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Friday, January 8, 2010
The Morgue the Merrier
The wine business lost a lot of very important people in 2009. OK, they weren't lost, they died. Why do we always say "lost" when they aren't lost at all? We know exactly where they are. Rotting in Hell with all the other inebriates. OK, let's start over. A lot of very important people in the wine business died in 2009. Many were overlooked by the vast majority of the wine-drinking public, but not here at HoseMaster of Wine. You know, my favorite part of the Academy Awards is the Death Montage--the morgue the merrier! So here's a brief rundown of those in the wine business who were bulked out in 2009.
D.B. Cooper (1932-2009)
When you talk to the best winemakers in California and ask them who made the finest barrels, the name that jumps to their lips is usually D.B. Cooper. After a long battle with termites, Cooper could no longer stave off death. Cooper was eulogized by Michael Jordan as "a fellow king of hoops who knew how to perform under fire." Not that Michael Jordan. Cooper turned out perfect barrel after perfect barrel in a world filled with cheap junk foudre. He was our barrique Obama.
Michel Rolland (1947-2009)
The wine world lost its most famous consultant in 2009, Michel Rolland. Michel consulted for over 30,000 wineries worldwide, most notably Chateau C'estmoulle-Plonque in Bordeaux and Blankcheckiet Estate in Napa Valley. In his prime, Rolland commanded as much as $25,000 for fifteen minutes of his time, a salary that placed him right up there with Bill Clinton, Heidi Fleiss and Sarah Palin's speech therapist. He was widely condemned for his contributions to the globalization of wine, though astute tasters could tell the differences between his wines by reading the labels. Rolland was responsible for countless 100 point wines, none of which any of you will ever taste, so stop your whining and go back to your crappy 92 point wines and feel miserable--100 point wines are too good for you and you know it. Rolland was killed in a freak hyperbaric chamber accident where he was micro-oxygenated.
Ann O'Smia (1953-2009)
Ann O'Smia was one of the country's leading wine critics in her role as chief wine reviewer for the prestigious publication "Wine Extortionist." Ann is credited with creating the subtle form of magazine blackmail that asks wineries to pay to have their labels displayed next to their reviews. When that was a success, Ann cleverly asked that wineries pay "Wine Extortionist" not to publish lousy reviews of their wines. If a winery made horrible wine after horrible wine they were required to place a full-page ad. This practice continues today in every major wine publication--the full-page ad a sure sign that the winery produces crap. Ann's innovations made "Wine Extortionist" the most successful magazine of its era, and Ann its most powerful critic. It was said a bad review in "Wine Spectator" could cost you hundreds of cases of sales, but a bad review in "Wine Extortionist" only 75 bucks; and a great review in "Wine Spectator" cost you the respect of your peers, but a great review in "Wine Extortionist" only 75 bucks. Ann was killed in a rear-end collision with Marvin Shanken--no cars were involved. Ann in her usual tasting mode, wine contortionist.
And, happily, several bloggers died this past year, among them:
Hardy Stew, 45, whose blog about how wine affected his personal life, CirrhosisoftheLover, was the first to combine wine reviews with stories of his struggles with impotence. Though his blog was very popular, he struggled every day with getting it up.
Gary Vainasfuck, 48, of WineLiberryTV, whose illiterate and thoughtless ramblings about wine on his creepy video blog captured the imaginations of pathetic losers everywhere. Gary inspired an entire generation of wine drinkers to believe they too could be wine experts without knowing a single solitary thing about the subject. His death leaves no void.
HoseMaster of Wine, 57, from complications.
17 comments:
- Samantha Dugan said...
Great post Ron! Keep up the good work, they were all so funny...ya know, except that last one, not funny at all.
- January 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Thomas said...
Too funny, Ron.
Small point, however: people either pass on or pass away, depending upon the strength of their belief in an after life or their inability to make a decision.
- January 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- El Jefe said...
Thank for adding "bulked out" to the lexicon of death euphemisms. Your contributions to the Queen's English will not go unnoticed.
- January 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Puff Daddy said...
I am worried that Sam is onto something. The last paragraph makes all that came before it into one of the best death scenes ever.
