the brass-inclined band, Chicago, back then. These days, it's more Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson and Reba McIntyre playing in the background of his neatly disordered man-cave downstairs at the Mississauga home where he spends endless hours on the phone — when he isn't jetting off to games, general managers' pow wows or winter meetings.
If he isn't working on his Canadian baseball website, he's chatting with scouts and other reporters, kibitzing with a general manager or just talking baseball with the legion of minor league acquaintances he has made across the country.
His devotion to the job, to the lifestyle, is legend.
Editors coined the phrase "Mystery Sidebar" years ago after Elliott kept phoning in with unexpected stories late at night between editions. Somewhere, they would have to find space to run it. Invariably, it would be too good, too important, too pertinent, to ignore.
"People think of Bob and they can't believe that we don't sit around talking baseball ALL the time!" says Claire. "But my background is Northern Ontario, French-Canadian. Baseball to me was a social outing. I remember him once coming home and he was kind of excited, saying: 'Look what I've got! Bert Blyleven sent me a postcard.'
"I said, 'Who's that?' Even now, I still don't know really who (Blyleven) was."
For Bob, the job sometimes transcended even social niceties. Claire understands. She's not sure everybody else does.
"One night, he invited a couple over for dinner. I didn't really know them, but Bob does.
"So, anyway, they show up and, shortly after we sit down for dinner, the phone rings. Bob comes back from downstairs and says, 'You'll have to excuse me! I have to write.' "
She laughs at the memory. "It turned out somebody got traded and I guess there was nobody else to do the story. So there are these two people I know nothing about and we're left talking for the next two hours while Bob writes his story. Fortunately, they had a baby, so that kind of kept us occupied. But I don't think they had a very good time."
Bob also holds the world record for most times locked INSIDE spring training stadiums. Once again, it's Ma Bell that leads him astray, as Mike Rutsey, who has worked the baseball beat with Bob for close to a decade, points out.
"After tapping out his story, Bob would start to get calls, give them, and the minutes would pass to literally hours as his chats with various writers, agents and front-office personnel would start to mount. By the time he'd finally pack up and leave, he'd sometimes discover that everyone had left and the gates would be locked leaving him climbing fences to get to his car."
Jokes Alicia: "He is a bit out in left field in more ways than one."
'Cause if you weren't there to share my love
Who cares if the sky should fall
For anyone can see how much you mean to me
You're my life, my love, my very all
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Patsy Cline
Living with The Boxer.
Bob rarely drinks. Maybe a couple times a year. Or special occasions. Every year he gathers the deskers who handle his copy and he buys them a few rounds. Everyone tells tales of nights gone awry, deadlines that fell victim to Francisco Cordero, or whomever the latest arsonist in the Toronto bullpen might be. Bob's got the designated driver waiting, but considering he rarely cuddles up to anything stronger than those Diet Cokes, chances are he's more lucid than the guy driving the cab. That's because Boxer is just getting warmed up at the midnight hour.
The most quotable players he ever dealt with — at any time day or night — were Steve Rogers and Jack Morris.
"Neither one of them ever used a cliché," Elliott once explained.
"I'll never forget what Rogers said during the 1981 strike, when 21 of 26 teams were claiming to have lost money. Rogers said, 'Who are you going to believe, a bunch of millionaires or 600 guys who started off making five hundred bucks a month? One owner owns a team because his father did. What did he work for?' "
Buck Rodgers was the best manager Elliott ever covered. Coaches Larry Bearnarth and Galen Cisco taught him more about the game than any others.
Elliott taught me more about the game — and a few other more important things — than anyone else. In the eight seasons we worked together on the baseball beat, there is one thing that set Bob apart. It wasn't that he broke stories. It wasn't his work ethic and loyalty. It wasn't his vast knowledge of the game and human nature. It wasn't even the pleasure of working with an honest pro.
It is difficult to describe.
Perhaps there is one word: Empathy.
He never forgot that the people he has, and is, writing about are human, not just quote machines. He sends roses to secretaries of club officials. He sits in press boxes agonizing over a sentence, then asks, "Do you think that's going to bother (so-and-so)?" and "Is this fair?"
He lives by the old dictum to get the story first, but to first get it right. It is a principle that is often forgotten in the anything goes age of social media.
Then there was 1993, an autumn that lives in local lore as the moment Joe Carter made history — but is recalled in my private hell as the World Series I covered while watching my brother, at the age of 36, die of blood cancer in a London hospital.
