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Research and outreach activities and deliverables that advance the GC3 mission are carried out through a series of smaller project groups. The projects for each year are decided at the Annual GC3 Roundtable based on suggestions by participants and members, and consultation with the GC3 Advisory Committee. The projects are facilitated by a GC3 staff person. The scope of the projects, timeline, and specific deliverables are developed by members of each project group. All GC3 members are encouraged to participate and take leadership in project groups.
The aim of this group is to promote safer chemicals, materials and products across retail supply chains. Currently, the group is convening a Retailer Leadership Council (RLC) composed of a select group of retail leaders who are pro-actively working to: understand what chemicals are in their products, engage their suppliers in improving chemicals management, find safer alternatives to chemicals of concern, develop and implement chemicals policies, and educate their customers. Members have significant decision-making responsibility related to supply chains or product formulation at their firms (are generally at the Vice President level). The RLC will work together to identify at least one project annually to support the council mission and will reach out to engage and inform other retailers.
The goal of the Advancing Green Chemistry Education project group is to embed green chemistry in academic and professional education across supply chains to build a field of professionals with a strong understanding of the nexus between chemistry, product design, and sustainability. The current focus of this group is the development and pilot testing of training curriculum for business professionals across job categories on green chemistry and safer alternatives.
The aim of this project is to identify ways to make Green Chemistry synonymous with chemistry. The resulting Agenda for Mainstreaming Green Chemistry will be an overarching framework to do so that includes key partnerships, policy needs, research, education, and investments.
The aim of this group is to learn about new models of innovation and collaboratively explore how these new approaches can be utilized to spur green chemistry innovation to bring new, safer chemicals and materials to market and encourage their adoption. Our current focus is models of "open-innovation," where R&D extends beyond the boundaries of the enterprise, pulling in outside ideas and leveraging internal ideas outside the organizations.
The overall aim of this project group is to advance the efforts of GC3 companies to gather chemical data within their supply chains, for use in green chemistry and design for environment activities and for reporting to regulatory agencies and consumers. Our current project focuses on assessing how to optimize B2B chemical information transactions that involve CBI.
In this project, which is now complete, the GC3 project group developed and piloted a new model for businesses and academic institutions to collaborate to assess safer chemistry alternatives. The pilot focused on assessing alternative plasticizers for wire and cable applications.


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Rather than a cooking pot that heats up by your computer over USB, it's actually a pot that uses energy that would've otherwise been wasted, to charge up any USB device. An alternative to the solar-powered charger, you could say.
It's just gone on sale in Japan for the equivalent of $280, and can apparently charge iPhones in under five hours. While I'm rather dubious of dangling a USB cord over an open fire, apparently it's safe to use with any fire or stove, also. [TES via Asiajin via CrunchGear]


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"Rock of Ages" has rocking songs but are they the best onscreen?
Mild Monday morning warning: The following clip has some R-rated language.
Don't get me wrong, I dig the stage-to-screen "Rock of Ages" with its absurd hash of corn and sleaze.
But when it opened with Oklahoma girl Sherrie Christain singing Night Ranger's "Sister Christain," I couldn't help thinking as sweet as it is — all those other passengers chiming in, just like a real musical!– that it didn't hold a candle to Paul Thomas Anderson's incendiary scene in "Boogie Nights."


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – January 29, 2009) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced a settlement with Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) that resolves a lawsuit concerning TUSD's alleged violation of state procurement laws.
Also named in the suit are former TUSD employee Guyton Campbell and current TUSD employee Rudy Flores, along with TUSD vendors Trillion Partners, Inc. (Trillion), E-Rate Consulting Services, L.L.C. (E-Rate Consulting) and Logical Choice Technologies, Inc. (Logical Choice). The lawsuit against these employees and vendors is ongoing; today's settlement involves only the school district.
In 2006, the TUSD officials requested that the Attorney General investigate the district's procurement of technology and E-Rate consulting services. In 2008, that investigation expanded to include an examination of TUSD's procurement of interactive white boards. The
Attorney General's investigation revealed that:
- Campbell and Flores had improper contact and communication with Trillion before and during TUSD's competitive purchasing process;
- TUSD extensively relied on consultants for technology products and spent more than $40,000 for consultants' services that produced no results;
- Trillion and E-Rate Consulting conspired with each other, and with TUSD employees, to ensure each obtained a district contract, harming competition and violating state antitrust laws, the school procurement code and the federal E-Rate program rules;
- Flores, Campbell and other TUSD personnel circumvented the school procurement code and district policies without consequences;
- Flores, Campbell and E-Rate Consulting split purchases in order to avoid competitive purchasing requirements;
- TUSD paid over $342,000 to Logical Choice for goods and services with no competitive purchasing process; and
- TUSD personnel, including district leaders and key decision makers, accepted gifts and gratuities from current and prospective vendors, including gift cards, meals, and lodging at a Tucson area resort.
According to the settlement, TUSD agreed to the following provisions:
- TUSD and its employees will refrain from accepting gifts and gratuities from vendors and will strictly follow procurement laws and regulations;
- TUSD will retrain its employees in vendor relations, public records, competitive purchasing and procurement;
- TUSD will pay a penalty of $7,500 as partial reimbursement to the Attorney General for the costs of investigation; and
- TUSD will obtain independent audits of its vendor relations and procurement practices every six months for the three-year term of the Consent Judgment.
"The public deserves to have confidence that our public officials and employees are careful stewards of the public funds entrusted to them," Goddard said. "School districts and vendors who circumvent procurement requirements harm competition and violate the trust of our citizens."
The lawsuit, filed in the Maricopa County Superior Court, is captioned CV2009-003035. A copy of the complaint, settlement and investigative report are attached.
For more information, contact Anne Hilby at (602) 542-8019.


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I love fake ads from the future: like the satirical spots from Robocop and Total Recall, or the Veridian Dynamics openers in Better Off Ted. These ads for "Eyefinity" gaming implants aren't as clever, but they're still a fun watch:
DirectX 67? Tongue-finity? My favourite quote: "Pulling a trigger is just as easy as pushing a button, only a lot more fun and healthy...You say babies, we say bootcamp." Nice.
There are three "commercials" in the playlist below, with the most interesting one loaded up first. A little too self-consciously viral, but too interesting not to share. [XFX 2118AD]Thanks Milo!


