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Karen Solomon's 5 Essentials for a Lively and Inventive Kitchen
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But how does Karen handle day-to-day cooking in her home kitchen? What are the five essential things she believes a home cook should know? Read on for her fun, eclectic list!Karen Solomon may be the queen of canning but she is also a mom with two boys and a partner to feed. She brings the same curiosity and inventiveness that she uses in her preserving pursuits to her home kitchen. She became interested in making things from scratch when she tasted a homemade vinaigrette for the first time while visiting her partner's mother. "She made it in the bowl," remembers Karen. "First she crushed some garlic with salt, then she whisked in vinegar, oil and black pepper. Up until then, salad dressing was a bottle of Wishbone that lived in my parent's refrigerator door! It blew my mind!"
Most people come to preserving through jams and pickles, but Karen was interested in condiments. From that first salad dressing she went on to teach herself how to make homemade ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard. "And then it was just a short step to figuring out how to make my own bacon!"
Karen's approach to life, both in and out of the kitchen, is bright and energetic and full of humor. She is above all curious, which automatically makes her a great cook. And, of course, generous, too, as she shares with us her five keys for a lively and delicious kitchen.
Karen's 5 Essentials for the Home Cook
1. Hack your kitchen! Don't waste your money on a bunch of things you don't really need for your kitchen. Instead, discover how to make do with what you already have. "Think of a MacGyver and Alton Brown mashup," says Karen. "You don't have to spend over $100 on an imported Harsch crock for your pickles. Just use the insert from your slow cooker!" Karen also uses her oven and refrigerator to dehydrate foods (this post from her blog gives the details) or removes both ends from a tin can to fashion a tofu or cheese press. "You really don't have to spend a lot of money to make great food. I probably should never work for Sur La Table," she jokes.
2. Cooking requires a soundtrack. You have to have music! "Sometimes I listen to NPR," say Karen. "But then it just drives me crazy and I have to put on some music and sing along. Be sure that it fits your mood and the dish you are making, or at least the task you are working on." Old skool hip hop like Snoop Dog or original 70's punk like the X-Ray Spex are perfect for when you have to do a lot of chopping. Karen like to listen to musicals (Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar were mentioned) when she's thinking hard about what to do or figuring out a recipe.
3. Take the Jane Goodall approach. A home cook looking to deepen their skills should be very observational and absorbent. "If you just immerse yourself in the food world, meaning read EVERYTHING (old and new, menus, books and mags, blogs and encyclopedias), watch EVERYONE (home cooks on YouTube, those tired Food Network shows, vintage Julia and Galloping Gourmet), eat EVERYWHERE (restaurants with varying ethnicities and levels of hygiene) and just sort of take it all in, you can use this information to amass a warehouse of food knowledge to draw upon.
"Jane Goodall made a lifetime of observing and learning, which is why I hold her up as an example. Be an open vessel to any and all ideas! Read any cookbook that has a spiral binding, read about what the pioneers cooked. About 80-90% of what you absorb won't be useful but the 10-20% that you do need? You will really, really need it. When I see grandmothers on the street, I wonder what their specialty is, when I travel to another country or even another state, I am obsessed with restaurant signs and names. I will purposefully seek out and make a day trip to a grocery store of any ethnicity. Food to me is archeological and explorative, a living study."
4. Don't take no for an answer. Karen is a self-described kitchen tinkerer. She never assumes that you can't make something. "One time, I took it upon myself to try to make a shredded wheat biscuit. You know, a homemade Triscuit," she laughed. "Just keep trying. Roast your own coffee, make your own breakfast cereal, try to make chocolate from scratch." Just keep at it and don't take no for an answer. "And fail! Fail proudly and often! I once made a Beef Wellington that was so bad, my family is still talking about it 15 years later. Don't be afraid and as Julia [Child] says, never apologize!"
5. Encourage and support the food system that you want to have. It might take more time and cost more money, but to the extent that you can go to farmers' markets, join a CSA, pay a little more for local food. Support it on all levels, from the neighbor kid's lemonade stand to homemade baby food exchanges. It's not always possible but it is becoming easier and easier these days. And if it doesn't exist in your area, CREATE IT!
Thank you, Karen!
For more information about Karen visit her website which has information on her latest cookbook project Asian Pickles (read our review of Asian Pickles: Japan).
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You can also check out Karen's amazing tutorial on how to make your own bacon on Food 52. And here is a quick and easy recipe from her recent series on CHOW.com.
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Excellent advice! I'd love to read more of her kitchen hacks.
I LOooooooorve this. Karen, awesome advice and quotes. I'm going to live that way in my kitchen from today on out ;)
And I want her playlist for Beef Wellington.
You're just going to keep it up until I buy one of her books, aren't you!
This was a really good post. I love this 'eat EVERYWHERE (restaurants with varying ethnicities and levels of hygiene)'.
"Take the Jane Goodall Approach" -- I love this! What a great name for a concept I wholeheartedly agree with.
Any food has to be a success if prepared while listening to Jesus Christ Superstar!
I love this -- very inspiring.
Yayyy! It's refreshing and inspiring to see that there's been someone before me that says, "I can make that!" I never thought of it as the Jane Goodall approach, but that is how I eat. I never understand how folks can travel someplace they've never been and eat at a chain restaurant same as their hometown, or go with the "safe" option. Pardon me, I'm going to go "hack" my kitchen right now.


