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Victims of Argentina's pedophile priests say Pope was little help
Victims of Argentina's pedophile priests say Pope was little help
BUENOS AIRES — The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, Mar. 19 2013, 9:10 PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 19 2013, 9:27 PM EDT
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A Roman Catholic activist group said Tuesday that Pope Francis was slow as head of the Argentine church to act against sexual abuse by clergy and urged him to apologize for what it called church protection for two priests later convicted of sexually assaulting children.
A lawyer for some of the victims, meanwhile, said the future pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, had not met with or helped victims, and charged that mid-level church officials who covered up the problem haven't lost their jobs.
The Buenos Aires archbishop's office didn't immediately comment on the complaints, which came as Francis was being installed as pope in a Vatican ceremony seen around the world.
The U.S.-based Bishop Accountability group cited the cases of two priests: Father Julio Cesar Grassi, who ran the "Happy Children" foundation and was convicted of pedophilia in 2008, and Father Napoleon Sasso, convicted in 2007 of abusing girls at a soup kitchen in suburban Buenos Aires, where he was assigned after being accused of pedophilia elsewhere.
Grassi is currently free pending appeal, thanks partly to a court filing on his behalf by the Argentine church, which was headed by Bergoglio as archbishop of Buenos Aires. Bergoglio oversaw Argentina's bishops conference when Sasso was assigned to the soup kitchen at a chapel, said the victims attorney, Ernesto Moreau.
Bishop Accountability co-director Anne Doyle said those events show Bergoglio was behind the curve in the Catholic Church's global struggle to deal with sex abuse by its priests, which erupted in 2002 after thousands of cases became public in the United States and around the world.
"We would be alarmed if the Archbishop Bergoglio had done this in the '60s or '70s. That would be sad and disturbing," Doyle told The Associated Press. "But the fact that he did this just five years ago, when other bishops in other countries were meeting victims and implementing tough reporting laws, it puts him behind some of his American counterparts, that's for sure."
The group said that to send a message of zero tolerance in the church around the world, the new pope should tell the Buenos Aires archdiocese to release the complete files on the Grassi and Sasso cases, publicly identify any other priests who are "credibly accused" of sex abuse and endorse mandatory reporting by church officials to law enforcement of suspected abuse.
The pope himself should admit that he was wrong to defend abusive priests, apologize to the victims of Grassi and Sasso, and offer to meet with the victims, the group said.
Noting the pope's coronation, Doyle said: "The victims of these two priests are the very children of God about whom he was speaking in his homily today. They are the most vulnerable of the poor. We hope that Francis will seize this as a priority and reach out to the victims and rectify his terrible insensitivity to them when he was archbishop."
No one has presented evidence that Bergoglio was directly involved covering up sex abuse.
But Moreau told the AP that Bergoglio, as the top authority for the Argentine church, was ultimately responsible for the treatment of the victims, who have yet to get medical treatment or compensation.
"Bergoglio has been the strongest man in the Argentine church since the beginning of this century," Moreau said, and yet "the leadership of the church has never done anything to remove these people from these places, and neither has it done anything to relieve the pain of the victims."
At the Vatican, Francis will be ultimately responsible for the work of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which last year told the church's bishops conferences around the globe to draw up comprehensive guidelines to deal with sexual abusive clergy. It gave the bishops a year to draft guidelines to better screen priests, root out potential abusers, educate laity about the problem, and require bishops to report suspected abuse to civil authorities where civil reporting laws exist.
The pope's authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin, told the AP before Bergoglio was elected pope last week that he had drawn an increasingly tough line on clergy abuse. Bergoglio insisted that accused priests face trial, and imposed a thorough screening process in an attempt to weed out future problems, Rubin said.
In the 2012 book On Heaven and Earth, in which Bergoglio and Rabbi Abraham Skorka engage in a religious dialogue, the future pope said the church should not ignore the sexual abuse of minors by priests.
"When that happens, we must never turn a blind eye. You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person," he said, adding that priests guilty of such offences should be stripped of their right to perform priestly duties.
But Bishop Accountability said the cases of Grassi and Sasso show that Bergoglio and the Argentine church were slow to recognize the problem and act against it.
Grassi was well known in Buenos Aires for persuading celebrities to donate to his "Happy Children" foundation, which ran orphanages and social outreach programs. Before he was convicted of abusing a child, Grassi praised Bergoglio for "never abandoning him." He's free while appealing the conviction.
Sasso was assigned to the soup kitchen, which was at a chapel where his bedroom shared the only bathroom, after living in a home for wayward priests where he had been sent after accusations of pedophilia were raised against him in remote San Juan province.
"The bathroom had two doors. The girls would come in through the outside door, and the priest would bring them into his bedroom through the other, sexually abusing the girls," Moreau said. "These were really poor people, who were there for free meals while their parents worked. They found an enormous amount of child pornography in his computer, semen, condoms." It was a medical priest and a nun who discovered that Sasso had abused 25 girls aged 3 to 16, but when they informed church officials, they were told to "remain patient," and nothing was done, Moreau said.
Eventually, they sought out higher authorities and the case was taken up by the criminal courts, but the middle- level officials who covered up are still in their posts, while the priest and nun were forced to work elsewhere, the lawyer said.
Sasso later became a fugitive and hid out for a year inside church property in the same diocese where the abuse occurred, Moreau said.
Sasso now gets one-day monthly furloughs from prison after serving half of a 17-year sentence for abusing five girls.
In the United States, confidential files on hundreds of pedophile priests have been released either through civil litigation, settlements or court order. The contents have revealed how top church officials worked behind the scenes to control the sex abuse scandal and keep it from authorities as well as parishioners.
Similar broad releases of confidential priest files haven't happened in Latin America, where victims are less likely to come forward and even less likely to file a civil claim.
Ramon Luzarraga, an expert on the Catholic Church in Latin America, said justice has come more slowly in Argentina in part because its society has until recently avoided public discussions of sexual humiliation, which was used as a tactic in the "dirty war" waged against leftists by the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
Also, he said, "Argentina's democracy is still comparatively young and, compared to the United States, people are not as acclimated to being outspoken in the face of injustice."
That leaves clergy abuse victims in the U.S. and their supporters to hold the pope to account on questions of priest abuse everywhere, said Luzarraga, who teaches theology at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
The hundreds of confidential priest personnel files that have been made public in the U.S. have bolstered critics because they can see with their own eyes how the American church dealt with abusive priests, he added.


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Life can be unpredictable. Here's how to plan for the expected and the unexpected.
Forget to save for holiday gifts? Didn't plan ahead for a trip? Don't stress, it happens to everyone. Not being prepared for expenses you know are coming up, or the unexpected ones that pop up, can put your budget way off track. It's a moment we've all felt - when you feel like you're taking a financial step backwards by dipping into the emergency fund you've worked so hard to build up, or putting that big expense back on a credit card you finally just paid off.
Although life is unpredictable, there are ways to plan ahead so you can avoid budget derailments you might have experienced in the past, and feel more prepared for a future financial curve-ball life may throw your way. The key is looking ahead to upcoming expenses, calculating what those might be, and saving a little bit each month leading up to that point, starting today. That way, the money will be there when you need it.
Plan in advance by saving a little each month for expected and unexpected expenses to avoid a financial pinch down the road.
Here's how:
- Step 1: Think through your "non-monthly" expenses.
These are expenses that don't happen every month, but you know they are expenses you will have eventually, in the short or long term. Things like an upcoming destination wedding, holidays, or a car/home repair. List them out for the next few months, or through the upcoming year. The farther out the planning, the better.
- Step 2: Think about how much you'd like to have, or know you'll need, for each of these expenses.
Capture that amount next to each "non-monthly" expense.
- Step 3: Take the total of your "non-monthly" expenses, and divide each one by the number of months until you'll need the money.
This will give you the amount you'll need to save each month to be prepared for this expense when the time comes. *For example, $600 for holiday money would be $50 a month if you start saving in January ($600/12 months = $50).
