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The Ties That Bind Us:
Five New Books by American Poets
Another Creature, by Pamela Gemin. University of Arkansas Press, 100 pp., $16.
Open Interval, by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. University of Pittsburgh Press, 96 pp., $14.95.
Ka-Ching!, by Denise Duhamel. University of Pittsburgh Press, 96 pp., $14.95.
Elephants & Butterflies, by Alan Michael Parker. BOA Editions, 92 pp., $16.
Let Me Open You a Swan, by Deborah Bogen. Elixir Press, 96 pp., $17.
As I sifted through books this summer, thinking about what I might like to review, I noticed that I tend to lay aside volumes by poets I know, even if only tangentially. It's always been my habit, and one I thought—still think for the most part—reviewers ought to have. At some point, however, I looked back to that pile of rejects and considered how unfortunate it is that books by one's friends, associates, colleagues, or acquaintances feel out of bounds—or at least have felt so to me—because the practice cuts out a great many books for any reviewer. It's an inevitable problem of the contemporary poetry world, resulting from its small size; we go to the same conferences, attend the same schools, teach in the same programs. It's almost impossible to pick up a handful of new books and not find someone I know.
Does this familiarity, I wondered, mean that reviewing such acquaintances can't be fair, or worse, that good books can't be reviewed because positive words will be construed as back-scratching or favoritism? I don't have a complete answer for these questions, but I finally decided that I would take on a batch of books to all of whose authors I have had some kind of personal connection. Perhaps I will reveal biases of which I myself am unaware, but I hope that the poems will bear out what I say and help me prove to myself that creative and critical communities need not always be mutually exclusive.
Pamela Gemin and I went to Vermont College at the same time. I liked her poems then and I like them now. Her latest collection, Another Creature, is no exception. It focuses on American girlhood of the Boomer era, a historical period in which Gemin has had an interest for a long time. Many poets, myself included, have written loosely autobiographical poems on this subject over the last few decades, but the topic is far from exhausted. Unfortunately, many of the poems in this four-part collection, while carefully crafted and symmetrically presented in neat stanzaic forms, introduce potentially dramatic events on which the poems fail to deliver.
The first poem, "Sweet Engine," is one of the best in the book, though it seems to make use of Mark Doty's signature combination of spirituality and sexuality in his book Sweet Machine (as well as his title) without ever acknowledging the debt. Despite that, the poem begins wonderfully: "God for the furnace, god for the fire, god / for the engine of love, where are you now?" This lyric petition quickly gives way to an anecdotal memory. As a younger woman, the narrator, apparently recently jilted or rejected, waited on top of an apartment building for the arrival of the offending man. The twist is that, when he does show up, she stays on the roof, watching, while he wonders where she is. The details are perfectly chosen: the "ancient / Johannsen sisters watch[ing] their game shows"; the speaker's "Cigarettes radio, sunscreen rolled in a fish-print // towel" around her neck; her "little red Igloo made / for a six pack." The ending is self-reflexive; the narrator imagines seeing herself "not-there." She realizes that the woman she has been—the woman the lover has wanted—truly is gone, though perhaps "only for the afternoon." This reinvention signals the tone of the rest of the book: self-fashioning, self-aware, self-confident.
Other poems, however, don't live up to the tight imagistic structure of "Sweet Engine." "Destiny Car," for example, has a wonderfully evocative title, and many readers will immediately warm to the story of teenagers and their dangerous car rides. However, the poem founders on its imagery. Many of the individual pictures are fine in and of themselves—"hot grease and battered / onions," "my green velvet jacket," "your Brut / cologne"—but the ending, with a second mention of "onion," then "patchouli smoke clinging to my hair," misses the mark because it's anticlimactic. Three lines from the end lies a much stronger, more dramatic conclusion: "I'm driving the killer / highway alone." Too bad the poem drove on by.
"Minnesota" is a meditative sestina on the Midwest that is also full of great descriptions and moves along at a fast pace. The speaker reminisces about late autumn afternoons when she and a lover "drank / at [her] kitchen table, laughing, crushing out smokes, beer / after beer, till the basement neighbors banged [their] loud music / down." Later, the speaker is by herself and the detail used to describe her lone evenings is both sad and lovely:
with my drink
and True Menthols I graded papers, sang along to the music
of famous sad women, sank into love with lukewarm beer
and melancholy.
Sundays all I'd get to drink
was 3.2, but I was brilliant in those last days, and you couldn't wait
to get back to me and tell me your big city tales.
I want to love this poem, partly because it makes me feel wistful and partly because I think the form suits the content perfectly. But, again, the end falls flat. The coda begins in the middle of a sentence and then ends too abruptly on a one-word fragment. Moreover, none of the last three lines come as a surprise or revelation:
In your Minnesota, the plowed-under stalks freeze
to topsoil, waiting for wind to bear them into tassel, into bloom.
Who'd believe I'd give up drink, or the music of all-night talk
To be frozen into household, delivered out of wilderness to safety?
Most of those who drink and carouse and get in trouble as young people outgrow that behavior. The ones who don't usually don't make it very far into middle age. I want the poem to bring me something unexpected rather than deliver an entirely predictable conclusion.
I don't mean to sound completely negative about Another Creature. Many poems in this collection have great stories to tell, contain resonant images, and employ an agreeably folksy tone. I'm sure that many readers who grew up in the sixties and seventies will find much to activate their nostalgia. The book certainly did that for me. I wish, however, that Gemin had spent more time polishing this book so that it, and the individual poems within it, had a more clearly dramatic trajectory. The final poem, "Junction," does provide a fairly satisfying end to the collection, as the speaker drives through the countryside and asks herself what she wants "now." She compares the answer—"a county road that snakes / its crooked way up grey half-hills, down / the long rusty slopes, finds clusters of cows / and herds of deer at dusk"—and though the descriptions here are slightly marred by cliché and the minor pretention of British spelling, the sense of movement is clear and enjoyable. The end of the poem answers the questions about desires that the entire book seems to ask: "And you want them the way / you once wanted a drink, another / drink, a cigarette. The way you once wanted / his love, or his love, or his. But more. More." Now that's a perfect ending.
I've shared readings with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon a couple of times; we have mutual friends; she went to school where my husband currently works. When her first book, Black Swan, came out, I read it with admiration and have looked forward to seeing her work ever since. Last year's Open Interval, her second collection, shows the same inventiveness and play that made Black Swan a pleasure (though not always pleasant) to read. In this collection, Van Clief-Stefanon continues to draw from science, history, the Bible, and autobiography to make elliptical, lovely poems.
"Bop: The North Star," which opens the book, introduces the intelligent, self-questioning speaker who governs many of these poems. The epigraph, "Auburn, NY," situates her geographically, but the place she seeks is much larger:
Polaris sits still in the sky and if I knew
which one it was I could follow it all the way
to Auburn. Oh, Harriet, who did not need the poise
of freedom knocked into your head like sense, who found it more
than possible to sleep, pistol shoved deep into your pocket
along this route, I cannot tell a dipper from Orion.
The speaker reveals that she is on her way to the "prison at Auburn" to teach writing to inmates, but the universal appeal—in both senses—adds a tragic note to the refrain, "Yes, the springtime needed you. Many a star was waiting / for your eyes only." When she tells herself to "teach the sonnet's a cell," then determines to instruct her students, "now try to escape," it's clear that one kind of escape she means for them to seek is from the limiting traps of this planet's history.
Freedom—from violence, oppression, control—is an abiding interest of Van Clief-Stefanon's, and her poetic rendering of this subject is seldom simplistic. The ekphrastic "Reclining Nude, c. 1977, Romare Bearden" filters the speaker's own complicated past through the artist's image of a woman:
The tan parchment beneath her Florida sand
As all things bring you back there—: to land
Your mother's love threatened out of you—: you out of it.
You: a beached thing just made, and open for the sun;
You: a black man's creation—: his simplest collage—: a woman.
The poem celebrates the painting, and I expected an allusion to Pygmalion at its close, but the ending does something different and surprising. It gives agency to the left-handed subject and keeps the focus on the freedom expressed in Bearden's image: "Look, the left hand, / Its long, thin fingers, brazen, freeing itself from the body." This ties the painting firmly to the author, who has written before about the problems and joys of left-handedness.
The insistence on freedom or autonomy that drives so much of Van Clief Stefanon's work does not require the rejection of sexual pleasure or play. "Maul" is a sweet and bluesy love poem that has to be quoted at some length to be appreciated:
You can fry my catfish daddy
Just make sure your oil is hot
Come & fry my catfish daddy
Just make sure the grease is hot
Know I got this side meal ready
Grits a bubblin in the pot
. . .
I'm a smoke this pack of Pall Malls
Then I'm gonna let you go
Let me smoke this one last Pall Mall
I'll be good to watch you go
I might set myself on fire
Just to show you so you know
. . .
Come & split my firewood baby
With your heavy maul
Come on & split my firewood for me
Honey bring your heavy maul
The way you turn way from me daddy
It's gon be a hard cold fall
Now, there aren't very many poets around these days who will take a chance on a poem like this, but it made me laugh out loud, which so seldom happens that I had to go back and read it a couple more times just for the delight of its language and form. "Maul" takes an old subject, rejection, and makes it completely new with fresh and funny metaphor.
It's probably clear that I continue to admire Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's poetry. To be honest, however, one element of this book simply confuses me. I don't know why so many poems have the same titles (two titled "Penelope," three titled "Blackbody Radiator", and two titled "Reclining Nude, c. 1977, Romare Bearden"). The six that have "RR Lyrae" (a type of star) as the first half of their titles are explained in the note to Part III and in the notes at the back, but the three including "Dear John" as all or part of the title don't seem to have that unity or the felicitous pun on the author's name. I love books that challenge or teach me, but I get frustrated with books that make me feel stupid, and I feel a little dense trying to figure out the point of these titles. Do they make up a refrain? A coda? I don't know, and I'm somewhat stymied by them even now. They're not what I remember of this book, however, and not the point I want to end on. The poems in Open Interval are stunning and beautiful, and well reward multiple readings.
I reviewed a chapbook by Denise Duhamel in these pages several years ago. I didn't know her at the time, but since then she and I have become colleagues at Converse College's low-residency MFA program. Denise is as funny in person as she is on the page, and her new collection, Ka-Ching!, shows that she continues to be an incisive commentator on contemporary American culture as well.
Many of the poems in this five-part book were already familiar to me from hearing Denise read them, including the prose poems in the first part, "Play Money." I confess that, though they were interesting to hear, these poems were, for me, difficult to look at. They're printed sideways, on a gray background that looks a bit like, well, money. The print is small and single-spaced. I see the point of this design element—to highlight the fixation Americans have on cash. But I felt relief when I turned to the second part. I suspect I was supposed to feel this way.
The sestina "Delta Flight 659," dedicated to Sean Penn (I wonder if he knows this) shows Duhamel at her best—playing with traditional form in a self-reflexive, comic, sometimes absurdist way. Here's the first verse (plus one word):
I'm writing this on a plane, Sean Penn,
with my black Pilot Razor ballpoint pen.
Ever since 9/11, I'm a nervous flyer. I leave my Pentium
Processor in Florida so TSA can't x-ray my stanzas, penetrate
my persona. Maybe this should be in iambic pentameter,
rather than this mock sestina, each line ending in a Penn
What's the point? The obsessive form, with the sestina's repetitions taken to a ridiculous level, points to our national obsession with personal safety, with celebrity, with false order. Duhamel takes on all kinds of passions, but she always does it with Horatian good humor. "The Language Police" is a hilarious prose poem that skewers our phobias about insensitive speech:
I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) to my complaints. I'm no Pollyanna (banned as sexist) and will not accept any lame (banned as offensive; replace with "walks with a cane") excuses this time.
Duhamel is able to use hyperbole and self-ridicule to express the exhaustion with self-monitoring that many of us suffer—but are usually unwilling to admit.
Ka-Ching!, unlike most of Duhamel's earlier work, also contains quite personal—and serious—autobiographical poems. A few years ago, her parents were involved in a hideous escalator accident, and she devotes many poems in the second half of the book to this unthinkable event. These poems are much more literal, as shown in the opening of "Urban Legend":