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Capoeira is a good opportunity to let go of the "I'm sorry" hair trigger that plagues some females. "Women are too careful with each other," the Mestranda says. "It's like, I'm sorry? There's no sorry! You get out of the way. That's the challenge, for women not to think about it so much." It's difficult to picture Treidler hesitating — but then, she has been in rodas since she was 17 years old.
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"It would be a voyage of around 800 million miles around the sun in 501 days," Tito testified Wednesday at a hearing of the House subcommittee on space. "No longer is a Mars fly-by mission just one more theoretical idea. It can be done. Not in a matter of decades, but in a few years."
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Posted 14 August 2007 - 05:59 AM
My friend had a 3D desktop switching cube effect on his Linux Machine using KDE. How can I do that and what is it? Do I need a special video card?
Posted 07 October 2007 - 04:57 AM
Well as far as I know, no you do not need any special video card, just a normal one but powerful enough
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Posted 21 February 2008 - 04:43 PM
With a lot of RAM?
Posted 21 February 2008 - 11:37 PM
You should consider installing Compiz Fusion. It has a lot of nice features. The system requirements aren't high too, so most computers would be able to run it smoothly. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a link on the system requirements, but I've heard about people having only 64mb RAM being able to run it nicely.
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Posted 22 February 2008 - 12:41 PM
I will look into installing this. I really want that effect.
Posted 22 February 2008 - 03:32 PM
Is this similar to the OS X desktop switch cube effect?
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I'm not sure. I haven't tried OS X for a long time, and I've never used the effects. I would suggest you to find a video about Compiz Fusion on YouTube, watch it, and then compare it to OS X.
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I tried that on ubuntu, and i enabled the 3d cube function, but it did not work for me... i don't know how to use it.
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I am running Compiz Fusion on my Ubuntu box. Really great, actually ATI have improved their drivers a lot, I can run it now on my ATI with almost no problems at all.
Posted 18 June 2008 - 05:45 AM
It has Ubuntu installed, and no, you don't need a new videocard (unless yours is ancient, like 4 megs of memory or something)
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the 3D cube effect / functionality is sooo ... coool. Maybe a bit too ... bells and whistle-ish, but still, very freaking cool. I remember the first time I saw one of my coworkers set that up, I was like "holy **" that was awesome!
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Can anybody inform me how much of an upgrade I need. How much Ram and Graphics I need to get an effect like that?. Please inform me
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Oh, how I'd love to tell you about the wonderful purchase of our bikes. What a joy it was to finally decide and buy two brand new Kawasaki KLR650's. We viewed the bikes last Saturday (30th June2007) and were so impressed by them we went for it, even though they were $1000 more each than I'd budgeted for. They deal was worth it and we were over the moon, only $9300 for both; thats cheaper than one new in the UK. There was a black and a red one, despite insisting I'd have first choice on bikes I allowed Cai his pick and he went for the Red one. Oh why, just why didn't I stick to my guns and have my first choice, which was the Red!!
Riding down the Interstate 55 we were headed for the Pacific coast highway, which was our first planned route. Both of us were so looking forward to it. As the bikes were we had to deep the revs down to 4000 rpm for 500 miles, which means about 60 mph. The ride was going well, we took turns leading and stayed together, rarely being out of sight at all. We were separated by other vehicles pulling in between us but that was no concern. My attention was diverted by a van driving worrying close behind me, by the time that situation was over I checked for Cai and there was no sight of him. I reduced my speed and waited, but still no sign, so I pulled over to the hard shoulder. Another driver also pulled over and told me there'd been an accident, Cai was hurt but alright! I sped back up the hard shoulder to the scene to find Cai being cared for by other motorists with experience in such first aid.
Cai just wanted me there to hold him and hug him, he was in a lot of pain but wanted me to know what had happened. As he pulled over to another lane his engine lost power, the next thing he know a large freight truck plowed into him.
As we waited for the emergency services he was having problems staying conscious. When they took him to the hospital I was left to ride my own bike there, where I was denied access to see him and given a sheaf of paperwork to sign. After about four hours of surgery and resuscitation they couldn't restart his heart.
I expect to get his body back home by the beginning of next week where we'll have a service and wake for the multitudes of friends and family who Cai meant so much to. Just this morning I have found out his grades from his International Baccaluareate were excetional, top of his class and plenty for him to be able to study medicine. He was so keen on using his life to help others, to have an positive effect on our imperfect world.
I will forever treasure the all too short time Cai had alive, he was the dearest friend and the most wonderful person I've ever known. He was my life!!
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Approximately 155,000 of us die each day; 6,458 an hour; about 2 every second.
Eight people died while you read that last line.
And for approximately 1,800 of us each year in Vancouver, Boris Gomez is our body's final stop.
Boris looks like a gangster from East L.A.–baggy black Dickies, short sleeve black dress shirt exposing tattoos on his upper arms, hair pulled back in a Latino 'fro ponytail.
He incinerates dead people at a Hell-hot temperature of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit six days a week, eight hours a day.
