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MLB World Series 2009 Review
When you boil it down to its very basics, baseball is a very simple game. To quote the legendary Lee Elia, "The name of the game is hit the ball, catch the ball, and get the f&*kin' job done." It doesn't get much simpler than that.
But what makes the game so great are its nuances and subtleties, the tiny details that can otherwise make or break a 162-game season. And while MLB's World Series 2009 does the hitting, pitching and catching well, its lack of any substance beyond that leave it an incomplete game at best.
Playing the game is no sweat. Pitching is handled by using finger gestures to handle both accuracy and power, with the accelerometer for aiming. Batting is handled with the accelerometer to aim, with a touch button to swing. Defense is handled automatically, though there is a manual option for throwing to the bases.
But the game's playability is quickly crippled by the stunning lack of detail around the rest of the game. Pitching itself is limited to four pitches, regardless of who's on the mound. Hitting is just that — hitting. There's no options for stealing, bunting or any of the small ball that got teams like the Tampa Bay Rays or the Philadelphia Phillies into the World Series. And defense is just too dumbed down to really be a factor.
Though all 30 teams are represented, only four of their ballparks make it into the game: Philly's Citizen's Bank Ballpark, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. And without MLB Players Association approval, there are no names, just jersey numbers and skin color to tell people apart. The die-hards could figure it out, but it's meaningless, as everyone plays exactly the same.
There are three game modes. "World Series" is basically the playoffs, starting with the Division Series, plus Exhibition and Season (though why anyone would ever subject themselves to a season of this is a mystery).
The slugger Frank Howard once said, "The trouble with baseball is that by the time you learn how to play it, you can't play it anymore." But when the game of baseball is reduced to such a shell, devoid of the details that really make it special, it's hardly a challenge. And hardly any fun.
It's more like being a Cubs fan — Hopeful at the start, but ultimately ending in disappointment.
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Retired County Clerk Donna L. Benson and Newburgh Businessman Frederick A. Watson Join Board
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- The SUNY Orange Board of Trustees officially installed two new members Tuesday evening (Jan. 14) when vice chair Helen Ullrich presided over the swearing in ceremonies for Donna L. Benson, recently retired Orange County Clerk, and Frederick A. Watson, president of Watson Services, Inc. of Newburgh.
Both Benson and Watson were appointed to the Board in December by outgoing Orange County Executive Ed Diana. Benson's term will expire on June 30, 2018 while Watson's term will conclude June 30, 2019.
The SUNY Orange Board of Trustees is comprised of 10 members. The county executive and governor appoint five and four members, respectively, while the student trustee is selected from the student body. The duo joins chair Joan Wolfe, Ullrich, and current trustees Thomas Hunter, Robert E. Krahulik, Gertrude F. Mokotoff, Sister Margaret Murphy (secretary) and Stephen P. O'Donnell. Alex De La Rosa is the student trustee.
When Benson retired from the County Clerk's Office in December, she concluded a 32-year career of public service in that office. She was first elected as County Clerk in 1997, took office on Jan. 1, 1998 and remained in that capacity until her retirement.
In addition to holding elected office, Benson remains a dedicated community volunteer, assisting such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, Hudson Valley Council Committees for Distinguished Citizens, the Office for the Aging/RSVP Advisory Council, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion Auxiliary.
She has been on the Board of Directors for Inspire from 2006 to the present. She is also a part of St. Joseph's Living Rosary Society, is an honorary member of the Florida Fire and Rescue Company, is a member of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and is a past vice president of the Florida Little League. While in office, she served as regional chair of the Hudson Valley County Clerks and New York State Association of County Clerks. She was president of the New York State Association of County Clerks, is a United Way Board of Directors past chair and secretary, and was 2004-05 Inspire Cherish the Children honorary chair.
In 2013, she was honored as one of New York State's Women of Distinction. Benson has also received such honors as the Regina G. Black Humanitarian Award (AHRC); the Women's Bar Association of Orange/Sullivan Counties Rose Rosen Award; Hudson Valley Council-Boy Scouts of America "Distinguished Citizen" Award; Inspire Shining Star Award; NYSACC Annual Achievement Award; and the NYSACC Clerk of the Year Award.
A certified food executive, certified food service director and a certified food service sanitation manager, Watson possesses more than 30 years of food management experience. Prior to establishing Watson Services, an institutional food service managing and consulting firm headquartered on Grand Street in Newburgh, Watson was vice president of Ja-Ce Company, Inc., a New Jersey food service management company where he developed and implemented policies, procedures and budget forecasts for more than 50 school districts in central New Jersey.
While at Ja-Ce Company, Watson was president of Jersey Associated Commercial Equipment, Inc., a Ja-Ce subsidiary. Additionally, Watson is a Certified ServSafe® Instructor and Registered ServSafe Examination Proctor for the National Restaurant Association. He received his master's degree in food service administration from New York University and his bachelor's degree in dietetics and institutional management from Virginia State University.
Watson serves on the boards of Teamsters Local 445 Health, Welfare, Pension, Annuity and Training Funds, and has served on the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the Industrial, Technical and Professional Employees-National Maritime Union/Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (ITPE-NMU/MEBA) Annual Benefit Fund, and as an alternate trustee of the ITPE-NMU/MEBA Health and Welfare Fund. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor at Long Island University-C.W. Post campus where he teaches Food Service Management II to dietetic students.
The SUNY Orange Board of Trustees typically meets on the second Tuesday afternoon of each month throughout the year, except for its summer retreat in June. The Board does not meet in July and August.
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The federal government took a break last week, with national parks and other services shutting down in a showdown over Obamacare. Can anything good come from the shutdown?
Dripping with hypocrisy
From a Democratic perspective, one great thing is already happening as a result of the shutdown: Americans are realizing that Tea Party Republicans, who so ostentatiously proclaim their fealty to the Founders, are dripping with hypocrisy.
Consider: Only a few dozen House Republicans are responsible for this shutdown — less than 10 percent of the total House membership. Remember, too: The Founders may have loved checks and balances, but they despised the notion that such a small minority might gum up the governmental works.
Here's Alexander Hamilton, writing in Federalist 22: "To give a minority a negative upon the majority … is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser," he wrote. "Its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority."
This tyranny of the minority, Hamilton wrote, would result in "tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good." Sound familiar?
James Madison agreed, later writing in Federalist 58 that if a minority faction runs rogue, "the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority." In such cases, he wrote, the minority faction would be prone "to extort unreasonable indulgences."
Which is where we stand.
The House of Representatives passed Obamacare. So did the Senate. The president signed it. The Supreme Court approved its legality. The president then won re-election when enactment of Obamacare was a top issue. At every corner, the law has passed democratic and constitutional muster. If House Republicans can win a repeal vote on the law, let them.
They can't. So they've taken the government hostage. It's an act of hypocrisy and contempt — for democratic norms, for the vision of the Founders, and for the wishes of the majority of their fellow citizens.
— Joel Mathis
Taking us for saps
It's great to see liberals take the Founders' views seriously. But we don't need to look back 224 years to recognize how much President Obama and congressional Democrats take Americans for a bunch of saps.
The federal government has shut down 18 times since 1976 — including several times when Democrats ran both houses of Congress and the White House. Undivided government is no panacea.
You've heard of the Washington Monument strategy? It's an old political trick. Congress threatens budget cuts, and an agency — the National Parks Service is the classic example — threatens to close a popular attraction first.