We will miss the old Hosemaster of Wine, but just as with royalty, we must all proclaim, "The Hosemaster is dead. Long live the Hosemaster".
Rumor has it that Hardly Wallace has a new gig. Say it ain't so, and this is all a dream.
I think I liked Heimoff better today. Someone accused him of pontificating. Now I liked that, because obviously, one has to be a Pontiff to pontificate and that made Steve into the Left Coast Pope for A Day--or as Thea Dwelle, the WineBloggingBrat is known, Queen for A Day.
Question for the day: Do pontiffs pontificate on yontiff? A dollar to the first person who gets the bad joke?
- January 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Ron Washam said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
I actually enjoyed selling myself off in bulk. Was it Mark Twain who said, "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated?" Though it would be a nifty way out of having to write another chapter of "The MS Conspiracy."
And, as always, I adore you!
Hey Thomas,
I'll pass on a response.
El Jefe,
Hey, send me some wine to review! As for the Queen's English, see Puff Daddy's blog preference today.
Puff Daddy,
I believe I can pontificate with the best of them. I even have a scepter. 'scept I never use it.
And, you're not going to believe this, but it is absolutely true, I spent the day filming a webisode (now there's a stupid word) of Judd's Enormous Wine Show with Thea Dwelle. So now she hates me. Too.
- January 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM
You and the WineBrat. She signed up to follow me on Twitter, but left in such a hurry that I was practically drowned in the vortex. Must have been something I said about stupid posts on Twitter about how much you want to drink, how much you have drunk, how wasted you are and how sick you now are. Great reading.
So, I checked her Twitter account today. You can no longer follow her unless you have permission. So much for the openness and transparency of the new social media.
- January 8, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Thomas said...
I never figured you for being passamystic!
- January 8, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Puff Daddy,
If Heimoff can banish Tish, Thea can ban you. The Twittersphere is filled with Theacracies. I'd follow you on Twitter, but I'm not on Twitter. I'm banished from the whole concept.
And, anyway, you, of all people, should know that criticism is in very bad taste in the wine blog world. It's a world where if you can't say something nice, you're supposed to keep your big mouth shut. Which is why wineries like Social Media so much. I looked at Thea's blog, quickly, and she likes every FREE sample she receives! Amazing that she keeps getting more! So she can keep Tweeting about how drunk she is.
- January 8, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Puff Daddy...
The wine world has numerous high priests who dole out their "wisdom" virtually every day of the week, not merely on yontifs .
Some of these employ a digital scoring system and these people are Pointiffs .
Glad my name wasn't on this list...
- January 10, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- Puff Daddy said...
Anon 1--
I believe I owe you a dollar. I should have known that a goniff (hah) would get the joke.
- January 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Puff Daddy is a bit of an alter cocker , but I have respect for my elders. Please donate the dollar to a worthy charity and I will simply kvell in knowing I won a small amount of gelt from a mensch such as the great Sir Charlie Olken!
- January 10, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Puff Daddy,
How's about donating that dollar to my education because I don't have freaking clue what the hell you all are talking about!
- January 10, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Boys,
Keep this up and I'm going to have to change the name of my blog to HoseMeshugga of Wine.
Works though...
- January 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM
Indeed, Ron, you may be the HoseMushugga of Wine--although I am not sure that my good friend, Anon 1, did not claim the title years ago. Have you ever read any of his store's newsletters?
- January 10, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Puff Daddy said...
It was all part of an ancient Tribal ritual from years past. You would have to be indoctrinated as an MOT (Member of The Tribe) to understand.
But here are a few hints.
A pontiff is a guy who wears a pointy hat and is the head of an ancient religion.
Yontiff is how some holy days are referred to in the ancient language of an even more ancient religion.
A goniff is a member of that even more ancient religion who sells things to other members of that even more ancient religion, and is thus referred to as a goniff (a thief--which, as you know, all retailers are).
An alter cocker (and here the spelling is just disastrous) is a member of that even more ancient religion (Tribe) and it otherwise known, in your language, as an old shit--of which I stand accused and am unable to deny.
This Anon 1, who I know to also be an MOT, is going to kvell (gush about his good fortune)over winning a dollar from me. Shows how bad things are going in his store in this last year.
