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The 'Hugging Saint' Amma offers spiritual upliftment to people of all faiths in Dallas, TX, on June 27th and 28th, 2010. Spiritual seekers are invited to attend any of the four programs over two days to experience her love and compassion in person.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) June 18, 2010 — The 'Hugging Saint' Amma (http://www.amma.org) will hold free programs in Dallas on June 27th and 28th as part of her 2010 North American Tour. People of all faiths are invited to attend any or all of the four programs. Two programs will be held each day to make it easy for all who are interested in receiving her blessing. Amma was born in India and she is known throughout the world for her humanitarian works and spiritual leadership.
"Amma presents the kind of leadership we need for our planet to survive. This is the most heroic person I've probably ever met. Because she is sitting there hugging people… The most heroic thing is caring, and she does that," said American author Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Color Purple.
When Amma embraces people, it is not just physical contact that is taking place. The love Amma feels for all of creation flows toward each person who comes to her. Word of her selfless actions spread beyond her local community, and in 1987, Western devotees invited her on what would become the first of her many world tours. She now visits cities in North America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia on a regular basis offering herself for hours at a time to anyone who wishes to experience the healing power of unconditional love.
When asked, "What happens when you hug people?" Amma replied:
"When Amma embraces people, it is not just physical contact that is taking place. The love Amma feels for all of creation flows toward each person who comes to her. That pure vibration of love purifies people, and this helps them in their inner awakening and spiritual growth."
Today the Ammaritpuri Ashram located in Amma's birthplace of Kerala, India, is the headquarters of her worldwide social service organization, Embracing the World (ETW). With the help of donations and thousands of volunteers, ETW has built more than 40,000 houses for the homeless in India; awarded more than 30,000 scholarships to impoverished children; built orphanages in India, Africa and Haiti; and provided medical care, food and supplies to victims of tsunamis, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes throughout the world, including American victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The location of the 2010 Dallas event is:
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Mana Engine
1. The sorry tale of the greatest invention never sold. How could Mycroft have predicted that his brilliant Mana Engine would be torpedoed by both a simple spelling error and the unforeseen dearth of heavenly fuel?
2. When Jehovah starts supplying a miraculous food each morning, curiosity leads Abiri to stay up all night and watch for the heavenly food to form upon the ground. What he discovers is a machine from beyond the stars, which drops the substance while the Israelites sleep. Will Abiri keep mum, or reveal knowledge that will alter the spiritual future of the planet?
3. As Paula is demonstrating her new invention, the Mana Engine, for the government, it explodes. General Tecumseh Cooley immediately realizes that while, as an engine the machine sucks, as a bomb it's not bad. He must have it. So he threatens to kill Paula's family members one by one unless she builds him another . . . Mana Engine.
4. It's more than an engine; it's a perpetual motion machine that will eliminate the need for gasoline. But Ulysses Bradley, who invented the Mana engine, won't get it to market if OPEC and Exxon have anything to say about it. You think you're doing something great, and suddenly you're a target for the richest people in the world. Sheesh.
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Dear Evil Editor
I'm seeking representation for Mana Engine, an 85,000 word fantasy suspence [suspense] novel, written with liberal, female readers in mind. [Everything on this blog is written with liberal female readers in mind.]
After Paula's mana engine explodes during a live demonstration, the government bans her research, and she is left with a disfiguring blue scar that will eventually kill her. [Scars form when wounds heal. They're not life-threatening until one of your relatives can't stand looking at it anymore and kills you.]
She seeks refuge with a rogue general, Tecumseh Cooley, in the distant Frontedge, on a base [She's in the Frontedge which is on a base? What is the Frontedge? By "distant," do you mean on a distant planet or 50 kilometers away?] meant to keep the local fire-elf tribes in check. In exchange for medical treatment and generous pay, she agrees to rebuild her engine in his lab.
She soon discovers that Cooley wants her engine design because he sees its potential as a weapon of mass destruction, not as an engine. [Especially if she can figure out how to make it explode again.] She abandons the project and flees the base, only to be dragged back and shown a list of her friends and family. These, Cooley tells her, will die one by one until she finishes designing his bomb. [Even if she starts working on it again, they'll die one-by-one until she's finished? Does she get to choose the order in which the people on the list die?] [Actually, that would make for an interesting situation. Imagine some villain handed you a sheet of paper with a list of people on it and he said they were going to die, one every day, until you finished your novel, and you knew it was going to take two days to finish, and the list included your spouse and your kid brother and your best friend and Evil Editor. Who would you save besides Evil Editor?]
But if she finishes the bomb, he'll use it to racially cleanse the fire elves. Now she must decide whose lives are more valuable. [Between fire elves and people? Come on.] [Oh wait, I was thinking of fire ants.]
I never submit work to multiple agents simultaneously. [At this point in your relationship, your submission policies are not of interest to the agent.] I've included a SASE.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Why hasn't the general racially cleansed the fire elves already? He doesn't have any other weapons at his disposal that are as effective as the mana engine, even though it isn't even designed to be a weapon?
Are Paula's friends and family anywhere near the distant Frontedge?
Are we on Earth? What's a fire elf, and why are they being kept in check? What is the mana engine supposed to do?
It sounds like science fiction. Is there magic? Is it the fire elves that make it fantasy?
I don't see the point of saying this was written with liberal female readers in mind unless you're going to make it clear why liberal female readers would enjoy it more than others.
17 comments:
- Jude said...
Lol great critique.
Note: I never comment on multiple agent blogs.
- Amy said...
This query is not drawing me in, I think because I am envisioning most of the story as taking place in the lab, where this evil rogue general is forcing her to do this work and threatening to kill her friends, and it sounds depressing. The query is villain driven--here's all the awful things that happen to the protagonist, but I'm not seeing any action from the protagonist (except her running away and being dragged back, and being forced to make an awful decision). I feel like I know the villain better than the protagonist. Can you make the query more balanced so I get a better sense of the protagonist and the things she does to oppose this villain?
I'd also like a better idea of the setting. As EE comments--is this earth? This could be urban fantasy or secondary-world fantasy; the text of the query doesn't make it clear. A little background on the fire elves wouldn't hurt, so I know whether or not I should care about them being racially cleansed.
I know it's an impossible task to fit everything into a query and not make it overlong, but I think more emphasis on the setting and the protagonist would be helpful.
By the way, you absolutely should submit to agents simultaneously--especially considering that quite a bit of them don't respond to queries at all if they're not going to request material, so you could wind up waiting ages for a reply that's never going to come.
- Dave Fragments said...
Everything internet in my house went goofy this afternoon. I tried to post this even the cable company didn't know what end was up.