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Gluten-Free Pumpkin Waffles
These gluten-free pumpkin waffles will delight your entire family. The cooking time for these pumpkin waffles assumes you're making them all at the same time. You may opt to feed your family in shifts when the waffles come hot off the iron . . . or not. A better option may be to make the waffles ahead and warm them in the oven or in a toaster just before you call the family in for breakfast.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 24 minutes
Yield: 6 servings
Nonstick cooking spray
4 eggs
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 3/4 cups milk
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup gluten-free flour mixture
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/3 cup toasted walnuts
Preheat the waffle iron to the medium-high setting.
Spray the waffle iron grates with cooking spray.
Separate 2 eggs, placing the whites in a large bowl.
Discard the yolks.
Add the remaining 2 whole eggs to the whites and whisk.
Add the brown sugar, milk, pumpkin, and vanilla.
Whisk until the ingredients are completely blended.
Sift the flour mixture, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves over the egg mixture.
Whisk the mixture together just until everything is combined.
Finely chop the walnuts.
Stir the walnuts into the batter.
Pour 3/4 cup of batter onto the waffle iron and close the iron.
Cook for 3 minutes, or until the waffle is cooked through and the outside is crisp.
Repeat Steps 11 and 12 with the remaining batter, remembering to spray the waffle iron with cooking spray each time.


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The main tasks of international department are:
‒ Promote and handle student and teacher mobility to and from foreign institutions;
‒ Advise students on documents to be handed upon award of scholarship;
‒ Developing and managing international opportunities for students;
‒ Draft and negotiate international cooperation agreements;
‒ Working with departments to develop their international agendas;
‒ Attracting foreign students;
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International cooperation in SITSPR is organized and coordinated by the International Office.
Now our Institute has more than 40 cooperation agreements with the world's leading universities.
Now we have most active contacts with following partner universities:
1) Cracow University of technology (Poland)
2) Shizuoka University (Japan)
3) University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Germany)
4) University of Ruse "Angel Kanchev" subsidiary of the university of Ruse in Razgrad (Bulgaria)
5) University M'Hamed Bougara of Boumerdes (Algeria)
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We are open for mutually beneficial cooperation with foreign partners, and our expertise in executing international projects in the field of science, education and innovation may be useful for our colleagues from other countries.


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Who: Brett Lawrie, No. 13. Third baseman. Bats right, throws right. 6'0", 215 LBS. 22 years old.
Provenance: Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Canada, Canada, Canada. Drafted in the first round (16th overall) of the 2008 amateur draft by the Milwaukee Brewers. Acquired by the Blue Jays on December 6th, 2010 in exchange for pitcher Shaun Marcum.
Contract Status: Date of arbitration eligibility not yet established.
Still Just a Babe: Was the fifth youngest player in the American League last year.
Minor League Stats: In three minor league seasons across four levels, played 326 games in the systems of the Brewers and Blue Jays. .360 OBP, .492 SLG, .852 OPS. 39 homers, 190 RBI, 208 runs scored in 1425 plate appearances.
2011 MLB Stats: In 171 plate appearances over 43 games, .373 OBP, .580 SLG, .953 OPS with eight doubles, four triples, nine homers, and seven steals.
Looking Back: Brett Lawrie has gone supernova.
There was plenty of excitement about him when the Jays acquired him around the Winter Meetings after the 2010 season, a fair bit of which was fuelled by the fact that he was a "homegrown" talent. (From 3000 kilometres away, but nevermind that.) At the time, we figured that a September call-up might be a possibility, but that 2013 was most likely the point where Lawrie would become an every day player.
But Lawrie's arrival in Jays camp was loud and fierce, and garnered raves from nearly everyone who saw him bust out and impose himself into the near term plans of the team. From the media to the manager to the front office, it was hard to find anyone who wasn't wowed by Lawrie.
Were it not for an ill-time errant pitch that caught Lawrie in the hand, he may have earned his way to Toronto as early as May last year. Lawrie not only tore up the Pacific Coast League (18 homers, 1.076 OPS, 13 steals in 69 games), but he responded to direction from the team in a way that we've never quite seen. When the front office noted that he was being too aggressive early in counts and not taking enough pitches, Lawrie immediately changed his approach and added close to 70 points of on-base percentage over his previous minor league outputs. Moreover, he did this while moving up a level and learning a new position.
By the time he arrived in Toronto in August, the legend of Lawrie had grown to a point where his was the most anticipated Blue Jays debut in recent memory. He did little to disappoint, cranking out game-changing hits at a hellacious pace, and looking like he belonged from the moment he arrived. There is nothing timid or tentative about Brett Lawrie.
Even his defense, which initially looked problematic, visibly improved over his two months with the big club. He appeared to loosen up in his approach to fielding the ball, and by season's end, his throws looked loose and elegant while remaining strong and on target.
Looking Forward: Last week, as we walked around the concourse at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium in Dunedin, we saw Lawrie's name screened onto the backs of more fans' new blue paraphernalia than every other Blue Jay combined. And though he spent most of that week sitting out to rest a sore groin, his comings and goings were closely monitored by all of the other baseball nerds who showed up at 11 am to watch practice sessions.
As much as we might attempt to maintain a critical distance from the patriotically-fuelled Lawrie-mania, we have to tell you: It's really difficult to resist the urge to watch his every step. We were compelled to watch him take grounders at third, and especially notice the improvement on his footwork and throws. We couldn't help but pay attention as he crushed the ball in batting practice – the ball really does sound different coming off his bat – nor could we help but notice how eager he was with a smile and a handshake to the media or fans assembled on the field.
Brett Lawrie is a big bright shining star.
Of course, this season will bring a whole new test, as Lawrie will have to adjust to teams who have video on him and his approach to hundreds of at bats. Given his previous determination to make adjustments and absorb instruction, it will be interesting to see if Lawrie will recognize new patterns and reconfigure his own approach. We'd find it hard to bet against him.
2012 Expectations: Last year's big league numbers were pretty extraordinary, though we wouldn't want to get ahead of ourselves in trumpeting that small sample. Still, Lawrie has a number of tools at his disposal, and can use his speed to change games should his power regress. Health will also be a concern, given his tendency to play all-out, all the time.
Lawrie will still be young, and still have to adapt and adjust to a higher level of play and tremendous pressure. But we wouldn't want to be the one attempting to rationalize doubts about his ability to conquer his foes and exceed the expectations.
A full year of watching Brett Lawrie is a very exciting thought to hold onto on the eve of the season.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - Brett Lawrie's Star Burns Bright
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Brett Lawrie is Toronto's equivalent to Boston's Dustin Pedroia.
- March 30, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- The Blue Jay Changeup said...
A bit taller, but I would agree. He's just entertaining to watch. I'm not sure he can sustain last year's level of performance, but if he does... WATCH OUT AL EAST.
- April 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM
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Hulunbuir Grassland is located in Hailaer on the east of Inner Mongolia. It is one of the six most beautiful grasslands in China. The Hulunbuir Grassland also enjoys the reputation of the "Most unsullied Grassland" because of the lack of pollution in this area.
Short Inner Mongolia. Located in the northern frontier of China, Northwest close to Mongolia and Russia. Area of 110 square kilometers; population of 23.26 million; to the largest number of Mongolian and Han, in addition, there are Korean, Hui, Manchu, Daur, Ewenki, Oroqen and other nationalities. Region is divided into 7 Union, jurisdiction 5 prefecture-level cities; its 15 county-level cities under another jurisdiction, 17 counties, 49 flags, 3 Autonomous Banner. Its capital. Baotou, Wulanchabu, Wuhai, Hailar, Tongliao and other major cities in the region.