My parents were in an escalator accident. A pileup. Fourteen people. My mother lost her hair and almost bled to death. My father's heart went out of whack. They were rushed to an emergency room in Atlantic City. The doctors were having trouble finding enough tetanus for everyone hurt. It sounds like an urban legend, except it really happened.
What makes such a report a poem? Duhamel takes true-to-life information and builds upon it with association or metaphor until the facts suddenly become larger than their literal meanings:
The escalator accident, the escalating conflict in Iraq, fears escalate, escalating tensions ... I see the word escalate everywhere in the newspaper I hold in my lap.
Not every reader will have the patience to read these long-lined, detailed poems with care. Ka-Ching!, like all of Denise Duhamel's work, is loaded with pop-culture references, puns, and anecdotes. She loves lists, and the lists can get fairly long, like the ending poem, "Weapons Inspector's Checklist," a list of questions that has been translated through many different languages and back into English:
Do they pump their own gas?
Is the gas in this forsaken land rationed?
. . .
Are they numskulls?
Are they dumb?
Are we numskulls?
Are we dumb?
Are we numb by now to baseball strikes?
Do they compare the stupid outcomes of all the baseball strikes then laugh?
If you have the patience, read Ka-Ching! not just for its humor but for its humanity. Take the book slowly, if need be, but take it all in, because Duhamel is one of our most valuable chroniclers of contemporary American attitudes toward music, commerce, and advertising. She's funny, to be sure, but she's got a serious purpose, too.
I don't know Alan Michael Parker; I'm not sure I have ever even met him. My only connection to him is through other people, including my husband. That was enough for me initially to put him in the category of poets too close to review, so I will include him here. Parker's new book, Elephants & Butterflies, mostly uses a common mode, the first-person anecdote, to explore the thoughts and feelings of contemporary, educated middle-class Americans, folks that his readers will likely recognize from their own lives.
Like Pamela Gemin's, Parker's details are perfect emblems of daily life: the UPS man from "Next Day Air" in his "chocolate truck and chocolate suit" and the worn-out Toyota in "Cars Poetica" that seems "so sadly less of a thing." When Parker meditates upon these details, his poems are very fine indeed. Here's an example from the middle of "Birth, Mud, Hyacinth":
Elytis writes, "it is correct to give
The unknown its due."
This morning at a curve in the road
The cows stood together
Around a blinking newborn calf
Slick with astonishment.
I was going to the dry cleaners,
But cows were in the road.
Turn off the radio, roll down
All the windows. Learn.
I thought I understood onomatopoeia,
But what to make of a word
That sounds just like it smells?
Birth. Mud. Hyacinth.
Again, Elytis: "Willing or not,
We are all hostages of the joy
Of which we deprive ourselves."
Please pardon me, Master,
For requesting a revision:
Willing and not.
When the poems become self-reflexive, however, they are less successful, and this weakness appears too frequently. The first poem, "Drawing on Myself," contains a good pun, but the central idea—"I began by drawing on myself accidentally, / ... and I liked it"—governs too much of what follows. The speaker is soon "painting" on himself, and it isn't long until he has "hammered and nailed and glued / and dressed" himself. He ends by wishing he had drawn something other, "an airplane / or a post office, or just a telephone" so that he might have contacted the "you," whoever that person is. It's a clever conceit, but the poem never rises far above it.
"The Fog," which follows, begins in a hospital, with a "woman in the corner of a bed" who is "dying young, too soon, a victim of / a five-car pile-up in the fog." This is a horrible event, but the poem turns quickly to the speaker's absorption in whether the stairs in his uncle's house went "up or down." Who can care about such a thing in the face of imminent death? Waiting for an x-ray of some sort, he tells us that he can see
into the dying woman's room,
watch her chest rise a little, subside.
On a small blue monitor,
as though upon a final page of sky,
tiny blips seem to brighten, sizzle.
The poem seems to be getting back to something important, but then it ends with "Up and down, my heartbeat / climbs a mountain, crashes to the sea" and I'm left feeling a little queasy that a woman's death is used to elevate the speaker's importance. Following "Drawing on Myself" with this poem seems a particularly regrettable choice.
The "Monday Sonnet" from the middle section, "A Peal of Sonnets" (which has a slightly pretentious epigraph), presents an interesting and beautifully Frostian moment:
The nut-brown spider slung between
the Subaru antenna and
the myrtle tree
has left one wing of the fly
exposed, her breakfast buzzing still.
The radical religious questioning of a poem like "Design," however, never occurs in "Monday Sonnet." The speaker calls in sick "a lie, one wing" and sits down with morning coffee to "watch the insect die." The connection between the wing and the lie isn't very clear; the juxtaposition tries to force a metaphor that doesn't really work. Serious philosophical speculation is still possible, but the poem ends with a self-satisfied apostrophe: "Today, my friends, let us raise a glass: / One of us will go hungry, / and it isn't I. It isn't I— / / when the one wing stops moving." Clearly, the "I" is synecdochic, and the self expressed here is greater than one speaker's grisly morning entertainment, but the details of the poem's early lines suggest an individual with whom readers can identify and sympathize. That's no longer the case, at least for me, by the end of the poem; the conclusion, in fact, left me feeling somewhat let down, because the moral dilemma seems, at best, inconsequential, and the speaker self-important.
Despite the recurrent tendency to solipsism, Elephants & Butterflies does contain some lovely language. "Jelly Jar Ode" is a wonderful poem, with a "bulletin board that is / the sky" on which "push pins / tack the dark, the night / an office cleaned by God." The speculative "I Have Been Given a Baseball ..." imagines an evening at a game. The picture is focused on a boy and the fans who surround him waiting for the opening pitch:
Happy there, at last,
Fidgety in the bleachers.
The lights light up the field
Perfectly in the buggy, humid night—
It's like being inside a pretty thought.
When the small, sodden crowd—
Are they angels?—
Begins to chant Let's Go Mets,
Someone changes the chant to Let's Go Home.
Such moments happen, unsurprisingly, when the speakers in Elephants & Butterflies are studying the world. Too often, however, these speakers don't look outward but reflect upon themselves and their relatively privileged, safe lives. It's an important reminder that poems are often at their best when they are not mirrors, but windows.
Deborah Bogen and I enjoy an intermittent e-mail acquaintance, in which we exchange mostly friendly greetings and quick updates. I feel close to her as a poet because I have long enjoyed her work—long before I had ever had any, even virtual, contact with her. Her new book, Let Me Open You a Swan, didn't disappoint me, and I am sure I'd like this book whether I knew Deb or not. It even has a cover I can't stop looking at.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that Bogen's new book is published by Elixir Press, which has published two books and one chapbook of mine. I'm likely not objective in my opinion that Elixir is putting out some of the most interesting and most beautiful books around, but I believe that it's true. This one is a perfect example; experimental in the best sense of the word, Let Me Open You a Swan takes the body (including the mind it houses) as its subject. Bogen's bodies are both literal and metaphoric, and she is unwilling to relinquish either. Her poems have a clarity of surface meaning that allows the secondary and tertiary meanings to come slowly and satisfyingly into view. "Ghost Images" seems almost an ars poetica for the whole book:
The mind's a mad cupboard, blackened silver, cups and thimbles.
The mind's a jerky focusing machine still stuck on the girl
who hung by her knees.
And within the camera [opening : closing]—fireworks.
Into the angular cranium levers lift cold light, but
how dark and small the box.
And hands must hold the camera still, so stop your breath
[so stop your breath]
That's how you coax something into the box, something bloody or blood-lit,
a headless rooster or snipe—your attention split.
Seeing the two worlds.
This double vision expands into triple vision in "Dakota Schism." Stanza one sets up a tense equation between the human and non-human worlds, tense because the traditional relative values between the two realms seem to shift. It's difficult to tell exactly where the narrator's loyalty lies, with natural theology and the dignity of the non-human or with humans, even with their faults, as the measure of meaning:
In Sunday's mirror the red barns
fade, high school girls scrub rouge
from their cheeks, the prize bull apes
a deacon's sneer, crickets choir like
cherubim. Only the grasshopper
carries on, spitting and sawing,
spitting and sawing as the preacher
calls us to The Upright Life.
In this passage the speaker seems to lean toward natural theology, with the exception of the bulls, who have taken on the unpleasant expression of the deacon. The girls are caught in the mutually exclusive demands of sexual beauty and religious rejection of vanity. The religious figures themselves are ridiculous, their actions futile, while the lowly crickets are ennobled.
The second stanza, however, presents meaningful human action:
But in our mudrooms lovelorn women
kneel to scrub the dirt-smeared floors
as through the window comes
a sable light Vermeer would love.
In our cellars, a votive rhubarb,
on our stairs, a velvet dark.
Therefore, the Aunts dally in the parlor.
Therefore, the Uncles loosen their belts.
We have been another week behind
the reaper. Only God's a pillar.
Now the tension seems to be between classes of people rather than between humans and non-human beings. In contrast to the deacons and preachers, the people in this stanza are linked to art, to prayer, to physical pleasure, to anything but the institution of the church. These people are enmeshed in the plants and dirt of their quotidian existence, not in opposition to them. It's not exactly natural theology anymore; it's theology that accepts the material world with all its flaws, including the people in it. But nothing in this poem is uncomplicated or simplistic. The women mopping are "lovelorn" and the Aunts and Uncles are caught in moments that suggest both violent and pleasurable possibilities. "The Upright Life" at the end of stanza one is uneasily recalled in God's being a "pillar" at the end of the second. The poem does imply that only God is a pillar—people can't be that "upright"—but in retrospect the preacher doesn't seem quite as benighted as he did the first time through. So even class difference gets muddy and all judgments suddenly are called into question.
This refusal to come to simple conclusions marks many of Bogen's poems. The confusions of childhood spiritual training are the subject of the second section of the book, titled "Religion." In "This White Bird is Not the Swan," religious symbols are presented in such a clumsy way that the poor child who is the poem's speaker seems doomed to misunderstanding:
When I was five they
showed me,
said, See the White Bird?
That's the Anointing.
And that man, he's the one.
The one who foretold the One,
the one unfit to tie the One's
It's impossible for meaning not to slide, leaving the entire enterprise of doctrinal training such a mess that the child is most likely to remember only the threat of pain in the final image of Jesus as king: "So did he have a shiny crown? // No, child—thorns."
The connection between pain and spirituality is made more personal in the poems about physical suffering. Migraines and their reality-altering quality show up over and over. These headaches cause double vision, auras, and, of course, unbearable throbbing that teeters into religious experience, such as in "Migraine Without Aura":
Gone to the void, I'm bared to God's fistic gaze,
a bitch straining her chain as the surgical needle bores through
—but this time, no lights,
the windows of heaven are painted shut.
If there's a weakness in this book, it comes when Bogen leaves the body and the soul behind and focuses on poets and poetry. "What Thomas McGrath Taught Me" and "Dear Berrigan, You Died" are less driven by image and metaphor than they are by summary and expository statement. Of the two, "Thomas McGrath" is more successful. It's really about image and identity formation, particularly in the second half:
the blotch and blur,
pockmark of my early vaccination,
that smudge and stain and
unmade bed
because Dakota's busy
shoring up an after-hours bar
kept by an unkempt
as refuge from the psychic
—over there
the hunting shack
dogs and rifles.
It's still possible to be alone on the planet.
Thomas McGrath just isn't necessary to making this interesting poem work, and I wish Bogen had come up with a different title for it.
The book ends hopefully but not easily on a poem called "To See for Yourself." Bogen is still aware of the body's capacity for pain, but this poem asserts that "It's love that knuckles down, that struggles / to tell the tumor from the bright idea." The poem—and the book—ends with the realization that though "[t]here will be months and years when you can't / see," there will come a day when "the flock lifts." Let Me Open You a Swan is a complex, graceful book, one that I have enjoyed reading and rereading. It takes on big subjects and wrenches them into lyrics that I find hard to forget, and I think this is the case despite the fact that I know the author. Actually, I probably know more of the author than I do of her work, because Deborah Bogen has not been an especially prolific writer. When I find a book so polished, however, it makes me wish that more poets could slow down, publish less, and write this well.
I am bound to all these poets in ways that are difficult to forget, but their work is what's important. My responsibility to judge their poems impartially, in fact, feels greater because of my ties to them, regardless of how close those ties are. All of the books under review here are rich, and they deserve attention. Poets are probably always going to make up a small subset of writers, however numerous we seem at AWP conferences, and our conversation becomes fuller—and truer—when we can honestly discuss each other's work in print as well as in person. I like all these poets. I like their work even more. That said, I must also say that the preceding exercise was fairly painful, so this is my advice for other reviewers: don't try this anywhere except at home.


