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This post is inspired by the post, "What Exactly Do I Research?" by Marian Pierre-Louis in her blog, Marian's Roots & Rambles (18 June 2011). In this post, Marian describes her research interests. I enjoyed this post quite a bit, and have decided to emulate Marian here. Some of you may think you know what I research, and some of you may not have the slightest idea. So consider this an introduction to my research. …
My main interest is in writing, but my main income comes through client research projects. There are several kinds of projects that I work on:
- Document retrievals. If someone just needs records from Maryland or Delaware, and lives too far to obtain them for themselves, they will hire me to do so.
- Lineage research. The vast majority of my research projects are for clients who simply want to trace their lineage, but either do not have the time, knowledge, or access to records, to do so for themselves.
- Brickwall research. In many cases, clients have worked on a problem for years, and finally decide to hire someone to help them with breaking through the brick wall. This is my favorite kind of project. Sometimes I cannot break through the brickwall, but I do have a high rate of success.
I have conducted research throughout every county in Maryland, though I have the most experience in Prince George's, Anne Arundel, and Baltimore counties, and Baltimore city. Recent projects have been located in Frederick, Charles, St. Mary's, and Dorchester counties, in Maryland, and New Castle and Sussex counties, in Delaware.
However, I have also researched African American families around the country, including Texas (click here for an ongoing Texas case study), Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. My own family (not African American) comes primarily from New York, Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina, and my wife's family is primarily from Tennessee, Mississippi, and South Dakota.
Aside from my clients (and my own family, if I ever had time to research them anymore!), I have several research interests of my own.
My primary interests are in African American genealogy and the U. S. Civil War and "Reconstruction" eras. As much progress as has been made on all of these fronts, there are still so many unknown or little-known resources yet to be tapped. Tying into these interests are several other projects:
- Record groups nationwide, no matter how large or small their focus, that provide direct evidence connecting slaves or former slaves with their slave owners. Beyond the use of these records that provide direct evidence, I am also working on a guide to using indirect evidence to identify the slave owners of former slaves.
- Compensated emancipation in the border states. Especially the records of the Slave Claims Commissions, which were active in Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, and West Virginia, during and immediately following the U. S. Civil War.
- Slavery in southern Maryland. For nearly five years, I have been collecting records concerning enslaved families in Prince George's County, Maryland. This project has included Civil War service and pension records, probate records, bills of sale, runaway slave advertisements, vital records, federal census records, tax lists, and several other record groups concerning slaves and their owners. Some of these families will be the subjects of research case studies, and transcriptions / abstracts / indexes of some of the records will begin to be published later this year. Other segments of this research project will be appearing in magazine and journal articles, and presentations/webinars.
Another of my research interests is network theory. A multi-faceted and multidisciplinary study of how networks develop, network theory can be applied to the study of communities. The study of our ancestral communities has already been proven to aid our genealogical research, but I believe that network theory and its application to the development of these communities can take our field to a whole new level. A brief article that I wrote on the subject–though barely scratching the surface of the potential application of network theory–was published in the article "Small Worlds: Researching Social Networks," published in the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Family Chronicle magazine. These theories are also being applied in the above long-term project on the enslaved families of Prince George's County.
Now you know a little more about me and my research.
For more information, you can visit my website, particularly the "Publications" page. Or use the links below for more on my recent books:
- Online State Resources for Genealogy
- Records of the Slave Claims Commissions, 1864-1867
- The Civil War Draft in Maryland, Lists of Drafted Men, 1862-1865
- 1867 Texas Voters' Registration Lists, digital record images published as e-books
If you would like to cite this post: Michael Hait, "What Exactly Do I Research?," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 28 Jun 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]).


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Bruins 3, Jets 2: Marchand, Bruins take advantage of second chance
Brad Marchand found some consolation after being denied what he thought should have been a penalty shot.
The Bruins' winger scored the game-winner just 27 seconds after being hauled down on a breakaway and Boston defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Sunday.
Just 9 seconds into the third period, Marchand was breaking in alone on goalie Ondrej Pavelec when he was tripped up by defenseman Ron Hainsey.
"I was hoping for a penalty shot, so I was a little upset (when one wasn't called), but we were excited to be on the power play," Marchand said.
"We knew we could get some chances, and what happened was we scored."
Patrice Bergeron sent a pass to Marchand and he had room to move down the middle and put a close backhand shot past Pavelec for the go-ahead goal 36 seconds into the third.
Bergeron finished with two assists, while Tyler Seguin and Daniel Paille also scored for the Bruins. Tuukka Rask stopped 22 shots for his seventh win of the season.
Alexandre Burmistrov had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg, while Evander Kane recorded his fourth goal of the season and first in nine games.
Pavelec made 23 saves for the Jets, who lost their third straight and fourth in a row at home — the longest home-losing streak for the team since the franchise moved from Atlanta before to last season.
Jets head coach Claude Noel said his players battled and put their "heart and soul" into the game, but there were costly breakdowns.
He saw two errors connected to Marchand's goal.
"We ended up taking a penalty, but we should have had the guy to begin with," Noel said of Marchand being tripped up.
The second mistake was letting Marchand get open for Bergeron's pass.
"There were some breakdowns, like for example the power-play goal," Noel continued. "It's a middle drive. That's a play we practice, we work on all the time. It should have been covered. But it's not only that play."
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, who assisted on Seguin's goal, was glad Marchand got "a nice second chance."
"It was the first power play of the game for us and we obviously wanted to make it count for us," Chara said.
Winnipeg pressed for the tying goal in the dying seconds, but Rask kept the puck out as Boston won the second game of a five-game road trip.
Rask said someone got his stick on the puck and then it bounced off his mask and he heard the buzzer go off to end the game.
"I saw (the puck) going across and then Johnny (Boychuk) just dove and everybody was scrambling and then I saw it outside the net, so it bounced our way this time."
After a scoreless first period, the teams scored two goals each, including a pair in the last 27 seconds that made it 2-2.
With the Jets crowding the Boston net, the rebound from Zach Bogosian's point shot was flipped in by Burmistrov at 1:43 of the second period.
Hainsey played a role in Boston's first goal, too.
Seguin was credited with a deflected goal after Chara's shot from the point eventually bounced into the net off Hainsey's leg at 10:57 to make it 1-1.
Kane gave the Jets a 2-1 lead at 19:33 of the period when Nik Antropov sent a backhand shot from the backboards to the front of the net and Kane snapped in his own rebound.
But with just 2 seconds left on the clock, Paille deflected a long shot from Boychuk past Pavelec that tied the game heading into the final period.
"Obviously you don't want to give up a goal, especially after you score late in the period," Kane said.
"But at the same time, you're still tied going into the third period at home so it's not the worst situation you can be in. We had our opportunity."