On the morning of a nation's joy, as we carried his casket to a hearse, I looked up and, slightly aside from the crowd, was Bob. Standing silently.
He'd driven all the way from Toronto to Chatham to attend the funeral of a man he had never met, simply because that man meant something to someone he did know.
I'm not sure I thanked him for that back then.
So thanks Bob.
For that.
For the memories.
For being Bob: A hall of famer, first in life and now in Cooperstown.
And as long as the tides of the ocean flow
As long as the trees and the flowers grow
So long, oh my love, will I love you so
Today, tomorrow and forever
— Patsy Cline


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With St. Patrick"s Day coming up on Monday, we asked Irish enthusiast Kathy Brownell if she remembered what went on in Jamestown on previous St. Patrick's Days. Although not of Irish decent, she has been to Ireland so many times she thinks she is.
"I recall that one March in the 1970s, St. Mark church put on a minstrel show. Father O`Neill, from Donegal, Ireland, sang Mother Macree and Maria Tiexiera pushed her wheelbarrow peddling cockels and mussels to the tune of Sweet Molly Malone. The chorus sang HARRIGAN, changing the spelling mid song to NERONHA. I never knew Monty was Irish.
"The leprechauns always made a visit to the kindergarten and first grade classes. They would leave the classrooms a mess, but as an apology for their mischief would leave gold foil covered chocolate coins. One such St. Patrick's Day, school janitor Walter Williams arrived at school to find the desks upturned and papers scattered around the room. Not realizing it was the work of leprechauns, Mr. Williams contacted the Jamestown police to come and investigate. It was after Patrolman Rexter interviewed some first graders that blame was found to be on those naughty leprechauns.
"It wasn`t until I visited Ireland that I learned what the Irish do on St. Pat's Day. They celebrate the holy day by attending a Mass honoring St. Patrick regarded as an angel among men.
"A large parade is held in Dublin. Unlike some American parade goers, who sport green hair and drink green beer, you will find the Irish wear a fresh shamrock on their lapel.
"However you celebrate St. Patrick's Day, may you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.
Thanks Kathy, we'll watch out for those leprechauns.
Life is back at The Secret Garden and Southwest Avenue is whole again.
Best wishes to new owner David Urban.
***. Aaron Cote was in town last Tuesday. Not surprisingly, he was here to play music.
Before going off to college, he was active in local musical groups and was in the pit for the Jamestown Community Theatre's musicals. As a drummer, adults would tap their feet to his beat and youngsters worshipped him. If you didn't catch him at the Community Center, he may have bussed your table at Chopmist Charlie's.
He was here Tuesday as part of a tour with a singer and other musicians. Their stop here was sponsored by the Jamestown Chapel and featured a young singer who tells her story and depicts her dependence on God. Aaron is her drummer on an East Coast tour.
For the past 3 1/2 years, he has been in Indianapolis and will graduate this spring with a bachelor degree in music performance. "I've studied every kind of mallet instrument; xylophone, marimba, bells, and vibraphone; orchestral percussion instruments; timpani, snare drum, bass drum, and cymbals; Latin and hand drumming; congas, bongos, African djembe, shakers and cowbells. There's a true joy in music, so for a student and lover of music, there's never a way to close the book."
In his almost 4 years at Butler University, he has played for the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, The New Music Ensemble, The Butler University Marching Band, Basketball Band, the Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Ensemble, accompanied the Jordan Jazz vocal jazz ensemble and worked his way up to be principal percussionist in the Butler Symphony Orchestra.
Jordan Jazz, which he calls a "great adventure," has taken him on tours to the Carribean and to China this summer.
As if all that weren't enough, Aaron has been working at numerous dance schools and accompanying individual dancers as solo percussionist. He receives calls from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and other musical groups and has five students of his own. He plays weekly at church services.
On tour, he has auditioned for people such as Chester Thompson, former drummer for the band Genesis, Eric Clapton, Weather Report and Phil Collins; Zoro, who played for Lenny Kravitz; Mike Udow, one of the first touring percussion ensemble players ever; Joe Gramly, who tours with Yo Yo Ma; and international marimba virtuoso Bill Moersch.
"As of now, I don't know where I'll end up, but I'm sure one of these guys will take me to the next level. I've basiclly developed a love of all percussion, and can't put anything down," Aaron said.
He explained that he doesn't get back to Jamestown often because he's sometimes playing nine to 10 hours a day. "That's what my life is now. It's because I'm doing my thing across the country or across the world. But there's always home. Jamestown's a great place and sometimes I close my eyes to bring myself back to life....the ocean and woods that I don't have anymore. But somewhere inside I always will."