More than half of all Canadian deaths in 2008 will be followed by cremation. In the U.K. the number is over 70%, with Bulgaria limping along at 5%, Japan winning Gold with 99% and the USA below average with 33%. Generally cremation is on the rise world-wide. It's becoming so popular even Catholics are getting in on the action.
With that in mind I needed to find some answers for myself. What happens to my body after sweet Jesus comes calling? Would I prefer my family watch as I roll into a massive oven inside a ornately designed, heavily lacquered box only to get swept up a couple hours later as ashes and dust? Or would I rather they gaze upon a Madam Tussaud's version of me that afterward will be lowered into the ground to slowly rot and leak embalming toxins into the Earth for tw0 decades? That and I wanted to find out what it takes to burn bodies for a living. What with a looming apocalypse on the horizon cremationism may be one of the few decent paying careers left when our globe warms too much, the oil runs out and the asteroids hit.
Boris and I arrange to meet at the back of the funeral home after regular business hours. Apparently allowing strangers to watch and photograph other dead strangers burn is frowned upon. In some circles.
As soon as I step foot into the facility I am reminded of why dying can be such a morose experience for those left behind. How strange that all funeral homes look and smell like the last place you and your loved ones want to give Granny her send-off. Funeral homes are institutional and drab and have effectively ruined my ability to tolerate artificial air fresheners. Purple gel-pack fragrances–plugged into electrical outlets–emit sickeningly potent, artificially cheery odours meant to mask the stench of years of accumulated death. Having been through three funerals in the last two years in exactly such environs my initial response is to turn and walk away. But I don't.
Boris guides me through the cremains display area–essentially an indoor graveyard for cremated people–then onto the actual room that houses the retorts or ovens. This room is accessed through a biohazard door, looks like a WWII Soviet military bunker, produces a constant industrial drone and smells like…cremation. Which is to say burning flesh is most often associated with pig roast. But that's not all. Throw in some burning cardboard, plywood or lacquered hardwood coffin. Then add the unmistakable stink of singed hair, melting polyester, cotton and silk, and the chemical sting of boiling embalming fluid. Voila. You now have the pungent stench of the stranger's cremation I chose to bear witness to.
Rob: How did you get into the job of body incineration?
Boris: Since I was 10 or 11 I've wanted to do make-up on bodies. I was really into Tom Savini (Vietnam vet who excelled in gory make-up), KNB Effects (Evil Dead 2, Day of the Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction), and Fangoria Magazine and I thought to do it on real bodies would be great. After film school I went to make-up school and that got me closer to trying to do something with embalming. Then a couple years ago a friend of a friend who was working here told me there was an opening. Thought I'd fit the bill. And I've stayed with cremation because I really fell in love with the process. I enjoy working with one of the essential elements, watching fire dismantle a body.
Rows of cardboard and pine boxes, some covered with fuzzy blue fabric, lay side by side behind a hospital curtain, waiting to be burned. On each box is a piece of paper that reads HEAD in bold letters and gives details of the person's time of death, age and gender. Boris selects a middle-aged man named Burt and rolls him on a stretcher into the retort room.
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R: What temperature do the ovens burn at?
B: The retorts can be anywhere from 1700 to 2400 degrees farenheit. When you open the retort doors the brick lining has swelled because of the heat.
R: It takes the average body how long to burn?
B: 2-3 hours. But if you have a lacquered casket it can take 45 minutes longer.
R: And all that lacquered wood goes out into the air?
B: Uhuh.
R: And it's toxic?
B: Yeah, it's horrible. If you ever get cremated it's completely pointless to get put in this ornately decorated casket that costs anywhere between $4,000 and $8,000. And the casket is lined with zinc a lot of the time and at 2000 degrees zinc liquifies. It's a huge mess. I think if a family saw the difference between getting cremated in a pine box as opposed to a huge lacquered limousine…
R: …They'd choose not to.
B: Yeah.
R: I recently read on-line that there's increasing community opposition to the pollution caused by cremation, particularly mercury found in fillings and there's been suggestions that you the cremator would be required to pull teeth out of a body before burning. How do you feel about this?
B: I'd be totally into pulling teeth out of bodies! If a family wants to bring their loved one to this crematorium I'd love to wrench at the body's face to pull teeth. But I think in the end it's a negligible amount of Mercury.
R: What's the most disturbing thing you've had to go through here at the crematorium?
B: Nothing disturbing, there was something absolutely fucking horrendous to go through but I'm glad I experienced it.
R: Go on.
B: I received a close to 300lb woman in a cardboard box and I noticed a stain on the side of the box.
R: What was it?
B: It was her purging inside of the box.
R: What's she purging?
B: Purging black bile basically. When you die all your organs start to fill with gases. They liquefy from the inside out and that's purge fluid. I was dealing with another family about to witness their baby's cremation. I was about to head into the witness room with them when this 300 lb. woman in this blue, cat-print velvet jump-suit plops out of her box (coming apart from purge fluid) onto the floor.
R: Oh shit.
B: So I dealt with the family and came back and grabbed the woman, who was face-down, and rolled her over. It's weird how stiff and rigid and at the same time floppy a body is. It's all those things at once. So I roll her over and she's purging out of her nose and mouth and crotch. Her entire crotch area was just, like, blackened.
