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The French car beat the German one in our last Choose Your Eternity matchup, which means we need to give France's cross-Channel rival an opportunity to snatch the PCH Trophy (which features several rods hanging out the side and a spreading pool of oil below) today. We're going with something a bit different this time, however; ever since the What Should Mad_Science Drive To Work QOTD, we've been thinking about non-petroleum-fueled car projects. Not boring ol' electric cars that can barely buzz up to highway speed, or seen-one-ya-seen-em-all veggie-oil-powered Mercedes-Benzes, though. Something fun! Something... HELL!
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A veggie-oil diesel looks pretty good on the greenhouse-gas balance sheet, all right (assuming you're using played-out cooking oil as fuel; once you start pouring fresh veggie oil into the tank you get into a maddening internal debate about how much carbon was generated making the oil), but it still spews out all manner of icky particulates in the exhaust- which is hell on folks with asthma- not to mention lots of unpleasant nitrogen compounds due to the high compression and combustion temperatures inside a diesel. But there's an alternative, you green-minded Hell Project demon, you: electric power! How about a full-hybrid vehicle, in which a small internal-combustion engine charges the batteries of an electric drive system, just like a railroad locomotive? You can optimize the ICE engine with fuel-delivery and camshaft trickery so's it runs at optimal efficiency, and plug the car into household current (or, greener still, solar panels on your roof, thus relieving you of the maddening internal debate about the "remote polluting" effect of electrical generation via nonrenewable resources) so the generator hardly need run at all! Of course, you wouldn't want to drive some glorified golf cart or you wouldn't be reading this site, so we've found just the car for you: this '74 Austin Marina, already converted to a full-hybrid powertrain! Yes, it's a British car with an aircraft starter motor and a 7HP gasoline engine running a generator (we'd suggest a propane conversion on the engine, for seriously low smog output). Hmm... British... electric... Malaise Era... what could go wrong? The car is in pretty nice shape, so you might not have to spend more than
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Are those other teams in the background or just production/randoms?
I just can't make the Arans fit. There's an Inis Mor aerial below and an Aran gallery here:rocks, rocks, and more rocks. I'd have an easier time matching the Goth donkey. :knight (no donkey smileys)
That fourth shot down is a great shot--It has the peat, the zippy Bike line, the cluebox, AND a nice view of the shoreline!Come on you GE people--I KNOW you can find this!
If this is indeed a DETOUR, then it looks like Nathan and Jennifer and Ari and Staella started off with the Donkey and then changed and tried the bike task. But we now have Kynt and Vyxsin doing both tasks so it looks both Bike and Donkey tasks must be done by all teams.And these two tasks must overlap since we see Jason and Lorena riding on the bike passing Ari and Staella pushing the Donkey up the trail.
this is work in progress --I am still working on it. I have album upon album to sort through.Of course BIG credits to our Amazing Detectives and everyone else that has helped pull this together!!
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Coco you're looking nice and fit and you're right, your mom is a beautiful woman inside and out.
I have that package I told you about. I'm going to send some surprises to you as well.
I've got the box filled with some goodies for mom right now, I'll be getting it off in February. I should have it filled by then.
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Coco, you and Dad walk too fast. Wait for me...........
I love to go on longs walks outside. I love the time it gives me to just think. The trick, for me anyway, is to go by myself. That way I set my own pace and go where I really want to go. It's my "me time," I quess you could say. There really is something in the support of others though. Good luck with that, I wish you the best! Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
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"Opal...Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe it is a matter of inexpressible difficulty: there is in it the gentler fire of the Ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the Amethyst, there is the sea-green of the Emerald, all shining together in an incredible union. Some aim at rivaling in lustre the brightest azure...of the painter's palette, others the flame of burning sulphur, or of a fire quickened by oil."
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MONTEVALLO, Ala. – The No. 31 Georgia College & State University women's tennis team (5-6, 2-4 PBC) swept doubles and took five singles matches to defeat the University of Montevallo (3-11, 1-10 PBC) 8-1 Tuesday.
At first doubles, the French duo of Diane Danna and Bertille Lion blanked Montevallo's Helene Nordgreen and Alex Mangum 8-0. The Bobcat duo improves to 7-4.
The freshman twosome of Kayla Barksdale (Martinez, Ga.) andMichelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) edged Kristi Kelly and Calli Robinson of Montevallo 8-6 at second doubles. The Bobcat team of Adriana Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Linda Mosa (Stockholm, Sweden) defeated the Falcons' Emily Blackwood and Kodi Bobo 8-3.
Diana took on Nordgreen at first singles and Diana once again got the better of the Falcon, winning 6-1, 6-2. At second singles, Barksdale defeated Magnum 6-2, 6-0.
Georgia College took third, fourth and sixth singles as Lion beat Kelly 6-0, 6-2 at third singles and Lingner beat Blackwood 6-1, 6-2 at fourth singles. Acuna won at sixth singles 6-3, 2-6, 10-8 over Bobo. Lion now owns the team lead in singles victories (7-3).
Montevallo's sole win was at fifth singles as Robinson took down Mosa in three sets, 6-7, 6-2, 10-8.
