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InterStim Therapy is a sacral neuromodulation therapy from Medtronic. InterStim has been regularly used for urinary incontinence for more than a decade, but recently received additional approval as treatment for fecal incontinence.
Anand Lodha, MD, a colorectal surgeon with North Texas Surgery Center, and Russell Harrell, MD, an OB/GYN physician in Toms River, N.J., discuss how they have used InterStim in the ambulatory surgery center environment for both indications.
Question: When did you first begin to perform InterStim procedures?
Dr. Anand Lodha: I am performing InterStim procedures at a hospital and in the surgery center. We first got the ball rolling in 2012. After long discussions with the credentialing office, the hospital's colorectal department earned the privilege to perform these procedures last month. We have been performing the procedures at the surgery center since August.
The first candidate for the procedure was a 45 year old woman who was experiencing fecal incontinence when she slept. Right away we were able to make a difference with the sacral nerve stimulator. Another patient, an elderly woman, was having an episode every day. Now she is down to once or twice a week. The expectation of the procedure is 50 percent improvement, but our goal is to push for 100 percent improvement.
Dr. Russell Harrell: I started performing InterStim procedures for urinary incontinence since 2003. Initially I was doing these procedures in a hospital, but I now do them exclusively in an ASC. The procedure really lends itself to the ASC setting.
Q: How did InterStim come to have indications for both urinary and fecal incontinence?
AL: InterStim has been around for some time. It has been regularly used in Europe and here, by urologists as a treatment for urinary incontinence. A multi-centered prospective trial in 2010 examined the long-term efficacy data of InterStim for fecal incontinence. Eighty percent of subjects had a greater than 50 percent therapeutic improvement in their symptoms and was consistent long-term. With many other procedures, efficacy rates decline with time, but with this long-term data demonstrates long-term effects.
Q: Why is InterStim an important tool in fecal incontinence treatment?
AL: Fecal incontinence is a taboo subject. It bears a social stigma. It is a major reason that elderly patients are admitted to nursing homes. We now have technology with great, lasting results. Of patients treated with InterStim, 80 percent have shown a 50 percent or greater improvement after implantation and 30 to 50 percent of patients have shown 100 percent improvement.
RH: In the past, the treatments for fecal incontinence ranged from dietary restrictions to invasive procedures such as sphincteroplasty. When you compare the long-term efficacy of InterStim with these treatments it's like looking at apples and oranges.
Q: What does an ASC need for physicians to perform InterStim?
RH: Good news from an ASC perspective, the cost of instrumentation is very low. The procedure requires only light sedation, not general anesthesia. Centers do need a C-Arm, which is an expensive piece of equipment. For centers that do not already have a C-Arm or the means to acquire one, the equipment can be rented on a day-to-day basis. While a C-Arm is the biggest expense, the cost of renting one will be covered after only a couple of cases. Centers can stack cases and complete three to four within a couple of hours.
Q: What kind of learning curve can surgeons expect when taking on InterStim?
RH: When I first began, I scheduled three cases. An instructor sat down with me to show me how the procedure was done. It is user-friendly and as with any procedure, the more you do the more proficient you become.
Q: Why does InterStim make sense for use in an ASC?
RH: The procedure is exactly the same, whether it is treating fecal or urinary incontinence. All nerves that InterStim is stimulating lead to the pelvic floor. The procedure is minimally invasive. You can do several in a couple of hours and the results for patients are good.
AL: It is definitely something that is very appropriate for the surgery center. The Medtronic reps go through an extensive training process and are really hands-on. They come and make sure everything is set up properly and are an integral part of the patient's follow-up. We always check to see if there needs to be any adjustment done to the patients' program. Surgery centers also offer the patients the benefit of enhanced comfort and safety.
Q: What kind of reimbursement can physicians expect from performing procedures with InterStim?
AL: Thus far we have performed three to four procedures and experienced middle of the road reimbursement.
RH: Reimbursement rates I have seen are really good.
Q: How can gastroenterologists work with surgeons to bring this procedure to ASCs?
RH: As it stands right now, gynecologists, urologists and colorectal surgeons are performing procedures with InterStim. Thus far, I have received a few referrals for this procedure from gastroenterologists, but I think it will eventually take off. As gastroenterologist awareness grows, I think InterStim will be like any new tool, something to add to their repertoire for patient treatment.
In the past, there was not a great answer to fecal incontinence. The attitude may have been "if there is no solution, don't ask the question." But, patients do suffer from fecal incontinence and now we have that great answer. InterStim is an added value to any GI center, whether an existing surgeon-owner begins performing cases or the owners recruit a surgeon to bring the procedure to the center. It is good for the patient and good for the center.
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News: Kreayshawn Wants To Cash-In W/ Curren$y, "We've Been Trying To Link Up"
Monday, Oct 31, 2011 11:25AM
West Coast rapper Kreayshawn is looking to take her movement to the Big Easy by revealing plans to hook-up with New Orleans rapper Curren$y.
Dishing out her love for the South, Kreay said fans can anticipate something stirring with her and Curren$y sooner than later.
"No, but I'm gonna call up Curren$y," Kreay said when asked if Snoop Dogg told her the hot spots to hang out in New Orleans for this past weekend's Voodoo Experience Fest. "He'll tell me what to do. We've been trying to link up, because he wants me to shoot a video for him. He keeps telling me "Come out to New Orleans!" So maybe we'll do a crazy Voodoo Fest video. I've always loved the music coming out of the south - the old-school Mannie Fresh beats and the Hot Boys." (NOLA News)
Recently, Kreay said in addition to being a rapper and a director, she is also a model.
"I'm a rapper, I'm a graphic designer director, model, deejay and a professional b*tch snatcher," Kreayshawn said. "There's a lot of people that want to push you down. One, for being a female and one for being white. It's hard but I don't see it like that. In Oakland, that's how you grew up...The best about everything that's going on is I have my head on my shoulders, I know what I want, I know my vision and it's not like I signed this record deal blindly -- whatever happens, happens. I know that I'm a good person and that I'm smart and funny. If the music thing doesn't work out, I'm talented at a million other things." ("Carson Daly")
Not only wanted by Curren$y, Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane previously told SOHH he would love to link with her.
"I think she hard," Gucci told SOHH when asked what he thinks about the West Coast newcomer. "She's got it. I seen a couple [of her videos] on the Internet and I think she goes hard. I could see us [hooking up musically] in Atlanta. Definitely. I would love to work with her." (SOHH)
While we await Curren$y and Kreay's music video to begin production, Spitta's latest Jet Life Recordings signee Mikey Rocks recently opened up about his new label situation.