R: (I make a noise of disgust that I don't know how to spell.)
B: The ground was covered in this basically greasy, filmy type of slime. I can't really describe it's consistency. Like oil. It's right away sticky and it smells like…….rotting blood basically. It's pretty amazing really.
R: Does it smell a little like faeces?
B: Faeces with, like if you left a pack of hot dogs out of the fridge for a couple days. And smelling salts. It's got something really horrible like shit and then something else really pungent like rotting flesh but then there's that third thing that even if you completely lost your sense of smell it would be like a punch to the face. Your eyes water. Automatically your head recoils. You can't help it.
R: (whispers) Wow!
Boris has set Burt in line with the steel door of the massive, silver-coloured, industrial oven. The door slowly raises revealing the blackness of the brick-lined interior. Boris pulls a lever and Burt rolls into the dark, plopping off the conveyor belt with a cringe-inducing thud. Now the door descends and Juan presses a green button. A loud click can be heard signalling the furnace firing up, followed a few seconds later by an overwhelming jet engine sound. I imagine Burt as the dead Captain Spock waiting to be launched into orbit for his space burial in the final scenes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
R: How many bodies do you burn a day?
B: Six to eight. We have a guy who services our machines, he basically goes all over North America and he commented on how one of our machines basically just fucking swallows a body. What takes three to three and a half hours, our machine can do in 45 minutes to an hour. If you open up the door you'll actually see the flame tear through the skull, it'll chip the skull into pieces.
I expected to see eyeballs melting and skulls chipping away from flame but unlike the 1970s when a person could watch the entire grim process through an oven window, today's laws state that the door must be solid steel. I can only witness certain stages of the process in 15 minute intervals.
R: Are you a religious person?
B: I am religious but I'm surrounded by a lot of people who are either not religious or extremely anti-religious. And whenever I bring those types of people in, whether they're Agnostic or Atheist and they watch the retort door open up and watch a cremation and something elemental happens, they watch the flame bombard the body…it's the closest you can get to a religious experience. A religious experience in a non-denominational way. It's, it's… disquieting and peaceful at the same time. People always come in and expect something really gory and nasty but I think what impresses people the most is how fascinating and awe inspiring it is to watch it.
R: It seems like someone who's been around death or has seen death and maybe has a predisposition to being cool under pressure, like working with a dead body or being a doctor, well that's the kind of predisposition it takes.
B: Yeah and I would say when it comes to what I do compared to what doctors or nurses see, it's nothing. I can look at a body while it's purging fluids from every orifice, it's dead, it's a slab of meet. You know what I mean? That's the way I see it. But when I think of what a nurse sees, pain and misery and you know, somebody's life in the balance, looming death…I couldn't do that I don't think.
R: Does the body make any sounds when it burns away. Like organs boiling or anything?
B: Yeah you hear flesh pop. You're fat is really porous. There's layers of grease basically beneath the skin that when it heats up, it's got all this skin to fucking like… explode through. When the (oven) door's open I take the ten foot hook and hook the body somewhere under the rib cage and because there's only one flame I've gotta keep dragging the body forward so it's always under the flame. So when I do that I hear oozing and melting and popping…um…and it's pretty strange.
R: And have you ever been burned by fat popping out?
B: Yeah I've opened the door too early, like you're supposed to wait an hour but I only waited 15 minutes. It was a really big man I remember, um…he was 400 lb. This man was like a circle basically inside the bag before I put him in his box, there were no poles to it, it was a perfect circle. So you have to open up the bag to I.D. them, you have to stick the toe tag on them…
R: You have to do that?
B: Yeah when I pick-up a body from the hospital. So I open up the bag and it's this man, he still had a hospital gown on and he only had, I guess he was an amputee so he only had up to his, like, knees.
R: And he was still 400 lb.?
B: Still 400 lb., so you could imagine how fucking big he was.
R: ….(this is me being speechless)
B: We couldn't even put him on a normal stretcher. So anyway we put him in a huge box (at the hospital) and a week later we got him. I put him in the machine, waited 15 or 20 minutes and then with the big hook I hooked him under the rib-cage and I kept pulling and pulling and I guess I tore right through him and some fat came popping out. I got some on the neck, on the arm and when fat burns it's like napalm, it sticks to you and spreads.
Now Boris takes me around to the back of the oven to open the smaller back door for a close-up view of the process. As the door raises I can make out Burt's feet which have been stripped to bone. Further back in the center of the oven the bulk of his body burns as an intense white light fueled by organs and fat. Further back still Burt's right arm, which has curled upwards due to the extreme heat, is waiving hello to me. I wave back and pray that none of his fat shoots out and sticks like burning napalm to my face.
With the oven door open more than a few seconds black clouds of cooking Burt billow out. It's now that I get my first-hand effects of burning body. Like chain-smoking a pack of human.
R: (Coughing and gagging) Describe what you inhale on a daily basis will you?
B: In the beginning it's horrible because it's the hair going and that's all you can smell if you open the retort right away, and then the box covers that up so it's nice. But then if you wait 15 minutes, that's when it's the first layer of skin and then you start to get to the fat and it's got such a sweet smell to it.
R: Uhuh
B: It's like mesquite barbecue.