Creating bite-size savings goals for expenses you know are on the way will help remove unnecessary stress around those expenses when they arrive.
Here are a few examples of common non-monthly expenses to start thinking about and planning for, starting today:
- Your vehicle:
There are many expenses for your vehicle that could be spread throughout the year like your registration fee , oil changes, rotating tires, or any other regular maintenance. Don't forget "stuff happens", which is where your emergency fund can really save you (see below).
- The holiday season:
Think Christmas money for gifts, travel to and from family, extra spending cash to go out with old friends, hosting holiday gatherings, and any other traditions you might want to contribute to. As with many things, you'll likely end up spending more than you planned; remember this when determining how much to set aside each month.
- Your emergency fund:
Ideally you have 3-9 months of essential living expenses set aside in cash for the unexpected. While "non-monthly" expenses are those that are expected, an emergency fund covers your budget for unexpected expenses that pop up like home repair, car repair, medical expenses, and losing your job. Saving a little each month is a great way to build your emergency fund, and avoid the stress that comes with not being prepared for the unexpected.
What now?
Think about what expenses you have in the next 12 months that you can start saving for today, and an emergency fund amount you'd like to have on hand, and decide how much you'd like to set aside each month.
Fill out this budget worksheet with a three month average of your variable expenses (a.k.a. everyday living expenses like groceries, entertainment, dining out, and shopping.) This will give you a baseline of where your money is currently going, help you map out how much you can save for non-monthly expenses, and determine how much you want to shoot to have in an emergency fund.
Finally, check out some ideas on changing your spending habits to create more room in your budget to contribute to your non-monthly goals.
Adjusting your budget to plan throughout the year for the expected, and unexpected, can help. By planning in advance, you can feel great about being prepared for the expenses that you know will inevitably come your way, and take those expenses in stride as you continue on your financial path with less stress and more success.
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Our Favorite New York Chef Quotes of 2013
Every week we bring you an in-depth conversation with a member of New York's food world. In this space we don't critique food or service. We're not looking for buzz phrases or points of conflict. Instead, we're asking questions about what makes them sing in their kitchen, about what makes their tails wag about what they get to do, and about where that all came from in their past.
In matrix-ing what through-line could be found in the 50-some odd interviews we did in New York in 2013, plenty of "awww" moments abounded: Ron Ben-Israel's gratitude for getting his United States citizenship because of his intricate work in wedding cakes, Ignacio Mattos' on his avoidance of language that manifests unnecessary conflict, and Joseph Marazzo of Virgola sharing the journey that made a 6-foot wide alleyway into a romantic little wine bar were all beautiful, special moments at a table. We've gotten to talk with people who work their asses off to make us good food, and for that we're thankful.
But when all is said and done most of the touching moments of 2013 came when discussing family—how food traditions during childhood molded the person whom we now call "chef." Here are 11 of our favorites.
Carmen Quagliata of Union Square Cafe: The Family Garden
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"My mother, grandmother, and an aunt of mine are great cooks. I had a lot of great meals before I even thought of culinary school. I'm a gardener—not a great one, but a lot of love goes into my gardens. My grandmother brought over some beans from Italy with her; everyone who's ever left from where we were from in Binghamton took some with them and started to grow them on their own. I started one in California and brought some from that back batch and now I plant those same beans in New Jersey, and my uncles plant the same beans of their own. And it's always kind of been a symbol of my grandmother and grandfather that we can always relate to—they had a great garden. Read more »
Lauren Resler of Empellón: Making Food that "Sparkles"
"I've enjoyed cooking and providing food for people since I was a little girl, honestly. I got a lot of inspiration from my grandmother, who was born in Mexico; when we went to visit she always had persimmon cookies and sweet bread and different cakes and lemon meringue pie or sugar cookies, kind of that homemaker style. I knew that I wanted to pick up on those things. So for me it wasn't about becoming a pastry chef at Per Se or the French Laundry. It was always just to make something that, for lack of a better word, 'sparkles.' Things that bring a light to people and just make them smile." Read more »
Thiago Silva of EMM Group: Mom's Work Ethic
"My mom was a single parent was always working; she was always trying to do something better for us and always put us ahead of herself. Whenever there was another little stupid job she could do, she took it for the extra money to buy us a shirt or something. And whatever she did—be it stocking the supermarket or scrubbing a toilet in a house—she wanted it to be the best she could do. And I think that said a lot to me. I don't think there's anything I could do to make her not proud of me, knowing my mom. But I always want to do more, and eventually I want her to stop working. I want to be able to help out. That's what I'm trying to do." Read more »
Wolfgang Ban of Seasonal: Harvest Season with the Family
"My family owned land which was used for agriculture, mainly vineyards, so when I was very little I would spend a lot of time with my grandfathers, sitting on their laps, helping them press the grapes. Harvest time was one of my favorite times of the year, when the whole family came together because it was such a big job and had to be done in a short amount of time. So everyone would come together, my grandmother would cook, and everyone else would sit at a big table and have dinner together in the vineyards. Food was simple, and came partially from our own animals; we had pigs, duck, chicken, cows. And then, of course, when somebody did slaughtering you cannot eat a whole pig, so you give it away to your relatives and then when they do it they do the same thing in return. So that was an influence." Read more »
Michael Toscano of Perla: On Parents Who Cook
"My parents are amazing cooks. Nothing extravagant, but we love to eat well and on specific days of the week I'd always expect a certain meal from my mom, especially on her days off, like caldo de pollo, which is one of my all-time favorites. Her food was always so flavorful, without her even knowing that she was an amazing cook. Looking back now all of her techniques and the way she would build flavor was very smart, and it was just the way her mother taught her how to cook. My father, on the other hand, was amazing at grilling—we would smoke meat together, he would grill steaks and fry fish—so it was a completely different kind of food but equally amazing. Sometimes we would go to friend's houses and it'd be so disappointing. Then I would realize how lucky I was in the food I was surrounded by." Read more »
Marco Canora of Hearth: Cooking Tuscan-Style
You've had Hearth for ten years now, and seem to be a traditionalist in the best sense of the word. Where is that rooted for you, in your pre-chef life?
It came from home. I grew up in a very kind of Tuscan aesthetic, which means very simple and very focused on ingredients. We had a garden, and it was about going to pick a zucchini flower, and dipping it in a simple pastel—a batter of flour and water, real complicated, right?—and pan-frying it in olive oil and putting some salt on it. And that's the kind of food I grew up eating, and that's what's resonating with me today. And that's what I strive for, that kind of simplicity. There's just beauty in simplicity. And I've always bought into that and still today it's enough. I'm not bored by simplicity. Read more »
Soulayphet Schwader of Khe-Yo: Laotian food in Wichita
Do you remember your time in Laos?
I don't; I was 2 or 3 years old. We lived in a refugee camp for a year while we waited to come over. I was the first person to speak English in my family. But there's a big Laotian community in Wichita, so we never went without—things you wouldn't think we could get, we had. We always had sticky rice at all of our gatherings, certain dishes that were true to our cuisine, like the coconut rice on our menu. Everyone always thinks papaya salad is traditional Thai, but it really originated in Laos. I visited the border of Thailand and Laos, and when you order papaya salad they ask you if you want it Thai style or Laos style. Laos style is the stinky stuff. So that's how I'm really trying to distinguish myself here in the city. Read more »
Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy: On Vegetarianism
You've been on a vegetarian diet for a long time now. How did that happen?
It wasn't so much of a choice as it was peer pressure—I was 15, all of my friends were becoming vegetarians, and at the time it seemed really rebellious. I went home and told my parents I was going to be a vegetarian and their jaws literally dropped on the floor and they were like, "You are going to die. You are literally not going to be able to live!" It was an extreme diet, and so it was great—it was peer pressure and I was offending my parents. It was the best decision I've ever made. I now eat fish, which happened about eight years ago or so and is funny because my parents are pretty much vegetarians now and I'm like, "You're gonna die!!!" Read more »
Shane Lyons of Distilled: On Growing Up in Restaurants
Your parents are chefs. Do you feel you had a jumpstart in the business because of that?
