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Jan 13, 2006, 12:57 PM »
Three strikes and we're out: but the hits just keep on coming
WHEN weightlifting hits the news it is almost always about drugs.
The credibility of the sport has been shredded in the past few years and over the next week before the Court of Arbitration for Sport there will be further probing of how four Australian weightlifters tested positive a collective five times to the potent stimulant benzylpiperazine (BZP).
Technically a country has to have three serious drug offences - such as steroids or other serious stimulants - to be banned from international competition for a year, but the testing has to be conducted by the IWF testers.
This may be the escape clause Australian weightlifting boss and Australian Commonwealth Games Federation president Sam Coffa uses to save his sport from international embarrassment.
For to have a sport headed by such a senior Commonwealth Games official - he is also the vice-chairman of the Melbourne organising committee - thrown out of the Games and all international competition for a year would be humiliating in the extreme.
So far Australia has only two "international" drug positives, the rest were domestic tests conducted by the Australian Sports Drug Agency. Still, there are a lot of questions being asked, not least just what does weightlifting have to do before its tax-payer funding is pulled?
On the street BZP is known as "frenzy", "nemesis", "blast" and "rapture" and is regarded in the same category as amphetamines and other party drugs like ecstasy. So just why has it been the drug of choice for so many Australian lifters?
Armenian-based champion Sergo Chakhoyan (who has previously served a two-year steroid ban) and Victorian lifter Corran Hocking tested positive to BZP while competing at the Oceania and Commonwealth championships in Melbourne at the beginning of October and just two weeks later Tasmania lifters Camilla Fogagnolo and Jenna Myers and, once again, Corran Hocking tested positive to it at the Australian championships in Brisbane at the end of October.
Apparently within the sport it was reputed to be a terrific little upper, something to get the mind focussed on lifting such incredibly heavy weights. Of course, all athletes, particularly those seeking to represent their country, know they will be tested, especially during times of competition. Why did they think they would escape detection?
One of those facing suspension, Hocking, is in partnership with Keith Murphy, a weightlifter who late last year was handed a two-year suspended sentence by the Victorian Supreme Court for trafficking in anabolic steroids. The two sell legal supplements to lifters but somehow one of the batches of the supplements became contaminated.
Coffa's hope that the lifters will be treated leniently by the CAS has not been the case in another recent incident involving the same drug.
Auckland bodybuilder Tony Ligaliga was banned last December for two years for taking BZP. He said he took it, not to help his performance, but as a party drug. So far Coffa has delayed naming the full Melbourne Games team pending the CAS result.
Under the WADA code there is a mandatory two-year sanction unless the athlete can show there was no fault on their part.
The two female lifters reckon they've been guilty only of swigging a contaminated sports drink. A similar argument was persuasively used by world kayak star Nathan Baggaley to reduce his two-year ban for swigging steroids to a 12-month suspension, allowing him to be back in time for the Beijing Olympics.
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Aussie Weightlifter Banned for Two Years
Australian weightlifter Corran Hocking has been banned from competing for two years for using a prohibited substance.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) said Hocking had accepted the sanction after testing positive to the stimulant Benzylpiperazine (BZP) at the Australian weightlifting nationals in October last year.
Hocking, who won a silver medal in the men's over 105kg clean and jerk at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and also took out the overall an overall bronze medal, was ruled out of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games earlier this year over the same incident.
He delayed his appeal over the incident until after the Melbourne Games in March, but the unsuccessful and lengthy process has ended.
Hocking will be ineligible to compete until December 14, 2007.
He is the latest Australian weightlifter to test positive for the banned substance, following Camilla Fogagnolo and Jenna Myers, who also have been suspended for two years.
ASADA is conducting an on-going investigation into drug use in the sport that was launched mid-way through the Melbourne Games.
"This is a timely reminder to all athletes of the serious consequences of prohibited stimulant use," ASADA chairman Richard Ings said.
"Athletes who use prohibited stimulants and test positive in-competition will be prosecuted by ASADA for the maximum two year suspension applicable under the World Anti-Doping Agency Code."
The effects of BZP are similar to ecstasy, increasing alertness, euphoria and a general feeling of well being.
While it is banned in most countries, it is legal in New Zealand where it is sold over the counter as an alternative party drug.
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Lifter's Ban is Bad News for Sailor
VICTORIAN weightlifter Corran Hocking has been banned from sport for two years after testing positive to the stimulant benzylpiperazine (BZP).
Hocking's ban - which comes as the wide-ranging investigation into drugs in Australian weightlifting nears its conclusion - is not good news for rugby star Wendell Sailor, who also tested positive to stimulants, although in his case the drug was cocaine.
Hocking was banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport until December 4, 2007. He tested positive to BZP at the Australian weightlifting titles in Queensland in October 2005.
His exclusion from the sport follows that of the two female Tasmanian weightlifters, Jenna Myers and Camilla Fogagnolo, who also tested positive to BZP and were banned for two years.
Another Australian weightlifter, Sergo Chakhoyan, faces a life ban for testing positive to the same stimulant. Chakhoyan has previously been sidelined for two years for a steroid offence.
All four lifters have been approached for questioning by Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority investigator Richard Young, whose report into the sport is due soon.
Young has been looking at the supplement business relationship of Hocking with another lifter, Keith Murphy, who was given a two-year suspended sentence for trafficking in anabolic steroids in the Victorian Supreme Court.
The anti-doping authority's chairman, Richard Ings, said Hocking's sanction showed there were serious consequences for athletes taking stimulants during competition, and warned that ASADA would apply for the full two-year penalty.
Sailor is facing a two-year ban for testing positive and will appear before a closed anti-doping tribunal which the ARU will not name, possibly within a month.