R: How accurate is The Cremation of Sam MaGee? Does a body really dance around in the flames? Like, why was Burt's arm waiving to me?
B: Well a body will go into a pugilist stance–the arms go up and it looks like it's getting ready to fight. When the tendons are heated-up they contract and all the limbs kind of shoot up. Looks like a dead cartoon cat on the ground with all it's limbs in the air.
R: Besides fat shooting out of the machine when the doors are open is there anything else hazardous about burning a body?
B: Pace-makers. The chest cavity will explode from the pace-maker heating up inside. And it's so fucking powerful an explosion the pace-maker will actually make divets in the brick lining.
R: I thought you'd be a whack-job but you seem relatively normal for someone who burns bodies for a living. What are your co-workers like or other people you've met in this industry?
B: There are three types of people that come to work in the funeral industry in general: There are the people, like me, who know they've always been into this type of thing, who can handle it and find it interesting. And then there are the people who really find it rewarding to deal with the families, to give the families what they want and help them in their time of need. And a lot of them are gay men. Gay men are the best with families. They pay attention to detail, they're so empathetic, they don't rush the family through, they make follow-up calls, all that type of stuff. And then there's the third type of person, who are the most interesting by far. They're the type of people who had bank jobs or….basically come from all walks of life, tried many things before they got here. And failed miserably at all of them. They come here with a lot of hostility…strange pathologies. They're really fucked-up people. And they stick out like sore thumbs. It seems like every funeral home has one or two. A lot of them are managers, secretaries or funeral directors. And they're completely deranged people. A lot of people find crazy people cool or interesting or kitschy. I don't. I work with these people and I think they're nuts. It's extremely painful to have a family come in and I'm working shoulder to shoulder with this illiterate monkey who every time they open their mouth offends the family.
It's probably the hardest part of this job. Not the dead people or any of the macabre stuff. It's working with this, like…degenerate inbred.
R: Other than that do enjoy this job?
B: I do enjoy it. I like working with one of the elements, with fire and watching a body burn. Because I always think about what I do here and where it stands in the larger scheme of things. It's a pretty amazing thing to get on a bus full of people or go into a bar full of people or be at a friends house or a party; to be surrounded by people when six days a week, you know, you have just come from lighting someone's grandma on fire or setting a couple foetuses aflame.
R: You're a real conversation piece. Can I invite you to my next dinner party?
B: (chuckles)
R: Do you have any coping mechanisms for this job when it gets to be too much?
B: Like many people, alcohol. I think about death a lot, I don't see daylight or living people for long stretches of time. So when I go out and drink I turn into a Berzerker, I'm like a fucking Hispanic Viking. I remind myself to take advantage of life so in a way my job lights a fire under my ass.
R: An alcoholic fire?
B: Yes. But I only drink once a month.
cremationist with boxes of babies
R: Does the job or experience you have here change when you see the body, when you see their face before lighting them up?
B: To me it's a warehouse when I come to work right? I come in here load boxes, feed them to machines and the machines turn them into ash. It's a faceless job. But sometimes I read a name, I get curious and I look them up online or I read an obituary that's been posted online.
R: You do that afterward?
B: I do it during the process. It doesn't feel right sometimes that I uh…open the retort and it's a carcass. It could be a fucking pig carcass and it doesn't mean shit to me. But if I read a name…you know like Jewish people, one of the most intimate things a Jewish person does is tell you their name. That's why to them God's name is such an important thing. And I believe in that, I think it's an important aspect.
R: Are you Jewish?
B: No. I'm Roman Catholic with some Agnostic tendencies.
R: Will you say the dead person's name out loud to yourself?
B: Yeah, I'll actually be on the bus, or I'll be at a bar and I'll be drinking my fifth or sixth beer and their name is still going through my head, and it goes through my head all night long. And sometimes I'll read something on the casket written by a daughter or something and that goes through my head. And not in a sentimental way.
R: More like an imprint?
B: Yeah, no emotional attachment, it's just that I do feel a kinship with every single body that comes through here. These are some of the closest relationships that I can build. And they're with dead people. You know what I mean? Because I can't think of anything more intimate than someone saying I put the responsibility squarely on you to do away with my body.
R: Do you ever say a little something, an invocation or prayer of any sort?
B: Yeah I say… different types of prayers. I basically beg God that nothing goes wrong again during a witness (when the family watches). Or if it's somebody that nobody came to witness or there's no next of kin, yeah I say something from me to them.
R: What do you say?
B: Uh, that's uh between me and them. It's however I feel at the time. Sometimes it's something quick and I'm wondering what they were like or if they're (spirit) present or if they're watching. You know…is there anything beyond just this slab of meat that's about to get cooked?
What remains of Burt is swept into a collector bin and carried to the bone-crushing room where Boris proceeds to do just that. Metal hip replacements, buttons from a suit, in some cases nails and other metal coffin parts, and in Burt's case a mouth retainer, are all collected by an industrial strength magnet and thrown away. The remaining bone fragments are then funnelled into a large blender and aggressively reduced to ash.
R: What is the difference in funeral experiences for you between casket and burial?
B: When you cremate a body it's such a final thing. I've actually never had anybody close to me die where I've had to go to a funeral or to witness a cremation. But whenever I do think about that, whenever I weigh the two options I think okay we take a body which is still intact and we put it in a box, it gets lowered 6 feet into the ground and we put soil over it, you can walk away but it's still there. You know what I mean?