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Reading Data Using a Data Reader
As reviewed in the previous lesson, a data adapter allows you to retrieve records from a database and make them available to your Windows Forms Application. To make reading data of a database a little faster, the .NET Framework provides a class used to read data from a database. For s SQL Server database, this class is called SqlDataReader
The .NET Framework provided XML-supported classes used to read from, and write to, an XML file going forth but without back. To support a unidirectional approach to reading data from a SQL Server database, the .NET Framework provides the SqlDataReader. This class reads data in a top-down direction without referring back to a record it passed already:
In other words, the SqlDataReader reads the first record, moves down, reads the second record, moves down, and so on, until it gets to the last record. Once it has passed a record, it doesn't and cannot refer back to it.
To create a data reader, you can declare a pointer to SqlDataReader. This class doesn't have a constructor. This means that, to use it, you must (directly) specify where it would read its data. To provide data to the reader, the SqlCommand class is equipped with the ExecuteReader() method that is overloaded with two versions. The simplest version of this method uses the following syntax:
public: SqlDataReader* ExecuteReader();
Based on this, before using a data reader, you should first create a command that would specify how data would be acquired. Once the data is reader, you can pass it to the data reader by assigning the result of a call to a SqlCommand::ExecuteReader() method to a SqlDataReader object.
Once data is supplied to the reader, you can access it, one record at a time, from top to bottom. To access data that the reader acquired, you can call its Read() method whose syntax is:
public: virtual bool Read();
As you can see, the Read() method simply reads a record and moves on. When reading the records of a table, as mentioned already many times, the data reader reads one record at a time and moves to the next. Before moving to the next record, you can access the values stored in the current record. To help with this, the columns of the table being read are stored in a collection and each column can be referred to with a numeric index. The first column has an index of 1. The second column has an index of 2, and so on. To retrieve the actual data stored in a column, you may need to know the type of information that column is holding so you can read it accurately.
Depending on the data type that a column was created with, you can access it as follows:
When using one of the Get... or GetSql... methods, the compiler doesn't perform any conversion. This means that, before sending the data, you have two responsibilities. First you must convert the value read to the appropriate (and probably exact) format. For example, if you read a natural number from a column created with the tinyint data type, even though C++ allows a short to be implicitly converted to an int, the compiler you use for your application would not perform or assume the conversion: the value of a column created with tinyint must be read with GetByte() or GetSqlByte() and trying to use GetInt32() or GetSqlInt32() would throw an error.
Practical Learning: Reading Data
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What You've All Been Waiting For: AL East Preview
1. Tampa Bay Rays
Notable Additions: RP Roberto Hernandez (Fausto Carmona), 1B James Loney, RP Juan Carlos Oviedo (Leo Nunez), SS Yunel Escobar, OF Wil Myers, SP Mike Montgomery, SP Jake Odirizzi
Notable Losses: SP James Shields, SP Wade Davis, 1B Carlos Pena, 3B Jeff Keppinger, OF BJ Upton, RP JP Howell
The Rays are locked and loaded for another year to be the David who can stand up to the Goliaths of the Major League Baseball. Continuing to have one of the deeper starting rotations in baseball with David Price, Jeremy Hellickson, Matt Moore, Alex Cobb, and Jeff Niemann as their starting five. The Rays shouldn't have difficulty getting innings out of this bunch. David Price is just coming off of a Cy Young performance in 2012, and his contract will be up in 2013 which leaves a lot of uncertainty for the cash-strapped Rays. The Rays have discussed both trading Price and extending him, however the later would leave little room for a supporting cast around him and Longoria. That evidence leads me to think the Rays will move Price, but they will need to find a team that will be willing to swallow their step price (no pun intended) for a potential rental pitcher. Moving from the rotation to the bullpen the Rays are decent here as well marksman Fernando Rodney handling the closers role, Joel Peralta setting up, and Jake McGee and Kyle Farnsworth providing relief when extra innings need to be pitched.
As far as the Rays lineup goes, it seems to be balanced all the way around. Power threats remain despite the departure of BJ Upton with the likes of Evan Longoria, Matt Joyce, Ben Zobrist, and Luke Scott. In addition to the guys that can drive the ball, the Rays also have a legitimate base stealer in Desmond Jennings, and guys who can just flat out get on base like James Loney and Yunel Escobar despite his down year with the Blue Jays in 2012. Overall, I feel like the Rays should have enough to win the division in 2013 and they will make a deep playoff run due to the youth and depth of their starting pitching staff.
2. Toronto Blue Jays
Notable Additions: SP Mark Buehrle, SP Josh Johnson, SS Jose Reyes, 2B/3B Emilio Bonifacio, 2B Maicer Izturis, OF Melky Cabrera, SP R.A. Dickey, INF Mark DeRosa, C Henry Blanco, C Josh Thole, Mick Nickeas
Notable Losses: C John Buck, C Travis D'Arnaud, C Jeff Mathis, 2B Kelly Johnson, SS Yunel Escobar, SP Adeiny Hechavarria, SS Mike Aviles, SP Henderson Alvarez, RP Jason Frasor, RP Brandon Lyon, SP Carlos Villanueva
Wow. Just wow is all I have to say regarding this team's transformation from 2012 to 2013. GM Alex Anthonopolos (AA) went out and got the starting pitching the team lacked in 2012 and got it in a big way. He now has power pitcher Josh Johnson, innings eater and perfectionist Mark Buehrle, and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey in conjunction with the talent the Blue Jays already had in house in Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero. This starting rotation is absolutely phenomenal and I consider it to be one of the top five rotations in the league. The bullpen isn't too shabby either as they have Casey Janssen closing, Sergio Santos returning in the set up role, and Darren Oliver, Brad Lincoln, and Steve Delabar among other big names to help out in the middle innings. The Jays pitching staff is far from impressive, they are out of this world.
The Jays are no slouch at the plate either with power hitters Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion, and Colby Rasmus heading up the middle of the order. In addition, the Blue Jays will have a lot of stolen base potential with Jose Reyes and Emilio Bonifacio on the same team. Not to mention they have a lot of guys who can just purely rake in Brett Lawrie and Melky Cabrera.* The Jays will be an exciting team to watch in 2013 and will give the Rays a bunch of problems at the top of the AL East, however the reason I do not pick them to win the division despite them being so much better on paper is because the game isn't played on paper, and I feel like the Blue Jays will just have something that won't allow them to put it together for a division title. However, I do see them with a playoff berth.
3. Baltimore Orioles
Notable Additions: 3B Danny Valencia, UTIL Russ Canzler, UTIL Alexi Casilla
Notable Losses: 1B Mark Reynolds, SP Joe Saunders
The Orioles really didn't make a splash in this offseason, however, they are still very much the same team that won a wild card spot last year. The thing about the Orioles is that they are a young team with boppers such as Nolan Reimold, Adam Jones, Manny Machado, and Matt Wieters expected to be around for years to come. As well as guys like JJ Hardy and Brian Roberts continuing to be productive as they age. The Orioles starting rotation however should prove problematic in their chances of pursuing back to back playoff appearances as they lack a truly dominant starting pitcher on their staff. Don't get me wrong, Jason Hammel and Wei-Yin Chen are solid, but when they square off against guys like Josh Johnson, David Price, and CC Sabathia they will need to be that much better in order to keep their Orioles in the game. I wish I could say their bullpen will provide the starters some relief in 2013, however I don't think that is the case because with the exception of Jim Johnson, the Orioles bullpen is rather inconsistent and inexperienced, but the same could be said for the White Sox bullpen in 2012 and they did just fine.
4. New York Yankees
Notable Additions: 3B Kevin Youkilis, OF Ben Francisco, 1B Juan Rivera, 1B/DH Travis Hafner, 1B Dan Johnson
Notable Losses: C Russell Martin, 3B Eric Chavez, OF Andruw Jones, OF Nick Swisher, OF Raul Ibanez, SP Freddy Garcia, RP Rafael Soriano
Here they are Next Sox GM readers. The great Yankees of New York will finish 4th this year according to this baseball enthusiast and here is why:
They are old. I mean they may as well refer to Yankee stadium as a retirement home because with geezers like Youkilis, Rivera, Jeter, Hafner, and Ichiro Suzuki headlining the team they sure aren't trying to get younger. The youth movement for them is not speeding up either as their bench also seems to be made up of older major leaguers or career minor leaguers. Brett Gardner is the one bright spot of the team along with Robinson Cano, but they won't be enough to lift the Yankees above the younger and more talented Orioles, Rays, and Jays. Not to say that being old is bad, but I simply don't foresee the older Yankees being able to produce all 162 games and/or stay healthy the whole time as well.
They do have a bright spot as far as pitching goes. CC Sabathia and Hiroki Kuroda should continue to do well and Ivan Nova and Phil Hughes will continue to eat innings. Andy Pettitte is the wild card in the equation, he can be decent or he can fall apart. We shall see with him, however I expect the 2013 Yankees starting rotation to keep their team in games in 2013. In addition, I also expect their bullpen to be able to hold leads as the great Mariano Rivera is returning for one more season and the Yankees also still have David Robertson, Joba Chamberlain, and Boone Logan to shut the door.
5. Boston Red Sox
Notable Additions: C David Ross, OF Jonny Gomes, OF Shane Victorino, RP Koji Uehara, SP Ryan Dempster, SS Stephen Drew, C Mike Napoli, UTIL Mike Carp, RP Joel Hanrahan, MGR John Farrell
Notable Losses: 1B James Loney, 3B Danny Valencia, SS Mike Aviles, OF Cody Ross, SP Daisuke Matsuzaka, SP Vicente Padilla
The Red Sox are in shambles.What once was a great team, is now the laughing stock of the AL East. After their momentous collapse in 2011 to the embarrassment that was 2012, to the transition period that will be 2013, the Red Sox need to find their new identity. The thing that gets me most about this team is that they have good players, just not at the right time. They acquired Shane Victorino, Ryan Dempster, and Mike Napoli this offseason, all good players, but they are getting older and not better. Stephen Drew might have problems adjusting to the tougher AL East, and the Red Sox also must rely on Jacoby Ellsbury remaining healthy and Will Middlebrooks having a great sophomore campaign. The Red Sox dont have a bad rotation, however it is inconsistent, Lester and Buchholz will be expected to pitch to their potential all year long and I just don't see that happening. John Lackey will be returning this season, but will he come back the same old John Lackey from his Angels years or the Red Sox years? Red Sox fans better hope for the former. The bullpen is solid as they have two closers in Joel Hanrahan and Andrew Bailey, the rest of the bullpen is solid with power arm Daniel Bard and hot-head Alfredo Aceves. Thing is the Red Sox simply won't have the offense, youth, or pitching to keep up with the beasts of the East.