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Beware Knock on Door as Big Brother Opens New Front to War on Drugs
By Patrick Smith
BEN JOHNSON got himself a headline. People want to see athletes run fast and don't care if they are using performance enhancing drugs to do it, according to the Canadian. Last time Ben made the news he finished third to a trotter and a 17-year-old thoroughbred. Stanozolol Ben's got a credibility problem.
People watch sport to be astonished, not duped. Floyd Landis and Justin Gatlin are charged with cheating the world. They have tested positive to elevated levels of testosterone. The Tour de France winner and the Olympic champion are con men.
Sports like athletics and cycling are running and peddling out of good will. Every time a positive drug test is announced WADA heavy Dick Pound thumps the desk and says it isn't good enough and that the war on drugs in sport will continue.
If the winners of such prestigious and significant titles as the Tour de France and the Olympic 100 metres dash are boosting their performances by using drugs we are entitled to know whether Pound's war is winnable. Or at the very least if new strategies are required. It might just be that the chemists are self-medicating because nobody appears in danger of catching them.
The man charged with keeping Australian sport clean is Richard Ings, chairman and chief executive officer of ASADA, the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority. He has an annual budget of $12 million and a directive from the federal Government to ensure Australian sport is drug free.
If Australia is to avoid its own Landis and Gatlin then it is very much in the hands of Ings.
ASADA officially took its first breath in March, replacing the Australian Sports Drug Agency. The mission for the new authority is grand if not impossible - to eliminate doping altogether. With the new body has come a new front to the war. Far from waiting for cheats to show up in drug tests, Ings has launched a campaign to hunt them down.
"We have people knocking on doors, asking questions, following leads today," Ings told The Australian yesterday. If it sounds dramatic that's only because that's the way Ings wants it. The war on drugs in sport in Australia has changed.
ASADA will perform 4200 tests this year but that alone will not stop cheating. In fact, it can't. Athletes can now use drugs and methods that are undetectable. Other drugs remain in the system so briefly that it would be nothing but a fluke if an athlete was to be caught.
"Bodies that have their main focus on testing need to change. They need to bring in new methodologies and new tactics to deal with the reality of sophisticated doping today," Ings said.
"How do you detect drugs that are undetectable? That is the premise for the launch of ASADA with its extensive new powers of investigations and presenting cases at sporting tribunals."
To understand how broad the battle must become you only have to look at the eight ways it is possible to violate the WADA code. Positive test, use or attempted use of a prohibited drug, refusing to provide a sample, tampering with the drug protocols, possession, trafficking and administration of a prohibited substance. The eighth is a catch-all clause: failure to comply. Only the first three directly relate to testing. The other five can only be discovered through investigation.
"ASADA will always have a testing program and it will always be very important to us but our new focus is on investigations. It means working with other government organisations - the federal and state police forces, it's working with Customs, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration), and working with state medical boards to develop a holistic, integrated approach to eradicating drugs in sport," Ings said.
"The lines between sports and drug use are now being blurred. Abroad there are examples such as Balco of persons distributing prohibited substances to athletes across multiple sports.
"Australian sport is not immune to this type of threat. To protect the integrity of Australian sport we now need sophisticated systems of investigation that view drug use as a whole-of-sport issue and assertively apply cross-sport measures to detect doping violations that may be undetectable through testing alone.
"We have a comprehensive ability to share information both ways, between ASADA as the focal point for driving drug free sport and other government agencies that have a similar brief to stop the distribution of these drugs. We forecast that investigations will be ASADA's driving force for achieving pure performance in Australian sport."
The potential for ASADA to dig deep is vast if you collect all the powers available to organisations like Customs, police and the TGA. To ensure it is best placed to make best use of these connections, ASADA has its own team of investigators.
Ings has engaged specialist forensic experts to interrogate all information that comes into the possession of ASADA. Emails, financial statements, and other transactions are all noted, tracked down and cross referenced.
"It is all part of our assertive approach to deter, detect and sanction athletes and support staff who are breaking the rules," Ings said.
He has commissioned investigations into old court cases that might have involved possession, distribution or trafficking of steroids and other banned substances.
"Where there are persons who through the courts have been found guilty of distribution of prohibited substances, we want to know if they did business with any athletes or athlete support personnel," Ings said.
Cold Case is not just a TV show.
ASADA has also set up an anti-doping hotline where information can be left anonymously. Ings said that since the publicity that came with the Wendell Sailor suspension, the phone line has been busy.
"Our guys are running around like crazy at the moment. Chasing down leads, knocking on doors, interviewing people, building networks of informants. People are coming forward giving us quality tips," Ings said.
"Of our budget we will spend 50 per cent in the area of detection. We can get an investigator on somebody's doorstep anywhere within 12 hours of receiving credible information."
Once ASADA has evidence, he has instructed his enforcement team they must extract the appropriate penalty. "Fight and win" is the motto he has commissioned for them. Later this month ASADA will present the results of its first investigation - the possible use of drugs in weightlifting.
While testing remains critical to drug detection, Ings has moved away from the philosophy of random testing.
"We fish where the fish are," he said. "So we are target testing. When you are dealing with drugs that are difficult to detect then random testing is a waste of time. We are maximising the chance of finding athletes who may be using drugs."
So this is the new Australian war on drugs in sport. It had better work. Only when sport is running on empty will it be running with the unconditional good will of the people.
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No Cash Until AWF Found To Be Clean
By Jacquelin Magnay
AUSTRALIAN Sports Commission officials have told the Australian Weightlifting Federation the sport will not receive any funding until after the current doping investigation is completed and major changes to a range of corporate governance issues are made.
Certainly, the debts have mounted since the ASC withheld its funding last year, and there have been questions about the solvency of the federation. Only one quarterly payment of a sports commission grant worth more than $350,000 in total was made in year 2005-06.