There's still an attachment, like it isn't completely final.
R: And of course the process of cremation, especially if you witness one, it's immediate and there's nothing left to hang on to.
B: Yeah I think with a cremation it's so much more of a full stop. You know, it's like, you get ushered into the viewing room, the curtain opens, you watch the casket go into this machine, you turn on the switch, wait a couple seconds and the light comes on and you hear the flame bombarding the casket, bombarding the body.
R: Have you questioned your own mortality or life in general since you got this job? I mean, beyond binge-drinking like a Hispanic Viking once a month?
B: Some people that get into this job like to pretend that they've cornered that aspect of living. Like they know death. I know death about as little as anyone. The bodies that I look at, that's not death, that's just a dead body. I still sit around navel gazing, doing little with myself the way I was before I had this job. But I reflect on life and death more. Before I got into this job I was scared shitless of death. I was so scared that I needed to be surrounded by it. I wanted to see it as much as possible.
R: But doesn't that desensitize you in some way?
B: Yes and no. I can do eight bodies in one day and it won't mean shit to me but then the first one the next day…an idea pops into my head and I think, that could be my mom or that could be my little sister. And then I think I'm glad it's you in that box and not my family or me.
I left the crematorium that evening with the smell of burning human on my clothes. My eyes were red, my throat was dry and scratchy and I felt the overwhelming urge to hug someone. I drank Scotch with friends instead. And for days I was haunted by the experience; the stench, the cold industrial facility, the images of a body engulfed in flames.
I thought of the funerals of friends and family I'd been to in the last two years and thought about how pleasant it was after the sombre indoor service to be outdoors, gathered with loved-ones, watching the casket lower into its resting place. Would I rather my mom and dad, or a girlfriend get ripped apart by flame in a giant oven in a stark factory setting? No. Funeral wins. As macabre as it is that we're able to cling a little longer to a mummified version of the once living person, slowly decaying over decades, it does feel like a more peaceful process.
As for my own body. Genetics informs me–and this is confirmed by two Gypsy psychics–that I die 60 years from now. So if any of my friends that care for me are still around… They can do what pleases them. Burn me, bury me, make art out of me, eat me. I do not care.
Could I do Boris' job? If I had to. $20 an hour isn't a bad wage considering the working conditions. Throw in $5 more an hour and send me to Bali to burn bodies outdoors on a pyre and I'll cook 'em all day. With reverence of course.


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Report: Microsoft plans 7-in. tablet to compete with Apple, Google
Microsoft also continues testing its own smartphone, according to a newspaper report
IDG News Service - Microsoft is said to be planning a 7-inch version of its Surface tablet to help it compete with similar size devices from Apple and Google.
The 7-inch version, which will go into mass production later this year, is part of a new lineup of Surface tablets planned by Microsoft, reported The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing people familiar with the company's plans.
The Redmond, Washington, software giant decided to get into 7-inch tablets to counter the iPad mini from Apple which has a 7.9-inch display and the Google Nexus 7 with a 7-inch display, according to the report. The company also plans cuts in the prices of its Windows and Office software to give a boost to sales of lower-cost touch-screen devices running Windows software.
Microsoft continues to test its own smartphone, although it isn't clear whether it will bring such a device to market, component suppliers told the newspaper.
The company could not be immediately reached for comment.
Microsoft started shipping in October its 10.6-inch Surface RT tablet, running on an ARM processor and the Windows RT operating system, to the dismay of some partners who were used to dealing with Microsoft as a supplier of software, rather than as a competitor in the computing devices market. The company also began shipments this year of the Surface Pro running an Intel processor.
IDC said in January that Microsoft needed to quickly adjust to the market realities of smaller screens and lower prices in the tablet market. The company entered the market during the fourth quarter with its Surface with Windows RT tablet, but failed to reach the top five among tablet vendors after shipping a little less than 900,000 units into the channel, the research firm said.
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Anonymous asked: MEGAN FALLEY ARE YOU THE GAY COUSIN OMG I CAN'T STOP SMILING!!! (i mean, love however you do; if you're the gay cousin, thats damn cool and just really really gr8.) :)
lol WHAT. is this a cousin?
lol WHAT. is this a cousin?
Thinking about the effect day light savings would have on Megan Falley's poem "What the house hand said to the minute hand"
"I hope she grows up to be a pretty little fool. That's about the best a girl can hope for these days, to be a pretty little fool."
-Daisy Buchanan
They always ask
how I got so many men
to love me, to line up
like I was the only
speakeasy for miles.
It was simple.
I knew a parlor trick.
Taught the men how to be
ventriloquists, to throw
their voice from another room
and force it out of my own
painted mouth.
I loved you. I love you.
Yes. You, you, you.
I heard Gatsby was shot down
in his swimming pool—the one
built with me in mind:
my white suit, my hair
tucked into a swim cap, splashing
around like his little bird.
I heard when he was shot
it looked like Valentine roses
scattered about the chlorine
and this, too, was for me.
How wretched, and how divine
to love two men and have one
so you won't have
to choose.
