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Post-AWP Withdrawals
Filed under: Nonfiction, Opinion, Post by: Paula B, Reviews, Uncategorized
It's now been almost 72 hours since Seattle's own Sherman Alexie closed the annual national celebration of all things writerly known as AWP. But writers everywhere, and this writer in particular, remain jetlagged and not just because of the 12-hour trips each way for those of us in the east coast.
(Ahem, if you don't know anything about AWP check out Peter Mountford's Guide to AWP for People Who Don't Know What AWP Is. His Useful Stereotypes are especially on-point: example 1. Earnest Poet, example 2. Mid Level Writer You've Never Heard Of. )
This was my second year attending AWP and I have to say I was a little less dazed and confused but just as googly-eyed as the first time.
There was running into my undergraduate prof., Allen Gee, at the top of the fourth floor escalator on registration day, then later in a rather intense panel on Writing Fictional Characters of Another Race led by the phenomenal Randa Jarrar and Mat Johnson among others. (I chased them both after the panel and hope to feature them on StS soon!)
While womanning the StS table at the bookfair along with StS Asst. Poetry Editor, Alicia P, I saw and invited (manhandled-fawned) over the Great Joy Harjo whom we featured back in November, and yes there were pictures and yes this is us bragging.
There was the joy in Joy Castro's packed panel on Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family which offered touching and surprisingly humorous tales of the logistical and emotional negotiations endured when writing about everything from incest and sex addition to adoption and parenting and autism. StS will work tirelessly to bring Joy to you in the near future.
Dorothy Allison was greatly missed at Lambda's 25 for 25, but at least I was able to see Butterfly Boy's Rigoberto Gonzalez in action. Then, there was the pleasure of a first-time reading with Chang-Rae Lee and the discovery of the lazy charm of Chris Abani. (You had to be there! Were you? Tell us about it in the comments! But rest assured Abani would approve of my qualifier.)
Finding and sitting next to former StS Blog Editor, Sheila McMullin, at The (She) Devil Inside: Unlikeable Women in Fiction, where Samantha Chang and others referred to Edith Wharton and Claire Messud's work to illustrate how Likeable = Respectable in literature and in life, was a special treat. And an impromptu reunion with StS featured poet Javier Huerta in the convention lobby and later at a ConTinta/CantoMundo offsite reading moved me so, it'll have to be its own post.
So l'll stop here and not bore you with any more of my literary stalking, or with what could very well have been three George Saunders sightings –Asst. Fiction Editor, Julie D. is my witness–except we couldn't be sure. We were too tired and either non or under-inebriated to approach him, though he was, we swear, no more than 5 feet away all three times.
Will continue AWP-detoxing for weeks to come. Bear with us.
Pine Box Reading in Seattle Tonight!
Filed under: Announcements, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Post by: Sheryl R, Uncategorized
For those of you in Seattle for the AWP conference, don't forget the So to Speak reading today, Saturday, March 1, from 3 PM to 5 PM! Our reading features poetry by Laura-Gray Street, fiction by Jessica Barksdale, and nonfiction by Tim Denevi and takes place at the Pine Box, a restaurant and bar located only a half-mile from the Washington State Convention Center at 1600 Melrose Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122. We'd love to celebrate great feminist writing and have a drink with you! Most importantly, you're not going to want to miss the line-up!
The Artist Activist Online
Filed under: Announcements, Nonfiction, Opinion, Poetry, Politics, Post by: Sheila M, Uncategorized
Former So to Speak Poetry and Blog Editor Sheila McMullin on the history of the StS blog and using online platforms to advocate for social change:
On March 8, 2011 I launched So to Speak's blog with a simple one line post. No in-depth journal and provocative claim, just a quick message with the beginning word "Celebrating." With this word began So to Speak's interaction as an online open forum for discussing feminist issues as they pertain to art and artist communities. In those early days our editorial circle saw the blog as a supplement to the print journal, providing a space for our contributors to speak in broader terms on their creative process and artistic and feminist intentions in relation to their printed pieces. The blog was an opportunity for the community at large to engage with our activist-driven organization and find in us a community of peers who understand the importance of celebrating feminist dialogue, a safe space to explore identity relations, questions, and build new relations. It was a space for those curious to learn. A place for those skeptical to debate. It is no secret that women and those who don't identify as cisgender are unproportionally harassed and denigrated on the internet. In launching a blog dedicated to feminism in the arts, I with Blog Co-editor Alyse Knorr were fulfilling a lack we saw in So to Speak's organizational structure, and stepping up to fight against the notion that women aren't allowed to play. Of course feminists and budding feminists waiting for a call to action were on the internet. And So to Speak needed to find them and bring them together. We believed that to meet the needs of our feminist allies we had a firm obligation to participate in the online community.
Today StS is still all these things under the care of the current editorial circle, and better, more expansive, more in-depth, more provocative. I am eternally grateful to Blog Editor Sheryl Rivett and her Assistant Blog Editor Paula Beltran for continuing and fostering StS's online presence. One thing many people don't really yet understand about encouraging online communities through dedicated and consistent blogging is that it takes a whole lot of energy and a s**t-ton of time. With open minds embracing online opportunities So to Speak has been able to be more of an engaged feminist advocacy group expanding its reach to promote gender parity in the arts and in our communities at large.
That beginning celebratory word on StS's fresh blog, jumpstarted my personal endeavors of becoming more involved in utilizing web presences for social causes within organizations dedicated to advancing gender parity. I want to celebrate creative bravery. These days many of us engage in online communities through various social media sites that encourage surface level and sensationalist interactions. With sites like Facebook the tendency becomes to showcase only the most thrilling, titillating side of ourselves. These kinds of interactions can at times be a reprieve or fun, but if taken too seriously can interrupt crucial opportunities for empathetic human interaction. Similarly to how hyper-sexualized advertisements and media affect our collective conscious on definitions of "natural" and "beauty," our most popular social media sites can actually make us feel more lonely, more isolated. Through these sites we have been trained to compare our behind the scenes to everyone else's highlight reel, a well-worn yet accurate phrase. I don't deny that sites like Facebook and Twitter play huge roles in providing low-budget socially-conscious groups opportunities to advertise, promote, and connect. These are often the hubs individuals go to see what's the latest and check updates on news and events. But sites like these can also encourage an ego that denies the validity of another's identity because of the lack of an ultimate goal of interacting in offline spheres. We forget the avatar on our screens represents a beating human heart, with just as many complex emotions and needs as we have.
I like using the internet very much. It is fun, serves a knowledge-based purpose, and connects me to like-minded folks and family and friends all over the globe. And while the internet allows me to stay in touch with people I love and explore the world without necessarily leaving home, it is still incredibly important to remember that the surface level of interaction while on the internet is through an inanimate object.
As I have become more involved in online communities I understand more the complete necessity for my online presence to directly influence my offline actions. The internet is a tool to make my material and physical life more fulfilling, more understanding, more substantial. So, for AWP 2014 I wanted to bring together creative literary thinkers who actively engage online in platforms they either built themselves because they saw a lack and wanted to fill that space with positive community-focused interaction or significantly monitor and update a unique platform with a socially conscious action-orientated mission for creative thinkers who want to learn to engage online in meaningful, nourishing ways and to talk about how to do so in productively.
On Saturday, March 1, the panelists and I will discuss building unique online platforms, or participating in already existing platforms to shape a cyber presence that provokes actual social change and propagates dissemination of educational materials in the physical world. We'll discuss and explore opportunities for using our online platforms to evolve typical trite conversations, to change language, to vocalize inclusivity, reform out-of-date sexist traditions, and push out of comfort zones to empower individuals. Through our conversation, I hope we can come together to celebrate our unique visions and encourage users to create an internet that moves away from trolling, harassment, anxiety-provoking sites and moves toward representing the diverse cultures we participate in and the diverse human beings we are.
For you, in the cybersphere, who are ready to start using your online platform to advocate for social change consider what it means to blog with integrity, and focus on opportunities for offline activism by providing links at the end of your posts to others' organizations or groups who argue for similar productivity you do and could benefit from a charitable donation or some type of volunteer action.
Now go write and share!
Headed to AWP? Be sure to check out the panel that Sheila is moderating!
