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Don't Let The Haven Die
In light of Baltimore's vibrant universities, historic and homey communities, many lush parks, and thriving commercial districts, it is a shame and a sin for our city that Kenneth N. Harris Sr., former City Council member, was the victim of homicide in an area of the city he where he had worked so long and hard, calling for answers to stop the crime, and make Baltimore a safer city (Murder Ink, Sept. 24).
One of Baltimore's best lounges, known far and wide for its mission of keeping jazz alive, sits in the midst of the Northwood Plaza, just across the street from Morgan State University. The Haven has been just that to me now for 15 years. No matter what time of day, or for a long weekend night of vibrant live jazz, I've always felt grateful to have such a club to come to, with warm and friendly patrons, the utmost courtesy, and respect from the people making this night spot possible--the owners and staff--while everyone enjoys the atmosphere. I am brokenhearted to have seen the news, yesterday, of Kenneth Harris Sr.'s senseless death, in front of the place he must have loved, as I do.
Two weeks ago, on a Friday evening, a friend and I went to the Haven and, as always, were thrilled by the jazz. I understand Morgan State advises its students not to go to Northwood Plaza. It shouldn't have to be this way. Johns Hopkins University students go to Charles Village, and Goucher College students to Towson. There is really a large and profound story here, surrounding Northwood Plaza, with both Morgan and a large police station each two blocks away, and where I grew up walking past Morgan from Lauraville each day on my way to and from what was then Eastern High School, diverse and wonderful, in the late 1950s. We, as a predominately black city, deserve to be able to celebrate the diverse past and present of all parts of our city, in peace, with safety. I sincerely hope City Paper will cover the story surrounding the New Haven Lounge.
Theresa Reuter
Cecil Adams, in his most recent installment of the Straight Dope (Sept. 24), suggests that some people early last century may have intentionally ingested tapeworms for weight-loss purposes. Utterly disgusting, but wow, what dedication, huh?
Such determination to be thin, slim, and sick must be applauded.
However, I wonder why these people didn't resort to the more traditional methods of weight loss, i.e. starvation and the binge and purge diet. I've always said that if I had enough willpower, I'd be anorexic. Unfortunately, I can never pass by a Starbucks without purchasing some super-calorie smoothie and an oversized pastry to satisfy my appetite that bubbles up after every meal.
As far as yacking it up later, I paid for that shit! I want a return on my investment--a gelatinous waistline and a hearty bowel movement.
Justin Cuffley
As executive director of the Coldstream Homestead Montebello Community Corp., I want to thank City Paper for acknowledging Clifton Park as the Best Park (Best of Baltimore, Sept 17). Over the last four years, our organization, in conjunction with other partners, has worked tirelessly to increase the profile of and improve the image of Clifton Park--forming "the Friends of Clifton Park," conducting beautification projects, hosting community events and activities, working with organizations to stage events, and completing the Clifton Park master plan. It is good to see that our diamond in the rough is reclaiming some of its once-lost luster.
Mark Washington
Thank you so much for calling my Tax Experience CPA office the Best Accountant for Starving Artists. I would be remiss if I didn't recognize the contributions of my office manager, bookkeeper, and budding tax technician Jacqui and fellow CPA Bert.
We are truly honored to be recognized, and to serve the creative and extremely resourceful community of Baltimore fine artists, graphic artists, craftspeople, and performers.
Approximately 75 percent of our clients have deep ties to the arts and entertainment industries; among them are real-estate investors, college professors, scientists, retail establishments, wholesalers, lawyers, families, corporate CEOs, and a host of other professionals and DIY-ers.
So thanks again for the kudos, CP; we love you, too. We do, however, need to point out that your advice to potential clients to bring their receipts to us on April Fools' Day would subject them to either an extension or substantial rush fees. They should come in February instead, and benefit from our early-bird discounts.
Jonathan Mayo
Thank you very much for selecting our family-owned and -operated sno-ball stand Baltimore's Best for 2008. This is the second time we've won in three years, having also won in 2006. I very much appreciate City Paper's generous selection, but have one small correction. At Walther Gardens we use no high fructose corn syrup. When we make flavors we only use real honest-to-god sugar. We hate high fructose corn syrup.