Oh, simple flower,
you know you would have
chosen wrong.
by Megan Falley"I don't tell them how the front door was wide open, the dining room chairs knocked out on the floor. How I carried a knife upstairs as if I was brave enough to use it."
So happy to have another poem up at GERM Magazine. I love how they mix poems and photography. So eerie and rad with this piece. For a preview of Redhead and the Slaughter King, read on!
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by Megan Falley
I cut the pill of truth
and served it with honey.
A half-lie, I said
we were drunk.
Painted us starved,
in dresses of gin, egged
on by the barstools.
Painted myself stumbling
onto her face,
more so than an actual kiss.
Painted it as if cameras were rolling.
An image he could beat
off to, instead of curse. Said
it meant nothing
And how could it?
I was straight
as a wedding aisle.
I touched
his beard. Begged him
to stay. Insisted
it was only a kiss
and hoped he wouldn't hear it
in my voice, how it sounded like
it was only a decade.
It was only a war.
I didn't say there was no bar,
no audience except
the magnetic poetry falling
to the floor as she pressed me
up against the refrigerator, beaming.
That I felt more in that
one kiss than anytime he thrust
his tongue down my throat,
or wouldn't get a condom,
or wanted it facedown.
I swore
it will never happen again.
He called me a whore.
I said
I love you.
He called me a bitch.
I said
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Bill Introduced to Provide for NOAA
Representative Ehlers (R-MI) introduced the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act (H.R. 5450) to provide for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes. If enacted, the bill would, among other things, require the Administrator to develop a proposed reorganization plan and publish it in the Federal Register to obtain public comment. Source: HK Law
Bill Introduced on Homeland Security Outreach
Representative Rogers (R-AL) introduced a bill (H.R. 4433) to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct outreach to and consult with members of the private sector with respect to the Secure Border Initiative and for purposes of strengthening security along the international and maritime borders of the United States. Source: HK Law
Bill Introduced to Improve Maritime Security
Senator Stevens (R-AK) introduced the Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006 (S. 2791) to amend titles 46 and 49, United States Code, to provide improved maritime, rail, and public transportation security, and for other purposes. The bill, if enacted into law, would codify the Container Security Initiative and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), expand the use of interagency operations centers
Bills Introduced on Air Emissions from Ships
Senator Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Solis (D-CA) introduced the Marine Vessel Emissions Reduction Act of 2007 in companion versions (S. 1499 and H.R. 2548 respectively) to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution from marine vessels. The bills, if enacted into law, would wholly ignore MARPOL Annex VI and impose unilateral standards for sulfur levels in marine fuels and require advanced marine vessel emission controls on new and in-use marine engines.
Bill Introduced on Vessel Hull Design Protection
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Single-Hull Phase-Out Bill Introduced
Representative Capps (D-CA) introduced a bill (H.R. 880) to amend title 46, United States Code, to accelerate to 2007 the application of the requirement that a tanker that carries oil in bulk as cargo must be equipped with a double hull, and for other purposes. Representative Capps said, the bill would, if enacted, accelerate the phase-out of single-hull tankers in U.S. waters to 2007. Single-hull tankers operating within 100 miles of the U.S
Bill introduced re harbor maintenance tax exemption
Representative Weldon (R-FL) introduced the Short Sea Shipping Tax Exemption Act of 2005 (H.R. 3319) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from the harbor maintenance tax for certain shipping between United States mainland ports. If enacted into law, this bill would exempt certain U.S short-sea shipping (basically that involving containerized and ro-ro cargo) from the harbor maintenance tax. (HK Law)
National Ocean Policy Bill Introduced
Senator Hollings (D-SC) introduced a bill (S. 2647) to establish a national ocean policy, to set forth the missions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to ensure effective interagency coordination, and for other purposes. (HK Law)
Seaport Security Bill Introduced
Representative Millender-McDonald (D-CA) introduced the United States Seaport Multiyear Security Enhancement Act (H.R. 3712) to improve seaport security. If enacted, the bill would authorize $800 million annually for funding of seaport security projects. (Source: HK Law)
House Bill Introduced, Evidence of WWII Merchant Marine Service
Representative Butterfield (D-NC) introduced a bill (H.R. 1288) to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service in the merchant marines during World War II
Maritime Pollution and Other Legislation Outlook 2012
It has been almost two years since the Deepwater Horizon incident occurred on April 20, 2010. As a result of this incident, although there have been many bills introduced in Congress to address issues raised by this incident, as well as numerous related hearings
Key Arctic Bills Introduced by Alaska Senator
New bills introduced by US Senator Mark Begich are aimed to strengthen Arctic science, health and diplomacy. "As we face an Arctic Ocean which is increasingly ice-free, our country has both an historic opportunity and enormous challenges," U.S. Sen. Mark Begich said
WCI Executives Endorse Senate Waterway Bills
Waterways Council, Inc.'s (WCI) Executive Committee has endorsed two Senate waterways bills introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): "Mississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act" (S. 565) and "Water Infrastructure Now Public-Private Partnership Act" (WIN P3) (S
Bill to Protect Right Whales
Senator Kerry (D-MA) introduced a bill (S. 2657) to require the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe regulations to reduce the incidence of vessels colliding with North Atlantic right whales by limiting the speed of vessels, and for other purposes
Bill Debuts re: Oil Spill Liability Limits
Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a bill (S. 2700) to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to double liability limits for single-hull tankers and tank barges for 2009, and for other purposes. This bill, as introduced, is worded in a strange manner and may not have the intended effect
Bill Seeks to Reduce Whale Strikes
Representative Allen (D-ME) introduced a bill (H.R. 5536) to require the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe regulations to reduce the incidence of vessels colliding with North Atlantic right whales by limiting the speed of vessels, and for other purposes. (HK Law).