NOTES: The Bruins were without winger Milan Lucic, who arrived in Winnipeg on Saturday but left the same day to return to Boston for what the team called personal reasons. ... Veteran winger Jay Pandolfo, 38, was playing his first game with the Bruins after signing a one-year contract as a free agent on Feb. 12. ... Jets defenseman Mark Stuart was playing in his 400th NHL game. His first 283 were with Boston.

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Fiery Orioles manager Earl Weaver dead at 82
BALTIMORE (AP) — Earl Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with the Baltimore Orioles seemingly was engaged in nearly as many arguments with umpires, has died. He was 82.
Dick Gordon, Weaver's marketing agent, said Saturday that Weaver died while on a Caribbean cruise sponsored by the Orioles. Gordon said Weaver's wife told him that Weaver went back to his cabin after dinner and began choking between 10:30 and 11 Friday night. Gordon said a cause of death has not been determined.
The Duke of Earl, as he was affectionately known in Baltimore, took the Orioles into the World Series four times over 17 seasons but won only one title, in 1970. His .583 winning percentage ranks fifth among managers who served 10 or more seasons in the 20th century.
"Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball," Orioles owner Peter Angelos said. "This is a sad day for everyone who knew him and for all Orioles fans. Earl made his passion for the Orioles known both on and off the field. On behalf of the Orioles, I extend my condolences to his wife, Marianna, and to his family."
Weaver was a salty-tongued manager who preferred to wait for a three-run homer rather than manufacture a run with a stolen base or a bunt. While some baseball purists argued that strategy, no one could dispute the results.
"He was an intense competitor and smart as a whip when it comes to figuring out ways to beat you," said Davey Johnson, who played under Weaver in the minor leagues and with the Orioles from 1965 to 1972.
Weaver had a reputation as a winner, but umpires knew him as a hothead. Weaver would often turn his hat backward and yell directly into an umpire's face to argue a call or a rule, and after the inevitable ejection he would more often than not kick dirt on home plate or on the umpire's shoes.
He was ejected 91 times, including once in both games of a doubleheader.
Asked once if his reputation might have harmed his chances to gain entry into the Hall of Fame, Weaver admitted, "It probably hurt me."
Those 91 ejections were overshadowed by his five 100-win seasons, six AL East titles and four pennants. Weaver was inducted into the Hall in 1996, 10 years after he managed his final game with Baltimore at the end of an ill-advised comeback.
In 1985, the Orioles' owner at the time, Edward B. Williams, coaxed Weaver away from golf to take over a struggling squad. Weaver donned his uniform No. 4, which had already been retired by the team, and tried to breathe some life into the listless Orioles.
Baltimore went 53-52 over the last half of the 1985 season, but finished seventh in 1986 with a 73-89 record. It was Weaver's only losing season as a major-league manager, and he retired for good after that.
"If I hadn't come back," Weaver said after his final game, "I would be home thinking what it would have been like to manage again. I found out it's work."
Weaver finished with a 1,480-1,060 record. He won Manager of the Year three times.
"I had a successful career, not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one," he said.
Weaver came to the Orioles as a first base coach in 1968, took over as manager on July 11 and went on to become the winningest manager in the history of the franchise.
"Earl was such a big part of Orioles baseball and personally he was a very important part of my life and career and a great friend to our family," Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken said. "His passion for the game and the fire with which he managed will always be remembered by baseball fans everywhere and certainly by all of us who had the great opportunity to play for him. Earl will be missed but he can't and won't be forgotten."
He knew almost everything about the game. He was also a great judge of human character, and that's one of the main reasons why he was loved by a vast majority of his players even though he often rode them mercilessly from spring training into October.
"His bark was worse than his bite, but you had to know him and kind of grow up with him, and then you loved him like a father," Johnson said. "He was a used-car salesman in the minor leagues during the offseason, so he learned a lot of ways to sell you on just about anything."
Pat Dobson, who pitched two seasons under Weaver, said, "Certainly, the years I played for him were the two most enjoyable years I've had."
During games Weaver smoked cigarettes in the tunnel leading to the dugout and he never kicked the habit. He suffered a mild heart attack in August 1998, and the Orioles' manager at the time, Ray Miller, wondered aloud how his mentor was holding up.
"I wouldn't want to talk to him if he hasn't had a cigarette in 10 days," Miller joked. "They've probably got him tied to a chair."
Weaver was a brilliant manager, but he never made it to the majors as a player. He finally quit after spending 13 years as a second baseman in the St. Louis organization.
"He talked about how he could drive in 100 runs a year, score 100 runs and never make an error," Johnson said. "He said he never got to the big leagues because the Cardinals had too many good players in front of him."


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Mathematics (C899)
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
- Accredited body
- St Mary's University, Twickenham
- Financial support
- Salary
- Qualification
Qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in state schools in England and may also allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
- Age range
- 11 to 18 - secondary
- Course length
- 1 year - full time
- Date you can apply from
- 30 November 2022
- Date course starts
- September 2023
- Website
- https://teachwestlondon.org.uk/initial-teacher-training
- Course summary
- School placements
- Entry requirements
- About the training provider
- Salary
- Fees and financial support
- Interview process
- International candidates
- Training with disabilities and other needs
- Contact this training provider
- Support and advice
- Apply
Course summary
Dormers Wells High School is a thriving and inclusive school. It is a vibrant learning community where students value their education. The curriculum is extremely well matched to students' needs, particularly in its wealth of enrichment and extra-curricular activities. The school puts its students first and wholeheartedly believes that every child matters and that every child should have the best chance to achieve. As a result, groups of all students achieve well. The school believes that improved self-esteem and confidence are fundamental to motivating effective students who love learning.
The school benefits from a stable, incredibly enthusiastic, innovative and hardworking team of staff. Teachers are committed to continuing to further improve the school in order to deliver the best comprehensive education it possibly can.
The School Direct Mathematics programme at Dormers Wells begins in September 2023. Upon successful completion of the training programme in Summer 2024, you will gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
All schools in the Teach West London Ealing secondary partnership are highly supportive and inspirational environments where you will develop the necessary skills and acquire a true appreciation of the practice essential for outstanding teaching and learning. You will learn your craft in an environment which allows you to experiment with teaching styles, strategies and ideas.
Your training will be delivered by expert teachers within the school. You will participate in weekly sessions which will cover a wide range of topics which will be of use to you in your subject area and the school as a whole. You will also have the opportunity to attend training events along with fellow trainees. Your school-led training will be complemented by attendance at St Mary's University.
You will be assigned an experienced mentor from within your subject area at Dormers Wells who will support you in your development over the course of what will be a challenging and rewarding year. All mentors are excellent teachers who are well-trained in mentoring, coaching, lesson observations and feedback skills. You will also work closely with a member of the Senior Leadership team who will oversee a great deal of your training and will provide an invaluable perspective on your role as a teacher and the wider issues of education leadership.
School placements
As well as your main training placement at Dormers Wells High School, you will complete a six-week placement in a contrasting context within Ealing.