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Career: Two-time NCAA qualifier, earning honorable mention All-America accolades his junior year as a member of the Blue Devils' 200 medley relay ... Relay was the first in program history to collect such honors ... Scored for Duke at all four ACC Championships during his career, reaching the championship final of the 100 backstroke as a junior ... Graduated ranked second all-time at Duke in the 100 backstroke (47.06) ... Also ranked fourth in the 200 butterfly (1:47.43) and sixth in the 100 butterfly (48.04) ... Established program records as a member of the Blue Devils' 200 (1:25.00) and 400 (3:09.20) medley relays ... Two-time All-ACC Academic Team selection and four-year member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Honors: Honorable Mention All-America (200 Medley Relay - 2016) ... All-ACC Academic (2015, 2016) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
2016-17: Member of 200 medley relay that placed sixth in the conference and second on Duke's all-time performance list at the ACC Championships ... Broke his own school record in the 100 backstroke preliminaries before teammate Max St. George lowered the mark ... Went another career-best in the event finals (47.06) for 10th overall ... Won the 200 butterfly in the win over Queens University (12/3) ... Fifth in the 100 backstroke and 200 butterfly at the NC State GAC Invite ... Claimed the 100 backstroke and the 100 butterfly against Northwestern (10/29) ... Led off winning 200 medley relay five times during the regular season.
2015-16: NCAA qualifier for the second straight season, earning honorable mention All-America honors as a member of Duke's 200 medley relay ... The group became the first relay in program history to garner All-America honors with a sixth-place showing in the NCAA consolation final and a 14th-place finish overall ... Relay took fourth at the ACC Championships while breaking its own school record with a 1:25.00 clocking ... That mark surpassed the NCAA automatic standard in the event ... Also placed eighth in the 100 backstroke and 20th in the 100 and 200 butterfly and led off 400 medley relay at ACCs ... Broke Duke's 100 backstroke record with a mark of 47.23 in the championship final ... Time of 48.11 in the 100 butterfly finals ranked fifth on the program's all-time performance list ... Claimed the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly at South Carolina (1/8) ... Guided 200 and 400 medley relays to first-place finishes at Nike Cup Invitational ... Took third in the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly and sixth in the 200 butterfly at the same meet ... Won the 200 butterfly against Old Dominion and William & Mary (11/7) and the 100 backstroke against Florida State and Queens (10/23) ... First to the wall in both events in the season opener against Pitt (10/3) ... Helped the 200 medley relay take first-place finishes against Pitt, Florida State and Queens, Old Dominion and William & Mary and South Carolina ... 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier in the 100 butterfly.
2014-15: Member of Blue Devils' 200 medley relay that was the first to garner automatic NCAA qualification since the 'A' and 'B' standards were implemented … Group's school record breaking time of 1:25.03 at the ACC Championship placed the Blue Devils second for a podium finish … The relay went on to compete at the NCAA meet, advancing to the consolation final before being disqualified … During the regular season, helped guide the 200 medley relay to six first-place finishes, including in a facility record-breaking performance at home against Harvard and South Carolina (1/10) … Group broke North Carolina's Koury Natatorium facility record at the Carolina College Invitational with a 1:26.49 swim (2/7) … Scored for Duke in the bonus final of the 100 backstroke and 200 butterfly at ACCs … Time of 48.63 in the 100 backstroke preliminaries ranked fourth all-time at Duke, as did his 1:47.43 clocking in the 200 butterfly finals … Also at the conference meet, touched at 48.30 in the 100 butterfly preliminaries to rank sixth on the Blue Devils' all-time performance list … Led off Duke's 400 medley relay at ACCs that posted a time of 3:11.71 for a school record … During the regular season, set the facility record in the 100 backstroke at Old Dominion (50.48).
2013-14: Duke's top performer in the 500 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly ... Advanced to two individual finals at the ACC Championship, placing 18th in the 100 backstroke and 22nd in the 100 butterfly ... Helped the 800 freestyle relay set a program record at 6:34.65 during ACCs ... Clocked 48.50 in the 100 butterfly final for the fourth-fastest time in school history ... Member of the 200 medley relay that ranked second all-time on Duke's top 10 with a 1:27.35 showing at the conference meet ... Swept the butterfly events against William & Mary ... Placed second in the 100 butterfly at the season-opening All-North Carolina Invitational ... Guided the Blue Devils' medley relays to first-place finishes against South Carolina and Virginia.
Prior to Duke: 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials qualifier … Invited to USA Swimming National Select Camp as a senior … Selected athlete representative for the state of Connecticut … Member of the SoNoCo Swim Club team … Four-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American and Connecticut Scholar Athlete … Member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Born Kazumu Brandon Takabayashi on July 17, 1995 in Nagoya, Japan … Son of Takuto and Toyomi Takabayashi … Has one sister, Miku ... Majoring in computer science.
Takabayashi Career Bests:
|100 Back
|2nd all-time at Duke
|100 Fly
|6th all-time at Duke
|200 Fly
|4th all-time at Duke
On Duke's Relays:
|200 Medley Relay
|Duke record
|400 Medley Relay
|Duke record
At the NCAA Championships:
|14th, 200 Medley Relay (1:25.32)
20th, 400 Medley Relay (3:09.97)
At the ACC Championships:
|8th, 200 Medley Relay (1:27.35)
9th, 800 Free Relay (6:34.65)
18th, 100 Back (49.42)
22nd, 100 Fly (48.50)
|2nd, 200 Medley Relay (1:25.03)
9th, 400 Medley Relay (3:11.71)
20th, 200 Fly (1:47.43)
21st, 100 Back (48.82)
|4th, 200 Medley Relay (1:25.00)
8th, 100 Back (47.37)
8th, 400 Medley Relay (3:12.45)
20th, 100 Fly (48.11)
20th, 200 Fly (1:48.35)
|6th, 200 Medley Relay (1:25.70)
10th, 100 Back (47.06)