You're on your way, Aaron.
It is fitting this time of year that we welcome a Patrick to the island.
He is a mostly white dwarf rabbit adopted by Charles Suglaski from the Potter League for Animals.
Patrick will provide company for Pretty Baby, a black dwarf rabbit that belongs to Charlie's son, Adam, who is away at school. Other pets in the household are two shih tzus, Susie, 11, and Chucky, 8.
Speaking of the new arrival, Charlie's mother, Barbara, said, "We love him, he's very friendly.
Welcome, Patrick.
Call in your stuff for this column to 423-0383 or 829-2760. You can e-mail us at jtnwalrus@hotmail. com or drop your items off at the Jamestown Press office.


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The annual budgets for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are down to about $155 million each. And that is just dreadful, The New York Times editorialized on Monday.
It is dreadful because "the endowments are essential to art and enlightenment all across the country," the Times opined.
Being professional writers for the nation's most prestigious newspaper, the editors surely know that "essential" is a synonym of both "indispensable" and "necessary." The editorial asserted that "art and enlightenment" could not happen in the United States of America without direct financial support from the federal government.
One wonders how our nation managed to get itself founded upon enlightenment ideals 189 years before the National Endowment for the Humanities was created by Congress in a building decorated with many works of art produced during the 189 years before that same Congress established the National Endowment for the Arts. It is a mystery.
The day before that editorial, the Times reported that Obama administration officials were worried that the government does not have enough money for programs to expand Internet access. That a mere 98 percent of Americans have broadband Internet access apparently is a crisis in need of ongoing federal remediation.
No matter how bad the economy, how high the unemployment rate, how staggering the national debt, there is no good thing that liberals will not demand be subsidized by the state, with as much money as possible, forever.


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<< "Kiddies"
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cout <<endl;
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Mercy and dialogue: pathways to unity
"Mercy and dialogue: pathways to unity" was the title of this year's Men's Retreat held in Belton, Texas. It gave the almost 30 men the opportunity to reflect on some of the Pope's texts on mercy and how it can be lived through the spirituality of unity. There was an insight into how unity with […][more]


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Rihanna's wardrobe continues to become pretty nonexistent as she gets older. Sunday evening (March 11) the " Birthday Cake" singer headed out to Da Silvano restaurant in NYC for some Italian cuisine rocking red lipstick, a black sheer see-through top, no bra, ripped jeans and Timberlands.
Talk about exposed! The "Good Girl Gone Bad" revealed her bare breasts with the utmost nonchalance. Peep the photos.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Digest of EEO Law, Volume XI, No. 4
EEOC Regulation 29 C.F.R. §1614.110 requires agencies to issue a final decision on an EEO complaint, and states that the final decision shall
consist of findings by the agency on the merits of each issue in the complaint and, when discrimination is found, appropriate remedies and relief . . . [and also] shall contain notice of the right to appeal to the Commission . . . [1]
In addition, in cases where an EEOC Administrative Judge has issued a Recommended Decision (RD), and the agency does not wish to adopt the RD as its own, the agency in its FAD must reject or modify the RD. 29 C.F.R. §1614.109(g). As we discuss below, the FAD should include an explanation of the agency's reasoning.
The Commission evaluates each final agency decision (FAD) when an appeal is filed. Even though the Commission's review on appeal is de novo,[2] there are circumstances in which the Commission also may want to give direction to the agency about the quality of its FAD. On occasion, FADs are flawed in ways that impair the Commission's evaluation or the appellants' rights. More frequently, FADs have been challenged by appellants who believe that the FADs do not meet the Commission's regulatory standards. This article surveys Commission decisions which explain the requirements of an authoritative, valid final decision.
Findings by the agency. The Commission has been called upon to explain the scope of the regulatory language requiring "findings." It is essential that a FAD set out the agency's own findings, rather than merely adopting an investigator's findings. See Medeiros v. Department of the Air Force,[3] in which the Commission reminded the agency of its obligation to issue its decision on the merits pursuant to the regulation cited above. In Medeiros, appellant alleged sexual harassment/hostile work environment and sex-based (non-sexual) harassment in numerous instances at work. The agency conducted an investigation of the complaint and then issued a one-paragraph FAD:
It is the [agency's] decision to adopt the finding of no discrimination on the issues raised in your complaint. This decision is based on a review and analysis of all evidence of record and a conclusion that the preponderance of the evidence supports this decision.