At June 30, 2005, the organisation had $18,556 in cash but there were tax liabilities of $21,461. The net assets of the federation were $3121 and several member states were questioning the lack of detail concerning more than $100,000 in expenses. One immediate requirement of the ASC is for the AWF to prepare a full list of creditors and debtors.
In a letter to the board and state members, AWF chief executive Matthew Curtain said he had attended a meeting with president Sam Coffa and two sports commission officials on July 19. He wrote that the meeting was held "to discuss the AWF's core business viability, with the expectation government funding would be restored as soon as possible, notwithstanding the outcome of the [Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority] investigation into weightlifting".
However, a sports commission spokesman told the Herald yesterday that "the ASC has made it clear in writing that funding which was suspended last year will not be restored until a number of issues are resolved to our satisfaction and until the outcomes of the ASADA investigation are received". One of those matters is removing proxy votes from board meetings.
The sports commission has made special payments of around $60,000 to 11 elite weightlifters as reimbursement for incentive payments that have not been paid, and other grants. The lifters will have to repay the monies if they are implicated in the drugs investigation, which is expected to be tabled at ASADA's next monthly board meeting.
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Weightlifting Inquiry Uncovers Evidence of Sports Drug-Trafficking Triangle
By Jacquelin Magnay
THE exhaustive nine-month Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority inquiry into drugs and weightlifting has uncovered startling evidence linking drug trafficking between weightlifters and Australian athletes involved in two other sports.
Lead investigator Richard Young is finalising his long-awaited report, which may be handed down late next week, and is tipped to create controversy not only in weightlifting but possibly in other strength-based sports such as cycling and powerlifting.
As part of the inquiry, Young last week obtained computer data from the Melbourne offices of the Australian Weightlifting Federation president, Sam Coffa.
The Coffa data is understood to relate to an adjunct to the main Young investigation, that of how to restructure the sport after strident criticisms of Coffa's dominant role in it, the lack of financial records, and governance issues. There is no suggestion that Coffa is linked to the drug investigation.
However, computer forensic scientists working for Young are understood to have earlier uncovered data from other private, non-AWF computers about possible drug-trafficking links to the other sports.
But the intense scrutiny of Coffa's management has not gone down well at the sport's Hawthorn base. Coffa, who is also the president of the Australian Commonwealth Games Association and was on the Melbourne Commonwealth Games board, has also come under fire this month from the Australian Sports Commission for misrepresenting the reasons $340,000 of taxpayer funding has been frozen.
In correspondence sighted by the Herald, Coffa has been taken to task for "inaccurate statements on the rationale for the ASC withholding the AWF's funding and the inter-relationship between the ASADA investigation and the reinstatement of funding to the AWF". He was told to amend his president's report and that of the chief executive to "ensure the situation is accurately recorded for the AWF membership and the public record". Coffa was also criticised in the letter for the non-payment of Melbourne 2006 expenses to one weightlifter.
The Herald has previously reported that Commonwealth Games grants for athletes were withheld for months by the financially strapped AWF and used instead on day-to-day expenses. The ASC has held grave concerns about compliance, financial and governance issues, and AWF funding has been withheld for more than a year, although athletes have continued to receive funds from the ASC.
Coffa has told the ASC that due to the pressure of the Commonwealth Games, "things were not done up to standard" but he still believed he was correct in reporting the ASC had withheld funding mainly until the drugs investigation was completed.
Young was appointed by ASADA chairman Richard Ings to look into the issue of drugs in weightlifting in March this year following a series of revelations in the Herald that two Tasmanian weightlifters, Camilla Fogagnolo and Jenna Myers, had tested positive to a banned stimulant after buying a supplement from a third woman, Belinda Van Tienen, who has links with convicted drug trafficker Keith Murphy. Van Tienen was the subject of an internal ASC review into whether she should compete in Melbourne - taking the place of one of the banned lifters - or face trafficking charges. That review was then taken over by Young.
Young also looked at the drug conviction of a former elite weightlifter, Caleb Loades, who has been stripped of more than $350,000 in assets following conviction as a drug trafficker and suspicions of money laundering.
Young also investigated banned weightlifters Sergo Chakhoyan and Corran Hocking, who tested positive to the same stimulant as Fogagnolo and Myers, benzylpiperazine.
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WESTTOWN Among the pieces of history achieved at Saturdays inagural Ches-Mont League Wrestling Championships, the last first of the evening was performed by Downingtown Wests Dan Pommerer as the 132-pounder was named the first winner of the Daily Local News Oustanding Wrestler Award.
Pommerer kicked off his tournament with a fall in 1:11 over West Chester Easts Justin Cooper, setting up a match with a familiar foe in Downingtown Easts AJ Nelson. The two have been banging heads on the
mat for as long as they could remember, probably going back to the time when Pommerer started wrestling at age nine in third grade.
As is typical when opponents know each other very well, it was a low-scoring affair, with Pommerer eking out a 1-0 victory.
Its tough wrestling someone you are so close to it practically feels like a teammate, said Pommerer. We bascially grew up wrestling each other in matches and in the practice room. Were always very
competitive with one another.
Pommerer than went on to win the 132-pound title with a 4-0 victory over top-seeded Mike Caldwell of Unionville.
His performance on the day more than earned him the title of Most Outstanding Wrestler.
Winning this feels incredible, said Pommerer. Its definitely a big deal that I will relish for a while. Its nice to know that the hard work pays off.
Pommerer would now like to keep things going for a few more weeks, hopefully winding up in Hershey. His next hill to climb comes in the District 1 Central tournament at Oxford on Saturday.
Im excited for next week, said Pommerer. I was not happy with my post season last year. I have some lofty goals this year, and next week I get to work on achiving them.


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Post-acid case, Bolshoi to put on 'Rite of Spring'
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(AP) MOSCOW - It was, perhaps, last century's most scandalous ballet _ one modeled after a pagan ritual of human sacrifice and showcasing dancers in ancient Slavic costumes prancing to odd-metered, cacophonous music.