Gelt is gelt. You know, from the old saying, all that glitters is not gelt.
And a mensch is a person of substance, good standing, high repute, a doer of good deeds, a fine and admirable MOT--just like me.
Now, if you have reached the end of this story and have not already said, "Oy, vey". Please repeat after me, "Oy, vey".
Oh, and yes, Ron is Meshugga, which makes him a high priest in any ancient religion. Kind of like being the HosePontiff of Wine.
- January 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Mister Hosemaster would be termed the HoseMossik of Wine.
Sam is definitely a maidel mit a becher.
Puff Daddy is also an alter bok.
Oy gevalt...
- January 10, 2010 at 7:39 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Oy Vey! I so had to consult the Yiddish glossary but I have the giggles in the worst way right now. Who'd a thunk that a post about dead wine folks would have caused this?! Ron would, which is why we all love him, and which is why I am guessing he is laughing his ass off right now.
Anon 1,
You adorable thing you, I don't wear dresses, (glossary) but I am so spinning around in my baggy jeans, and "Big Beer Big Wood" T-Shirt for You right now....cannot stop giggling
- January 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM


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posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 7:28 am
Is it possible to estimate complementary log-log logistic models in Mplus?
Further, do you imagine the possibility of incorporating rare-events-type framework into the construction of latent class models in Mplus (if such methods currently exist)?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
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No, Mplus does not estimate a log-log logistic model.
We do have several models for count variables. See the COUNT option.
posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 12:45 pm
Okay. Thank you. Don't see COUNT models being the same in this context.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 4:08 pm
What do you mean by rare events type framework?
posted on Friday, March 29, 2013 - 1:18 pm
Very low probabilities of occurring; very small (but still salient and meaningful) incidence rates.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 29, 2013 - 2:37 pm
That should work with regular latent class modeling as long as you have a sufficient sample size. I am not aware of special methodology for this, but please educate me if you are.
posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - 12:05 pm
I am not aware of a special methodology either; but know that your team is at the forefront of LCA software and modeling and so didn't know if it was on your radar screen.
My thought was that the C L-L framework might open up some interesting possibilities for smaller sample sizes and response assumptions. I'm sure the interpretation of model parameters would be much more difficult, however.
I was also interested in the C L-L more generally, which Linda indicates is not currently available.
Thank you.
davide morselli
posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 7:32 am
Actually there is a specific methodology for rare vents. Gary King and colleagues have developed some stuff in this direction (see King & Zeng 2001,
I was wondering whether it would be possible to do it in mplus to correct LCA in which the best solution is for classes with very few cases contrasted with classes with many cases.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 10:58 am
This reminds me of case-control data (where you use all cases and a random sample of non-cases) and weighted logistic regression, which I think can be done in Mplus although I haven't looked into it yet (there is an old Satorra-Muthen tech note on it). But that's not in the context of LCA.
davide morselli
posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 1:08 am
You are right Bengt, it is used also for that.
Can you give me the exact reference. I couldn't find on the website.
I was also wondering whether there might be some other solution to the problem. I would use bootstrapping for instance, but in my analysis I have an LCA with covariates and I have to use Montecarlo integration. Would increase the number of initial stage starts and final stage optimizations create more robust analyses under the condition of small classes
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 10:48 am
I'll email our case-control paper to you.
To answer your last question, no but you would be more sure you got the ML solution.
Nate Breznau
posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 3:24 am
I have a dataset where 0.7% of the outcomes are 1's and the rest are 0's. In other words, very rare occurrences (46 out of 6,945). Does Bengt's 1997 paper "Robust Inference Using Weighted Least Squares..." provide an adequate reference to argue for using WLSMV estimator here? Is WLSMV in fact the appropriate estimator here? I have 3 covariates in the model with relatively normal distributions.
Many thanks as always.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 2:33 pm
With such rare outcomes the latent sample correlations that WSLMV uses are often not well estimated. I would use ML (or Bayes).
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Last time I was in NY, I and a friend had breakfast in a Greek diner. With the news of Buck's death, I regret that we did not get our coffee to go. Oh, well. And it is getting harder to find the cup these days, with invasive species of coffee growing unchecked in the city.
