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NEW YORK CITY – You could spend three or four days in the American Museum of Natural History and still not see all the dinosaur fossils, meteorites, butterflies, lizards, diamonds and historical artifacts it has to offer. But even if you could, you would only have seen one face of the museum. In the basement, attic, turrets, back hallways and closets there's an equally dizzying array of awesome stuff.
Wired Science recently took a tour of the museum-behind-the-museum to learn about the science, art, construction and collection that make up the heart of the 140-year-old institution. From cutting-edge cryogenic tissue storage to decades-old, handmade, fossil-preparation equipment to the Big Bone Room, we learned how the museum helps discover, advance and preserve the knowledge it is best known for putting on display.
Frozen Tissue Laboratory ————————
Getting to the various labs and back rooms of the museum involves navigating a confusing agglomeration of large spaces lined with tall cabinets containing all manner of beetle, bird and badger specimens; riding in oversized elevators; and walking down long, cluttered hallways with exposed pipes and a strange mix of outdated, faded science and safety posters on the walls. So entering the sterile, spare, high-tech frozen-tissue laboratory is like stepping into another world.
The Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection consists of eight nearly indestructible liquid-nitrogen–fueled cryogenic tanks. Three are already online, preserving 70,000 tissue samples from reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects, fish and birds. The space can fit four more vats, and at full capacity could store and catalog a million samples.
"We have all taxa. It's one of the things that makes this collection unique," said Julie Feinstein, collections manager for the tissue lab. "All of the collections from the museum have samples here."
The cryovats take the place of the many individual collections that used to be kept in freezers in labs all over the museum. Those samples were vulnerable to power outages and even when they managed to stay frozen, they were kept between minus 4 and minus 112 Fahrenheit, which is not cold enough to prevent all damage and degradation over time. The bottom of the vats are filled with liquid nitrogen that is below minus 300, always keeping the tissue colder than minus 230.
"And the freezers don't fail," Feinstein said. Even in the event of a catastrophic power failure, the vats will stay cold for five weeks on their own. And they are on wheels, so the samples can be moved without taking them out of the freezers. There's also a dedicated staff just for the frozen collection. "So the freezers are not alone."
The tissue library is also protected against loss and misplacement by a meticulous computer tracking system that involves bar codes and human-readable numbers.
The cryostorage supports the museum's genetic-analysis and conservation studies, but the lab will store samples for any scientist with a need who is willing to relinquish ownership and share. The types of samples range from mammal blood to bird liver to whale skin. The lab recently received some samples of bats with White Nose syndrome, which threatens bat populations in the eastern United States, and is already receiving requests from other researchers to study them.
It is the premier tissue storage facility in the world, and the Smithsonian, Harvard and Yale natural history museums are hoping to model their own collections after it, Feinstein said.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Meteorite Research ——————
The American Museum of Natural History is known for the biggest chunk of meteorite on display in any museum: The Ahnighito meteorite weighs 34 tons and requires extra reinforcements in the basement to hold it up. But the museum's geologists are busy studying bits of meteorites that are even more interesting, at least scientifically.
"We like to look at oddball meteorites that are different or strange and might tell us something new," said geologist Denton Ebel (below), curator of the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites.
Though Ebel claimed to have just five minutes to spare because he needed to work on an abstract for submission to the upcoming Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in New York, once he got started talking about meteorites, he forgot all about the deadline.
Ebel's team is working on 3-D imaging of meteorites, which will soon get a boost from a new CAT scan that will soon be arriving at the museum. He's also building a library of the infrared spectra (.pdf) of various astrophysically important minerals. This will help astronomers interpret data from the Herschel Space Observatory by comparing the infrared wavelengths emitted by planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, interplanetary dust and circumstellar disks to the spectra recorded in the lab and cataloged in the library.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
The Big Bone Room —————–
When a technician at the lab casually mentioned a place called the Big Bone Room, we knew we had to go there. And we were right. This room lives up to its name. Despite the many, many bones visitors can see at the museum, only 0.02 percent are actually on display. The rest are scattered throughout the back rooms and labs of the museum, but all the really big ones are in the Big Bone Room.
The room is like a library of huge fossils, complete with rolling stacks full of shelves of dinosaur bones. And though most of these fossils will never be seen by the public, many of them will be seen by scientists, both from the museum and from other institutions. Many of them were collected in the late 19th century.
"They're waiting for the next wave of people who are interested in them," said Carl Mehling, collections manager for the Big Bone Room. "Qualified scientists from anywhere can say, 'Can I come play with your dinosaurs and write some stuff?' And we let them in and hope they don't break anything."
Mehling clearly loves the fossils and is very happy to show them off, but he's also very protective of the fragile specimens.