Thank you again for the honor.
Jamie Sinsz
Unsurprisingly descriptive describes Dan Savage's latest blast of sexual faux pas. In last week's column, "Say What?!?" (Savage Love, Sept. 17), Mr. Savage tackled the distress of a male reader recently defecated upon by a female hookup: "Shit happens, as the saying goes. Shit shouldn't happen; it's gross when it does. But when you're fucking ass, shit has to be regarded as a `known known.'" All too true, I suppose.
Subscribe to it or not, sex is best dealt with on frank terms. Along with the rest, I enjoy Mr. Savage's grainy, at times subtle, voice when it comes to sexual dubiousness. This said, it is evident that we live in an era of sex marketing, disguised as sexual disclosure. Since surviving the conservative ethics crusade of the '80s, sex has gained permanent residence in a media-bred American culture. Outlived are the days of strict public censorship and enraged PTA mobs. Rooted are the days of media deregulation and whatever-flies marketing. Thus, continuously exposed to sex, we blur the line between what is open sexual discussion and what is actually just a grab for headlines.
As individuals, we benefit from a more sexually disclosed culture. Open sexual discussion helps a culture by dispelling many of its preconceived notions, whether they be gender, race, or age related. Further, it creates a social atmosphere free of fear.
So what's the difference between open sexual discussion and sex marketing? Through the media prism, nothing--and that's the problem. The media, more than ever, functions as a cultural guide for the public. Thus, it maintains a responsibility to promote cultural health. To this, airing/printing low-brand sexual commentators like Howard Stern does not cut it. These people don't get paid to give healthy guidance; rather, they exist to bump ratings. The media needs to stop cashing in on sexual disclosure. Rather, it should offer more professional, transparent, sexual commentary.
I don't mean to come down on Mr. Savage. Certainly he has given poignant commentary in the past. Further, I'd wonder if he might consider addressing this issue in a forthcoming column. It would be of great benefit and enjoyment for us, his readers.
Matthew Gentry
Vincent Williams, you are not alone (Social Studies, Sept. 10). I love cartoons and any other kind of children's programming! I watch everything from Corneil and Bernie to The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Growing up in the late '70s and '80s, my mother also had this crazy idea that I would only be allowed to watch two hours of TV a day. She told all her friends that she had my brother and me on a short leash, but this was not true. I watched so much TV that I can almost recall line for line dialogue from every Charlie Brown special, He-Man, Superfriends, and, of course, The Cosby Show. Hey, at least you have a partner in crime when you partake in your cartoon activities. I do not have any children and do not use my nieces and nephews as reasons to go to the theater to see a Pixar, Disney, or any other kid movie. I stand with my head held high and a crisp $20 in hand: "One for The Incredibles, please." My boyfriend thinks I'm nuts.
Charmane L. Baker
My appeal remains unchanged: for City Paper to cease running tobacco advertising in it pages. In the Sept. 3 issue, a large insert for R.J. Reynolds new Frost brand of snus was placed within the center of the publication, entreating the reader to "get the pleasure without the smoke."
Many in the United States are still unfamiliar with snus, a product that was largely popularized in Sweden. The tobacco industry has for years been trying to bring snus to U.S. markets. Snus is a packet containing ground tobacco and is chewed over a period of time without spitting. Think chewing tobacco in a teabag. Why make this comparison? Because snus use carries many of the same negative health consequences as chewing tobacco. Not coincidentally, promotion of snus was occurring the same time a major development in tobacco control was also occurring, the proliferation of smoke-free indoor air laws. With fewer and fewer places that Americans are able to smoke, the industry leaders developed a new tactic--to vary the forms of tobacco consumption. The implications of their actions is clear: Rather than have people quit, as over 70 percent of people who use tobacco have stated they wish to do, they are attempting to sustain their addiction through a new product, snus.