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Paper blue-and-white anthora
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With a bit of Greek confection
And a cup o' Joe, perfection
Could be found, it seems, on every city block
So, Leslie Buck, here's to ya
Though I never even knew ya
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|When one of the hoses gets knocked out of Reed's suit, he loses most of his oxygen supply. For one thing, I would think that suits like this would be designed to be pretty rugged precisely to avoid this kind of thing. For another, surely it is possible to design the fitting of hose to tank so that if the hose pulls loose it seals the tank? I'm no expert on diving, but I seem to recall that the tanks divers use today have features like this!
Additionally, they refill Reed's tank by connecting it to the oxygen tank of a chemically fuelled manoeuvring thruster. Do these suits really supply pure oxygen to their wearers? Normal air is a mix of about 20% oxygen and about 80% nitrogen.
When the Romulan ship does heavy manoeuvring, Reed and Tucker hold themselves in place with their magnetic boots. Just how strong are these? After all, in order to be able to walk with them you have to be able to pull them free of the deck with relative ease. There's no dialogue indicating that they turned the power up to make them really strong or anything, yet now the boots can hold them in place against all these big accelerations?
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With new injectors, Enterprise now has a top speed of warp 5.06 and is apparently able to hold it quite comfortably.
The idea of liquid hydrogen and oxygen being used as rocket fuel is indeed correct - this is what many present day rockets use as fuel.
The Romulan ship is a re-use of the ships the aliens in chaotic space used in Voyager's "The Fight".
This is the first episode to show us a Tellarite ship, although we don't get a good look at it and it's really a Romulan ship in disguise.
We learn some fun facts about Shran's ship. For one thing it was the first of it's class, something which I had assumed was true purely in order to have a class name to work on! He's been captain of it for 12 years, though we don't know if he was the first captain of the ship.
Although the Romulans in the episode are not named, the credits list the boss Romulan as being called "Valdore". This is the official class name of the Romulan warbirds seen in "Nemesis" - indicating that the Romulans follow Human custom of naming their ships after famous historical figures.
Enterprise was officially cancelled about the time this episode first aired.
The idea of a mysterious vessel attacking others on sight is one Enterprise has used before, most obviously in "Fight or Flight" and "Silent Enemy". However, using the Romulans does give this episode a very different spin because although the motivations of the ship are a mystery to the participants, we the audience do know roughly what the Romulans are up to. Archer's lines about how a lot of species in this part of space have been combatants for a long time and that the conference might have led to an alliance is clearly hinting at the impending formation of the Federation; clearly the Romulans are worried that something like the Federation is in the winds. Rightly so, as it turns out!
It's nice to see Shran getting a little more development. His mentioning of a relationship with Talas as "I had to charge her with assault or mate with her" and Archer's "you made the right decision" is a nice funny moment. It's a shame that Shran once again falls back into his "trust nobody" attitude, as he did in "Kir'Shara"... but this is as much Archer's fault as Shran's. Archer should have been keeping both Shran and Gral up to date on his investigation as it proceeded; instead he kept them both in the dark, each thinking that the other was responsible for the attacks. It is notable that Shran surrenders almost as soon as Archer tells him the truth about what he has discovered. Shran does trust Archer, but breaking a lifetime of distrustful behaviour isn't easy without occasional reminders!
The idea of un-manned Romulan ships is an interesting one. Certainly this should confer many advantages - we see that the drone ship has little in the way of life support and inertial dampening fields. If anything the episode doesn't go far enough in this direction - why do the Romulans bother to provide artificial gravity in the ship, or lighting and heating? Because zero gee is expensive to do on a TV budget and having prolonged scenes with pitch darkness or torchlight would be annoying to the viewer, that's why! The viability of the whole concept rests entirely on the reliability of the communication link between the ship and home base - if your targets come up with any way to jam or interfere with your communications, the drone ships become utterly useless. I'm guessing that something like this will ultimately be used to defeat the drone...
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For many people the Arctic is seen as one of the last wilderness regions left where there has been limited human impact. However, sampling of marine plastic debris over the past few days shows that the far reaching effects of mankind is clearly present even in the Arctic Ocean.