"I really respect what the Jets been doing over the past few years. That's just been my people for a minute, I got sh*t with [artist] Trademark, I f*ck with [artist] Roddy tough, man," Mikey said in an interview. "Me and Curren$y done plenty of sh*t together. We kinda been edging towards that for a minute anyway, just through our friendship and us being around the same music circles and sh*t man -- It's kind of the best fit for what I'm doing right now. I kinda can identify with everything they got going on, and it's kind of like the best fit for what I'm doing. It really wouldn't be a better place for me right now, at this point in my career." (Ashley Outrageous)
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Robles moved out to the ranch when he was 27, with his wife and young son (they now have three kids), after studying agriculture at the University of Guadalajara. In 1987, he became the owner of his 10,000-acre portion. (Eduardo and a cousin also have 10,000 acres each.) He grew increasingly disenchanted with the impacts of grazing and recurring droughts. Even when ranching was profitable, he says, "You are only living the life of overgrazing." In 1991, he sold his cattle and started leasing his land for other ranchers' cattle, and in 2000, he began reducing the number of cattle in the leases -- dropping to 150 by 2008, 50 in 2010, and briefly -- in 2011 -- hitting zero. (To supplement the family's income, his wife runs a hotel in Magdalena, a 45-minute drive away, where Robles helps out when he has time.)
A U.S. conservationist encouraged Robles' venture into conservation ranching. At a 2000 meeting in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, Tom Wood, co-director of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, a nonprofit group that aims to "conserve the region's birdlife through research and public education," sought to educate Sonora's ranchers about the possibilities of ecotourism. None of the other ranchers were as intrigued as Robles, who came up to Wood afterward and asked, "How quickly can we do a bird inventory?"
Eduardo Limón, a freelance biologist and ornithologist in Hermosillo who also attended the meeting, visited the ranch soon afterward and was surprised by its good condition. Robles was already rotating cattle to keep any area from being grazed too long. That year, Robles also installed a couple of remote cameras on his ranch to photograph wildlife. Limón saw impressive habitat and counted about 140 bird species. He called the Sonoran Joint Venture, an organization of government agencies and nonprofits based in Tucson, whose mission is to conserve borderlands birds and their habitats. Since the Joint Venture shares an office building with the Tucson Audubon Society, word of mouth soon brought many U.S. birders to the ranch, along with a host of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish, bird, reptile and mammal specialists.
"I went down a couple of years later (during a dry spell) and the headwaters of the stream was bubbling up out of the ground, and the stream was flowing well," says Wood, whose organization has sponsored eight ecotourism trips to Aribabi. "I was amazed."
During the mid-2000s, the Joint Venture, which is staffed by wildlife service biologists and governed by a board of researchers, bureaucrats and conservationists, included Robles' ranch in a study of important bird habitats. In 2003, it gave him a further boost by paying $30,000 to fence off Río Cocóspera from cattle. Even before that, Robles' riverfront vegetation was in the best shape of the 20 areas studied, recalls Robert Mesta, the Joint Venture's coordinator. "The other areas in Sonora that we studied were hammered. Other than large cottonwoods and willows, there was nothing left. His was still pretty lush ... despite the fact that it had been grazed," Mesta says.
Once the stream was fenced, the grasses and shrubs grew up to six feet high. The bird life increased to 180 species, says Limón, who conducted monthly surveys from 2000 to 2010. New arrivals included the summer tanager and the Sinaloan wren.
Robles had to jump through some hoops to get the Mexican government's permission to sell deer hunts. There is virtually no government regulation of ranching in the country, but Robles was an early participant in an innovative Mexican conservation program: Unidades para la Conservación, Manejo y Aprovechamiento Sustentable de la Vida Silvestre, better known as the UMA program. Created in the 1990s, it encourages ranchers to work with biologists to create plans for managing wildlife in sustainable ways that also make a profit, such as selling hunting opportunities. (Since the UMA program began, hunting is legal only on UMAs.) Robles won approval as an UMA in 1998 and began selling hunts.
Robles also benefitted from an extraordinary relationship with the Sky Island Alliance, a Tucson group that seeks to restore and protect the biodiversity of mountain ranges on both sides of the border. It began when a Sky Island Alliance biologist, Sergio Avila, came to the ranch in 2006 while scouting for jaguar habitat, trying to track the origins of the jaguars that occasionally appeared in Arizona. Avila, a Mexico native, says that Robles "was already using phrases such as 'ecological processes' and 'conservation in perpetuity,' and I thought, 'Who is this guy?' Then he comes out with a folder containing a bunch of photos, of bobcats, mountain lions, black bear, deer and coati, and told me he had two or three remote cameras already."
In February 2007, Robles let Avila's group set up six more cameras on the ranch. (Eventually the total grew to 12.) The cameras have documented seven ocelots -- the northernmost known breeding population -- and two jaguars, as well as bobcats. Later that year, Robles signed an agreement with Sky Island Alliance in which he promised not to kill predators or poach wildlife on his land. In return, Sky Island agreed to promote the ranch -- in the media, in the group's writings and on its website -- and to collaborate with Robles in monitoring wildlife and to support restoration activities, such as water pumping for wildlife. Avila and other Sky Island staffers became the ranch's most enthusiastic U.S. advocates, leading more than 30 field trips and conducting wildlife tracking and restoration workshops. The group has also built rock dams along creeks to slow flows and encourage vegetation growth, and has helped conduct biological studies here.
Ornithologists, herpetologists, mammalogists, ecologists and other biologists from Mexico and the U.S. have come here to research many species, including the endangered Gila topminnow and Sonora chub, the lowland leopard frog, and the Tarahumara salamander (a population that Robles discovered). University of Sonora biology students visit to learn to use remote cameras and do other research. High school students and Boy Scouts from Sonora, along with a Border Studies group of students from Earlham College in Indiana, have done restoration work here, building at least 15 of the small rock dams that encourage wetlands.


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NEW ORLEANS -- Attending my first Super Bowl media day I did not anticipate that I'd be watching a reporter trip his face off, but that's what happened on Tuesday when I went to the Super Dome to cover the annual spectacle.
Even though I've been in this business for 12 years, I never covered a Super Bowl before. I was there to shoot a feature that will be running later this week, but I had heard through some back channels that there would be a reporter there for VICE Magazine, attending the media day while tripping on acid.
The reporter, however, is using a pseudonym, Hank A. Knightly, for fear of being boycotted by the NFL in the future. But he agreed to let me write about watching him trip on acid. I mean, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN? I knew I wanted to see.
"I don't know what will happen," he said. "I could wind up making snow angels in the middle of the field."
Hank told me he had five tabs of acid and was going to drop all of them, but not until he was in the building and had everything settled. He didn't want to go to through security or run into any issues while tripping. Smart strategy. We were texting throughout the morning, and the first time I saw him, he was smiling wide, laughing a bit, saying it just was starting to kick in.
"I'm so glad I didn't do this before," going through security, he told me.