100%. I had an unfair start. I've had a French knife since I was five. They taught me a lot about mise en place and about work ethic; my mom was always a working chef. I learned how to conceptualize dishes when working with my mom and we had a baking company from when I was 5 to 12. So I learned very early on to develop a menu. They were very smart, because when you focus so much on a dish that dish might be so amazing in itself, but outside of something bigger. So the approach has always been, "What's the big picture?" Then you focus on filling in the details. Read more »
Pichet Ong of Sugar and Plumm: On Baking for the Holidays
"I grew up in a family with more women than men, and most of them are home chefs; we celebrate a lot through food in the Chinese culture, and with each celebration there's a lot of baking involved. And those are the best times, really, when it's a group effort and nice to have three or four or five or ten, because otherwise it's monotonous—uniformity, working with flour and your hands, precision, shaping things and making dumplings look pretty. The act of baking was something that was communal and a bonding factor between me and my aunts and grandmother. So I grew up around a lot of strong culinary women. And the whole thing with "secret recipes" was really big; my mom would always say she had a really good recipe for something, and then my aunt would say that she had a better one, and I'm the lucky one to know both of them because they would want me to choose which one is better. So I grew up doing that a lot—I made those things at a very young age." Read more »
Michael Psilakis of MP Taverna: On Family Tradition
"The year my dad died I was celebrating Easter at my dad's house, the same place I'd celebrated every Easter. And my brother and I finished putting the lamb on the spit, and it was odd that my dad wasn't there; 40 years of him being there, helping, me seeing him put his hands in the animal, and now he wasn't there doing it. We just wet the lamb with our hands, with water. I called my son over and it was exactly like my dad had done; he's standing in front of me, I pour water in his hands, it's hitting him, it's hitting me, and it's splashing all over the place and he's giggling.
"And I was thinking to myself, 'I should be happy, and I'm really sad.' It was an awkward moment, because I didn't know how to feel. And I was looking at the water in his hands I had this fucking moment of clarity because I really saw my hands 30 years earlier. I remembered that moment, standing in front of my father, him towering over me and pouring water into my hands. And I knew in that moment that that was food, right there. It wasn't about the lamb, or about how to cook it. It was just the water and being together." Read more »
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Supply and Demand
The availability of goods and services in the market and the desire of consumers to buy them. Supply and demand is a major factor (some economists believe the only factor) in determining the price of a good or service. See also: Law of Supply and Demand.
supply and demandsee SUPPLY CURVE, DEMAND CURVE.
supply and demand
An economic principle that says the price is determined by the point where supply equals demand.As supplies increase and purchasers have more choices of housing or commercial spaces,sellers and landlords will begin to compete on the basis of price and prices will come down.As demand increases and there are insufficient properties in the market to meet the demand, purchasers will begin bidding up the prices or sellers will raise prices until they meet some price resistance.


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This actor is on his way to A list. All he does is movies. Oh and a celebrity. Anyway, on his latest movie, his co-star is not impressed with him at all. She is a a movie actress. Probably B-, but headed to B+ list and has definitely been in the news a lot lately. Anyway, our actress was overheard yesterday telling someone that the actor and his girlfriend were made for each other because she had met boxes of rocks that were smarter than this guy. She was trying to engage him in any kind of small talk while they were waiting for a scene to be shot and the only thing he had any knowledge about were video games and the best hair gels for windy weather. She asked him who he would vote for in the Presidential election if he could vote and he said he didn't even know that was happening this year.


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The Max systhread API has two main purposes.
First, it can be used to implement thread protection which works in conjunction with Max's existing threading model and is cross-platform. Thread protection prevents data corruption in the case of simultaneously executing threads in the same application. We'll discuss the Max threading model and show you a simple example of thread protection below, but you can often avoid the need to use thread protection by using one of the thread-safe Data Storage Max provides.
The second use of the systhread API is a cross-platform way to create and manage threads. This is an advanced feature that very few programmers will ever need. For information on creating and managing threads look at the systhread API header file.
Please note that this description of how Max operates is subject to change and may not apply to future versions. For more information about the Max scheduler and low-priority queue, see the The Scheduler section.
Max (without audio) has two threads. The main or event thread handles user interaction, asks the system to redraw the screen, processes events in the low-priority queue. When not in Overdrive mode, the main thread handles the execution of events in the Max scheduler as well. When Overdrive is enabled, the scheduler is moved to a high-priority timer thread that, within performance limits imposed by the operating system, attempts to run at the precise scheduler interval set by user preference. This is usually 1 or 2 milliseconds.
The basic idea is to put actions that require precise timing and are relatively computationally cheap in the high-priority thread and computationally expensive events that do not require precise timing in the main thread. On multi-core machines, the high-priority thread may (or may not) be executing on a different core.
On both Mac and Windows, either the main thread or the timer thread can interrupt the other thread, even though the system priority level of the timer thread is generally much higher. This might seem less than optimal, but it is just how operating systems work. For example, if the OS comes to believe the Max timer thread is taking too much time, the OS may "punish" the thread by interrupting it with other threads, even if those threads have a lower system priority.
Because either thread can be interrupted by the other, it is necessary to use thread protection to preserve the integrity of certain types of data structures and logical operations. A good example is a linked list, which can be corrupted if a thread in the process of modifying the list is interrupted by another thread that tries to modify the list. The Max t_linklist data structure is designed to be thread-safe, so if you need such a data structure, we suggest you use t_linklist. In addition, Max provides thread protection between the timer thread and the main thread for many of its common operations, such as sending messages and using outlets.
When we add audio into the mix (so to speak), the threading picture gets more complicated. The audio perform routine is run inside a thread that is controlled by the audio hardware driver. In order to eliminate excessive thread blocking and potential race conditions, the thread protection offered inside the audio perform routine is far less comprehensive, and as discussed in the MSP section of the API documentation, the only supported operation for perform routines to communicate to Max is to use a clock. This will trigger a function to run inside the Max scheduler.
The Max scheduler can be run in many different threading conditions. As explained above it can be run either in the main thread or the timer thread. When Scheduler in Audio Interrupt (SIAI) is enabled, the scheduler runs with an interval equal to every signal vector of audio inside the audio thread. However, if the Non-Real-Time audio driver is used, the audio thread is run inside the main thread, and if SIAI is enabled, the scheduler will also run inside the main thread. If not, it will run either in the main thread or the timer thread depending on the Overdrive setting. (Using the Non-Real-Time audio driver without SIAI will generally lead to unpredictable results and is not recommended.)
The easiest method for thread protection is to use critical sections. A critical section represents a region of code that cannot be interrupted by another thread. We speak of entering and exiting a critical section, and use critical_enter() and critical_exit() to do so.
Max provides a default global critical section for your use. This same critical section is used to protect the timer thread from the main thread (and vice versa) for many common Max data structures such as outlets. If you call critical_enter() and critical_exit() with argument of 0, you are using this global critical section. Typically it is more efficient to use fewer critical sections, so for many uses, the global critical section is sufficient. Note that the critical section is recursive, so you if you exit the critical section from within some code that is already protected, you won't be causing any trouble.
It's possible that a message sent to your object could interrupt the same message sent to your object ("myobject"). For example, consider what happens when a button is connected to the left inlet of myobject and a metro connected to the same inlet.
When a user clicks on the bang button, the message is sent to your object in the main thread. When Overdrive is enabled, the metro will send a bang message to your object in the timer thread. Either could interrupt the other. If your object performs operations on a data structure that cannot be interrupted, you should use thread protection.
Here is an example that uses the global critical section to provide thread protection for an array data structure. Assume we have an operation array_read() that reads data from an array, and array_insert() that inserts data into the same array. We wish to ensure that reading doesn't interrupt writing and vice versa.
Note that all paths of your code must exit the critical region once it is entered, or the other threads in Max will never execute.


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(CNN) -- Instagram is a decidedly modern invention, but back in your great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents' day, "Photochroms" were the functional equivalent. Photochroms combined emerging photographic technology and the painterly techniques of the old masters to provide technicolor glimpses of the Great Lakes, Old South, Wild West, and Pacific coast.