Turns out, the Washington Monument was closed before this week for repairs. So officials spent money and manpower they supposedly don't have to barricade most of the National Mall, including popular memorials. In response, a group of World War II veterans shoved the barricades aside and visited the memorial built in their honor, despite the threat of arrest.
But the spectacle on the Mall was nothing compared with the one on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., couldn't believe CNN's Dana Lash would question why Senate Democrats refuse to consider piecemeal funding bills. If it's so horrible that cancer-stricken kids are being denied access to clinical trials, then simply fund the National Institutes of Health — as a bipartisan majority of the House agreed to do last week. "Why would we want to do that?" Reid replied. "I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own." But cancer isn't one.
Reid's response highlights how much of this "crisis" is mere political posturing. Even the term "government shutdown" is misleading. Roughly 80 percent of federal employees are still working. But at some agencies, such as the Education Department and the EPA, between 90 and 95 percent of workers have been furloughed as "nonessential personnel."
It's a shame those people have to be pawns in a political game. But the shutdown should lead Americans to wonder if so many federal employees are "nonessential," perhaps they would be better off in the private sector.
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29 year-old Jared Fruend was arrested on Saturday, September 29th for allegedly having sexual contact with two young girls, ages 4 and 5, while the parents were out of the house for a short time.
Charging documents are attached.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jessica Finley says Fruend was charged with two counts of felony sexual assault after the parents returned home early and found him in bed with one of the girls. Fruend fled the scene and was chased down by neighbors and held until police arrived. He apperared in Missoula justice court Monday afternoon where he heard the charges against him.
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General Comments: Futures closed mixed, with New York a little lower on Friday, but London higher yesterday. The lack of demand news has hurt the bull case and made it hard to sustain rallies given big production ideas. However, some are looking for a short covering rally in the short term. Brazil said it will increase the ethanol in its gasoline blends in May, and this could help work off a lot of the surplus production in Brazil and could tighten world balance sheets. Production has been strong in Brazil so far this year, and reports say that the new crop production looks to be strong as well, so the diversion into more domestic ethanol use will help. Exports from Brazil continue to be very strong after the delayed start to the program. The Thai crushing season is continuing, but the crushing and export pace remain slow. It is possible that the crop size there has been overestimated. Traders wonder if and when India will cut offers to the market due to the lower prices and perhaps less than expected production due to some dry weather at the beginning of the growing season.
Overnight News: Mostly dry weather expected in Brazil through this weekend. Temperatures should be near to above normal. Iraq has tendered to buy 50,000 tons of White Sugar. Wire reports indicate it bought 200,000 tons last week.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are down with objectives of 1750 and 1700 May. Support is at 1760, 1730, and 1700 May, and resistance is at 1800, 1820, and 1850 May. Trends in London are mixed. Support is at 489.00, 486.00, and 483.00 May, and resistance is at 499.00, 502.00, and 508.00 May.
General Comments: Futures were a little lower as traders reacted to the USDA reports. It was mostly a consolidation trade. Many are worried about a bearish surprise as prices have gotten much stronger in the last week. Bears point to increasing certified stocks levels for reasons to be bearish. Demand bulls noted positive economic data released last week and positive economic data in general as a reason to buy. However, export sales reports showed some reason for worry last week as sales were down and China cancelled some recent purchases. The current low new crop prices are bringing into question what farmers in Texas and the Delta and Southeast will plant this year. Some are wondering if planted area might be lower this year here in the US due to weak prices against competing crops. The area lost would go mostly to Corn and Soybeans. Current weather featured some precipitation in Delta and Southeast areas, but western Texas was mostly dry. Delta and Southeast areas will be dry. Ideas are that the market can continue to work higher overall.
Overnight News: The Delta and Southeast will see showers and rain Thursday and Friday, then a dry weekend. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Texas will get dry weather. Temperatures will average below normal. The USDA spot price is now 76.67 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.238 million bales, from 0.221 million yesterday.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed. Support is at 80.55, 80.20, and 79.90 March, with resistance of 82.10, 82.30, and 83.40 March.
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Rev. John Fortin named superintendent of schools for Manchester diocese
May 01. 2013 6:54PM
Bishop Peter A. Libasci has appointed the Rev. John R. Fortin, O.S.B. to serve as the superintendent of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Manchester.
Fortin will join the diocesan staff on Monday, June 3,
Fortin said, "These schools have both a proud tradition of forming young men and women in the faith as well as a long heritage of academic excellence. They have great potential to form the next generation of Catholics engaged in evangelization throughout the diocese. I look forward to working with the principals, faculties, staffs, and parents in our Catholic schools community to assist them in their outstanding efforts to develop and advance the quality and excellence of the schools."
Fortin professed vows as a monk of Saint Anselm Abbey in 1970.
He graduated with a degree in philosophy from Saint Anselm College and pursued theological studies at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Mass, prior to his ordination to the priesthood in 1976.
He holds a master's degree in the Great Books from St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M., and a master's degree and a doctorate in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
Following his ordination, he was assigned to Woodside Priory School in California where he was a teacher and then headmaster.
Since 1981, he has served at Saint Anselm College in many capacities, on the Campus Ministry staff, on the Residential Life staff, as dean of students, as a member of the Governing Board and Board of Trustees, and as a member of numerous college committees and task forces.
He served on the Diocese of Manchester Presbyteral Council, chaired the Diocesan Task Force on Education and Formation in 2003-04, served as a member of the Diocesan School Board, and served on the Board of Advisors for Trinity High School.
He is the founding director of the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies at Saint Anselm College and a professor in the philosophy department.
He has published several books and articles in scholarly journals and has given presentations at professional conferences on a variety of medieval subjects. He also preaches retreats and days of recollection for clergy, religious communities, schools, and parishes.
Bishop Libasci expressed his deep gratitude to the Very Rev. Dennis J. Audet, VF, who served as interim superintendent of schools since August, 2012, in addition to his many other responsibilities as dean of the Lakes Region Deanery and as pastor of St. Charles Parish.
Bishop Libasci said, "Father Audet has been a passionate and devoted supporter and leader of Catholic schools for many years and has generously offered his time and his talents to promote Catholic education."
The Diocese of Manchester is the Roman Catholic Church of New Hampshire, serving the needs of more than 285,000 Catholics.
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Archived Publications Provide New Resources for Genealogists
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Gale and The British Library Bring Nineteenth-Century Events to Life with Online Newspaper Archive
Farmington Hills, MI, September 10, 2009 – Gale, part of Cengage Learning, along with The British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), have made nineteenth-century British newspapers available on the internet. The database, known as "British Newspapers, 1800-1900" and available at http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/, gives users access to over two million newspaper pages from 49 different national and regional newspapers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Chosen by leading experts and academics, the newspapers represent a cross-section of nineteenth-century society and contain illustrated materials on a variety of topics, including business, sports, politics and entertainment.
Providing the historical news content needed to track the lives of ancestors, "British newspapers, 1800-1900" is a powerful new resource for genealogists and family historians, providing access to property and legal notices, marriage and birth announcements, illustrations and photographs. Users are able to search for relatives by name or keyword with additional resources available including biographies, timelines and publication histories.
This web site also offers users a unique opportunity to travel back in time to uncover rarely read accounts of nineteenth-century events as if they were historians stumbling upon long-lost artifacts. Whether it be a fascination with the East End of London at the time of the Whitechapel murders, "the hunting grounds of some of the lowest and most degraded types of humanity" (Penny Illustrated Paper, Sept. 1888), or an affinity for Civil War history and Abraham Lincoln, a man who "had in him not only the sentiments which women love, but the heavier metal of which full-grown men and Presidents are made" (Penny Illustrated Paper, Oct. 1861), this database offers historians, genealogists, researchers and anyone with a curiosity for nineteenth-century history the opportunity to read first-hand accounts of momentous events.