Had I not known he had just ingested a sheet of acid, I wouldn't have been able to tell. But I knew I was the only one in this space of thousands of people who knew he had LSD coursing through his veins. Hank also encouraged me to stick around as long as I could because when the Ravens would be coming in later in the day, that's when the acid should really be hitting its peak.
Hank and I sporadically texted all morning and before I left, I saw him one more time. He was still smiling, saying that everything seemed louder than it had before. He wasn't sure what he was going to do, but he was happy because he had gotten into an intense conversation with a former player that seemed enlightening.
Or maybe not. Who the hell knows, he was tripping on acid. The rest of the media day experience really doesn't matter, since it was all experienced through the prism of wondering if Hank was going to start making snow angels, or worse. Yes there were endless waves of media, people dressed like morons, and tons of players, executives and coaches. I got my feature work done, and soon left.
Hank and I texted all throughout the rest of the day. At one point I asked him where he was going after leaving the Super Dome.
"Hopping on my bike and then down to the French Quarter," he wrote. "What is one supposed to do after tripping balls at super media day?"
"No idea!" is what I texted back.
Hank made it through the day, and on Wednesday he was writing his piece, due out sometime later in the day. Media day from this point forward will never be as entertaining.


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One of the largest classes in University of Maine history graduated today in the 210th Commencement ceremonies at Harold Alfond Sports Arena.
This academic year, 2,467 students — 1,875 undergraduate and 592 graduate students — earned degrees from UMaine.
A estimated 12,200 people combined attended the two ceremonies. A 10 a.m. ceremony was held for graduates in the College of Business, Public Policy and Health; the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and the Division of Lifelong Learning. Graduates in the College of Education and Human Development; the College of Engineering; and the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture were recognized at a 2:30 p.m. ceremony.
UMaine President Paul W. Ferguson, who presided over the ceremonies, told the students they are graduating from one of the finest universities in the country, and the hope is that their experience and education at UMaine have inspired them to dare and achieve.
"I encourage you to invest your talent, success and great achievements in the lives around you," Ferguson said. "Enrich the world around you and improve the quality of life for all around you. That is the best return we could ask for all of our investment in you."
UMaine awarded honorary degrees to two alumni: Owen Wells, vice chair of the board of trustees of the Libra Foundation, a Portland-based philanthropic organization, and George Sakellaris, president and chief executive officer of Ameresco Inc., a leading North American energy efficiency and renewable energy company headquartered in Framingham, Mass.
Wells addressed the morning Commencement ceremony, telling the graduates they need to make success their mantra, and elaborating on the multiple definitions of success — from waking up in the morning and being motivated to begin the day to expecting the unexpected and being happy to taking risks and failing sometimes.
"Success means being a part of progress," said Wells. "The future belongs to those who build it. Take your degree and look at it as a ticket to serve as opposed to being served. It will afford you opportunities both great and small."
In the afternoon Commencement ceremony, Sakellaris reminded graduates that they control their own destinies.
"Once you identify your career passion, never, never give up, no matter what the challenges or obstacles that come you way," Sakellaris said. "Like my ancient ancestors, the 300 Spartans who defeated the 30,000 and changed the course of history, set your sights on your goal, believe strongly in yourself and be determined to be victorious rather than defeated."
Professor of Chemical Engineering Joseph Genco, the 2012 Distinguished Maine Professor, presented the Celebration of Academia address, acknowledging the period of change the new graduates are experiencing in their lives.
Also recognized during the ceremonies were three professors honored with this year's Presidential Achievement Awards: Professor of Biochemistry Mary Rumpho, Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; Professor of Chemical Engineering Hemant Pendse, Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award; and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Karen Horton, Presidential Public Service Achievement Award.
University of Maine System Board of Trustees members and UMaine alumni Paul Mitchell and Eleanor Baker delivered greetings from the board in the morning and afternoon sessions, respectively.
Alumnus Kurt Marston, chair of the University of Maine Alumni Association Board of Directors, welcomed the new graduates to the ranks of the more than 100,000 living University of Maine alumni.
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Stenger-Technik, ADB's distributor and consulting office in Austria, is currently installing a large lighting control system for the new Stadthalle in Graz. Austria's second-largest city is preparing for 2003, when it will be the cultural capital of Europe (go to www.graz03.at for more info).
The modern and multifunctional event hall is being built on the ground of the Graz fair, with 12,300 sq. m (136,000 sq. ft.) of usable floor space for music, arts, and cultural events. The world-famous Kalachakra for World Peace will inaugurate the new hall this October in the presence of the Dalai Lama.
The installation at the new Stadthalle includes ADB Phoenix 10 and Phoenix 5 lighting control desks with Isis software running the company's proprietary Ethernet software. The Ethernet signal is distributed via seven Netswitches to a total of nine Netgate (XT) units which provide for the DMX outlets distributed around the building. The user can control pre-programmed macros on the Netgate XT, connect switches, and see the video output of the Isis control on a standard SVGA monitor. All lighting control desks are remote-controllable by infrared transmitters and receivers. The house and work lights are controlled by ADB's S2MS architectural lighting control system which allows flexibility of control over many lighting sources. The entire system was designed to handle touring companies and other users who will perform at this venue. The open architecture of the Ethernet allows for future extensions to the systems and interfaces with major bus-systems on the market.


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If you are one of the many frightened, stressed-out, tearful parents who will be dropping their child off at school and leaving them for the first time, here are 7 tips for you (plus 5 major No-No's) to help you survive your first day of Kindergarten.
- Grow Up: Yes, You
Constantly bemoaning the fact that little Janie is becoming a big girl will not change the fact that she is. She is doing exactly what she is supposed to be doing: growing up, learning, moving forward. Let her. She cannot become a fully functioning child, adolescent, adult with a set of weepy parents agonizing over her every step. You have both worked for five years toward this milestone. Celebrate!
- Talk It Out
A big mistake so many parents make is in underestimating their child's ability to comprehend and process information. Children are intuitive, thoughtful, imaginative people and questions are always more scary than the answers that follow. Take advantage of orientation days and the fact that the schools are occupied with working administrators even before the school year gets under way. Walk them through their new environment so that first day is familiar, not foreign. And answer all questions honestly; don't fudge. Kids have built-in lie detectors.
- Watch Your Mouth
It is natural for you to be talking – and be honest, whining – about this upcoming benchmark to every person you know, every check-out clerk you meet. Just try not to do it in front of your child. Let them be excited. You be a walking Kleenex out of earshot.
- Choices, Choices
While you may think it is easier to simply make your way through the school supply aisle as quickly as possible (OK, it is), let your new kindergartner hold his list and choose his own crayons, markers, lunchbox, etc. You will reinforce that he is ready for more grownup endeavors that require decision making. So if he agonizes for 10 minutes over what color school box to buy, let him. If he is happy with his choices, he won't be able to wait to get them to school and show them off.