These dreamlike vistas have been collected for the first time in a volume called An American Odyssey by Marc Walter and Sabine Arqué. The oversize, $200 book is a sampling of the 100,000 Photochroms created by the Detroit Photographic Company between the company's formation in 1888 and its closure in 1924.
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The Photochrom Process
Photochrom photographers would start the process by coating a printing plate with a light-sensitive emulsion and then exposing a glass plate photo negative onto it.
Unlike modern four-color printing process that can represent millions of colors by overlapping tiny dots of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink, the inks mixed for Photochroms were mixed by hand in an attempt to perfectly match the yellow-green sunblasted scrub brush that surrounds the Grand Canyon or the aquamarine ocean water of the Bahamas.
The photographers would erase the entire plate except for the area reserved for that specific color and make 10-15 more plates to fill out the composition. Photographic details were preserved, but an emotive, if slightly artificial, range of color was added.
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The Detroit Photographic Company toured large Photochroms on trains and the U.S. Government supercharged their spread by passing a law that allowed Photochromic postcards to be sent for a penny, rather than the going rate of two cents.
Like the locomotives of that era, labor-intensive Photochroms lost steam as the first color film debuted in 1907, and Kodak made color snapshots widely available with the release of Kodachrome cameras in 1935. However, as a testament to the charm of the technique, the last Photochrom factory didn't close its doors until 1970.
An American Odyssey is available from Taschen.
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Painful PastErica says she hasn't spoken to or seen her mother, Jackie, in more than five years. "She is a selfish person, a drug addict, evil — if there's something stronger than hate, that's the way I feel [about my mother]," Erica says. She claims that as a child, she tried telling her mom that she was being molested, but it fell on deaf ears — and the molestation continued for four years, occurring every other day.
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"I did not turn a blind eye. I just did not know," Jackie responds. "If there was any time that she did tell me that something was going on, I did something about it."
"She knew about it but did not care," Erica retorts. "She always lies." Erica also claims that when she was a teen, her mother beat her with a belt, punched her in the face and slapped her. "She says she only hit me once; that's not true."
Erica says her mother wants her back in her life because Erica has a 2-month-old granddaughter, whom Jackie has never met. "I will never allow my child to ever be in her life," she says. "She will never put her eyes on my child." She continues, "The things she did to me are unforgivable, and I'm not going to move on and act like it never happened."
Erica describes the moment when she says she told her mother about the molestation. And, see what happens when she faces Jackie for the first time in five years.
Dr. Phil tells Erica that putting up a wall of bitterness, anger and resentment doesn't make her stronger — it changes who she is. "The only way to ever be free of that, is to forgive [your mother]," he says. "Forgiving somebody doesn't mean what they did is OK." He says forgiving others frees you from negative emotions you're carrying. "It would do your heart good to pray for her soul every night of your life, that she find peace, and that she find a way to come full circle and be at peace in her own life," he tells Erica.
One Life Lost, Another SavedKaren says her life was changed in the blink of an eye when her 21-year-old daughter, Kyleigh, was killed in an attempted robbery on May 26, 2010 — and she was faced with the difficult task of donating her daughter's organs.
"There's no way to prepare for [the death of a child]. It's not the natural order of things," Dr. Phil tells Karen.
"When you lose a child, I think that, obviously, it's the greatest devastation that can take place in your life," Karen responds. "I remember you saying that on a show that it was one of your biggest fears [to lose a child], it was mine too," she tells Dr. Phil. "We always did everything together, and she would call me 10 times a day."
At the same time Karen and her family were preparing to donate Kyleigh's organs, another woman, Dawn, was dying of heart disease and in need of a transplant. Dawn says at age 34, she was planning her funeral and was near death when she received Kyleigh's heart.
"The decision to donate Kyleigh's organs was a huge decision," Karen says. She explains that she's struggled with her choice."Dawn was expected to pass away, she had a heart condition from early on; and here's my happy, healthy, beautiful Kyleigh, who was just enjoying her life as a college student." She asks, "Why was Dawn able to live and my daughter had to pass?" She says making the difficult decision in a time of conflict and grief, after her daughter had already suffered so much physical trauma, made her feel like she was subjecting Kyleigh to even more trauma. "My son said, 'You know, she was so giving and so loving that I think she would want us to do that," she explains.
"So, the decision was consistent with her value system, which she got from you," Dr. Phil tells Karen.
How was Kyleigh killed? Plus, Dawn explains how close she came to death — and how she discovered the heart she received was Kyleigh's.
"That's my saving grace," Karen responds. "She wrote me notes, she wrote me letters [saying], 'What a good mom you are,' and 'I love you so much' and 'We're best friends;' and my last Mother's Day card from her was a beautiful letter that said, 'Thank you for coming to see me and for meeting all my needs and loving me as much as you do.' So, that's peace for me."


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This morning the boys asked to go outside in the snow as soon as they woke up! After they ate breakfast we agreed to get bundled up and go outside to play in the snow. Since we don't actually have any snow suits we have had to get creative in what to put on the boys. This time around they each wore fleece footed pj's, track pants (semi-water-proof), socks, sweatshirt, boots, gloves, winter jacket and hat. It seemed to keep them pretty warm other than their hands getting wet and cold from putting their hands in the snow the whole time.
So around 8:30am we headed outside to play. At first the boys played in the circle path and then we walked around the community a bit. The roads were still pretty snow covered and icy which caused Ryder to have some confidence issues while walking. After we were out for a bit Ryder got much better about walking and even started to run.
Zak wanted to actually get "in" the snow so he jumped right in. He laid there for a bit and then decided to try and get up to crawl. That was successful so he got brave and tried to walk which was much harder.
When we put Ryder "in" the snow he just sat right where we put him and refused to move.
Zak in the fort Ben made in our front yard
Ryder in the fortThis afternoon the boys continually asked to go back out in the snow to play. So finally around pm we agreed to take them out for a second time. I am not a fan of going out in the snow other than to take pictures so I was glad when this outing only lasted about 45 minutes instead of the 2 hours we spent out this morning!
Around 2-3pm we noticed a truck with a plow on the front come into our court. The guy driving it was talking to one of the men in our court a lot so we think he is a family member of that person. The guy with the plow worked on out court for almost an hour trying to get snowed moved around and out of the way so people could start cleaning off cars and parking spots. While we were outside for the second time I looked around and found that only OUR court had been touched by this plow (no other court and not even the road leading to our court) so I am pretty sure the person was a family member or friend to somebody in our court.
Our court after the plow
(still plenty of ice as the water froze again)
The road leading to our court
Poor Ryder got stuck with one of my gloves since we couldn't
find both of his and it kept falling offAnd now for some bad news (for us)....there is a storm coming Tuesday/Wednesday which they say could drop another 6-12 inches on us! This winter has been crazy with snow and very cold temperatures. I am definitely ready for Spring to get here so I don't have to see anymore snow.
Ben has not heard anything from his boss so he will be working tomorrow. And as of right now, he is still leaving Tuesday morning to go to VA and won't be home until Friday. This leaves the boys and I home alone in this horrible snowy weather. We have the house well stocked so that I don't have to go out at all this week while Ben is away. I don't mind sitting at home and not going anywhere, but what I do mind is the tantrums and mood swings of having two 2 year-olds stuck in the house for a week!
Harford County has already announced the schools with be closed Monday so Ryder's therapy class is also canceled. I am happy to hear that because I was not planning to go out even if schools were open. I am not very confident driving on snow covered or icy roads after the accident I had while I was in high school. So I decide to just stay home and not drive even if others are out driving because with a lack of confidence I tend to panic at times which makes it unsafe!