This will afford you the opportunity to experience working with different students, within different structures and with a wider range of colleagues.
Entry requirements
Qualifications needed
An undergraduate degree at class 2:2 or above, or equivalent.
Your degree subject should be in mathematics or a similar subject. Otherwise you'll need to prove your subject knowledge in some other way.
Your degree subject should be in mathematics or a similar subject. Otherwise you'll need to prove your subject knowledge in some other way.
Grade 4 (C) or above in English and maths, or equivalent qualification.
We will not consider candidates with pending GCSEs.
We'll consider candidates who need to take a GCSE equivalency test in English or maths.
We'll consider candidates who need to take a GCSE equivalency test in English or maths.
We do not offer equivalency tests ourselves, but our university partners may do although these may be at a cost to the candidate.
Personal qualities
We seek to appoint applicants who exhibit a passion for and excellent knowledge of their subject and a commitment to the education of all young people.
It is anticipated that all successful applicants will participate fully in the life of the school and therefore it is essential that trainees are very well organised, hardworking and enthusiastic.
We look to appoint those with the potential to become outstanding teachers, with this in mind, it is crucial that applicants are resilient, reflective and responsive to advice.
Other requirements
You must have 3 years full-time (or equivalent) work experience (this does not have to be from an educational setting).
School experience is also essential if you are interested in applying for School Direct at one of the Teach West London Ealing secondary partnership schools. We prefer that candidates have up to 10 days of recent experience in a UK school. If you have arranged some classroom experience but it is yet to take place, please make a note of this in your application.
Teach West London Ealing secondary partnership Salaried School Direct trainees will be paid on the Unqualified Teacher Pay Scale (Band A, Inner London) area.
Teach West London Ealing secondary partnership schools offering Salaried places in Maths, Physics and Computing will pay trainees at least £25,000 as a result of additional funding being offered by the government.
Salaries for other subjects will vary depending on the subject and salary.
Fees and financial support
About the training provider
Teach West London, the Teaching School Hub for Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow, is the partner provider for Ealing's secondary School Direct programmes.
We work in collaboration with St Mary's University, Lampton LWA SCITT and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ealing has a fantastic reputation for its well-established training programmes and its excellent track-record of induction. Our commitment to ensuring that all trainees, regardless of subject or route, are able to benefit from the experience and expertise of the very best practitioners makes it an excellent place to train and procure employment once qualified.
For the past eight years, the majority of our trainees have secured their first qualified teacher role within the borough upon completion of their training year.
Please click on the following link to find out about recent teacher progression routes from trainees at the Twyford CofE Academies Trust: https://vimeo.com/360797633
Interview process
Shortlisted applicants should expect to first attend an interview at St Mary's University.
If successful, applicants will then be invited to an interview at school and to take part in some or all of the following activities: a presentation; a written task; small group teaching; curriculum discussion and an interview. You will be told in advance if you are required to prepare a presentation or to teach.
It is a rigorous and thorough process designed to ensure successful applicants are well placed to succeed.
Please note that we recruit on a rolling basis and usually offer only one position per subject area (unless otherwise stated). We suggest that you apply early as popular subjects are filled quickly.
International candidates
You'll need the right to work in the UK. You already have this if, for example, you:
- are an Irish citizen
- have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme (you may still be able to apply)
- have indefinite leave to remain in the UK
If you do not already have the right to work in the UK, you may need to apply for a visa. The main visa for salaried courses is the Skilled Worker visa.
To apply for a Skilled Worker visa you need to be sponsored by your employer.
Sponsorship is not available for this course.
If you need a visa, filter your course search to find courses with visa sponsorship.
Alternatively, check if you're eligible for a different type of visa, such as a Graduate or Family visa, that allows you to train to be a teacher without being sponsored.
Find out more about training to teach in England.
International qualifications
If your qualifications come from a non-UK institution, we may want to see a 'statement of comparability' from UK ENIC. This will show us how they compare to UK qualifications.
You can call Get Into Teaching on 0800 389 2500 for:
- guidance on the UK equivalents of your qualifications
- a free statement of comparability once you've submitted your application (if we ask you for this)
Training with disabilities and other needs
Teach West London, and its partner schools, aim to ensure that all potential staff have equality of opportunity, regardless of disability.
Contact this training provider
- email@example.com
- Telephone
- 020 8752 0141
- Website
- https://teachwestlondon.org.uk/initial-teacher-training
- Address
c/o Twyford CE High School
Twyford Crescent
Support and advice
You can speak to a teacher training adviser for free, dedicated advice. They are all experienced teachers who can give you one-to-one support with your application. They can also help you get school experience, and find events where you can speak to training providers and teachers.
Call Get Into Teaching free of charge on 0800 389 2500, or chat online Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm (except public holidays).
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Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio
CLEVELAND (AP) — The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who vanished a decade ago were found Monday, elating family members and friends who had longed to see them again.
Authorities later arrested three brothers, ages 50 to 54. A relative said one of them is the homeowner, his nephew Ariel Castro.
Police Chief Michael McGrath said he thinks Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were tied up at the house and held there since they were in their teens or early 20s.
A 6-year-old also was found in the home, and Cleveland police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said Tuesday that the girl is believed to be Berry's daughter. He declined to say who the father was.
The women appeared to be in good health and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated and reunited with relatives. They were released from Metro Health Medical Center on Tuesday morning.
Authorities declined to say whether the women were restrained or if any of them had been sexually assaulted.
Neighbor Juan Perez told NBC's "Today" show that he rarely saw Castro or anyone else at the house.
"I thought the home was vacant. I thought he probably had another property and he would just come and check and see if everything is OK." Perez said. "I didn't even know anybody lived there."
The women's escape and rescue began with a frenzied cry for help.
A neighbor, Charles Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he heard screaming Monday and saw Berry, whom he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through. He said she was trying desperately to get outside and pleaded for help to reach police.
"I heard screaming," he said. "I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside. I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."
Neighbor Anna Tejeda was sitting on her porch with friends when they heard someone across the street kicking a door and yelling.
Tejeda, 50, said one of her friends went over and told Berry how to kick the screen out of the bottom of the door, which allowed her to get out.
Speaking Spanish, which was translated by one of her friends, Tejeda said Berry was nervous and crying. She was dressed in pajamas and old sandals.
At first Tejeda said she didn't want to believe who the young woman was. "You're not Amanda Berry," she insisted. "Amanda Berry is dead."
But when Berry told her she'd been kidnapped and held captive, Tejeda said she gave her the telephone to call police, who arrived within minutes and then took the other women from the house.
On a recorded 911 call Monday, Berry declared: "I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years."
She said she had been taken by someone and begged for police officers to come to the home on Cleveland's west side before the man returned.
"I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years," she told the dispatcher. "And I'm here. I'm free now."