- Static Cling
- No Child Left Behind
The dominant real concern your child will have is how they will get back to your loving embrace at the end of their day. Don't freak out. It would be difficult to find a school where there is not a rock solid program for ensuring your little one gets to the proper bus or carpool line for pick up each afternoon. Schools face this responsibility with utmost seriousness and are rigid in their rules. So explain to your child that each bus has a number and they will probably wear a card pinned to their clothes the first week or so, until they get comfortable with the routine. And if you will be picking them up in the carpool line, assure them that the teachers will stay with the children until each one is picked up.
- Lights, Camera, Action
The big day is here, the camcorder is charged and your child is wearing her backpack to breakfast. Let excitement be the watchword! Children take all their cues from their parents and will walk into that school mirroring YOUR emotions. So smile for the camera, rehearse your lines ahead of time and play your part – that of adoring yet confident parent of an adorable yet confident kindergartner.
Despite all efforts to project joy and excitement about starting school, some children are naturally more clingy than others. Talk about the first day, and while being matter-of-fact, make it very clear, in no uncertain terms, that you cannot stay. Talk about how proud you are of him. Tell her how much fun she is going to have. Talk about eating lunch and snacks at school. You will be amazed how eating away from you is a huge attraction for a child. If your child needs an extra boost, have him help prepare a special treat for the entire class that he can present to the teacher when he goes in.


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You might not be familiar with ricin, but first responders in metro Atlanta have spent lots of time studying the biological toxin. One unit in Cobb County agreed to explain the harm ricin can cause, and show us how they try to respond. A number of local fire departments have the equipment and the capability to respond to hazardous materials calls. In the case of ricin, it's one of the most dangerous toxins they face. Cobb Fire hazmat officers agreed to show FOX 5 what it would take to respond. What is ricin? Cobb County Fire Department spokesperson Alan Land says it's a naturally derivative plant protein from the castor bean. Once the castor oil is made, the byproduct is left over. In the wrong hands, the seed of that plant can be turned into a meal-type powder, and then weaponized as ricin. Land said a terrorist could try to contaminate water or food with it. But what about powder in an envelope? Land says it's not really a danger unless there's already an open cut or sore on your skin. He says one of the major symptoms of ricin is nausea. There is no antidote for ricin exposure, and ricin can kill you. Land told FOX 5 that an amount of ricin about the size of a pin head could kill a grown man, and it could take anywhere from one to a couple of days for that to happen.
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|Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:08 PM
But instead I decided to review Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
While this is obviously not a new release (or a book), it is something that I feel would appeal much more to most people as Thanksgiving approaches. No, it doesn't shed any light on the history of Thanksgiving but it is a heart-warming story that is appropriate for this time of year, since the plot centers around two men attempting to get home in time to celebrate the holiday with their families.
Released in 1987, many of you have undoubtedly seen this. I urge you, though; if it's been a while, to watch it again. This has become Thanksgiving's answer to It's a Wonderful Life at our house, as I've been watching it every year right before the holiday, starting a few years ago (which was when I first saw the film in its entirety). I have shown this film in my college courses, though (with an assignment built around it, of course) and they all loved it. It appeals to many generations. (Not for children, though. There's a little language.)
While the overall plot centers around two men who continually seem to wind up together as they try to make their way home for the holidays, and all the shenanigans that ensue, at the core of this movie is love. I laugh my way through for the most part, but the end does bring a tear to my eye, as it brings home the real meaning of Thanksgiving for most of us – a time to spend with our families and loved ones, and a time to really be thankful for what we have.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is obsessed with a certain game, and I bet you can guess what it is
NASA had a booth at this year's E3, and I stopped by for a chat with one of their software engineers to talk about why NASA decided to have a presence at a video game expo. During the course of our conversation we got to talking about video games. It turns out that quite a few of the folks at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are video gamers and they're obsessed with one game in particular.
"The only thing that would make this week complete, and you may or may not know about this game, is if the developers of a game called Kerbal Space Program showed up. Half of JPL is playing that game right now," said Douglas Ellison, a visualization producer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He's one of the people who helps make JPL's scientifically exact digital recreations of NASA missions like the Curiosity Mars Landing.
Kerbal Space Program is a sort of cartoonish space mission simulator. The player is given command of a space program run by little tadpole-esque creatures called Kerbals. The game is a sandbox title where the player can build completely custom rocket ships to blast off the planet and attempt to fly their ship through space to reach other planets and moons. You could even piece together your own space station or build a little solar-powered rover to take with you on your voyage.
The game is growing all the time, because technically it hasn't actually released yet. The game's developers, the indie team Squad from Mexico City, have launched Kerbal Space Program in a Minecraft-esque paid Alpha. So the game is constantly getting new and better features.
One of the allures of the game is that the constantly upgrading game client and mod scene actually give the game a feeling that's very much like a real space program. Back in the 1960's space race, nobody actually had the right tools at their disposal yet. They had to be invented. By coincidence or by design, Kerbal Space Program replicates the feeling of being part of a growing endeavor to reach the stars.
Kerbal science
The physics of Kerbal Space Program aren't anywhere near as unforgiving and restrictive as NASA has to deal with in real life, but your rocket still needs to be logical and well-constructed.
Fuel-efficiency, wind resistance, and thrust balance are all things that need to be taken into account. It's just complex enough to engage the player mentally, and just simple enough that a single person could design a great rocket that doesn't require a team of mathematicians and engineers.
There's also a thriving mod scene that's constantly creating new devices and toys for players to tool around with. The game itself is somewhat barebones. It's exceedingly difficult to fly a mission to another planet without the help of the rocket parts and software created by the modding community. Some parts even have built-in telemetry tools that can automatically fire your engines for the proper amount of time and put you on the perfect heading. It might sound like cheating, but hey, NASA's got that mod too.
"I've actually tried to land on Duna using the sky-crane method and I have killed many Kerbals along the way," said Ellison. Duna is the equivalent of Mars in the Kerbal universe, and Ellison just got done working for nine months to perfectly recreate the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars which used the sky-crane landing method. Basically, what happens is a small rocket carrying the rover parachutes down to the Martian surface, then fires rockets to hover in mid-air before lowering the rover the rest of the way to the surface on a cable. Suffice to say that in Kerbal Space Program, that's overcomplicating things a little bit.
The amusing part is that many of the parts needed to perform this method are unavailable in the base game of Kerbal Space Program. So clearly NASA has been scouring the Kerbal forums looking for mod packs that will help them get the job done.
No responsibility
"It's why racing drivers like racing games…no real responsibility," Ellison said. "Time to go a little crazy. Some of the engineering principles are very sound within KSP, but you can go just a little bit crazy. Everyone who works in and around the fields of science and engineering has a thousand crazy ideas they've thought of but would never try in real life. KSP is a place where maybe, in Kerbal's unique way, you can give them a try."