My comments: When J Robert Oppenheimer saw the first nuclear blast at Almagordo NM, he quoted the Bhagavad Gita:
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Does this sound familiar? A scientist invents a weapon of mass destruction that works beyond his/her imagination? It's the basic plot of your story. When the story of the A-bomb is told, it is always told by Oppenheimer and the other people involved. The bomb itself is always in the background.
So this is Paula's story.
-- While attempting to create a device that feeds the people, Paula discovers a weapon that kills on a massive scale. Afraid of the device being used as a weapon, Paula flees to the frontier but even there, her protectors want the device as a weapon and kidnap her family to force her to build it...
And what Paula does next is the story. Does she build the device and if she does, is it used to kill? Does she save her family?
- Tom Bridgeland said...
I am interested in why you want to limit your target audience to women. And only liberal women at that. This sounds similar to a lot of fantasy and SF stories I have read and enjoyed, and I am neither female nor particularly liberal.
Some genres are gender limited, but fantasy and SF are not, even if the protagonist is female.
- Bartholomew Klick said...
I've got several problems.
The first is that my story is really a suspense novel in a fantasy setting. Do I call it suspense or fantasy?
The second is that I've actually got a three book series, and I'm not sure how to query it.
The overall plot of the series is tied very closely to the fantasy elements of the world, but the plot of the first book is only somewhat tied to it.
I think I'll leave target audience out, this time. It seems to be making everyone scratch their heads.
With this in mind, I present a revision, where I attempt to show both plots, and actually bother to tell the agent what I am selling.
Dear Agent,
Mana Engine is an 85,000 word suspense, set in a fantasy world. It is the first of a trilogy, following Paula, an engineer who has accidentally discovered a way to turn mana, the substance that powers elven magic, into a weapon of mass destruction.
Paula dove on the mana-chamber of her latest invention, knowing that either she, or the vast audience behind her would die.
She saves the crowd, but is left with a fatal dose of mana-poisoning, and her failed demonstration causes congress to ban her line of research.
Her master's degree in mana-engineering now useless, Paula accepts a job offer from rogue general Tecumseh Cooley, whose base in the distant Frontedge keeps the local fire-elf tribes in check. In exchange for medical treatment and generous pay, she agrees to build weapons for him.
She had no idea that her mana-bomb design would carry more destructive force than a thousand nuclear bombs, or that the poison cloud left in its destructive wake would leave the eco-system intact.
Not wanting to give Cooley a means to commit mass-genocide, she removes a critical component to her bomb's schematic.
When Paula refuses to make the bomb work, Cooley shows her a list of her friends and family, where they live, and what they do all day. She will make the bomb, he tells her, or else he will choose a name from the list.
Neither of them realize that the mana they've been stockpiling is opening a portal to hell.
I've included a SASE for your reply. The manuscript is available in any portion or format you'd like.
Thank you for your time and consideration
- Adam Heine said...
Judith's comment wins funniest comment of the day award.
Author, don't offer an exclusive unless the agent asks for it. It doesn't add the value you think it does (more info here and here).
- Tom Bridgeland said...
I hope my post above didn't come across as too snippy. I apologize. Maybe EE could see his (her?) way to deleting it and I'll find a more polite way to ask my question.
I read a lot of SF and Fantasy and this one sounds like it has promise. I'd probably pick it off the shelf and look it over on the title alone.
- Evil Editor said...
Doesn't sound snippy to me. If you decide you want it deleted, click on the trash can.
- Adam Heine said...
Bartholomew, both queries seem to be very definitely fantasy. To me, anyway. When I think of "suspense" I think of mainstream thrillers like Dean Koontz and James Patterson. I don't see magical fire-elves fitting on the shelf next to those, but maybe that's just me.
- Tom Bridgeland said...
Thanks EE. This is your blog and I am a visitor. I want to be a welcome visitor. One thing I like here is the attitude of the participants.
- _*rachel*_ said...
How much you want to bet she explodes it at the end, killing the general and (maybe) herself?
I'm guessing the blue scar isn't so much the problem as radiation or poisoning or whatever, which will be the actual cause of death. Is it lodged in the scar?
The problem here is that there are enough world-building details to make it confusing, and not enough to tell us what sort of world it actually is. To me, it has the look of The Kitchen Sink meets The Tabloid Weird.
1. I'd call it fantasy.
2. Say it has the potential to become a series.
- Evil Editor said...
She throws herself on the thing and it explodes, and it has the force of a thousand nuclear bombs, and she gets a scar?
- Heather M said...
I liked Dave F's suggestion.
BTW, in your new query, the sentence that starts "Paula dove on the mana chamber" is understandable to me only because I read your old query. Ergo, not understandable to your potential agent.
I think, like Dave said, not so much backstory. (Even if it's the first half of your book.)
Since her line of research was banned, Paula has been working for a rogue general, but when she discovers she's accidentally invented the perfect weapon for genocide--a mass killer that leaves the environment intact--she sabotages her own design. The general threatens to kill her family unless she makes it work so that he can kill off the _____ fire-elf tribes who surround his frontier army base.
(The ______ is in there so you can tell us in a word or two why we don't want the fire elves killed. Other than being theoretically opposed to genocide. Maybe they're nice. Maybe they're mean. As long as they're interesting, we won't want them killed.)
Then she does something. I'm almost certain she does something, because you seem like a decent writer, and she's already done one thing. Tell us what she does.
If the portal to hell opens and *then* she does something, tell us that. Don't tell us about the portal to hell unless you tell at least one thing she does, or is going to have to attempt, after that. Cliff-hangers are for book jacket copy. Here you just have to prove to us you have a plot.
(I do think the fact that the engine uses mana, which the fire-elves also use for their magic, is worthy of mention; but I think it should come later in the synopsis, because I'm almost sure that whatever actually happens (that stuff you're going to tell us) in the climax of the book is somehow connected to it. Because, like I said, you seem like a decent writer.)
Good luck!
- Joe G said...
She can't die at the end because it's supposed to be a trilogy.
I think you could do with less setup and more story. This is really rough, but here:
Mana Engine is an 85,000 word fantasy novel about Paula (Paula who?), an engineer who has discovered a way to turn mana, the substance that powers elven magic, into an unlimited food supply. But mana is a highly dangerous substance, as Paula discovers when she contracts a dangerous disease during a mishap where the Mana engine explodes with terrific force. Relieved of her license to study mana by the government and desperate for support, Paula is forced to accept a job offer from General Tecumseh Cooley (general of what?), whose base in the distant Frontedge (the what?) keeps the local fire-elf tribes in check (is this his job? Are the fire-elves dangerous?). In exchange for medical treatment she desperately needs--and a generous paycheck (this detail gives her a little bit of an edge) she agrees to illegally build (mana weapons? isn't mana her area of expertise?) weapons for him.