Police said Knight disappeared in 2002 at age 20 and is 32 now. Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. About a year later, DeJesus vanished at age 14 on her way home from school.
Berry is now 27, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Authorities didn't provide a current age for DeJesus. They were found just a few miles from where they had vanished.
Police identified the three suspects as Ariel Castro, 52; Pedro Castro, 54; and Onil Castro, 50.
Julio Castro, who runs a grocery store half a block from where the women were found, said Ariel Castro is the homeowner and his nephew.
Attempts to reach Ariel Castro in jail were unsuccessful Monday. There was no public phone listing for the home, which was being searched by dozens of police officers and sheriff's deputies.
Officials said Tuesday they had no records of anyone calling about criminal activity at the house where three kidnapped women were kept for years before being found. They also had no records of code violations or fire department calls.
Police did go to the house twice in the past 15 years, officials said.
In 2000, before the women vanished, Ariel Castro reported a fight in the street, but no arrests were made, Public Safety Director Martin Flask said. In 2004, officers went to the home after child welfare officials alerted them that Ariel Castro, a school bus driver, apparently left a child unattended on a bus, Flask said. No one answered the door at Castro's house, and police later determined there was no criminal intent, he said.
The women's loved ones said they hadn't given up hope of seeing them again.
A childhood friend of DeJesus, Kayla Rogers, said she couldn't wait to hug her.
"I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever," Rogers told The Plain Dealer newspaper.
Berry's cousin Tasheena Mitchell told the newspaper she couldn't wait to have Berry in her arms.
"I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her and I probably won't let her go," she said.
Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, who had been hospitalized for months with pancreatitis and other ailments, died in March 2006. She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter, whose disappearance took a toll as her health steadily deteriorated, family and friends said.
Councilwoman Dona Brady said she had spent many hours with Miller, who never gave up hope that her daughter was alive.
"She literally died of a broken heart," Brady said.
Mayor Frank Jackson expressed gratitude that the three women were found alive. He said there are many unanswered questions in the ongoing investigation.
Associated Press writer Kantele Franko in Columbus contributed to this report.


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Fox reality show spotlights Downers Grove business
This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment.
And they start it off in Downers Grove.
The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees are compelled to rat out underperforming colleagues. At the end, they choose one co-worker to recommend for firing.
"This is the thing they promise to do in retreats but nobody really does it," said Mike Darnell, executive in charge of alternative programming for Fox.
Thursday's first episode focuses on Velocity Merchant Services, a company based in Downers Grove that sells credit card processing machines. Sixteen employees participate, and the show quickly labels them: There's the procrastinator, the motor mouth, the jerk, the slacker and the tattle-tale.
Each employee is interviewed on camera talking about colleagues, then everyone is called into a conference room to see what the others said. They are also told each other's salaries, before voting on three of their colleagues that most deserve firing, a process that reduces one woman to tears.
Then, in the ultimate reality show twist, the 16 employees are brought into a conference room where the video screen shows portraits of each of them. One by one, a picture is removed, until only the three "losers" remain onscreen. One is the mother of company founder Dema Barakat, judged by her colleagues to be a management mole who is paid too much.
Next week: choosing who among the three get to keep their jobs.
The show's executive producer, Chris Abrego, said it is "absolutely not cruel. It's not like a random firing ... It really is a process of them proving their value to the company."
Why would a company put itself through this? Publicity is alluring, particularly for a small firm, and a show like "Undercover Boss" on CBS has proven beneficial to many companies that have participated, said Geoff Wilson, president and CEO of 352 Media Group, a digital marketing agency based in Gainesville, Fla., that seriously considered being part of the show. Producers offered to pay the company $25,000 to participate and would spruce up the office to make it more camera-friendly. Each employee who agreed to be part of it would be paid $1,500. Producers would contribute $10,000 toward a severance package for anyone fired, he said.
Velocity, or VMS, is a family-run company that had hit a plateau, said Danoush Khairkhah, CEO and Barakat's husband. Its biggest problems were with personalities, not with business, he said.
"Opportunity knocks only several times in your life," Khairkhah said.
He was interested to see how his employees would perform when given the chance to take issues into their own hands. They knew what they were getting into, he said, although they didn't know specifically they would see film of colleagues criticizing them or learn their salaries.
"It's not bad to sit there and hear what your colleagues think of you," he said. "How many times in your life does someone sit you down and say, 'Here are the things I don't like about you?' That's great. Now you can correct them and go on the right path. Some people can, and some people crumble when they hear negative things."
Things have improved at VMS since the show was filmed over five days last December, he said. Employees are taking more initiative and aren't afraid to speak up about problems. Khairkhah and his employees haven't seen the show yet. They plan a party Thursday night to all watch it together when it airs at 7 p.m.
He does have some concerns after seeing commercials promoting the show.
"No one wants to see a commercial about your business saying 'toxic office,'" he said. "If it was toxic, we wouldn't be here 15 years. When I saw that I was kind of shocked. But I understand this is show business and they've got to build up drama."
Darnell and Fox have pushed the boundaries of reality TV since it was first recognized as a genre, from the highs of "American Idol" to the lows of "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" He said he sees "Does Someone Have to Go?" as a new direction for a programming form dominated by singing and dancing competitions.
It's a revamped version of a show, then called "Someone's Gotta Go," that Fox had been working on with the Endemol production company four years ago. In its initial incarnation, employees were given the power to determine who should be laid off within companies that needed to shrink for economic reasons. The show drew awful advance publicity -- one magazine called it a step toward public executions -- and never aired.
Along with the softer name, the new version takes the economy out of it; productivity and personality are at the roots of employment decisions. A firing isn't necessarily mandated -- probation or options like anger management counseling are considered. Within the three companies profiled for the six episodes, Darnell said that people are fired.
352 Media Group was very close to participating, Wilson said. Most of his employees wanted to, although there was a vocal minority. He was told the show was called "Office Life," he said, but noticed a clause in the contract that gave producers the right to change the title if they wanted.
Hmmmm. That made him suspicious.
"I wouldn't say the producers lied to us," he said. "I would say that they creatively represented the facts." (Abrego said that dealings with the companies have been "100 percent above board.")
After Wilson turned Endemol down, producers sent him a copy of a show pilot to see what it was like and offer advice. He breathed a sigh of relief; his company depends on teams working well together and a public airing of dirty laundry would have been devastating, he said.
"I am unbelievably happy that our sixth sense told us to stay away from this," Wilson said.


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Marathon survivor who lost leg could soon wear high heels again
Heather Abbott had initial fitting Thursday at Next Step Bionics
Boston Marathon Bombing survivor Heather Abbott took another huge step forward in her recovery Thursday.
Abbott, who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, was hoping to create new memories when she returned to Boston Thursday to celebrate the reopening of a restaurant closed since the April attack.