The Commission decided that the FAD failed to provide the appellant with a complete and accurate statement of the law applicable to the case, and failed to provide its own, not an investigator's, explanation of how the appellant's complaint fell short of those legal requirements. The Commission stated that the agency's failure effectively deprived the appellant of a meaningful right of appeal. The Commission conducted its own analysis of the facts of the case, applied appropriate legal principles, and decided that appellant failed to establish her claim of sexual harassment, but did establish that she was subjected to sex-based harassment. The Commission reversed the agency's final decision and directed the agency to take remedial actions.
Finding of discrimination by the agency. Where the agency has issued a finding of discrimination on the merits of a case, or otherwise admitted discrimination, it is bound by that finding. Davis v. Department of Justice.[4] Appellant in Davis alleged that he was not selected for the position of GS-14 Police Community Relations Program Specialist because of his race (black). The agency selected a Hispanic candidate. The agency in its FAD found that the selectee's national origin (Hispanic) was a "significant, if not decisive, reason he was selected. Having found discrimination in this selection, the issue of the proper relief must be addressed." The agency went on to conclude that appellant would not have been hired even if the selection decision had been entirely free of impermissible considerations, and denied personal relief. On appeal, the agency stated that the conclusion in its FAD that national origin was improperly considered was incorrect, but that the ultimate result was the same. When the Commission addressed the case at the RTR stage, it observed that the agency early in its FAD analysis had cited to Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989), which the Commission noted was a decision addressing the proper analysis for a mixed motives case. Although the agency may have intended to do a mixed motives analysis, stated the Commission, the agency nevertheless specifically found discrimination. The Commission held that the agency was bound by that finding. However, the Commission went on to conclude that appellant would not have been selected even absent the agency's discriminatory actions in the selection process.
Other attributes of an appropriate FAD. In Patterson v. Department of Agriculture,[5] the Commission was called upon to decide which of two documents entitled "Decision" was in fact the final decision of the agency. The complaint, filed in 1992, involved an allegation that appellant was not selected for an agency foreign service position because of his daughter's disability. The complainant wrote to the Commission in 1995 to inquire about the processing of his complaint, which was still at the agency. The Commission contacted the agency, which informed the Commission that a final decision on the merits of the complaint was issued on February 21, 1995. The agency sent a copy of this document to the Commission and the Commission sent it on to the complainant. In that decision, the agency found discrimination and ordered relief, including individual relief for appellant and injunctive relief as well. Appellant subsequently received a second decision dated February 24, 1995, which dismissed his complaint for failure to state a claim. The second decision explained that appellant was notified that he would be provided full relief, and therefore his complaint was moot. The two decisions had similarities--they were signed by the same official and appeared to have the same appeal rights page.
The Commission concluded that the agency had to be held to the findings in the February 21 decision because the agency produced no evidence that it was not an official agency decision. The February 21 decision was a final decision because:
The Commission also found that the confusion caused by two diametrically opposed decisions precluded any cancellation for mootness. The complaint was remanded to the agency for the relief set out in the February 21 decision.
EEOC regulations require agencies to make findings on "each issue." Omitting one issue from a FAD can lead to a reversal or a vacating of a FAD on appeal. In Briand v. United States Postal Service,[6] the agency's FAD omitted an allegation of failure to accommodate from appellant's disability discrimination complaint. Appellant had complained that the agency failed to allow him to work more than four hours of light duty daily. He also alleged that light duty work within his medical restrictions was available. The agency viewed the complaint as raising only a disparate treatment claim and did not address a reasonable accommodation issue at any time during its processing of the complaint, including its FAD on the merits. The Commission vacated the FAD in part for this reason, and ordered the agency to conduct a supplemental investigation of the accommodation issue. See also Gentry v. Department of Housing and Urban Development,[7] in which the FAD failed to address a claim of reprisal which had been added to the complaint during processing. In that case, the Commission decided that the previous, appellate decision had erred in affirming the FAD, and ordered the agency to conduct appropriate processing of the reprisal allegation.
The failure to address an allegation raised in mid-processing constituted an improper de facto rejection of the allegation in Santos v. Department of the Navy.[8] In that case, appellant failed to raise a claim of reprisal with an EEO Counselor, but did raise it in his complaint and his investigative affidavit. The agency failed to mention reprisal in its acceptance letter, failed to investigate the claim, and did not mention the claim in its FAD. As in Gentry, the Commission directed the agency to process the claim.