So You Want to Build a Platform: But What is It & Why Do You Need One? Women Writers & Editors Speak Out (Sheila McMullin, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Molly Gaudry, Sheryl Rivett, Arisa White)
Room 608, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Saturday, March 1, 2014
10:30 am to 11:45 am
While women's voices are underrepresented in print publishing, online activism can balance the scales. Cultivating an online presence is not as easy as DIY and shameless self-promotion tales make it look. Creative thinkers, to highlight minority and emerging voices, develop unique online resources to build ever-expanding communities and celebrate accomplishments. Panelists explore empowerment, utility of web-based writing, maintaining professionalism, and ways to keep viewers returning and sharing.
AWP Dreaming!
Filed under: Announcements, Nonfiction, Opinion, Post by: Sheryl R, Starring Local Feminists
Headed to Seattle? Looking for a guide to all things literary and feminist at the AWP conference?
We're pleased to share the line up put together by poet Sheila McMullin, past So to Speak editor and current VIDA web assistant. Check out her fantastic list of exactly which AWP panels next week in Seattle fall under the feminism umbrella!
"For your feminist appetite I have complied a savory dish of 2014 AWP Seattle feminist panels. How, you ask, do I know these are feminist panels, when few of them self-identify as feminist? Well, identify, rather, identity is going to be the key term here."
Looking forward to seeing some of you at the events. Don't forget to stop by the So to Speak table for custom buttons and to say hi!
AWP Offsite Reading at The Pine Box!
Filed under: Announcements, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Post by: Sheryl R, Uncategorized
The staff of So to Speak would like to invite you to our offsite reading at the 2014 AWP conference in Seattle, Washington!
Our multi-genre reading will be held on Saturday, March 1 (the last day of the conference) from 3 PM to 5 PM and will feature poetry by Laura-Gray Street, fiction by Jessica Barksdale, and nonfiction by Tim Denevi. The reading will take place at the Pine Box, a restaurant and bar located only a half-mile from the Washington State Convention Center at 1600 Melrose Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122. We'd love to celebrate great feminist writing and have a drink with you! Most importantly, you're not going to want to miss this line-up:
Laura-Gray Street's work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, The Human Genre Project, Isotope, Gargoyle, From the Fishouse, ISLE, Shenandoah, Meridian, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, The Notre Dame Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; selected by George Garrett for Best New Poets 2005; commissioned by the New York Festival of Song; and included in Pivot Points, an exhibition of poets and painters that traveled internationally. Street has received a Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Editors' Prize in Poetry fromIsotope, the Emerging Writer in Poetry Award for the Southern Women Writers Conference, the Dana Award in Poetry, and The Greensboro Review's Annual Literary Award in Poetry, and fellowships at the VCCA and the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland.
Jessica Barksdale is the author of twelve traditionally published novels, including Her Daughter's Eyes and When You Believe. Her novel Becca's Best is forthcoming from Ghostwoods Books. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, The Coachella Review, Carve Magazine, Mason's Road, and So to Speak. She is a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and teaches online novel writing for UCLA Extension.
Tim Denevi's first book, Hyper, a memoir and history of ADHD, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa, his MA in English from the University of Hawaii, and his BA from Northwestern University. Recently he was awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Can't wait to see you there!


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How is Ebola virus spread?Infections with Ebola virus are acute. There is no carrier state. Because the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak has not been determined. However, researchers have hypothesized that the first patient becomes infected through contact with an infected animal. After the first case-patient in an outbreak setting is infected, the virus can be transmitted in several ways. People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person. Thus, the virus is often spread through families and friends because they come in close contact with such secretions when caring for infected persons. People can also be exposed to Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions. Nosocomial transmission refers to the spread of a disease within a health-care setting, such as a clinic or hospital. It occurs frequently during Ebola HF outbreaks. It includes both types of transmission described above. In African health-care facilities, patients are often cared for without the use of a mask, gown, or gloves. Exposure to the virus has occurred when health care workers treated individuals with Ebola HF without wearing these types of protective clothing. In addition, when needles or syringes are used, they may not be of the disposable type, or may not have been sterilized, but only rinsed before reinsertion into multi-use vials of medicine. If needles or syringes become contaminated with virus and are then reused, numerous people can become infected. What are the symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever?
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RateBeer Archives > Features Green Beer, part 4Water and Wastewater
December 2, 2004
Toronto, CANADA - There are many compelling reasons to avoid overusing an important resource by conserving water at home. At a brewery the costs of water and wastewater treatment are also important considerations. Beyond the water itself, there is also a direct relationship between high water usage and energy consumption. This is especially important considering that the ratio of water used to beer produced can be as high as 20:1 in inefficient operations, or as low as 4.5:1 in breweries that have implemented water conservation measures. What are breweries doing to make the difference? Turn Off The Taps Literally - Turn off the taps. Common sense and good housekeeping practices can result in huge savings through small efforts such as replacing leaky faucets, ensuring that piping is in good condition, and shutting off water hoses. A large brewery that replaced its drinking fountains with water coolers yielded almost $45,000 a year in water savings. Small measures such as these may seem simplistic but consider this - a leak dripping just one drop of water a second can waste almost 1600L of water over the course of a year. Some of the biggest water uses in a brewery include bottle and keg washing, cooling, pasteurization, cleaning-in-place (CIP) equipment, line and filler flushing water. The Anheuser-Busch Fort Collins Brewery in Colorado recorded the best water use efficiency of all domestic A-B breweries at the end of 2003, reducing water use per barrel by almost 12 percent from the previous year. To achieve this reduction brewery employees first performed a water audit to quantify flows throughout the facility and identify opportunities for improvements. Some key conservation measures implemented include eliminating steam, condensate and water leaks, optimizing water use during cleaning processes and equipment startup without affecting product quality, and installing a water recirculation system. Moosehead Brewing improved their water efficiency through annual steam trap surveys, and increasing the distribution of monitoring data to their employees in control of energy expenditures. At many SAB breweries, the installation of water cooling towers allows for the recycling of clean cooling water while state of the art water meters allow them to monitor water usage elsewhere. The cost of implementing water conservation measures for smaller brewers can range from a couple of dollars at Home Depot for new hose nozzles to more expensive equipment replacement. Wastewater No matter how much effort a brewer puts into efficient water use, a brewery will still produce a lot of wastewater. For small breweries their water and sewage costs are typically minimal, and wastewater costs are not typically a major financial concern. It is interesting to note though, that some municipalities calculate sewage output costs based on the water input rather than actual sewage output. Wastewater reductions would therefore not yield similar savings in sewage charges. This also means that some brewers are paying sewage fees on water that goes out the door as beer rather than down the drain. Obviously, wastewater costs are a bigger concern for large breweries if only for reasons of scale. Breweries can exert a large demand on municipal wastewater treatment systems because of the high levels of organic materials in the wastewater, and may therefore be charged substantial fees by local utilities. Two common measures of wastewater pollution levels are BOD5 levels, and the amount of suspended solids in the water. BOD5 is the biochemical oxygen demand of wastewater during decomposition occurring over a 5-day period, this is used as a measure of the organic content of wastewater. BOD5 levels are also a concern in pulp and paper industry. A German study found that untreated brewery effluent typically contains suspended solids in the range 10-60 milligrams per liter (mg/L), BOD5 in the range 1,000-1,500 mg/L range, and nitrogen in the range 30-100 mg/L. Canadian results were comparable, with some materials such as BOD5 having wider ranges. Brewers can reduce treatment fees by operating their own wastewater treatment plants, altering wastewater ph chemically or with C02, but this requires large amounts of electricity and energy. Breweries using anaerobic digesters reduce the need for such treatment options and can recover some of the energy used through the generation of biogas. The Anheuser-Busch website says they are the worlds largest operator of Bio-Energy Recovery Systems (BERS). BERS is a method of anaerobically pre-treating wastewater and capturing biogas (methane). The biogas recovered is then burned as fuel at the brewery providing more than ten percent of A-Bs on-site fuel needs. Anheuser-Busch uses BERS to treat wastewater at eight of its twelve breweries in the United States and at two international breweries in the UK and China. BERS systems have important environmental benefits: Pre-treating wastewater reduces its organic load by up to ninety percent, reducing the demand on community treatment facilities and the use of biogas to supplement boiler fuel purchases reduces the use of fossil fuels. In the past five years A-B averaged more than 1500 billion btus of energy production from biogas, and credits BERS operations with eliminating an estimated 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. At the A-B brewery in Baldwinsville, New York, wastewater is treated with the BERS system and then a final aerobic polishing treatment process. This secondary process allows recovered biosolids to be used in landscaping and agricultural applications instead of being disposed of in a landfill. In 2003, the facility composted 21.2 million pounds of biosolids in this way. Critics of composting and spreading of "biosolids", or "sludge" from water treatment plants point out that if the sludge contains heavy metals or other hazardous materials it can contaminate soil and groundwater. This seems to be a greater problem for municipal facilities than for breweries, but a rigorous testing program to ensure its safety is advisable in both cases. Still to Come The focus of the last two parts has been on packaging and the waste that leaves the brewery. The next installment will take a look at things inside the brewery itself, specifically heating and cooling, lighting, and electricity use. ................................................................