Plastics remains in the ocean for a long time due to the low temperatures and low UV light levels, making it harder to degrade compared to on land. This means it affects everything that depends on the ocean for survival. Wildlife can become entangled or eat the debris mistaking it for food, and birds have been observed using plastic material to build nests. The addition of plastic to beach sediment can alter its temperature, which in turn can affect animals such as turtles which require a specific temperature range for egg development. Alien species can be transported into new areas by attaching themselves to floating debris. Chemical contaminants such as BPA and heavy metals are present in many plastics, leading to biomagnification throughout the food chain. Human activities such as shipping can also be affected by debris becoming entangled in propellers and used medical equipment can pose a health hazard on beaches.
Due to ocean circulation, regions known as Gyres can contain high levels of plastic debris as currents make it hard for trapped debris to leave. One well known example is the North Pacific Trash Vortex located in the North Pacific Ocean, which has been the focus of much research. One study showed there to be more plastic fragments than plankton present in the North Pacific Trash Vortex. Modeling has also shown there to be four other areas of collection due to ocean currents throughout the world's oceans, but these have not been extensively studied.
In the past, Greenpeace has sampled marine plastic debris in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, South China Sea, Philippine Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean; many regions where data is limited. In order to expand our knowledge we are now focusing on the Arctic Ocean.
There has been no previous sampling in the Arctic Ocean for marine plastic debris so our work will be be the first of its kind in this region. We have been waiting for calmer water out of the sea ice to sample, so today we could finally deploy the equipment although it did involve a very early morning.
In order to collect some samples, we are towing a plankton net with a flow meter attached alongside the ship. So far, we have found evidence of plastic including some fishing line, polystyrene and film. Most of this is very small (less than 5mm) but we've also had some sightings of larger pieces floating by.
It's important to collect data in order to establish some baseline figures of plastic abundance in the ocean, especially in areas where no data exists. That way, we can tell if the problem is getting worse or if remediation actions are having a positive effect. Plastic cannot be easily removed from the ocean, so the only way to reduce it is to prevent plastic reaching the ocean in the first place
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I have posted an item on my blog about this last week. Shocking how something like this can exist and not much seems to be done to solve this immense...
I have posted an item on my blog about this last week. Shocking how something like this can exist and not much seems to be done to solve this immense problem!!
Have you seen the pictures of the dead birds with all the debris in their body? So sorry for them. http://thewritefuture.typepad.com/the-write-future/2011/08/weird-bird.html
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Good for you. I am glad you are sampeling. I hope you are doing this down to the microsopic levels checking for plastic soup. Bad stuff.
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This is possibly a little out of line with what I'm trying to do with the series. This advice is aimed a little higher than the home user, or small business operator with little computer experience. Today I got these questions from someone with an advanced computer background, and solid security background, but no malware or antivirus experience. I figured that this might apply to a number of people out there, so here was my advice:
> Question 1: What is the best way to obtain some good virus samples to
> experiment with in a clean-room environment?
Just look for anything large in your spam filters 🙂
> What I see doing is setting up a VM that is connected to an isolated
> network (with no connection to any other computer or the internet except
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> virus/malware).
VMs are handy when you are running a wholesale sample gathering and analysis operation, but for a small operation I tend not to trust them. You might try running Windows under a Mac or Linux box, etc. Even then, some of the stuff is getting pretty sneaky, and some specifically target VMs. (I wonder how hard it would be to run Windows in a VM under iOS on ARM?)
> Also, any other particular recommendations as to how to set up the
> clean-room environment?
I'm particularly paranoid, especially if you haven't had a lot of background in malware, so I'd tend to recommend a complete airgap, with floppies. (You can still get USB 3 1/2″ floppy drives.) CDs might be OK, but USB drives are just getting too complex to be sure.
> Question 2: What products are recommended for removing viruses and malware
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I wouldn't recommend a generic for disinfection. For Windows, after the disaster of MSAV, MSE is surprisingly good, and careful–unlikely to create more problems than it solves. I like Avast these days: even the free version gives you a lot of control, although it seems to be drifting into the "we know what's best for you" camp. And Sophos, of course, is solid stuff, and has been close to the top of the AV heap for over two decades. F-Secure is good, although they may be distracted by the expansion they are doing of late. Kaspersky is fine, though opinionated. Eset has long had an advantage in scanning speed, but it does chew up machine cycles when operating.