But Cooley has bigger plans for Paula's inventions. Cooley seeks to destroy the fire-elves once and for all and put himself out of a job, and tries to manipulate Paula into building the mana bomb, which has the force of 1,000 atomic bombs. He will get it at any cost, whether or not he has to threaten her, or her family and friends, or her little dog too.
Neither of them realize that all of the mana they've been stockpiling is opening a portal to hell.*
*This confuses me. Do you mean this literally? If you do, this sounds like it's where the plot starts. Is the whole book just setup for this? I mean, it's fine for a novel to be setup for a much bigger story, but it should still have a dramatic structure that makes it a satisfying read, and you should allude to what that is.
I'm just saying the heroine's capture by the villain, having her loved ones threatened... this is pretty routine stuff. What else happens in the story?
Looking back, I think Dave pretty much said everything I wanted to say, only he was much more succinct :P
- ril said...
To be fair, I quite like to limit my audience to liberal females, too.
- Stephen Prosapio said...
Most fiction contains elements of suspense. If this novel is in a fantasy setting, then you query literary agents who rep fantasy.
I like the direction your revised query is going. I agree with the above comment on the portal to hell--it just popped up out of nowhere.
Also the line about diving on the chamber is awkwardly written and in essence says that *because* she dove on the chamber either she or the audience behind her would be killed. I had to read it three times to realize what you really meant.
and what they do all day. - awkward. Either rephrase or delete. If you say "he's had operatives watching all of her friends and family and will kill them one by one" that he knows who they are and where he can get to them.
- batgirl said...
This sounds like alternative-history or steampunk to me. I'd say go with steampunk, since that's pretty hot, not only as genre but as fashion.
Oh, look at me, talking as if I know something! But, really, my agent did tell me steampunk is big, and YA steampunk is popular. Take that for whatever you think it's worth.


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Since the titanium dioxide is in the form of a nanopowder with lots of surface area, the experiment required the scientists to create millions of these nanobowls. Fortunately, the processing techniques that Elam and his colleagues employed can be scaled up so that successful nanobowls identified in these bench-scale studies can eventually have a real-world impact.
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Philip J. Hyde, whose evocative wilderness photographs, taken over five decades, became a potent weapon in the battle against environmental degradation, died on March 30 in Reno, Nev. He was 84.
The cause was complications of a stroke, his son, David Hyde, said.
The primary conservation photographer for the Sierra Club, Mr. Hyde became known for his color images of Western deserts, canyons, forests and mountains, which evoked in ways words could not what would be lost if they were not protected from development.
"His photographs were much more than beautiful landscapes," said Tom Turner, senior editor at Earth Justice, a nonprofit environmental law firm that is a spinoff of the Sierra Club. "They were polemical, they were political, they were battle tracts."
Mr. Hyde helped fend off government plans to install two dams in the Grand Canyon. In collaboration with David Brower, the forceful executive director of the Sierra Club, he completed a book called "Time and the River Flowing: Grand Canyon," published in 1964, which turned the canyon into a symbol of imperiled wilderness and focused attention on the Colorado River.
"It was published explicitly to stop the federal government from allowing dams to be built in the Grand Canyon, mostly for power generation and a little for irrigation," Mr. Turner said. "The text was hard-hitting and it succeeded. No one had done books like that before, and they had more impact than they would today."
All told, he did 15 books, most of them for the Sierra Club, and contributed to 70 others. Among his books were "This Is Dinosaur," about the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah; "As Long as the Rivers Shall Run," about Navajo tribal lands in the Southwest; "The Last Redwoods"; "Island in Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula"; "Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah"; and "Drylands: The Deserts of North America."
His last book, "The Range of Light," published in 1992, included passages by John Muir, the naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club.
Philip Jean Hyde was born on Aug. 15, 1921, in San Francisco, to Leland Hyde, a painter and furniture designer, and his wife, Jessie Hyde. He was educated at Polytechnic High School in San Francisco and took his first photographs in 1938 on a Boy Scout camping trip, with a Kodak camera borrowed from his sister.
In 1942, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps and served as a gunnery trainer for three years, stationed in Kansas and Alabama. Shortly before his discharge, he wrote to Ansel Adams asking for advice about what photography school he ought to attend.
The timing was fortunate: Adams was putting together the photography department at the California School of Fine Arts, which is now the San Francisco Art Institute. He entered in 1946, studying under photographers like Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange.
After finishing his studies, he met David Brower, who commissioned him for what came to be known as "battle books," cornerstones of Sierra Club environmental campaigns.
He is survived by his son, who lives in Taylorsville, Calif., and a sister, Betty Hyde Hughes of Spokane, Wash. His wife of 56 years, Ardis King Hyde, died in 2002.
Mr. Hyde learned he had macular degeneration in the summer of 2000, and was completely blind by October 2001, a grievous loss, his son said, "because he was trained to see more than anyone else."


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I haven't updated you for a while with the house! Sooo much has happened & we're getting close to being able to move in!! I'm getting so excited now! I won't bore you with every little thing because we would be here forever haha..
This is literally going to be my favourite room by far! I am in love with the floor tiles…like literally if I could love them anymore it would be weird. But how beautiful right? The bath is in, we're just needing the rest to be plumbed in 🛁
All painted & cleaned up. 🛌 We're just waiting for the carpet in here so we can put some furniture in! What should we do with the windows? I'm thinking blinds & curtains? But the windows are so big I'm not sure what would look best…
Same again here… We need the carpet in & to decide what's going in the windows. We have ordered the sofa 🛋 so that's on its way at some point. Every other room in the house is very grey.. That seems to be our colour. But we opted to pick some beige for this room to switch it up a little bit 😂😂 it still sort of looks similar though 🙈 this is the sofa we decided on but obviously in beige 👌🏽
As for the kitchen we're waiting for the guy to let us know when he can come & put it all in. The flooring is going to be put down in the next few weeks too. I cannot wait to show you all some of those photos! The hallway is waiting for flooring.. Not much I can show you with that 😂 & the spare bedroom is plastered ready for being painted 😍
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Bluntly admitting affairs, Tiger Woods apologized Friday to his family, friends and fans, admitting that he once felt entitled to cheat.
Speaking to a select group of supporters and friends in Florida, Woods was alternately apologetic and angry — angry at himself, but also at the media focus on his family.
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"I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated," Woods said. "What I did is not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame.
"I knew my actions were wrong, but I convinced myself that normal rules didn't apply," he added. "I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled."
He said he has since learned: "I don't get to play by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."
Tiger Woods: I regret my "transgressions" and "will strive to be a better person and husband"
Woods also shot down speculation that his wife, Elin, physically abused him the night of his car accident over Thanksgiving weekend.