On Thursday, Moscow's Bolshoi theater opens a new production of "The Rite of Spring." It is the Bolshoi's first new production since an acid attack in January severely burned its artistic director, Sergei Filin.
At the 1913 Paris premiere of "The Rite of Spring" _ Igor Stravinsky's ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky _ a polarized audience laughed, whistled, booed and started fist fights.
The new choreographed version by Tatyana Baganova centers on thirsty male and female dancers looking for water through symbolic submission to ideology and technology _ and ultimately finding love.
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A roundup of high school sports results from across northern Michigan:
A roundup of high school sports results from across northern Michigan:
Goose Kallunki drove in three runs Friday night as Joliet beat the Traverse City Beach Bums 5-2 in a Frontier League season opener.
Continued ...The defending regional champion Trojans repeated, dusting the competition at Friday's Division 1 meet at Central High School for a 70-point win over second place Alpena.
Continued ...In terms of drama, one couldn't have asked for much more from the boys side of the Division 1 track regional Friday at TC Central.
Continued ...Charlevoix clinched the Lake Michigan Conference golf championship Friday after winning the final league meet at Antrim Dells.
Continued ...Following are the top girls listings for the Record-Eagle Honor Roll track and field meet on May 28 at TC Central.
Continued ...What's happening in sports across the region and the country:
Continued ...The Traverse City Beach Bums lost their 2013 Frontier League season opener 5-2 to the Joliet Slammers on Friday night.
Continued ...The Traverse City Beach Bums are tied with Joliet 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning of their 2013 Frontier League baseball season opener.
Continued ...It came down to the final event, but when all was said and done Traverse City Central came away with two regional track championships on Friday.
Continued ...A roundup of high school sports results from across northern Michigan:
Continued ...St. Francis tennis coach Jeff Hughes juggled his lineup during the season — and it paid off with a Division 4 regional title Thursday at Traverse City Central.
Continued ...Traverse City Central qualified for the girls tennis state finals for the 32nd straight year, handily winning the Division 1 regional at Midland.
Continued ...Jacob Clem will get the start in tonight's Traverse City Beach Bums opener at Joliet.
Continued ...Ryan Schiller threw a no-hitter as TC Central defeated Benzie Central 15-0 in a three-inning softball doubleheader opener. (Plus more)
Continued ...For most of the last decade, I've been fishing for bluegills a day or two a year with Denny Hettig, who has developed a simple trolling approach that is not only incredibly productive, but also almost idiot-proof.
Continued ...Roller derby bouts this weekend; Blue Star hosting baseball tourney; Screening of 'Signals for Survival.' (Plus more)
Continued ...Walleye, musky and pike season on the Upper Peninsula Great Lakes, inland waters and the St. Mary's River opened on May 15. The early catch-and-immediate-release bass season also opened on May 15.
Continued ...What's happening in sports across the region and the country:
Continued ...A roundup of high school sports results from across northern Michigan:
Continued ...Darren Keyton's dream of signing with an NFL team came true. Not only that, but he's also playing for the team he grew up watching and rooting for.
Continued ...Traverse City Central hopes to end a five-year regional tennis title drought today. The Trojans enter play in the 11-team Division 1 field at the Midland Tennis Center as the favorite.
Continued ...Paper doesn't run. So even though on paper the TC Central girls track team appears to have everything it needs to win Friday's Division 1 track regional at Central High School, the Trojans aren't ready to hold an early championship-crowning ceremony.
Continued ...Down 4-0 at half, Leland battled back to post a 6-4 soccer win over Kingsley on Wednesday. (Plus more)
Continued ...One season probably doesn't completely kill the opinion of Wuerfel Park. But after last season's surge in power numbers, the Beach Bums are doing their best to change the notion that their home park isn't friendly to hitters.
Continued ...Sean Gusrang was an infielder by trade. Until last season, that is.
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Human activity is affecting the Earth's natural systems and resources
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A meeting in London this week will show whether science can not only diagnose our environmental crisis but also provide effective solutions.
One of the most significant achievements of science over the past few decades has been to provide convincing evidence that human activity has had a growing and potentially unsustainable impact on virtually every aspect of our planet.
The scientific community now needs to help society find a way out of this situation and on to a sustainable course of social and economic development that is compatible with the planet's natural systems and finite resources.
An opportunity to showcase how this could be done arises next week in the United Kingdom, at the major international conference Planet Under Pressure (PUP), held in London on 26–29 March 2012.
This article is part of our Planet Under Pressure 2012 coverage — which takes place 26–29 March 2012. To read insights from our conference team please visit our blog.
The meeting takes place in the run-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, two decades after Brazil hosted a landmark meeting where treaties were signed on climate, biodiversity and desertification.
The organisers of the London meeting face the challenge of ensuring its recommendations are both concrete and viable if they are to have any lasting impact, not only at Rio+20 but beyond.
The conference must not merely project a litany of warnings of impending catastrophe, voice complaints about the lack of progress in achieving the goals of earlier treaties, or propose new research initiatives without a clear indication of how their results will be used.
Politicians need evidence
The warnings of catastrophe are, of course, still essential, particularly at a time when the minds of most politicians and their electorates in Western nations are focussed on financial issues of more immediate concern.
As economists in these countries struggle to handle vast deficits, they need reminding that the easy credit which, in part, led to the debt crisis, has fuelled a rapacious consumerism that has exacerbated the environmental crisis.
It is no longer sufficient for economic solutions — and the political actions they require — to be based on fiscal arguments alone.
It is also essential to consider the viability of the natural systems on which all social activity depends as an integral part of any path out of the financial crisis.
The more evidence that scientists can gather to support this, and the better they outline the likely consequences of failure to change current trends, the higher the chances that politicians will adopt policies that are sustainable both economically and environmentally .