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text: Long time Estes Park resident and businessman, Peter Marsh died at the Estes Park Medical Center early Wednesday morning, Jan. 16. He was 69 years old. An informal gathering will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Other Side Restaurant. Peter's last request was not for a solemn occasion, but for a time when all his friends and family could raise a glass, tell stories and share their memories of him. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or Quota Club of Estes Park in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 1302 Graves Avenue Estes Park, CO 80517. Go to the obituary section at www.eptrail.com to see the entire obituary.


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Thanks for linking your great post to FAT TUESDAY. This was very interesting! Hope to see you next week!
Be sure to visit RealFoodForager.com on Sunday for Sunday Snippets – your post from Fat Tuesday may be featured there!
Share your great fermented food recipes at my Probiotic Food Linky – open through Februray 6, 2012.
This soup looks great! I would love it if you linked up this recipe to my blog hop for a chance to win a Quaker prize package: http://bit.ly/AeIHc6
ReplyDeleteI love mushrooms and this soup looks great. I was amazed when I went dairy free at how well recipes turn out with nut based alternatives.
ReplyDeleteThis was so divine! I made it tonight and my whole family loved it. We are all dairy free, so mum was absolutely delighted to have mushroom soup - something she hadn't had in years. This is going on my favourites =]


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The Alt Llobregat tourist railway, also known as the Cement Train, connects La Pobla de Lillet with the Clot del Moro area in the municipality of Castellar de n'Hug.
Its journey covers 3.5 kilometres and takes in different tourist attractions in the area, which include the exhibition of transport vehicles, located in Pobla de Lillet station; the town's old quarter; the Artigas Gardens designed by Gaudí; and the Asland Cement Museum belonging to the Clot del Moro cement factory. The tour begins at the factory and continues towards Guardiola de Berguedá, where it links up with the Catalan railways, and where cement and other goods used to be transferred.
Location: In the town of Pobla de Lillet.


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The Art & Science of Making Yummy Yogurt *
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Yogurt is a very versatile dairy product. It's yummy eaten straight from the container, it is good for your digestive system, and it can be used in several ways for cooking. There is historical evidence that yogurt-making developed 4,500 years ago! Humans depended on yogurt-making as a way to preserve milk. Yogurt is the result of bacterial fermentation of milk. In fermentation, the bacteria consume the milk sugar, lactose, and produce lactic acid. The end-product is a thick, creamy, and tangy food product. But what conditions produce the creamiest yogurt? Is it the temperature at which the yogurt culture is added to the warm milk? Is it the fermentation time or temperature? In this cooking and food science fair project, investigate these factors and see which conditions produce the best yogurt. Instructions on how to make yogurt can be found in the first bibliographic reference. Remember to vary only one condition at a time so you know which condition has the greatest effect on the yogurt.Share your story with Science Buddies!
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This website gives explicit directions on how to make homemade yogurt.
- Reeps, M. (n.d.). How To Make Your Own Yogurt. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.makeyourownyogurt.com/yogurt.php?step=0
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2008, October 8). Yoghurt. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoghurt&oldid=244002002
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Ben is the founder and CTO of Mobile Commons. He is one of the leading pioneers shaping how organizations successfully use mobile for healthcare, advocacy, fundraising, and organizing.
Two months ago I switched from iPhone to Android. I've been a huge iOS fan since the first day, but just couldn't deal with iOS7 (although that's topic for another post).
I got a Verizon MotoX and couldn't be happier. I could switch pretty much every app I used and was up and running w/ Android as my primary phone, fully loaded, within 24 hours.
But something really strange happened. I noticed I wasn't getting text messages from lots of people. I was getting annoyed at them for not responding and they were getting annoyed that I wasn't responding.
What happened? My work laptop was still configured with Messages.app so all their messages were still sending as iMessage. They were showing up on my work laptop, but not my phone.
This was pretty annoying, but understandable. Monday I went to the office, turned off iMessage, and thought everything would be fine.
Everything is very far from fine.
Here we are 8 weeks later and this is my current situation:
Apple has tried very hard to help with this problem. Unfortunately their solution is TELL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS TO DELETE EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE THREAD THAT YOU HAVE EVER BEEN ON.
Let me recap: I no longer have iPhone. My phone number isn't associated with Apple, iCloud, iMessage, or FaceTime any more. But every single iOS device I have ever messaged in the past 5 years has my phone number cached! Every single phone will only try to message me via iMessage, not SMS. And to make matters worse, it fails SILENTLY!
To add insult to injury, the vast majority of messaging I've done in the past 3 years are group messages with pictures of our children. It would be bad enough if *I* had to delete 5 years of messaging history. But to ask my wife, my sister, my best friends, and literally every person I know to delete THEIR message histories? You've got to be kidding me!
I feel completely hostage. They have no solution and it's insane that Apple has my phone number held hostage with no way to get it back.
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I fell deeply in love with a computer that broke my heart by evolving in a future direction I can never hope to understand.
Plot of 'Her' or upgrade to iOS7?
Thank you Mike Bloomberg for a phenomenal 12 years.
Mike Bloomberg has directly and indirectly influenced my life and career in so many ways, and more than any other single person. I am completely indebted to this total stranger.
My first real job after college was as a programmer at Bloomberg LP. It was 2002, the tech bubble burst, and no one would hire a programmer with little-to-no experience. But Bloomberg LP had plenty of cash and a fantastic new hire training program for junior programmers. It was my first job as a programmer and set me on my career track as a technologist.
And ironically, it was Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Mike's autobiography about being entrepreneur, that inspired me to quit my job at Bloomberg to start my own company.
Fast forward to today. At Mobile Commons, we work with almost a dozen NYC agencies, enabling innovative agencies to engage with NYC residents in unprecedented ways. And it was the night before Election Day 2012, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, that Mayor Bloomberg got on television and told everyone to text Mobile Commons to find out where to vote amid the chaos. And even further, it's his generous philanthropy that funds so many of our nonprofit customers' amazing campaigns, ranging from environmental protection to the prevention of gun violence.
Thank you Mike, for 12 years of hard work making NYC the best city on the planet and being a personal inspiration to me. I owe you a beer (with ice).
I can sync pictures I take with my Android photos to my Mac easily enough.
But the Photos app has a bunch of pictures in folders, such as:
These pictures don't transfer when I sync to my Mac. I can see them in Android File Transfer but they don't automatically sync like the regular photo album when I connect in USB Camera mode (PTP).
I'd really like a local copy of all of my photos in iPhoto, Aperature, Picasa, or similar. A single copy of pictures in Google+ cloud, which is the current behavior*, is not an option. (not totally true. Google+ Auto Backup doesn't seem to have any of my Eye Fi pictures)
What is the best way to do this? Trawling through 4 subfolders with AFT every time I plug in my phone is not an option.
It's not fair to compare the iPhone camera to MotoX camera. iPhone cameras are phenomenal. The MotoX camera is so bad it shouldn't even come with one.
They say that the best camera is the one you have with you. Well, I'd rather be forced to carry a separate camera at all times than to be stuck with hundreds of awful awful pictures of my kids.