Abbott and six friends had been waiting to enter the Forum for a cancer fundraiser on April 15 when the two pressure cooker bombs exploded on Boylston Street, near the finish line, killing three people and injuring 264 others, including Abbott.
Abbott visited Next Step Bionics and Prosthetics in Manchester, N.H., where she was fitted for a cover that will mirror her good leg.
She is receiving what the company said is "the most realistic cover you can wear on a prosthetic limb."
Abbott said she loved to wear high heels.
"I want to get back to wearing what I used to wear," Abbott said.
Abbott said when she received her initial leg, it was big and bulky caused her pain.
She has faced tons of challenges since losing her leg, and knows wearing high heels won't be easy.
"I am worried I will probably leave the town I live in now, which is all cobblestones!" Abbott said.
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Mushrooms are one of my absolute favourite foods and it was long past time that I gave them the grilled cheese treatment! My mild obsession with grilled cheese sandwiches has had me dreaming about a mushroom grilled cheese for a long time and it was finally time to realize it. I wanted to keep things relatively simple without compromising in flavour so I stared out by sauteing some onions and mushrooms slowly until they turned golden brown and caramelized bringing out all of their tastiness. Next I deglazed the pan with a splash of white wine to make sure that none of the flavour that had built up in those brown bits that stick to the bottom of the pan went to waste. If you are a fan of truffles then this is where you can indulge a bit and add some truffle oil to the mushrooms to make this sandwich even more decadent! I mixed the cheese right into the still warm mushrooms to give it a head start on melting, thus ensuring that all of the cheese in the sandwich would be melted by the time that the sandwich was grilled to perfection!
The net result was one of the messiest grilled cheese sandwiches that I have ever made but it was also so unbelievably good! I went with a combination of fontina and gruyere for the cheese as they both melt well and boy did they ever melt well! The cheese was literally pouring out of the mushroom melt, carrying with it a stream of mushrooms! Perhaps the best part was that some of that melted cheeses squeezed out while cooking and caramelized around the edges of the bread as it cooked! I see myself enjoying a lot of these mushroom grilled cheese sandwiches in the future!
Mushroom Grilled Cheese Sandwich (aka The Mushroom Melt)
Sauteed mushrooms and onions all covered in ooey gooey melted cheese in a grilled cheese sandwich. Buttery, toasty, and cheesy mushroom perfection!
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped
- 1/4 cup white wine or broth
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon truffle oil (optional)
- 1 cup fontina or gruyere, shredded
- 1/4 cup parmigiano reggiano, grated
- 4 slices bread
- 2 tablespoon butter
- Melt the butter and heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
- Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the garlic and thyme and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the cremini mushrooms and saute until the start to caramelized and turn golden brown, about 10-15 minutes.
- Add the wine, deglaze the pan and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 2-3 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper, add the parsley and remove from heat and let cool a bit.
- Mix the cheese into the mushrooms.
- Butter one side of each slice of bread and place 2 in the pan buttered side down.
- Top each with 1/2 of the mushroom mixture and finally the remaining slices of bread with the buttered side up.
- Grill until the cheese has melted and the bread is golden brown, about 2-4 minutes per side.
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If "Death to Prom" were one of costume designer Christopher Straub's efforts back when he was a "Project Runway" contestant, the verdict might be that it looks good, but the construction is iffy.
Shot in a candy-colored palette, the made-in-Minnesota comedy knows how to make a limited budget pop on-screen. Melissa Pritchett's production design and Straub's costumes are bright and fun in a make-something-out-of-nothing vein similar to "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," which won an Oscar for its clever costumes. "Prom" won't win any Oscars, but it is a terrific-looking piece of work.
"Prom" is a contemporary spin on a John Hughes movie, one where gender and sexuality are more fluid than in Hughes' more conservative world view. Rene (funny Ricardo Vazquez) is gay and fabulous. He and his best friend/partner in fabulousness, Frankie (Hina Kahn), both fall for handsome soccer player Sasha even though they're not sure if he's interested in boys (i.e., Rene) or girls (i.e., Frankie — and, yes, everyone in the movie seems to have a gender-neutral name).
As in a Hughes movie, someone's heart will get broken, there will be hurt feelings and everything will turn out OK in a redemptive finale at the prom. Unfortunately, unlike a Hughes movie, the quips in "Death to Prom" often feel forced, and the supporting characters fade into the background. Hughes wrote supporting characters that were funnier and livelier than the leads, but the "Prom" gang is a wan and indifferently acted bunch.
It's too bad. There's plenty to like in "Prom," which also makes deft use of Twin Cities locations such as the Witch's Hat water tower in Minneapolis. But some of the time, you wish the actors would shut up and get out of the way of the eye-popping sets and costumes.
"Death to Prom"
Directed by: Matthew Stenerson, Jeremy Wilker
Starring: Ricardo Vazquez, Hina Khan, Andrew Keives
Rated: Not rated, but contains some strong language
Should you go? Tough call. It's fun to see the Twin Cities used so well in such a good-looking movie, but there are script and acting issues. Two stars.


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This is the home of the reSIProcate projects.
The reSIProcate components, particularly the SIP stack, are in use in both commercial and open-source products. The project is dedicated to maintaining a complete, correct, and commercially usable implementation of SIP and a few related protocols.
Why choose reSIProcate
- Extensive range of transports: UDP, TCP, TLS, DTLS and now WebSockets (WS/WSS) for WebRTC
- Flexibility: use reSIProcate as low-level SIP parsing API, mid-level API for dialog management or high-level API for conversation management/rapidly developing softphones, PBXes and B2BUAs - and Plugin support using C++ and Python too
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America's golden daughter Taylor Swift, who turned 23 yesterday, is growing up and wants to prove it. Subsequently, she copped some rocker shit (stringy pink-tipped wig! Taylor Momsen eye makeup!) for the brand-new "I Knew You Were Trouble" video, which features some bubblegum Sid and Nancyish antics opposite the guy from Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, Reeve Carney. Said antics take place in a public bathroom, some hotel rooms meant to be "grungy" (but I've totally slept in that caliber of room on family vacations :/) and some playing of billiards that is meant to indicate that He's A Rebel, And He'll Never Ever Be Any Good. In case we didn't get it, he also wears Negligible Father Figure suspenders and a Problem with Authority fedora.
me: well its like [Rihanna's] "we found love" but not as gritty
Dodai: trouble = playing pool. that is the plot of the music man, right?
Oh, Taylor Swarft, I love you, but you should stick to dancing around in a twee bar. That was pretty darn believable. [MTV]
Her brand new English mini-heartthrob boyfriend Harry Styles bought her 23 cupcakes. [E!]