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Highly Flawed 'Piracy' Report Used To Support Positions That Are Unrelated
from the just-saying... deptLast year, we pointed out that Steven Tepp, who worked at the US Copyright Office at the time, and was heavily involved in pushing for ACTA (and downplaying the legitimate concerns of ACTA critics), jumped ship to the private US Chamber of Commerce, which has been one of the stronger supporters of such bad laws. The Chamber of Commerce, which is basically a lobbying organization for some of the world's biggest businesses, has a history of making up absolutely ridiculous claims about intellectual property, so it's really not a surprise that it would hire Tepp, who did the same thing from within the government.
However, when Tepp speaks out in support of greater protectionism, especially based on a complete lack of evidence, shouldn't the press point out that he was heavily involved in the crafting of some of the legislation he's now supporting from the "outside"? For example, Hillicon Valley has an article about a silly new study from MarkMonitor, which notes the unsurprising fact that, gosh darnit, there are a lot of sites out there that offer infringing products. Big shock. But the article then quotes Tepp saying:
"Online counterfeiting and piracy is a destructive force that threatens consumers, hurts our businesses, and costs American jobs."That's a sort of go to line that we hear all the time. Funny thing is, no one supports it with any actual evidence. It's purely faith-based. What's the neat trick that Tepp pulls is he says this in commenting on a report that sounds like it's presenting evidence to back up his claims. It is not. The report says that there are lots of sites out there offering pirated or counterfeit content. That's different than proving that those sites are "destructive" or harm consumers or businesses. In fact, over and over again, when you have independent research that looks at those actual questions, you discover that the actual impact of such activities is significantly less than industry lobbyists would have you believe.
So rather than just letting someone like Tepp, who is inherently biased, comment on a report that does not make the claims he says it makes, why not speak to folks who might question some of the claims from the report... or at least note that Tepp is hardly an impartial observer here, but someone who is paid to pretend that the impact of copyright and trademark infringement is significantly worse than any of the evidence actually suggests?
As for the actual report that Tepp was commenting on, it doesn't actually say what Tepp says it says. You can read the details of the report (pdf) here. It's almost laughably weak in its methodology. Nowhere does it support any of Tepp's claims -- and you would think that a journalist wouldn't quote a biased commenter making claims that have nothing to do with the report in question. Specifically, the MarkMonitor report simply looked at some sites that are used for infringement, then assumed that they were used entirely for infringing purposes, and then used Alexa ratings (perhaps the least credible measuring system out there) and simply added up all visits, and seemed to suggest that this was all for infringement. When it came to pharmaceuticals, the researchers did not appear to make much of an attempt to determine which offerings were really gray market importers of generic drugs, as opposed to counterfeits. Instead, it just made some assumptions based on the sites themselves.
So basically, all the report actually shows is that, according to Alexa (again, not considered to be even remotely accurate), some sites that may have some infringing downloads or may sell some unauthorized products get a lot of traffic. Like that's a surprise. And yet, that leads to a quote from a biased ex-government official, now paid to hype up the "threat" of infringement, as if this study proves we need the new laws he was a part of writing? How is that responsible journalism?
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Grilled "Condiment" Chicken with Asian Noodle Salad
This video for "Condiment Chicken" was named in honor of the few basic, but crucial ingredients I found at the ballpark, which made all the difference with this simple grilled recipe.
One of the best cooking-on-the-road-with-no-stuff tricks ever, is the salad dressing triple play. It's our marinade, noodle salad dressing, and chicken glaze. Spiked with some pilfered hot pepper, ketchup and mustard it was more than delicious.
Anyway, no time for a long, thoughtful post. It's late, and I have to shut it down for tonight - we are leaving early for a game in Scottsdale, then driving north to Flagstaff (any dinner recommendations are welcomed), then it's on the train for an overnight ride to LA, then on to San Francisco, arriving Saturday night.
Since I filmed two recipes, I don't feel too guilty, but I haven't really been taking many pictures. I will post those I did take when I get back - the train station in LA is really beautiful and I got a few great shots. Enjoy!
10 chicken thighs
1 bottle Asian sesame salad dressing
2 packets ketchup
2 packets mustard
1/2 tsp hot pepper flakes
3 cloves garlic
1package mung bean cellophane noodles
1 bag shredded carrots
1 bag angel hair shredded cabbage
1/2 cup crushed nut mix (almond, cashew, peanut)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
19 comments:
You genius, you.
- March 27, 2009 at 7:13 AM
- Chris K. said...
Dinner suggestion: Brix Restaurant & Wine Bar. There's also a ton of Chinese joints in Flagstaff - lots of immigrant railroad laborers settled there in the 19th century.
- March 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM
hi john im from australia only turned 18 about 2 months ago i suffer from depression anyway ure cooking has helpd me get beter in ways it gives me an outlet for stress so i would just like to say thank you also how would this go with chicken breasts thankyou- peter
- March 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM
have fun in flagstaff! beautiful city!
Just ignore the last 3 "featured listings" are just owners that payed to be there...
- March 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Looks delicious and not a big deal to prepare. It is grill time in Jersey, temperature is getting into mid forties. At my house I am the grill master so I will definitely make this.
Wanted to let you know how the Irish lamb stew I made using my left over corned beef broth. Excellent. The flavor of the lamb took over and I topped it off with Bisquick dumplings.
Bye the way, safe trip back home.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Chef John said...
thanks, and thanks for the Flagstaff tips
- March 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- david said...
Don't miss the Beaver Street Brewer in Flagstaff.
- March 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM
I think one point in the 'traditional' recipe routine is left out in your recipes - the part which tells how many servings the recipe will make. This info will allow people to scale their recipes if possible and needed.
I mean how many households will have a capacity to polish off a chicken noodle salad with 10 chicken thighs in it...? unless you want to be so gross as to eat the same stuff day in and day out for over a week...
Just a suggestion.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:46 PM
- Chef John said...
I would if I knew how hungry people were. ;-) If you see 10 thighs then its five 2 each portions or 10 single etc. And for something like the salad I have no exact number since I'm not going to start measuring portions this late in life. I would just be guessing like "serves between 4 and 8 which doesn't do much good. I get lots of requests for scaling, calories, fat, portions, etc. I'm a busy man - I cook, film and post, and rely on you all to do the rest.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Unknown said...
I love mung bean noodles, and have heard them called cellophane, or glass noodles too. Thanks for the scoring the thigh to the bone trick. Now I won't have to wait as long for bland meat, because the marinade will penetrate better, and the meat cook faster, thanks!
- March 29, 2009 at 12:02 AM
- Seduction Meals said...
Looks delicious and easy - a good combo!
- March 29, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- dsowerg said...
We call those mung bean noodles "tang hoon" in Singapore. I saw that the packet was labelled "maifun", which means "rice noodles" in Cantonese. That actually refers to rice vermicelli which is made of, of course, rice flour. Maifun or "bee hoon" as it is called here is white when cooked. So are the noodles transparent or white? :)
- March 30, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Chef John said...
that's so weird, my stage name when I was an exotic dancer was "Tang Hoon"
- March 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Chef John,
I would love to see more recipes with cellophane noodles. The Tara Thai made this dish called PAD WOON SEN it has Cellophane noodles stir-fried with shrimp, pork, hu-nu mushrooms, scallions and egg in it. It's so so so so good.
- April 4, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Hey Chef,
I've been watching your videos for a long time now, and am loving everything you make. I'm going to culinary school soon and just wanted to know if you'd recommend any other Asian noodle other than mung bean.
- July 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM
- Chef John said...
sure, use rice noodles
- July 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I did manage to find some rice noodles and this turned out SO GOOD! I had some trouble mixing the cabbage and carrots into the noodles since they didn't feel like coming apart, but hey, it all worked out and I loved this dish so much!
- July 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Hi Chief john,
could you please show us how to make crispy fired noddles without having to pan fry them.
- December 21, 2010 at 8:36 AM
At first I thought the noodles were pancit (commonly cooked philippine noodles) from the picture. We put chicken, cabbage, carrots on noodles but no peanuts it's really good :) We cook the noodle from the chicken's stock and add fish sauce and soy sauce and pepper. When cooked we also sprinkle calamondin. And we usually eat this with bbq or eat alone:D
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Because I'll tell ya, that image above is the overwhelming impression of this movie for me. I've never seen this flick, but I've seen that kiss 8,602 times. Posters, commercials, send-ups, etc… Why couldn't they go inside? What, they're at some lake or something? The phrase "get a room" comes to mind. Not because I want them to take it out of my sight, I… I want them to get dry.