Out of my first 400 pictures, I only got 2 or 3 that aren't horrible.
I'm a little stumped with what to do at the moment. Not being able to take great photos of my kids on the go for the next 2 years is unacceptable.
I'm actually considering carrying my old iPhone5 with me, just for the convenience of the camera.
There's still quite a bit of clunky, geeky, Windows-like experiences on Android.
For example, I wanted to import my podcast subscriptions. It should be easy: point the new plays to your OPML file and your done.
The instructions for one of the most popular podcast apps were "put your OPML files in /PocketCasts/opml_import folder". This led to learning about Android file system and the lack of built in file manager. Fine. Download an OS X file manager, mount my phone. No /PocketCasts folder. Why? Android file system index doesn't update immediately. Solutions: reboot or install an app that flushes the file system index.
Really? A 3rd party app to flush my cached file system index so I can mount a phone to copy a .opml file into a directory?
This is the tradeoff. And it's really what Apple has going for it. It's experiences exactly like this that made me switch 10 years ago away from Windows. I want my shit to work — I don't have time to defrag and install drivers and google search every single thing i want to do. I just want it to work.
iOS notifications were never great, but they became intolerable with iOS7.
Every day after work I pick up my phone and wait 20-30 seconds while my entire day of mail, hangouts, imessage, words, zendesk, etc replayed in banners at the top of the screen.
Android's notifications, and specifically the notifications in MotoX's Active Display are fantastic. From the persistent icons at the top, to the inline controls for pausing music & replying to emails, it's a really pleasant experience. I've turned on way MORE notifications than I ever had before w/ iOS because they are so unobtrusive.
OK Google Now play me songs by The Killers
Android's voice control runs circles around Siri.
Not only is availability fantastic vs Siri's "I'm sorry I can't help you now" 50% of the time, the ability to integrate w/ 3rd party apps like Spotify is as awesome as you'd expect.
Things like "Save to Pocket" from within Chrome (or any browser) is SO MUCH BETTER than iOS equivalent. I used to spend so much time on iOS copying URLs and doing other weird hacky things to get around the inability for apps to talk to one another.
* Face recognition unlock works great, and I love the "require blink" to make sure you can't use a photo. Is it secure enough?
* MotoX Active Display is dope: Every time I pick up my phone, it's already showing the clock and useful notifications in a low-power mode.
* Shake to activate camera rulez. Especially w/ kids. Getting from pocket to camera-ready in 1.5 seconds can't be beat
So far I miss the following apps and haven't yet found an Android replacement:
* WeatherLine, or any weather app that uses Dark Sky and shows both intraday & interday temperature with a color-coded line graph
* PlainText, or any FAST online-offline text editor, ideally that will let me share (some) of the notes with my wife. Editing directly in Dropbox is close but slow to launch and the offline cache isn't there
* Podcasts. Not that I miss any of the iOS options; Podcasts & Instacast were both ruined to the point of being unusable. There are 100 podcast apps in the store, sorting through the cruft for something I like appears to be one of the downsides to Play and Android Apps: so much crap in there.
Recommendations on the above are most welcome.
Ben is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mobile Commons, where he is responsible for product development, system architecture, and technical operations. He is one of the leading pioneers shaping how nonprofit organizations successfully use mobile communication for advocacy, fundraising, list building, and organizing.
Ben has 15 years of experience building Internet applications of all shapes and sizes. He spent much of his career building distributed software for B2B customers. With a background in both the financial and medical industries, he has extensive experience with high availability systems with a focus on security and data sensitivity. As a software engineer at Bloomberg LP, Ben developed their trading system, search engine, and web services. After Bloomberg, he worked at ShadowTV, transcoding, indexing and streaming 100s of terabytes of video data for government and corporate customers.
He earned a BS in electrical and biological engineering and a Master's in medical image processing, both at Cornell University. After completing his studies, he took a position as a Visiting Scientist, developing medical software used in clinical trials for lung cancer screening and image analysis tools used in General Electric's CT scanners.
Ben lives on a small urban farm in Brooklyn with his wife Arin and sons Gabriel & Ezekiel. He can usually be found coding, biking, or rock climbing. He sits on the board of ioby.org and advises nonprofits on effective uses of technology.
I've been thinking a lot about the NSA's global electronic surveillance.
Say what you will about erosion of civil liberties, you have to admit, we live in the mother fucking future.
As a security and privacy expert, I'm expected to know which companies protect their users' privacy and which encryption programs the NSA can't break. The truth is, I have no idea. No one outside the classified government world does. I tell people that they have no choice but to decide whom they trust and to then trust them as a matter of faith. It's a lousy answer, but until our government starts down the path of regaining our trust, it's the only thing we can do.
In my experience, telling people to do something hard (open source, keep privacy, etc.) in the face of a barely perceived danger (government is coming to get you) is kind of a hard message to get heard.
I'm shocked that more hackers don't send Dropbox invitations sharing folders that contain malicious files.
It's such an incredible vector to get people to automatically download a ton of files to take advantage of zero day flaws in Windows Explorer.
"Your Mom has shared a folder 'Amazing Kitten Pictures' with you." and BOOM! p0wn2d!
Name: Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Writes: Right
Dominant Cortex: Left
University: Cambridge University
Key Contributions: "In Book I of Principia, Newton opened with definitions and the three laws of motion now known as Newton's laws (laws of inertia, action and reaction, and acceleration proportional to force). Book II presented Newton's new scientific philosophy which came to replace Cartesianism. Finally, Book III consisted of applications of his dynamics, including an explanation for tides and a theory of lunar motion."
This is like asserting that my former hometown of Washington, D.C., has several football teams: the Redskins, the Georgetown University team, and the Gonzaga High School team.
You should have distinct memories of you or someone under your employ having at least two separate incidents in the last four weeks in which they dropped everything they were doing and immediately took action to resolve these problems.
Last night during the hurricane, we could not telnet to one of our partner's data centers from our primary data center. We could get there from our workstations and from our backup sites.
A traceroute revealed a router somewhere in Washington DC that was hanging things up between the two data centers.
So my question is, how could this happen? I would have expected all the TCP/IP packets to be rerouted automatically around the malfunctioning router? Isn't that the way the Internet was designed to work?
Everyone on our production support team installed the following cron on their local workstation so we would know if anyone loses power and can't get in touch with the rest of the team:
*/1 * * * * ssh server "echo '`date` `whoami` reporting for duty' >> sandy.log"
Love the new Slashdot logo.
I also love the neckbeard comments about how that wouldn't actually be an accurate little endian representation "even on 24 bit machines"
This is such a useful little feature for the new version of Skitch.
Update: The app store reviews of Skitch 2.0 are scathing. I'm not upgrading yet.
From the Stripe blog:
Today we're launching Capture the Flag: Web Edition, a security contest where you can try your hand at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in mock web applications. If you've ever wondered how a CSRF attack works in practice, this is your chance to find out. We've found that hands-on experience with exploiting security flaws helps us write more secure code, and we hope that working on the CTF will be both enlightening and fun.
I'm giving my development team the afternoon off to compete in this!
Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.
Jeff Atwood, "Please Don't Learn To Code"
Ben Says:
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
The article is conflating "coding" with "professional software development". Learning to code teaches you, among lots of other things:
When a programmer gets requirements from a product manager or business analyst, they are ALWAYS incomplete. The edge cases are NEVER identified and none of the "what if" scenarios are played out. 9 times out of 10 it is up to the programmer to understand the nuances, to take things to their logical conclusions, to consider what happens in the case of N=0 or as N approaches infinity.
These are all skills I use EVERY SINGLE DAY, not just when I code, but in solving problems in life. Broken toilet? How do I figure out where the problem is? You bet I'm going to divide and conquer that shit (pun intended)!
This kind of thinking helps me in everything that I do in life and it wasn't until I learned to code (in college, mind you) that I started thinking this way.
Do I want my son to become a computer programmer? I don't care. Up to him. Do I want him to understand how to think critically and logically and in a structured & methodical way when approaching problems? Absolutely. And computer programming teaches these skills better than anything else I've ever done.
Half of New York City's best and brightest technologists live or work in Brooklyn, yet we travel to Manhattan every week for the best tech talks.