Many key anniversaries and world-changing events -- the Economic Panics of 1857 and 1873, the abolition of slavery, the Great Potato Famine, the California Gold Rush, the settling of the American frontier and many more -- are documented and available via a few keystrokes. Users can also access work from celebrated authors of the nineteenth-century, including Charles Dickens and William Thackeray.
"'British Newspapers, 1800-1900' places the fascinating events of the nineteenth century at the fingertips of genealogists, researchers, historians and consumers," said Jim Draper, vice president and publisher, Gale. "We are honored to be able to give audiences around the world access to content that was once only available to a small audience who had access to local library reading rooms in the United Kingdom."
To make this collection available to users, Gale turned The British Library's collection of nineteenth-century newspapers into a high-resolution digital format with searchable images. The database presents online access to a key set of primary sources for the study of nineteenth-century history. For the 49 newspapers selected, every front page, editorial, birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages is easily accessible from what is a virtual chronicle of history for this period. Users of the database can search every word on every page.
"This web site was developed with the researcher in mind," said Simon Bell, Head of Strategic Licensing and Partnerships, The British Library. "There is a huge appetite for wider online access to this kind of resource and we are pleased that so many researchers and journalists have used the web site to research material which enables users across the world to delve into this unrivaled online resource."
Searches of the site are free and downloads of full-text articles are available by purchasing either a 24-hour pass or a seven-day pass. Content from The Penny Illustrated Paper and The Graphic is available free.
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Opportunities for Accelerated Graduate Studies
To allow qualified students to complete both undergraduate and graduate degrees in one year beyond that required to receive the baccalaureate degree alone, the department offers combined Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (BSChE)/Master of Science (with a major in chemical engineering) and BSCHE/Master of Engineering degrees. See Combined Degree Program under the School of Engineering and Mines section for additional details. For even more complete information, see Graduate School section.
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I am starting to teach cake classes out of my home in West Jordan. I am starting with a "beginner" class, and will add more advanced classes shortly, such as a rolled fondant class. The advanced classes will require that you take the beginner courses first. These are hands on classes!
The beginner class will be a 2 part class. The first class will teach you about professional cake pans and basics of baking a cake. You will then learn how to make chocolate mousse and learn how to layer and fill a cake. Then we will talk about cupcakes and you will learn how to fill cupcakes with chocolate mousse, and learn how to make American buttercream. You will get to fill with mousse and decorate 6 cupcakes to take home that night.
In the second class I will bring out the cake that you layered in the first class, and I will teach you how to make Italian buttercream. You will then learn how to frost a cake using a decorating turntable. You will learn some easy, fun, basic decorating ideas. You will get to take home your finished cake that night.
The beginner class (both parts) cost: $50
My first session will be Tuesday April 5th (part 1), and Tuesday April 12th (part 2). Both of these start at 7 p.m.
I also have a Saturday session on April 23rd (part 1), and April 30th (part 2). Both of these start at 9 a.m.
Class is available for ages 16 and up, and no children or babies please.
I only have 5 spots available for each session. You would need to be able to attend both consecutive classes. I will have all the supplies you need for the class - just bring an apron!
Feel free to call or email me with any questions, and please forward information on to anyone you know that would be interested. If you would like a special session and have a group of 5 people that can do that specific session, I am more than happy to accomodate your requested date, and make it a private session.
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From the plain language of the statutes, Labette Correctional Conservation Camp is not a community corrections service program but a state correctional institution and, therefore, assignment to Labette Correctional Conservation Camp as a condition of probation does not satisfy the assignment to community corrections requirement of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b).
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; DAVID W. KENNEDY, judge. Opinion filed December 23, 2005. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions.
Mary Curtis, assistant appellant defender, for appellant.
Boyd K. Isherwood, assistant district attorney, Nola Tedesco Foulston, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., GREENE, J., and BRAZIL, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Defendant Christina F. Banning appeals the district court's decision ordering her to serve her underlying prison sentence after revoking her probation. Banning argues the court, absent making specific findings, was required to assign her to community corrections. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand with directions.
In November 2003, Banning entered a plea of guilty to forgery in case 03CR2134 and was subsequently given a presumptive sentence of probation for 24 months under the supervision of community corrections with an underlying sentence of 18 months in prison. In February 2004, the sentencing court revoked her probation for failing to remain in the community corrections lobby as directed; testing positive for amphetamines; and for admitting use of methamphetamine. The court then reinstated Banning's probation with the same conditions except that she was ordered to enter and successfully complete the Labette Correctional Conservation Camp (LCCC).
In March 2004, Banning entered a plea of guilty to possession of pseudoephedrine and drug paraphernalia in case 04CR78. The district court granted Banning's motion for dispositional departure from the presumptive prison sentence and placed her on probation for 60 months with an underlying prison sentence of 30 months. As a condition of her probation, Banning was ordered to complete the program at the LCCC. The sentence in 04CR78 was ordered served consecutive to 03CR2134.
Banning subsequently violated the conditions of her probation by being removed from LCCC for various violations. The district court revoked her probation in both cases and ordered her to serve her underlying prison sentences.
On appeal, Banning argues the sentencing court should have placed her on community corrections instead of ordering her to prison. First, Banning argues that before revoking probation and imposing a prison sanction, the court was required to find that she failed "to participate in or has a pattern of intentional conduct that demonstrates the offender's refusal to comply with or participate in the treatment program" pursuant to K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(n).
K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(n) applies only to felony violations of K.S.A. 65-4160 or K.S.A. 65-4162. Although Banning was charged with violating K.S.A. 65-4162(a)(3) for possession of marijuana, that charge was dismissed in the plea agreement. Possession of pseudoephedrine and drug paraphernalia are not violations of K.S.A. 65-4160 or K.S.A. 65-4162. See K.S.A. 65-7006; K.S.A. 65-4152(a)(3). As such, K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-4603d(n) did not require the district court to make specific findings related to Banning's participation in any drug treatment program.
Banning next argues K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b) requires the sentencing court to place her on community corrections instead of sending her to prison. K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b) reads, in relevant part:
"Except as otherwise provided, no offender for whom a violation of conditions of release or assignment or a nonprison sanction has been established as provided in this section shall be required to serve any time for the sentence imposed or which might originally have been imposed in a state facility in the custody of the secretary of corrections for such violation, unless such person has already at least one prior assignment to a community correctional services program related to the crime for which the original sentence was imposed . . . ." (Emphasis added.)
Banning originally argued she had not been assigned to a community correctional service program. However, at oral argument, Banning's counsel conceded that Banning had in fact been previously assigned to community corrections in 03CR2134. Consequently, the district court could properly impose Banning's prison sentence following the probation revocation in 03CR2134.
The State argues that because Banning's probation in 03CR2134 was considered by the court in granting a dispositional departure in 04CR78, Banning's assignment to community corrections in 03CR2134 was related to the crime for which the underlying prison sentence was imposed in 04CR78. We disagree.
"Interpretation of a statute is a question of law, and an appellate court's review is unlimited. An appellate court is not bound by the district court's interpretation of a statute." State v. Maass, 275 Kan. 328, 330, 64 P.3d 382 (2003).