The Bobcats open the White Sands Tournament against the University of North Alabama in Pensacola, Fla. Wednesday, March 24 at 10 a.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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text: Show Hide image Culture 22 December 2012 The Rolling Stones: the myth and its makers Photographers Dominique Tarle and Peter Webb spent 1971 making the Rolling Stones look their best. But who's really to blame for the legend the band left behind, them or us? Sign-up Summer, 1971. Inside the frame, Keith lights a cigarette. His lithe shirtless body pours upward from a pair of loose linen trousers. Anita Pallenberg, the mother of his child, turns her head to face him. Inside another frame, Mick blows smoke through pursed lips. A bottle of wine rests half full on a table strewn with empty cups. Eye half closed, he listens as Keith strums the guitar. Light floods the balcony and bounces off a bowl of apples. A pine tree in the background. Someone is singing. A blonde haired child curls his feet beneath him in the chair. Inside the frame, the men in bright coloured trousers pose in the corner of a bare studio. Charlie cocks his leg. Mick yawns. Youthful, cool, eyes expectant. Five Stones wait for the shutter to click, and the bulb to flash. Winter, 2012. It starts in a place called Zebra. Down a pedestrian lane in Hampstead, Zebra is a small art gallery founded in 1976 by Lee Brews, an ex-army man who opened the space after stumbling across what was then an old garage in this bohemian neighborhood of North London. His daughter Gabrielle du Plooy now runs the little room with Victorian fishbowl windows. Under her influence, Zebra has moved from modernists paintings (often smuggled back by Jill Craigie and Michael Foot from holiday in Dubrovnik) to photography, particularly the rock & roll kind. I'm here in Gabby's gallery to meet the men behind her latest rock & roll show – Peter Webb and Dominique Tarle. Though the two never worked together, they're bound by a common subject and a common year: the Rolling Stones and 1971. Webb shot the band in his London studio for what was to be the cover of Sticky Fingers, their 11th studio album, until a zipper crotch concept cover pitched by Andy Warhol took the title slot and Webb's group shots were relocated to the inside sleeve. Tarle's lens took him even further – he moved with the Stones to the Villa Nellcôte in Southern France where the band decamped in tax-exile through the summer of '71, converting its claggy basement into an impromptu recording studio and composing what became their most deliriously rock & roll album: Exile on Main Street. Webb and Tarle's work comes together to mark what has been a Stones soaked year - 2012 hails the band's fiftieth anniversary. Half a century ago, six young men were united by a love of forgotten blues tunes. And just last month, in a series of well publicized gigs at the O2 Arena, some of those men crowed out the classics - to mixed reviews. What happened in between is well known. It's a hot trail of songs and stories and images and legends - and the work of Webb and Tarle is just one small piece of that yowling, hip thrusting, glorious half century. Just the summer, 1971. Stones in the studio When I enter Zebra Webb is already there, filling the black chair in the corner of the room. He's casual and relaxed, shaking my hand with a smile. With him is Gabby the gallerist and his good friend Raj, a statuesque art dealer with a gold hoop locked in one earlobe. Webb is flanked on all sides by large prints from his Sticky Fingers covershoot. Charlie Watts jokingly called them "passport photos". "I was pitching my original idea for the session," Webb remembers, "which was a surrealist, Magritte-style Victorian boating party. The band would be in this boat, rowing out. But it wouldn't be on the river, it would be in a Victorian photographer's studio. And Mick's going, [Webb opens his mouth and mimes a great yawn] 'Yeah I dunno, maybe go and talk to Charlie [Watts], he's into art'. I just panicked, as you would." Webb was shaken. Just 28 at the time and a relative amateur, he'd gotten the call for the Stones shoot based on a series of portraits he'd taken for the Times. "To cut a long story short," he tells me, "I got a call from David Putnam and he said 'yeah some friends of mine are doing an album, they're called Rolling Stones'. He said 'give them a call', so literally I just called their office and I went down and I met Mick and I pitched my idea. I'd only been a photographer for five years and I was like, that's Mick Jagger. I'm talking to Mick Jagger. Five years before I was playing Rolling Stones records in New York and my boss would say, could you turn that rubbish off? Talk about a 'crossfire hurricane' – this was mine." Webb scrapped the Victorian boat party for the more minimalist approach. He didn't tell the band however, who turned up on the day expecting a Henley regatta complete with costumes. Instead they got Webb's new, stripped back approach. In the bare studio, Webb found the group surprisingly natural and at ease. "It's interesting," he recalls, "because their characters all came out in different ways. Charlie's basically in a suit, looking immaculate - not grumpy but just less than expressive, and a very cool guy. Mick is obviously supremely confident in whatever he does. And Keith - I don't think there's a time with Keith where he's not looking amazing. I'd just sat and let the characters come through the lens. I'd heard these guys were trouble, that they wouldn't want to do anything, but they were so compliant and professional that it actually threw me." An English family in the South of France Dominique Tarle is a smaller, less smiling character with a thick scarf knotted around his throat. He too has brought along a companion - his son - because "doing an interview can be like giving a concert" he says, feigning a collapse. "I need someone to walk me home afterwards". The gallery needs to open, so we leave Raj and Gabby and decamp to a nearby café. Father and son tuck gratefully into cigarettes and espresso. Tarle tells me he came to London young, with a passion for music. For him, there was no other choice. 'Everything came from London at the time," he emphasis. "A new band every six months. A new great album every three months. A new single in the charts every two weeks. You've got to come to London. And it's not just the music – it's the miniskirt, it's the pill. It's paradise on earth.' Tarle didn't speak a word of English. So he found work as a photographer by hanging around night clubs with a little piece of paper that read 'Hi, I am a French photographer, I like your music. Do you need pictures? Here is my number.' The stunt was crazy enough to succeed and he got himself gigs with the likes of Led Zeppelin, John Mayall and a twenty year old Mick Taylor, the guitarist who joined the Stones in 1969 on Let it Bleed. Tarle came to London on a three months tourist visa and stayed three years. But eventually the home office caught on, and told him to 'get the hell out of England'. The Stones themselves had become exiles too. A sour breakup with their former manager Allan Klein saw them lose the rights to all tracks recorded before '71 – the profitable chunk of their output thus far. This meant the band's looming tax bill couldn't be curtailed by reaping the wealth of previous albums. As the tax year closed, the band was in trouble. Lawyers advised them to lay low somewhere for a while. Keith Richards happened to be in possession of one Villa Nellcôte, a turn-of-the-century mansion languishing in venerable splendour on the edge of Villefranche-sur-Mer, a seaside village in the French Riviera. So off they went. Tarle, commissioned to shoot the band en plein air one afternoon, took a shabby hotel room in the nearby Nice ('which was actually some kind of whore house'). But Keith had other plans. He made up a room in the Villa and put Tarle in it for six months. "Every morning was like this, Keith would come and knock on my door at nine o'clock in the morning. We would look after his son Marlon and the three of us would jump in his car, a beautiful Jaguar," he says, stretching the word like bubblegum. "We would go and discover the South of France. I had a non-verbal