"There has never been an episode of domestic violence in our marriage — ever," he said. "Elin deserves praise, not blame."
Tiger Woods takes full blame for "embarrassing" accident, cancels third meeting with police
Offering specific apologies to family, friends, business partners, fans, and the parents of children who see him as a role model, Woods said he has sought therapy and will continue to seek treatment. He also said Buddhism is helping him improve himself, and pleaded with reporters and photographers to stop following his wife and children.
"They did not do these things, I did," he said. "Whatever my wrongdoings, for the sake of my family, please leave my wife and kids alone."


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Annual festival's theme a tribute to Sept. 11
Known as one of the Bay Area's biggest and best block parties, Sunday's Solano Stroll is expected to draw 150,000 strollers to Albany for a day of food, fun and wholehearted fulfillment. -more-
Known as one of the Bay Area's biggest and best block parties, Sunday's Solano Stroll is expected to draw 150,000 strollers to Albany for a day of food, fun and wholehearted fulfillment. -more-
Without public transportation in the form of trains and streetcars the fast paced urban development of the Bay Area, 1863 to 1915, would not have been possible. The first railroad in the Bay Area opened in 1863 and ran from San Francisco to San Jose. The transcontinental railroad opened in 1869, and soon there were rail lines around the state. The railroads made development possible and created a network of towns and cities. -more-
Gina Rose Halpern's paintings are colorful, often exuberant works that incorporate references to many spiritual traditions, from Christianity to Buddhism to the nature religions of the world's indigenous people. For Halpern, her work is not simply decorative or expressive but a form of healing. The 51-year-old El Cerrito artist has a career as vibrant and colorful as her paintings. She is an interfaith minister, teacher, and therapist who believes in the literal healing power of art. -more-
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A depleted Cal women's soccer team fell to 10th-ranked Texas, 2-1, Friday afternoon at Edwards Stadium. The Texas win avenged a 2-1 loss to Cal in Austin last year. -more-
Michael Israel had been living in subsidized housing at 1040 University Ave. for only a week when fire swept through his building and put him out of a home. Like many of the 69 residents who were ousted by the Aug. 26 blaze at UA Homes, Israel had been a drifter, living in the streets of the East Bay, before rooting himself with the help of social service workers in the now scorched west Berkeley residential hotel. -more-
The Cal men's soccer team got its first win of the season in dramatic fashion against Portland on Friday, tying the game with three minutes left in regulation before scoring a golden goal in overtime for a 2-1 victory. -more-
With the ink still drying on the state's 2002-2003 budget, Berkeley Unified School District officials say the impact on the local school system is far from clear. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO – As a judge framed it Friday, the lawsuit over who owns Barry Bonds' record-setting 73rd home run ball boils down to simple definitions: "A catch is a catch – if it's a catch." -more-
Mayoral candidate Tom Bates and Councilmember Donna Spring were the big winners at Wednesday's Berkeley Green Party nomination event. Both candidates won overwhelming support in preliminary votes and are now all but assured the official endorsements, to be named Sunday. -more-
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County woman has tested positive for West Nile virus in what is believed to be the first case of a person contracting the illness in the western United States, health officials said Friday. -more-
A dispute over a leaky roof has made finding authentic south-of-the border cuisine considerably more difficult for west Berkeley residents and has roused the mayor while forcing at least one single mother to lose her livelihood. -more-
OAKLAND – Alameda County officials announced Thursday that the contractor working on the new critical care building at the Highland Hospital campus has been pulled off of the job. -more-
SANTA CRUZ — Medical marijuana advocates outraged by a raid at a local prescription pot supplier protested at federal offices in several cities in Northern California and across the country Friday. -more-
SANTA ROSA — As the insurance industry tries to offset rising costs and poor investment returns, leading providers are raising rates and denying renewals to people who've filed claims. -more-
NEW YORK — The smoke hangs thick at Pete's Tavern, swirling through the 138-year-old pub as the lunch-hour conversation turns to the mayor's plan to ban smoking in thousands of bars and restaurants across the city. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — As many as 76 million people — mostly children — could die from water-related diseases by 2020 if changes aren't made worldwide in the way communities develop their water systems and policies, according to a California think tank. -more-
NEW YORK — It makes an eye-opening story: knives, razors and pepper spray easily passing through supposedly beefed-up airport security. But it also raises troubling ethical questions: In particular, are journalists justified in breaking a law to expose weaknesses in enforcing it? -more-
SACRAMENTO — A survey of California students released Friday found that more than 10 percent of high school students have tried the drug Ecstasy, prompting the state to create a media campaign to target use of the drug. -more-
Student activists criticized UC Berkeley's admission practices and launched a campaign to boost minority student enrollment, at a press conference Thursday. -more-
The 20-somethings in slacks breeze into a café on University Avenue, hardly taking notice of a woman sitting hunched with her back to the sunlit doorway. They don't know that she lived for 12 years in a cave smaller than the café's restroom or that she has come here to help them along the path to enlightenment and happiness. -more-
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There is a full slate of college soccer this weekend in Berkeley, with Cal's men and women's teams both playing two games against nationally-ranked teams. -more-
Winona LaDuke has used nearly every form of writing to tell the story of Native Americans through their eyes. Via essays, speeches, poetry and fiction, she's been telling the tale of a wounded culture trying to restore ancient patterns of life, and how 19th and 20th century consumerism and militarism undermine those efforts. An overview of her oeuvre, The Winona LaDuke Reader, was published by Voyageur Press this year and will be discussed by the author at Black Oak Books on Sunday evening. -more-
n Freshman surprise: Redshirt freshman Chris Mandarino got his first start at fullback last week and made a good impression with three catches for 41 yards, including a great catch on an 18-yard touchdown reception. -more-
UC Berkeley again found itself in the hot seat Wednesday when plans to stop the distribution of red, white and blue ribbons on campus Sept.11 were blasted as un-American. -more-
Two Berkeley High School students were injured during a brawl involving roughly 50 students Wednesday afternoon at Civic Center Park. -more-
With a ballot initiative vote to improve pedestrian safety still two months away, the Berkeley Police Department Wednesday got a jump on dangerous drivers. -more-
Belmont police make first arrest with electric car -more-
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis signed a $98.9 billion hard-times state budget Thursday that makes $9 billion in cuts, trims the state payroll by 7,000 jobs and leaves Capitol budget players open to criticism they did too little too late to prevent worse cuts next year. -more-
SACRAMENTO — Crime in California increased 3.7 percent last year over 2000, the state attorney general said Thursday, though violent crime dropped 0.8 percent over the same period. Total property crime was up 6 percent. -more-
SANTA CRUZ — Federal agents raided a marijuana farm Thursday and arrested the owners, who grow the pot for a medical users club, surprising community members and local law enforcement. -more-
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors announced a 36-count grand jury indictment Thursday against four executives charged with defrauding investors in a public technology company of $140 million in a "cook the books" scheme. -more-