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South African soccer World Cup: Recycling Waste
Brick Mololo, former South Africa football legend and ANC activist, works in Orange Farm as a waste collector. He gets ready for a day's work. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa has seen the country spend an estimated R33 billion in preparation for one of the biggest sporting events in the world. With its shiny, new soccer stadiums, up-scale hotels and golden beaches, at first glance South Africa looks like a tourist haven. But behind this fa̮̤ade of prosperity lies another country: black townships without even the most basic infrastructure, bad roads, insufficient sanitation, along with high crime and unemployment rates. Many of the people who live in these townships are frustrated by the failure of the post-apartheid government to help them overcome their overwhelming socio-economic challenges. (Andrew Esiebo/Twenty Ten/Africa Media Online)
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Tips for Taking Good Point-and-Shoot Photographs
Photography is about capturing and preserving images, and as a photographer, you want to take the best pictures you can. If you're using a point-and-shoot camera, use these simple tricks to help improve your photographs:
Always lock the focus before taking a picture.
Frame, don't aim. Use the whole viewfinder or viewing screen to compose your shot. With people pictures, place heads near the top rather than dead-center.
Get closer. In most photographs, the main subject is too small — and getting closer when you shoot is the best way to make the subject bigger.
Use flash outdoors. Set your point-and-shoot's fill-flash mode whenever possible. It softens the unflattering facial shadows created by direct sunlight and brightens a subject lit from behind without washing out the background.
Use a fast film. ISO 400 print film should be your standard film. If you like to zoom your lens way in to make the subject bigger, use ISO 800 film instead. These super-quality films lessen picture-wrecking blur and improve background detail in flash shots.
Shoot from a different angle. Eye level is often not the best height from which to take pictures. Try squatting for a low angle, or standing on a chair for a high one.
Place the subject off-center. This is an easy way to make your pictures more interesting. But off-center composition makes locking the focus all the more imperative!


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These Light Green Silver Lined Glass Round Seed Beads come 3-7 grams of seed beads to a package, and are 11/0 (2.2mm) in size. TOHO Round Glass Seed Beads are premium Japanese glass beads with unsurpassed color and clarity. Add sparkle and color to your next jewelry project.
We also carry a complete line of beading accessories and findings, such as elastic cords, lanyards, split key rings, and many more beading items.


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USN-1540-2: NSS vulnerability
21 August 2012
nss vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
NSS could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted certificate.
Software Description
- nss - Network Security Service library
USN-1540-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
Kaspar Brand discovered a vulnerability in how the Network Security Services (NSS) ASN.1 decoder handles zero length items. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted certificate, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- libnss3 - 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1ubuntu6.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that use NSS, such as Evolution, to make all the necessary changes.


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Alliston is a settlement in Simcoe County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is part of the Town of New Tecumseth, the 1991 amalgamation of Alliston and nearby villages Beeton, Tottenham, and the Township of Tecumseth. The primary downtown area is located along Highway 89, or Victoria Street.
The town grew as a commercial centre for the area farmers and was best known as a potato-growing area. It is still a major industry in the town and is celebrated by the annual Alliston Potato Festival. Honda of Canada Manufacturing operates a large auto manufacturing facility southeast of Alliston, currently consisting of three major factories. Due to the falling economy Honda had to lay off all of its temporary and contract workers, striking a huge uproar among the residents of New Tecumseth.
Earl Rowe Provincial Park is located three kilometers west of Alliston, in the amalgamated Township of Adjala-Tosorontio. It is one of the largest provincial parks in Southern Ontario.


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How to Add a Printer to a Windows 8 Computer
Quarrelling printer manufacturers couldn't agree on how printers should be installed in Windows 8. As a result, you install your printer in one of two ways:
Some printer manufacturers say simply to plug in your printer by pushing its rectangular-shaped connector into a little rectangular-shaped USB port on your PC. Windows 8 automatically notices, recognizes, and embraces your new printer. Stock your printer with any needed ink cartridges, toner, or paper, and you're done.
Other manufacturers take an uglier approach, saying you must install their bundled software before plugging in your printer. And if you don't install the software first, the printer may not work correctly.
Unfortunately, the only way to know how your printer should be installed is to check the printer's manual. (Sometimes this information appears on a colorful, one-page Quick Installation sheet packed in the printer's box.)
If your printer lacks installation software, install the cartridges, add paper to the tray, and follow these instructions to put it to work:
With Windows 8 up and running, plug your printer into your PC and turn on the printer.
Windows 8 may send a message saying that your printer is installed successfully, but follow the next step to test it.
Load the desktop's Control Panel.
Summon the desktop's Control Panel with the tools at your disposal:
Mouse: Right-click the screen's bottom-left corner and choose Control Panel from the pop-up menu.
Keyboard: From the desktop, press Windows+I, scroll up to the words Control Panel and then press Enter.
Touchscreen: From the desktop, slide your finger from the screen's right edge inward, tap the Settings icon, and tap the words Control Panel.
From the Hardware and Sound category, click the View Devices and Printers link.
The Control Panel displays its categories of devices, including your printer, if you're lucky. If you spot your USB printer listed by its model or brand name, right-click its icon, choose Printer Properties, and click the Print Test Page button. If it prints correctly, you're finished. Congratulations.
Test page didn't work? Check that all the packaging is removed from inside your printer and that it has ink cartridges. If it still doesn't print, your printer is probably defective. Contact the store where you bought it and ask who to contact for assistance.
Windows 8 lists a printer named Microsoft XPS Document Writer. It's not really a printer, so it can be safely ignored.
If you have two or more printers attached to your computer, right-click the icon of your most oft-used printer and choose Set As Default Printer from the pop-up menu. Windows 8 then prints to that printer automatically, unless you tell it otherwise.
To remove a printer you no longer use, right-click its name in Step 3 and then choose Delete from the pop-up menu. That printer's name no longer appears as an option when you try to print from a program. If Windows 8 asks to uninstall the printer's drivers and software, click Yes — unless you think you may install that printer again sometime.
You can change printer options from within many programs. Choose File in a program's menu bar (you may need to press Alt to see the menu bar) and then choose Print Setup or choose Print. The window that appears lets you change things such as paper sizes, fonts, and types of graphics.
To share a printer quickly over a network, create a Homegroup. Your printer immediately shows up as an installation option for all the computers on your network.
If your printer's software confuses you, try clicking the Help buttons in its dialog boxes. Many buttons are customized for your particular printer model, and they offer advice not found in Windows 8.
For more information about Windows 8 and its features, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.