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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN — In anticipation of greater demand for its stock, Life Time Fitness filed a shelf registration in late August to offer 1.5 million shares of its common stock.
On Aug. 24, the Eden Prairie, MN-based company became included on the S&P MidCap 400 Index, the reason for the anticipated increase in stock demand. Life Time is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the LTM symbol.
The company also is offering an additional 225,000 shares for the underwriter's over-allotment option, which may be exercised within 30 days.
Life Time shares fell from a close at $56.14 on Aug. 22 to a close of $54.88 on Aug. 23, the date of the announcement. However, on Aug. 24, shares rose to close at $55.50. Volume increased on Aug. 24 to 2,026,200 compared to 842,700 the day before. The company priced the stock at $55.40 per share, which would equate to $82.8 million in net proceeds.


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Disgraced fashion designer John Galliano was physically ill when he watched a video of his infamous anti-Semitic rant because he felt so sickened by his behavior.
Galliano was thrown into a downward spiral when he was arrested for launching a racist tirade at a couple during a night out in France in 2010, and he was subsequently fired from his position as head designer at Christian Dior in 2011.
The fashion mogul, who battled alcohol and drug addiction for many years before the incident, insists he does not remember the expletive-filled rant and was physically sick when he was shown a video.
Galliano tells Vanity Fair magazine, "I have been trying to find out why that anger was directed at this race. I now realize that I was so [bleep] angry and so discontent with myself that I just said the most spiteful thing I could. …
"When everyone came over to tell me that I had done these terrible things, I was walking round and round not really knowing what had gone down (happened). My assistant told me about the video. When I saw it, I threw up. …"
Galliano checked into a rehab facility in Arizona in 2011 to kick his addictions for good, and he is convinced the scandal was the wake up call he needed to get his life back on track.
He adds, "It sounds a bit bizarre, but I am so grateful for what did happen. I have learnt so much about myself. I have rediscovered the little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost. I am alive."


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High Resolution, AMOLED, Touch Lead 2012 Display Trends
What do all the new phones, tablets, TVs, and hybrid notebooks have in common? Reliance on advanced display screens. Sometimes I think we focus so much on processors that we lose sight of how heavily our "three screens"—or is it four these days?—depend on display technology.
I wasn't able to make it to Display Week this year (I picked Computex instead), but I wanted to go back and check in on the state of display technology.
The big news in big displays seems to be increasing resolution. At the recent IFA show, a number of vendors showed huge displays; Panasonic impressed us with a 145-inch plasma set. The big news is that high-resolution (known as 4K, with 3960-by-2160 pixels) is actually coming to market. Both LG and Sony recently showed 84-inch 4K displays at IFA. These machines are expected to sell for upwards of $20,000, so they'll be a small part of the overall market.
Above: Sony Bravia 84X9000 84-Inch 4K TV
Jennifer Colegrove, vice president of emerging display technologies for NPD DisplaySearch, said sales of such TVs will be quite limited this year—maybe 80,000 to 90,000 units out of a total TV market of about 200 million—but this should grow to several million per year by 2016. Over time, the LCD market should be able to add resolution fairly easily.
Of course, we've heard a lot about high-resolution lately, mostly in the mobile arena. Apple has been pushing the Retina display on the iPhone, iPad, and, most recently, the MacBook. Most of this year's tablets will be high-resolution, since Apple accounts for more than half of the tablet market and many of the other vendors are following suit. Colegrove said more than 40 percent of this year's smartphones will have high-resolution displays.
Another trend is the slow but steady growth of AMOLED displays. Out of 1.5 billion phones this year, Colegrove said about 140 million will have AMOLED screens. Samsung makes the vast majority of these displays but LG is also making a small volume and screen makers AUO and CMI are also expected to commercialize AMOLED production by the end of the year. Several Chinese displays makers, including BOE and Tianma, are also working on OLED technology. By 2019, Colegrove predicted about 400 million out of two billion small-size displays will use OLED displays.
While both Samsung and LG have shown 55-inch OLED TVs using somewhat different technology, it's unclear if or how many of these TVs will actually be sold this year. It seems likely to be a very small amount due to manufacturing issues for large-size AMOLED displays.
Another trend is the growing incorporation of touch technology within displays, both with on-cell and in-cell production. Many of the AMOLED displays include on-cell touch encapsulated in the glass, while many of the LCD makers are advancing with in-cell production.
Embedded touch remains a small part of the market now—less than ten percent—but Colegrove said this will grow over the next few years. In larger displays for notebook PCs, touch is expected to grow from about two percent last year to about eight percent in 2013. This adds cost, from $40 for a low-end panel to $60 for one that also supports a stylus, but could be more important with hybrid displays.
While 3D doesn't get as much attention as it did a year ago, Colegrove said that shipments of 3D-ready TVs are going really well and more than 40 million sets are due to ship this year. For this, DisplaySearch is counting TVs with the electronics for active 3D or the filters for passive 3D, but not all such sets are actually shipped with 3D glasses.
Sales of electronic paper displays, such as the e-ink ones used in the Amazon Kindle and other ebook readers, slipped noticeably this year. Inexpensive LCD-based tablets stole some of the market that was served by ebook readers. Sales of such displays slid from about 27 million in 2011 to an expected 15 million in 2012, but DisplaySearch forecasts that this will ramp up again next year, as ebook readers enter new markets.