And her bestie Selena Gomez got together a coterie of girls to dance to the song in what apparently is a choreographed routine (though you coulda fooled me). [YouTube]
Kristen Stewart wore another see-through dress (this one better than the other, IMHO), this time at a premiere of On The Road. [The Sun]
Also, "Rob [Pattinson] is a laid-back guy, but he is starting to find Kristen's grungy habits a turn off. She rarely washes her hair, only brushes her teeth once a day at best, and very rarely wears perfume." To which I would respond: it's bad for your hair to wash it too often, perfume can be really overwhelming and yucky, and—yeah, that is pretty gross about the tooth brushing. [Celebrity Dirty Laundry]
Dana Martin, Mark Staake and Tanner Ruane, the bizarre team of would-be kidnappers and paisley tie stranglers of Justin Bieber after he didn't reply to Martin's obsessive Twitter messages, also planned to castrate the kid for money. To answer your next question, the bounty on Bieber's testicles, they estimated, was $2,500. And good morning to you. [The Mirror UK]
Barbra Streisand doesn't know how to make coffee. But she can always buy it in one of the fucking insane fake shops in her basement. [Metro.us]
- Jenni Rivera's parents are furious that graphic shots of the wreckage of her plane crash have been leaked on the Internet. [TMZ]
- Mmm, seedy! Scores NYC has offered to spot Lindsay Lohan for her storage locker if she does a series of web videos for their site (no nudity required). [TMZ]
- The little girl with cancer who received all that money from Charlie Sheen is smart enough not to watch Anger Management. [TMZ]
- Drew Barrymore is launching a cosmetics line called (naturally) Flower. [WWD]
- Matt Damon on romantic gestures: "No, I'm shitty at that. I wish I were better because my wife deserves somebody who surprises her with a gift or flowers or some wonderful idea. I've never been good at that, and she's really good at it, which makes me feel even more like shit." He also calls Michael Douglas, who plays his lover Liberace in Behind The Candelabra, a "wonderful kisser." [Gossip Cop]
- It finally happened: a 46-year-old man died of a heart attack after trying to recreate the Gangnam Style dance. [Examiner]
- L.A. Reid is leaving The X-Factor to focus on his record label. [Daily Mail]
- Jon Stewart says Hugh Grant was a little shit when he came to The Daily Show. [News.com.au]
- "People want a reunion. I joke that I'd totally do it if it's years later and my character, Ben, weighs 500 pounds. He's a shut-in, and they're bringing paramedics and pulleys to get him out of bed." Oh hey Scott Speedman from Felicity, I forgot how fucking adorable you are. [HuffPo]
- Adele recorded the Skyfall theme in ten minutes, you guys. What the shit. [Vulture]
- Just Chris Pratt being an awesome husband and responding to dumb shit about Anna Faris' baby weight. No big deal. [People]
- In case you missed it, Kanye West wore a leather skirt at the 12-12-12 Sandy relief concert. [Us Weekly]
- Hilary Duff took out her extensions but her hair is still long and blonde and looks the same...? NEWS, GUYS. [Us Weekly]
- Blah blah Winklevoss twins and Dubai. [Page Six]
- The hit and run charges against Amanda Bynes have been dismissed. [Radar Online]
- After a year of dating and recent marriage rumors, Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are apparently engaging in text-message fights. [NYDN]
- An obit for Bennifer. RIP. [NYT]


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Raters Offer Time and Talent to Habitat for Humanity
The Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET), Building America, and Habitat for Humanity have partnered to recruit certified home energy raters willing to volunteer rating services to a Habitat affiliate in their area. When a rater signs an agreement to volunteer, RESNET posts a special logo next to that rater's name on the RESNET Web site. Any Habitat affiliate anywhere in the United States can find a rater volunteer simply by clicking a link on the RESNET Web site and searching by state.
The goal of this partnership of home performance professionals and the Habitat network of affiliates is to deliver homes that use at least 15% less energy than the Building America benchmark and provide a healthy, comfortable environment that will last for generations.
|Habitat for Humanity realizes that a house is not affordable unless it is affordable to operate.
Habitat for Humanity realizes that a house is not affordable unless it is affordable to operate. Habitat will continue to work toward the goal of having all of its homes built to Energy Star standards.
Although many Habitat affiliates are unable to reach the 15% goal today, there are affiliates throughout the country that are committed to doing so. Although raters in some of the following examples charge for some services, the examples illustrate that rater-Habitat affiliate relationships can cut back energy use in Habitat homes, and can reduce the cost of building those homes.
I work for RESNET, and in the process of collecting information for this article I was pleasantly surprised at the number of raters who had been donating their technical expertise to Habitat programs in their communities long before our program got started. Although the program had to leap some hurdles to get off the ground, RESNET is proud to report that we have recently recruited over 55 volunteer raters in 36 states to volunteer their services.
Houston Habitat has been receiving free home energy ratings from DPIS Engineering to certify its Energy Star homes for the past three years. According to construction manager Mike Owen, making a home more energy efficient adds to the homeowner's monthly bottom line, and the attention to details in an energy-efficient home enhances the home's durability—air sealing in particular increases a home's durability by keeping moisture under control. Although the added cost of building an Energy Star house in Houston comes to about $600, utility rebates currently offset that added cost.
Habitat's Dallas affiliate is also on the leading edge. It has been working for seven years with rater Steve Saunders, president of Tempo Mechanical and TexEnergy Solutions, to design and build more efficient homes. Tempo Mechanical (HVAC) agreed to work for the Dallas affiliate at cost. Contracting out the HVAC improved HVAC performance in the Habitat homes and reduced the scheduled time for those jobs. "We were able to bring a very professional approach, and the home delivered quality, comfort, and reasonable utility bills," says Saunders. "Because of Tempo's high-volume purchasing power, prefabrication methodologies, and the reduced sales price, Habitat actually lowered their annual cost for HVAC labor and material." Saunders then sold the Dallas Habitat affiliate on the idea of building homes to meet Energy Star standards.
"It has been an exciting and fun partnership," says Saunders. "Our companies have a growing practice in low-income housing—many mirroring the financial arrangements we pioneered with Habitat. We love it because it is fun, productive, good for our folks, and helps us contribute back to the community that supports us. Helping Habitat adds meaning to our jobs and helps attract better and more socially responsible employees. We help Habitat, we help those less fortunate than ourselves, and we are better people and a better company as a result."
South Carolina
East of Texas, in Greenville, South Carolina, Todd Usher of Addison Consulting has been working with Habitat for the past two years. He convinced his local Habitat program to build homes to the Energy Star standard by literally taking them to
Atlanta and showing them how it's done. "The result of this trip was the commitment by Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County to qualify all of their new homes (about 16 this year) to the Energy Star program as well as the EarthCraft House regional green building program," says Usher. "Another result of the same trip was the commitment of our local county redevelopment authority to specify Energy Star qualification for all new homes built by the redevelopment authority in Greenville County (approximately 20 homes annually). We have been working with Habitat of Greenville County to model, inspect, and qualify all of their new homes under these programs—with the first home each year pro bono and subsequent homes at a dramatically 'in-kind' reduced rate." Habitat of Greenville now uses the Energy Star and EarthCraft program marketing materials to help attract new qualified home buyers.