But even if you're not a NASA engineer there's still a lot to be gained from playing Kerbal Space Program. Like Ellison said, there is some real science at work in this game, and you can actually learn a small bit about what it takes to launch a rocket through playing the game. You'll learn to speak the lingo with words like perigee, azimuth, and retrograde. So the next time a NASA or SpaceX launch is happening, you'll be able to tune in and understand a tiny bit of what's happening, like ordering lunch at a French McDonalds after taking a few French language classes.
Kerbal Space Program is a game that can be taken as seriously as you want, and it's neat to see that even NASA agrees…even if them being silly with the game involves an incredibly complex multi-stage landing on a planet I've only dreamed of reaching.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. - FGCU basketball fans can help raise the curtain for another season by joining the Tip-Off Madness celebration at Alico Arena, Friday, Oct. 12. Tip-Off Madness will begin approximately 30 minutes after the FGCU vs. USC-Upstate volleyball match. Admission is free.
The public will get an opportunity to meet the 2007-08 FGCU men's and women's basketball teams and will be entertained by a three-point contest, a slam dunk contest and team scrimmages. Among the contests planned for the students is an opportunity to shoot for 32" LCD TV or LCD Notebook Computer, both valued at over $500.
FGCU's men's team, led by sixth-year head coach Dave Balza, is coming off a 27-6 season. The Eagles return four starters and eight letter-winners including seven seniors.
FGCU's women's team, led by sixth-year coach Karl Smesko, is coming off a 34-1 season, in which they finished the regular season undefeated and ranked number one in the nation. The team won the South Region championship and advanced to the NCAA Division II National Championship game. Smesko welcomes back two starters and six letter-winners including four seniors.


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Participatory economics, or parecon for short, is a classless economic system that serves as an alternative to capitalism, market socialism, and centrally planned economies. Parecon is based upon equity, solidarity, diversity, and participatory self-management, as well as takes into account kinship/gender, community/race, and polity in addition to economic considerations. Under parecon, workers and consumers councils are responsible for self-managed decision making; workers have balanced job complexes; effort and sacrifice are rewarded, not hours worked or how much capital was invested; and planning is participatory.
When I first read about Parecon, what struck me was that it sounded like an anarchist economic vision. Do you think this is a fair assessment? Why or why not?
Yes, I do think it is fair. Anarchism is a very broad and rich approach to understanding social relations and affecting them. Most broadly anarchism says we don't want hierarchies of wealth and power which enable and even compel some people to dominate while other people, generally far more numerous, are subordinate. Parecon takes that agenda into the economy and proposes a way to accomplish production, allocation, and consumption, that is consistent with not having any one constituency, by virtue of its economic position, dominating any other. Parecon is in this regard a classless economy, an economy without class hierarchy, and is in that sense, I think, very much in the anarchist tradition.
More, I think anarchism has another broad commitment, which is that people should have a say over decisions that affect them. People should be able to participate and to self-manage their conditions and options, of course in concert with one another. Again, parecon is an economy that celebrates self-management—meaning that all people should have a say over decisions in proportion as they are affected by them—as a central aim. Parecon is a solidaritous economy that delivers to all participants the same self managing say as others have, and in this regard too, I think it is anarchist.
In your writings, you describe a third class, which you describe as a coordinator class. What is the coordinator class, and how does the conception of a coordinator class distinguish Parecon from other radical theories such as Marxism and anarchism?
Marxists very rightly notice and highlight that ownership relations can and do cause economic actors to have not only different but opposed interests, thereby yielding class division and class rule. Owners of factories, resources, and productive property more generally, who are called capitalists, operate with different interests than people who must sell their ability to do work to earn wages – the wage slaves, in old style language. This capital versus labor distinction is pivotal to how a capitalist economy functions and to its implications for people, Marxists rightly tell us, and it can't be abided if we want many of the worst ills of capitalism. Thus, the Marxist agenda includes getting rid of having a few people own the places where we all work, the tools we all work with, the resources we all use while working, and so on. So far so good.
But beyond this division, what about another? Bakunin, among other early anarchists, talked a lot about people who were workers but who had way more power and income than other workers not least due to having rather different conditions in their economic lives. Much more recently, Barbara and John Ehrenreich, about thirty years ago, reinvigorated that perspective, calling the group that they saw "between labor and capital," the professional managerial class. Robin Hahnel and I opted for a different name, the coordinator class, and also refined how we understand who it is and why it matters. We proposed it is the people who monopolize empowering labor in their jobs – while others, who we called the working class, do overwhelmingly only rote, obedient, tedious labor.
Okay, so why not say there are owners or capitalists, and there are workers, only the two classes. And then why not settle for noting, also, that among all the workers, some have a whole lot of empowering tasks in their jobs, while others have instead overwhelming disempowering tasks, but they are all workers. After all, they all have the same ownership relations, owning only their ability to do work, which they all must sell.
The reason Robin and I said no, we think this should be seen as two classes not as one class with two layers, is because these two constituencies do, in fact, have very different economic situations, power, income/wealth, ways of viewing those above (capitalists), and views of one another. Why it matters enough for us to want to highlight the difference by calling the two groups two classes is because (a) under current capitalist economic relations the existence of this distinction means what goes on is more complex than just highlighting capital and labor implies, regarding both motives and outcomes in workplaces and in class relations more widely. And, even more important, (b) highlighting this distinction reveals and highlights and focuses us in on the fact that it is possible to overcome and replace capitalism with two different new systems. In one of these two post capitalist options, the coordinator class becomes the new ruling class. Out with the old boss, in with the new. This has been called centrally planned and market socialism, but it would be more usefully named centrally planned and market coordinatorism, in our view. In the other of these two possible post capitalist systems, there is classlessness. Just as the basis for the capital/labor division is removed by removing private ownership of productive property—so too is the coordinator/labor division removed—but in this case by removing the former class's monopoly on empowering labor.
I don't think being attentive to the existence of the coordinator class distinguishes parecon from the heritage of anarchism, which, I think, is actually the source of the earliest ideas of this same sort. I do think, however, it distinguishes parecon from the heritage of Marxism-Leninism, because in my view, historically Marxism-Leninism is not being the ideology of the working class, as it claims, but, is instead, in practice, and even against the aspirations of most of its advocates, the ideology of the coordinator class.
What do we lose in ignoring the coordinator class? How can we avoid or resist creating a coordinator class as we develop anti-capitalist work environments?