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Parkwood Florist offers flowers sales through our online florist shop. Using the freshest flowers available, our experienced florist create floral arrangements and bouquets for all occasions. Based in Gold Coast, Queensland, Parkwood Florist delivers flowers to Labrador, Arundel, Gaven, Pacific Pines, Ernest, Southport, Molendinar, Ashmore and surround suburbs of Gold Coast. Same day delivery is available Monday through to Saturday. All flower sales are processed through a secure online payment gateway. Parkwood Florist accepts payment by Visa, Mastercard, American Express and through PayPal.
Send flowers for delivery to Labrador, Arundel, Gaven, Pacific Pines, Ernest, Southport, Molendinar, Ashmore and surrounding areas of Gold Coast. Parkwood Florist offers same day flower delivery for orders placed before 2pm weekdays and 10am on Saturday. Flowers can be delivered to all locations of Gold Coast including homes, work, hospitals, funerals and churches.
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In what could be one of the final roster moves before a "new era in Chargers football" launches, San Diego's NFL team has placed a trio of players on injured reserve.
Done for the duration are running back Ryan Mathews (collarbone), receiver Malcom Floyd (ankle), and tackle Reggie Wells (ankle-toe). All three were injured in Sunday's loss to the Panthers.
Two of the three vacancies were filled by elevating a pair of players from the practice squad: receiver Mike Willie and defensive end Damik Scafe.