Once an agency receives the Recommended Decision (RD) of an AJ, it has 60 calendar days to accept, reject, or modify the findings and conclusions, or the relief recommended, and issue a final decision. 29 C.F.R. §§1614.109(g), 1614.110. If the agency fails to do so, the regulation provides that the AJ's Recommended Decision becomes the final decision of the agency. If the agency does reject or modify the RD, the agency must explain the reasons why. Cf. Smart v. Department of Justice, U.S. Marshals Service,[9] where the Commission noted with approval the fact that an agency included in its FAD an explanation for rejecting the RD. See also Vanauken v. Department of the Air Force.[10]
If an agency has adopted an AJ's findings as its FAD, the agency is bound by those findings. Simmons v. United States Postal Service.[11] In that case, the agency subsequently sought to amend a FAD which had adopted an AJ's discrimination finding, an action which the Commission found improper. In Miller v. United States Postal Service,[12] the Commission reversed a FAD for similar reasons. The agency had adopted the AJ's RD, including the award of compensatory damages. The FAD was issued more than 60 days after receipt of the AJ's decision. Later, after negotiations over the amount of such damages failed, the agency issued another FAD finding that appellant was not due any compensatory damages. The Commission ruled that the agency's decision on compensatory damages was without any legal effect, because it was issued more than 60 days after receipt of the RD.
On rare occasions, FADs which did not meet the timeliness requirement of 29 C.F.R. §1614.109(g) have been permitted to stand. The Commission recognized the validity of a FAD issued several months late in Li v. Department of Health and Human Services.[13] The Commission stated that appellant did not show any harm he suffered for the delay. Since the agency had adopted the AJ's decision, there was no showing that the delay might have materially affected the ultimate outcome of his case. The Commission also permitted a late issuance where the AJ had sent the RD and complaint files to the agency attorney who had appeared at the hearing, rather than to the agency office properly designated to receive decisions from the EEOC. Robinson v. Department of the Army.[14]
Moreover, once an AJ has issued a RD on a complaint, an agency cannot make an offer of full relief that differs from the relief set out in a RD. In Davis v. Department of the Treasury,[15] the AJ issued a decision finding no discrimination on allegations 1 and 2 of appellant's complaint, and finding discrimination on allegations 3 and 4. The AJ made specific relief recommendations. The agency then issued appellant an offer of full relief on allegations 3 and 4, which differed from the AJ's recommended relief. The offer notified appellant that the agency would cancel allegations 3 and 4 if she failed to accept. Appellant signed the agency's offer. Thereafter the agency issued a FAD adopting the RD as to allegations 1 and 2 only. The Commission decided that the agency acted improperly when it informed appellant that it could cancel allegations 3 and 4 if she refused to accept the agency's offer of full relief that differed from the AJ's. The Commission therefore concluded that the agency's offer had no legal effect. Since the agency had failed to issue a final decision regarding allegations 3 and 4 within the requisite 60 days, the Commission ruled that the RD, including the recommended relief, became a final decision binding on the agency.
Similarly, once an AJ has issued a RD, the agency is not free to conduct a supplemental, ex parte, investigation on the complaint. In Terrell v. Department of Housing and Urban Development,[16] the Commission found that such an investigation was improper. The Commission observed that EEOC regulations clearly do not authorize a supplemental investigation during the "relatively brief" 60-day deadline following an RD. In this case, the agency had utilized evidence from the supplemental investigation to reject the RD. The Commission noted that if EEOC regulations had been followed, the agency already would have had ample opportunity to investigate the complaint and to submit relevant information at the hearing stage. In addition, the Commission expressed concern that to permit belated agency investigations such as this one would place appellants in an untenable position on appeal.
Where discrimination is found, a final decision must encompass the appropriate remedies and relief. The Commission has held, in Brooks v. Department of the Air Force,[17] that no decision is final until the relief is precisely determined. With the advent of the compensatory damages remedy,[18] such a precise determination of relief may well require more than one final agency decision. This is because proof of damages may not have been provided by a complainant, or elicited by the agency, until a final decision finding discrimination issues. For example, in Lawrence v. United States Postal Service, the agency issued a FAD which contained a finding of discrimination and the authorization of an award of compensatory damages. The decision directed appellant to provide the agency with information in support of her compensatory damages claim. After evaluating appellant's submissions, the agency issued a second FAD ruling on the question of her entitlement to compensatory damages. The Commission entertained an appeal on this second FAD.