"Part of me wants to brick the door shut and never let anyone in here," he said. "But the science has to happen."
Below: 1) The biggest bone in the Big Bone room is the femur of a camarasaurus, and looks to be close to 5 feet long.
2) Some of the prize fossils in the collection are type specimens, the very first of their kind to be described in the scientific literature, such as this Anchiceratops, which was on display in the museum at one time.
3) This dinosaur was probably buried alive in a landslide that caught it off guard.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Exhibit Workshop —————-
At the top of the museum a team of artists and other creative types build the exhibits in a big room filled with tools, paint and the remnants of previous projects. The museum employs 12 permanent artists.
When we visited, an exhibit about the race between Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott to be first to the South Pole in 1912, called The Race to the End of the Earth, was just being finished. Most of the painstakingly built models, including replicas of Scott's cabin and Amundsen's ice-cave workshop, had been moved to the exhibit space, except for a few stray Emperor penguins.
Out on the museum floor, behind construction barriers, a beautifully lifelike leopard seal was being carefully hung from the ceiling with the help of a mechanical lift.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Fossil Doctors ————–
The museum's fossil-preparation lab is one of the largest in the world. Specimens from all over the world come in, still encased in the rock or mud where they were found, and it's the job of the fossil preparators to get the skulls, femurs and teeth out.
Depending on the type of rock, this can be an incredibly difficult and exacting process. In the case of a hard rock matrix, Ana Balcarel uses a minidrill called an air scribe that resembles the tools dentists use to drill a cavity. The trick is to drill out the rock without harming the prize inside.
"When I started, it used to take me months to prepare a single specimen," said Balcarel, who has worked in the lab for nine years. "But now I am more comfortable with my tools, and I can do one in a couple weeks."
Even with skills honed by years of practice, the occasional tiny bit of a fossil will break off and end up on the floor, where it can hide out in the dust. And when it comes to identifying and studying a new species, every little sliver of tooth and bone is critical.
"It's not rare to find somebody on all fours sweeping the up the dust and hoping to find that piece," she said. "I've spent days on all fours."
Most of the specimens are not destined to be displayed, but will be used for research. The prep lab is also responsible for making casts of some of the fossils, which will be sent out to scientists. The casts are made using an odd collection of old and new instruments and ovens, including an old handmade centrifuge built on stray specimen drawers (above), used to get air bubbles out of the casts.
Because fossil preparation is so tough, and each individual specimen requires a considerable amount of labor, the museum has thousands of fossils collected by its scientists over the last century that are still encased in rock and wrapped with plaster casts in the boxes they arrived in.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Ammonite Clues ————–
Nearly every available surface in paleontologist Neil Landman's office is covered with trays of ammonite fossils. Related to the pearly nautilus, these spiral-shelled marine creatures went extinct along with the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.
Landman's interest in ammonites has to do with the material in their aragonite shells known as nacre. By analyzing ratios of isotopes –- variations of the same element with a different mass – he can learn things about the environment they lived in, such as temperature and salinity.
But nacre can break down over time, depending on an ammonite fossil's age and history.
"In 100 million years, a lot can happen," Landman said.
Only relatively pristine material has the goods Landman is after, so his team uses a scanning electron microscope (below), which utilizes a beam of electrons to image surfaces, to find the best nacre. Under the microscope, the stuff they're after looks like a clean, structurally sound brick wall. If the wall looks ratty or crumbly, it's no good.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
In Every Corner —————
As exciting as the labs, research and exhibits at the museum are, it's the odd corners, hallways, wall posters and stacks of stuff that give the museum's backstage its character.
Everywhere we went, we passed intriguing doors with signs like "Invertebrate Storage. Do Not Block"; cabinets full of drawers of who knows what natural treasures; both new and old scientific posters about everything from rhinos to diamonds to space missions; huge, wall-mounted, decades-old photographs of fossil hunting missions; statues of scientific icons like Copernicus; and wall paintings of African ungulates.
In a corner of the Big Bone Room, a relatively fresh-looking plaster cast marked "Skull" sat in front of old photos of museum staff handling similar fossils.
Every one of these things made us want to stop, open doors, ask questions and hang around the museum for days.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Fossil Hunter ————-
Mark Norell has a pretty sweet gig. He's head of the museum's paleontology department, has a huge round office that occupies one of the museum's turrets, and he hunts for fossils in exotic places like Mongolia where he eats gourmet meals – such as sushi made with irradiated, vacuum-packed eel – in the middle of the Gobi desert.
"Our camps have a certain style," Norell said.