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The Naturals
September 2, 2011
If the summer of 2011 is not the Summer of Natural Wine, it is at least the Summer of Books About Natural Wine, just like the summer of 1998 was the summer of movies about disco. The two offerings to choose from are Alice Feiring's Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally and Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop's Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking.
Feiring already wrote a tome on the subject three years ago, called The Battle for Wine and Love: Or, How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Of course she didn't actually save the world from Robert Parker's influence, but it was an endearing, page-turner of a story of how she came to save herself. While it initially seemed to style itself as a polemic, it was really more sentimental than argumentative, alternating between wine commentary and autobiographical reminiscences and unapologetically schmaltzy in both areas. One of the chapters chronicles Feiring's quest to find the producer who made the 1968 Barolo that first opened her eyes to the wonder of wine. From there she managed to pick up occasional wine-writing gigs but couldn't put her finger on why so many of the bottles she opened bored her to tears. The Eureka moment comes when she notices that many of the wines that satisfied her came from the same importer, and she calls Joe Dressner hoping to learn why (and to score some free samples). "The problem is bigger than oak," Dressner tells her. "Yeasts. It's the yeasts." If The Battle for Wine and Love has a villain, it's not really Parker, but commercial yeasts. The good guys leave their wine to ferment with the yeasts that (ideally) come in from the vineyard on the grapes. The bad guys sterilize the vat to kill those yeasts and add commercial yeasts designed to ensure smooth, efficient fermentations (and, in some cases, to impart specific flavors).
That book did not, however, say a whole lot about sulfur. It mentioned a few producers such as Dard & Ribo in the Rhône that had had some success making wines without adding sulfur. But Feiring called those producers "the ultranaturals of the naturals," admitted that "[s]ome are more successful than others," and specifically declined to disqualify sulfured wines from the natural-wine club, suggesting, "On a naturally made wine, the ingredient list would read simply: Grapes and minimal sulfur (100 parts per million or lower)."
You can read quite a lot more about sulfur in Naked Wine. With The Battle for Wine and Love having vanquished commercial yeast, the role of the antagonist (if not exactly the villain) of Naked Wine is played by sulfur. The definition of "natural wine" offered in Naked Wine, unfortunately repeated enough times that its earnestness begins to grate, is "nothing added, nothing taken away." And sulfur is of course something added. Many of the producers Feiring talks to are still content to use sulfur because making wine without it is like tightrope-walking without a net, and with a fragile tightrope. But we are still left with the impression that it's a deviation from the ideal. Perhaps fashion is to blame for this sudden fixation. Unsulfered wines are hip. There are Parisian shops and wine bars and festivals devoted to them and plenty of other places where inquiring whether a bottle is sans soufre is the shibboleth that can get you promoted from dumb tourist to winking co-conspirator. "[T]his whole natural movement is kind of a cult thing," laments one of Feiring's vintner friends. "You do your best; you make your wine with nothing, and you add sulfur, and you get booted out of the club. And that eats at me, because we're totally natural except for sulfur. Yet sometimes I just want to be in the club!"
But this is not a "battle" story. Naked Wine, for the most part, does not pit the good guys against the bad guys. Instead, it's a story about the tensions within the natural-wine movement itself. The story begins with Feiring being invited to put her ideas to the test and make her own batch of wine, and through a twist and turn of events it turns out to be a California sagrantino. It quickly becomes apparent that the grapes got too ripe on the vine and unless something is added or taken away, the wine will be frightfully alcoholic. She bites the bullet and acquiesces to adding water. Alice Feiring adding water to a wine! The reader is inclined to react like the guy who yelled "Judas!" at Bob Dylan when he went electric. But the episode is in keeping with the theme that non-interventionism may be the ideal but it isn't religious dogma. The same theme recurs when hardcore natural winemaker Andrea Calek admits to using sulfur on occasion,"if a wine needs it." "If I need it, I put in one gram. What I do know is that I won't go to hell if I use it. Sulfur is to sleep well. If you need to sleep well, you use it."
But the most important tension addressed in the book is this: the whole reason one aims to intervene as little as possible in the winemaking process is to create a wine that's maximally expressive of the place it came from rather than the person who made it—and yet it can't be denied that a significant number of these wines, whether they come from the Loire Valley or the Rhône or Basque country, taste more like each other than they taste like the typical wines from their respective regions. There is a particular flavor profile—something like fresh berry fruit with a tingle of juicy acid—that you could encounter in a blind tasting and instantly know you are drinking a member of the natural-wine set while having no clue at all what region it might come from. Even if they are more palatable than the spoofulated, international-style of wines consisting of heady fruit and toasted oak, there is a sense in which they are just as anonymous and predictable.
The reason for this, as Feiring elicits in a conversation with Eric Texier and the late Marcel Lapierre in chapter 5, is that vignerons from all over began practicing the carbonic maceration technique that Jules Chauvet popularized for making Beaujolais—to the point, Lapierre says, that "[p]eople believe that if you make a natural wine, it has to be made in the so-called méthode Chauvet." But Chauvet believed the technique was uniquely suited for gamay grown in Beaujolais's granitic soils and never advised exporting it anywhere else. When it's used elsewhere, the result still tastes more or less like a carbonic Beaujolais, but in a generic fashion because it lacks the Beaujolais terroir. They're vins de soif—thirst-quenchers. "The Chauvet method has become a recipe," Feiring remarks. "Disciples have accepted the dogma, no? Semi-carbonic maceration, no matter what. No sulfur, no matter what. Chauvetists' wine seems to belong, in taste and style, to a club. I prefer it more than other clubs, though."
The penultimate chapter poses the question whether the proliferation of all of those carbonic vins de soif reflects the influence of Chauvet himself or his protégé Jacques Néauport, who consulted with a number of producers outside Chauvet's turf and taught them the method. The question is left unanswered, but it doesn't matter. What does matter is that Néauport is surely closer than any man who's still alive to being present at the creation of the natural-wine movement. One might expect him to have something profound to say about what they were hoping to accomplish. Instead, he says, it was all about the sulfur. They wanted to make sulfur-free wines because they drank a lot and thought eschewing sulfur would spare them from hangovers.
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If Néauport leaves you craving a more philosophically rigorous defense of why we ought to care about natural winemaking, you can find it in the preface to Goode and Harrop's Authentic Wine. "We believe that wine is special," they begin, "and one of the things that make it special is that it is, in essence, a natural product. We argue that this naturalness is important for wine, and any attempt to make wine less natural by allowing winemakers greater freedom to make more additions could severely damage the image of wine and its continued specialness." That formulation offers the best counterargument to the prevailing politically correct let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom mindset that sees something unseemly in any debate about what winemakers should or should not be doing. The reason it's legitimate to care is because the proliferation of manipulative techniques makes the whole idea of wine less interesting—and when that happens, the people and cultures that have sustained themselves on wine won't continue to prosper or to live as they have before.
It's somewhat reminiscent of the debate over steroids in professional baseball. Most people tend to see the steroid users as cheaters. But there is an increasingly vocal group of people who defend steroid use on the ground that it leads to superior athletic performance—and superior athletic performance is the whole point of sports, is it not? For example, the baseball analyst Bill James broke his virtual silence on the subject in a 2009 essay called "Cooperstown and the 'Roids" in which he argued that the stigma on steroid use was unsustainable because "we can reliably foresee a time in which everybody is going to be using steroids or their pharmaceutical descendants." More explicitly, the baseball blogger David Pinto has argued, "[W]hy not use them? . . . [I]f fans don't like it they can stay away from games and kill the sport." And that's exactly the point. Even if steroids make people better baseball players, they also make baseball boring. Nobody has any interest in watching athletes compete to see who has the best pharmacist. Of course the analogy to wine isn't perfect because wine isn't a competition, at least not in the same way. But both wine and baseball have a mystique to them which is a large part of why so many people find them to be worthy of devotion and study. Mess with that mystique at your peril.
By the second page of the book, Goode and Harrop have already destroyed another tired chestnut that keeps resurfacing in debates over the merits of natural winemaking—the notion that there is no such thing as a natural wine because grapes won't turn into wine without someone to pick them and prevent the juice from turning to vinegar. The argument that all wines are equally unnatural is a favorite talking point among producers who are especially promiscuous with their interventions; if you're willing to intervene to pick grapes, the logic goes, than how in the world can you object on a principled basis to running wine through a reverse-osmosis machine and adding chemicals, oak chips, and Mega-Purple? Goode and Harrop ask us to consider an analogy to a garden. "The term garden implies some sort of human intervention," they write, but it is still possible to "raise questions about degrees of naturalness, as you can with wine. Does a garden gnome, or a water feature, or a bench make the garden unnatural? There are all sorts of gardens, from formal Regency-style English gardens to botanic gardens and more functional vegetable gardens. In a way all of these are natural, but some are more natural than others."
They proceed to propose six elements of what they call an "authentic wine": natural winemaking, sustainable viticulture, a sense of place, appropriate ripeness, freedom from chemical faults, and sensitivity to the environment, which they define specifically as "[m]inimizing the carbon footprint of the wine through all stages from grape to shelf." I am afraid, however, that I am going to have to call B.S. on that last criterion. Even if one stipulates that environmentalism is a value of critical importance, it doesn't belong here, any more than a requirement that winemakers not commit robberies and murders would belong here. If the only way to bottle a Chambertin was with a machine that operated on whale oil and necessitated the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, the resulting wine would not be any less authentic an expression of Chambertin, no matter what other objections one might have to it. More fundamentally, absent a comparison of the carbon emissions produced by winemaking with the carbon emissions produced by other activities (such as, for example, the private-jet flights of anti–global warming activists), we are not given any basis for believing that wine production represents a contribution to greenhouse gases material enough for anyone to fret about it. Readers are therefore advised to skip chapter 12, "The Carbon Footprint of Wine." Those who prefer self-flagellation can begin reducing their carbon footprint right now by shutting off their computers.
The science in the rest of the book is more pertinent even where it becomes too technical for laymen to follow. Goode previously authored The Science of Wine, and it seems that much of that information makes its way here. A good chunk of Authentic Wine is devoted to detailed explanations of what, exactly, is happening on a chemical or molecular level during vegetation, ripening, fermentation, and élevage. And this is an underappreciated aspect of natural winemaking because it is often presumed to be the domain of hippies and Luddites, when in fact getting it right requires a fairly sophisticated understanding of chemistry. In order to get away with doing nothing, you have to know quite a lot.
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The difference in tone between Naked Wine and Authentic Wine could not be more dramatic. The latter is written with the formality of a textbook, organized with the structured logic of a flowchart and brimming with information. Discourses on science are interspersed with sidebars profiling particular producers. It's mostly written in an objective voice, laying out the implications of particular winemaking decisions but seldom taking a firm stand on where to draw the line. Like any textbook, you can hop around to the parts that interest you and feel free to skip pages.
Naked Wine, by contrast, is as much a book about Alice Feiring as it is about natural wine. There is a lot of information here, too, but it is conveyed by means of Feiring's narrative, written in her characteristic voice and organized in no particular way other than the order in which things happened to her or the ideas struck her. She will set the scene with a lot of details you don't care about, like when she found a scorpion in the room she was staying in France. Perhaps her schtick is not for everyone. But, like her previous book, it makes for an engrossing page-turner from beginning to end.
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I think the book the world needs about natural or authentic winemaking still remains to be written, although many books over the years have touched, each in their own way, on one or another aspect of what's at stake. The book I would like to see would be titled something along the lines of Why Wine Matters. Goode and Harrop gesture at one of the answers when they write in their conclusion, "People have a hunger for the authentic." Alice Feiring touches on it, too, when she quotes the great Barolo grower Teobaldo Cappellano as saying, "The more there's fake, the more there's need for real." Most of us in the modern world can spend a typical day without coming into contact with anything handmade or anything that exists in the same form in which it existed a hundred years ago. When we sit down to dinner and open a bottle of wine we have the opportunity to experience a compelling exception to that.
There are many people who claim to believe, when it comes to wine, that "it's what's in the glass that counts." They say they don't care how it was made as long as it tastes good. And yet, in discussing what it is about wine that makes some of us so passionate about it, I have never—not once—heard anyone give as their reason, "I like the way it tastes." There are a lot of things that taste good. Few of them inspire the devotion that wine does, and it's not because of how it tastes, but because of what it is. We are uncomfortable with interventions in the winemaking process not because they violate some arbitrary rules about what is "natural," but because we understand that to change the way wine is made is to change what wine is.
For further reading (and listening):
Alice Feiring's Naked Wine: Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally and The Battle for Wine and Love: Or, How I Saved the World from Parkerization—and her interview on GrapeRadio.
Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop's Authentic Wine: Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking.
My December 2010 column on the 2009 Beaujolais vintage and Jules Chauvet.
Saveur's feature on Marcel Lapierre and "The New Beaujolais."
Various blog commentaries on Bill James's 2009 steroids article, the original of which no longer seems to appear at its designated URL, and the 2006 post on steroids at David Pinto's Baseball Musings (attentive readers will find my own reaction in the comments).
Dylan goes electric at Manchester Free Trade Hall.
6 Responses to "The Naturals"
September 2, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Fine review, Keith–very fine.
Observation 1: carbonic maceration = carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide displaces oxygen=less or no need for SO2.
Observation2: "…but some are more natural than others." Gibberish.
Is someone at 2 months more pregnant than someone at 6 months, or is she just further along in the process that began the same way and is known as being pregnant?
I admire Jamie's work–always–but if some gardens are more "natural" than others then I propose that he and his co-writer have not defined what it means to be "natural." Instead, they are rationalizing.
Pint of reference: I believe that there are natural phenomenon, but after all my years spent in the wine business, I do not believe that there is a such a definitive practice as "natural winemaking." In this case, as in most complicated matters, the answer is not and cannot be black or white and that's because nature has a way of interrupting, screwing over, or detouring our course–that's 100% natural.
September 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm
As much as a pint might be in order, considering the subject matter, I meant Point of reference.
Oh, and I agree completely: the book has yet been written on this subject, although I doubt that wine of 100 years ago was produced the way it is produced today–naturally or otherwise. Coca-Cola, maybe, but not wine. we just know more today than they did then.
September 3, 2011 at 11:36 am
Let's start by realizing that grapevines predate us.
In the wild, only anomalous vines were self-pollinating, which meant that grape vines were not consistent fruit producers. If left to their own devices, grapevines likely would produce more wood for personal survival and only just enough fruit for procreational survival–that fruit would be less focused on its pulp and juice, which when full-blown would kick off fermentation more easily. The vine would likely focus on producing healthy seeds.
Further, I doubt that wild vines would ever prune themselves to a numerical formula for optimum fruit production–and instead of standing erect along trellises for optimum sun exposure, to produce those plump grapes, they would either lie low and spread or they would climb among sheltering trees and bushes: in other words, fruit production would not likely be their primary preoccupation.
I could be wrong concerning the above but there's ample evidence that to get grapevines to produce fruit consistently and to put that fruit to use required first understanding either how to circumvent or to "improve" on the natural course, which is at the root of the word "cultivate."
One of the closest to wild grapevines that we have today is piccolit; its inconsistency as a fruit producer keeps the variety relatively obscure. I suspect that a Piccolit wine that is produced as an orange version would be even closer to what once was "natural" winemaking, but while that wine might be closest to the natural state, my question would be: on which side of the line between interesting and aesthetically pleasing would it fall?
The way I see it, the concept of "natural" to describe modern winemaking is a human construct that plays to our individual desire to confirm our aesthetic sensibility as the zenith of all aesthetic sensibilities–to me, that's purism built on sand rather than on loam.
September 11, 2011 at 11:15 am
(Sidepoint) "Nobody has any interest in watching athletes compete to see who has the best pharmacist." – Methinks the Tour de France proves you wrong here.
September 11, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Keith, thanks for your review. It's well written, insightful and provocative. I really appreciate that you have read the book. It's a step some reviewers consider optional.