The very week that City Paper displayed this snus advertisement, the National Cancer Institute released a massive paper, years in the making, on the relationship between tobacco industry marketing and tobacco use behavior. The industry racks up $37 million a day in marketing just to advertise, by its own admission, lethal and addictive product like snus because it knows that marketing works. The paper concluded for the first time that tobacco advertising and promotion causes increased tobacco use. The paper focused on key messages the industry repeats over and over again in its marketing ploys. Examples of these messages are present in this particular advertisement to deceive and lure potential snus users. "Get the pleasure without the smoke" aims to lessen anxiety about the harm from tobacco use by playing on the general public's misconception that smokeless tobacco does not have the same dangers as, say, a cigarette. There was a coupon attached to the Frost snus advertisement. The industry puts 75 percent of these marketing dollars into price discounts, especially to draw in the more price-sensitive youth tobacco user. Bottom line, don't all companies market their goods? Certainly. However, not all companies are peddling a deadly product for the sake of initiating and maintaining addiction to a population that largely wants to quit and are actively attempting to do so.
I maintain that one of the more concerning effects of this type of advertising is the high likelihood of being viewed and acted upon by your youth readers. With letters to the editor appearing from authors as young as 14, we know that this happening. The question that remains is a matter of resolve. Will City Paper assert itself as Baltimore's Free Alternative Weekly and freely disconnect itself from the tobacco industry in favor of a less destructive alternative? Baltimore is waiting your response.
Ryan Coffman
Correction: Due to a misprint in the play's program and an understudy in the cast, two performers were misidentified in the review of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Vagabond Players ("The Music, Man," Stage, Sept. 24). Toledo was played by understudy Les Lemar, and Dussie Maes was played by Cheveé Crafton.
Also, we printed the incorrect web address for Good Samaritan Hospital in our blurb naming it Best Geriatric Rehab (Best of Baltimore, Sept. 17). The correct web address is goodsam-md.org.
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He gets five years for phishing, but the folks at the banks got Billions in bonuses for phony credit default swaps that were complete lies based on sham paper and reated Triple A by credit ratings agencies that propped it all up. When do they all go to jail and we get a refund?
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University of Maryland School of Pharmacy's Vote & Vax Initiative Receives Award
On Jan. 19, the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy's Vote & Vax initiative was honored by the Maryland Partnership for Prevention with a 2011 Immunization Excellence Award for its efforts to provide seasonal flu vaccine to Prince George's County residents on Election Day 2010. The award recognized the initiative for vaccinating 153 individuals, 42 of whom were vaccinated against the seasonal flu for the first time.
"It's amazing and rewarding to witness how two students' idea turned into an innovative School-wide, student-led public health initiative," said Hoai An Truong, PharmD, MPH, assistant director of the School's Experiential Learning Program and an advisor for the project. "Student pharmacists Tina Dang and Janet Dudley served as chief organizers and collaborated with two student organizations and over two dozen students to develop and implement Vote & Vax in just under five months."
The local community outreach project was organized by the School's American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists and the Student Section of the Maryland Public Health Association. It was the only Vote & Vax initiative held in Maryland during the 2010 election season.
Vote & Vax was designed to help meet the needs of Prince George's County residents and demonstrated the changing role of pharmacists to be more focused on direct patient care through avenues such as the administration of life-saving vaccines. Prince George's County has been identified by state health officials as an area with typically low vaccination rates. Vaccines were offered in partnership with the Prince George's County Health Department at the Langley Park Community Center, which is adjacent to the Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School polling site.
"Our intent was to provide flu shots to a population with historically low vaccination rates while simultaneously demonstrating that pharmacists have expanding roles that include health promotion and disease prevention," said Dudley, a fourth-year student.
The free flu shots provided protection against the seasonal flu as well as the H1N1 flu virus and were provided by the Prince George's County Health Department.