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Red Wings and Avalanche rekindle NHL rivalry in 2nd roundNHL.com @NHLdotcom
DETROIT (AP) - It's back.
The Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche will rekindle one of the NHL's best rivalries on Thursday night in Game 1 of a Western Conference semifinal.
Detroit and Colorado met in five postseasons between 1996-2002 - with the Avs advancing three times - and the franchises combined to win five Stanley Cups during that seven-year stretch.
"We pushed each other to be the best," Red Wings forward Darren McCarty said Wednesday before facing Colorado for a sixth time in the playoffs. "It was a slugfest back and forth - figuratively."
Literally, too.
Blood, brawls - involving even goaltenders - and broken bones made the matchups that much more interesting.
"You hated a few of those guys on that team," McCarty said. "But you had the utmost respect for them."
McCarty said he hated Claude Lemieux, who broke Kris Draper's nose and jaw with a blind-sided check into the boards, and acknowledged he's still loathed in Denver.
Draper and McCarty are two of the eight players who helped the Red Wings beat Colorado in the 2002 conference finals and win their third title in six years.
The Avs have just four players - Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Adam Foote and Milan Hejduk - still around from the previous matchup in the playoffs.
"If you're part of that, you remember that. You know the buzz in both cities," Sakic said. "The newer guys that weren't around for those series are going to get a taste of it right away."
Joel Quenneville agreed.
He experienced the rivalry behind the bench as an assistant on Colorado's Stanley Cup-winning team in 1996.
"The guys that haven't felt it or seen it will immediately capture the feeling, the excitement, the meaning of a shift," Quenneville said. "The building will be loud and crazy.
"There are a lot of good things going into it, but whether you've been a part of it or not, you'll be able to feel it."
Both teams needed six games to advance to the second round and each scored 17 goals and gave up 12.
Detroit, the NHL's top-seeded team, won the final two games of the series to get past the Nashville Predators. Dominik Hasek was pulled in Game 4 and was replaced - until further notice - by Chris Osgood, who allowed only a goal in Games 5-6.
Jose Theodore helped the sixth-seeded Avs knock off the third-seeded Minnesota with a 1.88 goals-against average.
They got a boost into the playoffs and in the first round from their moves before the trading deadline, bringing back Forsberg and Foote and adding Ruslan Salei.
Colorado is hoping the trio helps the franchise get past Detroit and into the conference finals for the first time since its championship season in 2001.
The Red Wings had their way in the regular season with the Avs, beating them in all four games and shutting them out in the last three meetings. Colorado hasn't scored a goal against Detroit since Dec. 27, starting a scoreless streak that is at 214-plus minutes entering the series.
"They're a totally different team," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said, dismissing the season series as an advantage. "I don't believe there's any transfer whatsoever."


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Philip Nevels, executive director, ChicagoNEXT
Philip Nevels has been named executive director of ChicagoNEXT, a dedicated effort of World Business Chicago to drive growth and opportunity in the business community related to science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Nevels comes to WBC from Power2Switch, the web-based energy marketplace he co-founded in 2009 to bring innovation to energy brokerage. He was chief operating officer. Before that, Nevels worked for technology and client service companies including Google, Nokia and Accenture. ChicagoNEXT focuses broadly on technology and science-based pursuits, with an emphasis on clean tech, bioscience, and web and mobile. Its goals include attracting talent, engaging alumni (university and corporate), increasing available venture capital, raising Chicago¿s tech profile, connecting entrepreneurs with Chicago¿s corporate community, providing a voice for the technology community and improving data collection and reporting. Nevels is a Chicago native who received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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The US is facing one of the worst droughts in our history, but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he doesn't want to \"opine\" as to the role of climate change.* That is not acceptable. The scientific links between climate change and drought are well established by his own Department, and it's Secretary Vilsack's responsibility to share that information with farmers and the American public.
Sign this petition to tell Secretary Vilsack to help America's farmers by giving them the truth about manmade climate change.
* US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's evasiveness on climate change and drought. Climate Science Watch, July 23, 2012.


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Like C3PO or experiment #626, the Belwith 20027 Collection is a futuristic look at a commonplace item. Also known as the Euro Contemporary collection, you might already begin to get a feel for what these cabinet knobs and cabinet pulls are all about. Strutting bold form and striking finishes, take a look inside to see what this Belwith innovation has to offer.
The 20027 cabinet pulls go in two directions; and both can hold their own on the modern scene. The minimalists out there will love sleek, thin cabinet pulls with no nonsense but plenty of class. For fun and funky, though, you'll want to go for the wave version. These cabinet pulls are crafted in smooth ebbs and flows so that you can grasp them comfortably with a full hand, and look simply amazing when not in use.
Our 20027 cabinet knobs also take two separate forms, but they have an entirely different approach to futuristic decor. For "in the box" thinking, try trendy square cabinet knobs. These 3-D cube knobs will look as good as they feel against your cabinets. If you want a softer alternative, Belwith has squared knobs with rounded corners. These pillow-like cabinet knobs are full and gently curved and will give your happening habitat a more moderate tone. So whether cabinet pulls are your hardware of choice or you want the style that only comes along with cabinet knobs, order your own cabinet hardware from Belwith 20027 today, and bring your home into the next generation of style.


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Editor's Note: ESPN announced in March, 2013, that the Moto X and Snowmobile Best Trick events would be discontinued.
Practice is over, and my run is set, now time to put it down smooth," tweeted extreme snowmobile rider Caleb Moore at the Winter X Games in Aspen last January 24. Later that day, as he attempted a routine backflip, the skis on his 450-pound snowmobile caught on the landing area; Moore flew over the handlebars and hit the snow, his vehicle plowing over him. He walked away from the crash, but later developed bleeding around his heart. A week later, the 25-year-old died.
Action sports -- only outsiders call them "extreme" -- have grown dramatically since their indie beginnings. ESPN created the X Games 18 years ago; Mountain Dew's "Dew Tour" followed a decade later; and Red Bull sponsors a wide range of increasingly crazy events, like "Crashed Ice," a downhill speedskating race held in cities. Slopestyle skiing, with its huge jumps and acrobatic stunts, will join snowboarding as a sanctioned event at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Today's action athletes are pushing themselves harder than ever, bringing the thin line between daredevilry and death to the forefront. In 2009, freestyle motocross (FMX) rider Jeremy Lusk became the first action-sports star to die in competition when he hit the ground headfirst while attempting a backflip. Since then, at least two others have died at events or in practice: Jim McNeil, another FMX rider, died after a crash in practice in 2011; and last year, champion freestyle skier Sarah Burke suffered fatal brain damage after crashing in a half-pipe training run.
Snowmobile racer "Monster Mike" Schultz watched Moore from the sidelines that day. "I was cringing," Schultz says. "They're doing some amazingly ridiculous things with these snowmobiles, and I know the consequences when it doesn't go right." In 2008, Schultz shredded his left knee so badly in a snowmobile crash that his leg had to be amputated. He still races, using a custom foot stirrup to keep his prosthetic on the pedal. So many amputees now populate action sports that in 2008, the X Games began staging races for them, called Adaptive events.
After Lusk's death, the Dew Tour decided to downgrade FMX, widely viewed as the riskiest event, from a contest to an exhibition. Participants now perform a set list of tricks rather than trying to outdo one another with more difficult moves. "That's Evel Knievel shit," says an executive involved in the discussions. "We want sports, not spectacle."
Former BMX pro Aaron Cooke, founder of the Athlete Recovery Fund -- which helps cover athletes' insurance and medical expenses -- is pushing riders to use helmets certified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This year, BMX riders at the X Games and on the Dew Tour will be required to use helmets made of harder foam than the noncertified ones most wear. (Others, like Schultz, wonder if the sports should mandate helmets like those used in motorcycle supercross, which pump air between the helmet and the head in case of collision.)
The day of Moore's death, ESPN, which televised his crash, said that it would "conduct a thorough review of this discipline.... Still, when the world's best compete at the highest level in any sport, risks remain." Twelve days later, the network decided to suspend freestyle snowmobiling at future X Games indefinitely.
But the perils of action sports are unlikely to go away. The X Games go international this year, with major contests in Spain, Germany, and Brazil, and prize money as high as $50,000 -- more than most athletes make in a year.
"They need to put some limits on what they're doing," says Schultz. "But I wouldn't even dream of knowing how to go about that. You still want to make it interesting and extreme. Put limits on it, and then it's...limited. It's a real catch-22."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern men's soccer team rallied back from an early deficit to defeat the Sewanee Tigers, 2-1, Sunday afternoon on Senior Day at Preston Goldfarb Field.
BSC improves to 8-4-1 on the season and 2-1 in Southern Athletic Association play. Sewanee drops to 6-5-2 overall and 1-2 in conference.
Prior to the start of the game, BSC's six seniors—Brooks Busby, Kristjan Bryde, Jeremy Evans, Cory Gonzalez, Alex Levinson, and Tobias Winter—were recognized.
Sewanee would score their only goal of the afternoon in the fifth minute of action to take the early lead. The BSC defense then proceeded to yield only three additional shots on goal by the Tigers for the rest of the match, which were all saved by junior goalkeeper Jonas Heidrich.
BSC netted the equalizer in the 33rd minute of play courtesy of a penalty kick by Winter. The two squads traded shots to end the half in a 1-1 tie.
Coming out of the break, the Panthers wasted little time scoring what would prove to be the game-winner. In the 49th minute, Bryde took an assist from junior Ian Everett to put the Panthers ahead for good on his third goal of the season.
The Panthers out-shot the Tigers by four with a 13-9 advantage, including 8-4 on-goal, and also took seven more corner kicks, nine compared to Sewanee's two.
BSC will hit the road for the remainder of the season starting next Saturday, October 19, for a 7 p.m. conference match with Hendrix.