By ignoring that doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers and others who have a monopoly on empowering labor are a class above workers who do overwhelmingly disempowering labor, we obscure and indeed we literally hide from perception, the existence of this class and its relations. We obscure and literally hide the reality that one can be anti-capitalist sincerely and militantly, yet at least in the implications of one's actions and allegiances, not pro-classlessness, but instead pro the coordinator class. We ignore that we can have, and typically have had, anti-capitalist movements that embody values, assumptions, language, styles, and habits that stem from coordinator class experiences, interests, and aspirations, not from those of working class people – and that, for that reason, are uncongenial, disempowering, and alienating to working people. We ignore, in other words, these and other centrally critical insights about what we are doing, why, and with what prospects for success, and what implications.
For the second part of your question, when people seeking a better world set up experiments in new economy, if we aren't going to fall prey to reproducing old class divisions, we of course have to eliminate having someone own the new project and others merely be employees. That much is obvious, though often not dealt with fully. But even more than that, and rarely dealt with at all, we also have to avoid the other relationships that produce class division, the ones that produce the coordinator/worker hierarchy. This has many implications but mostly it means we shouldn't incorporate in our projects the typical way of defining and apportioning work tasks that we see all around us, which we can usefully call the corporate division of labor. Instead of having about 20% of the folks in a workplace doing all the empowering tasks while 80% do only rote and obedient tasks, with the former folks thereby made, by their position in the economy, dominant over the latter folks, we should incorporate what parecon calls balanced job complexes. The idea is that each actor should do a mix of tasks in their job, such that the overall tasks and responsibilities of each is comparably empowering to the overall tasks and responsibilities of others.
Imagine that someone pointed to a workplace in a distant society and said, "Hey, look, 20% have all the chocolate, 80% have none. The former folks get more income and dominate decisions. They rule. The latter folks are exhausted, alienated, subordinate. They get less income and obey. Look, here is how disparity in their possession of the chocolate causes that result. The possession of all the chocolate gives the former folks confidence, knowledge of the overall conditions of work, social skills, energy, and so on. The absence of chocolate in their workdays relegates the latter folks to exhaustion, depression, a condition of less confidence, diminishing social skills, ignorance of the overall conditions of work, and so on." What can we do to remove this hierarchy in our new experimental workplace, in this odd distant society, or, for that matter, in the existing class divided workplaces it harbors? Well, in this fanciful case, the answer would be obvious. We would have to redistribute the chocolate in our new project so everyone has a fair share. The point is, parecon says this is roughly the condition for the coordinator/worker class hierarchy, but it isn't chocolate the coordinators hoard, it is empowering work. Thus, the task for eliminating the hierarchy is redefining the division of labor into jobs so that the monopoly over empowering work is broken, the chocolate (whoops, the empowering tasks) are dispersed equitably. This goal parecon calls balanced job complexes.
Economism (economic reductionism) reduces radical theory and social facts to economic considerations. Marxism is a prime example of this. Can you talk about economism?
Most Marxists do much better than just looking at the economy and class alone, especially given the lessons taught by women's movements, gay movements, antiracist movements, and others. But there is a tendency, nonetheless, particularly as conflict grows, for Marxists to look at all other dynamics and relations in terms of their effects on economics, in terms of their effects on class, seeing economics and class a kind of more centrally influential and critical foundation or base for everything else. And the critique of this stance shouldn't be that one can't usefully look at this relationship of economy on the rest of society and the rest of society back on economy. One can usefully look at it. But one can also usefully, indeed just as usefully, look at the effects of kinship/gender, or community/race, or polity in and of themselves, or on each other, and also on the economy. And more, one can also look at the dynamics of the economy, for example, or of class with an eye to how gender, community, or political hierarchies are affected being concerned mainly with the latter. In other words, it is true that how we do economics (including production, allocation, and consumption) emanates a kind of field of force that impacts the rest of society. And it is true that the rest of society in turn has implications that play back upon the economy which is itself centrally important. But the fact that one thing is centrally important doesn't say it is alone centrally important. And in fact it is also true that kinship (including procreation, nurturance, socialization, and sexuality) and community (including celebration, self definition, etc.) and polity (including legislation, adjudication, and collective implementation), each also emanate a kind of field of force that impacts the rest of society and is in turn affected by the rest of society. In other words, there isn't one primarily important focus, one primarily central dimension of social life for activists to highlight, but four. And it follows that we need a conceptual approach that highlights them all, that sees each in light of the others, not a framework that makes primary only one dimension, whether economy or one of the others.
Anarcho-syndicalism is sometimes thought of as the idea that the economy should be used as the vehicle for libertarian social transformation, or that workers transforming work environments into solidaric, non-coercive ones is the best strategy for libertarian social transformation. Is Parecon compatible with this idea of anarcho-syndicalism, or is this conception too narrowly concerned with the economy?
Well, I suppose someone who had that view, whether an anarcho-syndicalist or someone else, could adopt parecon as the economic goal and answer yes, it is compatible with an economistic prioritization of tasks. But I wouldn't answer that way at all. Instead, I think parecon offers a viable and worthy goal for transcending capitalism with a new classless economy, yes. But I don't think life is all about economics, or that economics governs all life, or any other simple economistic claim like that. Instead, I think we need movements that seek not only a classless economic vision, but a feminist kinship vision, and an intercommunalist community vision, and an anarchist political vision – which is to say a political aim which accomplishes political functions consistent with our values, not which makes believe there are no political functions to accomplish. I think we need a vision, that is, of the central features—not every last nook and cranny—of a participatory society, not just a participatory economy. And I think we need this both to inspire and motivate us, and to guide our choices so that they lead us where we wish to wind up, and not in circles or to goals that will newly oppress us. Those featured on economy are right to claim that if we don't revolutionize the economy, if we leave it with its underlying features unchanged, then efforts to overcome other ills, or even victories regarding other ills, will always be under assault due to the continuation of past economic structures and their pervasive corrupting influences. But, the same holds, in my view, for not revolutionizing the kinship dimension of life, or culture and community, or polity. Leaving the critical underlying features of any of these in tact, even if we make other useful changes, leaves a heavy ballast pulling all of society back into oppressive logics and outcomes. Even prior to all that, having movements which address only race, or gender, or sexuality, or power, or class as primary and central consigns the movement with one such focus to internal decay and externally alienating huge constituencies.
It is, in short, a suicidal strategy, not a wise one. We need, instead, movements that elevate all these dimensions without prioritization of any one over the rest. I actually think this is pretty well understood and even in many instances practiced, if not perfectly, then at least trying to get there. What I don't think is so well understood, or practiced, even as an attempt much less with success, is what we talked about earlier, which is within paying attention to the economy, paying attention not just to capital/worker relations, but also the role and importance of the third coordinator class to movement policy, structure, culture, and logic, with devastating and indeed strategically suicidal results for working class movement participation and empowerment.
Some syndicalists (Sam Dolgoff, for instance) have argued that an anarchistic economic arrangement is actually an ideal one for an advanced industrialized society. How does Parecon bear on this notion?