"When I first read about Vote & Vax, I thought how beneficial an initiative like this could be in our community here in Maryland," said Tina Dang, a fourth-year student. "With such a large underserved population, it is common to hear people complain that they can't afford a flu shot, or don't have time to get one. Many did not know the risks they were exposing themselves and their loved ones to by not receiving flu shots. Fueled by the fact that pharmacists can give immunizations themselves, I realized that this is very much something within our realm as pharmacy students."
The Maryland Partnership for Prevention is the adult immunization coalition for Maryland and parent organization of the Maryland Childhood Immunization Partnership and regional immunization coalitions across the state. Its vision is "healthy people living in Maryland who are free from vaccine-preventable and other preventable diseases," and it exists "to improve the health status of high-risk populations through the promotion of culturally-competent, socially just, preventive health services; facilitation of access to such services; and provision of education and technical assistance to community partners in the delivery of high-quality public health care."
The Immunization Excellence Awards Luncheon celebrated all immunization providers and gave special recognition to individuals, teams, and organizations that made extraordinary contributions toward increasing immunization rates in Maryland.
"The Excellence Awards luncheon is one of our favorite events," said Tiffany Tate, MHS, executive director of the Maryland Partnership for Prevention. "Immunization providers work very hard to keep the public safe. If they are doing their job well, there is no illness. Because it is difficult to see the results of their tireless work, their efforts frequently go unrecognized. This luncheon gave us the opportunity to honor some of the unsung heroes of public health."
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DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager has fired the chairman of one of the city's two pension funds from his municipal job.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report Friday that Kevyn Orr fired Cedric Cook. Cook served as a senior data program analyst for information technology services and has been chairman of the Detroit General Retirement System.
Cook took an all-expenses-paid trip this year to a conference in Hawaii. Orr spokesman Bill Nowling says the dismissal was due to Cook's poor job performance, not for taking the trip.
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This video shows the memorial that was built in Washington DC in honor of those killed either in the plane or in the pentagon on 9/11/01. It is subtle and lovely and peaceful.
This above is a couple of days early, maybe I will show it through Saturdays entry which can be viewed on Sunday. DAD.
Sad memories indeed, but America did not give up in despair or fear, what a great privilege to be an American.
Mix of sun and clouds. High 26C. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Intervals of clouds and sunshine. High 79F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
That looks a little better for a time to set on the patio, but I doubt that I will have very much time, since I am to have two hours of treatment on that Hyperbarie oxygen therapy this morning, it will last two hours, then I will be free until Monday. I am feeling so much better since this started, you may have to put up with me a little longer as I try to produce smiles these days, the season is over for roses and tomatoes, but the season for smiles is never over, and that includes the entire world, so give me a big one this morning and I will pass it on. Thanks Dad.
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I feel ashamed of myself right now, all that I have talked about this morning is an old man named Dad. And that is not the way that it should be. I talk so much about " Living for others" and then just do the opposite . At this late time in the Journal about all I can do is offer you a cup of my Starbucks Sumatra x bold coffee, it is ready and waiting. And tell you that I do think of you every day and Love you.
I am going to stop for a short rest, I will be around more today, and also in the morning if you don't lock me out, I would not blame you.
This below is for Saturday entry I am holding it here until then. DAD
I want to write today a little about my first school days, which was a long time ago, it would have been in 1919. There sure are a lot of changes since that time. I remember very well the little two room school building that I attended. The name of the school was White's School. It was named after my grandfather because he gave the land for the school to be built on. As I mentioned before, the school had two rooms. They were called the little room and the big room. In the little room were the first four grades - first, second, third, and fourth, and one teacher took care all four grades and all the different subjects that were taught. In the big room was the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, and the teacher in this room was the principal of the school. There was a long bench in the front of our desks facing the teacher. When school began in the morning our teacher would call the first grade to come to the front and sit on the bench. Then we would have about an hour of teaching, and then return to our desks, and the next class would be called up. And that continued until all classes were over. In the time that we were not in class we sat at our desks in the same room trying to study for our next class.
I am going to be telling you about the school facilities or the lack of them. I know some of these things may sound like "hard times," but I appreciate every hard experience that I had.