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Sarah Slocum: the infamous face of Google Glass
There's no shortage of celebrities who have donned Google Glass, from Desmond Tutu to Wolfgang Puck. But perhaps no one has become as famous for wearing the gadget - or as infamous - as Sarah Slocum.
A month has passed since the social media consultant became a social media phenomenon. She did so by saying she was harassed and attacked for wearing Glass, the head-mounted computer and camera, at a San Francisco bar where she had been carrying out a mission to promote the boundary-pushing product.
Still, the hullabaloo continues. This week, new video spread of the bar feud - footage that Slocum filmed using Glass and posted to her YouTube channel over the weekend. It shows her cursing at the people who she said had accosted her.
When a woman at the bar told Slocum, "You're killing the city," a reference to a larger backlash against tech workers in San Francisco, Slocum announced that she wanted to "get this white trash on tape." A man then ripped the device from her face.
'They instigated the fight'
Slocum said Tuesday that she only started filming and name-calling after being insulted. "They instigated the fight," she said. "I'm only going to put up with so much abuse." She said she posted the new video because she wanted to be transparent.
No matter how the video is judged - and whether Slocum is deemed a victim or provocateur - it underscores the power of a narrative in the Twitter age: Slocum, 34, has become the outspoken face of Google's face computer, for better or for worse.
The San Mateo resident is reveling in the role of unofficial ambassador of Glass, and some in the tech community have lauded her for the unapologetic embrace of the new technology. But others have saddled her with a moniker that Google is fighting hard to minimize: the "Glasshole."
"There will always be people who try to knock you down," Slocum told The Chronicle in an interview. "It's a fact of being out there and gaining influence."
Slocum has both stoked the story and absorbed the recoil. After the Feb. 22 dispute at Molotov's bar in the Lower Haight, she was quick to parlay the skirmish into appearances on CNN and "Inside Edition" - fielding questions while wearing Glass, of course.
She won Facebook and Twitter followings with comments glorifying the product and suggesting critics of the technology are Luddites who eventually would accept it. Slocum even asked Google to fly her to the popular South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, to educate people about the gadget.
Her advocacy, though, hasn't worked out as planned.
Slocum's account of the bar dispute was picked apart. Her assertion that she was the victim of a hate crime was ridiculed. And her past came to light, including a series of restraining orders filed against her - one for video-recording people through an open window of their home.
Critics have said Slocum is not someone who deserves sympathy but is a pushy pioneer in the art of privacy invasion at a time of growing concern about public surveillance.
Glass ban
Since Slocum's rise, some bars have banned the wearing of Glass in their establishments, though one went the other direction, offering free drinks to Glass wearers.
Valleywag, a news and gossip site focused on Silicon Valley, summed up its take on the accidental media star in a headline shortly after Slocum asked Google to fly her to the music festival: "Glasshole 'Hate Crime' Victim Not Too Traumatized For Free Trip."
'Hit a nerve'
Jason McDonald, an Internet marketing consultant at JM Internet Group in San Jose, said Slocum's emergence comes as the public is looking for something tangible to latch onto in the debate over Glass.
"People are quick to condemn the person, or come to a person's defense, because they really hit a nerve on an issue," McDonald said. "In this case, she's become a flash point. She's like the guy in font of the tank at Tiananmen Square."
McDonald and others also noted that Slocum's fame is bolstered by a backdrop of heightened anxiety over what some see as an insular and privileged tech community - a tension that has given rise to protests over gentrification in San Francisco and the private buses that whisk tech employees to workplaces elsewhere.
In this atmosphere, Slocum's promotion of the exclusive Google Glass may have backfired, according to some marketing experts.
"Companies normally love early adopters of their products. They're so passionate," said David Mitroff, a marketing consultant and founder of Piedmont Avenue Consulting in Oakland. "The problem is that those people can go overboard, and this is one of those situations."
The spotlight on Slocum has shined all the way to her legal problems. Former neighbors in Santa Cruz County once obtained a restraining order against her after they saw her recording them through a window with a smartphone.
Restraining orders
Court records show that Slocum's mother and her ex-husband have also filed for restraining orders against her - though neither case had to do with video-recording.
Slocum defended her actions in Santa Cruz County, saying that neighbors who lived on the same property as she did threatened her and conspired against her, forcing her to document evidence. She declined to discuss the other two cases, saying only that she is on good terms with her mother and ex-husband.
"Unfortunately, I've had more than my fair share of dealing with restraining orders," she said. "I'm a super-nice person, but I'm also someone who will stand up for myself."
Slocum said she never anticipated becoming a symbol in the larger controversy over tech growth and culture.
"I didn't realize there was such a tech backlash," she said. "I had read about the Google bus thing, but I didn't expect to receive any animosity or hatred."
Not everyone is critical of Slocum. Many early users of Google Glass and some in the tech community have defended her zealous push for the technology. One supporter on Twitter suggested that Glass wearers meet up at Molotov's to show solidarity.
It's unclear exactly how Google feels about its unsolicited envoy. Slocum said her only contact with the company occurred when a representative checked on her after the initial bar conflict.
Google silence
Google hasn't pursued any professional ties, she said, nor did it respond to her request for sponsorship at the Texas music festival. Google representatives declined to comment on Slocum.
The company, though, has been vocal about what it expects of Glass wearers. It released an etiquette guide, asking users to avoid being "creepy," standing in the corner recording people, for example, and acting like "Glassholes."
The device is currently not available to the public. It remains in a test phase, though Google says more than 10,000 people are using it - and coughing up the $1,500 that it costs. Glass is expected to be released in stores this year.
Police are investigating the incident at Molotov's, but no arrests have been made. The woman who told Slocum she was "killing the city" was fired from a bartending position. Slocum said she is considering suing the bar.
Despite the controversy that surrounds her, Slocum said, she has enjoyed being a public face for Glass and is unscathed by the mudslinging.
"I've been trying to turn lemons into lemonade," she said.
Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander


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"Good girls go to Heaven, but bad girls go everywhere." So said Helen Gurley Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine and author of the bestselling "Sex and the Single Girl." And while one can say what one will about Cosmopolitan magazine, few can argue that HGB was not a gamechanger.
Don't get me wrong: Cosmo will never be mistaken for a bastion of literary sophistication. Indeed, certain types might look down on its not-so-subtle ethos of Empowerment Through Sex Tips. (How many sex tips does an empowered woman really need, after all?) But the thing is, the thing that feels, to American women in the year 2012, so obvious as to be unnecessary to even mention, is that being empowered sexually is inextricably tied to being empowered, period.
In the New York Times' "99 Ways to Be Naughty in Kazakhstan: How Cosmo Conquered the World," writer Edith Zimmerman explores the "global juggernaut,"–a phrase which is no exaggeration:
Through those 64 editions, the magazine now spreads wild sex stories to 100 million teens and young women (making it closer to the 12th-largest country [in the world]), actually) in more than 100 nations–including quite a few where any discussion of sex is taboo.
In fact, Zimmerman says she received an email from the editor of Cosmo India, who wrote:
When we launched in 1996, we were flooded with letters — women wanted to know if kissing could cause pregnancy. They were clueless about the basics of having sex, and they had a million questions about what was right and wrong. The Cosmo team actually tackled these questions personally — writing back to readers with answers or carrying stories that tackled their concerns. Indian parents are usually conservative about sexual matters, and friends were often equally ignorant, so Cosmo was the only one with reliable information.
That's pretty wild. And honestly, it's pretty important.
Back in America (and back in the day), the messages HGB heralded were proportionately eye-opening. You don't need a husband to be happy (in fact, she once dropped this doosie: "I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life. During your best years you don't need a husband. You do need a man of course every step of the way, and they are often cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen"). Your primary fulfillment should come from work. Be self-sufficient. Have sex. (And lots of it! Without shame!) Work hard. Don't depend on a man for anything.