LOS ANGELES — EBay Inc. said Thursday it is considering legal action against a parody Web site called E-Gray that lampoons Gov. Gray Davis and is produced by his opponent's campaign. -more-
LOS ANGELES— A police officer arrested last week for alleged drunken driving was charged Thursday with manufacturing the "date-rape" drug GHB, prosecutors said. -more-
Ten Berkeley police officers assembled outside headquarters in the dark, early hours Wednesday. -more-
Mekons front man John Langford did not expect his band to last 25 days let alone a quarter of a century when he started the Mekons along with Tom Greenhaigh in the late '70s. But low and behold the band that hails from England is on the first leg of its 25th anniversary tour. The Mekons will bring their signature brand of English country rock to the The Starry Plough Pub tonight. -more-
The Mersey Hot Shots, a Berkeley club soccer team, recently made the journey to Europe to take part in two of the world's biggest soccer tournaments. The players kept a diary of their travels and experiences. The conclusion of the diary: -more-
California's majestic coast redwood and Douglas fir trees are susceptible to a pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death, UC researchers have confirmed. -more-
An independent arbitrator ruled in favor of the local teachers' union in a contract squabble with the Berkeley Unified School District over the new six-period class schedule at Berkeley High School. -more-
Berkeley police closed off traffic through the intersection of Ashby and Telegraph avenues for nearly two hours while they investigated a suspicious suitcase that turned out only to contain a sweater. -more-
The state Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced Tuesday that it has finalized a conciliation agreement with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after an investigation based on a complaint filed in 1999 by nine Asian-American workers. -more-
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis said Wednesday he will eliminate another 1,000 government jobs on top of the 6,000 already slated to be cut so that the "size of government reflects the revenues that are coming in." -more-
LOS ANGELES — Bill Gates introduced Microsoft's newest multimedia software in Hollywood on Wednesday, promoting his company's bid to make its technology central to tomorrow's digital home entertainment center. -more-
SACRAMENTO — California teachers and health insurance companies are teaming up to get more kids enrolled in the state's public insurance programs. -more-
Triumph is a feeling the current crop of Cal football players haven't had in a while, and they savored it over the weekend following their 70-22 thrashing of Baylor to open the 2002 season. But by practice time on Monday afternoon, it was back to business. -more-
The state Legislature passed a bill last week that would forgive a $1.16 million state fine that the financially-strapped Berkeley Unified School District owes for being late with paperwork. -more-
The worst fear of city planners, whose affordable housing plan was rejected by the state earlier this summer, may come true. -more-
80 is a fine age at which -more-
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SAN FRANCISCO — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has blocked the sale of Napster's remaining assets to the song-swap company's chief investor, Bertelsmann AG, marking the death of a deal that might have revived the service as a legitimate music-sharing network. -more-
The exclusive Claremont Resort and Spa agreed last week to provide back pay to four employees it suspended earlier this year for distributing union literature at the hotel, according to union officials. -more-
OAKLAND — Miguel Tejada and the Oakland Athletics simply refuse to lose — even when the degree of difficulty gets higher and higher. -more-
SAN FRANCISCO — There's a beautiful sound emanating from the San Francisco 49ers' locker room as a new season approaches. It's the sound of silence, of Steve Mariucci and Terrell Owens getting along. -more-
Members of public radio station KPFA fear that delays in their mother network's return to Berkeley are ominous signs that another power struggle is emerging on the radio network's governing board. -more-
Gay Berkeleyans say they have it pretty good. They live in a progressive town and have access to a mecca of gay life – San Francisco. Yet many say that the geographic and demographic advantages create a problem: a lack of a one cohesive community. -more-
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Gates donates $28 million -more-
LOS ANGELES — With labor unrest looming at West Coast ports, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told thousands of union workers Monday to "stand your ground." -more-
When workers in New York declared the first Labor Day in 1882, they dedicated it to the economic and social achievements of American workers and celebrated it with parades and speeches. But today, for many retail and restaurant workers, Labor Day will be just another business day. -more-
Big plays and the breaks. Two things the Cal football team hasn't gotten much of in the past few seasons. But on Saturday against Baylor, the Golden Bears got both in spades. -more-
The Pacifica Foundation radio network, slated to return to Berkeley this year after fleeing amid controversy two and a half years ago, may not be coming home as soon as thought. -more-
What might sound like every student's dream – a school day with fewer classes – turned out to be less than exciting to returning Berkeley High School students last week. The familiar seven-period schedule has been reduced to six, but the school day is no shorter. In fact, for some it's longer. -more-
After handing out a proverbial carrot to student riders this August – in the form of lower bus rates for youth – AC Transit swung its stick at the rest of its estimated 235,000 patrons. -more-
Doctor loses custody of hippo -more-
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SACRAMENTO – Lawmakers passed a two-months-late budget early Sunday morning and approved a last-minute array of bills ranging from construction defects to driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants as the Legislature ended its 2002 session. -more-
SACRAMENTO – California consumers will not gain any new financial privacy protections this year, despite three different attempts to pass such a bill on the last day of the legislative session. -more-
UC Berkeley is offering its first course taught entirely over the Internet this year. -more-
A Berkeley-based nonprofit group announced the availability this week of a second edition of its free guide that provides information to disabled people trying to navigate sites around San Francisco. -more-
WALNUT CREEK — The chief nursing home and hospital inspector in Contra Costa and Alameda counties was fired for what the state Department of Health Services called an "inexcusable neglect of duty," the Contra Costa Times reported. -more-
VALLEJO – Two men are in custody and police are looking for a third in connection with nine East Bay bank robberies that have occurred since July. -more-
OAKLAND – The Labor Day weekend was no break from the violence that is patterning this year as one of the bloodiest in Oakland's history. -more-
OAKLAND— Transit officials are taking a look at a new mass transit system that would use small trams instead of trains and would look similar to a freeway with rest areas. -more-


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Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore may be returning to Syfy.
The network is nearing a deal to give a 13-episode straight-to-series order of Moore's Helix, Deadline.com reports.
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Helix would follow a team of scientists tasked with protecting the world from annihilation after a possible disease outbreak occurs in an Arctic research facility.
The project, which could premiere later this year, was written by Cameron Porsandeh, who will co-executive-produce alongside Moore and Lynda Obst.


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The existing Ayurvedic Institutions in Vidarbha Region could not offer adequate seats for many candidates interested in Ayurveda.
So in 1989-90 the Government of Maharashtra granted permission to start Bhausaheb Mulak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Hospital (B.A.M.S.) on no grant basis.
