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Honey Labels
This spring we were approached by Turkey Hill Apiary, located just south of us in Lakeville, MN, to redesign and letterpress print labels for their wildflower honey. This isn't just any honey, either, it's natural honey that is aged in micro-distiller barrels!
There are two flavors, bourbon and rye whiskey, both of which we can confirm are just as tasty as you'd hope they would be. We designed the labels to have the aesthetics of an old liquor bottle or newspaper, mostly typographic combined with some clean line work. Once the design phase was complete the labels were letterpress printed on Strathmore Soft White Label stock in two inks, black for the bourbon and a maroon for the rye whiskey. After printing they were kisscut, meaning we diecut through the labels, but not through the backing of the label stock, allowing them to be peeled from the backing during labeling process (done by hand by the beekeeper at the apiary).


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Bayview/Hunters Point District
- San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point
A large portion of the area known today as Bayview Hunters Point was once extremely rural. Called Butchertown by locals, the neighborhood was a source of much of San Francisco's food. Over the years, it evolved into an interesting combination of residences, businesses, and industries. (979.461 Ob69s)
Bernal Heights District
- San Francisco's Bernal Heights
Freeways and urban thoroughfares now bound the Bernal Heights neighborhood, once defined by the swamps and creeks of the original Mexican land grant. The legacy of Potrero Viejo, or old pasture, and the farms of the 19th and 20th centuries have developed into today's passion for the preservation of open space. (979.461 Sa5788) (20 copies)
Castro District
- The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. (B M5995sh 2008) (14 copies)
- San Francisco's Castro
The Castro has been known since the 1970s as being the epicenter of the gay rights movement. This book shows the area's growth from a smattering of Victorian houses built for working-class families in the 1870s to the flood of young gay men who settled in the neighborhood a century later. (979.461 D368s) (15 copies)
- Him Mark Lai: Autobiography of a Chinese American Historian
The renowned Dean of Chinese American History provides an intimate portrait of a San Francisco Chinatown family and community developments from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the McCarthy era of the 1950s, through the Asian American Studies Movement of the 1970s, to the present. (B L141h) (26 copies)
- San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture
Both a history of America's oldest Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture, this book traces the development of the neighborhood from the city's earliest days to its post-quake transformation into an "oriental" tourist attraction as a pragmatic means of survival. (979.461 C4599s) (31 copies)
- San Francisco's Chinatown
Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets, buildings, and residents have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the "Golden Age of Postcards." (979.461 B6758s) (23 copies)
- San Francisco's Chinatown
San Francisco's Chinatown--the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia--is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth in the 1850s, Chinatown has also been a residential neighborhood, business community, and cultural center for generations of Chinese Americans. (979.461 Y924s) (29 copies)
Excelsior District
- San Francisco's Excelsior District
Although not among San Francisco's "spotlight" neighborhoods, the Excelsior District is an important residential and commercial zone. This volume chronicles the Excelsior's intriguing tale of determined immigrant families putting down roots in a challenging locale and overcoming adversity to stake out a permanent enclave in this famed city. (979.461 J348s) (15 copies)
Fillmore District
- A Dream Begun So Long Ago: The Story of David Johnson; Ansel Adams' First African American Student
In his 1946 classes at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), Ansel Adams advised David Johnson to photograph his own neighborhood and document the faces and places with which he was most familiar. He subsequently became an important chronicler of black life in San Francisco in the middle part of the 20th century. Now in his late 80s, Johnson is considered a pioneer as a photographer in the San Francisco Fillmore community. (4 copies on order)
- Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
This book reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. The archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it will delight jazz fans and history aficionados. (979.461 P393h) (14 copies)
- San Francisco's Fillmore District
Today's Fillmore District bears little resemblance to the cosmopolitan place it once was. This district, which has arguably changed more than any other in the city, once held a large Jewish settlement and a huge Japanese community, now centered in Japantown, but not as extensive as in the prewar years. (979.461 Oa49s) (10 copies)
Financial District
- San Francisco's Financial District
Some call it "Wall Street West," while some just call it "downtown," but San Francisco's financial district is a long-running business powerhouse, home to scores of corporate headquarters, prominent law firms, restaurants, hotels, banks, the Pacific Stock Exchange, and striking waterfront views radiating outward from the landmark 1898 Ferry Building. (979.461 M6129s) (7 copies)
Glen Park and Diamond Heights
- San Francisco's Glen Park and Diamond Heights
Only 120 years ago Glen Park and Diamond Heights were part of the Outside Lands, so isolated that only farmers would settle here. As peak-roofed wooden cottages and houses began to fill in the valleys, the urban, homey, and decidedly livable Glen Park known today began to emerge. (979.461 Sm557s) (27 copies)
- Black Power: Flower Power
Photographers Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch masterfully documented the early days of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area. This significant movement changed the fabric of the United States and their photographs profoundly chronicle the influence on American social, political and cultural life. Baruch photographed the Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love in 1967. (799.9322 J723b) (6 copies)
- The Haight Ashbury a history
In this acclaimed, definitive work, Charles Perry examines the history, the drama, and the energy of counter-culture's defining moment. First published by Rolling Stone Press in 1984 and re-released with a new introduction by the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir to time with Haight-Ashbury's 40th anniversary, this work is a must-have for anyone interested in the original sex, drugs, and rock n roll lifestyle. (979.461 P429h 2005) (11 copies)
- San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury
At the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park. Six decades later, it anchored the worldwide cultural revolution that blossomed in the 1960s. Though synonymous with peace, love, and living outside the mainstream, its history goes back long before the Summer of Love. (979.461 C6605s) (28 copies)
- The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest
The 30th anniversary edition tells, through photos and words, exactly what the psychedelic world of the Haight-Ashbury was like. (979.461 An867s 1995) (3 copies)
- San Francisco's Japantown
The community of Japantown, with its graceful architecture of pagodas and fountains, has long been a vital part of San Francisco. Japantown--one of only three left in this country--began as Nihonjinmachi, or "Japanese People's Town," after the first Japanese arrived here in 1869. (979.461 Sa579) (9 copies)
Marina District
- San Francisco's Marina District
One of San Francisco's most picturesque neighborhoods, the Marina District is famous for its aesthetic and historic appeal. The Marina hosts a large number of Art Deco structures and the famed Palace of Fine Arts, a resplendent collection of buildings originally designed for the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. (979.461 L669sa) (15 copies)
Mission District
- The Comic Book Guide to the Mission: A Cartoon Tour through San Francisco's Mission District