Not anymore! BK Tech Talks are presentations about the most interesting problems and solutions that New Yorkers are working on.
Presentations should be 30-45 minutes long and are for a technical audience. Don't be afraid to show source code. And if you're afraid to read code, this Meetup isn't for you. If you would like to present or there's something you'd like to hear about, please let us know.
The first few presentations: "MTA BusTime: Real Time GPS Tracking of New York City Buses" and "Bitcoin is Not a Currency" look awesome.
So? What are you waiting for? Come join the Meetup and we'll see you in Brooklyn!
Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.
I missed it all, I was too busy building a product.
Presenting the face we're going to see every time mom gives him a kiss for the next 15 years or so
What to do when it's 17 degrees out (again): the oversized ball pit at the children's museum of art
" Wah! I feel bunchy and I have snow between my mitten and coat."
Gabi didn't like it either.
Wow it's awesome when big brother goes to bed early. So much attention!
Human Rights Campaign wants you to give Michael Sam a virtual "high five" over text.
Last month, top football recruit Michael Sam announced that he was gay. The bold announcement garnered national news coverage.
Shortly thereafter, HRC sent the following text:
HRC: College football star Michael Sam has made history by coming out before NFL draft. Let's give him a high five for his bravery: http://lil.ms/i2x/1wyox7The link takes you to a web page where you can sign up to give Michael Sam a virtual "high five." You'll also sign up to get further updates from the HRC about pressing LGBT issues.
Many people were inspired by Michael Sam's bold stance. By giving them a simple, fun way to express their support, HRC turned a national news story into an engaging way to connect with their organization.
HRC also used that initial point of contact to ask people to sign up for ongoing updates . They transformed a one-off moment of awareness into a lifelong relationship.
When your big issues are in the news, think about ways you can connect with your supporters. Having a mobile campaign means that when your issues break, you can be ready to go. It's quick and easy to send out a text to your supporters, or ask people to text you.
For more ideas or insights, contact your mobile strategist, or email firstname.lastname@example.com
The New York Times wrote a great piece about DoSomething.org's Crisis Text Line, praising its importance and accessibility, particularly to teenagers for whom texting is the main source of communication.
The Crisis Text Line provides counseling, resources, and emotional support for a wide range of issues that adolescents face every day, from depression to abuse. Teenagers can text in their problems to a hotline and receive text message support from counselors. Since its inception last August, the Crisis Text Line has "exchanged nearly one million texts with 19,000 teenagers".
The Times article explains how text exchanges can often provide better support than voice calls, both for those seeking help and those providing it. Text messages can give teens who are in crisis the help they need without drawing attention to them, whether they are in immediate danger or at school with their friends. The messages also provide a written transcript that teens can re-read in other times of need. Counselors can use the versatility of text messaging to interact with more than one person at a time. They also have an ongoing record of the conversation in case it's picked up later, by them or a fellow volunteer. Article author Leslie Kaufman notes how many different issues this important new technology can tackle:
"… the benefits [of text counseling], especially with adolescent issues, have made it an attractive option for hotlines dealing with specific social and emotional issues likes suicide, depression and sexual abuse."Text messaging also provides a simple way to analyze large amounts of data. The article cites Nancy Lublin, Crisis Text Line's founder and the head of DoSomething.org, who notes that "children with eating disorders seek help more often Sunday through Tuesday, that self-cutters do not wait until after school to hurt themselves, and that depression is reported three times as much in El Paso as in Chicago."
Lublin hopes that Crisis Text Line's cache of data and insights will allow "public health officials… [to] tailor public policy solutions around it."
So many powerful and amazing things are coming out of this program, and Mobile Commons is incredibly honored to partner with and support DoSomething.org on such an important project.
To reach the Crisis Text Line, text LISTEN to 741-741.
We're very excited that we've been nominated for an "Innovative Technology" award by Capital Business and the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Starting today, March 3rd, and continuing until March 7th, people can vote for Mobile Commons to progress to the next round of judging.
Please vote for us at the Capital Business website!
Mobile Commons was nominated in the "Commerce" category for the award. (Other categories include Social, Government, and Security.) The four companies in each category that get the most votes will get the chance to "pitch" their technology to Capital-area business leaders and explain why it solves a real-world problem. The two leading companies in each category will then face off in a head-to-head Q&A session to determine the winner.
It sounds like an interesting and exciting way to explore the virtues and disruptive capabilities of a number of technologies, so we hope we get the chance to advance to the next round. There's stiff competition, though; we were nominated against some serious heavy-hitters, including RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless.
The award is part of Destination Innovation, a conference that "highlights technology advancements emerging from our region through an exhibition, networking, industry speakers and innovation pitches." The event will feature keynote speeches from Michael Chasen, Founder and CEO of SocialRadar, and Carly Fiorina, founder of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard.
Learn more about the conference, and then don't forget to vote!
Great news for commuters in the outer boroughs. You don't have to wait in the cold wondering when the next bus is coming anymore. Starting March 9th, the MTA's Bus Time system is expanding to include Brooklyn and Queens. Riders can text to find the closest bus in real-time.
According to a press release from the MTA:
The expansion adds more than 9,000 bus stops to the MTA Bus Time™ system bringing the total to more than 15,000. Crews have now installed enhanced GPS hardware in 5,500 buses operating in all boroughs.MTA chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast said, "MTA Bus Time has added a new dimension to bus travel in Brooklyn and Queens, completing installation citywide. MTA Bus Time allows you to use your computer or phone to 'Know Before You Go' to keep you informed of your bus' expected arrival at the bus stop."
In addition to text messaging, bus time also lets riders use the web or their phone's GPS to find the bus closest to them.
To learn which buses will be equipped, read the MTA's full release.
This post was written by Mobile Commons CEO Jed Alpert.
The Whatsapp Facebook deal makes plain a theme that drives us at Mobile Commons: the power and value of the mobile message. Six billion people send and receive mobile messages. That is 6 out of every 7 people on the planet. Mobile messaging is the most popular, universal, fastest growing, and effective form of communication ever devised. No other form of communication comes close.
Mobile Commons believes in the proposition that organizations should be able to simply and effectively communicate through mobile messaging. When organizations use the most ubiquitous and popular method of communication they achieve awesome results. Governments serve people better, healthcare providers get better results for patients, candidates get more voters to the polls and companies better serve their customers.
All of this is possible because the Mobile Commons platform allows any organization to access the power of the mobile message. We will not rest until every organization is able to harness this power.
On January 28th, Michael Sabat, our VP of Business Development, co-hosted a webinar with two of our good friends: Dawn Bickett from Greenpeace USA and Lawrence Grodeska from Change.org. The webinar covered how nonprofits can use SMS campaigns to engage their supporters with mobile.
Watch the video below for mobile usage statistics, best practices for integrating mobile into campaigns, and examples of past and ongoing campaigns from Greenpeace USA and other large nonprofit organizations.
Visit our Mobile Commons for Nonprofits page to learn more about how your nonprofit can use text messaging campaigns to engage your supporters!
At Mobile Commons, we believe every nonprofit should use mobile campaigns as an engagement strategy. We understand the value of a supporter, and we know it can often be difficult to turn a brief introduction into a long-term relationship. With mobile, you can send information straight to people's phones and encourage them to donate to your campaign, advocate for your cause, or sign your petition.
See our infographic to learn why text message campaigns are the most effective way to communicate with your supporters and get them to take action!
Visit our Mobile Commons for Nonprofits page for more information on our product offerings.
Congratulations to New York City's Human Resources Administration! Their "TXT-2-Work" campaign, which texts out employment opportunities to low-income New Yorkers, won a Digital Government Achievement Award.
The Digital Government Achievement Awards honor those governmental agencies and departments that have developed outstanding applications or websites to serve their communities.
"As technology continues to evolve, governments are finding innovative ways of utilizing new technologies to transform operations and engage with citizens," Todd Sander, the executive director of the Center for Digital Government, said in a press release.
TXT-2-Work launched in April of last year as a way to deliver job opportunities directly to the phones of New Yorkers in need. The program sends text messages with job opportunities, job-seeking tips, and other alerts to subscribers on a regular basis.