He also gets to curate exhibits about things that interest him, like the current Traveling the Silk Road exhibit. He recently wrote a book about Barnum Brown, a fossil hunter for the AMNH who discovered the Tyrannosaurus rex, wore a beaver-skin coat in the field, had numerous romantic affairs and also worked as a spy.
The research Norell and his grad students do is exciting as well, such as using CT scanning of dinosaur skulls to see what their brains looked like, and comparing that to bird brains to understand where different sensory processing happens.
"We can look at a lot of aspects of brain evolution," he said.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Tour of the Universe ——————–
After the museum closed, we were treated to a private tour of the universe from the curved rows of plush seats in the museum's Hayden Planetarium, piloted by Brian Abbot and Carter Emmart (above), while a pilot-in-training looked on, waiting her turn to practice.
The amount of information (some of it real-time data acquired from satellites and spacecraft) incorporated into the planetarium's digital universe is staggering. We sailed through layer after layer of stars, exoplanets and galaxies until we reached the edge of the known universe, represented by a map of the cosmic background microwave radiation.
One of the most interesting visualizations was a sphere centered on the Earth that represents the distance traveled out into the universe by our radio signals that started in the late 1930's when radar, television and atomic testing began making powerful radio waves.
Describing the whole awesome trip we took – and it did feel like a trip – would inevitably fall short of the experience, but you can get a taste in "The Known Universe" video. Or fly through the universe on your own computer by downloading the Digital Universe Atlas.
Behind the high-tech planetarium dome are rooms of computers and servers that run the show, as well as piles of wires, boxes of tools and equipment, and an old projector that has been replaced by newer models but is kept around for spare parts.
Photos: Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com. Video: AMNH
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Karuizawa 1964 for Poland
Most whisky enthusiasts will remember the Glenflarclas 1953, bottled on 13 February 2012. The 1964 Karuizawa will be launched in Warsaw exactly one year later. If Michal keeps doing this annually, Poland will probably be the best place on earth to be for the whisky enthusiast on Valentine's Day. Just to get the facts out of the way: cask #3603 was filled on 1 September 1964 and bottled at cask-strength (57.7% abv) on Christmas Eve 2012. It yielded a mere 143 bottles – all of which have been presold to Wealth Solutions clients. One lone bottle will be available from Master of Malt, but not for very long, I suspect.
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The finish is medium-long with hints of kiwi jam, also lingonberry jam, sweet-and-sour sauce, goya again, and an incredibly delicate sweetness at the centre of it all.
10 comments:
- Dan said...
Hi, I cant wait to try this one. I love Japanese whisky, from the very first Nikka Blended Malt I tried to the 18 Yamazaki I've loved it All.
- February 13, 2013 at 12:27 AM
That's very interesting information. Do You have any more news about that? Are they going to make some official presentation? If yes, is it possible to go and see?
Greetings from Poland.
- February 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Lukas, the launch event in Warsaw is ... today, but it's an invitation-only event for Wealth Solutions clients. There's not enough whisky to go around so they had to limit it.
- February 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM
I see. Maybe they will put some spots on YouTube, like after the Glenfarclas 1953.
- February 13, 2013 at 4:10 PM
- Unknown said...
Any idea on the price?
Anyways, I guess the chance to get one back to Asia (am from HongKong) is rather low..... :-(
- February 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM
On the official site of Wealth Solutions I found that one bottle of this Karuizawa is about 12500 british pounds. All the botteles are already presaled.
Below there is link about that in polish. It is from October 2012 so the details may have changed.
- February 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
It'll be priced a little under 9,000GBP. But save for the one bottle mentioned in the post, everything's already been pre-sold.
- February 14, 2013 at 3:45 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Just to be clear: the bottle you saw on the Wealth Solutions website priced at 12,500 GBP is NOT the 1964 Karuizawa for Poland, but the forthcoming 1960 Karuizawa (of which there will be less than 50 bottles to be shared among the Karuizawa Partners in Japan, the UK, France, Taiwan and Scandinavia).
- February 15, 2013 at 8:01 PM
- wusimon said...
I am a Karuizawa's loyalty fan,just return today from Tokyo,before Tokyo,I also stop to Karuizawa for two days search your liqueur..my tour guide told me this factory sold to Santory Beer factory,and now totally shut down, no more in business..I returned to Tokyo to looking for all local liqueur stores, still can't find any store has left..what's happening? where I can get your whiskey? better let me know??
- February 19, 2013 at 11:11 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
It's probably harder to find Karuizawa whisky in Tokyo (or the rest of Japan for that matter) than it is in Paris or London. So, there's no point in looking around for any - except on auction sites, of course. Also, as we reported before, the distillery - that is to say, the property itself - has been sold and is closed. It is... alas, no more.