In the graphic novel two dozen artists and writers contribute their stories, drawings, and memories of a vibrant and ever-changing San Francisco neighborhood. (741.5697 C735) (22 copies)
- It Felt Like a Kiss: Glimpses of Art in the Mission District of San Francisco
The Mission District of San Francisco has a vibrant artistic soul. This book explores some of that energy by looking at mural art, graffiti, puppetry, digital art, and more. This book originated as a series of columns in Mission arts monthly. (709.7946 P8865i) (7 copies)
- San Francisco's Mission District
Named after Mission Dolores, San Francisco's oldest complete structure, the Mission District was settled by the Spanish in the late 1700s. After the gold rush, the district dramatically evolved into the diverse area of today, a bustling mix of immigrants from other states, Europe, and South and Central America. (979.461 H7661s) (38 copies)
- Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo
With 600 stunning photographs, this comprehensive book showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District. Since the 1970s, a provocative street-art movement combining elements of Mexican mural painting, surrealism, pop art, urban punk, eco-warrior, cartoon, and graffiti has flourished in this dynamic, multicultural community. (751.7309 St832) (27 copies)
Nob Hill
- San Francisco's Nob Hill
With the Gold Rush of 1849, Nob Hill became a lookout point as ships brought thousands to San Francisco. Within the next 40 years, moguls and magnates built spectacular residences atop Nob Hill, which today is home to elegant hotels, a cathedral, and a variety of residents. (979.461 C6605sa) (32 copies)
Noe Valley
- Rancho San Miguel: A San Francisco Neighborhood History
Rancho San Miguel once comprised one-sixth of San Francisco, including the neighborhood now known as Noe Valley. This book covers the history of the change of land ownership from the time of the last Mexican Alcalde of Yerba Buena, Jose de Jesus Noe, to the present time. Filled with fine pictures, it brings the story of this land into sharp relief. (979.461 Si39r 2001) (14 copies)
- San Francisco's Noe Valley
Named for Jose de Jesus Noe, San Francisco's last Mexican mayor, Noe Valley is a favorite San Francisco neighborhood and, with its Victorian homes, one of the most picturesque. The area became a San Francisco enclave situated away from the noise and bustle of the downtown and waterfront areas. (979.461 Y39sn) (11 copies)
North Beach and Telegraph Hill
- Broadway North Beach: The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales
This book tells of a spirited yet simpler time in North Beach. Still a lively neighborhood, North Beach will never be quite what it was in the Golden Years. The book features stories and photos of the people and places that are part of the wonderful history of San Francisco. (979.461 B6924b) (10 copies)
- San Francisco's North Beach and Telegraph Hill
North Beach and Telegraph Hill are among San Francisco's most charming and historic districts. In the early years, Mexican and Spanish settlements dotted the beach and the hill, and later Europeans immigrants and the Beat Generation added character. Architectural gems, such as famed landmark Coit Tower, decorate the slopes down to the bay, delighting residents and tourists alike. Many cafes and restaurants offer delicious foods, while the breathtaking views provide food for the soul. (979.461 Ac221s) (31 copies)
- San Francisco's Telegraph Hill
Since its publication in 1972, San Francisco's Telegraph Hil" has been considered the definitive history of one of the San Francisco's oldest and most beloved neighborhoods. This edition features that fascinating account with all of the original photographs plus thirty-two new pages and many additional photographs. (917.9461 M997s 2001) (Need to order)
Ocean Beach
- Carville-by-the-Sea: San Francisco's Streetcar Suburb
The neighborhood began as a collection of unique individuals making houses out of scrapped streetcars in the sand dunes. This fascinating history illuminates this little-known San Francisco locale. (979.461 L1141c) (18 copies)
- San Francisco's Ocean Beach
Brief descriptions of approximately 200 archival photographs tell the history of Ocean Beach, including that of the first Cliff House and its successors, Adolph Sutro (who bought the area) and Sutro Heights, the Sutro Baths, attractions, the amusement park Playland at the Beach, and Fleishhacker Pool, playfield, and zoo. (979.461 M3163s) (17 copies)
- The San Francisco Cliff House
The shifting fortunes of San Francisco's legendary Cliff House, from raucous seaside roadhouse to fanciful Victorian palace to world-renowned urban destination, are celebrated in this comprehensive illustrated history. Today's Cliff House, now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is enjoying a renaissance following a two-year, multimillion-dollar restoration. (979.461 H815s) (28 copies)
Ocean View, Merced, Ingleside
- Ingleside Terraces: San Francisco Racetrack to Residence Park
In 1895, the Ingleside Racetrack opened as the most opulent horse racing venue west of the Mississippi River. Following the 1906 earthquake and fire, the track served as a refugee camp for the city's most vulnerable. Joseph A. Leonard's Urban Realty Improvement Company purchased the track in the early 1910s to create Ingleside Terraces, one of San Francisco's first master-planned residence parks. (979.461 L1141i) (5 copies)
- OMI : Oceanview Merced Ingleside, San Francisco, California
The 1866-1998 OMI founders' days celebration held from September 28 to October 4, 1998, commemorated 132 years of family life in the Oceanview, Merced, and Ingleside communities. The book features historic illustrations and photographs along with essays on the history of area landmarks, schools, churches, libraries, and other social service organizations. (979.461 Om5) (6 copies)
Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights
- Gables and Fables: A Portrait of San Francisco's Pacific Heights
The book pulls together 110 charming and often gossipy columns Anne Bloomfield wrote for Pacific Heights New Fillmore about different houses in this famous San Francisco neighborhood, including information about the houses' histories, architects (among them William Wurster and Julia Morgan) and residents. (728.3709 B6234g) (15 copies)
- San Francisco's Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights
The prestige of Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights has long fascinated and awed San Francisco residents and visitors. The westward expansion of the city, followed by the addition of cable car lines, quickly transformed these once-barren outlands into gardens, schools, consulates, and homes, both extravagant and simple. (979.461 Ob69p)
Portola District
- San Francisco's Portola
Originally settled by Jewish immigrants, the Portola evolved into a community populated by nurserymen and their families who grew much of the city's flowers. In recent years, community leaders have enacted programs to beautify the neighborhood and attract new businesses and families to this locale. (979.461 G182s) (16 copies)
Potrero Hill
- Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill enjoys some of the city's finest weather and most spectacular views. Once pastureland and home to immigrants working in the shipbuilding industries, Potrero Hill was long ignored by guidebooks. Now "The Hill" is regenerating, and these pages highlight what is gone and what remains on these sunny slopes. (917.9461 L6458p) (7 copies)
- San Francisco's Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill became the first industrial zone in San Francisco, with iron-smelting plants, butcheries, and shipbuilding dominating the waterfront during the late 19th century. The Hill has also been home to immigrants from around the world. Many factories and warehouses have now been converted into housing and offices for techies. (979.461 L6458s) (12 copies)
- Post and Park: A Brief Illustrated History of the Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio of San Francisco fulfilled its mission to "serve and protect" the Pacific Coast for more than two centuries. Now part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, it continues to protect some of the parks' endangered and threatened plant and animal species. (979.461 H153p) (11 copies)
- The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park