On occasion, the determination of relief may become more complex. In Shaw v. Department of the Air Force,[19] the agency had issued a partial FAD finding discrimination in appellant's termination, and also issued a subsequent series of determinations on back pay computations and other elements of relief. The Commission determined that appellant's RTR could not be addressed because the agency had not yet issued a final agency decision that both delineated the relief granted, and provided appellant with appeal rights. The Commission noted that letters computing relief items, but containing no appeal rights, are not final decisions. The Commission recognized that implementing multiple remedial actions can be a "long and protracted process, and that therefore requiring a FAD for each remedial action could cause piecemeal litigation." Therefore, the Commission found that the agency, after taking all of its corrective actions, should have issued a final decision delineating the total relief granted, and providing appeal rights to the Commission.
[1] In addition, a final decision shall include notice of the right to file a civil action in federal district court.
[2] See e.g. Sando v. United $ Postal Service, EEOC Request no. 05920323 (February 1, 1993).
[3] EEOC Appeal No. 01956106 (January 9, 1998).
[4] EEOC Request No. 05931205 (September 1, 1994).
[5] EEOC Appeal No. 01953173 (January 26, 1996), RTR denied EEOC Request No. 05960299 (March 5, 1997).
[6] EEOC Request No. 05930621 (March 31, 1994).
[7] EEOC Request No. 05930211 (February 17, 1994).
[8] EEOC Request No. 05930922 (February 17, 1994).
[9] EEOC Appeal No. 01941741 (December 6, 1994), RTR denied, EEOC Request No. 05950277 (August 29, 1996).
[10] EEOC Request No. 05900637 (July 6, 1990) (applying predecessor regulation 29 C.F.R. §1613.221(b). Accord Harrison v. United States Postal Service, EEOC 05920078 (March 12, 1992) (once agency adopts AJ's decision, it is estopped from modifying it at a later stage).
[11] EEOC Appeal No. 01901075 (June 21, 1990), RTR denied, EEOC Request No. 05900957 (October 19, 1990).
[12] EEOC Appeal No. 01956109 (January 23, 1998).
[13] EEOC Request No. 05940683 (August 3, 1995).
[14] EEOC Request No. 05930965 (September 22, 1994).
[15] EEOC Request No. 05930804 (August 4, 1994) (applying predecessor regulation 29 C.F.R. §1613.221(b)).
[16] EEOC Request No. 05970336 (November 20, 1997).
[17] EEOC Request No. 05910615 (April 2, 1992).
[18] Pursuant to §102(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 29 U.S.C. §1981a.
[19] EEOC Request No. 05930370 (July 15, 1994).


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Mobile & Wireless Slideshow: Mobile World Congress: 9 Hot Topics
The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 14-17, 2011, has been one of the most product-packed and interesting events of the year so far. It has been home to major announcements, new product launches, and all kinds of interesting tidbits of information that will spark the fancy of many an enterprise user of mobile devices. As CIO, on the other hand, you probably have different concerns when it comes to Mobile World Congress. You're likely wondering how these hot new devices will impact your company's operation. And, you probably want to know how some of the most important mobile and wireless announcements of the year will factor into your decision-making in the coming months. Here, we break down the nine hottest topics from Mobile World Congress and give you perspective on what these trends will mean for the enterprise.


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Attorney Linsey Sowinski of Coeur d'Alane, Idaho, was 32 years old and a newlywed when she and her husband, Scott, found out Linsey had B-cell lymphoma. She wanted to live, and she wanted her baby to live as well. Her doctors waited until after her first trimester to begin chemo, conscious of the fact that the baby was receiving the powerful drugs as well. When she was 37 weeks pregnant, doctors induced labor and Lena was born. Right after the birth, Linsey began radiation. Lena was hospitalized at one month old with an infection likely caused by an immune system weakened by chemo drugs. But today she is a healthy five-month-old, right where she's supposed to be developmentally. Linsey is on the road to remission.
Linsey's story, which was featured on the Today Show this morning, highlights the importance of finding doctors who don't immediately leap to the abortion conclusion when presented with any kind of obstacle during a pregnancy. A pro-abort doctor might well have scared Linsey with a terrible prognosis of her own chances, and reassured her that she could "try again" once she was well. But she wouldn't have had Lena, and she would have carried the burden of knowing her survival came at the cost of her daughter's life.