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Everyone has a certain way they like certain foods. For example, I like my steaks still moo-ing but my burgers blackened, and my mom and mother-in-law both agree that the blue M&Ms "just taste…different." Until recently, though, no one was more stubborn than my husband and the way he liked his macaroni and cheese. For him, it had always been the Kraft blue box or bust, but I was determined to make a mac that would change his mind and convert him from to "just-add-cheese-product" to homemade.
The weird thing is, I remember making plenty of delicious, warm and gooey macaroni and cheese dishes prior to this one, but for Mark, THIS was the one that hit the spot. We both gobbled up every last morsel of macaroni and crispy crumb topping, and later had trouble packing up the leftovers without sneaking another spoonful or two!
When you make macaroni and cheese, you should make sure that the pasta is cooked al dente, or "firm to the tooth", because the hot cheese sauce will continue to cook the pasta the rest of the way. If the pasta is already fully cooked, you'll end up with overcooked pasta that doesn't hold its shape.
I know we're still in the middle of summer, but there's nothing like a little warm comfort food to welcome the upcoming fall season (I can't wait for cool weather already!).
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Sweet and sour pork cantonese style would always be one of my all-time favourite Chinese dishes. What does 'cantonese' mean in this context? Well, the pork is covered in batter and then deep fried before combining or pouring over the sweet and sour sauce. Unlike some other SS concoctions where the meat is cooked all together with the sauce.
My former Chinese colleagues (when I was living in Hong Kong) looked in feigned disdain at me whenever I have this. "That's for tourists", they said. Well, I was a foreigner there, though not exactly a tourist, but at any rate I don't really care. LOL. Serve me sweet and sour pork with a soy sauce dip and freshly cooked rice and I'm a happy bunny. I definitely have an affinity with anything fried with sauce. Somehow the contrast of the crispiness versus whatever flavourful sauce mixed with it is quite delightful to me.
Now my main complaint with this dish is if I follow the recipe to a T, the resulting meat is not tender enough. I wonder what the Chinese restaurant chefs do to make theirs super tender? So to solve the problem I pre-cooked the pork until tender and briefly deep fry it only long enough for the outside to be crisp. It didn't seem to detract from the original intention of the recipe so I guess that's all right.
My well-worn Chinese Cooking For Beginners cookbook by Huang Su-Huei is the source of my updated recipe.
Sweet and Sour Pork
500 g pork
1 egg yolk
1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp cornstarch
1/3 cup cornstarch (for dredging)
cooking oil for frying
1 small onion
1 clove garlic - finely chopped
1 cup canned pineapple chunks
1 small red or green bell pepper
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
3 Tbsp pineapple juice - use the juice from the canned pineapple
3 Tbsp white vinegar
3 Tbsp ketchup
1 tsp sea salt
2 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp cornstarch
- Mix all the sauce ingredients in a bowl. Taste and if needed adjust to the right sweet-sour balance that suits you. Set aside.
- Dissolve the cornstarch in the water for the thickener in another container; set aside.
- Cut the pork meat into about 3/4-inch size pieces.
- Lightly tenderise the meat by pounding it with a meat mallet or with the blunt edge of a cleaver.
Pre-cook the meat (boil or steam) until just tender.
- Combine the egg yolk, soy sauce, and the 1 Tbsp cornstarch. Mix well with the meat; set aside.
- Heat enough cooking oil in a wok for deep frying. Before frying, dredge the meat in the cornstarch.
- Once the oil is hot, deep fry the meat for about 3 minutes. If you pre-cooked the meat, deep fry for about 1-2 minutes only. Remove and drain.
- Reheat oil in wok until very hot (not smoking). Re-fry the meat for 30 seconds. Remove and drain again.
- Remove oil from wok and re-heat. In high heat, add 1 Tbsp oil and stir-fry the bell pepper. Add 1 Tbsp water and continue to stir-fry until all water has evaporated (about 30 seconds). Remove and drain.
- Re-heat wok again; add 2 Tbsp oil. Stir-fry the garlic until fragrant.
- Turn up the heat and add the onion and pineapple. Stir-fry for about 30 seconds.
- Stir in the sauce mixture and once it begins to boil add the thickener. Stir and bring to boil.
- Once thick, add the meat and bell pepper. Toss or stir lightly until sauce covers all of the meat. Dish up and serve.


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Note: As the Church has said, the manual has been prepared as the primary source of lesson material. These supplements, from general conference addresses, are meant only as a complement to your study on this lesson's topic.
Supplement is from M. Russell Ballard talk, "The Truth of God Shall Go Forth" from the October 2008 general conference:
"The works, and the designs, and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught.