"'The fundamental rule of statutory construction to which all other rules are subordinate is that the intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained. The legislature is presumed to have expressed its intent through the language of the statutory scheme it enacted. When a statute is plain and unambiguous, the court must give effect to the intention of the legislature as expressed rather than determine what the law should or should not be.'" Pieren-Abbott v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue, 279 Kan. 83, 88, 106 P.3d 492 (2005) (quoting Williamson v. City of Hays, 275 Kan. 300, 305, 64 P.3d 364 [2003]).
"'The general rule is that a criminal statute must be strictly construed in favor of the accused, which simply means that words are given their ordinary meaning. Any reasonable doubt about the meaning is decided in favor of anyone subjected to the criminal statute. This rule of strict construction, however, is subordinate to the rule that judicial interpretation must be reasonable and sensible to effect legislative design and intent.'" State v. McCurry, 279 Kan. 118, 121, 105 P.3d 1247 (2005) (quoting State v. Cox, 258 Kan. 557, Syl. ¶ 7, 908 P.2d 603 [1995]).
In State v. Miller, 32 Kan. App. 2d 1099, 1103, 95 P.3d 127 (2004), this court interpreted K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b) to apply only to the case before the court for sentencing, not to prior sentencing dispositions for other offenses. We see no reason to apply a different result here, as Banning's assignment to community corrections occurred in 03CR2134, not 04CR78.
The convictions in 04CR78 did not arise out of the same events as 03CR2134, and there were separate plea and sentencing hearings for both cases.
Although not briefed by either party, the question becomes whether ordering Banning to complete the program at LCCC constitutes assignment to a community corrections service program. We conclude that assignment to LCCC as a condition of probation does not constitute assignment to a community corrections service program within the meaning of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b).
K.S.A. 75-5290 et seq. is the Kansas Community Corrections Act. K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 75-5291 reads:
"(a)(1) The secretary of corrections may make grants to counties for the development, implementation, operation and improvement of community correctional services that address the criminogenic needs of felony offenders including, but not limited to, adult intensive supervision, substance abuse and mental health services, employment and residential services, and facilities for the detention or confinement, care or treatment of offenders as provided in this section except that no community corrections funds shall be expended by the secretary for the purpose of establishing or operating a conservation camp as provided by K.S.A. 75-52,127 and amendments thereto." (Emphasis added.)
K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 75-52,127 reads:
"On or after the effective date of this act, the secretary of corrections may establish conservation camps to provide inmates with a highly structured residential work program. Such conservation camps shall be a state correctional institution or facility for confinement under the supervision of the secretary. A conservation camp may accept defendants assigned to such camp as provided in K.S.A. 21-4603 or K.S.A. 21-4603d and amendments thereto. Defendants assigned pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4603 or K.S.A. 21-4603d, and amendments thereto, to a conservation camp may be transferred by the secretary to any other correctional institution or facility. Any inmate sentenced to the custody of the secretary may be confined in a conservation camp, however, only those inmates assigned to the conservation camp pursuant to subsection (1)(5) or (3) of K.S.A. 21-4603d or subsection (b)(6) of K.S.A. 21-4603, and amendments thereto, shall be eligible for release upon successful completion of the conservation camp program." (Emphasis added.)
From the plain language of the statutes, LCCC is not a community corrections service program but a state correctional institution and, therefore, assignment to LCCC as a condition of probation does satisfy the assignment to community corrections requirement of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b).
As the State notes, K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b) provides the following exceptions to the rule that a probation violator must first be assigned to community corrections before being ordered to serve his or her underlying sentence: (1) when the violation in question is a new misdemeanor or felony; (2) for certain adult felony offenders as described in K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 75-5291(a)(3); and (3) "if the court finds and sets forth with particularity the reasons for finding that the safety of the members of the public will be jeopardized or that the welfare of the inmate will not be served by such assignment to a community correctional services program." The State agrees that exceptions (1) and (2) are not applicable, but argues the court's comments at the probation revocation hearing satisfy exception (3). Again, we disagree.
The district judge stated, "Ms. Banning's had plenty of opportunity to change. She's not willing to do so at this time. I'll deny the request. She'll remain in the custody of the Sheriff, be delivered by the Sheriff to the Secretary of Corrections to serve the sentences imposed."
In Miller, the district court ordered the defendant to serve his underlying sentence because "'[Mr. Miller] received a significant break from the Court at time of sentencing by being granted not only a dispositional departure, but being assigned to court services. And Mr. Miller was unable to make it from the courthouse to court services, a half block [before violating probation].'" 32 Kan. App. 2d at1101. This court concluded the district court had failed in these statements to comply with the requirements of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b). 32 Kan. App. 2d at 1101-03.
In State v. Huskey, 17 Kan. App. 2d 237, 834 P.2d 1371 (1992), the appellant contended the sentencing court failed to comply with K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 21-4603(4)(a) in denying his request to be placed in a community correction program. K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 21-4603(4)(a) also required a district court denying a modification to "set[ ] forth with particularity the reasons for finding that the safety of members of the public will be jeopardized or that the welfare of the inmate will not be served by such modification." (Emphasis added.) In denying Huskey's request, the district court cited his involvement with drugs and stolen antique guns. This court held this was not sufficient. 17 Kan. App. 2d at 239-40. "When something is to be set forth with particularity, it must be distinct rather than general, with exactitude of detail, especially in description or stated with attention to or concern with details." 17 Kan. App. 2d 237, Syl. ¶ 2.
We are convinced the reasoning in Miller and Huskey is applicable here.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions to assign Banning to community corrections or to make the specific findings necessary under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 22-3716(b)(3).


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There's more than one way to defeat the Cube
After many, many frustrating hours twisting and turning until we got ONE side completed, we have a love/hate relationship with the Rubik's Cube. Since the cube has spent over 20 years melting our minds, we figured it was time for payback.
As seen on The Big Bang Theory!
Let's face it, there are geeks out there who can't defeat the Rubik's Cube. (In fact, there are a few ThinkGeek monkeys who fit in this group.) We've been trying ever since the early 80s and still end up throwing the cube across the room in frustration. We get laughed at by our friends who have no problem solving a puzzle with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations. We sigh when we look at the videos of Rubik's Cube world champions as they flip and twist the cube so fast it becomes a blur. 7.08 seconds? Seriously? It takes us 7.08 seconds just to decide what end to twist first. In honor of the puzzle that melts our minds, this shirt that turns the tables and melts the Rubik's Cube into a lovely and colorful puddle. There's more than one way to defeat the Cube, and we think this one sends a pretty strong message to puzzles everywhere.
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24 Favorite Holiday Pie Recipes
Chocolate Cream Pie [1]
The filling of this chocolate-crust pie is luscious, but not too rich. (Think old-fashioned chocolate pudding.) A bit of sour cream in the whipped topping balances the chocolate perfectly.
Frango Mint Chocolate Ice Cream Pie [5]
This decadent pie is a favorite at Macy's on North State Street in Chicago. Stir in candy from a box of famous Frango Mints (order at Macys.com ), or use solid mint-flavored chocolate candies from the grocery store.
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie [9]
A spiced filling, made from whipped cream, creates a lighter-tasting version of traditional pumpkin pie. The gingersnap crust adds more kick than classic crusts.
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie [10]
Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Coconut Pie [13]
This classic pie recipe comes from Miss Aimee B's Tea Room in St. Charles, Missouri.