Symantec/Norton, McAfee, and Trend have always had a far larger share of the market than was justified by their actual products.
As always, I recommend using multiple products for detection.
> I assume the preferred approach is to boot the suspect computer from USB
> and to run the analysis/disinfection software from the USB key (i.e. not to boot
> the infected computer until it has been disinfected).
A good plan. Again, I might recommend CD/DVD over USB keys, but, as long as you are careful that the USB drive is clean …
> Question 3: How/when does one make the decision to wipe the hard drive and
> restore from backup rather than attempt to remove the malware?
If you have an up-to-date backup, that is always preferred when absolute security is the issue. However, the most common malware is going to be cleanable fairly easily. (Unless you run into some of the more nasty ransomware.)
Pushing backup, and multiple forms of backup, on all users and systems, is a great idea for all kinds of problems. I've got a "set and forget" backup running to a USB drive that automatically updates any changes about every fifteen minutes. And every couple of days I make a separate backup (and I have different USB drives I do it to) of all data files–which I then copy on to one of the laptops. I just use an old batch file I created, which replaces any files with newer versions. (Since it doesn't delete anything I don't change, it also means I have recovery possibilities if I make a mistake with deleting anything, and, by using multiple drives, I can rotate them for offsite storage, and even have possibilities of recovering old versions.)
> Question 4: Any recommended books or other guides to this subject matter?
Haven't seen anything terrifically useful recently, unfortunately. David Harley and I released "Viruses Revealed" as public domain a few years back, but it's over ten years old. (We released it about the time a vxer decided to upload it to http://vxheavens.com/lib/ars08.html He probably thought he was hurting our sales, but we figured he was doing us a favour 🙂


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Perhaps CU's Burks should talk to UCLA players
ANAHEIM, Calif. — While preparing for today's interview sessions at the West Regional here, I spotted an article in today's Los Angeles Times that was of interest to me, and could — or perhaps even should — be of interest to Colorado sophomore guard Alec Burks.
UCLA coach Ben Howland said a potential lockout of NBA players could influence his advice to Bruins players that, like Burks, are considering turning pro early.
"I can tell you in the NBA, in my opinion, this is going to be a serious lockout," Howland told the Times. "They will not be playing, in my opinion, next December and maybe even January. … You're not even going to get paid next year for half the year."
Howland later was quoted in the article as saying it's usually unwise for a player to declare early for the NBA draft without assurances that he will be among the first 15 players chosen.
"I've done all the research," Howland told the Times. "I mean, you look at the guys who get picked between (draft slots) 22 and 31 and where they are five years later, versus guys who are one-to-15. It's vastly different when you look at career paths."
The latest NBAdraft.net mock draft has Burks being selected No. 8 by Cleveland.
College nonseniors have until April 24 to declare for the draft and may withdraw by May 8 to retain their college eligibility.
NBAdraft.net does not have Colorado senior Cory Higgins projected to be selected in the two-round NBA draft. But a former Buff, 6-4 senior shooting guard Xavier Silas of Northern Illinois, is projected to go No. 57 to the Los Angeles Lakers.


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'Across America!'
The Sarasota Orchestra has had a wonderful season with exciting concerts, fine performances and innovative programs. So, nothing could have prepared me for the concert that took place Saturday night, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. "Across America!" was billed as a "Salute to Kennedy Center Honorees."
The program featured snippets of familiar pieces that were loosely (and I use that word, um, loosely) tied to beloved American luminaries who have received a Kennedy Center honor. The overture to "Gypsy," for example, was played as a tribute to Jule Styne. The famous "Fanfare for the Common Man" was programmed as a salute to Aaron Copland. Etcetera, etcetera and so forth, as Hammerstein would say, in tribute to Richard Rodgers.
Then they began to play, and the Sarasota Orchestra, loosely led by Andrew Lane, sounded as if it had already left town on summer vacation. In the beginning, the brass-and-percussion sections were particularly at fault, and Lane took so many fast tempos we thought he must have been double-parked.