"Our success with the program in Greenville County has been noticed by Habitat for Humanity in adjacent Spartanburg County, who just made the commitment with us for their first Energy Star home, which we are modeling now," says Usher.
Two years ago, rater C. Eric Eades, president of Home Energy & Repair Services Company, Incorporated, in Jackson, Mississippi, at the request of the local electric power company, Entergy Mississippi, worked with a team of building professionals to design and ultimately rate the first Energy Star home in Mississippi (see photo, p. 8). The process began with a meeting at the company offices. "We sat at a round table and worked through the entire REM:Rate program to create an Energy Star house," says Eades. "During this process we were able to reduce the number of windows, reduce the size of the furnace and A/C units, specify low U- and SHGC- [solar heat gain coefficient] values, increase the insulation levels, and specify a higher A/C SEER-value. To our surprise, the additional cost was approximately $500 over a standard Habitat house that was being built. Entergy was happy, as that was definitely inside their budget."
The plan review and construction write-up for this house is currently being used as a template for all Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson houses. The construction features, equipment when the cost fits the budget, and installation guidelines for this house have become standard. However, because of cost constraints and because high-performance materials have not been available, Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson has not built an Energy Star house since. The plan review, work write-up, and testing is still done when the builders request it, as they did five times in the first ten months of 2008. Blower door tests for the five houses tested in 2008 were all under the 0.35 ACH (natural) target.
"The greatest benefit is knowing that the houses are affordable and are energy efficient, even though they are not Energy Star," says Eades. "I also have been a Habitat volunteer through my church, Saint Andrews Episcopal Church in Jackson, for many years." When Saint Andrews builds a house, Eades does the plan review and follows the construction to see that as many energy-efficient features are installed as possible within the budget constraints of Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson.
Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
TriState Habitat for Humanity was created in a merger of eight different Habitat affiliates in the Greater Cincinnati area. It serves the counties of Butler, Warren, and Clermont in Ohio; Boone, Kenton, and Campbell in northern Kentucky; and Ohio and Dearborn in Indiana. "Due to the merger, we had several different building groups building in very different ways; not that they were all wrong or right, but we lacked consistency," says Randy Wilkerson, construction operations manager for TriState. "When I was hired six years ago, I felt we built a solid energy-efficient home, but we could do better. Over the next couple of years, I offered suggestions and ideas on not only improving our energy efficiency but also building a more durable, affordable home. Once we were all on the same page, it was a great chance to roll out our Energy Star program."
Wilkerson's efforts eventually led TriState Habitat for Humanity's board of directors to approve a policy that all TriState Habitat for Humanity homes be Energy Star qualified. "Our additional cost was less than $2,000 per house, or $20 more per month on the family's mortgage," Wilkerson explains. "This was a huge selling point. It cost the family $20 to save $50 or more per month."
"Our current goal is to have all of our homes average a HERS Index of 55 by July; right now our average is 58," says Wilkerson. "Once we get there, we will work to lower that again. This has created a bit of competition between our volunteer site leaders, who can build the lowest HERS and save the family the most money. We are on track to qualify our 12th home by the end of the year."
Wilkerson is proud of his affiliate's results. "For us, the priority is not only to build a simple, decent, affordable home but also to build a sustainable, durable, maintenance-free (or minimal), and efficient home as affordably as we can. Just as a side note, I heard a project manager for one of our local high-end builders doing community service comment that we build a better home then they do."
All TriState Habitat homes include:
- Rinnai tankless water heaters;
- Panasonic Whisper Green continuous running bath fans;
- range hoods that vent to the outside; and
- 2 x 6 framing in the wall where the service panel is, to add insulation behind the service panel.
The crawlspaces in TriState Habitat homes have always been conditioned. But now they have poured-concrete floors as well, to create a mini-basement.
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There are many more examples of raters doing good work for and with Habitat for Humanity affiliates all across the country. (You can read about some of them on our Web site.) We are just pleased that we can contribute to the cause by facilitating the contact between raters and affiliates. The personal testimonies I have heard from raters involved in Habitat projects confirm that this is an important program for RESNET.
Claudia Brovick is the director of quality assurance and accreditation for RESNET.
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CLEVELAND – A woman ordered to stand at the curb with an embarrassing sign as punishment for driving on the sidewalk past a stopped school bus skipped the cigarettes and cellphone as she served out the second half of her sentence Wednesday.
Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr, unhappy that Shena Hardin was smoking and texting Tuesday, said she planned to personally supervise the defendant Wednesday, but the judge later changed her mind.
Carr told WKYC-TV that she didn't want to cause a scene and was confident that Hardin won't drive on a sidewalk again. The Associated Press left a message at the judge's office seeking comment.
The judge had ordered Hardin to spend an hour Tuesday and another Wednesday with a sign reading, "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."
Hardin wore headphones and ignored passers-by Tuesday. The judge told WKYC earlier that she felt Hardin wasn't sufficiently holding up the sign and was "missing the point."
Hardin avoided smoking and texting Wednesday and wouldn't comment when asked if the judge had warned her to behave.