Christmas Apple Pie [17]
Choose your favorite dried fruit to pair with apples for this double-crust pie. Present the cooled pie on a bigger pie plate full of gumdrops for a holiday-festive look.
Christmas Apple Pie [18]
Chocolate Eggnog Swirl Pie [21]
Serve your Christmas eggnog in this creamy pie, swirled with chocolate. The recipe is from the Elsah Landing Restaurant in historic Elsah, Illinois.
Spiced Cherry Pie [25]
Bring all-time favorite cherry pie into the holidays. Although we tested it with refrigerated piecrust, you can use your own homemade crust, if you like. The filling gets a tasty boost from cinnamon and allspice.
Spiced Cherry Pie [26]
Peppermint Brownie Pie [29]
This rich blend of two favorite holiday flavors -- chocolate and mint -- might start a new dessert tradition in your house. Can't find the mint-flavored pieces? Use regular chocolate chips and add 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract to the batter.
Harvest Pie, Sweet Potato Pie and Sweetie Pie [33]
The holiday Pie Fest at Southmoreland on the Plaza, a historic 13-room inn northeast of Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, features several dozen pies including Harvest Pie (front of picture), Sweet Potato Pie (left) and Sweetie Pie (top).
Harvest Pie blends the tastes and aromas of apples, cranberries and baked spices.
Sweet Potato Pie has a soft filling with just a touch of sweetness. Pie lovers with a serious sweet tooth need to try the Sweetie Pie, full of melted chocolate, butterscotch, pecans and coconut.
Harvest Pie [34]
Sweet Potato Pie [35]
Sweetie Pie [36]
Caramel-Pecan French Silk Pie [39]
Caramel and pecans form a gooey base for this chocolate dream pie. Make this decadent pie at least a day ahead so it has plenty of time to chill before guests arrive.
Black-Bottom Pecan Pie [43]
Oatmeal-Pecan Pie [47]
Pecan gets a chewy-good twist in this recipe from an Augusta, Missouri, restaurant.
Oatmeal-Pecan Pie [48]
Masterpiece Mud Pie [51]
A crust of crushed chocolate sandwich cookies holds a rich filling of chocolate ice cream, coffee ice cream, whipped cream and flavorings.
Masterpiece Mud Pie [52]
Luke's Lemon Meringue Pie [55]
This lemon meringue pie recipe, which includes candied lemon peel, is a favorite at Southmoreland on the Plaza, in Kansas City, Missouri. The recipe comes from Luke Reichle, brother of Southmoreland co-owner Mark.
Fancy Almond Cream Pie [59]
A vanilla pie gets a holiday makeover with almonds and a cherry garnish.
Millionaire's Pie [63]
Cherry Pie [67]
Cherry pie is the specialty of Betty Reichle, mother of Southmoreland on the Plaza co-owner Mark Reichle. Her filling has a hint of cinnamon and almond. And she weaves a handsome lattice crust on the top. "I make points with Mark when I make this pie," she says.
Cherry Pie [68]
Cranberry-Raspberry Pie [71]
This sweet-tart Christmas-red dessert adds cranberry zing to an easy-to-make fruit pie.
Eggnog Pie [75]
Something Special Apple-Cherry Pie [79]
We combined two favorite pie fillings--apple and cherry--into one holiday treat. Almonds add a nutty boost.
German-Chocolate Pie [83]
This decadent chocolate-coconut pie looks especially nice when you decorate the crust with semisweet chocolate pieces just after you remove it from the oven.
German-Chocolate Pie [84]
Finnish Blueberry Pie [87]
This berry pie proves that there's beauty in simplicity. The piecrust is wrapped around a three-ingredient filling that includes fine dry breadcrumbs. You don't even need a pie plate to make this juicy treat.
Mystery Pecan Pie [91]
The mystery ingredient in this pecan pie is cream cheese! A Harrietta, Michigan, reader, likes this double-layer treat that combines two holiday favorites: cheesecake and pecan pie.
Mystery Pecan Pie [92]
Mile-High Chocolate Pie [95]
Whipping cream, semisweet chocolate and bittersweet chocolate create a rich, tall filling for this pie from Murray's restaurant in Minneapolis. A sweet meringue forms the crust.
Chocolate-Pecan Whiskey Pie [99]
A Madison, Indiana, reader makes this chocolate version of pecan pie for her supper club. Club members thought it was their best dessert ever!
Triple Pear Pie with Walnut Crust [103]
You can't mistake the fruit in this cardamom-spiced beauty. Pear nectar and dried pears complement thick slices of fresh, juicy Bosc pears.


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PARIS (AP) — With a hoist from two bailiffs, Rwanda's disabled former intelligence chief was placed in a courtroom wheelchair Tuesday — and France opened its first trial over the African country's genocide.
The trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, may not reveal much new about the systematic killing of ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates by radical Hutus in 1994. Books on the genocide have been written, rivers of tears shed, and documentary films made. A U.N. war crimes tribunal and other courts have already sent dozens to prison — some for life.
But the Simbikangwa case redeems years of efforts in France by activist groups and other critics who say French officials turned a blind eye to the slaughter, helped some perpetrators to flee Rwanda, and let untold numbers of Rwandans with ties to the genocide live in France for years unpunished.
Few critics have missed the fact that France, a country generally proud of its human rights record, is opening the first genocide trial it has ever held, just as the U.N. tribunal is preparing to end its work.
More than two dozen cases linked to the Rwandan genocide are still being investigated in France.
On Tuesday, Simbikangwa, who is infirm from an auto accident in 1986, was wheeled into a glassed-in area in the courtroom, identifying himself as "Pascal Safari" — an apparent combination of his real name and his alias, Senyamuhara Safari, according to court documents.
Wearing a tan leather jacket, baggy pants and sneakers, he variously slouched in his wheelchair, scribbled notes, or whispered to his defense lawyers.
Simbikangwa, who was arrested in 2008 on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, is accused of complicity in genocide and complicity in war crimes in 1994 — but not of personally killing anyone.
Presiding Judge Olivier Leurent went over the history of the genocide and claims against Simbikangwa, such as that he was involved in torture, had armed and trained soldiers, and encouraged them to kill.
Simbikangwa denies the charges, and his lawyers are seeking an acquittal. They have expressed concern that the trial, set to last until March 28, will be lopsided — in part because of the difficulty in finding witnesses who will speak out in his defense.
Several human rights groups as well as the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda, which has worked for 13 years to bring such a case to French courts, are among several civil parties: independent plaintiffs who are supporting the state's case.
"I am especially dedicating this (trial) to the anonymous victims of Pascal Simbikangwa, those without a name, a grave. This is for them today," said Dafroza Gauthier, who with her husband Alain set up the collective in 2001. She says she lost at least 80 family members in the genocide.
France had close ties to the government of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu who was killed when his plane was shot down in 1994. His death set off a torrent of reprisal slayings that left at least 500,000 people dead in just over 100 days — what has been called the 20th century's fastest genocide.
Civil parties say Simbikangwa, who came from the same town as Habyarimana and was allegedly a relative, was in the president's inner circle. From at least one roadway checkpoint in Kigali, he is alleged to have incited the army to identify and slaughter Tutsis.
"Today's trial in Paris ... will be an important moment in the global fight against impunity," said Leslie Haskell, international justice counsel for Human Rights Watch.
France was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in 2004 for acting too slowly to prosecute one case related to the Rwanda genocide case.