It depends on your view of parecon. I think parecon is an ideal economy for an "advanced industrialized society." I also think parecon is an "anarchistic economic arrangement." Thus, I guess it follows that I think parecon bears out Dolgoff's prediction that "an anarchistic economic arrangement is actually an ideal one for an advanced industrialized society." On the other hand, if Dolgoff's comment is read as suggesting that anarchistic economy would not work in a less industrialized economy, I don't think that is the case.
A couple years ago, I asked Noam Chomsky about the fact that anarchists have been divided into various camps, chief among which appear to be anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism. I noted that Murray Bookchin has urged that anarcho-syndicalism is basically inapplicable to the United States, which boasts a post-scarcity, post-industrial economy, and asked Chomsky whether he thought that an emphasis on anarcho-syndicalism is still needed in order to fully wrest the military-industrial complex away from powerful people. He felt the debate was confused, and that in any case the "task is basically the same: try to develop institutional arrangements that maximize worker and community control and other aspects of freedom and justice."
I don't know what post-scarcity or post-industrial mean but I doubt, depending on meaning, that I would agree these are apt terms to use describing the
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La Laiterie Bistro at Farmstead
Ratings: 10 | Reviews: 8 | Display Reviews Only:
Rhode Island
4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
06-09-2014 01:15:43 | More by BColton1
Rhode Island
4/5 rDev -7%
02-25-2014 22:05:14 | More by BeerRay
4.58/5 rDev +6.5%
I've visited La Laiterie At Farmstead twice and have been impressed both times. I went last night specifically to try the Hill Farmstaed beers that were on tap left from the new year's eve dinner which was done in collaboration with Hill Farmstead. The beers were amazing. I had a sampler of all four Hill Farmstead beers that were on tap-Twilghlight of the Idols, Jim, Harlan, and Arthur. After the sampler, I was fortunate enough to try the beer George which I had never tried before. As a fan of Hill Farmstead beers, it was a special treat to find them locally in Providence.
The service was great. The bartender was very friendly and knowledgable about the beers.The atmosphere feels very much like a french bistro and is very relaxing.
The food was incredible. We split a cheese plate which I would highly recommend. We also split an Autumn salad and two desserts which were great as well.
01-06-2012 11:49:42 | More by Chincino
Rhode Island
4.7/5 rDev +9.3%
this place just gets it. quality, local, fresh food can be paired with quality craft beer choices just as it can be with wine (don't worry, they have plenty of that too).
i had seen on BA and Twitter that Cisco Cherry Woods was available here, which gave me a good excuse for dinner at the bar while the wife was out with friends. this place doesn't take reservations for less than six people, so i got there right at 5pm for opening. by 5:20, i counted 32 of the 39 seats in the dining room (including the bar) filled. if you sit at the bar, be sure to check out chef's two Prince of Porc trophies.
beer choices: four rotating draught choices. tonight it was ST Gemini, GUBNA, Berkshire Hefeweizen and Palm. bottes have EKU Pils and a couple of German hefes, plus Orval, Thirsty Dog, Smuttynose (IPA & Porter), Allagash White, Nøgne Ø Brown, and Achel. The menu accurately described Young's DCS as "chocolate-y but not weird" and also offered Porkslap in cans, aka "space age containers." along with the Cherry Woods big bottle that i was there for, they had Hoppin' to Heaven for about $20.
but of course, the food is where Matt Jennings has made his name. this place has the very best burger in town, so i went with that. although my medium was a tad undercooked, the cheddar and bun were great companions and both held up in flavor and texture to the 1/2 pound of beef. my side salad was perfectly lightly dressed and tasted very fresh.
menu items run from the grilled cheese at around $12 up to tonight's $30 lamb offering. in between were mussels, shrimp and branzini, which i learned is an environmentally friendly type of European seabass. there is also a chef's tasting menu, which i believe was $45 for 3-4 courses ($60 if you pair each course with wine).
obviously, i am a big fan of this place. it's fresh, it's local, it's damn good, and it doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive. you should check it out... in a few years when Matt Jennings is a household name, you'll be able to say you knew him back when. besides, by then you won't be able to get a table here anyway.
05-29-2010 02:37:16 | More by coachdonovan
4.58/5 rDev +6.5%
Awesome spot. My girlfriend and I loved this spot, sadly it was often crowded with a long wait, but if you can get a table then you're in for a treat. Small laid back dining area with a small bar at the back with some stools. They only have 5 or so taps, but they seem to always have good stuff on. Often they have a good belgian or two, a DIPA/IPA, and a couple other interesting beers. They also have a good lineup of bottles if nothing suits your fancy on tap. They seem to know their beer pretty well, and have helped me make my decision. Be sure to get a cheese plate, they sure know their cheese there. The food is all local sustainable farm raised stuff, with always some interesting dishes to choose from. The burgers are awesome and the mac and cheese is to die for. Get there early and put your name down for a table, you won't be disappointed.
03-01-2010 00:08:34 | More by CHILLINDYLAN
Rhode Island
4.38/5 rDev +1.9%
I went here for the Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin which they have on tap. Now mind you a pint of this cost $7, but I had to try it on tap as I'm a big fan of this style. They had 4 taps with Stone's Bastard, Circus Boy and one other beer that I cannot remember.
In bottle they have Brooklyn Brown, Orval, Ayinger Celebrator, Victory Prima Pils and many other Belgian and German imports.
I only had dessert. The wife and I shared an apple cobbler which was excellent.
I highly recommend this place. They rotate their beers often with only four taps.
10-03-2007 20:34:14 | More by SUjunkie
Rhode Island
4.08/5 rDev -5.1%
I went here for dinner on St. Patrick's day. The restaurant is small and cozy (not much room for the wait staff to walk around), but the atmosphere is fantastic. It's very simply furnished and decorated, but still classy. I didn't feel like I was walking into a high-class restaurant.
The waitress we had was very knowledgeable about the cheese and beer. They had some Irish specials that night and in addition to their 4 beers on tap, they also had Guinness, Harp, and Smithwick's in bottles (that night only). The beers they had on tap were Golden Carolus, an imperial stout, a double IPA, and something else that I can't remember (ESB maybe?). I had the Carolus and stout. I imagine the other beers were brewed by the Shed. The bar only had beer and wine.
The food was prepared quite well and the amount of food was more than expected (many fine restaurants give small servings). I had the pork shank which was excellent. The menu is small, but this allows them to make everything quite well. My fiancee had the chicken, which also was excellent.
The only thing I was a bit disappointed in was the cheese board. You only get a small amount of cheese and it costs quite a bit ($12 for 3 cheeses and $18 for 5). The cheese and accompaniments were excellent, but I thought the price was a bit much.
All in all, a great experience. I will be back.