The B.M.A.M is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nasik and is approved by Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai.
It is also approved by Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) New Delhi.
The teachers in the institute are motivated to provide personal attention to student academic needs and to monitor their college sports and other extra curricular activities.
B.M.A.M today also runs a fully equipped hospital with capacity of 200 indoor patients with an aim to provide the poor with adequate medical
faculties, free checkup and medicines.
The hospital has all the modern facilities like labour room, gynaec room, X-ray, Eye dept. Pathology & Panchakarma, Operation Theater, ECG, an ambulance fully loaded and other facilities.
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Graduation of Europe's new astronauts
ESA's six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas today at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially 'astronauts'.
The new astronauts, smiling in their blue overalls, were in the spotlight at ESA's training centre today. They were presented with their certificates signed by Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General, Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of Human Spaceflight, and Michel Tognini, Head of the Astronaut Group.
The graduation ceremony, held in front of friends, family, guests and media, marked a milestone in their astronaut careers: the official end of Basic Training, the first phase of astronaut education.
This training covered space engineering, electrical engineering, different scientific disciplines and the major systems of the International Space Station (ISS) and other space vehicles.
It included scuba diving to prepare for spacewalks, robotics, survival training, rendezvous and docking, and the Russian language.
When the new astronaut candidates were selected in 2009, one of the main criteria was the ability to work in a team. The six formed a tight group from the beginning – a team spirit coloured their whole Basic Training period.
"When we introduced these six new astronauts, the most important part was not that there were six individuals representing five member countries, but a team of six persons representing Europe," said Mr. Dordain at the ceremony.
"When I signed your awards a moment ago, I thought that you should have also received a team award, because I know that your team is more solid now than it was a year ago.
"We can't assign you all to one single mission, but you will all fly to space and, when you do, I hope you consider a mission of one of you as mission of your team, too."
"ESA has three new astronaut flight opportunities to the ISS before 2015, so half of the new astronauts will have an opportunity to fly in space very soon," said Mrs. Di Pippo. "The first will head into orbit in 2013."
"I hope that with these ESA astronaut flight opportunities and with these new astronauts we can give a further push to scientific utilisation of the Space Station.
"I think this is important, especially now when we see the utilisation of the Station continuing to 2020 and hopefully also beyond."
European astronaut class 2009
Selection of the new astronauts began in 2008 when ESA called for candidates from all Member States and received more than 8000 applications.
After a year-long selection process, Samantha Cristoforetti from Italy, Alexander Gerst from Germany, Andreas Mogensen from Denmark, Luca Parmitano from Italy, Timothy Peake from the UK and Thomas Pesquet from France were invited to join ESA's astronaut group in May 2009.
The new astronauts will continue with pre-assignment training and taking part in public relations activities. Once assigned to a mission, they will concentrate on specialised training for that mission.
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Video coverage of the different phases of Basic Training of the new ESA astronauts is available at: http://multimedia.esa.int/Videos/2010/11/ESA-Astronaut-Class-2009
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Humans & Households: A group of the kingdoms bravest adventurers attempt to relax on their day off with a game of Humans & Households, where they face the terrors of suburban life, a roving pack of automobiles, intruder alarm systems, and a dire household guardian. From the mind of writer-director Matt Vancil comes a comedy about roleplaying gaming ten years in the making!
Natural One: When Gary (Christian Doyle) learns that his sister is engaged to a non-gamer, he drags Leo (Scott C. Brown) to Canada for a no-holds-barred gaming showdown in an urban cyberpunk wasteland. While their characters quest for a missing cybernetic arm, Gary must decide between completing his in-game mission or sabotaging the group and his sisters relationship.
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A half-naked woman running around a South Carolina airport on Sunday (Feb. 10) ground operations to a halt, causing flight cancellations and the airport to be temporarily shut down, according to the Florence Morning News.
Florence County Sheriff Major Michael Nunn said sometime after noon on Sunday, a partially-clothed woman wearing only her underwear was spotted sprinting across the airport's runway and into a nearby wooded area. Deputies were called to the scene where they used K-9 units to search for the streaker. Flights were delayed and several planes were forced to circle, and wait to land until deputies found the woman in a storm ditch where she was hiding.
According to a statement from Connie Anderson, the executive director of Florence Regional Airport, operations were temporarily shutdown during the incident for people's safety.
"Officers with the Florence Regional Airport Department of Public Safety notified the FAA Tower and requested air traffic be suspended until the individual was located to ensure her safety as well as those traveling on arriving air carriers. The Florence Regional Airport Department of Public Safety began a search for the suspect and requested the assistance of the Florence County Sheriff's Office canine tracking team to locate the suspect," Anderson said. "After a 30-minute search, Florence County Sheriff s Office canines led officers to a drainage culvert, where the suspect was located North of Runway 27. The suspect was removed from the culvert without injury, charged with trespassing and transported to a local hospital to undergo a possible mental evaluation."
The airport was closed for more than two hours while law enforcement officials searched for the woman, according to the Florence Morning News. Two American flights were canceled, one scheduled to land in Florence, and another departing the airport that was bound for Charlotte.
"The safety of our passengers is our number one priority and we take every measure to comply with FAA rules and regulations that are in place for their safety," Anderson added.
The woman was taken to a local hospital where she underwent a mental evaluation. Nunn said he does not expect to file charges against the woman.


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Hello All,
I am trying to scan a 2 dimensional array to see if there are any duplicates within a row or column; i.e. the concept of a sudoku game.
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|An elegant 38 storey hotel located right on the beautiful Jomtien beach. This hotel
offers 500 rooms decorated with a blend of traditional contemporary Thai interior with full
amenities and facilities. Each room has at least one or more spacious balconies facing the
ocean, allowing you to relax in privacy, enjoying spectacular view of the beach and bay of Siam.
Located on the much quieter Jomtien Beach on the eastern shore of the Bay of Siam, this D Varee Jomtien Beach, Pattaya is just a few kilometres from the very lively Pattaya and only 155 kilometres south of Bangkok. The transfer time from Suvarnabhumi international Airport is less than an hour and a half.
This elegant hotel features expansive guestrooms that are decorated with a blend
of traditional and contemporary Thai themes for a luxurious yet cosy feel.
Every residence is complemented by one or more spacious balconies facing the ocean,
allowing you to relax in privacy, enjoying spectacular view of the beach and bay of
Superior Room / Superior Ocean ViewNo. of room: 261 Room size: 40 sq.m.
Our superior rooms offer travelers comfort and convenience away from home. All of 40 square metre, Superior Rooms are especially designed for guests comfort. Bathed in warm and soothing colors, basic amenities such as coffee and tea-making facilities, in-room safe, IDD telephone, hairdryer, local and cable television channels and broadband internet connectivity are provided.