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Dorlene F. Alves
Oct. 17, 1933-May 31, 2012
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Dorlene F. (Garcia) Alves passed away on Thursday, May 31, 2012 after a long battle with dementia.
Dorlene, or "Doe" as she affectionately called by family and friends, was born and raised in Pleasanton. She graduated from Amador High in 1951 and married Edmond (Ed) Alves, the love of her life, on June 20, 1954. Dorlene was a homemaker most of her life. Raising, loving and supporting her children throughout their lives were her joys and her vocation. Do what makes you happy she would say.
Dorlene was preceded in death be her son, Jeffrey Alves in 2009, her sister, JoAnne Holden in 2008, parents, William and Mrytle (Frager) in 1984. She leaves behind her husband, Edmond, of 58 years of marriage, her daughters, Janell (Richard) Anderson of Mountain View, CA, Jennifer (Steve) Dowden of Keller, TX their four children, Katie, Jackie, Maddie & Samuel, daughter in-law, Blanca Castillo-Alves, her two children, Isabel & Anthony of Simi Valley, CA, her brother Donald (Lillian) Garcia, their three sons, Steve, Mike, and Ronnie, her nephew Warren (Kathy) Holden, their children Chase and Kayleen.
A private family grave site service will be held on July 14 at St. Augustine's cemetery in Pleasanton. Donations in Dorlene's name, may be made to the charity of your choice.
I was very saddened to learn of Doe's passing , I remember her and Ed from way back when they ran the store in Livermore on L St. they were the kindest most generous people around, it is a real loss to lose such a nice lady, my prayers and best wishes to the Family!!!
"Come on in" - that's the first thing I think of whenever I remember Doe. I was always welcome, even if Jeff wasn't there when I stopped by. I was welcomed into their home across from the fairgrounds in 7th grade and Jeff and I were always close until his passing. She set the tone for the kindness Jeff, Janell and Jennifer always showed to others. I cherish those days and thanks to the Alves for all the great memories in P-town.