A French trait for "ill-founded self-certainties" that engulfed "the administration, the army and the diplomatic corps" was to blame, said French former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who traveled to Rwanda several times during the genocide as a humanitarian aid activist.
Rwanda broke off political relations with France after a French magistrate filed charges against allies of President Paul Kagame, whose Tutsi-led forces took power after the genocide ended in July 1994.
A political thaw starting in 2009 — when Kouchner was foreign minister — paved the way for French investigators to visit Rwanda and start building cases.
In 2012, the Paris court opened a war-crimes division that has regularly sent investigators to Rwanda. The Simbikangwa trial is just the start. The division is investigating 27 other cases — one focusing on Habyarimana's widow.
"France now has the tools it needs to ensure (that) perpetrators of the world's most serious crimes don't escape justice or find a safe haven in the country," Human Rights Watch's Haskell said in a statement.
Masha Macpherson in Paris contributed to this report.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — With no pope, a sea gull is stealing the show at the papal conclave.
Smoke watching has become bird watching in St. Peter's Square after a sea gull perched atop the chimney that belches out smoke from the Sistine Chapel to signal whether or not a pope has been elected.
From the chapel's tiled roof, the gull had a commanding bird's eye view Wednesday of the sea of pilgrims eagerly waiting in the rain for papal tidings. Black smoke means no pope yet; white means "Habemus Papam" — "We have a pope!"
The bird offered welcome comic relief.
Dublin tourist Harry Sheeran quipped that the gull was "nearer to heaven than we are."
Minutes after being spotted, the bird inspired a slew of Twitter accounts.


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Ames, Iowa
Texas Governor George W. Bush came out of his handy victory in the GOP Presidential Straw Poll crowing that he "was now on the road to the nomination" and that the conventionlike balloting was a "festival of democracy." He's dead right on the first count. But as to the second–well, the Ames poll had about as much to do with democracy as Duffy Lyon's sculpture of the Last Supper carved in butter over at the Iowa State Fair did with Leonardo's original.
The Ames poll was modern politics at its worst. Twenty-five thousand predominantly white electors were bused in and then lured by free barbecues, T-shirts and concerts into casting an unofficial "vote" for whatever candidate paid their $25-a-head entrance fee.
A farce? Certainly. But at the same time an accurate, and markedly less hypocritical, microcosm of the official electoral process. Both are essentially about money. George W. Bush spent upward of a cool million to win his 31 percent. Steve Forbes spent twice as much to take second with 20 percent. Even the lesser candidates, like Christian-right leader Gary Bauer (who finished fourth with 9 percent) spent more than a quarter-million dollars on the event. Bauer leased fifteen golf carts just to whisk his supporters from his barbecue and gospel tent to the voting booths a few hundred yards up the hill.
Contrary to the official media consensus, this poll wasn't really about winnowing from year 2000 competition such obvious losers as Lamar Alexander and Dan Quayle (though it succeeded in the former case). For there is no such competition. After the humiliating defeat of the Gingrich leadership in the '98 Congressional vote, the Republican Party elite, led by frightened governors and backed by deep-pocket corporate contributors, decided to jerk the party back into the moderate mainstream.
With abnormally early blanket endorsement from hundreds of GOP elected officials down to the level of county dogcatcher, with nearly $40 million to date in financial support from more than 300 PACs and corporations ranging from GE to Bank of America to Waste Management, and with individual contributions from thousands of business executives, George W. Bush has drowned all other comers in both a sea of green and overwhelming media attention. Barring a Bush plane crash or an unlikely political train wreck, the "contenders" who survived the Ames poll will be allowed only to act out their supporting roles in a yearlong national charade culminating in next summer's formal convention-cum-coronation of George W. Bush, the undisputed nominee to lead the party away from the fringe and back into the White House. While the results of the Ames poll did nothing to alter this inevitability, it did provide a revealing window onto the strengths and fissures of a Bush-led GOP looking toward next year's general election.


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Ever find yourself relaxing on a secluded beach with a good book, your significant other, and calm waters drifting away into the bliss, but still reaching for your phone? We're in a constant stream of noise now more than ever and it's getting increasingly harder to get off the grid and escape everyday check-ins with your social profiles and inbox.
It's okay, it happens to all of us and as technology progresses the few quiet moments that we have seem to be slipping away, which is why we've tasked our friends over at Black Tomato to come up with the top destinations for couples looking to switch off and take a digital detox. Looking for the perfect way to spend the rest of the year in (almost) total silence? Keep on scrolling.


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30 Jul 2013 11:50:26 AM
Robbie Lawler, Melvin Guillard Top the UFC on FOX 8 Salary List
(Robbie's body may have been in the Octagon at that moment, but in his mind, he was already making it rain at Little Darlings. / Photo via Getty Images)
According to figures released by the Washington State Department of Licensing, the UFC paid out $1,050,000 in disclosed salaries and bonuses to the 24 fighters who competed at UFC on FOX 8: Johnson vs. Moraga on Saturday, led by main card slugger Robbie Lawler, who took in $156,000 including his win bonus and Knockout of the Night bonus. Three other fighters broke into six-figure territory thanks to their end-of-night bonuses, including Melvin Guillard, Ed Herman, and flyweight headliner Demetrious Johnson.
Check out the full salary list below, courtesy of MMAJunkie. Keep in mind that the figures don't include additional revenue from sponsorships or undisclosed "locker room bonuses."
Demetrious Johnson: $108,000 (includes $29,000 win bonus, $50,000 Submission of the Night bonus)
def. John Moraga: $17,000
Rory MacDonald: $48,000 (includes $24,000 win bonus)
def. Jake Ellenberger: $52,000
Robbie Lawler: $156,000 (includes $78,000 win bonus)
def. Bobby Voelker: $12,000


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I was having a beer with an old friend from college, and somehow this hypothetical question came up: if you had to give up either sex or cheese for the rest of your life, which would it be?
Now at first I thought the answer was obvious, and I kind of didn't understand what there was to discuss, but she put on this pained expression and said, "Weeeellllll, I dunno. Close call."
She went on to say that one of her best friends swore up and down that she'd give up sex long before she gave up cheese.
I should say first off that I'm a bit biased because my friend KDoe is an anti-cheese zealot, and his influence has rubbed off on me a bit. He never gets cheese on a sandwich because, "What does it add?" he says. "It's just a little slice of barely flavored fat."
Then I couldn't help but notice that KDoe was right: we as a culture do give all this credit and slavering devotional worship to cheese, which is at best a middling addition to something else you're eating. Whether it's a sandwich or pizza or tacos, cheese is, at best, a role player. It's the Sixth Man of the Year of food. You never notice this more when a restaurant displays the economic value of its cheese.
For instance, I was in Kincaid's Monday night watching Chris Paul play the role of heartbreaker like he was Justin Bieber and the Memphis Grizzlies were Anne Frank (wow, how have I not written a column on that?), and I ordered a turkey burger. Now this was one of those nights where the turkey burger was discounted to $2 but you had to pay extra for additional toppings, the big question being, "Do you want cheese for a dollar?"
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it often the case that you find yourself paying a dollar for a slice of plasticky American cheese that costs $1.09 for a packet of fifty at the grocery store? How is cheese now a third of the cost of this meal? As if I didn't already hear KDoe's voice in my head every time I'm given the chance to order cheese, now you're telling me I'm going to increase the price of this turkey burger by 50 percent just to get a slice of preservative-packed dairy product? I'm sorry, Kincaid's, but this feels like a bridge too far. Good day.