Deluxe Ocean ViewNo. of room: 113 Room size: 40 sq.m.
The spacious Deluxe room creates an impressive backdrop for your unforgettable stay at the hotel. With modern sleek glass bathroom design, this deluxe decorative appeal will ensure you are comfortable. Take a deep breath from the sea breeze at dawn or marvel at the spectacular view of the tropical sunset, from your own private balcony.
Executive Club Ocean ViewNo. of room: 48 Room size: 40 sq.m.
Filled with premium decor, Executive Club provides guest with a comfort and a top-class hotel experience. Enjoy endless ocean view in the horizon and a total privacy from your own balcony. Executive Club guests are able to spoil themselves with our executive club lounge benefit.
Two Bedrooms Suite Ocean ViewNo. of room: 38 Room size: 116 sq.m.
This suite will fit any family's needs. The suite comes with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a living room with its own lounge and a pantry. Guests staying in this suite can also benefit from a panoramic view of the ocean from three separated private balconies.
|DaRe Sushi Salad and Fruit bar
located a part of d varee jomtien beach pattaya. a simple traditional japanese style in modern design. serves traditional japanese dishes such as assorted sushi or creative fruits sushi menus. salad bar served with our secret recipe dressing. classy green tea and sake are recommended under the concept of "dine differently" to enjoy evening sunset with the last light of jomtien beach.
Operating Hours
Daily: 11:00 - 23:00 hrs.
| Frix
The ideal place to come for a variety of Thai & international cuisine delicately prepared throughout the day from breakfast buffet to the most romantic dinner. Come try some of our culinary delights in a relaxing ambience.
Operating Hours
Breakfast: 6:00 - 10:00 hrs.
Daily: 6:00 - 24:00 hrs.
Gusto Uno
Start off your day with a freshly baked bakery and your favorite cup of coffee at our coffee shop by the beach or in the hotel lobby. There is no better place to start your day than Gusto Uno.
Operating Hours
Daily: 8:00 - 22:30 hrs.
Garden Café
Indulge yourself in a wide selection of traditional Thai food and International cuisine delicately prepare throughout the day from breakfast buffet to the evening meal. Garden Café is located on G floor
Operating Hours
Daily: 6:00 - 24:00 hrs.
Dee Beach
Located by a long stretch of Jomtien Beach and away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd, this pub and restaurant is the perfect place to come and socialize with your best friends and family. Enjoy yourself in a wide variety of delicious local Thai dishes and authentic Vietnamese menu amidst cozy ambience along with live music performance daily.
Operating Hours
Daily: 18:00 - 01:00 hrs.
D Varee Inspiration Bar
Located at the top of D Varee Jomtien Beach, Pattaya on 38th floor, D Varee Inspiration Bar or D.I.B. is the latest rooftop bar with style where guests can come and relax under the sparkling stars and charming panoramic scenery of Pattaya city. D.I.B. is operating itself as a trendy bar readily serving guests an assortment of tapas and a wide selection of beverages ranging from imported beers to exquisite list of wine and plenty carefully selected cocktails crafted especially for this exclusive bar.
Operating Hours
Daily: 18:00 - 02:00
|Nusa 1
A high ceiling grand ballroom that can accommodate up to 450 persons to suit all your functions needs, from a cocktail party to a wedding ceremony, and a gala dinner.
Nusa 2
This function room is fully equipped with an audio-visual system and equipment for the meeting and seminar. Step out for a break to find a lush green garden just in front of the room.
Nusa 3
A place for all your meeting needs. Be it your personal event or a press conference, this room accommodates up to 40 persons, offering you a complete comfort and conveniences in just the right size.
Nusa 4
Located on the 3rd floor with an ocean view just outside the meeting room, your special event will be filled with calm wind and fresh air right from the ocean.
Nusa 5
With a size of 78 sq.m. and fully equipped audio-visual system, this room is an excellent choice for catering any private events.
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|The hotel's swimming pools are provided in different relaxing ambiences.
A large outdoor pool on the 5th floor exposes picturesque view overlooking the beach
while another located on the ground floor offers more privacy.
Alternatively, the pool bar also serves light snacks and drinks while guest enjoys a sun
tan at the pool area.
|Kid's Club
|Fitness Center
|Swimming Pool
|Swimming Pool
|Shuttle Service
|D Varee Jomtien Beach, Pattaya is an elegant hotel with magnificent 38 story located right on the beautiful beach, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Siam, just 2 kilometers from south Pattaya and only 155 kilometers south of Bangkok. Along the straight beach road, there are a variety of souvenir shops, food stalls, restaurants and activities in which to engage while transportation around the Pattaya and Jomtien area is simple.


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The Great Recession and real estate market collapse will always be linked. Just as the real estate crash of a few years ago has been primarily blamed for the economic downturn that followed, the housing market now is being closely monitored for signs of a recovery that could lead to wider economic growth.
If statistics released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) are any indication, the future of that cause-and- effect relationship remains uncertain.
Home sales statistics released by NAR in December show a housing market that is still struggling to find its legs. According to NAR, existing home sales declined for the second consecutive month in October 2013, to a seasonally adjusted 5.12 million from 5.29 million the month before. This is primarily due to a limited supply of homes and financing, indicating that sellers and lenders still have not regained confidence.
But there is some cause for optimism. While home sales fell, they remained 6 percent higher than October 2012. At $199,500, the median home price is also up 12.8 percent from the same time in 2012, representing the 11th consecutive month of double-digit, year-over-year increases in that category.
More relevant to electrical contractors, NAR has also released some statistics concerning the preferences of buyers. While the home sales market may not be strong, once buyers make a purchase, they are inclined to invest in home improvements, and many of those improvements may involve electrical work.
According to NAR's November 2013 "Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers," many buyers choose new homes to avoid renovations or repairs. However, new home sales make up only 16 percent of homes that are sold. When considering a home purchase, heating and cooling costs are important for the overwhelming majority of buyers (85 percent). Central air conditioning is the most important feature of a home.
In a similar survey released in March of 2013, NAR found that, within three months of a home purchase, 53 percent of buyers started a home improvement project, spending typically about $4,550. The most common improvement project is a kitchen remodel, followed by bathrooms. Of those who made these improvements, 41 percent added or replaced lighting, and 37 added or replaced appliances.
Turn to page 30 for more on this year's construction outlook.


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Back Of The House: The Fascinating Work of a Historic Gastronomist
Soon after entering Historic Gastronomist Sarah Lohman's New York home, I found myself drinking a vanilla cream soda made with baking soda and whipped egg whites. We raised our glasses in a toast, and drank down what ended up tasting like a warm, sweet saltwater flush. "Well, I'm not disgusted by it," she mused before checking over the circa-1880s recipe to make sure she portioned everything right.