An urban enclave with more than 800 buildings and 1,500 acres of land, the Presidio is also a beautiful expanse of lush landscapes, natural resources, and recreation areas. The arduous but successful conversion from U.S. Army base to National Park is chronicled in this provocative case study of urban environmentalism. (979.461 B446p) (7 copies)
- San Francisco's Presidio
Bowen, a docent, brings three generations of his family's experience to this selection of photos, which are showcased along with his fine and thorough captioning. The Presidio, now The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, has been an integral part of San Francisco and of the Army's development. (355.7097 B6758s) (11 copies)
Richmond District
- San Francisco's Richmond District
San Francisco's Richmond District stretches from the city's urban core toward the cliffs of Land's End. Ungaretti, a San Francisco historian and tour guide, showcases vintage black and white photos of Richmond, chronicling the district's journey from sand dunes to the "city's playground" to the neighborhood it is today. (979.461 Un29sr) (26 copies)
South of Market
- City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
Centering his account on the downtown Yerba Buena Center project, Hartman illuminates the conflicts of interest, ambitions, misrepresentations, extravagant promises, brutality, waste, incompetence, and sheer silliness that characterized the ill-fated American experiment called Urban Renewal and puts it into a social and economic context. (307.7609 H2555c 2002) (11 copies)
- Rincon Hill and South Park: San Francisco's Early Fashionable Neighborhood
Rincon Hill, rising above Yerba Buena Cove in gold rush San Francisco, became home to its leading citizens from the 1850s to the 1870s. South Park, situated on its slopes, housed prosperous merchants and wealthy San Franciscans. A working-class area by the late nineteenth-century, the neighborhood suffered the destruction of its remaining original buildings in the 1906 earthquake and fire. (979.461 Sh92r) (6 copies)
Sunset District
- San Francisco's Sunset District
The Sunset District developed late because of its distance from downtown and because of the sand dunes that covered it for thousands of years. After 1900, as public transportation spread and the automobile became available, housing and streets soon began to cover the Sunset District dunes. (979.461 Un29s 2011) (42 copies)
- Stories in the Sand: San Francisco's Sunset District, 1847-1964
This Sunset District history, from the early settlers to a controversial statewide election, features more than 175 photographs and quotes from people who have lived in the neighborhood—including the adult children of the men who built the thousands of houses in the Sunset in the 1930s and 1940s. (10 copies)
The Tenderloin
- Death in the Tenderloin: A Slice of Life from the Heart of San Francisco
These posthumous stories, taken from obituaries published in the Tenderloin newspaper, Central City Extra, are deeply revelatory about the people and the neighborhood. This book celebrates the Tenderloin at its most tender. (920.0974 C2468d) (3 copies)
- San Francisco Tenderloin: True Stories of Heroes, Demons, Angels, Outcasts & a Psychotherapist
Clinical psychologist Wonderling introduces readers to residents of one of San Francisco's most historic, if disreputable, neighborhoods, using passionate prose and careful documentation to tell true stories more fascinating than fiction. (979.461 W845s 2008) (18 copies)
Visitacion Valley
- San Francisco's Visitacion Valley
In early Visitacion Valley, windmills pumped water to irrigate fields, cattle farms, nurseries, and vegetable gardens, leading to the nickname "Valley of the Windmills." The pastoral scenery gave way to a mix of housing and commerce. Today Visitacion Valley is one of the city's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods. (979.461 Sa5794) (8 copies)
West of Twin Peaks
- San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks
Among the last areas to be developed in San Francisco, the West of Twin Peaks district occupies a lofty position on the slopes of Mount Davidson. This chronologically-arranged volume contains some 200 archival and captioned photographs of the district's beautiful homes, sweeping vistas, and prominent individuals. (979.461 P9415s) (17 copies)
West Portal
- San Francisco's West Portal neighborhoods
Following the 1906 earthquake and fire, the San Francisco neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks--West Portal, Forest Hill, and St. Francis Wood--developed in accordance with a new aesthetic that called for respecting the contours of the land while providing for grand boulevards and detached homes with garden and lawns. (979.461 B7338s) (19 copies)

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Jeffcott Jazz concert; Fairfield Bridge winners; Bradshaw's master's degree; Holloway's Sigma Alpha Lambda recognition; Woodmen golf tournament
Jazz Ensemble to perform Tuesday
Bob Jeffcott, a widely known trumpeter from Kinston, is a regular performer at the North Carolina Jazz Festival, including this year�s 33rd annual event held in February in Wilmington.
The Bob Jeffcott Jazz Ensemble � with Steve Creech, Mort Stine, Bob Tyson, Earle Abernethy and Tommy Smith � will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library�s Schechter Auditorium, 510 N. Queen St. The free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library as part of its cultural, educational and entertaining mission for the community.
For more information, call 252-527-7066.
Bridge club names winners
The Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club played a regular game May 7.
The winners were: Roz Ahrens and Jack Weeden, first; Pinkey Harper and Geneva Hood, second; Jane Hood and Barbara Sebald, third; and Dayle Pond and Edith Cahn, fourth.
A regular game will be played at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday at Fairfield Center. The club welcomes and encourages all bridge players.
For more club information, call 252-523-6791.
Kinston woman earns master�s degree
Kelly L. Bradshaw of Kinston has graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., with a Master�s in Social Work.
The 11 a.m. ceremony was held Friday in the Siegel Center on the VCU campus. Her concentration was in administration, policy and planning, and she aspires to work with the homeless.
Bradshaw is a Kinston High School graduate of the Class of 2005. She earned a Bachelor of Science in social work from N.C. Central University in Durham. She is the daughter of Margie D. Jones of Kinston and the late Linwood H. Bradshaw, who lived in Kinston.
National organization honors student
Olivia Wilneisah Holloway of Kinston recently was recognized as a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda, a national leadership and honors organization, at UNC Greensboro.
Nationwide, Sigma Alpha Lambda is dedicated to promoting and rewarding academic achievement and providing members with opportunities for community service, personal development and lifelong professional fulfillment.
Holloway is a member of the Kinston High School Class of 2011, graduating from the International Baccalaureate Program. She is the daughter of Willie and Rozetta Holloway of Kinston.
Woodmen inaugurate golf tournament
Woodmen of the World is hosting its inaugural golf tournament at 8 a.m. May 17 at Cutter Creek Golf Course.
A pig-picking lunch will follow the 18-hole event. Teams/players are needed at $65 per player and sponsorships are being solicited at $100 and $250 levels. Proceeds will support the Woodmen Youth Camp in Fort Barnwell.
For other details, call Janie at 252-208-1134.


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I'll just start out by saying that I can not burp. Not that I don't burp, but that I can't burp. I've never been able to. It is a curse of epic proportions. Obviously the burping gene just skipped right over me because my mother used to be able to burp nearly the whole alphabet. (Sorry Mom!)
Because of this crazy non-belching phenomenon I've got going on in this ol' body, I've been known to have some killer heartburn. I mean B.A.D. heartburn. I've had an ulcer from it. Once I even got the hiccups for three straight days from bad indigestion. It happened when Kamron and I were first dating and he offered to take me to the emergency room for my hiccups and I thought he just dripped with cuteness.