Now there's probably also an argument about "good cheese" lurking out there, but every time someone tells me that the reason I don't like tomatoes is because, "Oh, you've just never had a good, fresh tomato" I hate them as much as I hate tomatoes. No, motherf***er, I don't like tomatoes because they're a disgusting bathwater-tasting vegetable, and the relative freshness, organicness, or ripeness of the bathwater flavor will not change my opinion.
The same goes for cheese. While I like cheese, I find that every time someone tries to foist a "good" cheese on me, I can't help but notice that it remains a piece of cheese. It's the difference between the Sixth Man of the Year and the third runner-up for Sixth Man of the Year.
So maybe you feel differently, but I guess my uneventful answer to this particular query is sex. I would definitely take sex over cheese. Sex ends in orgasms, and it feels great the whole time. Duh. I have no idea what kind of subpar sex these people are having that cheese is even in contention.


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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A Pommard. Like that.
Yes, Pommard. It's one of those things that people who don't know anything about wine know. Like Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Margaux. The word Pommard has a heft to it, a stately ring.
I knew Pommard when I knew little about wine—less about Burgundy, even, than Bordeaux (my early days were curiously canted toward the Loire and the western seaboard of France). Pommard, when I started to gather up the splinters of Burgundy information, well, Pommard was the Côte de Beaune's masculine wine, ruggedly flexing its muscles near the lacy Volnay.
(Then I went there. It was astouding to see a little string of Christmas lights, those villages, so close: a mere kilometer in distance, apiece, from Beaune to Pommard to Volnay to Meursault. But that should be the subject of another, daintily nostalgic post. (I'm sure you all know how dainty and nostalgic I can get, here.))
It took some time for me to debunk the standard Gallic wisdom: Volnay = girl wine. Pommard = boy wine.
I've had a lot of tangly, rustic Volnays (most recently a 2005 from Henri & Gilles Buisson that was angular; though traditionalists might argue that that was the bluestocking version of the feminine Volnay). And there are some supple Pommards afoot.
2002 Jadot Pommard. There you go. I wanted pinot. Burgundian pinot. I hankered for it, craved it. So I thought: well, I'm having dinner by myself and it'll be simple and lazy, some goose rillettes and a piece of Camembert*, or something. I uncorked this.
OK, yum. Just yum. Just yum. Silk and lace and (yuck, that's starting to sound like a Victoria's Secret catalog); scratch that. What I mean to say is that it was pure. Vibrant 2002 pinot fruit, little cherries, all the pleasure that a balanced, tasty Burgundy can bring. Glug-worthy, hell.
So if Pommard has to be the man's wine, I'm going to wear a hat and a fake mustache. I have no shame.
*For all of you cheese snobs out there, I gleefully invite you to indulge in an actual good, non-industrial Camembert. The poor thing got so popular for a reason, and despite the fact that 97.99% of today's Camembert is made in a factory in Laval (I approximate), the real thing is great. Perhaps too great for potential moderation, but that is another issue altogether.
11 comments:
- Scott Reiner said...
had an 05 Claudine Gaunoux Pommard the other day. mmmmmmmmm....
- February 23, 2010 at 6:35 PM
- peter said...
An 02 Jadot Pommard Rugiens opened recently was amazing!
- February 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- drsugarman said...
Pommard was my first Burgundy experience ... though I admit to a love of things rustic I agree with that not all Pommard are so.
- February 23, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- Jeff and Mandy said...
One of the greatest wines I ever had was Comte Armand's 1999 Pommard Clos des Epeneaux at (oddly enough) Paris' Taillevent. Incredible. It was not only my first true Burgundy experience, but the one I still judge the rest against. And it's Cote de Beaune!!! HA!
- February 23, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- Jainomo said...
A "man's wine"? I scoff at the claim! I'll gladly admit when a wine is more feminine or masculine, but I would never go as far to say a wine is a man's or a woman's. Ridiculous!
- February 25, 2010 at 5:57 AM
- cgomezmoreno said...
This Saturday we had a 2001 Billard-Gonnet - Pommard Les Chaponnieres 1er Cru and despite the supposedly cool/inconsistent reputation the vintage got this was still surprisingly tannic and "chunky" (or "manly", I guess) right after uncorking. After about an hour it was just perfect.
Ah, Burgundy! I wish I could afford it...
- February 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- romo said...
volnay = girl wine, yes. but pommard = masculine-girl wine. and, as sharon intimates, that's a good thing.
- February 26, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Nancy Deprez said...
Great post, so fun. I love Camembert. And good Burgundy like this glug-worthy one you describe.
- March 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- The Colorado Girl said...
I really like your blog and I wonder if you might be interested in joining the FSW Blog Network which I manage. We are in need of a blogger who writes about wine and its a great way to gain new readership. For more information check out the blog network and benefits of joining by going to http://blog.foodservicewarehouse.com/blog-for-fsw/
I would love to have you on board!
Thanks! Kelly
- March 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- J R W said...
Louise Jadot is a super wine house and this wine that you have tastes is a real delight.
You should also try out the Chassagne-Montrachet, Loius Jadot 05 - seriously delicious!
- March 26, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Lance said...
After reading all of these posts I am looking forward to tasting Pommard. I'm a man so I qualify.
- May 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM


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The 64th La Plata County Fair that starts Wednesday again will be a combination of the old and the new.
Youngsters from 4-H clubs will show sheep, swine, rabbits and goats; adults will exhibit quilts, needlework and culinary skills; and entertainment such as the demolition derby, the tractor pull and the carnival will thrill.
But a timely new activity, the Handyman Olympics, sponsored by Kroegers Ace Hardware, is making its debut.
The handyman games, limited to 60 participants age 16 or older, involve performing eight handyman tasks in the shortest time possible.
Among the skills tested will be sawing a 2-by-4 in half, inserting drywall screws, installing a faucet, pounding nails and measuring three dowels and adding the lengths.
First prize in the contest is a Stihl chain saw. Registration is being taken at the hardware store in Town Plaza. Kroegers will supply the tools.
Therell be more going on in the poultry barn this year with the return of an incubator that will allow visitors to watch chicks hatch, poultry chairman Kacey Chadborn said.
I converted a Coca-Cola cooler with a glass door into an incubator, Chadborn said. Well have hatching eggs timed to produce chicks Thursday, Friday and Saturday, although I cant guarantee at what time.
The incubator was sidelined last year because the eggs he got hadnt been fertilized, Chadborn said.
The rooster-crowing contest, which draws 10 to 15 competitors every year, will take place on Saturday.
Melinda Wood, who is in charge of concessionaires, said more vendors than in recent years want to exhibit their wares.
Im trying to accommodate 10 more vendors, Wood said. There are the old regulars like the lemonade stand, but this is the first time that all tractor manufacturers will be here.
Among first-time exhibitors, Wood said, will be the Durango Food Bank, which wants to explain its mission and solicit donations; a Texas-based purveyor of Middle Eastern food such as stuffed grape leaves and falafel; and an Estes Park company that sells many deep-fried fair staples such as corn dogs and pickles.
The newcomers take the place of events such as the rodeo and bull-riding competition that have been dropped.
One-participant-driven event that saved itself was the corn-husking contest.
Lorene Bonds said that during the years, fewer and fewer parents of 4-H members ended up husking the corn used for the 4-H barbecue.
About five years ago, her son, Troy, suggested making the chore a contest and awarding prizes, Bonds said.