04-10-2007 18:02:37 | More by RunawayJim
4.05/5 rDev -5.8%
La Laiterie is a tiny little bistro/cafe next to Farmstead Cheeses, a small cheese and gourmet food shop in the Wayland Square neighborhood of Providence. The restaurant is has about 12 or 15 tables at the most and a small bar at the back. It's directly attached to the shop, which is worth a browse!
They had four beers on tap when i visited: Golden Carolus, plus three beers brewed apparently by The Shedd... an ESB, porter and oatmeal stout. All were excellent beers. They also had a very nice bottled beer selection that features many new england microbrews and some german and belgian imports. You can tell that the beer selection is really chosen for its ability to pair with the food. The menu is focused on cheese, so expect a dairy-centric experience. yay! The quality and attention to detail was top-notch. The place is sophisticated without being pretentious at all.
Definitely the kind of place we need more of... they really pay attention to pairing beer with food and are even sponsoring monday night cheese + beer pairing classes.
02-27-2007 14:14:42 | More by vitesse
4.2/5 rDev -2.3%
La Laiterie at Farmstead is right next to the Farmstead cheese shop. I love the cheese shop and this bistro is a wonderful addition to the Providence scene. The beers (which is what initially drew me in) are all brewed by Shaun Hill of the Shed for Farmstead. Being the only place outside of VT that these beers are available is a really cool thing for this restaurant. The beers were excellent. I tried the "flight of beers" which was a half a wine glass full of all four beers they were pouring. The $10 for this flight sounds a little high at first but I felt that it was well worth it and that you recieved quite a bit for your money. The four brews were a double IPA, a brown, a blonde, and a saison. All four were delicious. I knew I would like the dIPA but I was suprised by how much I liked the brown. A lot of brown ales are just ok, nothing special. But this one had a really nice taste and mouthfeel. With dinner I had a pint of the dIPA but it was hard not to get the brown.
The menu was very interesting. A selection of cheese platers was available and cheese plays a central roll in the majority of the dishes. My wife and I had the chedder and chive biscuits with a crunchy topped mac and cheese, and a grilled cheese. The mac and cheese was one of the best mac and cheese's we have ever had....so creamy and rich it was unreal. Not sure what cheese they use but it was increadible. The griled cheese was built on thick rustic artisinal bread with fig, field greens, and bacon, again excellent. The burger looked really huge and delicious. They have a pizzeta some seafood dishes and a few other offerings.
Overall the atmosphere feels very sophisticated but is quite relaxed and casual. Our server was excited by the beers and told us about the trip she had just taken up to the brewery. The value is really more $$-$$$ that straight $$$. Quality was very high and the food and beers were excelent. Highly recommended and I will be back.
07-08-2006 18:12:20 | More by presscaught
Rhode Island
4.2/5 rDev -2.3%
Been awaiting the opening of this establishment for quite awhile, since there are no other locations in Providence of this sort. [Edit: When they first opened they had carried four dedicated draft lines to beers from Stowe, Vermont's The Shed Restaurant & Brewery... now replaced with mainly rotating, applicably tasty offerings]
La Laiterie is found directly in the heart of Providence's Wayland Square East Side district, adjacent to the Farmstead cheese shop. The space, recently refurbished into the intimately sized restaurant it now is (from the salon parlor that it was), has been well utilized and decorated. The nicely constructed bar is situated at the back of the room and can accommodate up to 9 or 10 comfortably. I found the degree of lighting inside to be pretty much perfect to match the decor.
On the floor, there are variously-sized tables aligned in three rows, with the smaller tables for one or two customers in the middle paralleled with those to each side along the walls. There is also a cozy space for a few who might want to face the window view.
The food menu is just about the right size in number of selections, corresponding to physical dimensions, and is varied in terms of substance and price. A soup of the day, salad selections, burgers and grilled cheese options with a couple of twists round out some of the menu, while more to the laiterie theme are various sizes, selection and accompaniments of cheese plates. There are also a few dessert options, with and without cheese.
To perfectly compliment any food item (or simply enjoying without), the folks at La Laiterie offer a pretty substantial line up of wine and beer choices, by glass & bottle, in all manner of style. As for the beer selection, there were many qualified and enticing ranges. For example, in bottles were Orval, Traquair, Ayinger Celebrator, Schneider Aventinus, Rapscallion Premier, Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Heller Märzen), a Dupont Cider, Victory Prima Pils among others. On draft were Shed's Curds 'n Whey Double IPA, Aryshire Brown ale, a Farmstead Wit's End and Saison Au Point. Delectable! Beer prices ranged from $4-22, served in proper glassware, with even a "flght of beers" possible (draft, 4x4oz.). I was much impressed with the selections, given its size.
Great place and very much worthy the wait. Another small gap in the Providence total food & beer scene has been met - filling a niche with the whole gestalt of things around my city.
Also, there are cheese and wine/beer pairing classes held on the 3rd Sunday of each month, 5-7 pm, with space limited and reservations required.
Generally open 5 - 11 pm, with food 'till 9:30, 10:00 on Fridays & Saturdays. (PS - would place value overall at $$--$$$ considering all, including location, if it were one of the options)
06-14-2006 22:11:08 | More by Hobbz
La Laiterie Bistro at Farmstead in Providence, RI
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Three city newspapers endorse Stringer for comptroller
City Comptroller candidate Scott Stringer scored the endorsements of three major city newspapers over the weekend. The New York Times, The New York Daily News and The New York Post threw their support behind Stringer and denounced his rival Eliot Spitzer.
"Scott Stringer has done an outstanding job as Manhattan borough president and would make a fine New York City comptroller," The New York Times Editorial Board writes. "He is not a flashy candidate and he has no measurable notoriety. But in this turbulent election season, we don't need another celebrity office seeker."
The News called Spitzer "a cheat and a liar."
"The contrast between Stringer, whose word has been rock-solid and who has worked diligently for advancement, and Spitzer, who hopes to waltz in on nerve and notoriety, makes Stringer the clear, easy choice," The News writes.
The New York Post said the Spitzer and Anthony Weiner candidacies have turned New York into the laughingstock of America.
"But Anthony Weiner's weird psychosexual thrill from public humiliation seems honest in comparison to Spitzer, whose version of "contrition" gives off a distinctly Charlie Sheen vibe," The Post writes.
"Officially, the candidate has been hitting the city's churches on Sundays asking for a shot at redemption. But anyone who watches a Spitzer campaign ad gets his real message: I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special. I have tiger blood running in my veins."
They go on to praise Stringer as a "sober, honest man who understands how the city works and how important the job of comptroller is."
The endorsements are a much needed boost for Stringer who trails Spitzer by 19 percentage points in the latest poll.
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The talented women musicians of the Cecilia String Quartet provide a fresh opportunity to hear Ana Sokolović's Commedia dell'arte, which the quartet premiered at the 2010 Banff International String Quartet competition. Winners of this prestigious competition, the quartet members have this very recent work by Sokolović all packed up and ready to go!
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