A common argument as to why we need to have legal abortion in this country is to protect the lives of mothers at risk. But that argument grows weaker every day, when courageous couples like Linsey and her husband Scott, and doctors who can see beyond their own malpractice risk, show us there is another way.
Choosing life is always the right choice, even when it's hard, even when it's scary, even when the outcome is unclear.


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Issue with town is 'poor management of funds'
In response to the recent article on the Dec. 12 Town Council meeting ("Islanders pack Town Hall to debate future of Fort Getty," Dec. 15), I would like to make a few things clear.
It was stated in the article that I said I was open to ideas at Fort Getty as long as it still brought people to my ice cream shop. I want it to be perfectly clear that that is not what I said and that the paraphrase painted me in a very selfish light. What I said was that I am open to ideas for Fort Getty if anyone can show me an economic model that will produce the same or better income for the town while also driving people to the local businesses like my ice cream shop, McQuade's Marketplace, the hardware store, and the other restaurants and cafés. I just don't see any viable programs based on today's economic state that will do what the campground does.
If we want solid data we should simply look at the data from the last 35 years. The campground has brought not only income to the town coffers but to the merchants as well.
The issue is poor management of funds by our town managers and councils. It has never been run like a business and therefore has fallen apart. The pavilion should never have fallen down the way it did, it was just never maintained. If they just spent the money on maintenance that was spent on renting a tent for the summer, the pavilion would still be there and we would probably not be having these conversations or blowing money on consultants. It's a symptom of poor government and misallocation of funds.
Let's not turn Fort Getty on its ear just because the town managers proved once again they don't maintain their infrastructure. If we want to fight about something perhaps we should be fighting for a qualified governance and vote in and hire people who know how to run a business and make sound financial decisions rather than try to take apart something that helps fund our recreation department.
Let's allocate the funds where they should be and for once give the rec department the money to do the job they are all qualified to do. I am quite confident that we can have some of the things other folks would like to see at Fort Getty, let's just let the campground pay for it – there is plenty of space. Business 101.
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Known for the deep, ruby red colors, concentrated flavors, and a wonderful balance between power and elegance, Brunello wines have a flavor that is distinctive from those in the rest of Tuscany. One of the main reasons for this is the layout of the land.
From the hilltop, the communal territory of Montalcino shoots off to the north, south, east and west. During growing season, the region is warm and dry during daytime, cool at night, and protected from harsh winds off the Mediterranean by the nearby Mount Amiata. Most of vines are planted on thin or rocky soils comprised of limestone, clay and splintered shale commonly called marl.
Made to Age
In general, Brunello wines are made to age. Once the grapes are picked and fermented, the wine spends a minimum of 2 years in oak casks, a minimum of 4 months in bottle (6 months for riserva), and cannot be sold until the fifth year following harvest.
Yet despite all these interesting traits, this prestigious style of wine has been relatively hard to find in the United States over the past few decades. Luckily, that trend is changing. Today, nearly 25 percent of the wines produced in the region are exported to the states. And now, the word is starting to spread.
Brunello on Tour
In late January, newly released wines from the highly-touted 2001 vintage were presented to full-house crowds of wine media and trade in San Francisco and New York City as part of the annual Benvenuto Brunello tour, organized by the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, a voluntary association of producers that set the bar for quality in the region.
"In the great sea of wines made around the world, there are always those that are recognized as a symbol of quality from a specific area, said Stefano Campatelli, executive director of the Consorzio. "Now that more wines from Montalcino are available (in the U.S.), we are very happy that the interest continues to expanded to a much more diversified set of consumers."
Over 50 producers participated in the tour. And across the board, the powerful 2001 Brunellos were indeed showing very well. Most featured brilliant aromatics, ripe-berry and cherry flavors, spice, balanced tannins, richness and depth.
In addition, many of the producers also poured samples of the 2004 Rosso di Montalcino, the younger, medium to full-bodied versions of Brunello that requires only one year of aging. This vintage also shows signs of high levels of maturation and intensive flavor.
Clonal Selection
The Sangiovese Grosso grape variety - named "Brunello" in Montalcino - has been planted in the region for quite some time, but not officially recognized until the late 19th century. The pioneer of this movement was Ferruccio Biondi-Santi, who bottled his first wine made with grapes grown on his Tenuta Il Greppo estate in 1888. From there, Brunello wines have gone on to earn DOC status in 1966 and DOCG status in 1980.