relationship with Keith. The idea was, you are a photographer, you take the pictures." Nellcôte has acquired something almost beyond mythical status in the catacombs of rock & roll history. It's alternately been described as a land of "opiate opulence", 'decadent privilege', 'outlaw pleasures' and a 'former Gestapo headquarters'. A 2010 documentary, Stones in Exile, was erected as a nostalgia-toned totem to its sun-drenched glamour. History seems agreed that the Villa played host to the "most notorious house party ever"; a louche refuge where the stowaways of English rock royalty - from Gram Parsons, to Eric Clapton to John Lennon - escaped for the weekend. It's a narrative that, superficially, Tarle's photographs do little to dispel. But the story Tarle tells me is a homey tale of "simplicity", "hard work" and "routine" (routine! Can bohemians have routines?). Life revolved around childcare and music. "In the beginning, my work was just about sharing the life of any English family in the South of France," he explains. "Life was very simple – Keith looking after Marlon in the morning, playing music in the afternoon, that's it. English friends would be invited to stay for the summer; especially people with kids, so Marlon would have a social life. Everything was always back to the kids." "Keith was a disciplinarian", Webb concurs. "You had a schedule – this in the morning, then the music. It was all very structured." "If you work in a factory,' explains Tarle, "no one expects you to have friends visiting while you work. Same with the Rolling Stones. When it was time for the music, there was no room for girlfriends, friends, whatever. It was very mannered work. People communicated through their instruments. The band would get together in the basement in the evening around seven o'clock, and they would play every night until six or seven in the morning." Did anyone sleep? "No. That's where it could get difficult. Just imagine, you go to sleep at six or seven in the morning, and at nine o'clock you've got two or three kids jumping on your bed saying 'you promised to take us to the beach'! For Keith to live and work under the same roof, it was a tricky situation. But he did a good job, he was a good father." Objectivity, it's a myth. Who were they, then? These famous fathers, these late night strummers? I've been waiting for Webb and Tarle to feed me tales of stroppy posturing and meals washed down with Jack Daniels, but they never come. "They were looking more for English tea and pickles than for drugs," Tarle swears. In fact, he'd rather tell me a story about a rabbit Keith and Bill Wyman caught for the kids: "Bill once caught a rabbit and offered it to Marlon. I've got these pictures in the main room; there is a sofa with all the guitars on it, and a little table with a shoebox and a rabbit in it. Marlon would try to give the rabbit some salad and the rabbit would escape. I have pictures of Keith bringing back the rabbit and putting him in the shoebox before going back to work." "Sounds like Alice in Wonderland," remarks Webb, which sums the villa up well: mad, but child friendly. How did we all get the Stones so wrong? As Webb and Tarle explain it, the Stones needed all the press and publicity they could get at the time. They'd courted a public persona of rebelliousness since the early days. It was less a fact and more a practical necessity – the music industry of the sixties was a tightly wound operation and without an "image" you were likely to flounder. As the Stones rose to fame at the height of 'Beatlemania', their only option was to run the other way. "The Beatles chose to be the nice kids, playing it clean. Three-piece suits from Saville row and very clean boots," says Tarle. "The Stones had no choice. If they wanted to exist, they had to be the bad boys. England gave birth to the press d'scandal, you know – the tabloids. The Stones used it, getting in the headlines was the only way to compete with the Beatles. " People bought into it, and still do, even if it's not entirely true. Tarle adds an enlightening anecdote: "The thing about the sixties in London is that when the police would come knock on the door of Keith's house at six in the morning, the first thing they would say was, 'did they have time to leave?' – which really meant 'did the Beatles have time to sneak out the back?' Keith and John new each other very well." The tabloid press are an easy blame, but what about the work of professional photographers like Webb and Tarle – didn't it also contribute to the lore of the Rolling Stones? If there's anybody to blame for the myth, wouldn't it be them? The ones who shot the album covers and hung around behind the scenes, who spun a group of ambitious, ordinary boys through their apertures and spat them back out as rock & roll demi-gods? "I think our work was fundamental." agrees Tarle. "But, you know, I don't know the word for it in English…" He puts down his espresso and raises his hands, drawing two swooping right angles in the air, his fingers diving like swallows. "That thing, you know, when you take your clothes off and put them on a hanger... The Rolling Stones were hangers and people put their fantasies on those hangers. So whatever your fantasy was – whether it's sex, drugs, or rock & roll, you put them on the Rolling Stones." The rebels, the addicts, the loudmouths, the posers, the feckless rock & rollers - perhaps only a part of them is real. The rest we made up. "It's the story the public wanted," says Tarle. "The Stones aren't going to say they are having a nice family life with rabbits and kids… that's not a story". But surely Tarle and Webb put something on the hanger, too. And we turn back to their images now for a kind of historical truth, no matter how rose-tinted they may be. "I don't know," says Tarle. "If you look at my pictures, it's true that they all look young, healthy, beautiful, and talented, which they were. But maybe it was also a choice, my choice, to show the Rolling Stones at their best. Maybe another photographer would have looked for something else. Every photographer has a different point of view, and we chose when to press the button." Webb suggests the real myth might be objectivity itself. "Your job as the photographer at the time is to be invisible. But it's sort of like what Samuel Pepys did when he recorded London, his impression of it became the truth. You forget, it is just one man's interpretation of the truth. So then it becomes a myth, then it becomes a legend." *** (Keith Richards at the entrance to Villa Nellcôte. PHOTO: Dominique Tarle, 1971) (Keith and Mick rehearsing, Villa Nellcôte. 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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
MAC Cine-Matics & Packed to go
Look In A Box: Girl Next Door (£36.50)
This kit contains 5 full sized products:
#Eyeshadows in Grand Entrance (shimmery peachy champagne) and Smoke & Diamonds (shimmery grey). I've had both these shades in the past, when I had the originals they were in the limited edition Starflash finish but these are a frost finish, as such they aren't quite as creamy/smooth as the originals. I also think both shades are lighter than the previous release.
#Iridescent Powder in Belightful, the peachy gold highlighting powder whilst pretty is not wearable on the cheeks for me as its chocked full of glitter. I do however like it as a wash of colour on the eye lid and using it wet amps it up a bit.
#Cremesheen Glass in Deelightful is a rosy pink, Cremesheen are my preferred formula out of all the MAC lipglosses as they are the least sticky/tacky.
#Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack, this seems quite a wet formula, it lengthens a bit and gives a bit of thickness but I find it clumpy and it drags the lashes down.
Swatches L-R:Cremesheen,Grand Entrance, Smoke & Diamonds, Belightful dry swatch, Belightful damp swatch.
Reel Drama Lip Bag (£27.50)
Reel Drama lipstick is a medium mauve pink and the Cremesheen formula feels a bit heavy, Scenestealer Dazzleglass Creme is a coral with a touch of red and an abundance of glitter and Softwood lipliner is a plummy wine brown. I don't think any of these colours go together really, I'm not entirely sure why I ordered this, think I was having one of those makeup madness moments.