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LaGRANGE, Ga.—The Birmingham-Southern swimming and diving teams won the LaGrange Invitational this weekend, with the men and women both finishing first in the field of four teams. Today marks the first team win for BSC's brand new program in its inaugural season.
The women had a team score of 208.5, followed by Berry with 129.5, South Georgia with 101.5, and LaGrange with 76.5. Freshman Hannah Busk led the team with three individual wins and two relay firsts. Freshman Kristen Stempak also had two individual first and two relay wins.
The men posted a score of 168, followed closely by Berry with 164, South Georgia with 163, and LaGrange with 52. Freshman Drew Priede led with two individual firsts, while freshmen Wil Cushman and Duncan Bonney also had individual wins.
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Jefferson leads Bobcats over 76ers 111-105
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Steve Clifford isn't exactly singing his team's praises after the Bobcats won for the sixth time in seven games.
In fact, the first-year head coach said he's a little concerned about his team's focus as the playoffs approach.
"We haven't been the same team the last two games," Clifford said. "Whether we exhaled after clinching (a playoff spot), or whatever it is, I don't know. Whatever it is, we have two games to get it back."
The Bobcats held on to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 111-105 on Saturday behind 29 points and 12 rebounds from Al Jefferson, but it was far from an impressive victory.
The win came on the heels of a costly loss at Boston Friday night that dropped the Bobcats back to seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Charlotte (41-39) remains one game behind Washington in the race for the sixth seed with two games left. The Wizards defeated Milwaukee 104-91 on Saturday night.
Jefferson said the Bobcats need to find their mojo with two tough games coming up to close the season — at Atlanta on Monday night and at home against Chicago on Wednesday.
"I thought (the loss to Boston) would wake us up for this game, but I don't know whether it was a back-to-back, three games in four nights or what," Jefferson said. "... You could tell we were low energy. But we found a way to win, so that's the positive side of it."
You can't blame Jefferson for the team's sudden funk.
He has at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in each of the last six games, a franchise record.
Luke Ridnour, starting in place of injured point guard Kemba Walker, had 12 points and eight assists in his first start for Charlotte.
Clifford said he expects Walker to return from a groin injury Monday night. But he expressed plenty of confidence in Ridnour to handle the role when needed.
"We're organized when Luke is in there," Clifford said. "He gets guys into their right spots. He has a high basketball IQ and he knows the NBA game."
Michael Carter-Williams had 23 points and eight assists to lead the 76ers, who have lost 16 of their last 17 games on the road.
The same problem that haunted the Bobcats in their loss to Boston — poor defensive effort — hurt them early on against the 76ers.
Philadelphia took a 59-56 at the break despite the Bobcats shooting 62 percent from the field in the first half.
Charlotte would begin to take control late in the third quarter, opening a double-digit lead behind a pair of 3-pointers from Ridnour and Chris Douglas-Roberts and some solid inside play from Cody Zeller.
But ultimately the game came down to Philadelphia's inability to stop Jefferson in the low post.
Jefferson is averaging 26.1 points and 13 rebounds over the past six games and he showed again why he's an All-NBA team candidate.
Jefferson had his way early on scoring 21 points in the first half on 10-of-13 shooting. He used his old-school style of play to make defenders Henry Sims and Byron Mullens look foolish at times by getting them to leave their feet with pump fakes, leading to easy up-and-under layups.
"He's got one of the best head fakes in the game, so it's tough to defend him," Mullens said.
Philadelphia got 16 points from Thaddeus Young and 15 from Henry Sims, but it wasn't enough for the league's second-worst team.
Still, it was a better showing than last week when the 76ers lost by 30 to the Bobcats on their home floor. At one point, the 76ers fell behind by 16, but closed to within four in the final minute — but were unable to take the lead.
"It was entirely different," coach Brett Brown said. "When you look at the last time we played this team, it was as good an effort as anybody has played on our home court. They shot it and they guarded. Tonight we blinked a little in the third, but we found a way to get back in it in the fourth."
NOTES: Philadelphia's Jarvis Varnado was a late scratch with a right heel injury. ... The Bobcats have won 24 games at home, the second-most in franchise history. .. The Bobcats are 18-9 since the All-Star break, including 14-6 in their last 20 games.


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The biggest NFL rivalry in the Bay Area will be played at the Field of Jeans once every eight years. The biggest college football rivalry in the Bay Area will be played there in the first year of the new building's existence.
Via multiple reports, Cal and Stanford will meet at Levi's Stadium in 2014. (Hopefully, the band will stay off the field while a live play is happening.)
It's been described, per Kyle Bonagura of CSNBayArea.com, as "basically as done deal." As pointed out by Jerry Hinnen of CBSSports.com, Cal fans don't like it, since the game would be moved from Berkeley that year.
That said, the game would return to Berkeley in 2015, pushing the rotation between the two schools' campuses back by a year.
While the rivalry loses some luster by losing either of the team's home stadiums as the place where the Big Game plays out, the decision to take advantage of the new venue should send a strong message to the 49ers and Raiders: The swanky new stadium should host all of the games to be played by both Bay Area NFL teams, permanently solving Oakland's search for a new home.