Before TXT-2-Work, the HRA would send out notices of available job opportunities by mail. That process could take up to 13 days, from the time the job became available to the time the addressee opened the envelope. With TXT-2-Work, New Yorkers can learn about and apply for jobs within 24 hours of the job posting.
One TXT-2-Work employer received 30 job applications within a day of posting the job. Just a few weeks later, they had already employed four candidates.
Moreover, TXT-2-Work allows the HRA to parse and analyze their data. According to their press release, "HRA is be able to track every text sent out, and use the data to better understand clients' needs and refine the information they want to receive."
TXT-2-Work was created after New Yorkers overwhelmingly said that text messaging was their preferred method of receiving job information. By immediately connecting New Yorkers with job opportunities as they become available, TXT-2-Work is able to help both struggling job seekers and employers looking for exceptional candidates.
The military has a new tool in the fight to keep its soldiers healthy: the text message. SmokefreeMIL, a part of the Defense Department's "Quit Tobacco – Make Everyone Proud" campaign, sends service members motivational text messages that can help them bust through cravings, navigate relapses, and stay on the path toward a healthy, smokefree future.
When service members sign up for SmokefreeMIL, they receive daily text messages, personalized to where they are on their quitting journey. They can also get pick-me-ups and advice when they have a particularly bad craving, or a lapse. This powerful tool, especially alongside other aids, can help service members quit and stay smoke-free.
Smoking is an easy way for members of the military to relieve stress, relax, and fight boredom. But the price is high. One of the biggest predictors of failure in military training is being a smoker, and military smokers are more likely to sustain injuries and perform poorly on fitness evaluations. This costs the Department of Defense $1.6 billion dollars per year.
Quitting smoking, however, is notoriously difficult. A simple series of text messages can be an invaluable aid in the fight against addiction.
Members of the military who are interested in signing up for SmokefreeMIL should text MIL to 47848.
Smokefree MIL is an offshoot of the National Cancer Institute's SmokefreeTXT campaign. That program starts with a 14-day countdown to quitting, followed by six weeks of encouraging messages to help quitters follow through. SmokefreeTXT has already more than doubled quit rates among teenagers.
Text messages are a powerful way to help people change all kinds of behaviors. Studies have shown that text messages encourage parents to help their children live healthier lifestyles, and help HIV+ patients remember to take their medications.
People can often forget to do what's best for themselves or their families while dealing with the hectic challenges of everyday life. By providing them a personal reminder, right in their pockets on the device they use most, a text message can help people lead the healthy lives they aspire to.
FastCoExist has a great article about Mobile Commons Enroll, our new product that helps educate people about their health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act. Entitled Making Obamacare Work, Using Simple Text Messages, the article explores how Mobile Commons Enroll "is fighting ignorance about Obamacare with a technology that many people use every day: the text message." The article was written before the ACA's October 1st launch; however, it's even more relevant today, as millions of uninsured Americans still struggle to understand the new health insurance system.
Mobile Commons Enroll offers nonprofits and health care organizations a straightforward way to educate the uninsured with a series of easy-to-understand text messages. As FastCoExist says, "What's the best way to explain to people how to use and benefit from the new law? How about the way we all communicate?"
The article tracks how Mobile Commons Enroll was born out of our cofounder Ben Stein's epiphany that the people who most need to be educated about health insurance are also the people who send the most text messages:
The idea [of combining texting and ACA information] came to Stein this spring, when he came across some striking data. "I started looking at the population who is going to benefit the most from the Affordable Care Act," says Stein. The demographic groups he pinpointed were young people, minorities, and underserved communities. "I said, 'I've seen these graphs before,'" says Stein. They were the populations most likely to use text messages.Text messaging, as the article notes, can't "explain everything" – but it can start to inform people who may be mystified about the law. Text messaging is "a tool to provide the basic facts – the law exists, if you don't buy insurance you'll pay a fine, these are the documents you'll need to buy it, etc."
Educating people about even the basic facts of health insurance can go a long way toward making sure they can afford the health care they need. A simple text message can start people down the path towards a lifetime of good health.


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May 5, 2005
Santa Rosa, CALIFORNIA - Garrett Oliver is head brewer at Brooklyn Brewery, author, speaker and bon vivant who has been at the forefront of stressing beers importance at the table. We spoke last Friday by phone -- I interrupted some important orders at the brewery -- and by chat.

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 ratebeer_joet: Hey Garrett. OK, bye by phone. ratebeer_joet: You there? Garrett_Oliver: ghhjkhjkkj ratebeer_joet: Ummm, great. Ok so youre very unique in this space of food and beer... there are other people acting as apologists for beer in what might be considered a less than comfortable space ratebeer_joet: but youre definitely pushing boundaries. ratebeer_joet: How did you find yourself here? Garrett_Oliver: When you say apologists, do you mean apparent beer enthusiasts who still dont believe in beers place with food? ratebeer_joet: Apologists meaning those who are explaining beers role at the table, often to unbelievers... ratebeer_joet: there are a few people doing this but few well, none - with your level of focus Garrett_Oliver: Well, Id perhaps quarrel with the term - to me "apologist" means someone who overlooks shortcomings, such as macro beer apologists who say that a cold PBR is a fine thing. ratebeer_joet: Ha ha Garrett_Oliver: My level of focus on this comes directly through the way that I eat and the way that I live. Garrett_Oliver: I mean, we all eat dinner every day, and I dont know about you, but Im not having Coca Cola or water with dinner. So its going to be wine, beer, sake, etc. and over time, despite the fact that I know a fair bit about wine, Ive decided that beer is superior. Foodies ratebeer_joet: And youre in touch with foodies quite regularly obviously Garrett_Oliver: Well, heres the difference - to some extent I am a "foodie", but I actually have a problem with the concept of a "foodie". ratebeer_joet: tell me Garrett_Oliver: In Italy, if you tried to explain to someone what a "foodie" is, they couldnt understand you. Theyd say, "as opposed to what"? They dont know anyone who doesnt care what they eat. Every Italian is a "foodie", so the word would have no meaning. ratebeer_joet: Its culturally contextual... Garrett_Oliver: I really dont understand people who dont care about food, and Ive stopped trying to understand them. I dont really know many people like that anymore. Some people would say this is elitist, but I think its quite the opposite. Garrett_Oliver: Some of the worlds greatest cuisine is based on poverty. Making stocks, etc. is based on the principle that you cant afford to throw away food. Americans throw away food, throw away their time. People who say they dont have time to cook somehow find time to watch every episode of "Desperate Housewives". So the question is, how will you spend your time and your money and with whom? The food revolution ratebeer_joet: Let me ask you this then... I see this cultural change as stemming from somewhere in the 1970s and largely piggybacking on the wine revolution. ratebeer_joet: Craft wine was in an infant stage back then ratebeer_joet: and the new food sensibility we have now is a relatively new phenomonon ratebeer_joet: Weve seen new appreciation for coffee, cheese, bread. Is beer in there? Garrett_Oliver: I think beer is in there, and that its the new affordable luxury. Some of the best beers in the world cost less than a coffee at Starbucks. Thats amazing, and Im not sure people really appreciate it yet. ratebeer_joet: If you took a look into your crystal ball, where will beer end up -- I mean there are no Budweisers of wine, and Starbucks has killed general foods coffees ratebeer_joet: Wonder Bread died last year. Bud, Miller and Coors havent had the fate of other poor quality mass produced products. Garrett_Oliver: But I do think they will. The big thing to realize is that craft beer isnt a fad, but a return to NORMALITY. There are supposed to be many types of beer, bread and cheese. To have it any other way is unnatural. Garrett_Oliver: Wonder Bread died because Wonder Bread is not bread. ratebeer_joet: Hehe... ratebeer_joet: Foam bread is a staple here with barbeque -- very unfortunate Garrett_Oliver: Lets face facts. Bread has a few ingredients and is fresh for a day or two. It doesnt have 20 ingredients and stay "fresh" in a plastic bag for two weeks. Garrett_Oliver: The stuff that most Americans call bread is in fact a chemical sponge. People do know what real bread is, but theyve gotten used to a bread facsimile. In my opinion, the same thing happened to beer. People drink beer facsimiles. Now theyre rediscovering the real thing. Garrett_Oliver: I love this country, but who else