Usually I just take the indigestion, chug a little Maalox and roll with it. But the other day, I got it really bad. I chugged the Maalox and it just kept getting worse and worse. Then it started coming in waves and getting unbearable. I couldn't stand up or talk through the pain. All of a sudden a thought popped into my head- "Oh dear God! I'm in labor. How did I not know I was pregnant". I swear, I thought I was having contractions. Then I got ticked at myself for thinking that drinking champagne for breakfast in New York City was a good idea while I was evidently preggers.
Miles was sleeping and I was in such pain that I sent Sadie and Noah two doors down the street to play at the neighbors. I sat down on the couch and just flat out went into panic mode thinking about how in the hell I was going to give birth to a baby in my living room.
I have watched those ridiculous shows on TLC about the wack-a-doo women who go in the bathroom and sit down and a baby falls out into the toilet and they're all like, "Hey! Wait! Where did this baby come from? I had no idea I was pregnant!" I have made fun of these people to no end. Because really- who doesn't realize that they are nine months pregnant? My mom is a labor and delivery nurse and from her horror stories- I just figured that the women on the shows like this are completely mental and delusional. Flash forward to the other day when I was on the couch in agony and thinking I was in the throws of labor. I was repenting for ever making fun of those redonkulous women, because I was just convinced I was going to join their ranks in a matter of moments.
I started to break out into a sweat and wondered if I ought to call my mom to come and deliver my baby. For some dumb reason, it never occurred to me that maybe I should call my husband and tell him that all of a sudden I was with child and that said child was about to make it's grand entrance. I am pretty sure that little tidbit would have freaked him all the way out. That, or he would have called the mental institution and made arrangements to have me committed. I decided to just sit there and try to belly breath through the pain. Then I started wondering if I should try to get some towels and boil some water. Then I started wondering what I would actually do with the boiling water once I got it boiled. Why in the world do people boil water on TV when they are getting ready to have a baby???
The pain was still getting worse. I thought I was going to split in two and an alien was going to pop out of me. The pain was starting to make me feel like I needed to moan. Finally- I'm embarrassed to say, I moaned. And it helped a little. So I moaned again and when I did.... BURP! Hallelujah! God finally decided that just this once for kicks and giggles he would give me the ability to burp. It was maybe one of the most heavenly feelings I've ever had. All of sudden, that baby I was convinced I was getting ready to shoot out into the world no longer existed. And just like that- it was over. I breathed a huge sigh of relief (can I get and AMEN!) and turned on the TV and waited for my kids to come home.
Just FYI- if you have the ability to let a belch rip, take a minute and thank your lucky stars! You have no idea how desperately jealous of you I am!
Now- go forth and make fun of me. I know you want to.
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Sophie Littlefield grew up in rural Missouri. She writes the post-apocalyptic Aftertime series for LUNA Books. She also writes paranormal fiction for young adults. Her first novel, A Bad Day for Sorry, won an Anthony Award for Best First Novel and an RT Award for Best First Mystery. It was also shortlisted for Edgar, Barry, Crimespree and Macavity Awards, and it was named to lists of the year's best mystery debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Sophie lives in Northern California.
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BFI adds new Solaria 4K DLP platform.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has extended its association with Christie by choosing the new Solaria 4K DLP resolution platform for the BFI Southbank. The platform is compliant with high frame rates and 3D.
It delivers more than 34,000 lumens. The new projector will sit alongside the BFI's Christie CP2000 2K DLP Cinema projector in the 450-seat NFT1.
"The BFI is now staging a lot of very high profile premieres, and this gives us a choice," says Richard Boyd, Head of Technical Services. "Each year we run over 2,000 bits of content through these Christie projectors, and in an enormous number of formats, and they never fall over."
The BFI also plans to take delivery of Christie's new DCI-compliant Integrated Media Block (IMB) — the first to pass the DCI Compliance Test Plan (CTP) in a 4K DLP Cinema projector, in both 2K and 4K modes of operation.
Added Richard Nye, Cinema Sales Director, Christie EMEA, "This is another milestone in the long journey that the BFI has taken with Christie into the digital world over the past decade. We're delighted that this flagship institution is continuing to back Christie platforms in the new era of 4K resolution as it continues to promote education about film and the moving image."


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Don't let Wisconsin divide us.
Conservatives and liberals actually agree about the most important things.
In fact, most Americans – conservatives and liberals – are fed up with both of the mainstream republican and democratic parties, because it has become obvious that both parties serve Wall Street and the military-industrial complex at the expense of most Americans.
In reality, all Americans – conservatives and liberals:
- Want to break up the giant banks (and see this)
- Agree that the Federal Reserve should be audited
- Want to stand up to the ruling class
The powers-that-be try to divide us and demonize the "other side" so that we won't realize how much we all agree on. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
Don't let them.
Debunking Myths
Before we can honestly look at what's going on in Wisconsin, we need to dispel some commonly-accepted myths.
People who think that debts and deficits don't matter are wrong. As two top American economists – Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – demonstrated in December 2009 :
The relationship between government debt and real GDP growth is weak for debt/GDP ratios below a threshold of 90 percent of GDP. Above 90 percent, median growth rates fall by one percent, and average growth falls considerably more. We find that the threshold for public debt is similar in advanced and emerging economies…
As I wrote in January 2010:
Al Martin – former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors and retired naval intelligence officer – observed in an April 2005 newsletter that the ratio of total U.S. debt to gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 78 percent in 2000 to 308 percent in April 2005. The International Monetary Fund considers a nation-state with a total debt-to-GDP ratio of 200 percent or more to be a "de-constructed Third World nation-state."
Martin explained:
What "de-constructed" actually means is that a political regime in that country, or series of political regimes, have, through a long period of fraud, abuse, graft, corruption and mismanagement, effectively collapsed the economy of that country.
Forbes noted in December:
Add the unfunded portion of entitlement programs and we're at 840% of GDP.
Boston University economics professor and former Senior Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers Laurence Kotlikoff says that the real federal debt is $202 trillion dollars, and that the U.S. is bankrupt.
And see this, this, this, this and this.
So we have to reduce our debt.
And yet the government has been spending like a drunken sailor … while slashing taxes.
Not Liberal or Conservative … But Redistribution of Wealth Up to the Ultra-Rich
As I noted last December:
Ronald Reagan gave big tax cuts to the wealthy.
So it is dramatic that Reagan's director of Office of Management and Budget – David Stockman – calls the Bush tax cuts "the biggest fiscal mistake in history".
Specifically, Stockman told Dylan Ratigan that Bush's advisers forecast a $5 trillion surplus over 10 years. But "two unfunded wars and a Fed engineered housing bubble later", we're in a $ 5 trillion cumulative deficit. So Bush made a $10 trillion mistake.
Stockman said extending the Bush tax cuts won't stimulate the economy, the fact that the tax cut extensions will expire on the eve of the 2012 elections will panic politicians and force them to renew them yet again, and that "we're destroying the economy on Uncle Sam's credit card.