Direct engagement
But demonstrating the scale and urgency of the problem is not sufficient. It is equally important to ensure that scientists become directly engaged in efforts to draw up and implement solutions at all levels of society.
This means, for example, that the scientific community needs to reorganise itself so it can interact more directly and effectively with policymakers, rather than lecturing them from a distance.
One way that this can be achieved is by ensuring that research priorities are determined by the problems that society needs solving, rather than issues researchers find intellectually stimulating. Increasing the amount of interdisciplinary work required to solve the kinds of complex problems at hand is another option.
Better engagement also means strengthening science advisory mechanisms and local governance. This will ensure that policymakers are adequately informed about the implications of their decisions, for example on steps to mitigate the effects of climate change, and that decisions are guided by scientific evidence. This is already on the agenda for Rio+20.
Finally, it means scientists must link their problem-solving to practical mechanisms that can put solutions into effect — for example, by establishing effective technology transfer mechanisms to get novel solutions to the marketplace where they can be disseminated, and by taking measures to fill the gap if the market fails.
Science for society
There is plenty of evidence that, in planning next week's Planet Under Pressure meeting, the organisers have accepted the need for greater engagement of scientists working to meet social needs and priorities. Indeed, they have designed the meeting with this in mind, which some of the organisers describe as unique.
For example, it will involve an unprecedented mix of disciplines debating issues such as the creation of sustainable development goals, and the viability of 'planetary boundaries' as a key concept in tackling sustainability problems.
Also, many of the sessions will focus directly on how best to get science into policy.
Both features of the meeting have already generated a high level of excitement among participating scientists at the prospect of an event that is unique both in its multidisciplinary approach and its commitment to science as the proposer — and assessor — of solutions to planetary problems.
This enthusiasm seems likely to be reflected in a final declaration that emphasises how science can serve society more effectively, as humanity faces the crisis ahead.
But the proof of the pudding will be in the eating: discussions, detailed analysis and bold declarations of intent alone are not enough. They require commitment and follow-through.
Urgent action is needed to steer the planet towards a more sustainable future. Scientists can draw up the charts of where to go, and the lists of what society must do to get there.
But they also need to help directly, and in practical ways, to ensure that it does. The stakes are too high to fail.
David Dickson
Editor, SciDev.Net
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Charles Dhewa ( Zimbabwe )
26 March 2012
Dear David, This issue is too big for scientists alone. We need to bring in other sources of knowledge which science take for granted. The world is no longer as linear as science has always wanted everyone to believe. The Devil is in What Science doesn't know and will never know. Disciplined experimentation no longer produces explicit, objective knowledge. We have to start taking into account several different kinds of human knowledge out there. The sooner we do this the better. For too long we have been sold the myth that the only valid knowledge is cumulative (acquired through reading many books and peer review processes). Ironically, in spite of advances in science and technology, poverty is increasing and threats from climate change are becoming more real.
Best wishes,
Charles Dhewa
Knowledge Transfer Africa
Montanus ( United States of America )
27 March 2012
Scientists talk to policymakers - but nobody engages the public effectively. The people resist whatever change is proposed because it doesn't come from them and doesn't represent their opinion (or understanding). "Policy makers" may matter more in Europe, but as long as no one is cultivating popular culture scientists and policy makers will not have the consent of the governed. I have more hope for implementation of "bottom up" strategies and solutions than for all the piled up shelf-paper.
Arnoldo ( Mico University College | Jamaica )
29 March 2012
As usual, well said David,
Space may not have permitted you to emphasize the pivotal roles of the informal and formal private sectors in the equation of survival. These sectors must be educated sufficiently to undertake support and development, as well as the application of the sustainable principles of science, by the uninhibited employment of more knowledge workers to ensure increased efficiency and responsibility.
arasheedyassin ( Yemen )
5 April 2012
It was/is supposed that science finds sustainable solutions for problems. in the process, we have come across "bottom-up approaches, problem oriented approaches, technology transfer, generation of scientific solutions, two-way channel approaches, participatory approaches, socioeconomic surveys/solutions, so on a and so forth".
We have spent billions on mitigations, motivations, training, incentives, support money, aids, etc. over a span of 70-80 years of persistent research/science.
The globe is getting poorer in every aspect. May be science has not prioritise or did not move simultaneously with the problems risen by science itself during the course of implementation. We should learn from our mistakes and look for solutions and do not conduct approaches which are very often non-relevant to the problems generated by science itself. Dr, A. Rahed
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In NYC a lot has changed with Sherry in the past year. Sherry is lovable now, and this is a great thing.
It took me a while to actually buy the beautiful fresh shell beans that appear in the market throughout the summer. I read about how easy they are to work with and how delicious they are, how it's hard to go back to dried beans afterwards. And I was tempted, but really? Would I do all of that work for beans?
Recently I had the rather disturbing realization that almost half of the bottles in my cellar are wrong. They are not wines that today I would bet on to give me the pleasure that I look for in mature wine. There's nothing terrible in there, but there are plenty of wines in which today I would not make the investment of money, cellar space, or time. It got me thinking again about this whole question of aging wine. How should I decide on the wines I want to age?
Let me be clear - I am not asking about which mature wines I want to drink. That's easy, I would say. I want to taste any and all mature wines so I can learn more about what to expect from various young wines as they age. I'm asking about about selecting young wines for the cellar.
Keith Levenberg wrote something interesting about this a little while ago, telling a story about buying 6 bottles of 2001 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie La Chavaroche, drinking one and not being moved, and then "disposing" of the rest by bringing them to dinners with people who don't care which wine they are drinking. And then he drank a bottle of the same wine but from the 1983 vintage, and was moved. Enough to bring newer vintages of La Chavaroche back into his cellar.