"So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you marry, don't just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. Don't use men to get what you want in life–get it for yourself.
And, she championed the "mouseburgers"–women who didn't come from privilege, pedigree, or Princeton. Her book "Sex and The Single Girl" was published one year before "The Feminine Mystique." Something was in the air, and she was a part of it.
And her legacy is clear. While one might no longer embrace her ideas about sleeping with married men (HGB: go for it), anorexia (HGB: a touch of it can be a good thing), or dealing with the boss (HGB: seduce him, then marry him), others have become internalized by our collective, womanly subconscious: namely, that we can have it all.
As we wrote about in Undecided, while women have now reached the point where even that message feels, in some ways, constrictive–knotted up with pressure and expectations and juggling and the entrenched inequality that remains–clearly, we're making progress. HGB and countless others had their eyes on the ball (I refuse to make a Cosmo-worthy pun here); it's our job to keep running with it.


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MESA, AZ – Officials at Mesa (AZ) Community College say the removal of 15 adjunct faculty members from teaching in the school's fitness centers had to do with their failure to meet new certification requirements and was not an issue of age discrimination.
Before the school year, the contracts of the 15 faculty members, including a former president of the college, were not renewed. The 15 members had received certification by the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), but that organization is not recognized by the Mesa Community College exercise science department, according to department chair Ann Stine.
Instead, the community college requires adjunct faculty to be certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) or the National Academy of Sports Medicine. All of these certifications are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies. In addition, the ACSM and NSCA, which Stine prefers, require a college degree.
"As an educational institution, we're promoting academic excellence," Stine says. "We're limiting all liability risks. How you do that is with education, degrees and certification. I felt very compelled to require that of our own staff."
Stine adds that she wants to be confident that when students do internships at the fitness centers, they are supervised by qualified instructors. Because the community college has a diverse population with different age groups and related health issues, all rec center staff must have the same standard knowledge base, she says.
Theo Heap, who is 80, had taught exercise classes at the fitness centers after stepping down as the school's president in 1988. He told the Maricopa County Community College District's governing body at a recent meeting that he and the other faculty members were discriminated against. Heap plans to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Heap had worked at the school since 1966. He also had served as the school's athletic director, and the gymnasium at the school is named for him.
"It's a sad situation," Heap says. "I feel real bad about it because for 42 years, that college has been my whole life. I've lectured all over the world in health and physical education, but I'm not qualified to lecture at my own school."
Confusion arose when the 15 faculty members were told by one of the fitness center managers and an exercise science faculty member that the department accepted the ISSA certification. Stine says she had never heard of the ISSA and had informed the faculty more than two years ago of the required certification.
Because of the confusion about which certification was needed, Mesa Community College administrators offered to reimburse the faculty members for the ISSA certification and pay for the certification required to teach in the school's fitness centers. Administrators also encouraged the faculty members to meet with Stine to discuss the matter, but Mesa Community College spokesperson Sonia Filan says few of the faculty members responded.
"This institution values and respects all employees, including adjunct faculty members," Filan says. "That is the reason we have listened to their concerns. We have given them opportunities to come to the table. We recognize we made some mistakes. Ann recognizes she's made some mistakes. This has always been about the required certification in order to enhance the academic excellence. We are an academic institution. We are not an LA Fitness center or another fitness center that may not have the same requirements."
Filan and Stine dispute claims of age discrimination, saying that some of the faculty members who were not renewed are in their 30s, and the ones who are now teaching in the fitness centers are in their 20s through 50s. In addition, about half of the dismissed group is still employed by the school in the physical education department, Stine says.
"My hope still is that they're willing to come to the table," Stine says, "and that those who desire to get the appropriate certifications do so and that we're able to work them back in."


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A dairy company used RDP support to build a new wing on its factory in order to increase its production capacity. This investment strengthened the local supply chains and helps prevent the abandonment of the farming activity in the area.
Projects & Practice
A company making pork products used RDP support to purchase new equipment that allowed it to increase production capacity and end product quality.
Acquisition of a wood chipper that produces chips for cogeneration more efficiently, thus reducing the cost of tools and consumables per unit of finished product.
Setting up a fruit juice processing plant that operates with renewable energy.
Modernisation of a cannery with new machinery leading to improved competitiveness and a stronger local short supply chain.
Developing a herd management tool to optimise efficiency and animal welfare on dairy farms.
An integrated municipal strategy to build a sustainable development model for the local economy based on the agri-food identity of the territory.
On-farm processing can add value to the product and can also make farming a more attractive choice for young farmers - as demonstrated by a berry farm in Finland.
Support from the rural development programme was used to establish an innovative production of GMO-free soybean oil products of superior quality.
A historic Chateau was restored to its initial state and turned into one of the most modern wine-producing facilities in Slovakia.


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Last week, the Open Platform part of Guardian News & Media launched a beta version of a WordPress plugin called The Guardian's News Feed.
Once installed, the plugin enables WordPress bloggers to access and re-publish articles, video, audio, cartoons, polls, tables, quizzes, crosswords and interactive media from guardian.co.uk. In exchange for the content, Guardian serves up an advert and brands the material.
Bloggers must be registered with Open Platform and have an API key to partake in the beta.
When using content, bloggers must agree not to alter it in any way. (Here's one good example of it being used)
I think this is a very smart move by GNM. Instead of fighting an endless battle trying to prevent bloggers from using content (like the AP has) it is finding a way to get new sources of revenue and readership.
It's a very clever use of the web and considering it is already making this content available online for free it just adds another spoke leading back to the GNM hub.
This is effectively mass syndication of content by GNM – can't wait to see how it plays out,


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Do you remember The Cisco Kid TV show and movie franchise? You probably need to be a Boomer or B&W TV fanatic to picture them riding across the Western landscape. The Cisco Kid was the clean-cut hero. His sidekick was Pancho, the rumpled, funny, salt-of-the-earth buddy we thought we could grow up to be if we kept our cowboy boots on.
What I didn't know until last week was that Pancho was played by Leo Carrillo. Heck, I thought Leo Carrillo was some kind of Spanish Explorer, and that Leo Carrillo State Beach up near Malibu where I used to surf and camp was named after a Spanish Conquistador.
But no. Leo Carrillo was born in 1881 in Los Angeles and grew up to become a famous actor with hundreds of movies to his credit long before The Cisco Kid came into my living room. In fact, Carrillo was 69 years old when the first episode aired in my Tarzana home. He was also an early environmentalist, helping to save beaches and park lands we take for granted today.
I found out about Carrillo when I went down to Carlsbad last week to visit friends and we took a trip to his home in the hills above the coast (see the Gallery link below for photos). The homestead is a modest 12 acres now; but when Carrillo bought it in the 30's, he had over 2500 acres of ranchland and out-buildings that he carefully constructed to recreate the vanishing Spanish and California traditions of centuries before, his attempt to keep the modern world at a distance.
The LC spread (his brand) was a hangout for the Hollywood elite, like Cary Grant, Claudett Colbert, Will Rogers, John Wayne, etc. I picture them driving south from Hollywood in a cool 1938 Pierce-Arrow convertible on the two-lane highway that was the San Diego Freeway of their day, then making their way inland a few miles to the Carrillo spread. They hung out around the pool while steaks were cooked on the handmade stone bbq and were served cocktails on the flagstone patio under the spectacular canopy of the diamond-studded sky.
As I walked through the grounds in the brilliant morning last week, peacocks honked and spread their regailia. I caught a glimpse of a sole albino peacock as he scurried to hide himself in his colorless shame. I looked up as a lazy hawk was climbing high on the updrafts driving off the sea along the skirt of the hills. The blue sky, the bright sun, the soft breeze in the eucalyptus, the timelessness that Leo Carrillo hoped to create on this sacred spot was revolving silently in my mind.