6 Warm Smokey Eye Shadow Palette (£29.50)
This is a plain black packaged palette containing: Shroom ( sheer beige, slightly frosty) Naked Lunch (pinky beige frost finish). Tempting (warm, golden bronze lustre finish) Greensmoke (dusty greyed green with gold shimmer lustre finish) Stormy Love (mix of teal and brown in the compact but the teal is less apparent on application, frost finish) Showstopper (this is the dud for me, its a dark, cool-toned matte brown, pigment is poor and it does not apply smoothly).
I wouldn't say any of these are must haves, but if I were to pick out one it would have to be the eye shadow palette. It gives a very wearable smoky look, you can either go for subtle or dramatic and the colours work extremely well with each other. If we ignore Showstopper, the shades blend well and have good pigmentation.
I bought all these from maccosmetics.co.uk
5 comments:
The gloss looks gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I am so over MAC lately.. I get what you mean though..sometimes I buy Mac just because everyone else does :pReplyDelete
- Anonymous18 August 2011 at 00:07
I like these shades here. What I like about MAC is its accessibility, I have *the fear* of the makeup counter/SA and I know that there are bound to be far more people milling around a MAC counter and I can browse away without anyone bothering me, when I want to purchase that's a different matter! Thanks for this, nice neutral shades here. Jan xReplyDelete
In theory Girl Next Door looks nice but I know I can't do Belightful either and I think it's a shame the eyeshadows aren't the Starflash finish. The eyeshadow compact looks nice. I have Naked Lunch (ignored) and I can also confirm that Showstopper is a dud. I have it in my Smoking Eyes quad and it has popped up in other palettes over the years. It's a shame as the colour does have potential.ReplyDelete
I think I can safely miss this collection. I'm quite tempted by a lot of MAC Me Over stuff though. I think we can prepare for Chanel, Guerlain and MAC to empty my account! lol xx
Hello Vintage Makeup,ReplyDelete
Both glosses are pretty, although think I prefer Deelightful as it doesn't have all the glitter! :)
Hi Rei,
I don't seem to have any will powder, I do tend to think to myself "why" quite a bit after a lot of my MAC buys ;)
Hello Jan!
Glad to have you back, seems a long time :)
Your right there, you do get more time to swatch at MAC as they are often busy and I think a lot of their SA's don't seem bothered by the hard sell I notice x
Hi Jane,
Well I probably should have stayed at the in theory stage ;) Still I am sure I'll get use from the majority of it.
I wasn't too sure about the MAC me over, from what I saw it looked a bit wrong type of brown or dark or frosty, you now have me wondering though so I'll go have another look at swatches, I think you and I will be very poor in September! xx


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On the day Marty Mornhinweg confirmed that he expects Demetress Bell will start at left tackle again this week, and King Dunlap said he was still in the process of getting back in shape from a hamstring injury, the REAL Eagles left tackle was walking the corridors of NovaCare without a limp.
All-Pro Jason Peters tore an Achilles' tendon in March, got it repaired, then tore it againin May when the scooter-cart he was using fell apart. After the second repair, it seemed impossible that Peters would play this season. But because the injury happened in the offseason, the Eagles have not had to place Peters on IR. He is on the nonfootball injury list.
"I'm running, doing everything," Peters said, pausing briefly as he walked from the locker room to a training room. Asked if he has realistic hopes of playing this season, Peters said "yeah."
Asked about a timetable for his return, Peters said there isn't one. "I'm taking it day by day," he said.
The Eagles have never ruled out Peters playing this season, but previously they have indicated that while they want to keep the chance alive, it is a longshot. Thursday, however, a source close to the situation said the team sees a realistic chance, though the source emphasized Peters still had a lot of recovering to do, and won't be playing in a game anytime soon.
Peters can be activated anytime between Week 6 and Week 9, and then would have three weeks of practice before the Eagles would either have to put him on the 53-man roster or IR him. We are in Week 5. From what the source said, it would seem the Birds are looking at the very outer edge of that timeline, and maybe even at carrying Peters on the 53 for a few weeks before he's really ready to contribute.
There is a new rule that allows a team to recall one player from IR, but players who came into training camp injured, as Bell did, are not eligible.
Dunlap, meanwhile, said he was not surprised to hear the offensive coordinator had said he expects Bell will start. "I've got to get healthy, get back in shape," Dunlap said when asked if he expects to start again.
The Eagles signed Bell as Peters' replacement, but he lost his job to Dunlap in the preseason. Bell struggled with offensive line coach Howard Mudd's unusual, aggressive blocking technique. Bell's first outing for Dunlap, at Arizona, didn't go well, but he was much better last week against the Giants, particularly in second-half run blocking.
Dunlap took some snaps at right guard Wednesday, with starter Danny Watkins sitting out because of a chest bruise. Mornhinweg and Watkins said Watkins is fine and will practice today.
Special teams coordinator Bobby April said the kickoff coverage that yielded an average of 36.2 yards on six kickoffs against the Giants was "very poor. It looked poorly conceived, poorly coached and poorly executed. I'm responsible for all of those. I have to draw on all the resources that I have as a coach and put them into play, and then resurrect us from these ashes ... I misjudged some things, and need to do a better job of preparing the guys to whup a guy when the bell rings."


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Mulholland Challenge 112 miles, 12,000 ft elevation
Holy shit, just got the results for this. Two years ago we rode the double century and it was the maiden voyage of the Seven. Last year we rode the entire King of the Mountains series of centuries and had done pretty well. We were amped for this.
Friday night Jack raced the downtown alley-cat criterium and won $187, but it cost him his legs for this. We rode as a group for a bit, then this kid John dropped us and ended up second overall. Brian (Davidson) and I split up after Decker Canyon and I rode the rest of the course alone. Two weeks ago I went out and rode it alone from home, 125 miles in 9 hours, so I knew what I was in for. The start is staggered, and they ask the sub-8 riders to start last, which means you spend the day passing people. It makes you feel faster than you really are. Did my best to stay focused, which is difficult with so much climbing. When I got to the top of Stunt Road, I was not coherent enough to talk to the people at the checkpoint. Brutal. It's a tough love. This course is so beautiful; it's why I love southern California. I don't have any pics from the ride, but since it is the two-year anniversary of the Seven, here's a pic my friend Kelly took for an upcoming book.