I have never tasted a young version of a classically made and age-worthy wine, and then aged that wine to maturity. I simply have not been collecting wine long enough to do that. I have never tested my own ideas about which wines in time will become what I'm hoping for, and which will not. I don't know if I'm right when I drink a young wine and then think "yes, this wine should age well."
Think about it - you have to have been collecting wine for 25 years if you've tasted a great old bottle of Burgundy, Bordeaux, Barolo, or northern Rhône wine that you bought upon release. It's rare to be in the company of such a person. I only rediscovered wine about 7 years ago. Who knows if I will still care about wine in 25 years? Will I drink my 2007 Bernard Baudry Les Grezeaux with the same delight that I felt in putting it into storage, planning for that day? I'm just guessing every time I put something in my cellar. I'm more educated now with my guesses, but I am still guessing.
I actually feel pretty good about what I put into the cellar these days. Some of this is simply understanding what it is that I like in wine. For example, I cellared almost nothing from the 2009 vintage in Burgundy. 2009 was a ripe vintage that gave big wines and that is not the thing that excites me about Burgundy. I saved a few nice bottles from 2007 and 2008, though. Wines from those vintages tend to have less ripeness and body, but while very young they showed a balance, clarity, and detail that I found compelling. Will that translate to mature wines that are exquisitely balanced, thrillingly detailed, and terroir-expressive? Honestly, I have no idea. I do like the idea, though, of cellaring wines that today show some of the characteristics that I want to be amplified in maturity.
Another thing that I'm enjoying lately is thinking of all of the recent vintages I've had of wines that I actually have built some familiarity with, and trying to decide which recent vintage is the one I would cellar if I had to choose only one vintage. This is not always easy to do.
For example, I've drunk several bottles of Foillard Morgon Côte de Py each vintage since 2006. I was in love with the 2007 and felt that it would age well so I saved a few bottles in the cellar. But then one night a couple years ago I was hanging out with Joe Salamone, one of the wine buyers at Crush, a lovely guy whose thoughts on wine are always smart and well-considered. I asked him what he thought about the 2007 vintage of Foillard Côte de Py, hoping he would confirm my belief. He said that he liked the wine a lot, especially for short term drinking, but that he didn't think the 2007 was a good candidate for long term aging. Hmmm. So maybe my read is wrong on age-worthy Foillard Côte de Py. I've since drunk all of my remaining bottles except for one, and it's true - it is already showing mature notes and it feels completely harmonious. Still, I think I need to see what will happen with another 5 years or so. You know, to confirm or refute my own hypothesis. The 2010 Foillard Morgon Côte de Py, by the way, is the recent vintage that I would now bet on for best future satisfaction.
The other night a generous friend came over for dinner. He told me earlier in the day that he would bring "an interesting Burgundy to try." That works well because I happen to love Burgundy wine. He arrived and produced a bottle of wine by one of the most famous names in the history of Burgundy, in all of wine, I would say.
Jayer Bourgogne was very good. but a lesson in terroir in that it in the end was Bourgogne, perhaps with some villages fruit in there? But it's hard to make a grand cru wine from Bourgogne site, even if you're Jayer I guess.Peter wrote back, and as he tends to do, he said something concise and smart that made me want to write this post. He said:
That bottle is too weighed down by expectations. When it was made it was supposed to be a good, easy-drinking yet high-quality wine, like Lafarge Passetoutgrains or Dugat Bourgogne. Now, though, it's expected to be Jayer.Food for thought.
Amazing that it's happened so quickly, but summer is basically over. The good news is that fall happens fast too, and after Thanksgiving it's just a few winter months, and then it's almost summer again. So yes, it's almost next summer already, and that is exciting.
This time of year I eat tomatoes shamelessly. Tomatoes of all colors, shapes, and sizes, at any time of day, with any combination of foods, and prepared in all sorts of ways. I try to be creative and still, some of my favorite late summer tomato dishes are the classics. Really, I ask you, could you turn down a well-made BLT? Could you refuse a plate of fried green tomatoes? I should think not.
Sherry improves for a few days after opening. I know, this goes against what we've all heard for decades. But it's true, especially if we are talking about quality brown Sherries that are shipped carefully. After hearing about this for a while I experimented a bit in early 2012 and confirmed this idea. Now I routinely open a brown Sherry (Palo Cortado, Amontillado, and Oloroso) several days in advance of the night on which I plan to drink it.
What about other kinds of Sherry - do they also improve over several days? Recently I decided to experiment with a bottle of Sherry that has no official category, but we might call it a Fino-Amontillado. This is a Fino Sherry whose wines are old enough (perhaps 8-12 years) in which the flor has begun to die, and it thins and becomes patchy, no longer fully protecting the wines from oxygen in barrel. The wine begins to take on a darker color and a certain richness that comes with oxidative aging. But although it has some of the characteristics of Amontillado it is not yet Amontillado, and retains much of the brisk Fino style. This style, Fino-Amontillado, is a favorite of many Sherry aficionados, for whatever that's worth, including singer Paula Abdul, the magician Gallagher, and wine writer Peter Liem.
You know how sometimes you eat a wonderful dish or drink a great bottle with friends and although you want to share the joy, you just never seem to work it into a post on your blog? Me too, I know exactly how you feel. Here are some things from the past few months that I haven't managed to write about, but are worth sharing:
So I'm going to reveal to you that back in fall of 2008 I was a Brooklynguy who practiced home-pickling. I found, though, that I was unable to grow a good looking soul patch, or really any facial hair that looks normal. I grew a mustache once as part of a Halloween costume but it freaked people out, they said I looked like a porn star. 86 the mustache, they said, and so I did. So clearly I should not be pickling vegetables at home either. But there was a time when I was doing some pickling. Okra, even.