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In Project Web App, project managers are the people who create and maintain projects and tasks, assign resources to tasks, and track task work and status.
Are you a project manager? If so, welcome to Project Web App! You can use this tool to create projects, schedule tasks, assign tasks to resources, approve timesheets, and review task progress.
What is Project Web App?
Project Web App is one part of an end-to-end enterprise project management solution. This solution includes a client program, Project Professional, and a server, Project Server. Project Web App is part of Project Server. It is a robust Web application that is used to do everything from analyzing portfolios and managing demands, to entering time in a timesheet and updating task status.
Get oriented
The Project Web App interface is made up of three main areas: the Quick Launch, the Ribbon, and the content display area.
The Quick Launch, on the left side of the window, lists the main views and pages that you are able to access. You can click these links to navigate to different areas of the program. Some pages in Project Web App do not include the Quick Launch. For example, when you fill out a form, you must complete and save the form or cancel out of it, in order to return to the Quick Launch.
The Ribbon is the toolbar that you use to perform actions on the project information in the content display area. There may be multiple tabs on the Ribbon, to change between different sets of actions. Each tab contains groups of related buttons that you can use to interact with the page content.
The content display area contains information about your portfolios, projects, and tasks. This is the main focus of each page, and is where you will enter and review data.
Where do you start?
Project Web App is highly customizable, so your organization can have a unique starting page. By default, the main page that appears when you open Project Web App is a great starting point. It shows information about tasks, timesheets, approvals, status reports, issues, and risks.
There are other useful places to start in Project Web App, depending on what you intend to do while you're logged on.
Create projects and schedule tasks
In Project Web App, you can create projects and schedule tasks in the Project Center. On the Quick Launch, under Projects, click Project Center. On the Ribbon, click the Projects tab to access the tools you can use in the Project Center. Here, you can create new projects using templates or by importing SharePoint lists. On the Projects tab of the Ribbon, click the arrow on the New button. Use the list that appears to choose what method you want to use to create a new project.
Once you've created a project, you can use the tools on the Project, Task, and Options tabs of the Ribbon to work with the project's tasks.
Work with resources
With a project and its tasks in place, the next step is to assign the resources that will complete the tasks. In some organizations, a resource manager may be responsible for assigning resources to tasks, but typically this falls on the project manager's plate. In Project Web App, you can add resources and manage your enterprise resource pool in the Resource Center. On the Quick Launch, under Resources, click Resource Center.
Once the resources you need for the tasks in your project are added to the Resource Center, you can assign them to tasks using the Project Center. On the Quick Launch, under Projects, click Project Center. Click the name of your project in the list to open it for viewing, check the project out for editing, and then build your team. Pick resources from your team to assign to tasks in your project.
Track time and task progress
Some project managers may find time and task progress tracking crucial for monitoring project status. As a project progresses, team members assigned to project tasks report how much time they spend on tasks and how much work is left. As the manager of the project where this data is being reported, it is your responsibility to review and approve or reject this time and task progress as it is reported.
The Approval Center provides a central location for approving both time and task progress. On the Quick Launch, under Projects, click Approval Center. Here, you can review the data that has been reported by team members, and then either approve the data, submitting it to the project, or reject it, with notes to help communicate the reason for the rejection.


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Pale Bread with Baking Stone?
I received an Old Stone Oven baking stone for Christmas. The pamphlet that came with it says its made from heat retaining clays. I have used the stone periodically and every time I've used it my loaves seem to be lighter in color than expected, even when I bake to to fullest time given and check temp. They are baked through, its just the color that seems off and sometimes the crust is a bit soft. I've baked a few breads from Rose B's Bread Bible where the breads are in the loaf pan, baked on the stone. Then last night I tried the Rosemary bread from Local Breads book, the loaves are baked directly on the stone with parchment and should be a "dark caramel" color...well, they are pale gold, and soft outer crust (which I think is okay for these, its just they are so light in color).
I am confused because I thought a baking stone would help the crust brown and bake evenly on the outside too, is this not the case? Am I doing something wrong? Are there better types of stones than others for bread? The pamphlet with my stone says that it can be used for "restaurant style" pizza, foccaccia and bread.I use this mainly for bread.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team defeated Wagner behind a 27-point effort from sophomore Lauren Arbogast. The Blue Devils (12-16, 6-11 NEC) battled back from a 14-point deficit in the first half to take the 79-66 victory over the Seahawks (2-26, 1-16 NEC).
In addition to Arbogast's big game, sophomore Jessica Babe posted the first triple-double in the Division I history of the CCSU women's basketball program. Babe finished with 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.
Over the first 11 minutes of action the Blue Devils fell behind by 14 points. Wagner's 24-10 lead was erased over the final nine minutes of the half as the Blue Devils delivered a 17-4 run to close the period.
Five different Blue Devils scored during the run, led by Arbogast who scored five points. Freshmen Kaley Watras and Johnna Fisher each dropped in four points during the run.
The late run helped the Blue Devils cut the deficit to a single point heading into halftime.
After the half, the Blue Devils continued to control the game. Central opened the period on a 14-5 run that gave them their first lead since the early minutes of the first half. Arbogast led the offense with six points during the stretch.
The run gave Central a 41-33 lead and the Blue Devils never trailed again in the game.
Wagner's final chance came with 7:47 remaining when Shawn-Maire Heiliger hit a layup to cut Central's lead to two points. The Blue Devils answered with 12 straight points to put the game out of reach at 68-54.
The Blue Devil starting five dominated the scoring, putting up 70 of the team's 79 points. Only freshman Danielle Davis, who posted a career-high with nine points, scored off the bench.
Central shot 67.7% (21-31) from the field in the second half. The Blue Devils' shooting percentage was driven up by 50 points in the paint, including 32 in the second half. Arbogast and Fisher combined for 43 of those 50 points under the hoop and went 13-of-15 from the floor in the second half.
The Blue Devils also outrebounded the Seahawks in the game, 43-37.
Arbogast was a major contributor to Central's season-high 52 second half points. Arbogast scored 16 of her 27 points after the break. She more than doubled her previous career-high of 12 points, which she had scored three times in her career. Most recently on February 11, against Quinnipiac. Arbogast missed only two field goals in the game (13-15) and also recorded eight rebounds.
Fisher scored in double-digits for the third straight game. After posting back-to-back 10-point games last weekend, she set a new career-high with 16 points today.
Watras fell a single rebound short of her first career double-double finishing with 16 points, nine rebounds and four steals. She fell just shy of the career-high 19 points, she set on Monday night.
Jessica Babe used nine points, seven assists and four rebounds in the second half to complete CCSU's first triple-double. Babe narrowly missed a triple-double earlier this season when she fell a single assist short against Holy Cross. Her 10 assists are the most in a game since Kerrianne Dugan had 11 against Fairleigh Dickinson on January 30, 2010.
Prior to the game the Blue Devils recognized senior Rachel Chandler who has been a part of more victories, 61, than any other player in program history.
The Blue Devils will wrap-up the season against Mount St. Mary's on Monday night at Detrick Gym. That game is scheduled to tip-off at 7 p.m.


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This just in from the "how the heck is it possible?!" department!
A woman in Europe drove 900 miles the wrong way because her GPS didn't guide her properly.
Perhaps we're all a little too dependent on technology, but it's getting beyond ridiculous when a fairly short drive turns into an inter-country trip and the driver doesn't get a clue until she starts seeing signs in different languages.
Discovery reported that the driver, Sabine Moreau, even stopped twice for gas, slept on the side of the road — and "suffered a minor car accident" along the way. Moreau also told El Mundo that she just wasn't paying attention:
I was distracted, so I kept driving. I saw all kinds of traffic signs, first in French, then German and finally in Croatian, but I kept driving because I was distracted. Suddenly I appeared in Zagreb and I realized I wasn't in Belgium anymore.
Read more about the 900-mile GPS mix-up from Yahoo here.