Indeed, Moody's and other rating services are threatening to downgrade America's credit rating due to the extension of the tax cuts for the wealthy:
The rating agency said in a report Monday that last week's agreement between the White House and congressional Republicans should bolster economic growth in the next two years – but at the expense of the nation's already perilous budget position down the road.
The agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years and trim workers' payroll tax contributions for one could raise the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio at 2012 to 72-73% from around 62% now, Moody's said. It said that without the tax package, that number might have been around 68% in 2012. [These numbers are low, as discussed above.]
"Unless there are offsetting measures, the package will be credit negative for the US and increase the likelihood of a negative outlook on the US government's Aaa rating during the next two years," Moody's said.
The comment comes as the bond market seems to have reached very much the same conclusion. The yield on the 10-year Treasury has soared to 3.32% from around 2.4% two months ago, as investors bet on a stronger recovery and rising inflation.
At the same time, our leaders are spending like they just won the lottery.
As I wrote last March:
Why aren't our government "leaders" talking about slashing the military-industrial complex, which is ruining our economy with unnecessary imperial adventures?
And why aren't any of our leaders talking about stopping the permanent bailouts for the financial giants who got us into this mess? And see this.
And why aren't they taking away the power to create credit from the private banking giants – which is costing our economy trillions of dollars (and is leading to a decrease in loans to the little guy) – and give it back to the states?
If we did these things, we wouldn't have to raise taxes or cut core services.
Indeed, many of the country's top economists say that we no longer have free market capitalism in America, but socialism for the rich – or even fascism. Both liberals and conservatives hate such a system.
And see this short video from England.
The same thing is playing out on the state level.
For example, if the Wisconsin governor was proposing cutting pensions because everyone needed to share in the sacrifice, that would be understandable. But as the Washington Post's Ezra Klein points out:
The Badger State was actually in pretty good shape. It was supposed to end this budget cycle with about $120 million in the bank. Instead, it's facing a deficit. Why? I'll let the state's official fiscal scorekeeper explain (pdf):
More than half of the lower estimate ($117.2 million) is due to the impact of Special Session Senate Bill 2 (health savings accounts), Assembly Bill 3 (tax deductions/credits for relocated businesses), and Assembly Bill 7 (tax exclusion for new employees).
In English: The governor called a special session of the legislature and signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other things). The new legislation was not offset, and it helped turn a surplus into a deficit [see update at end of post]. As Brian Beutler writes, "public workers are being asked to pick up the tab for this agenda."
Update … The $130 million deficit now projected for 2011 isn't the fault of the tax breaks passed during Walker's special session, though his special session created about $120 million in deficit spending between 2011 and 2013 — and perhaps more than that, if his policies are extended. That is to say, the deficit spending he created in his special session is about equal to the deficit Wisconsin faces this year, but it's not technically correct to say that Walker created 2011's deficit. Rather, he added $120 million to the 2011-2013 deficits, and perhaps more in the years after that.
And according to Madison's Capitol Times:
To the extent that there is an imbalance — Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit — it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January. If the Legislature were simply to rescind Walker's new spending schemes — or delay their implementation until they are offset by fresh revenues — the "crisis" would not exist.
The Fiscal Bureau memo — which readers can access at http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/Misc/2011_01_31Vos&Darling.pdf — makes it clear that Walker did not inherit a budget that required a repair bill.
The facts are not debatable.
Because of the painful choices made by the previous Legislature, Wisconsin is in better shape fiscally than most states.
[Walker] has proposed a $137 million budget "repair" bill that he intends to use as a vehicle to … Pay for schemes that redirect state tax dollars to wealthy individuals and corporate interests that have been sources of campaign funding for Walker's fellow Republicans and special-interest campaigns on their behalf. As Madison's Democratic state Rep. Brett Hulsey notes, the governor and legislators aligned with him have over the past month given away special-interest favors to every lobby group that came asking, creating zero jobs in the process "but increasing the deficit by more than $100 million."
Actually, Hulsey's being conservative in his estimate of how much money Walker and his allies have misappropriated for political purposes.
"Since his inauguration in early January, Walker has approved $140 million in new special-interest spending that includes:
"• $25 million for an economic development fund for job creation that still has $73 million due to a lack of job creation. Walker is creating a $25 million hole which will not create or retain jobs.
"• $48 million for private health savings accounts, which primarily benefit the wealthy. A study from the federal Governmental Accountability Office showed the average adjusted gross income of HSA participants was $139,000 and nearly half of HSA participants reported withdrawing nothing from their HSA, evidence that it is serving as a tax shelter for wealthy participants.
"• $67 million for a tax shift plan, so ill-conceived that at best the benefit provided to 'job creators' would be less than a dollar a day per new job, and may be as little as 30 cents a day."
State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, sums up this scheming accurately when he says: "In one fell swoop, Gov. Walker is trying to institute a sweeping radical and dangerous notion that will return Wisconsin to the days when land barons and railroad tycoons controlled the political elites in Madison."
State Senator Jon Erpenbach says that the unions have already agreed to cuts:
"The state employees have talked about the money and giving up the money, and that's fine. But what they have a problem with – and what a lot of us have a problem with – is the fact that Governor Walker is taking decades of union law and throwing it out the window and trying to bust the unions altogether, and that's just not the right way to go."
"The public employees have said you can take the money – the money isn't the issue. The issue is their right to collectively bargain their contracts. And that's where we all have to draw the line."
Economist Menzie Chen argues that Wisconsin public workers make less than their private counterparts, even when pensions are included. Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston says that Wisconsin's governor is really trying to bust unions as a first step in driving down everyone's wages … both in the public and the private sector. Mother Jones alleges that the billionaire Koch brothers – the ones who Supreme Court justices Scalia and Thomas hung out with before deciding to allow unlimited foreign money to pour into American political races – funded the election of Wisconsin's governor. And Forbes' columnist Rick Ungar claims that the Kochs are behind the crackdown on Wisconsin unions, as they have business interests in Wisconsin. Whether or not these claims are true is beyond the scope of this discussion, and I haven't researched them enough to weigh in one way or the other.
On the other hand, as James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation argues in the New York Times:
"It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government."
That wasn't Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking. That was George Meany — the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O — in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd.
When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this "unthinkable and intolerable."
Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized.
But whether or not you think public union workers are whiners and public labor unions harmful or beneficial, the fact is that the governor of Wisconsin is trying to do exactly what the federal government is trying to do: throw money at their ultra-rich friends, and pay for it by shafting the little guy. It almost appears as if the federal and state governments are using "shock doctrine" tactics as an excuse for imposing "austerity measures" which benefit the wealthy at the expense of the little guy just like failed third world countries. (Remember, Reuters claims that republicans are trying to bankrupt states in order to weaken unions.)
Indeed, Governor Walker is a true conservative to the same extent that President Obama is a true liberal … not very much.