What's also funny about the post I linked to above is that there is mention of essentially the same okra recipe I'm going to share today. It's the simplest of recipes - the important thing is that you use good ingredients. You are braising okra in a sauce of fresh tomatoes and garlic. And then creating a beautiful weekend breakfast by topping this with a sunny side-up egg. There are variables you can play with here. I like to use a jalapeno pepper in the braising sauce, but you can play with heat, or leave it out. You can use wine in the tomatoes, or not. You can season the braising liquid with anything you like, although I find that with super good ingredients, you don't need much.
Okra is at the markets now, and you should try this - it's delicious and quite healthy:
Wash the okra and trim the stem so that a centimeter or less remains. Put some music on - I think that Coltrane Live in Stockholm works well here, but you can go with Giant Steps too. You can use good canned tomatoes, but 'tis tomato season. I like to use fresh plum tomatoes, but last weekend I used a smaller variety of the same shape called Juliettes. Use good tomatoes - that's what's most important. Chop the tomatoes coarsely. Use a mortar and pestle to make a paste of a very large clove of garlic. In a heavy bottomed pot over medium heat, using olive oil or neutral oil to your taste, cook the tomatoes until they begin to break down a little, stirring a lot, maybe 5 minutes. Add the garlic paste and some salt. Stir some more.
Add the okra and stir to coat them with the tomato sauce. Here I like to add a fresh jalapeno pepper that I've poked with a fork so that its flavors will easily seep out into the sauce. Stir some more, turn down the heat to low, cover the pot, and simmer, stirring a few times, until the okra are as tender as you want them to be. You will have something that looks like this (although you can stop the simmer 8 minutes earlier and have firmer okra, also amazing):
I was in Chicago recently and my pal Peter told me to try a Spanish place called Vera.
Wow, glad that I did. There is an exciting Sherry list, the food is
very good, and the staff are genuinely friendly and welcoming. The whole
vibe is right - this place is a gem, and if you are in Chicago I highly
recommend that you try it.
There was a dinner I enjoyed not long ago with a few of the guys from my Burgundy Wine Club. One of our group, a brain surgeon who lives in Rhode Island, came to NYC specifically to enjoy this dinner with us and he brought a slew of absolute gems from his cellar to share. I'm talking about well preserved white Burgundy from the late 1980's. And not just any old Burgundy, great terroirs were represented. Drinking them together was really a breathtaking experience and offered several profound lessons.
When I think of terroir, I invariably think within the Burgundian model where each vineyard produces wines that are different from those of its neighboring vineyards. I'm willing to bet that most of us think of terroir in approximately those terms. There are several places in the wine world that do not adhere to this model, though, and the Sherry Triangle is one of them.
When I think of terroir in Sherry I think of the white chalky soils called albariza, I think of the peculiar and wonderful smell and taste of flor, I think of the salty air in Sanlucar's Manzanillas and of the yeasty tang of Jerez's Finos. I think of intense heat and winds. Especially now that I have visited the region, I think of the beautiful old buildings, or bodegas, where barrels of wine age in elaborate soleras. Each bodega is unique in terms of airflow, temperature, humidity, and many other variables, and I've heard people say that the Bodega itself is a unique terroir. I do not for a moment doubt the truth in this idea.
Where is the vineyard in all of this? There is little or no emphasis placed on the vineyard in Sherry. This was not always the case, and Peter Liem, America's foremost Sherry expert, has often spoken about how the best vineyards in the area have long been recognized as such, and how they once played a prominent role in the understanding of Sherry wines. As I am sure he will discuss in his forthcoming book called Sherry, Manzanilla and Montilla, a collective decision was made a long time ago in the region to focus on producing high quantities of decent wine for the mass market, as opposed to making wines of the highest quality. Even today, although we are in the middle of a huge resurgence of interest in Sherry wines, much of what is available is mass market wine that is decent but not special. The market still has a long and winding road to recovery.
Is there a terroir stamp of the vineyard in the Sherry region? As Peter would say, there is little empirical evidence for this. Almost no one in the region is making single vineyard wines, and comparing vineyards is therefore almost impossible. "Since no one has cared for 60 years, Miraflores for example has not been vinified and aged in solera in the same place as Macharnudo Alto," Peter said. "It would take quite a while to do this, even if the investment were made."
Although there is no way to compare vineyard terroirs right now, it is possible to very deeply explore at least one vineyard, the site called Macharnudo Alto. Macharnudo Alto is a parcel within Marcharnudo, one of the four great pagos of the region. A pago is something like a vineyard district - an area containing several named parcels. I recently had the great pleasure to attend a dinner featuring a slew of wines made from Macharnudo Alto. Peter Liem conceived of this dinner and put it on with the support of Rosemary Gray of RS Productions NYC.
The Macharnudo pago is perhaps 800 hectares, the Marcharnudo Alto parcel much smaller than that, and of that Valdespino owns 56 hectares. From these vines come excellent wines that you really should get to know if you are interested in Sherry (if you haven't tried them already). I'm talking about Inocente, the very fine Fino, Tio Diego, the unique and wonderful Amontillado, Viejo CP, the great Palo Cortado, and finally Cardenal, the rare and regal very old Palo Cortado that is surely one of the finest wines in all of the region. On a recent hot and muggy night a group of Sherry lovers congregated at Terroir TriBeCa to drink these and other wines from Macharnudo Alto, and although I cannot say that I came from this with a clear understanding of the terroir of Macharnudo Alto as it relates to other parcels in Jerez, I can tell you that the wines are reliably excellent. Here are some notes and thoughts:I have been wanting to do a specific sherry tasting for over a year now, involving an in-depth examination of the vineyard of Macharnudo Alto. Macharnudo is one of the four great pagos, or vineyard districts, that lie to the north and west of Jerez, and while it is composed of many individual vineyard sites, the most celebrated is that of Macharnudo Alto, which is the highest in altitude and the one considered to have the purest albariza soils.