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A week that has gotten off to a soggy start will more than likely get soggier, officials said.
A week that has gotten off to a soggy start will more than likely get even soggier, officials said.
Officials with the National Weather Service are hosting Lightning Safety Awareness Week and urge residents to be aware lightning hazards as more storms are in the forecast.
Showers that dominated much of the weekend are expected to continue through this week, said Lara Pagano, a meteorologist with NWS in Newport. By Monday afternoon, parts of Onslow had received up to nearly 1.5 inches, while close the Carteret-Craven line almost three inches of rain had fallen. Two to three inches of rain is expected within the next seven days.
Pagano said the storms are typical for the summer season, but do include the risk of occasional high winds, thunder and lightning.
�We always have this slogan,� she said. �When thunder roars, go indoors.�
Pagano said the NWS recommends that when people hear thunder to seek shelter indoors and to wait approximately half an hour after the last roll before heading back outdoors.
Pagano said lightning is so dangerous because it can strike like a �bolt from the blue� traveling 10 miles away from a storm and striking someone or something. In the United States, lightning kills 57 people on average per year, and injures several hundred more, with an estimated 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.
Pagano suggests that anyone heading out on a boat or to simply go swimming should check the weather forecast first. It�s important to stay away from water if a storm is rolling in.
If a storm is coming and you cannot get to a building for shelter, Pagano said that a car can serve as protection from lightning as long as you are not touching metal objects in the car. It is much better than being out in the elements, she added.
As a part of Lightning Safety Awareness, the NWS in Newport will post information about lightning safety, the science of thunderstorms and more on its Facebook page, U.S. National Weather Service Newport/Morehead City NC, all week.
But lightning is only one concern when it comes to severe weather, officials said.
NWS officials said consistent rains this week may create a threat of flooding in low-lying areas, especially in urban areas.
When a flood watch is issued, the Jacksonville Police Department suggests drivers avoid area where water is covering the road, because it is impossible to know the depth of the water or the condition of the ground underneath.
�The most important advice we can offer motorists and pedestrians is to turn around, don�t drown,� stated Traffic Supervisor Sean Magill.
Six inches of fast moving flood water can knock over an adult, and it only takes two feet of rushing water to carry away most vehicles � even SUVs and pickup trucks, according to the JPD.
The JPD also suggests motorists ensure their vehicle is up to par before heading out on wet road � some important elements to make sure are in working condition are the tread on tires and windshield wipers. In the event of a collision, law enforcement agencies will check the condition of a vehicle when assessing fault � ensuring the car is in good condition before heading out on slick roads is a great way to stay safe.
�Speed limits are set for ideal roadway conditions. Drivers need to reduce their speed when the roadways are wet and when visibility is reduced,� said Beth Purcell, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
JPD also offers these other tips when driving in storms:
n Keep your headlights on. North Carolina law requires that you use headlights when driving in the rain.
n Clear sight is the most impaired sense in the rain. Keep your windshield and headlights clean and your wipers in good condition to effectively clear the windshield.
n During heavy rain, think about staying at home or remaining where you are at until conditions improve.
n If you must drive, reduce your speed and following distance, especially when stopping at traffic lights and stop signs.
n Make sure you have plenty of time to reach your destination, as travel time will increase due to the weather conditions.
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From powerful imaging tools to a stunning range of genuine leather accessories, you can find everything here to completely transform your smartphone photography. The KODAK EKTRA brings a new photography experience to creators, offering up a familiar DSLR dial system within a powerful smartphone so you're always ready when the decisive moment arises. Couple the Ektra with authentic leather accessories to complete the look.
© Copyright 2019 Bullitt Group Limited. All rights reserved. The Kodak and Ektra trademarks, the Kodak logo and trade dress are used under license from Kodak.


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Tonight, in the Queen's realm of Ilance, two prodigies representing the Knight and Aristocrat factions will do battle in 'the Adjuvant Trial'.
Croixleur is 60 FPS of high-speed, hack-and-slash arcade action by one of Japan's premier indie developers, souvenir circ. In gameplay reminiscent of Devil May Cry's Bloody Palace mode, our protagonists, Lucrezia Visconti and Francesca Storaro, must battle their way through floors of oncoming monsters in a ritual called 'the Adjuvant Trial'. The fate of the nation is at stake as these two girls set aside their childhood friendship and undergo a trial in which there can be only one victor.
Game Features:
- 5 modes of blistering pace 60 FPS hack-&-slash arcade action!
- 2 playable characters - play as either Lucrezia Visconti or Francesca Storaro!
- Take on the Adjuvant Trial in Story Mode with separate stories and multiple endings for both characters!
- Test your mettle and hone your skills in Score Attack, Survival, Challenge, and Bonus modes!
- A well-featured combo system including move canceling, attack collisions, invincible dashing and action locks!
- 20 weapons to collect, each with a unique special attack! Pick the load-out that suits your fighting style and the battle ahead!
- 42 in-game achievements, Steam Trading Cards, and online leaderboards!
- Local 2 player co-op! Take on the monster hordes with a friend in Dramatic Battle mode!
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Okay, I am quite curious; I want to know how practical it would be to make a brand new OS capable of interfacing with a graphics card, using a driver which may be designed for other circumstances (a different OS). Honestly, I don't know any thing about video-device drivers...
1. Is there an efficient method?
2. How hard would it be to do? (e.g. making an OS compatible with another OS's video-device drivers)
3. Is it legal? Would it require reverse engineering? Doesn't Microsoft provide a plenty of information about Windows?
My reason I want this:
I want to develop an OS which can support accelerated-graphics and handles its GUI flawlessly (more careful with the painter's algorithm .etc), however rather than windows or linux, it will use a philosophy much different than the concept of "files" and "folders" (entirely different). I also want the experience and bragging rights, you know.


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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Navarre Pineau des Charentes Vieux
Pineau des Charentes is a fortified wine made by adding Cognac to grape juice. I was first introduced to it by Nicholas Palazzi's Paul-Marie Fils Pineau des Charentes which uses aged Cognac as opposed to the typical unaged eau de vie.
I very much enjoyed the Cognac I tried from Navarre, so I was excited to see they had a Pineau on the market. Like the Paul-Marie Fils, the Navarre Pineau uses aged Cognac. A six year old, 1982 Cognac was added to the wine. The Pineau was then aged an additional 30 years and bottled in 2012.
Navarre Pineau des Charentes Vieux, 17% abv ($70)
This Pineau has some fantastic, complex flavors with heavy sweet syrupy notes rushing in first, followed by the aged Cognac with its earthy notes. The flavor combination works well, but it's far too sweet for me to take it neat, cutting it is a necessity.
Mixing one part Pineau with two parts club soda makes about the best spritzer I've ever tasted. The two to one ratio mellows the sweetness without compromising any of the earthy qualities. It's insanely refreshing and very light, the perfect drink for a summer afternoon.
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Thanks for talking about PdC...amazing stuff. Makes great Manhattan variants - though you need to add a proportional amount of bitters/amaro/Campari to keep the sugar in check...
- July 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM
- sku said...
Do you use it in place of the vermouth in Manhattans? I could see that working.
- July 17, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Yes...hadn't done it in a while so I tried two:
Batch 1
2 oz Rittenhouse Rye
1 oz Pineau des Charentes (Pierre Ferrand)
.5 oz Carpano Antica
2 dashes Fye Bros. Bitters
Pretty good...a little flat, but unique.
Batch 2
2 oz Rittenhouse Rye
1.5 oz Pineau des Charentes
.5 oz Campari
Fabulous...really nice - a vegetal, spicy Red Hook
- July 17, 2013 at 5:33 PM
- tanstaafl2 said...
Sounds like a pretty special bottling of PdC! The use of aged cognac aside, 30 years in the barrel is pretty remarkable. Tracking PdC down, much less other types on Vins de Liqueurs, in my area can be challenging. PdC seems to have recently dried up locally but I did get some Macvin brought in by request and Vilmart Ratafia just showed up recently out of the blue. Beggars can't be too choosy I suppose!
Do you have any idea if this Navarre is a one off that I should track down now or something this house is likely to do going forward?
- July 19, 2013 at 6:57 AM
- NP said...
Sku- thanks for that. There is definitely a little sugar in this stuff. I have not had it analyzed but I would not be surprised to see something well above 220g/l. Now the good thing is, since Ugni Blanc does not ripen well in the Cognac area there is plenty of acid to balance out the sugar. But yeah, it's a Sauternes-like sweet stuff.
Annon - Batch 2 sound killer to me. Gonna have to try it. A friend in TX introduced me to the idea of 1oz PdC, 2 oz Rye a month ago. It has been a revelation.
Tanstaafl2 - The Navarre Vieux PdC is not a one off but there is not a ton around. A few six packs here and there. Old PdC is not that easy to make. But it should be around on a somewhat steady basis.
- July 19, 2013 at 7:42 AM