The vocal soloists, Michelle Amato and Bryan Harden, were unprofessional with poor intonation and embarrassing vocal mannerisms, and Harden's recitation of Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" had all the passion of a dial tone.
The video presentations we have come to appreciate and expect were nothing more than black-and-white stills of the honorees, until the penultimate piece — a movement from Copland's Symphony No. 3 — which had some interesting footage of mid-20th-century memories that, unfortunately, dumbed down the music itself.
Even the program went awry when it attributed the famous, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," to Irving Berlin instead of the real composer, George Cory Jr.
Alas, the most exciting part of the innocuous, poorly performed concert was the downpour that splattered against the Van Wezel's roof and the great bursts of thunder that added ferment to Herrmann's "Vertigo" suite in the second half.
Deep in our soul, we know that this concert was an aberration, and we look forward to the Sarasota Orchestra returning in the fall, polished and gleaming from what must be a much-needed holiday.
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Swiss steak is a method of slow-cooking a relatively tough cut of beef, such as a round steak. The meat is browned, and then braised in a tomato sauce.
According to The American Century Cookbook, recipes first starting showing up for Swiss steak in the 1930s. Reynolds Wrap Aluminum popularized it in the late 40s by promoting the recipe as a use for its foil.
You can cook this steak on a stove-top (which is the method we describe here), or wrap it in foil and place on a cookie sheet and cook it in the oven.
The "Swiss" in Swiss Steak has nothing to do with Switzerland, but refers to the process of tenderizing a tough cut of meat. The following is my mother's method for making Swiss Steak.
- One 2 to 2.5 pound round or top round steak, about an inch thick
- A couple tablespoons of flour
- Salt and pepper
- 3 Tbsp grapeseed oil, or other high smoke point oil for browning (canola)
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 2 cups puréed tomatoes (canned or fresh)
- 2 teaspoons each of fresh thyme, sage, marjoram, or 1/2 teaspoon each of dried
Optional: Vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, or green beans
1 Sear the steak on both sides: Rub flour into both sides of the steak. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Heat 2 Tbsp of oil in a wide, shallow (3 inches) pan (with cover) to medium high heat. Place the steak in the pan, and cook for approximately 10 minutes on each side, enough to brown the steak.
2 Sauté onions and garlic: Remove the steak from the pan and set aside. Add onions and garlic to the pan and another tablespoon of oil. Cook the onions and garlic for 3-5 minutes, using a metal spatula to scrape up any steak drippings, mixing them in with the onions. Add half of the herbs to the onions.
3 Add steak, herbs, tomato purée: Return the steak to the pan, placing it on top of the onions. Crowd the onions around and on top of the steak. Sprinkle the rest of the herbs on top of the steak. Add the 2 cups of puréed tomatoes to the pan.
4 Cover and simmer: Cover the pan with a tight fitting lid. Use a high lid if available. A high lid will help circulate the steam and moisture from the cooking juices and keep the steak moist.
Bring the steak in the tomato purée to a simmer and then lower the heat to the lowest heat possible to maintain a low simmer (we use the warm setting on our electric range). Cook for 1 1/2 hours.
5 Pre-cook vegetables: While the steak is cooking, you may want to slightly pre-cook vegetables that you want to serve with the steak. For example, for this dish we steamed 4 small, peeled, quartered russet potatoes and 2 carrots, quartered lengthwise and cut into 2 inch segments, for 5-10 minutes. (You could use other vegetables, such as green beans, or no vegetables at all.) After 1 1/2 hours of cooking time for the steak, we uncovered the pan, turned the steak over, added the potatoes and carrots, covered the pan and cooked the steak and vegetables for another 30 minutes.
The reason that you might want to pre-cook the vegetables a bit first is that the steak is cooking at a very low heat. You'll have more control over how cooked the vegetables are if you pre-cook them a bit first.
6 Slice and serve: The steak should be done after a total cooking time of 2 hours. To check it, you can poke it with a fork. The meat should be quite tender. To serve, remove the steak and slice it on a carving board. Alternatively, you could have started with individual steaks that were smaller. Spoon the sauce over the steak.