We are fortunate in that not only is Macharnudo Alto one of the great historical sites of the sherry region, it also belongs, in part, to one of the greatest sherry bodegas currently in existence, Valdespino, who has been making single-vineyard sherries from Macharnudo Alto since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. The result is an array of wines that offer a multi-faceted expression of a legendary terroir...
Whoa! Levi Dalton's podcast series continues and today's installment features our conversation. We talk about blogging and what motivates me, and all sorts of things. If nothing else, this offers proof that I am in fact a person who is capable of speaking.
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Here are the sources of the tasting notes I reproduced on Friday:
1) Richard Jennings describing 1996 Chapoutier St Joseph Blanc Les Granits. All of Jennings' notes are in a style that is not my personal favorite, but this one with its meniscus measurement strikes me as particularly strange. By the way, I say "personal favorite" for a reason. Richard Jennings is by far the favorite author of the CellarTracker community, where as of today 1,407 members have tagged him as a favorite author. Second favorite is Eric LeVine, the founder of the site, with 1,142. Third is Keith Levenberg with 603. CellarTracker is the most widely used cellar management and tasting note board on the internet (all statistics made up, yet true). Clearly Jennings' notes speak to many people.
2) Alder Yarrow of Vinography describing 2010 Fred Loimer "Seeberg Erste Lage Reserve" Riesling, Langenlois, Kamptal. The "electric cool aid explosion" and the "jet boat ride" got me. Nothing wrong with that though, as it comes across as genuine to me, and you could argue, quite descriptive.
3) This is me getting all exuberant and emotive after drinking Selosse Substance for the first time. An over-the-top tasting note for an over-the-top wine. I liked the note at the time but I think it's clear now that it has not aged well. Reading it out of context it can come off as downright strange.
4) Frederic Koeppel of Bigger Than Your Head describing 2009 Michel Lafarge Volnay Vendanges Sélectionées. I quite like this note, as for me it captures the feeling of drinking good red Burgundy. What I found odd is how the soulful character of the note juxtaposes with the scientific-sounding (and in my opinion, more misleading than helpful) recommendation on a drinking window: "now through 2018 to '20."
5) Robert Parker describing 2006 Ausone ($1,495!), via Sherry-Lehmann's website. I am not a subscriber to the Wine Advocate so I had to get this note from a retailer's reprint. Okay, this is a Parker note and it's bombastic, as I'm sure the wine is. But I was struck by this part: "...but what makes it so special is its precision, focus, and almost
ethereal lightness despite substantial flavor intensity and depth. It is
a ballerina with density and power." Sounds like something that Asimov or any of the "Post-Parker generation" of influential wine writers would say about a red wine they appreciate. Is this Parker imitating that new type of compliment for red wine, or has he always said such things about the big reds that he loves?
Anyway, thanks for indulging me in this exercise. As is evidenced in the comments to the previous post, tasting notes for some reason provoke a lot of outrage in people. I think that there's no point in hating the note, it's a part of selling wine and that's that. Everyone who writes about wine is responsible for some strange notes. But tasting notes should be useful other than as shelf talkers with point scores attached. I think the trick is to not expect too much. After all, how can a few sentences describe a full sensory experience? Keep it simple - find a voice(s) that you relate to most of the time, and trust yourself as much as you trust that voice.
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i bought the product and shipped it abroad and found out never worked!!
The IC circuit is of a very poor quality for a branded merchandise. It never worked from day one and the sound is intermittent. You bridge it directly to the speakers and obtain a very poor sound. Nice $15 cooler but at $100!! Bought a $149 Bose Bluetooth high quality speaker.
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I haven't had the luxury of using this on the beach yet, but a quick sound test on my balcony seems to assure a pleasant sound with chilly findings inside. come on summer!!!
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I originally purchased this item to take to the beach with me this summer. Since summer months are still months away, I couldnt wait to try it out. I have been using to take meals to my daughters homes when I visit, and as well on trips for business purposes. The sound from speakers are truelly fantastic, and the cooler functionality is excellant! My daughters love this bag and has also been a hit with my grandchildren! I plan on purchasing 3 more for my daughters so they too can enjoy their own at the beach.
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I bought this as a Christmas present for some friends of ours because they love the beach and Tommy Bahama! I was so embarrassed when they came over the other night and said it does not work. They put new batteries in the product and it NEVER worked. Great idea but worthless product. I am mad that I lost $100 for a seemingly wonderful gift.
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Relocation can be down the street, to a neighbouring town, across country or even abroad. Each has its own considerations and you need to listen carefully to the advice any good mover should provide. It's all part of their business, and they should understand your specific needs – and the best way of transporting you and your possessions to your destination.
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE - Every year when school lets out, teachers and staff are still hard at work with leftover administrative duties from the year, and are preparing for the next. For Head of School Rosa Ramos, this year is more than a little melancholy. She is packing up for good after six years with The Island School, and will soon be headed to the place of her birth, Puerto Rico.
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BY ALICE GORMAN - Amazing and wonderful things keep happening in Boca Grande. The Johann Fust Community Library has announced that a special presentation will be made by former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, in Boca Grande on November 15.
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Every homeowner should have a tool kit that contains the basic tools that you may need to do regular repairs on your home. By having these tools on hand, you can be prepared to handle all repairs in your home, and you can take on some home improvements also.
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Start with the most basic of your tools – hand tools. You need to have a collection of Phillips head screwdrivers as well as straight screwdrivers. You should also have pliers: Regular, needle nose and locking. Then you will want to have wrenches: An Allen wrench, adjustable wrench, combination wrench and a socket wrench set. Also essential is a hammer including a claw and a ball peen hammer and a mallet. In addition to your hand tools you will want basic power drill with a variety of drill bits. You may also want to have a few larger tools handy including a pipe wrench, a pick and a sledgehammer.
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