Today, the modern renaissance of Brunello has been fueled by the use of variation of the original grape variety or clones, which tend work best at specific vineyard sites and soils. As a result, many of the more recent plantings feature smaller grape clusters are highlighted by intensive ripe-berry flavors, more structure, bigger tannins, and that priceless touch of unique personality that can only be found in the Montalcino area.
One of the biggest proponents of this new clonal research is Col d'Orcia, a legendary wine estate that dates back to the 1700s.
Currently, the winery is working with 25 separate clones in order to achieve greater complexity, structure, and potential longevity once wine is bottled. Like the search for the Holy Grail, it's a continuous on-going process.
Another key player in this movement is Castello Banfi. Founded by the Mariani family in the early 1980s, the winery now controls over 7,000 acres of land in the area, 2,400 acres of which has been planted.
The winery has since gone on to test hundreds of presumed clones in 38 different types of soil present on the estate through the judicious process of micro-vinification. The result has been six specialized clones now registered by the Italian government.
"Today we do not have one clone, but a selection of many clones planted on the optimum sites that can create more complex wines that really express the greatness of the region over time," said Rudy Buratti, winemaker for Banfi.
"The challenges have always been there," said Emilia Nardi, managing director of Tenute Silvio Nardi, a mountainside winery located near Casale del Bosco. "Now it's time for everyone in the region to step up and move on to making the best wines possible with each vintage to come."
Connecting the Dots
On the marketing side, the Consorzio has also recently unveiled a new electronic online "identity card" system that can track the numeric code printed near the top of each bottle. In essence, this system is designed to provide consumers and members of the trade with more information about each bottle of wine, including where and when the grapes were picked, the pH, acidity and alcohol levels, and more information about the producer.
"The network is an important tool that we believe will further educate people that drink wines from Montalcino, as well as help promote each producer that is a member of our organization," said Campatelli.
In general, Brunello wines retail in price from $50 to $125; the Rosso di Montalcino wines from $30 to $50. With cuisine, these wines work great with grilled fish, roasted red meats, wild game, mushrooms, truffles, and mature cheeses such as pecorino toscano or parmigiana. In essence, they area definitive food and wine experience.
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Bellow are a few quick screen captures made with screenr that show you how easy it is to set up your site. Appart from the first one this is a series of videos each building upon the knowledge of the previous so if you watch them in order you pretty much get the idea on how the theme works 😉
I would highly recommend to watch the videos in fullscreen ;D
Abundance Theme Demo 1:
Installation and using the auto importer
This short video demonstrates how you can setup a site that looks almost like my theme demo within 2 minutes. The auto importing script fetches settings, posts and pages from the live demo site and adds them to your installation.
That way you don't have to start from zero, if you dont want to.
Abundance Theme Demo 2:
Setting up the home and blog page and assigning a default layout
This video shows the first steps if you dont choose to use the auto importing script. You will learn how to assign a page to the frontpage as well as as assigning the blog to a static page. The Video then shows how to set the default layouts for pages and blog entries.
Abundance Theme Demo 3:
Setting up a page, changing the layout and adding a slideshow with images and video
The focus in this screencast is on creating a single page and modifying the layout to your needs. You will also learn how to use the slideshow manager and see how you can switch between the different slideshows, add images and also see how to embed Video from services like vimeo.
Abundance Theme Demo 4:
Using shortcodes with the visual shortcode editor to enhance your post layout
A short screencast that shows the visual shortcode editor that helps grouping your content in a better way. You will see how to add columns, horizontal rulers, drop-caps and icon boxes
Abundance Theme Demo 5 Part 1:
Installing WooCommerce and creating your first products
These are the first steps of creating your own online store. The Video shows how to install WooCommerce and add your first products.
Abundance Theme Demo 5 Part 2:
Multiple Images for Products, Import Demo Shop, How to use WooCommerce Widgets
The second Part of the WooCommerce Demo shows how to attach multiple Images to one product, how to import a custom shop xml file to learn from and how to apply different widgets and settings
Abundance Theme Demo 6:
Building improved layouts with the template builder
Now that you know how to set up a basic page and add content its time to build improved page layouts with the drag and drop template builder. The screencast shows how easy it is to create an interesing front page with slideshow, page content, portfolio entries, call to action buttons, headlines and more. And all of that in 5 minutes 😉
Abundance Theme Demo 7:
Setting up the menu with the help of your menu manager
Since the theme comes with a mega menu option that allows for advanced mega menus here is a short video on how its done.
And in case you are new to WordPress you will of course also learn how to setup a menu in general 😉