This weekend is my first real road race, a 3-stage, 2-day race called Conquer the Canyons.


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"I promise you four papers," the young patent examiner wrote his friend. The letter would turn out to bear some of the most significant tidings in the history of science, but its momentous nature was masked by an impish tone that was typical of its author. He had, after all, just addressed his friend as "you frozen whale" and apologized for writing a letter that was "inconsequential babble." Only when he got around to describing the papers, which he had produced during his spare time, did he give some indication that he sensed their significance.
"The first deals with radiation and the energy properties of light and is very revolutionary," he explained. Yes, it was indeed revolutionary. It argued that light could be regarded not just as a wave but also as a stream of tiny particles called quanta. The implications that would eventually arise from this theory - a cosmos without strict causality or certainty - would spook him for the rest of his life.
"The second paper is a determination of the true sizes of atoms." Even though the very existence of atoms was still in dispute, this was the most straightforward of the papers, which is why he chose it as the safest bet for his latest attempt at a doctoral thesis. He was in the process of revolutionizing physics, but he had been repeatedly thwarted in his efforts to win an academic job or even get a doctoral degree, which he hoped might get him promoted from a third- to a second-class examiner at the patent office.
The third paper explained the jittery motion of microscopic particles in liquid by using a statistical analysis of random collisions. In the process, it established that atoms and molecules actually exist.
"The fourth paper is only a rough draft at this point, and is an electrodynamics of moving bodies which employs a modification of the theory of space and time." Well, that was certainly more than inconsequential babble. Based purely on thought experiments - performed in his head rather than in a lab - he had decided to discard Newton's concepts of absolute space and time. It would become known as the Special Theory of Relativity.Continue reading the main story
What he did not tell his friend, because it had not yet occurred to him, was that he would produce a fifth paper that year, a short addendum to the fourth, which posited a relationship between energy and mass. Out of it would arise the best-known equation in all of physics: E=mc2.
Looking back at a century that will be remembered for its willingness to break classical bonds, and looking ahead to an era that seeks to nurture the creativity needed for scientific innovation, one person stands out as a paramount icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity, and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. Albert Einstein was a locksmith blessed with imagination and guided by a faith in the harmony of nature's handiwork. His fascinating story, a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom, reflects the triumphs and tumults of the modern era.
Now that his archives have been completely opened, it is possible to explore how the private side of Einstein - his nonconformist personality, his instincts as a rebel, his curiosity, his passions and detachments - intertwined with his political side and his scientific side. Knowing about the man helps us understand the wellsprings of his science, and vice versa. Character and imagination and creative genius were all related, as if part of some unified field.
Despite his reputation for being aloof, he was in fact passionate in both his personal and scientific pursuits. At college he fell madly in love with the only woman in his physics class, a dark and intense Serbian named Mileva Maric'. They had an illegitimate daughter, then married and had two sons. She served as a sounding board for his scientific ideas and helped to check the math in his papers, but eventually their relationship disintegrated. Einstein offered her a deal. He would win the Nobel Prize someday, he said; if she gave him a divorce, he would give her the prize money. She thought for a week and accepted. Because his theories were so radical, it was seventeen years after his miraculous outpouring from the patent office before he was awarded the prize and she collected.
Einstein's life and work reflected the disruption of societal certainties and moral absolutes in the modernist atmosphere of the early twentieth century. Imaginative nonconformity was in the air: Picasso, Joyce, Freud, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and others were breaking conventional bonds. Charging this atmosphere was a conception of the universe in which space and time and the properties of particles seemed based on the vagaries of observations.
Einstein, however, was not truly a relativist, even though that is how he was interpreted by many, including some whose disdain was tinged by anti-Semitism. Beneath all of his theories, including relativity, was a quest for invariants, certainties, and absolutes. There was a harmonious reality underlying the laws of the universe, Einstein felt, and the goal of science was to discover it.
His quest began in 1895, when as a 16-year-old he imagined what it would be like to ride alongside a light beam. A decade later came his miracle year, described in the letter above, which laid the foundations for the two great advances of twentieth-century physics: relativity and quantum theory.
A decade after that, in 1915, he wrested from nature his crowning glory, one of the most beautiful theories in all of science, the general theory of relativity. As with the special theory, his thinking had evolved through thought experiments. Imagine being in an enclosed elevator accelerating up through space, he conjectured in one of them. The effects you'd feel would be indistinguishable from the experience of gravity.
Gravity, he figured, was a warping of space and time, and he came up with the equations that describe how the dynamics of this curvature result from the interplay between matter, motion, and energy. It can be described by using another thought experiment. Picture what it would be like to roll a bowling ball onto the two-dimensional surface of a trampoline. Then roll some billiard balls. They move toward the bowling ball not because it exerts some mysterious attraction but because of the way it curves the trampoline fabric. Now imagine this happening in the four-dimensional fabric of space and time. Okay, it's not easy, but that's why we're no Einstein and he was.
The exact midpoint of his career came a decade after that, in 1925, and it was a turning point. The quantum revolution he had helped to launch was being transformed into a new mechanics that was based on uncertainties and probabilities. He made his last great contributions to quantum mechanics that year but, simultaneously, began to resist it. He would spend the next three decades, ending with some equations scribbled while on his deathbed in 1955, stubbornly criticizing what he regarded as the incompleteness of quantum mechanics while attempting to subsume it into a unified field theory.
Both during his thirty years as a revolutionary and his subsequent thirty years as a resister, Einstein remained consistent in his willingness to be a serenely amused loner who was comfortable not conforming. Independent in his thinking, he was driven by an imagination that broke from the confines of conventional wisdom. He was that odd breed, a reverential rebel, and he was guided by a faith, which he wore lightly and with a twinkle in his eye, in a God who would not play dice by allowing things to happen by chance.
Einstein's nonconformist streak was evident in his personality and politics as well. Although he subscribed to socialist ideals, he was too much of an individualist to be comfortable with excessive state control or centralized authority. His impudent instincts, which served him so well as a young scientist, made him allergic to nationalism, militarism, and anything that smacked of a herd mentality. And until Hitler caused him to revise his geopolitical equations, he was an instinctive pacifist who celebrated resistance to war.