in the world would even consider eating plastic "cheese" from a can? Wine is doing very well, partly because people see it as a ticket into the middle or even upper middle class. Garrett_Oliver: It has a powerful social context going back to the Norman Conquest, when France took over England. Even the British royal familys motto is in French - there are very strong reasons why people see wine as sophisticated. Beer snooty? ratebeer_joet: Do you think beer has to gentrify before it has similar acceptance? Garrett_Oliver: I do think beer has to "re-naturalize". By that, I meant that it has to break down into its natural categories - high and low. Garrett_Oliver: Wine, of course, has these categories. Go to any small winery in the south of France or Italy and theyll have their bottled wine, but theyll also have those two gasoline hoses on the wall. Red or white? You bring your bucket and fill up. This idea of wine being instantly sophisticated - well, the French and Italians know better. ratebeer_joet: Its amazing that many people can go to their local supermarket and buy a world class beer for the price of a couple slices of pizza. ratebeer_joet: Will this change? Garrett_Oliver: I think that some beer should cost more than it does. But beer will remain less costly than wine, which is great for the consumer. ratebeer_joet: Weve seen some price hikes but were still talking about prices that are 1/10 to 1/100th of similar quality wines Garrett_Oliver: Im hoping that people will discover beers special talents. The culinary power of flavors like roast and caramelization often go far beyond what a wine can do. Im glad to see Deus out there for $30 per bottle. It tastes a hell of a lot better than Veuve Cliquot (which is revered here, but is pretty dreadful stuff). Resistance ratebeer_joet: Weve talked about some consumer resistance to beer but how about acceptance among -- ok not "foodies" -- but the food establishment? When I heard your story about talking to (I believe you said the CIA), and having to call 8 times or so before they agreed to site down to taste your free beer demonstration, I said "Aha, I guess I have to ask people to free beer more than twice." Why is it that some foodies are resistant to the idea of beer at the table? Garrett_Oliver: Americans tend to be willing to believe that imported things are always better. Sometimes they are - I havent had an American tripel that would beat Westmalle. But Stella? ratebeer_joet: The British slogan is hilarious something like "assuringly expensive" Garrett_Oliver: I think that the class connotation of beer is so powerful that people feel it necessary to defend wine when it doesnt need defending. "Assuringly expensive" is not only hilarious, but shows a perfect understanding of whats going on in peoples minds. Garrett_Oliver: Wine is great. I drink it all the time, Ive given four wine tastings myself in the past year, and I sit on New York Times wine tasting panels. But the idea that wine is better with food is hogwash. Which is why I like to compete with sommeliers in front of an audience. Garrett_Oliver: Then people are forced to face their prejudices. Garrett_Oliver: When it is clearly demonstrated that, for example, Corsendonk Brown Ale is better with braised short ribs than a bottle of Bordeaux, then you have to start thinking harder about your choices. ratebeer_joet: Yes, obviously. And this isnt a natural question for those in the food industry? ratebeer_joet: Youd think theyd suffer less of the same marketing-related deficiencies and be more explorative ratebeer_joet: than consumers Garrett_Oliver: Im doing a benefit for the American Institute of Wine and Food in about ten days. Its a "cheese war" - me vs. Paul Grieco, the James Beard Award-winning sommelier. Beer vs. wine. Should be fun. People often dont want to explore - they want to be assured that theyre correct. I like to upset that apple cart. Garrett_Oliver: Restaurants need to ask themselves, why, when we have an excellent wine list, does out beer list look like it came from a gas station? ratebeer_joet: ha! Change Garrett_Oliver: And unfortunately, thats still very common. ratebeer_joet: Even in places like New York and San Francisco. ratebeer_joet: I still send letters and make phone calls. ratebeer_joet: Ive seen a few changes. Garrett_Oliver: Im working hard to change that. Some restaurants are worried that they will lose their wine sales. Wine sales are critical because the prices are cranked through the roof. If its on the menu for $30, chances are it cost the restaurant $10. ratebeer_joet: Ah, thats an important point. The profit margins are different for beer. Garrett_Oliver: People are loath to give up that cash. But they dont have to. They can match great beers with the appetizers and desserts. But relatively few have the courage to approach the customer with a beer choice. Thats too bad, because theyd find customers to be very willing to listen and try something new. Garrett_Oliver: My favorite beer list is "Higgins" in Portland. They won Best Restaurant Northwest from Beard House - theyre no slouches. Huge wine list. Huge - and brilliant - beer list. Garrett_Oliver: They even have an "after-dinner" beer list. When I saw that I almost cried. Thats where things need to go. ratebeer_joet: Wow. How do you think they deal with the revenue issue? Garrett_Oliver: They dont have to. A bottle of Westmalle Tripel is $13 at Gramercy Tavern, the top restaurant in NYC. People shell out happily, and have for years. But Gramercy Tavern is a great restaurant precisely because they lead, they dont follow. Garrett_Oliver: Great restaurants dont just make great food - they teach. A great meal doesnt just fill you up and entertain you, it shows you something brand new to like. Thats what I hope we do when we serve our beer to new customers. The forefront is the fringe ratebeer_joet: At the forefront you may or may not look back to see how out on the fringe you are. Are craft beer folks odd? ratebeer_joet: Some of the flavors are very uncommon ratebeer_joet: as with berliner weisse or geuze Garrett_Oliver: Believe me, if youre in the beer business, you cant help but notice how far out on the fringe you are. I was in Copenhagen in February, doing beer dinners at Noma, one of the top restaurants in Denmark. Garrett_Oliver: I served Hanssens Gueuze with one of the courses. ratebeer_joet: (Im grinning already...) Garrett_Oliver: And I told the crowd, "Look, you may hate this beer or you may love it, but I didnt come here to have you love every beer. I came here to show you something that you might not otherwise ever taste in your life". Garrett_Oliver: And they not only respected that, but some people asked where they could get the beer afterwards. ratebeer_joet: Wow. Thats great. Garrett_Oliver: Heres the elitist thing - to think that your palate, your level of sophistication, allows you to appreciate things that other will not. Wrong. The right approach Garrett_Oliver: Most people actually have good palates. They are willing to be adventurous. And they know good things when they taste them. Garrett_Oliver: I cant tell you how many people - women in particular - have said to me "I dont really like beer - I usually drink Coors Light - but Im loving this IPA". I mean......WHAT?! Garrett_Oliver: The point is that open-mindedness IS sophistication. Closed-mindedness - which still plagues the food press - is the opposite of sophistication. Garrett_Oliver: What we really need to do is to write our newspapers asking for coverage of beer. Garrett_Oliver: Beer sells far more than wine does in this country, and craft beer sales are higher than good wine sales. Garrett_Oliver: But newspapers that cover wine once a week cover beer once a year? Why? Partly because they know so little about beer that they actually CANT write about it. Garrett_Oliver: Thats one reason why I try so hard to do tastings for editorial staffs. Garrett_Oliver: Thats where the real influence and power is. Garrett_Oliver: Im also thrilled that Eric Asimov, who Ive been friends with for 15 years, is now Chief Wine Critic for the NY Times. Garrett_Oliver: Hes been covering beer, and guess what? The beer articles get much more response from readers than the wine articles do. ratebeer_joet: Beer is approachable an "affordable luxury" ratebeer_joet: So why more questions about beer? Garrett_Oliver: This is partly because the big secret is that good wine drinkers and good beer drinkers tend to be the same people. Garrett_Oliver: I wrote "The Brewmasters Table" [now available in paperback -- jt] to show people why beer was interesting, what it tastes like, and most importantly, what it can do for them. Thats what people want to know. Do you know the top question asked of sommeliers? "Whats the best wine for Thanksgiving dinner?" People want useful information. ratebeer_joet: And beer is a rich and welcoming place to explore. Garrett_Oliver: Look, if you try a bottle of some beer youve never had, and you dont like it, whatve you lost - $2.00? Try that with a bottle of Burgundy and youll be crying over it. People should experiment. 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Born | Radom, Poland |
23 October 1927
Died | 17 July 2009 Oxford, England |
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Leszek Kołakowski (Polish: [ˈlɛʂɛk kɔwaˈkɔfskʲi]; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kolakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are."[1]
Kołakowski was born in Radom, Poland. Owing to the German occupation of Poland in World War II, he did not go to school but read books and took occasional private lessons, passing his school-leaving examinations as an external student in the underground school system. After the war, he studied philosophy at Łódź University and in 1953 earned a doctorate from Warsaw University, with a thesis on Spinoza. He was a professor and chairman of Warsaw University's department of the history of philosophy from 1959 to 1968.