Again, if everyone – giant banks and corporations as well as workers – were being asked to share in the sacrifice, that would be completely different. I'm all for shared sacrifice (I work for the private sector, but I'll sacrifice a little if we can also claw back the ill-gotten gains from Wall Street CEO's. See this, this and this.)
But that's not what's happening. Instead, federal and state policies are making the rich richer and everyone else poorer.
And if you still think that this is a conservative versus liberal issue, listen to what tried-and-proven conservatives (re-read Stockman's statements above) are saying.
For example, Paul Craig Roberts, whose conservative credentials are impeccable – former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, one of the people who most widely promoted "trickle down" economics, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who's Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, and PhD economist – writes:
Obama's new budget is a continuation of Wall Street's class war against the poor and middle class.
Wall Street wasn't through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked Americans' job prospects and retirement plans, secured a $700 billion bailout at taxpayers' expense while foreclosing on the homes of millions of Americans, and loaded up the Federal Reserve's balance sheet with several trillion dollars of junk financial paper in exchange for newly created money to shore up the banks' balance sheets.
The effect of the Federal Reserve's "quantitative easing" on inflation, interest rates, and the dollar's foreign exchange value are yet to hit. When they do, Americans will get a lesson in poverty.
Now the ruling oligarchies have struck again, this time through the federal budget. The U.S. government has a huge military/security budget. It is as large as the budgets of the rest of the world combined. The Pentagon, CIA, and Homeland Security budgets account for the $1.1 trillion federal deficit that the Obama administration forecasts for fiscal year 2012. This massive deficit spending serves only one purpose–the enrichment of the private companies that serve the military/security complex. These companies, along with those on Wall Street, are who elect the U.S. government.
The U.S. is determined to create as many enemies as possible in order to continue its bleeding of the American population to feed the ravenous military/security complex.
With a perpetual budget deficit driven by the military/security complex's desire for profits, the real cause of America's enormous budget deficit is off-limits for discussion.
The U.S. military/security complex is capable of creating any number of… events in order to make these threats seem real to a public whose intelligence is limited to TV, shopping mall experiences, and football games.
So Americans are stuck with enormous budget deficits that the Federal Reserve must finance by printing new money, money that sooner or later will destroy the purchasing power of the dollar and its role as world reserve currency. When the dollar goes, American power goes.
For the ruling oligarchies, the question is: how to save their power.
Their answer is: make the people pay.
And that is what their latest puppet, President Obama, is doing.
These goals [of propping up foreign dictators who serve U.S. interests] are far more important to the American elite than Pell Grants that enable poor Americans to obtain an education, or clean water, or community block grants, or the low income energy assistance program (cut by the amount that U.S. taxpayers are forced to give to Israel).
There are also $7,700 million of cuts in Medicaid and other health programs over the next five years.
Given the magnitude of the U.S. budget deficit, these sums are a pittance. The cuts will have no effect on U.S. Treasury financing needs. They will put no breaks on the Federal Reserve's need to print money in order to keep the U.S. government in operation.
These cuts serve one purpose: to further the Republican Party's myth that America is in economic trouble because of the poor: The poor are shiftless. They won't work. The only reason unemployment is high is that the poor had rather be on welfare.
A new addition to the welfare myth is that recent middle class college graduates won't take the jobs offered them, because their parents have too much money, and the kids like living at home without having to do anything. A spoiled generation, they come out of university refusing any job that doesn't start out as CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The reason that engineering graduates do not get job interviews is that they do not want them.
What all this leads to is an assault on "entitlements", which means Social Security and Medicare. The elites have programmed, through their control of the media, a large part of the population, especially those who think of themselves as conservatives, to conflate "entitlements" with welfare. America is going to hell not because of foreign wars that serve no American purpose, but because people, who have paid 15% of their payroll all their lives for old age pensions and medical care, want "handouts" in their retirement years. Why do these selfish people think that working Americans should be forced through payroll taxes to pay for the pensions and medical care of the retirees? Why didn't the retirees consume less and prepare for their own retirement?
The elite's line, and that of their hired spokespersons in "think tanks" and universities, is that America is in trouble because of its retirees.
Too many Americans have been brainwashed to believe that America is in trouble because of its poor and its retirees. America is not in trouble because it coerces a dwindling number of taxpayers to support the military/security complex's enormous profits, American puppet governments abroad, and Israel.
The American elite's solution for America's problems is not merely to foreclose on the homes of Americans whose jobs were sent offshore, but to add to the numbers of distressed Americans with nothing to lose the sick and the dispossessed retirees, and the university graduates who cannot find jobs that have been sent to China and India.
And Ron Paul – who has very strong conservative credentials, and who won the Presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference two years in a row – recently said in his CPAC speech:
We're going to continue to bail out, we're going to continue to spend the money, nobody wants to cut. I am sure that half the people in this room won't cut one penny on the military, and the military is not equated to defense. Defense spending is one thing, military spending is what Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex" and we have to go after that.
But let's say government, as you all, I am sure would agree, is out of control, and it's very hard for us to get a handle on it. So let's say we even theoretically, and a miracle happens and we balance the budget where we are today, it would be still a disaster because we're spending too much money. But it wouldn't change a whole lot. When a crisis comes, guess what happens? Guess who does the bailing out? The Federal Reserve used $4 trillion to pass out without congressional approval and most people say "Oh, well that's the Federal Reserve's job to do that." No, it is our job to check up and find what the Federal Reserve has done, audit them, and find out who their buddies are that they're taking care of.
The Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air, they can loan to banks, central banks of the world, to other governments and international financial institutions and we're not even allowed to know. They resent the fact that when I ask these questions, that they don't have to give us information. That's why the bill to audit the Fed is the first step to ending the Federal Reserve.
I think and I believe that we have had way too much bipartisanship for about 60 years. …. It's the bipartisanship of the welfare system, the warfare system, the monetary system, the challenge to our civil liberties, it all goes through with support from both parties. So there's way too much bipartisanship. This should be a challenge of the issue of philosophy – good philosophy versus bad philosophy.
But where I think we go astray on this exceptionalism is there are some people and sometimes they're referred as neoconservatives and they're sort of neo-Jacobins where they believe that we have this moral responsibility to use force to go around the world and say, "You will do it our way or else." Well force doesn't work, it never works.
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Monday, 10 February 2014 | Carl
Lion Fight 13 went down in Las Vegas in a night of some hard-hitting action that saw some shocking moments unfold through some very close fights. Don't be fooled by the amount of decisions on the card, as each fight had their own appeal and saw lots of action. Kevin Ross found his way to the win column again and while he wanted to avoid any decisions in 2014 he found himself scoring a Split Decision over Matt Embree in an incredible, entertaining and close bout with Matt Embree. Both men should be applauded for their efforts in that fight.
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Jared Lee Loughner's long term prison home unclear
(AP) TUCSON, Ariz. - With life behind bars now a certainty for Jared Lee Loughner, federal prison officials will have to determine just where to put him.