I've posted some photos of my day trip to the Leo Carillo Park (including the albino peacock) on my Gallery page at Leo Carrillo – Pancho. I've also listed a couple of links below for background on Carrillo and a YouTube snippet of The Cisco Kid TV Show. Check 'em out if you have a minute or two on your hands in this busy, modern landscape we inhabit today.
14 Responses to Leo Carrillo – Pancho to The Cisco Kid
Janet Kosatka says:
I lived in Chicago and the Cisco Kid and Poncho made an appearance at Wrigley Field that I will never forget. As a kid that watched every show it was quite wonderful that I lived near Wrigley Field on Southport Avenue and was able to see them both. I still watch all the re-runs on TV
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If your a fan of The Cisco Kid and Pancho, checkout The Cisco Kid Fan Club on Facebook, full of rare photos and stories
Keen Harrison says:
My mother was an assistant seamstress in Hollywood during the 1930 s and was madly in love with Leo Carillo.
She lived in a sod roof house on a hill overlooking his place and would watch him swim in his pool and dreamt of meeting him.
Frank Z says:
Thanks, Keen, for the wonderful snapshot of detail about your mother and Leo Carillo. Did your mother and Carillo ever meet?
Dennis says:
I was clicking through channels the other day and ran into a rerun of 'The Cisco Kid.' I was surprised to see it in color and wondered why they'd colorized it and not other programs on the same channel such as 'The Real McCoys,' 'Naked City,' or 'Hopalong Cassidy.'
Well, I looked it up and discovered the show was actually filmed in color and in fact was the first show on TV to be in color. The producer must have been thinking ahead because almost no one had color TVs then, when the show was made between 1950 – 1956.
Carrillo was amazing. I would have never guessed he was in his 70s on that show.
Frank Z says:
Thanks for the great comment. Yeah, he was youthful to the end.
Gene says:
What a beautiful site and thank you for what you have spoke to us about LC
Anonymous says:
Thanks for the comment, Gene. Glad to know you're enjoying the site.
Carol McCarthy says:
I love your posts! I always enjoy reading life from your perspective. Whether it is potatoes thrown by the curb, free trees or this fascinating character in California's history. You always teach me something. Thanks, Frank!!
fz says:
Thanks for your delightful comment and your continuing interest. It's for people like you that I keep on posting. Cheers.
john guzlowski says:
I loved the Cisco Kid also when I was growing up. Like me, he and his partner Pancho had accents and like me also they were always wandering around far from home (Poland in my case) and getting in trouble with the locals (the Americans).
fz says:
A very tender recollection.
Ursula McNeil says:
Keep it up, Frank! Everytime you post I go to it and delight in it. Now I know another reason you left the island – there wasn't much to write about there that anyone would have enjoyed.
fz says:
Thanks for the kind words, Ursula. It's great to know you're enjoying these posts. It's real encouragement for me. Hope all is well on the East Coast.
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Rep. Yvette Clarke's remarks on New York history took some ribbing from Stephen Colbert.
The impish TV host mentioned how some refer to Brooklyn's decision to become part of New York City as "The Great Mistake of 1898" and asked Clarke what she would say to those Brooklynites if she could go back in time.
Her reply: "Set me free."
The incredulous Colbert asked from what. The Brooklyn Democrat said: "slavery."
Colbert said he didn't realize Brooklyn had slavery then. Clarke said she was "pretty sure there was."
New York state abolished slavery in 1827.
Asked who'd be enslaving her in 1898, Clarke said "the Dutch."
Wrong. The Dutch ceded control of New Amsterdam to the English in the late 1600s.
Clarke's spokeswoman, Kristia Beaubrun, told the Daily News it was "supposed to be humorous."
Earlier, Colbert goaded Clarke to rap. She demurred, then sportingly tried to wing a few words.
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West Berkeley hobbyist wins attention, funding for invention
Inventor's interactive bracelet gains interest, funding
(12-26) 10:24 PST Berkeley -- When West Berkeley resident Lisa Winter started making robots as a kid, it was an eccentric hobby popular among punks and nerds.
Today, in an industry suddenly flush with venture capital, the 27-year-old Winter has become something of a rock star, and she's about to release her first consumer product: Bond, an interactive communicative bracelet for couples that comes out in the new year.
"I liked to build robots, basically since I was born," she said. "And now it's not so odd anymore."
As West Berkeley becomes a hub for fringe technologies and Google continues to buy up robotics startups, offbeat hobbyists are suddenly finding themselves the center of attention. And their products, which were once theoretical toys thought up in machine-building clubs, are starting to be produced on a larger scale.
Bond, which Winter is building for a company called Kwame Corp., is a small, vibrating, color-changing module that's sold in pairs for couples. Discreet, white and magnetic, it can be worn as a bracelet or a necklace. If one person taps the Bond, the other person's Bond vibrates.
"Most wearable devices, 98 percent of them, are fitness based. Ours is social," she said. "When you press yours, the other person feels it. You're not just getting a beep on your cell phone, you're feeling a loving vibration. And it could even be a harsh vibration if you're angry - short intense vibrations would signal, 'Oh, that's aggressive.' "
At Kwame, an international organization of developers, designers and programmers, Winter is in charge of building prototypes - which she's been doing since she was a toddler.
"When I was 3, Dad would leave things around, like drill motor parts, and I'd put them back together," she said. "He'd find them and be like, 'Who put my drill motor back together?' It was fun for us."
After reading about the Robot Wars at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco in the 1990s, Winter's father, Mike, also a robot hobbyist, decided he'd build one to compete. Not one to be left out, 10-year-old Lisa built one, too. Wearing pigtails, she commanded a robot with spinning lawn mower blades and a chef's hat - and destroyed the competition. She went on to become the Robot Wars' middleweight world champion and, for the next six years, was a regular on the Comedy Central show "BattleBots."
'Alternative' student
At Miramonte High School, she sewed her own plaid skirts, wore boots, dyed her hair bright green and had bihawks (a mohawk on both sides of her head). "I was the only alternative kid in school," she said. "But, hey, I was voted best hair."
She went on to get an art degree from UC Santa Cruz and worked part time for her father's robot company, Stupid Fun Club. "I'd be working with big pieces of metal, 1,000-pound robots."
She and her father, along with an aunt and some family friends, started building connected toys, which could communicate with each other and with phones, in the early 2000s.
And then, suddenly, even tiny robotics companies started to get attention - and funding. Her neighborhood in West Berkeley seems to be a center for robot makers. Outside the Westside Cafe on Ninth Street, she runs into former Wired Editor Chris Anderson's drone building team, which just got $30 million in venture capital.
On Feb. 23, they're having a robot block party.
These days, her father works for Google, which has been snapping up robotics companies throughout the neighborhood. "He's literally a genius mad scientist robotics guy," she said.
Collegial culture
Steve Gould, the co-founder of a robotics workshop, recruited Winter and her father to join his Berkeley robot enclave, where he runs an industrial design company.
"She comes out of the gaming culture, and there's a helpfulness and collegial culture that's natural to them. It's so special," he said.
"After I first met the Winter clan, we all went together to South by Southwest and made a trebuchet to launch balloons at tablets that would trigger an app," Gould remembered, laughing. "Lisa's been doing this stuff since she was born. She represents something unique to here."
She's vegan down to her red faux-leather boots and wears her hair and eyebrows dyed turquoise. In her free time, she climbs rocks.
At the robotics workshop, Winter walked over to her workbench, which she shares with her dad when he's not in Mountain View. They have a family belt sander, band saw, drill press and mill. She noticed the table was full of gear - a Dynamixel Servo, which is a kind of robotics motor, and some brackets on the table.
'New thinking'
Harold Morrison, a machinist in the same laboratory as Winter, emerged from behind a computer monitor - "Lisa works with a group that are kind of on the edge - all new thinking in all new ways."
Morrison pointed to an enormous robotic arm equipped with lasers contained within a tall metal cage (because when it's switched on, it can be dangerous).
"When her dad first brought her in years and years ago, he was like, 'Here's my daughter, but don't worry, she's cool with this.' "
Nellie Bowles is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @NellieBowles