"For God doth not walk in crooked paths, … neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.
"Remember . . . that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men" (D&C 3:1–3).
God has spoken through His prophet and announced to the world that "the Standard of Truth has been erected" and that "no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing." That is undeniably and indisputably true. We have seen it for ourselves, in decade after decade, from the time of the Prophet Joseph Smith to the time of President Thomas S. Monson. Persecutions have raged. Calumny and lies and misrepresentation have attempted to defame. But in every decade from the time of the Restoration forward, the truth of God has gone "forth boldly, nobly, and independent."
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OCEAN CITY – Councilman Joe Hall got his chance to talk about his hopes to lower taxes this year, but despite being given some harsh numbers that might thwart those ideas, he feels it's still an "achievable goal."
After two letters to the editor and pleas to his fellow council members and the public to support his desire for Ocean City to deliver a 5-percent tax decrease this year, Hall was met with some staggering numbers from City Manager Dennis Dare, and only a handful of supporters in the crowd on Tuesday at City Hall.
"The current tax rate is 38 cents," said Dare, "and if we wanted to send everyone in Ocean City the same tax bill as last year, the tax rate would have to be 42 cents."
Dare cited that property tax revenue is projected to be down $1.5 billion, which equates to an estimated $5.2 million less in tax revenue brought in by the town of Ocean City.
"Our assessment decreases 12.2 percent from $11.8 billion to $10.4 billion, so it's not as bad as what we had originally thought. We anticipate very little being assessed and construction will be mostly repairs, as there are no big projects planned," said Dare.
Hall has been public with his concerns on the increasing size of government in Ocean City and the associated increased costs.
"The public knows that one of the main reasons I ran for office is that the cost of living here and doing business here is crossing the threshold for many people for what they are willing to bear," said Hall, "I don't believe that lessening the levels of service would be unreasonable but it would be difficult. We need to do all in our power to provide relief of the resident's tax burden."
The level of service that he referred to is directly linked to his controversial ideas to perhaps trim the essential services provided by the town in the winter months, such as EMS.
Hall was admittedly a bit downtrodden by the turnout from the public at the meeting, but cited the issue was placed at the end of the agenda, people's fears of speaking in public and the poor weather conditions as possible factors.
"I feel more strongly than ever that the economy will dictate that we need to do what I am proposing," said Hall. "Every indicator by economists says that it's going to get worse before it gets better and it is absolutely achievable to lower taxes. At this point, it's reasonable and responsible."
Hall said that Dare's $2.5 million in budget cuts partnered with the proposed $900,000 in additional tax revenue from the parking lot is a good start, but hinted that he was still looking to sway his fellow council members to get on board with his way of thinking.


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Peet's sake: Seeing peace in the Mideast
Jared Peet says he wasn't shocked by the recent suicide bombings in Jordan.
"There was a lot of tension between Iraqis and Jordanians beforehand," says the fourth year UVA foreign affairs and Middle Eastern studies major.
He knows a few things about conflict. Last month, he spearheaded an on-Grounds screening of a landmark documentary called The Shape of the Future that explodes the idea that the Israel-Palestine conflict must be perpetual– or that peace lies just around the next diplomatic bend in the road.
"It's not talking about policy prescription, that Israel should do this, Palestine should do that," says Peet. "It's looking to the future."
Featuring collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian musical acts, the film is a focal point for the conflicting interests in the Middle East. Three months before the UVA screening, the film became the first simulcast on Palestinian, Israeli, and Arab satellites, reaching international audiences with the same message: peace is possible.
When it screened to about 70 people in Newcomb Hall, students from the Arab, Jewish, and Muslim communities took part along with people from the community. The debate was civil, but Peet knows it won't always be perfect.
"When you get the groups together, they're not going to agree politically, but you can understand each other," Peet says. "Once people understand each other, it's no longer about the demonization."
Peet ruefully recalls the antagonistic relationship between demonstrating pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups when he first arrived in Charlottesville in 2002. Now he believes the conflicts are slowly cooling as more people attend bi-partisan events to promote clarity and eliminate misunderstanding.
Peet's dedication to opening communication between Palestinians and Israelis intensified recently when he attended a conference called "Union for Progressive Zionists" and met Jews from around the world. He realized he wanted to create two-state rallies to find common ground.
Last spring, when some UVA students left the Academical Village for typical summer jobs, the rising fourth-year signed on at Search for Common Ground, an international NGO with a new approach to peace.
Peet considers the experience valuable and hopes to stay connected to the Israel-Palestinian conflict–- something he'll try to figure out when he spends three weeks in Israel next month.