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Vail Hophead column: Building a beer dinner
VAIL – There are two ways to design a beer-pairing dinner. The first is to start with the menu for a meal and taste a bunch of beers until you find the ones that suitably match each dish. The second is to take some of the best beers in the country, pair them up two by two like animals on the Ark and march them across the palates of some creative chefs. The culinary team then combines bits and pieces of the beers' flavor profiles and marries them up with ingredients to build dishes that compliment the brews.I've seen both approaches work, but the latter is the process used to create the Collaboration Dinner on Jan. 10, part of the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, featuring beers from Avery Brewing Co., of Boulder, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, of Delaware.Adam Avery, beer guru behind Avery Brewing Co., said that brewery has been involved with the Big Beers festival since Day 1, having known founder Bill Lodge and his sister, current Big Beers maven Laura Lodge, for about 15 years. Brewers like Avery don't get a whole lot of vacations when they're spending every day battering down the doors of brewing convention and peddling their wares all over the country."It's a great fest," Avery said. "They do a really good job of taking care of the brewers, getting us places to stay, ski passes. … How many festivals can you go to and you're skiing the day of the fest or the day before the fest?"Avery has been to almost all of the Big Beers festivals, this being the 13th anniversary of the event. He said Laura Lodge originally approached him about doing a brewers' dinner and asked him to get brewing buddy Sam Calagione, founder and president of Dogfish Head, to sign on. Being a powder hound tele skier, Calagione agreed, and the Calibration Dinner, now a Big Beers staple, was born.Logistical balancing actFor the past few years, the Calibration Dinner for Big Beers has been hosted by Atwater on Gore Creek at the Vail Cascade Resort, where the festival is held. Executive Chef Todd Bemis, Chef de Cuisine Stephen Belie and Restaurant Chef Jay Spickelmier lead their team in a logistical ballet, cooking and plating this four- or five-course dinner for 100 hungry faces, all while the restaurant remains open for dinner service. Belie said that balancing act is ultimately more difficult than the creativity and fun of creating a menu to showcase the specialty beers the breweries trot out for this dinner. That whole process starts with a trip down to Boulder. Belie said the Avery guys stand in as representatives of Sam's beers, as well as their own, during the tasting stage."They know Sam's beers so well," Belie said. "They're so articulate. It's exciting for us and forces us to push the envelope."Each beer from Avery is matched up with a beer from Dogfish Head and then presented to the chefs to sip and savor and work their magic, imagining how different elements of a dish would enhance the flavor or aroma of the beer. The result and presentation have been staggeringly multifarious, ranging from flaming ride-along shots of rum to one very memorable hot-pink ball of spun cotton candy that had Avery breaking the no swearing on the dinner microphone rule.Jaw-dropping fareThis year, the Atwater culinary crew came up with a jaw-dropping black cod served with garlic cauliflower puree, raisin saucette, porchetta and flame grapes and a touch of dry-cured diced olives for salt. The sweet grapes and raisin saucette pick up the fruity tones of Dogfish Head's Raison D'Extra, and the bit of salt from the cured olives amps up the roasty, malty characteristics of Avery's Uncle Jacob's Stout. The team bucked the expectation of an easy dessert pairing for these beers, hoping to again achieve cotton-candy levels of infamy. Belie said he's confident the dish will add a whole new dimension to the meal.The mutual respect between the brewers and the chefs is apparent in the way they talk about each other's crafts. Avery said the Big Beers Calibration Dinner is one he looks forward to every year because of the creativity and dedication of the Atwater chefs. Belie said working with the Dogfish Head and Avery beers continually pushes his team to new culinary heights. "You know the chef is pushing the envelope, he wants to do something exciting and different – those are the best guys to work with," Avery said. "Here are all my beers that are super special – barrel series, super limited and never to be seen again. I'm bringing my A game, and I like to do these dinners with chefs who do the same thing. They are creating pieces of art, and that's kind of a one-time deal, making a plate that they'll maybe never do again. It's the same spirit of experimentation and imagination, and those guys up there do it right."For more news on your favorite brews, visit vailhophead.blogspot.com. Email comments about this story to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Oscar Pistorius' track career was put on hold indefinitely Sunday because of his murder charge, reinforcing the possibility that the double-amputee Olympian and disabled sports icon might never run again competitively on his famous carbon fiber blades.
Pistorius' agent was forced to cancel all future races, he said, so Pistorius could concentrate on defending himself against allegations he murdered his model girlfriend by shooting her several times in his upscale house on Valentine's Day morning.
Reeva Steenkamp died from gunshot wounds suffered inside Pistorius' home in the predawn hours of Thursday. Pistorius was arrested and charged with her murder the same day. His family denies he murdered her.
"I have decided that following these tragic events that we have no option but to cancel all future races that Oscar Pistorius had been contracted to compete in," agent Peet van Zyl said in a written statement late Sunday night.
A few hours earlier, Van Zyl had visited his athlete at a police station in the South African capital, Pretoria, where he is being held in custody in a red-bricked, one-story building with green metal fencing.
Pistorius has been there since Friday following the shocking developments at his villa in a gated community in Pretoria's eastern suburbs where Steenkamp was shot dead.
Her death and Pistorius' arrest stunned South Africans, who revered Pistorius for his humble nature and success at overcoming adversity to become an international star, despite having his lower legs amputated as a baby.
Pistorius still had "overwhelming support" from his fans, Van Zyl said as he left Brooklyn police station, but the agent steered away from a question from a reporter on what Pistorius' emotional state was now like following the death of his girlfriend and a possible realization that his entire career was in ruins.
Pistorius' sponsors -- including big-name brands Nike and eyewear manufacturer Oakley -- were also sticking by him, Van Zyl said. But that could depend on the outcome of a possibly lengthy murder trial.
"Regarding sponsors and partners, I can confirm that at this point in time, all parties are supportive and their contractual commitments are maintained," Van Zyl's In Site Athlete Management company said. "They have said they are happy to let the legal process takes its course before making any change in their position."
The Beaverton, Ore-based Nike Inc. and Foothill Ranch, Calif.-based Oakley Inc. did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Pistorius was quickly arrested and charged with murder Thursday, with prosecutors saying at his first court appearance a day later that they would pursue a more serious premeditated murder charge, which carries a life sentence.
Pistorius broke down and wept in the court, with his face in his hands. His family later denied he murdered Steenkamp and said the state's own evidence "strongly refutes" any possibility of a murder.
"I am not going to comment on anything except that (what) is related to his athletics career at this point in time," Van Zyl told reporters outside the police station after being asked how Pistorius was coping. "Obviously from a management side and also as a friend, it's a tragic circumstance and events that have unfolded and we can only give Oscar our support at this point in time."
Family members and his lawyers also visited Pistorius on Sunday, but declined comment both when they arrived and when they left the city center police station.
The family of Steenkamp, a model, law graduate and budding reality TV star, told The Associated Press that her body had been released by police after an autopsy and was back in their hometown of Port Elizabeth on South Africa's southern coast.
"Reeva is back home," the late model's brother, Adam Steenkamp, told the AP by phone. He had flown back from Britain, where he now lives, to be with the family.
They also said Steenkamp's funeral would be held Tuesday and would be a private ceremony for family at a local crematorium. Media would not be allowed in.
The main purpose for Van Zyl's visit to Brooklyn police station Sunday afternoon was to discuss Pistorius' running career, but "also to visit him as a friend and give him my moral support," the agent said. "On a personal level I wanted to offer my support to Oscar, who I have known and worked with for the last seven years and consider a friend and a great professional athlete."
Following the meeting, Van Zyl announced publicly that the five races that Pistorius had confirmed for in 2013 were canceled: two in Australia in March, exhibition races against fellow Paralympic champions Alan Oliveira of Brazil and Jonnie Peacock of Britain, and an appearance at the U.S. Drake Relays in Iowa.
Van Zyl's decision to cancel those races was first reported by the AP on Saturday. All others that were still in negotiation were also now called off, Van Zyl said on Sunday.
The high-profile rematch with Oliveira, who beat Pistorius in the 200 meters at the London Paralympics last year, was to be a straight line 200 race on Copacabana beach to promote the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics.
The runner's main goal for 2013 was to qualify for the worlds in Moscow in August, which is now almost certainly not going to happen.
Pistorius was the first amputee athlete to run at the world championships in 2011, then made history when he competed at last year's Olympics in London.
He and his coach have both said that they aimed to retire from track after the Rio Games, but one of the world's most famous athletes, who fought for years to be allowed to run against able-bodied competitors, is now facing the possibility he will never go to any major meet again.