The 23-year-old college dropout who went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Arizona political gathering in January 2011 could end up back in a prison medical facility like the one in Springfield, Mo., where he's been treated for schizophrenia for more than a year.
Or he could end up in a prison such as the federal "Supermax" lockup in Florence, Colo., which houses some of the country's most notorious criminals, including Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.
Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said Wednesday that placement will be determined after Loughner is sentenced for the January 2011 shooting that killed six and wounded 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The exact placement will depend on the nature of his mental illness and what's required to treat him.
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All federal facilities can treat some level of mental illness, with more severe cases sent to special facilities. Mental health problems are rampant in the nation's jails and prisons, with more than half of all inmates exhibiting some illness, according to a 2006 Department of Justice report. In federal prisons, 45 percent had mental health issues.
Loughner looked relaxed and attentive in a packed Tucson courtroom Tuesday as he pleaded guilty to the shooting rampage as part of an agreement with prosecutors that will send him to prison for life and spare him a possible death sentence.
He even cracked a smile when a court-appointed psychologist talked about the special bond that he formed with a prison guard.
Loughner was not the man who rocked back and forth in court in May 2011 before blurting out, "Thank you for the free kill. She died in front of me. Your cheesiness." The changes in his behavior led a judge to declare Loughner competent.
Victims and federal prosecutors praised the agreement, saying it brought some measure of justice. They said it spares victims and their families from having to go through a potentially lengthy and traumatic trial and appeal.
As part of the agreement, Loughner will be ineligible for parole.
His sentencing is set for Nov. 15. In the meantime, U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns on Wednesday ordered Loughner returned to Springfield for continued treatment.


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The popular Motorhome, Caravan and Camping Show will not return to London's Excel Centre in 2013, according to a report by Caravan Times.
After an in-depth consultation between the venue and the organizers, NCC Events, too many logistical issues were identified and they were left with no option but to look for a new home for the show.
Movement and storage issues with valuable exhibitor products had been identified as insurmountable and the tough decision was taken to cancel the existing plans.
Anthony Trevelyan, Chairman of NCC Events, said: "Excel is a magnificent venue as we have witnessed during the Olympics and provides a world class visitor experience.
"The decision to cancel the 2013 event has not been taken lightly and it is not a criticism of ExCeL's visitor facilities."
But it was felt that without the guarantee of adequate storage space, the show would simply not have enough space to set up and down.
In addition, the location of the venue in a Low Emission Zone was due to cause problems for the large volume of caravans being brought in, and so this operation would have to be staggered.
The suitability of the venue for the event was also called into question due to the lack of suitable camping in the vicinity.


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Would that all the superficial evidence had some validity when the Carolina Panthers lined up against the New York Giants on Thursday night. Watching the teams warm up, one could scarcely avoid the perception that the Panthers were thoroughly modern and the Giants relics of a bygone age.
CHARLOTTE � Would that all the superficial evidence had some validity when the Carolina Panthers lined up against the New York Giants on Thursday night. Watching the teams warm up, one could scarcely avoid the perception that the Panthers were thoroughly modern and the Giants relics of a bygone age.
The Giants� uniforms appear to be right out of the 1950s and that�s only because they are: gray trousers, block red numerals without outline or shadow and dark blue helmets with a single red stripe. The �10� worn by Eli Manning was the same that Fran Tarkenton wore while he was tossing bombs to Homer Jones. Henry Hynoski, by the way, wears Jones� old �45,� but, at 6-1 and 266 pounds, rumbles fitfully at fullback where Jones once loped gracefully at flanker.
From a distance, Manning looks like Tarkenton, who only played five seasons with the Giants. But Manning is 6-4, 190 pounds. Tarkenton was (and probably still is at age 72) 6-0, 190.
The two appear relatively the same because that�s about the rate at which the game has enlarged.
Before it started, Tom Coughlin, the wizened old head coach of the Giants, trotted up and down the lines of his team�s players during calisthenics, shaking hands with each in just the manner of high school coaches. It was rather inspiring in an old-fashioned sort of way.
The Panthers, meanwhile, looked all futuristic. Their jerseys are sort of a metallic version of what NASCAR calls Petty blue. The Panther on the helmet looks as if it crept stealthily from a graphic novel (they were comic books in Tarkenton�s day).
The Carolina uniforms glitter � everywhere. Pants, jerseys, numerals, helmets. Cam Newton looks more like those transformers Fox trots out in the pregame graphics than � Fran Tarkenton � or Eli Manning, for that matter. Judged on the basis of quarterback physiques, the Panthers would figure to be the reigning Super Bowl champions.
But intangibles still matter, even in a National Football League that seems exemplified more by the Carolina Panthers than the New York Giants.
A more telling sign was across the way from the press box, where only one player, the late Sam Mills, was listed on Carolina�s honor roll, or Roll of Honor, or whatever it is.
These were, meanwhile, the Giants of Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote, Sam Huff, Lawrence Taylor, Charlie Conerly, Y.A. Tittle and � Tuffy Leemans.
Who�s the greatest Panther? Gee, it may be Newton, who is in his second year. Or, more likely at the moment, Steve Smith in his 12th.
But the Panthers had the Giants thoroughly outclassed in the category of modernity, which has little to do with actual success.
Monte Dutton; 704-869-1841; twitter.com/montedutton


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This is the tale of two Merlots. Both come from Northstar Winery. Northstar is a Ste. Michelle Wines Estates holding. The winery was founded in the nineties with the sole focus of producing the world's best Merlot from Washington State fruit. While this goal remains, the winery now also offers a number of winery-only, non-Merlot based wines, such as Syrah and Cabernet Franc. David 'Merf' Merfeld serves as Northstar's winemaker. Merfeld joined Northstar in 2001, working as enologist and assistant winemaker before becoming head winemaker in 2005.
Both wines sampled here are classic examples of Washington Merlot. Additionally, both are quite distinct from each other, displaying the varying styles of Merlot being made in the state. The Columbia Valley offering is an appealing, exceptionally well balanced, polished wine. Northstar makes a staggering ten thousand cases of the Columbia Valley offering, giving this wine an extremely wide reach. The Walla Walla Valley wine, on the other hand, offers a bit more complexity on the nose as well as more intensity and boldness on the palate. Among other sources, fruit for the Walla Walla Valley wine comes from Spring Valley Vineyard, one of the finest producers of Merlot in the state, and Loess Vineyard, an estate vineyard for Leonetti Cellar. While both the Columbia Valley and Walla Walla wines are impeccably made, I would give a very slight edge to Walla Walla offering. It provides a bit more of the boldness of Merlot that is a hallmark of Washington State.
My only qualm with either of these wines – and it is a small one – is that both are just over the line in terms of being labeled a Merlot. The Columbia Valley Merlot comes in at 76% (75% is required for varietal labeling) and the Walla Walla Valley wine comes in at 78%. The balance of the wines are other Bordeaux varieties. Indeed, both could easily be classified as Bordeaux-style blends.