His tale encompasses the vast sweep of modern science, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, from the emission of photons to the expansion of the cosmos. A century after his great triumphs, we are still living in Einstein's universe, one defined on the macro scale by his theory of relativity and on the micro scale by a quantum mechanics that has proven durable even as it remains disconcerting.
His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories. He signed the letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning that it may be possible to build an atom bomb, and the letters of his famed equation relating energy to mass hover in our minds when we picture the resulting mushroom cloud.
Einstein's launch into fame, which occurred when measurements made during a 1919 eclipse confirmed his prediction of how much gravity bends light, coincided with, and contributed to, the birth of a new celebrity age. He became a scientific supernova and humanist icon, one of the most famous faces on the planet. The public earnestly puzzled over his theories, elevated him into a cult of genius, and canonized him as a secular saint.
If he did not have that electrified halo of hair and those piercing eyes, would he still have become science's preeminent poster boy? Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr. Would he have remained in their reputational orbit, that of a mere scientific genius? Or would he still have made the leap into the pantheon inhabited by Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton?
The latter, I believe, is the case. His work had a very personal character, a stamp that made it recognizably his, the way a Picasso is recognizably a Picasso. He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted were at times astonishing, mysterious, and counterintuitive, yet they contained notions that could capture the popular imagination: the relativity of space and time, E=[mc.sup.2], the bending of light beams, and the warping of space.
Adding to his aura was his simple humanity. His inner security was tempered by the humility that comes from being awed by nature. He could be detached and aloof from those close to him, but toward mankind in general he exuded a true kindness and gentle compassion.
Yet for all of his popular appeal and surface accessibility, Einstein also came to symbolize the perception that modern physics was something that ordinary laymen could not comprehend, "the province of priest-like experts," in the words of Harvard professor Dudley Herschbach. It was not always thus. Galileo and Newton were both great geniuses, but their mechanical cause-and-effect explanation of the world was something that most thoughtful folks could grasp. In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.
In addition, an appreciation for the glories of science is a joyful trait for a good society. It helps us remain in touch with that childlike capacity for wonder, about such ordinary things as falling apples and elevators, that characterizes Einstein and other great theoretical physicists.
That is why studying Einstein can be worthwhile. Science is inspiring and noble, and its pursuit an enchanting mission, as the sagas of its heroes remind us. Near the end of his life, Einstein was asked by the New York State Education Department what schools should emphasize. "In teaching history," he replied, "there should be extensive discussion of personalities who benefited mankind through independence of character and judgment." Einstein fits into that category.
At a time when there is a new emphasis, in the face of global competition, on science and math education, we should also note the other part of Einstein's answer. "Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit," he said. "Accumulation of material should not stifle the student's independence." A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity. He could construct complex equations, but more important, he knew that math is the language nature uses to describe her wonders. So he could visualize how equations were reflected in realities - how the electromagnetic field equations discovered by James Clerk Maxwell, for example, would manifest themselves to a boy riding alongside a light beam. As he once declared, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
That approach required him to embrace nonconformity. "Long live impudence!" he exulted to the lover who would later become his wife. "It is my guardian angel in this world." Many years later, when others thought that his reluctance to embrace quantum mechanics showed that he had lost his edge, he lamented, "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
His success came from questioning conventional wisdom, challenging authority, and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Tyranny repulsed him, and he saw tolerance not simply as a sweet virtue but as a necessary condition for a creative society. "It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas."
This outlook made Einstein a rebel with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one who had just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the twentieth century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.
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Heaven & Hell lyrics - Raekwon
Heaven & Hell Song Lyrics
Intro: Raekwon, Ghostface
Yo what what, yo
Exotic type sh*t
Ninety-four, we must go to war fast
With the pen and the pad
God damn, shine like gold rims on Pathfinders
Wu-Tang reclines, lamps, for the nine-squares kid
Money clothes designer hoes and shows y'all
Lyrics: Raekwon, Ghostface
Yo, yo, wakin up about ten kid
Jumpin in the shower, peace about to make
moves and slide like greese
What? I'm all about Tecs and checks and nuff respect you front
I'm slammin you like the Lex
So now I'm out in the ninety-five
Rockin that real nigga don't die
Guess down
Drawers Kani!
But yo I'm makin a pit stop
Go and buy a box of glocks, til he rolled up and yo
Whattup Hobbes?
Yo, remember that kid that we vicked
He made a half of mil for real
He brought about fo' bricks
Yo, so now we connect doors, meet me at the airport
Get in touch with that West coast Cali crab you stabbed
And meet me at the b**ch lab
So word up kid, we slid like a fat four to twelve bid and sh*t
Couldn't even rest, I need the vic
And when I slept, I dream G's, Son I need some
Keys roll self, call up Son
I heard Pook and Tyriq caught a beef over some real sh*t
A fake nigga faked and they killed his click
Gimme a minute and I'm with it
Yo niggaz done did it
Rock your vest
Keep your whip tinted
So now we see him up in BoJangles
Stranglin a forty ounce, with ten G's worth of gold bangles
Diamonds, what, all up in his face
With his man's mace, medallions the size of dinner plates
Yo, he knew we knew him so we blew him
Took thirty G's worth of jewels of that nigga
So now I'm lampin in my man's Land
Streets is hot like sand
Jesus rollin in my right hand
Yup, you know the steezo black
Got to go down like that
Ninety-four, takin niggaz to war, yo, yo
What do you believe in? Heaven or hell?
You don't beleive in heaven cause we're livin in hell
(repeat 2X)
So it's your life
*we're livin in hell, we're livin in hellllllll*
What a chamber, f**kin with mad strangers
Yeah, you know how it runs baby, straight up yo
Money clothes, designer hoes and shows y'all
That's how it goes
What do you believe in? Heaven or hell?
You don't believe in heaven cause we're livin in hell
31st chamber y'all
So it's your life
(What do you believe in? Heaven or hell?)
Niggaz ain't even know Son, only half is sewed cash
(You don't believe in heaven cause we're livin in hell)
They haven't yet sold their weight
(What do you believe in? Heaven or hell?)
Question, sh*t is real, youknowhatI'msayin
(You don't believe...)