The change in leadership of Israel's Labor Party leads Peet to hope that the newly elected Amir Peretz will take the government in a new direction. Peretz could be the first Sephardic prime minister in Israel.
"The Labor party has a chance to build itself up as an opposition to Sharon," he says. "I don't know how successful they're going to be, but they definitely sense the need for change."
It's clear Peet is deeply committed to finding the light at the end of the tunnel.
"Peace is possible," he says. "It's not inevitable, but it's possible."
Fourth-year UVA student Jared Peet thinks peace is possible in the Middle East. "It's about looking to the future," he says.


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Summit County: Christmas tree trepidation nothing new
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It's the day after Christmas and that shaggy, greenish-brown thing in the corner is no longer the epicenter of holiday cheer, but rather a problem to be solved: What the heck do we do with this dry old tree?
It's a rarely examined Christmas tradition, but tree anxiety is nothing new in Summit County.
In a Summit County Journal article from Nov. 26, 1921, an editorial writer opined about pines.
"The city of Denver requires annually some 40,000 Christmas trees; the state of Colorado probably 150,000, and in the whole United States some fifteen to twenty million young trees are cut each year at yuletide," the editorialist writes. "Is it any wonder, then, that the promiscuous cutting of young forests of the country is a source of alarm to many conservative citizens, not only in Denver, but throughout the state of Colorado and the United States?"
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Cary Green, U.S. Forest Service timber management assistant for the White River National Forest, said the tone of the Journal writer's article prefigures the ideas behind modern forest management.
"There are a lot of difficult decisions to be made when it comes to forest health management and some people aren't aware of the right way to go," Green said. "There's a misconception with tree-thinning being a bad thing, but often it's necessary in managing forests."
If trees are not thinned in overgrown areas, risks like so much kindling pile up.
"Overgrowth causes increased fire danger and it inhibits trees from having enough nutrients to grow in a healthy manner," Green said.
The 1921 Journal article encourages families seeking the perfect Christmas tree to focus their tree-cutting to areas with youth and density on their side.
"If our young stands are allowed to grow to maturity in dense clusters or groups, the trees become stunted with slow growth and do not attain their maximum size," the Journal writer said.
Green said the writer is spot-on in this assessment.
"For forests to grow in a healthy way, trees should be given enough space to mature," Green said. "The writer of this article was giving good advice in creating a forest that could sustain itself."
This year, Forest Service officials allowed tree cutting in most areas on the White River National Forest, with some exceptions: wilderness areas, commercial timber sites, recreation and ski areas, administrative areas and Glenwood Canyon.
Trees could not be cut within 100 feet of any road and permits for tree cutting were required.
Green said the general public can promote forest health next holiday season by closely following Christmas tree cutting regulations.
"It's not always the old, established tree that makes the best Christmas tree, sometimes it's the smaller one, with more character," Green said.
Character? Think "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
"Stunted and suppressed trees oftentimes make just as good Christmas trees as do the more thrifty growing ones," the Journal author wrote.
Simone Belz, director of the Frisco Historic Park and Museum, said that Summit County has historically been at the forefront of forest management because of the indigenous problems it has faced, from the bark beetle epidemic to wildfires.
"Summit County has always been one of the epicenters in the state in need of active forest health management," Belz said. "There have always been different problems, but it has always boiled down to a need for someone keeping the future in mind."
Belz said the 1921 Journal editorial provides historical perspective on the value of looking ahead toward effective management of the national forest.
"Each owner of private forest lands should feel obligated to the future of the nation and to himself to cut his trees wisely and conservatively," the article argues. "Unfortunately this is not the case."
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Too gourmet? Critics wage war on Kluge store
In March, Governor Mark Warner and a host of state dignitaries flocked to the intersection of Carter's Bridge and Blenheim roads for the grand opening of the Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard Farm Shop. Visitors oohed over architect David Easton's country chic design and aahed over the Sergio Torres pastries.
But not all of vintner Patricia Kluge's neighbors are thrilled to have gourmet takeout at the winery tasting room.
Some don't like the idea of having Moroccan skewered shrimp, Maine crab cakes, or roasted vegetable cannelloni just down the road. They don't think it's appropriate to be able to buy an espresso or a raspberry charlotte in a rural area.
And an adjoining property owner has filed a complaint with Albemarle County, charging that the Kluge Estate Farm Shop constitutes more of a restaurant than a farm store, according to county spokeswoman Lee Catlin.
In February 2002, the Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit for this "farm sale facility" which allows displays and sales of agricultural and horticultural products produced on the farm.
"As long as 50 percent of your sales are from your farm, you can also sell companion items," says Bill Moses, Kluge's husband and CEO of Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard. "The wine is a farm product, and certainly more than 50 percent of our sales are from wine."