The winery's website provides a graphic displaying the blends of each wine and discusses the goals of blending. Cabernet Sauvignon is added to 'soften Washington Merlot with bright cherry and raspberry fruit flavors;' Petit Verdot 'adds color and structure;' and Cabernet Franc 'brings softness and an olive herbal tone.' While these blending decisions are no doubt responsible for the grace and complexity of these wines and the results are hard to argue with, it would be interesting to see what these wines would look like pushed a bit higher toward their signature grape. Fun to contemplate while savoring another glass.
Northstar Merlot Columbia Valley 2006 $40
Rating: * (Excellent) Initially fairly quiet on the nose. As it opens up, shows oak spices, a hint of mocha, and light red and black fruit. Exceptionally well balanced on the palate with lithe fruit and silky oak buffeted by polished tannins. An exemplary Washington State Merlot. 76% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Aged in French (70%) and American (30%) oak (65% new). 14.7% alcohol. 10,000 cases produced.
Northstar Merlot Walla Walla Valley 2006 $50
Rating: * (Excellent) Takes some time to open up but once it does this wine sings. An intriguing, complex nose with spice, tobacco, cocoa, dark fruit, and a light earthiness. Glides along the palate with a bit more fruit intensity than the Columbia Valley offering. Lingers on the finish. A prototype for Washington Merlot in general and Walla Walla Valley Merlot in particular. 78% Merlot (Spring Valley, Anna Marie, and Loess vineyards), 17% Cabernet Sauvignon (Anna Marie and Loess vineyards), 5% Cabernet Franc (Minnick Hills Vineyard). Aged in French oak (56% new). 2,500 cases produced.
Northstar Winery: The Tale of Two Merlots
This is the tale of two Merlots. Both come from Northstar Winery. Northstar is a Ste. Michelle Wines Estates holding. The winery was founded in the nineties with the sole focus of producing the world's best Merlot from Washington State fruit. While this goal remains, the winery now also offers a number of winery-only, non-Merlot based wines, such as Syrah and Cabernet Franc. David 'Merf' Merfeld serves as Northstar's winemaker. Merfeld joined Northstar in 2001, working as enologist and assistant winemaker before becoming head winemaker in 2005.
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Anonymous Says:
In other countries, 85% is the minimum to be labeled by varietal. To fall below this floor, c'mon you can say it, tells me their merlot is not strong enough to stand on its own.
A cabernet to "soften" merlot?? A red flag just went up on 'truth in advertising.'
Mike Januik's merlots are over 95% varietal.
Crap, and I have a bottle of Northstar's 2005 CV merlot. It better taste like an effin' merlot. ~WAwineman
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
WWM, I too was struck by the 'Cab to soften Merlot'. Unusual! My sense is that, more than the Merlot not being able to stand on its own - I'm sure that it can given the excellent sources they are using - the winery is looking to make the best *wine* possible rather than the *purest expression of Merlot* possible. Both legitimate obviously. I'd love to see Northstar go up over 85% personally. Will have to check and see if they do something like this for their wine club. Thanks for the comment.
Anonymous Says:
For the last two decades, I've had the opportunity to taste a lot 100% Washington Merlot and Cab Sauv at every stage of production, from wine that has just completed fermentation to wine that is in the process of being bottled. My experience is that -- all other things being equal -- WA Merlot (emphasis on *WA*) does indeed tend to be "bigger" than WA Cab Sauv (esp. tannin structure). It's one of the aspects of Washington viticulture that makes it unique from California and most other wine regions of the world. Depending on the vintage, there are probably years when Cab does indeed soften the Merlot base of a WA wine. My guess is that Northstar doesn't target a lower percentage of Merlot, but thought in that particular vintage, more Cab was needed to reign in the Merlot. Shame on Northstar for trying to make a better wine while operating within the Federal guidelines! ~ITB
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
ITB, thanks for the comment. Indeed, Merlot can turn into quite a big wine in Washington State. I've tricked many a friends into guessing a Merlot was a Cabernet in blind tastings. Ironically, some of them when I told them it was Merlot suddenly didn't like it! Like I said, the qualm is a small one. The results on these wines are inarguable.


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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Gospel singer BeBe Winans laughed through tears, and told the crowd at Whitney Houston's New Jersey funeral he will miss "crazy Whitney."
Winans celebrated the late pop star's warmth, enthusiasm and generosity before performing "I Really Miss You" Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church where Houston sang as a child and teen.
The Grammy Award-winning singer's metallic casket was transported from a nearby funeral home in a golden hearse, then was covered in a huge spray of purple and white flowers and placed in the front of the church.
Standing behind Houston's coffin, and with his sister CeCe beside him, Winans said of Houston: "We spent a lot of time together and we talk about her voice and we talk about her talent and that's a beautiful thing. But what I'm going to miss is crazy Whitney."
Spurred on by the applause of hundreds of mourners gathered at the church, Winans recalled how, when he and his sister were getting ready for their first tour, Houston went without being asked and bought them and their backup singers costumes, then announced she was going to sing background for them. Winans said he and CeCe told Houston she couldn't leave her hugely successful solo career to help them out, but Houston assured them she loved them like her own brother and sister, and wanted to help.
"And this is what I'm going to miss," Winans said. "She said: 'Y'all are broke, right? And I'm rich, right? So I can buy what I want to for y'all.' But that is Whitney."
A private viewing of Houston's body was held Friday evening at Whigham Funeral Home in Newark. Among those who attended the wake Friday were Houston's mother Cissy, her 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina, her cousin Dionne Warwick and her mentor Clive Davis.
The group reunited Saturday afternoon for her funeral, which lasted nearly four hours. Seen entering the church were Mariah Carey, Roberta Flack, Rev. Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, LA Reid, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Star Jones, Forest Whitaker, Diane Sawyer, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mary J. Blige.
The music-filled service kicked off with a joyous song performed by the church's choir, the members of which were all beautifully dressed in white clothing.
Aretha Franklin, Houston's godmother, was set to sing at the funeral, but canceled Saturday morning because she was suffering from leg spasms.
R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys sang during the service, while music producer Clive Davis, filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kevin Costner, Houston's co-star in the 1992 blockbuster "The Bodyguard," also shared a few words of remembrance.
Recalling how Houston was at times insecure on the film's set, despite her extraordinary beauty and talent, Costner addressed her coffin and said affectionately: "You weren't just pretty. You were as beautiful as a woman could be. And people didn't just like you, Whitney. They loved you."
He concluded by saying: "Off you go, Whitney. Off you go, escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father and when you sing before him don't you worry, you'll be good enough."
The funeral concluded with Houston's casket being carried out of the church as a recording of her signature song "I Will Always Love You" played.
Houston is to be buried Sunday alongside her father at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J.
The 48-year-old music icon was found dead in her Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel room Feb. 11, on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony, which she was scheduled to attend.
Officials said they are awaiting the results of toxicology tests before determining the cause of her death, but sources close to her family have said a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs are believed to be to blame.


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