It turned a couple of hours of work into minutes, she said. The only thing we watch for now are contestants who try to slip some of their unhusked ears into a competitors basket.
Whether its attractions are old hat or original, the fair is about people.
The fair builds spirit in the community, said board president Randy McKee. The 4-H component is great not only for youngsters in agriculture, but also in other activities.
Shirley Reinhardt, a fair board member for about 35 years and the only one whos served longer than McKee, said the event gains new adherents annually.
We see new people and entries every year and we see people we may not have seen for years, said Reinhardt, who has led the Oxford 4-H Club since 1965.
Reinhardt would like to see more competitors for the Homemaker of the Year competition, which requires exhibits of needlework, clothing, baked goods and food preservation.
Id like to make a pitch for volunteers, Reinhardt said. We need volunteers, even if its for a couple of hours.


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Keith Wright and the Crimson concluded the regular season 26-4 (Patrick Shanahan).
ITHACA, N.Y. – Oliver McNally made four free throws in the final seconds and scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half, while Brandyn Curry drained four 3-pointers, finishing with 12 points, as the Harvard men's basketball team clinched at least a share of its second straight Ivy League title with a 67-63 win at Cornell Saturday evening.
Harvard, which concludes its regular season 26-4 and 12-2 in the Ancient Eight, will await Tuesday evening's matchup between Penn (11-2 Ivy) and Princeton in Princeton, N.J. A Princeton win would clinch the outright Ivy League title for Harvard, as well as the NCAA tournament's automatic berth, while a Penn victory would force a one-game playoff between the Quakers and Crimson at a to-be-determined date and location.
Kyle Casey scored 11 (4-7 FG), while Keith Wright had eight points (3-6 FG) and 11 rebounds. The Crimson shot .488 (21-43 FG) for the game, hitting 12-of-26 3-point attempts (.462) including 7-of-13 in the second half. Harvard's 26 victories establish a new program record for a single season, and the Crimson ties last season's squad with 12 conference victories. Harvard has now won two Ivy League crowns in program history (2010-11 and 2011-12).
Chris Wroblewski shook off a 6-for-16 shooting night to lead Cornell (12-16, 7-7 Ivy) with 19 points to go with seven assists.
Harvard's hot-shooting second half was matched in every way by the home-standing Big Red, which connected on 6-of-11 from deep to keep the game close.
In the second half, Cornell opened with a 6-0 run to tie the game, 27-27, with 18:12 to play. After two free throws by Casey put Harvard back up by two, Cornell responded with a triple on the other end of the court as the Big Red moved ahead, 30-29. With Cornell leading, 34-32, Curry dribbled at the top of the key and drained a triple, putting the Crimson on top by one. With 14:57 left, Curry stepped up and buried another trey, giving the Crimson a four-point edge, 38-34.
Curry continued his torrid stretch from beyond the arc, as he hit another 3-pointer with 14:04 remaining, giving the Crimson a seven-point advantage, 41-34. With 10:04 to go, Wright put Harvard up by eight, 45-37, with a wide open layup to the left of the basket. Webster buried a triple before the shot clock expired with 7:55 to play, as the Crimson started to pull away, 50-39.
Cornell came back to cut the deficit to six, 55-49, with 5:07 remaining, and then pulled even closer, 55-52, with just over four minutes to go. With 3:53 left, the Big Red got with one, 56-55, but Casey answered with a driving layup, giving Harvard a three-point lead, 58-55. On the Crimson's next trip down the floor, Saunders found McNally with a pass to the left wing for a triple, 61-55.
With 45 ticks left on the clock, McNally banked a scoop shot off the glass from the right side, keeping Harvard up six, 63-57. After Cornell got back with three, 63-60, with 26.4 seconds left, the Big Red forced a Crimson turnover to regain possession. With 23.8 seconds left, Cornell's Wroblewski went to the line and made one, making it a two-point game, 63-61. McNally went to the foul line with 20.7 ticks left, and drained both, making it a two-possession game, 65-61. Cornell got back within two with 14.0 seconds left, McNally went back to the line and hit both again, putting the game out of reach, 67-63.
Laurent Rivard was on early as the sophomore put Harvard ahead, 3-0, with a triple from the left corner to open the game, and Casey added another triple, as the Crimson led, 6-3, after the first three minutes. After Cornell cut its deficit to 8-7, Wright made a nice move under the hoop, to give Harvard a three-point edge, 10-9. With 12:38 left, McNally threw up an alley-oop pass from the right side, and Casey finished with a thunderous two-handed dunk, 12-9.
Following an offensive board by Wesley Saunders, McNally drained a trey, stretching Harvard's lead to 17-11 with 9:18 left to go in the first. The Crimson went up by nine, 20-11, when Rivard buried another 3-pointer, and Christian Webster followed with a triple of his own with six minutes remaining, pushing the lead to 12, 23-11.
With 2:26 to go, Wright went to the line, making the front end, as the Crimson remained on top, 27-17. Harvard carried a 27-21 advantage into the break, as the Crimson shot 10-of-23 (.435), while holding Cornell to 9-of-28 shooting (.321). Casey and Rivard paced the Crimson with seven points apiece in the first 20 minutes.


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Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know the song title/artist of other songs (pre-1985 only) that share the riddim of The Maytones 'Who Can't Hear Will Feel'?
Here's a Youtube clip of the song in case you need reminding. Please ignore the visuals - I just found anything to go with it because I can't put up only music:
Any help would be really appreciated. I know I've heard other tunes with this riddim.


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The Atlanta Falcons have released DE Chauncey Davis, DT Trey Lewis and LB Coy Wire. They have waived RB Gartrell Johnson, FB Lucas Cox, WR Brandyn Harvey, TE Marquez Branson, Cs Paul Fenaroli and Ryan McMahon, DEs Tom McCarthy and Kiante Tripp, LB Bear Woods, CB Kamaal McIlwain, S Matt Hansen, S Rafael Priest and S Suaesi Tuimaunei. The team have released WR Andy Strickland (undisclosed) after raching an injury settlement.
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|Falcons | 22 undrafted rookie free agents signed
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The Atlanta Falcons have signed undrafted rookie free-agents WR Doug Beaumont (Louisville), DB Kirk Belgrave (Kent State), FB Lucas Cox (Georgia Tech), WR Drew Davis (Oregon), C Paul Fenaroli (Stony Brook), QB Adam Froman (Louisville), WR P.J. Gore (Mars Hill College), DB Matt Hansen (Rhode Island), DE Tom McCarthy (Yale), T Rob McGill (Louisiana Tech), DB Kamaal McIlwain (Newbury College), C Ryan McMahon (Florida State), FB Thor Merrow (Northern Alabama), G Matt W. Murphy (Nevada-Las Vegas), LS Andrew Schulze (Iowa), RB Philip Sylvester (Florida A&M), LB LaMarcus Thompson (Tennessee), DT Kiante Tripp (Georgia), DB Suaesi Tuimaunei (Oregon State), DB Darrin Walls (Notre Dame), TE Ryan Winterswyk (Boise State), and RB Youri Yenga (Southern Methodist).
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The New York Giants worked out University of Florida S Will Hill, Syracuse LB Doug Hogue, Temple S Jaiquawn Jarrett, University of Cincinnati WR Vidal Hazelton, University of Virginia LB Darnell Carter, Notre Dame WR Duval Kamara, Yale DE Tom McCarthy and University of Indiana (PA) DE Mike Gee Thursday, April 14, reports Mike Garafolo, of The Star-Ledger.
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