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Successful Mobile Exhibition Project test and star party in Iraq
3 May 2010
The Amateur Astronomers Association of Kurdistan / Iraq (AAAK) has launched its Mobile Exhibition Project (MEP). Its main target is to allow students to look and learn about astronomy and the Universe through selected astrophotos. Topics include the history of astronomy, modern equipment, galaxies, nebulae, the Solar System and planets, AAAK activity shots, and AAAK honorary members around the world.
Beside increasing knowledge, this project also encourages students to be involved with astronomy. To this end, the initial exhibition was specially made for Faker Mergasuri Private High School students on 21 April 2010. It will now be transferred to another school in and outside Erbil city. This event was part of AAAK's Global Astronomy Month activities. Lunar Week was also celebrated, in particular on 20 April. The party began at 06:15 pm local time (15:15 UT) before the Sun set behind a layer of Cirrus clouds, which fortunately were generous enough to allow people to look through and see the Moon.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – UMBC freshman Emily Escobedo (New Rochelle, N.Y./Maria Regina) claimed an individual gold medal and school record for the second consecutive night, but for the third-straight year, the UMBC women's swimming and diving team finished second at the America East Championships as the three-day competition came to a close Sunday evening at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Reigning champion New Hampshire claimed the conference crown once again, totaling 877 points. The Retrievers missed out on replacing the Wildcats, finishing with 684 points, while Vermont completed the meet with 640 points. Maine and Binghamton placed fourth and fifth overall with 462 points and 444 points, respectively.
"This is the first time we've had opportunity for only the women to compete at the America East Championships," said head coach Chad Cradock. "It created a great atmosphere for them to come together as a team.
"The spirit was unbelievable and the team chemistry was fantastic and helped us produce great results. We as coaches are extremely proud of the athletes and the effort they put in over the course of the weekend."
A night after capturing the 100-yd. breaststroke title with a school-record and NCAA "B" cut time, Escobedo finished her sweep of the discipline by winning the 200-yd. breast event. The freshman touched the wall at 2:12.11, three seconds ahead of the previous school record of 2:15.84 set in 2001 by NCAA qualifier Lindsey Prather. Junior Lexi Coon (Camden, Del./Medford) finished sixth and freshman Kayla Lilly (Natick, Mass./Medfield) took seventh.
Escobedo was named the America East Most Outstanding Swimmer and Most Outstanding Rookie at the conclusion of the meet after breaking three school records and achieving three NCAA "B" cuts (200 IM, 100 breast, 200 breast).
Sophomore Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) was named the conference Most Outstanding Diver after winning both competitions at WPI.
Sophomore transfer Stephanie Romano (Arlington, Va./Yorktown/Towson) started the night in style for UMBC, winning a silver medal in the 1,650 free. Romano recorded the seventh-best time in school history by clocking in at 17:10.28.
100-yd. backstroke champion Klara Pavelkova (Prague, Czech Republic) reached the finals for the 200-yd. event and placed fifth with a season-best time of 2:02.21.
In the 100-yd. freestyle, senior Talor Tadena (Orangevale, Calif./Bella Vista) collected another top medal, a silver, by touching in at 51.16, just behind Binghamton's Caitlin Kelly (50.93). Sophomore Courtney Hadden (Binghamton, N.Y./Chenango Forks) also competed in the finals, placing eighth.
Freshman Hannah Sutherland (Kingston, Ontario/Holy Cross Secondary) picked up another medal at her first conference championship meet, winning a bronze in the 200-yd. butterfly. Sutherland recorded the eighth-best time in school history (2:03.42) by dropping 1.71 from her prelims time.
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Cleft lip is a treatable birth
defect. It happens when the tissues of the upper jaw and nose don't join as
expected during fetal development. This causes a split (cleft) in the lip.
A cleft lip may be complete or incomplete. With either type, it usually only involves one side of the upper lip and rarely occurs in the lower lip.
Cleft lip often occurs with
cleft palate. Cleft palate and cleft lip are the most common birth defects of the head and neck.
A cleft lip usually doesn't cause health problems. Surgery can be done to fix the split and improve the appearance of the mouth and nose.
Doctors aren't sure what causes it. But your baby may be more likely to have cleft lip if:
It's important to take good care of yourself before and during your pregnancy so that your baby will be as healthy as possible.
People who have a family history of cleft lip may want to think about genetic counseling. It can help you understand your
chances of having a child with a cleft lip.
You'll notice a split in the baby's lip. It's easy to see right at birth.
Babies with cleft lip typically don't have
any problems feeding. But babies with both cleft lip
and cleft palate may have feeding problems.
Cleft lip is usually diagnosed at birth. Shortly after birth, the baby will have a physical exam. The doctor will look inside your baby's mouth to see whether there is also a cleft palate.
Sometimes a
fetal ultrasound during pregnancy can detect a cleft
lip. But an ultrasound doesn't always find the problem, so doctors don't rely on it to diagnose a cleft lip.
Surgery can fix
a cleft lip. Before surgery, a baby may wear a mouth support, such as a dental splint, a soft dental molding
insert, or medical adhesive tape.
Most doctors suggest that surgery be done by the time a baby is 6 months old.1 But the timing of the surgery depends on a few things, such as how severe the split is and the health of the baby.
As your child grows, he or she will probably need more than one operation. For example, if your baby's nose has an odd shape, surgery may help fix it. Your child may need other treatment, such as speech therapy if he or she has a hard time pronouncing words.
As your child grows, pay special attention to dental care and any speech problems.
You can support your child's self-esteem if he or she is concerned about the scar. Explain how cleft lips form and how having one
has been a part of making your child strong. This will help your child know how
to answer questions from other children and adults.
Caring for your child with cleft palate can take time and patience. Seek support from friends and family. You can join a support group to meet others who are going through similar challenges.
Learning about cleft lip:
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AboutFace is a nonprofit international organization that provides
information, support, and other resources to people who have facial differences. The website has information on cleft
palate, cleft lip, and other
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is the
largest plastic surgery specialty organization in the world. This site has news
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includes information on how to prepare for surgery, types of anesthesia used,
recovery time, and average costs. You can find a qualified surgeon in your
area, view before-and-after photographs, and read patient stories.
The Cleft Palate Foundation is a nonprofit organization that
has information for children, adults, and families affected by clefts and other craniofacial
birth defects. It was founded by the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, an
international nonprofit group of health professionals who are involved in treatment and/or research of craniofacial conditions.
The Web site has information about treatment, feeding, dental care, speech, hearing, and more. You can call the toll-free phone number to get medical information
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This website is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It
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The March of Dimes tries to improve the health of babies
by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and early death. March of Dimes
supports research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies'
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defects, birth defects testing, pregnancy, and prenatal care.
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(2003, reaffirmed 2011). Neural tube defects. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 44. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 102(1): 203–210. Edwards SP, et al. (2007). Cleft lip and palate. In DM
Laskin, AO Abubaker, eds., Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, pp. 135–151. Chicago: Quintessence Publishing.Hoffman WY (2012). Cleft lip and palate. In AK Lalwani, ed., Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, 3rd ed., pp. 345–361. New York: McGraw-Hill.Kapp-Simon KA (2006). A brief overview of psychological issues in cleft lip and palate. In S Berkowitz, ed., Cleft Lip and Palate, 2nd ed., pp. 257–261. New York: Springer.Klein U (2011). Oral medicine and dentistry. In WW Hay Jr et al., eds., Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 20th ed., pp. 442–451. New York: McGraw-Hill.Mossey PA, et al. (2009). Cleft lip and palate. Lancet, 374(9703): 1773–1785.Rowe LD (2009). Congenital disorders of the oral cavity and lip section of Congenital anomalies of the head and neck. In JB Snow Jr, PA Wackym, eds., Ballenger's Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 17th ed., pp. 835–838. Hamilton, ON: BC Decker.Shi M, et al. (2007). Orofacial cleft risk is increased with maternal smoking and specific detoxification-gene variants. American Journal of Human Genetics, 80(1): 76–90.Wilcox AJ, et al. (2007). Folic acid supplements and
risk of facial clefts: National population based case-control study.
BMJ. Published online January 26, 2007
(doi:10.1136/bmj.39079.618287.0B).Wolfe SA, et al. (2006). Surgical treatment of clefts
of the lip and palate from birth to age ten. In S Berkowitz, ed.,
Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management, 2nd ed.,
chap. 22, pp. 459–475. Berlin: Springer.
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