Vanilla, Lohman explained, wasn't always so ubiquitous to the American palate, a factoid she picked up while working at a living history museum in Ohio. "Our year was 1848, and we were in costume, in character, five days a week, cooking period recipes in a wood-burning oven," she says. But because hand-pollination of the vanilla plant had only just been discovered, American cakes and cookies didn't yet have that splash of vanilla extract that's so common now. "Let's just say I developed a strong flavor identity of that year," Lohman says.
"Historic Gastronomist" is a title Lohman came up with to describe her mission of discovering American history through food, and using those findings to illuminate our current eating habits. "Molecular gastronomists, or modernists, use modern technology to advance cuisine and our knowledge of food," she explains. "I use history."
Lohman's interest in food history began while she was working on her thesis at the Cleveland Institute of Art. A trip to a museum's "historic restaurant" proved frustrating once Lohman learned that the kitchen was using modern seasonings and techniques behind the scenes. She decided to open her own historic restaurant as her thesis, and eventually moved to New York and started teaching historic cooking classes at Brooklyn Brainery and The Old Stone House. Her blog, Four Pounds Flour, details her deep dives into the history of American dishes and food traditions. She calls it "the next best thing to time travel."
It's also the basis for Lohman's first book, set for release in spring of 2015, which is why she was cooking vanilla in the first place. The book will tell the story of American cuisine through eight flavors that define our food, like vanilla, curry powder, and Sriracha. Or garlic, which James Beard was popularized in the 1970s, thanks to his now-famous recipe for Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic. "Garlic represents how we cook the way we want to see ourselves," Lohman explains. "Garlic came to America with the Italians, but they were seen as an isolationist ethnic group, resistant to becoming American, and offensive for that reason. No one wanted to cook like them. But in the '70s, people like James Beard and Julia Child brought this French Provencal style of cooking here. It was aspirational; we wanted to be like the French."
So just what can history teach us about our modern kitchen? Sometimes, it's about finding beauty in the innovations we left behind, and discovering that not all technology makes things easier. Lohman eschews bulky food processors for mortars and pestles, but wouldn't trade her immersion blender for the world. She also showed me two nutmeg graters, separated in production by over 75 years, but exactly the same in design. If it works, it works.
Lohman looks at the evolution of our food culture and sees how aspirational forces drove our dietary innovations to where they are today. "I won't insult convenience foods. We wanted less time in the kitchen," she says. Today, we have food processors and microwave dinners, but we also have bags of baby carrots, pre-washed spinach, and blocks of butter. "That's all convenience food," Lohman says. "We invented it so we could spend more time with our families, or to pursue our careers, among other reasons." It's only recently that we've evolved to create the luxury of cooking for pleasure.
One thing Lohman hopes to teach through her book and lectures (the next one is on chocolate with Masters of Social Gastronomy) is old-fashioned confidence in the kitchen, a skill she's developed through years of deciphering poorly-recorded historic recipes. "When I do programs, people ask me all the time, 'How do you know when it's done?' Cooking has been removed from our senses — now it's boiled down to an equation of time and temperature. But it's not done when the timer goes off—it's done when it smells done and looks done and feels done," she says.
So how does one make the jump from casual cook to food historian? Basically, the internet. Not only is it great for research, but starting a blog or website gets your work in the public sphere, and allows you to connect with other historians. You don't need a history degree, as long as you cite your sources (as Lohman puts it, "even non-academic writing is more fun when it's based on fact." Oh, and she's is looking for a fall intern, so that's a good place to start.
Before I left Lohman's house, I took my cream soda out of the fridge, hoping that it would taste better chilled. It did, slightly, but we both agreed that vanilla-laced saltwater is not the finest flavor from the past. Did our ancestors also think it was gross, or have our palates changed? We may never know, but we can sip in solidarity, 130 years later.
For more on Sarah and to see her upcoming events, check her website, Four Pounds Flour, or spend a few minutes watching Food.Curated's behind-the-scenes video from 2009.
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Part of the reason is each department makes its own decision on a case-by-case basis.
Federal offices in Washington, D.C. shut down on Tuesday because of a snowstorm that basically didn't happen.
The Wire decided to see what it would take for the Canadian government to close because of a snowstorm, and the answer is: it doesn't. We spoke with multiple Canadian federal government employees who wouldn't speak on the record because they're that polite. They don't want to offend anyone, especially Americans. But the overwhelming message was, nothing like today would happen up there, despite more extreme weather being more common.
Part of the reason is because, unlike in the United States, the Canadian federal government, especially in Ottawa, is so fractured and bureaucratic that the decision to close does not lie with one person. It's not run like a school board. One federal employee explained that each department makes its own decision on a "case-by-case basis" whether the elements are extreme enough to close for the day. Closing the entire Canadian federal government in one fell swoop is literally impossible.
(Image via Julien Hautcoeur/Shutterstock.com)


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Super Museum and Souvenir Store
The world famous Superman Museum officially opened in 1993 in the Man of Steel's official hometown of Metropolis, Illinois on Superman Square. The museum features more than 20,000 items from the life's work of longtime Superman enthusiast and collector, Jim Hambrick, who has amassed one of the greatest collections of Superman memorabilia in the world.
Among the items showcased in the museum from the iconic superhero's history are virtually every Superman toy ever produced, along with movie props and promotional materials from all the Superman movies & TV series, including Smallville and Man of Steel, and one of the only George Reeves Superman costumes still in existence.
The musum is organized around particular eras and portrayals of Superman, spanning television, movies, and comics – and is changed frequently.
The Super Museum has received many honors as well including being awarded "#1 Small Town Attraction In America." It has also been featured on television on The Daily Show, Entertainment Tonight, EXTRA, Treasures in your Home, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Kovel's on Collecting, TNN, E Entertainment Television and Unsolved Mysteries, as well as dozens of documentary and news programs around the world.
Contributor: René Carson


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Commencement is finally (almost) here for a number of students. Nearly 10,000 students have toiled over the last few years to earn their degree and approval to walk in their respective commencement ceremonies. I was asked to learn some of their stories so we could show the local community — and places farther out —what our graduates have accomplished and where they are headed.
So, to that end, I've worked over the last two weeks compiling information on a number of graduates to write short biographies for SDSU News Center. Wow. From working to help stroke victims and kids suffering from cerebral palsy, to fighting against the bullying epidemic in schools, and the sincere hope from many of them to give back to their communities in a number of ways.
And that's just their character, without even mentioning the intelligence that these students have to be on the Dean's List continuously, being named Outstanding Graduates for their respective colleges and a number of other honors and accolades.
And these are just a handful of the many who are going on to do great things.
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