The Albemarle County Code offers little help with the definition of companion products.
"A complicating factor is that we don't have many farm sales stores," says Catlin. And in an area where most farm sales are from roadside stands open in the summer, she adds, "This one brings together elements we haven't seen before."
Moses agrees: "When they passed the farm sales code, they didn't have vineyards in mind."
Zoning inspectors have made a number of trips to the shop to see whether the haricot verts bundles, sweetbreads with herbed polenta, and layered opera cake are in violation. Catlin suggests great pastries may be an appropriate companion product for a winery– but that's yet to be determined by the county.
And if savories and sweets are not, the county will look at whether additional waivers or approvals are necessary, says Catlin.
"It was billed to the Board of Supervisors as a simple farm store where neighbors could bring baskets of produce to sell," says an area resident who declined to be identified. "I feel it's a gourmet restaurant that was sold as a farm store."
Moses believes that may be a communications problem.
"Neighbors bringing in produce without any demand and having a basket of carrots rotting on the front porch is a little simplistic," says Moses. "Patricia is contracting with area farmers to buy produce. If somebody wants to talk to us about selling their produce, that's fine. Nobody has."
Although some of the neighbors are also upset about Kluge's plans for a subdivision, their displeasure hasn't kept them from stopping in for a cup of coffee or takeout, says Moses.
The tables in the espresso bar were there for staff because they needed a place to eat lunch, he explains, under a sign that read, "Staff only." When customers wanted to sit there and sip their coffee, Moses called the county to see if it was okay. It was.
"We've already cleared the hump that this is not a restaurant," says Moses. There's no table service, but picnickers can grab a table outside on the grounds to nosh their takeout. And the store is set back from the road among the trees to maintain a low profile.
Ultimately, the decision about how to handle an upscale farm shop and wine tasting room will be left to zoning administrator Amelia McCulley, says Catlin, and a decision could come this week.
"The county has been very cooperative and knows this is something unique," says Moses. "I think everyone recognizes that this is a good idea– except a couple of neighbors."


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The Year Everyone Was Wrong (Again) About Home Prices
The great thing about predictions is that, after some time has passed, it's possible to see which ones were right, and which ones weren't.
For several years, economists and housing analysts have predicted a housing bottom, but few forecasts at the beginning of 2012 foresaw the magnitude of the rebound that the housing sector enjoyed last year. Quarterly surveys by real-estate website Zillow Inc. and Pulsenomics LLC poll around 100 economists and other housing analysts on their predictions about where home prices are headed.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Bartolo Colon can laugh now, recalling his first All-Star experience.
Right after unleashing a 100 mph fastball to Mark McGwire, the Cleveland flame-thrower got his comeuppance: Barry Bonds tagged him for a home run estimated at 451 feet, a real crowd pleaser at Coors Field.
"It hit a sign with a San Francisco logo. It was funny," Colon said Monday through a translator.
That was 1998, during his first full season when he was part of baseball's new breed. Now, at 40, the Oakland pitcher is older than some players who take part in Old-Timers' events.
Yet even though Tuesday night's All-Star game is for the young, there's still a place at Citi Field for the guys sporting a bit of gray.
Mariano Rivera, who will play in his final All-Star Game on Tuesday night, remains major league royalty, sought out by teammates and opponents alike this week to pose for a picture or provide a word of wisdom before he retires at age 43.
"Definitely, it's special, but I'm treating it like the other ones," the New York Yankees closer said. "The only difference is next year I won't be here."
Which is why A's closer Grant Balfour wanted to cling close to Rivera.
"Just to be here in his last All-Star game and be in the bullpen, I mean, I'm stoked," Balfour said. "It's my first one, and I think, 'What better timing than to have it when he's in his last one and be here in New York.'"
Boston designated hitter David Ortiz is starting at 37, St. Louis outfielder Carlos Beltran is in the lineup at 36. Detroit outfielder Torii Hunter turns 38 later this week.
Heck, Washington manager Davey Johnson is coaching on the NL side at 70.
Johnson gets a good look on a daily basis at one of the game's brightest young talents, 20-year-old Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper. From Mike Trout to Manny Machado to Jose Fernandez, baseball is filled with emerging stars.
Put it this way: Mets ace Matt Harvey, who will start the All-Star game in his own ballpark at 24, is only the 12th-youngest player selected for the event.
"I think there are more good, young athletes who are playing baseball," Johnson said. "I think it's good for baseball to see all this good, young, healthy talent coming up. You can see it on every ballclub."
Johnson played at a time when many of baseball's greats were winding down. Baltimore teammate Brooks Robinson and fellow future Hall of Famers such as Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew and Al Kaline were closing out their careers.