Niggaz think it's all about a real live Allah
A little hundred dollars and that make you a man
You ain't even promised tomorrow Son, word up
Niggaz don't understand how life can be so short
Come so fast
With the blinkin of eye, blinkin of eye you're gone baby
Straight up, knowhatI'msayin, get turned to dust
Return to the casket
That ass is out Son, word up
Word up, get evaporated, straight up
Word up
Lose all your strength nigga
Crazy dedication shout out to the memory of Two Cent Jason
Heartbroken, we soakin wet though
Keepin it real for my peopls
Yeah, yo
And my physical brother DeVon, you're still in here baby
Because you're in my arms nigga, word up
I never let you go baby
YouknowhatI'msayin? You my life charm, word up
For real
Keep shinin
Real for keepin it real, shout out to major niggaz
Big Kawai, Jess, Hell in the computer system
The RZA, who slams fat discs for the ninety-four
Word up, RZA, he's my nigga baby
Yeah, eatin dinner with the big boys now
Word up, Big Booth represent the Q
Knowhowedo, lamp, get that power-u, type, things on float
GZA, word up, Master Killer
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U-God, word up baby
Keep it real Son
Keep packin them guns
Word up
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I promise to practice the Leave No Trace frontcountry guidelines wherever I go:
- 1. Plan ahead.
- 2. Stick to trails.
- 3. Manage your pet.
- 4. Leave what you find.
- 5. Respect other visitors.
- 6. Trash your trash.
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Plan ahead
Watch for hazards and follow all the rules of the park or outdoor facility. Remember proper clothing, sunscreen, hats, first aid kits, and plenty of drinking water. Use the buddy system. Make sure you carry your family's name, phone number, and address.
Stick to trails
Stay on marked trails whenever possible. Short-cutting trails causes the soil to wear away or to be packed, which eventually kills trees and other vegetation. Trampled wildflowers and vegetation take years to recover. Stick to trails!
Manage your pet
Managing your pet will keep people, dogs, livestock, and wildlife from feeling threatened. Make sure your pet is on a leash or controlled at all times. Do not let your pet approach or chase wildlife. When animals are chased or disturbed, they change eating patterns and use more energy that may result in poor health or death.
Take care of your pet's waste. Take a small shovel or scoop and a pick-up bag to pick up your pet's waste— wherever it's left. Place the waste bags in a trash can for disposal.
Leave what you find
When visiting any outdoor area, try to leave it the same as you find it. The less impact we each make, the longer we will enjoy what we have. Even picking flowers denies others the opportunity to see them and reduces seeds, which means fewer plants next year.
Use established restrooms. Graffiti and vandalism have no place anywhere, and they spoil the experience for others. Leave your mark by doing an approved conservation project.
Respect other visitors
Expect to meet other visitors. Be courteous and make room for others. Control your speed when biking or running. Pass with care and let others know before you pass. Avoid disturbing others by making noise or playing loud music.
Respect "No Trespassing" signs. If property boundaries are unclear, do not enter the area.
Trash your trash
Make sure all trash is put in a bag or trash receptacle. Trash is unsightly and ruins everyone's outdoor experience. Your trash can kill wildlife. Even materials, such as orange peels, apple cores and food scraps, take years to break down and may attract unwanted pests that could become a problem.


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Is it just us or are Argentine mothers really into naming their daughters "Sabrina"? First it was Sabrina Fogolini. Now it's Sabrina Ravelli. Much like her namesake, Ravelli is a young model. She's likely most famous, however, for dating Neri Cardozo, an Argentine midfielder who plays for Mexican club Monterrey FC.
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MapBattle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee In this copy of an official map, Sneden gives a regional view of the area around Shiloh, Tenn.
- Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
- Date: 1862
MapBattle of Pittsburg Landing or Shiloh April 6th and 7th 1862. Detailed map shows the area surrounding Shiloh, Tenn., including Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Arrows show the direction of the Confederate assault.
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California has approximately 1400 wineries and 650 of them are located in Napa and Sonoma representing the most famous labels in the U.S. This is the Wine Country!Book a PRIVATE tour
California Wine Country Tours from San Francisco. The California Wine Country is about an hour's drive away from San Francisco and it is one of the most beautiful and popular sightseeing destinations when visiting the San Francisco Bay Area. Almost 650 wineries are concentrated in Napa and Sonoma counties, so cancel all your other plans – we're going to see them all! Okay, not all of them, but we DO offer a variety of exciting tours that make a pretty good start toward covering the basics and giving you a great Wine Country. We also offer private wine country tours for that special occasion or wine country charters to suit your group's needs. Finally, our most popular tour is a perfect day trip that combines a Wine Country Tour with a Muir Woods Tour to see the Redwood Sequoia trees, all in one great day!
Winery Tour Stops
Each of our tours is slightly different in the number and locations of wineries visited, and on some tours we can respond to your requests. In our thousands of trips to Wine Country, we have compiled a list of wineries that range from very to small to very large, from Mom and Pop, to conglomerates, from brand new up-and-comers to brands that were household names 50 years ago. California's Wine Country is almost the whole state, and some perfectly good wineries are well outside of the radius that would make for a one day trip. We have come up with a list of wineries that are within a reasonable distance, have good wine, are friendly and do a good presentation, and have other attractions, such as nice scenery, interesting history, or other attractions. Our list of wineries might change slightly from time to time, as we discover new gems, or someone's staff or business policy changes. At this time, here is our list of wineries that we have visited on a regular basis. Keep in mind we won't visit all of these on a single tour. This is just to give you an idea where we MIGHT end up when you travel with us. These are our "friends", so to speak.
View a list of California Wineries that are possible stops on our various tours.
The Golden Gate Bridge
During our Wine Country Tours we cross one of the most famous landmarks in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge. We found a less frequently visited viewpoint to get one of the most spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the City of San Francisco that makes for incredible photo opportunities.
California Wine Country
California has approximately 1400 wineries with almost every county represented, even San Francisco! Many great grapes are produced in other regions, like Mendocino, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, and the Central Valley. However, almost half of California's wineries are concentrated in Napa and Sonoma counties, within 100 miles from San Francisco. Nature and history have blessed this region with a variety of soil types, terrains, micro-climates, and the influx of European winemaking talent to develop into a world-class wine-producing industry – not once but twice! Starting in 1857 in Sonoma, the region saw 50 years of growth and profit and a wave of tourist activity unrivaled almost anywhere in the U.S. at the time. The twin perils of the Great 1906 earthquake and Prohibition (of alcohol) from 1919 to 1933 put a majority of winemakers out of business and the industry into a depression from THE Great Depression until the 1970's. The modern era began in 1976 (see Napa Valley) and the present day can be seen as the Second Golden Age of California Winemaking. There are about 650 wineries located in Napa and Sonoma counties, representing some of the most famous brands in the U.S., and even the world, and so constitute what many people call "THE Wine Country". You can get great wines farther away from San Francisco, but it takes more time (and money) to get there. Our California Wine Tours give you the biggest bang for your travel bucks by giving you a great California Wine Country Experience in one great day.