In his youth, Kołakowski was a communist. In the period 1947–1966, he was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. His intellectual promise earned him a trip to Moscow, where he saw the future and found it repulsive. He broke with Stalinism, becoming a "revisionist Marxist" advocating a humanist interpretation of Marx. One year after the 1956 Polish October, Kołakowski published a four-part critique of Soviet-Marxist dogmas, including historical determinism, in the Polish periodical Nowa Kultura.[2] His public lecture at Warsaw University on the tenth anniversary of Polish October led to his expulsion from the Polish United Workers' Party. In the course of the 1968 Polish political crisis he lost his job at Warsaw University and was prevented from obtaining any other academic post.[3]
He came to believe that the totalitarian cruelty of Stalinism was not an aberration, but instead a logical end product of Marxism, whose genealogy he examined in his monumental Main Currents of Marxism, his major work published in 1976–1978.[4]
Kolakowski became increasingly fascinated by the contribution which theological assumptions make to Western, and, in particular, modern thought, and defended the role which freedom plays in the human quest for the transcendent. His Law of the Infinite Cornucopia asserts that, for any given doctrine one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which one can support it. Nevertheless, although human fallibility implies that we ought to treat claims to infallibility with scepticism, our pursuit of the higher (such as truth and goodness) is ennobling.
In 1968, Kołakowski became a visiting professor in the department of philosophy at McGill University in Montreal and in 1969 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. In 1970, he became a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He remained mostly at Oxford, although he spent part of 1974 at Yale University, and from 1981 to 1994 was a part-time professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Although his works were officially banned in Poland, underground copies of them influenced the opinions of the Polish intellectual opposition.[citation needed] His 1971 essay Theses on Hope and Hopelessness (full title : In Stalin's Countries: Theses on Hope and Despair),[5][6] which suggested that self-organized social groups could gradually expand the spheres of civil society in a totalitarian state, helped to inspire the dissident movements of the 1970s that led to Solidarity and, eventually, to the collapse of Communism in Europe in 1989.[citation needed] In the 1980s, Kołakowski supported Solidarity by giving interviews, writing and fund-raising.[citation needed]
In Poland, Kołakowski is not only revered as a philosopher and historian of ideas, but also as an icon for opponents of communism. Adam Michnik has called Kołakowski "one of the most prominent creators of contemporary Polish culture".[7][8]
Kołakowski died in July 2009, aged 81, in Oxford, England.[citation needed]
In 1986, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Kołakowski for the Jefferson Lecture. Kołakowski's lecture "The Idolatry of Politics",[9] was reprinted in his collection of essays Modernity on Endless Trial.[1]
In 2003, the Library of Congress named Kołakowski the first winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities.[10][11]
His other awards include the following:
- Jurzykowski Prize (1969)
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1977)
- Veillon Foundation European Prize for the Essay (1980)
- MacArthur Award (1982)
- Erasmus Prize, MacArthur Fellowship (1983)
- Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986)
- Award of the Polish Pen Club (1988)
- University of Chicago Press, Gordon J. Laing Award (1991)
- Tocqueville Prize (1994)
- Kluge Prize of the Library of Congress (2004)
- St. George Medal (2006)
- Jerusalem Prize (2007)
- Democracy Service Medal (2009)
- Klucz niebieski, albo opowieści budujące z historii świętej zebrane ku pouczeniu i przestrodze (The Key to Heaven), 1957
- 13 bajek z królestwa Lailonii dla dużych i małych (Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia and the Key to Heaven), 1963
- Rozmowy z diablem (US title: Conversations with the Devil / UK title: Talk of the Devil; reissued with The Key to Heaven under the title The Devil and Scripture, 1973), 1965
- Świadomość religijna i więź kościelna, 1965
- Od Hume'a do Koła Wiedeńskiego (the 1st edition:The Alienation of Reason, translated by Norbert Guterman, 1966/ later as Positivist Philosophy from Hume to the Vienna Circle),
- Kultura i fetysze (Toward a Marxist Humanism, translated by Jane Zielonko Peel, and Marxism and Beyond), 1967
- A Leszek Kołakowski Reader, 1971
- Positivist Philosophy, 1971
- TriQuartely 22, 1971
- Obecność mitu (The Presence of Myth), 1972
- ed. The Socialist Idea, 1974 (with Stuart Hampshire)
- Husserl and the Search for Certitude, 1975
- Główne nurty marksizmu. First published in Polish (3 volumes) as "Główne nurty marksizmu" (Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1976) and in English (3 volumes) as "Main Currents of Marxism" (London: Oxford University Press, 1978). Current editions: Paperback (1 volume): W. W. Norton & Company (January 17, 2008). ISBN 978-0393329438. Hardcover (1 volume): W. W. Norton & Company; First edition (November 7, 2005). ISBN 978-0393060546.
- Czy diabeł może być zbawiony i 27 innych kazań, 1982
- Religion: If There Is No God, 1982
- Bergson, 1985
- Le Village introuvable, 1986
- Metaphysical Horror, 1988 (revised edition, 2001)
- Pochwała niekonsekwencji, 1989 (ed. by Zbigniew Menzel)
- Cywilizacja na ławie oskarżonych, 1990 (ed. by Paweł Kłoczowski)
- Modernity on Endless Trial (University of Chicago Press), 1990
- God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism, 1995
- Freedom, Fame, Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life, 1999
- The Two Eyes of Spinoza and Other Essays on Philosophers, 2004
- My Correct Views on Everything, 2005
- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?, 2007
- Is God Happy?: Selected Essays, 2012
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Leszek Kołakowski, "The Idolatry of Politics," reprinted in Modernity on Endless Trial (University of Chicago Press, 1990, paperback edition 1997), ISBN 0-226-45045-7, ISBN 0-226-45046-5, ISBN 978-0-226-45046-9, p. 158.
- ^ Foreign News: VOICE OF DISSENT, TIME Magazine, October 14, 1957
- ^ Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p.353
- ^ Polish philosopher and author Kołakowski dead at 81, Gareth Jones, Reuters, Jul 17, 2009
- ^ Kołakowski, Leszek (1971): Hope and Hopelessness. In: Survey, vol. 17, no. 3 (80)
- ^ Kołakowski : In Stalin's Countries: Theses on Hope and Despair (1971)
- ^ Adam Michnik, "Letter from the Gdansk Prison," New York Review of Books, July 18, 1985.
- ^ Norman Davies, "True to Himself and His Homeland," New York Times, October 5, 1986.
- ^ Jefferson Lecturers at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
- ^ "Library of Congress Announces Winner of First John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences"
- ^ Leszek Kołakowski, "What the Past is For" (speech given on November 5, 2003, on the occasion of the awarding of the Kluge Prize to Kołakowski).
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- Polish Philosophy Page: Bibliography, at the Internet Archive
- Leszek Kołakowski notebook, by Cosma Shalizi
- Kołakowski, Leszek (1974). "My correct views on everything: A rejoinder to Edward Thompson's 'Open letter to Leszek Kołakowski'". Socialist Register.
- How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist
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- Judt, Tony. "Goodbye to All That?" in The New York Review of Books, Vol. 53, No. 14, September 21, 2006 (review-essay on Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by Leszek Kołakowski, translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla. Norton, 2005, ISBN 0-393-06054-3; My Correct Views on Everything by Leszek Kołakowski, edited by Zbigniew Janowski. St. Augustine's, 2004, ISBN 1-58731-525-4; Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde by Jacques Attali. Paris: Fayard, 2005, ISBN 2-213-62491-7)
- Roger Kimball, Leszek Kołakowski and the Anatomy of Totalitarianism
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