That said, Johnson sees a spot for players slightly beyond rookie status.
"It's good to have veteran leadership, to be able to show the younger players how to do it on and off the field, especially on the road," he said. "But that leadership means a player still has to be producing."
For some former All-Star perennials — Derek Jeter, Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez — it remains to be seen whether they can make a contribution in the majors in the second half.
At 21, Machado soaked up the camaraderie in the AL clubhouse.
"Just seeing these guys, they're in their 10th, 11th All-Star game and they're still here enjoying it like it's their first one. It's something that, you know, you learn from that. You take it into consideration and enjoy every moment of it," the Baltimore third baseman said.
"It's been awesome, showing up here and seeing all the guys this morning … kind of hit me, 'Wow, you're here in the All-Star game," he said. "When you walk into the locker room, you see all these future Hall of Famers in there next to your locker, you've just got to step back and take a breath and just enjoy every moment of it."
Harper readily compliments those who came before him.
"Pete Rose, George Brett, Mickey Mantle, they all helped make the game what it is," he said.
As for his earlier All-Star memory, Harper pointed to Cal Ripken's home run in 2001 in his final appearance in the Midsummer Classic.
"I'm not even sure I was born when that happened," Harper said, laughing. "But I've seen it a lot on the highlights over the years."
The year after the Ripken homer, Hunter punctuated his first All-Star appearance by climbing the wall at Miller Park and robbing Bonds of a home run. Bonds playfully hoisted Hunter over his shoulder after the grab.
Whatever happens Tuesday night — a record 39 players are first-time selections — and beyond, Hunter had a piece of advice for newcomers and vets alike.
"Savor it," he said. "The years go by in a blur. You think it's going to last forever and then, just like that, it's gone."
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News of ABC bring a S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series to pilot was all well and good, but the inclusion of Clark Gregg's character Agent Phil Coulson had us scratching our collective heads. Events that occur in The Avengers would make it rather difficult for Coulson to have a very active role in the series. This casting announcement led many to believe that the television show would be a prequel or, at the very least, a parallel story to The Avengers. Now ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee has confirmed that the series occurs after the battle in New York at the end of the Marvel mash-up and that Gregg is still going to be involved as Coulson. Hit the jump to find out just how that might work.
We've heard a lot from Lee lately on the topic of the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, including his reveal that Joss Whedon has written the pilot and has gone beyond to write for future episodes although the series hasn't officially been ordered yet. Whedon himself talked about the series recently as well. Now, IGN has reached out to Lee, who further commented on the timing of the series as it relates to The Avengers:
"There is no question that it is part of the Marvel Universe. In fact, the story takes place after the battle for New York. This is S.H.I.E.L.D. They're following their own particular stories. There are characters in it, Coulson, who clearly come from Avengers. So it's part of the world, but we're going to be very, very careful that we don't tread on the toes of the features and build a whole new world. And that's what Joss Whedon does better than anybody else. He's built a world for us."
S.H.I.E.L.D. will begin filming next week and Lee remains optimistic for the future of the show should the pilot prove successful. Let's face it, the series is another opportunity for ABC/Disney/Marvel to introduce new characters and expand their awareness:
"I think if we're lucky enough to have a great series, we're obviously having fun with that. At this point though, we have a number of characters at the heart of the script who are real characters, who are the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the first task is to make those guys great and relatable and everything that a great show needs. Beyond that, fingers crossed!"
So speaking of those agents at the heart of the script, where does Gregg/Coulson fit into this entire thing? If you haven't seen The Avengers yet, stop reading now. If you have, then continue on for some wild speculation about how Coulson could work in a S.H.I.E.L.D. series after he dies in the movie. Here are a couple of 100% unsubstantiated ideas:
- Agent Coulson never really died. It was all a ruse to get the Avengers to unite. – This would be the biggest cop out and would weaken what is supposed to be the emotional center of the film.
- Agent Coulson is brought back from the grave. – It's possible that this could be the case, especially considering the rampant amount of resurrection done every day in comics, but I'm hoping that Whedon has more respect than that. The only way I could see this being palatable is if some sort of new hero/character is introduced that revives Coulson, giving a reason for the characters to be there and the event to occur while paying homage to the scene in The Avengers.
- Agent Coulson returns as a hologram/android/clone. – This is only slightly less offensive than a spontaneous resurrection of Coulson or a tricky Coulson that never really died. However, it would show off the cutting-edge technology of S.H.I.E.L.D. and could be a device for some interesting writing moving forward.
However it works out, #CoulsonLives. Let us know how you think Gregg will make his return in the comments below!