Bill on Shipping Investment Withdrawal Rules
Senator Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a bill (S. 3359) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the shipping investment withdrawal rules in section 955 and to provide an incentive to reinvest foreign shipping earnings in the United States
Sequim Eyes Tugboat for Oil Spills
According to a Jan. 27 report from the Peninsula Daily News, oil, cargo and cruise industries would pay for a tugboat at Neah Bay under a proposed bill in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 1409 -- which was introduced on Tuesday by 24th District Rep
Lawmakers Aim to Strengthen Oil Barge Rules
According to a March 11 report from the Cape Cod Times, a new bill designed to strengthen rules for tugboats escorting double-hulled oil barges through Buzzards Bay is the subject of a legislative hearing at the Statehouse. The bill was recently introduced by Rep. John Quinn, D-Dartmouth.
Bills on Standards Cruise Ship Discharges
Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Eshoo (D-CA) introduced companion bills (S. 1820 and H.R. 3888 respectively) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels. (10/21/09)
Bill for Study of Arctic Deep Water Port
Representative Young (R-AK) introduced a bill (H.R. 4576) to require a study and report on the feasibility and potential of establishing a deep water sea port in the Arctic to protect and advance strategic United States interests within the evolving and ever more important region
Bill to Extend Galveston Channel
Representative Gene Green (D-TX) introduced a bill (H. R. 5329) to modify the project for navigation and environmental restoration, Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels, Texas, authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, and for other purposes
Bill to Repeal Liability Limitation of Offshore Oil
Representative Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced a bill (H.R. 5355) to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to repeal the limitation of liability of a responsible party for a discharge or substantial threat of a discharge of oil from an offshore oil facility. Official text of the bill has yet to be posted
Senate Bill Re Oil Spill Economic Damages
Senator Vitter (R-LA) introduced a bill (S. 3461) to create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for economic injury caused by the Deepwater Horizon incident, and to direct the Secretary of the Interior to renegotiate the terms of the lease known as ``Mississippi Canyon 252''


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- Made of long-lasting corduroy fabric and bi-cast vinyl
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Truck bids for Grains Delivered to Kansas City
(Price per bushel except Sorghum price per cwt.)
SPOT Bids Change (¢/bu) Basis Change
HRW Wheat:
Ord Protein ***7.0750-7.1250** DN 4 -5Z to OptZ UNCH
SRW Wheat 6.3800-6.4300 DN 0.25 -15Z to -10Z UNCH
Yellow Corn 4.2550 UP 1.25 5Z UP 2
Yellow Sorghum 7.3300 DN 1 -10Z UNCH
Yellow Soybeans12.6950-12.7150 UP 9.5-UP 11.5 3F to 5F DN 2-UNCH
FORWARD CASH BIDS FOR December Delivery
Bids Change (¢/bu) Basis Change
HRW Wheat:
Ord Protein 7.1050 DN 4 -2Z UNCH
SRW Wheat 6.4100 DN 0.25 -12Z UNCH
Yellow Corn 4.1350-4.1750 DN 0.75 -7Z to -3Z UNCH
Yellow Sorghum 7.3300 DN 1 -10Z UNCH
Yellow Soybeans 12.6650 UP 11.5 OptF UNCH
**HRW & SRW Wheat for December Delivery**
Cash bids reflect the difference between the basis and the futures settlement.
HRW Wheat = US 1; SRW Wheat = US 2; Yellow Corn = US 2; Yellow Sorghum = US 2;
Yellow Soybeans = US 2
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Yellow Corn 4.3145
Yellow Sorghum 7.5664
Yellow Soybeans 12.8343
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He became a regular correspondent for BBC 1's Panorama, ITV's First Report and Channel 4's Seven Days, and was awarded the Richard Dimbleby Award for factual presenting in 1976. He became one of the original presenters of ITV's first breakfast programme, TV-am, which launched in 1983 with David Frost and Michael Parkinson. He was also a celebrated writer, making his name with a three-volume history of Ireland called The Green Flag, published in 1972. The book was later made into a television series.
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How can I determine which packages where installed because I requested the installation and which packages where automatically installed in order to satisfy dependencies?
In aptitude, this information is shown as "A":
i A fam ...
i grub ...
i A grub-common ...
This shows that I requested the package grub and that grub-common was installed as a result of this. However, aptitude is an interactive program, I cannot extract this information automatically to process it with a script.
With the debian package management tool 'dpkg -l' or 'dpkg --get-selections', I can get a list of installed package with additional information. E.g.
> dpkg -l
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii grub-common 1.96+20080724-16 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)
ii gs-common 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 Dummy package depending on ghostscript
This list can easily be processed with scripts, but it only shows that the packages are installed --- not whether by request or for dependencies.