Napa Valley
Napa Valley was a few years behind its neighbor Sonoma Valley in the 1850's and when the tourists started coming into the Wine Country in large numbers, they were in Sonoma, largely ignoring Napa Valley, which was just a place with a lot of vines. Both valleys became quiet and relatively empty from 1906 until the 1970's. The roles became reversed and Napa Valley became a household name (in households where they read Wine Spectator, anyway) after a 1976 Bicentennial Contest between California and French wines, where the upstart Americans shocked everyone by winning 2 First Place ribbons – both from Napa Valley - and 14 out of the top 20 places. That notoriety jump-started a successful promotional campaign that soon overshadowed all other "neighborhoods" in the American wine business, and now the word "Napa" is synonymous with "Wine" in many people's minds. It's not that it is NOT true, but it is most certainly not the whole truth about wine in America, or specifically California. Some of the facts are that it is farther away from San Francisco and time spent on the road is time NOT spent tasting wine, the average price of a bottle or a tasting flight is higher, and the average nose behind the counter is also pointed a little higher, if you get my drift. Some of the most famous names in American Wine have their home addresses in the towns along the Napa Valley Highway, and it's still a great place to go, but there are very few complimentary tasting rooms in Napa Valley, and when pressed for time, Sonoma is closer to San Francisco, and has lots of great wine to taste.
Sonoma County and Valley
Sonoma County is one of California's premier wine-making regions, yet it has remained relatively untouched by tourists compared to its more popular neighbor, Napa Valley (only 5-10 miles east). It is said that Sonoma Valley gets its name from the Miwok Native American Indians. The Miwok named it the valley of "many moons" - while walking through the Sonoma Valley and the Mayacamas Mountains, the moon was said to rise seven times.
In the 1850's, it was Sonoma Valley residents who solved the imported vine disease problem by widely adopting the practice of grafting onto native (resistant) root stock. Hungarian immigrant Agoston Haraszthy basically invented large scale, industrial wine-making, and Sonoma became the epicenter for a huge new wine industry and therefore became a popular tourist destination for locals from San Francisco and visitors from around the world.
Sonoma Valley's currently more famous neighbor, Napa Valley, remained the "outback" for about 50 years. Both valleys became "ghost towns" after the Great Earthquake of 1906, followed by Prohibition (of alcohol!) from 1919 to 1933. You could say the Great Depression continued well into the 1970's for this part of the world (see Napa Valley). Declared National Historic Landmarks, the downtown Sonoma Plaza and the San Francisco Solano de Sonoma Mission (1823) are at the heart of this renowned wine producing region. Sonoma Valley is located in the much larger Sonoma County, which also includes the equally renowned Healdsburg region, the Alexander Valley, Russian River, and other well-known Appellations.


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Albonizio sings praises of do-everything Longi
Greenwich football coach Rich Albonizio thought he had seen it all during the more than 30 years he's walked the sideline. That is until Austin Longi worked his magic last week.
Longi had a game for the ages against Fairfield Warde, scoring in nearly every way possible in Greenwich's 42-7 Homecoming Day victory over the Mustangs.
"I don't think I've ever seen that type of performance in all my years of coaching," Albonizio said. "Austin has been phenomenal two weeks in a row (he had 330 yards rushing in loss vs. Trumbull two weeks ago). He is gaining confidence every week. I think he's capable of doing that every week."
Longi ran for two touchdowns, caught a pass for a score, threw an 85-yard touchdown pass off a halfback option and reached the end zone on an interception return. He also returned a punt 88 yards to the Warde 8-yard line. The speedy junior's effort was just the pick-me-up the Cardinals needed after suffering a heartbreaking 50-44 loss to Trumbull -- a defeat that hurt their postseason hopes.
Greenwich now must keep the momentum going its final four games to have any chance of making the state playoffs.
"We just want to win the next one, then. hopefully. we could win out and we'll see where we are at the end of the season," Albonizio said.
The Cardinals (4-3) are seeking will seek their second straight win Friday against Bridgeport Central at Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport. The season has been a struggle for the Hilltoppers (0-7), but the Cards know they can't afford to look past anyone.
"When you look at them on film, they're pretty impressive," Albonizio said. "Their quarterback is really good. He can run and throw the ball really well, so it's going to be a challenge for us to stop them."
Junior quarterback Mykel Morris, will be the focus of Greenwich's defense, as he has thrown for 522 yards and eight touchdowns and has rushed for 838 yards and eight touchdowns for Central. After struggling to stop the pass against Trumbull, the Cardinals did a significantly better job in coverage against Warde.
"We changed our coverages and I thought the kids played with more confidence and were more aggressive," Albonizio said.
As for the offense, Longi has ignited it the past two games, along with hard-running Tommy Rappa. Junior quarterback Matt Marzulla has also looked more comfortable running the offense each game.
The one constant on the Cardinals during what has been an inconsistent season is their offensive line. Even in the losses, the unit, anchored by tackle Justin Gaccione, guard Andrew DelCarmine and center Vinny Murphy has performed well.
"The offensive line has improved and done the job each week," Albonizio said. "Where we haven't improved as much in certain areas, our line has really been solid."
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With more consumers focused on sleuthing through the Internet to find the best online deals, the e-commerce space is exploding and morphing—often at the expense of traditional retailers.
More consumers are willing to let the cheapest prices drive their purchasing decisions, and abandoning any loyalty they may have to particular shops. Retailers, in turn, are forced to lower their prices to compete. And that's a business strategy destined for a short self life.
"There will be a lot less retailers on this planet in another decade than there is today," said Michael Rubin, chief executive of Kynetic, which owns three websites—Fanatics, Rue La La and ShopRunner—in the consumer Internet space. With so many tools available online, it's much easier to track the best prices. "Many retailers will go bankrupt," said Rubin on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Thursday.