Talking more about my old school--One of my comments was did we have a bell to ring at the beginning of each school day. I was about to forget to mention that. Thanks J for reminding me. Yes we did have a bell; there was a belfry on the top of the building. The rope to ring the bell came down into the big room. The teacher would let different ones of us students ring the bell. We were so proud and felt so important when it was our day.
Of course we did not have any place to play inside, so all our play time was outside. I think that baseball and basketball were the most popular games. Since we did not have a cafeteria we ate our lunch on sunny days outside, and at our desk when it was raining. We had to bring our lunch from home because there was none sold in walking distance of the school.
We didn't have central heat, of course, in our rooms. Each room had a large, iron pot-belly stove. One of our teachers came up with a good idea for us. During the cold months she made us a big pot of stew for our lunch on the stove. Each student could bring anything from their home, such as a potato, tomato, corn, or anything that would work in the stew. The teacher brought a piece of beef. She would put the stew on to cook in the morning, and it would be ready for us at lunch time. We were supposed to bring from home our bowl and a spoon and a piece of corn bread. That was our lunch, and we all had a little part in it. About an hour before lunch time that stew sure began to smell good. We could hardly wait for the lunch hour to come.
Don't you think this was nice? I still love beef stew. There are a few more things I want to mention. We did not have a school bus, so that meant a walk to and from school, which we all enjoyed very much. And then I just wanted to mention that there was not a janitor at school so my brother Ralph and I got the job of sweeping out the school rooms each day after school was out. Then in the winter months we would come to school about an hour early in the morning to start a fire in the two big iron stoves. And I remember so well the first book we had. It was it was a reader titled, Baby Ray and his little dog Penny. I sure would like to have one of those books now. If any of you know where I could get one I sure would be glad to hear from you.
Even though I have mentioned a lot of what could be considered as "hardships," I didn't see them as that, and I still don't. I'm so glad I had the privilege of attending White's School. We loved our teachers very much, and they were good teachers who took an interest in us and wanted us to do well in school. To this day I can still remember their names. There were 8 of them.
My first teacher was Edna Finger. She was an excellent teacher and helped me so much when school was a new experience for me. Another teacher that comes to mind was Sam Capps. I don't remember the year he taught. He was a real friend to me. Some days he would send me and one of my friends, Clyde, to a little store about a mile from the school to get him some Hershey Kisses. He loved chocolate, and when we got back he would always give us each a Hershey Kiss. We thought that was something. It was on our lunch hour that we went. I graduated from White's School in 1927. There were only 6 in the class, and I think that one other man and I are the only ones left.
I won't ever forget my days at White's School.
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Note: It is only 6:45 P M. eastern time, and I have had a busy but very enjoyable day, I was out of that bed early this morning writing this journal, I am feeling so much better since I have been on the oxygen that I am receiving, and can do so much more, I am a little weary from all the fun that I have had to day. So I am going to lay down for awhile.


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Swiss roll
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|Swiss roll
A slice of Brazo gitano, a Swiss roll
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|Flour, eggs, sugar, jam or buttercream
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A Swiss roll , jelly roll, or cream roll is a type of sponge cake roll. A thin cake layer is made of flour, eggs, and sugar and baked in a very shallow rectangular baking tray, called a sheet pan. The cake is removed from the pan and spread with jam or buttercream, rolled up, and served in round cross-sectional slices.
The origins of the term "Swiss roll" are unclear. The cake originated in Central Europe, but not in Switzerland as the name would suggest. It appears to have been invented in the nineteenth century, along with Battenberg, doughnuts and Victoria sponge.
The shape of the Swiss roll has inspired usage as a descriptive term in other fields, such as in optics and blues music.
- 1 History
- 2 Different countries
- 3 In other languages
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The earliest published reference for a rolled cake spread with jelly was in the Northern Farmer, a journal published in Utica, New York, in December 1852. The recipe was called "To Make Jelly Cake" but it reads: "Bake quick and while hot spread with jelly. Roll carefully, and wrap it in a cloth. When cold cut in slices for the table." The description is for a Jelly Roll. The name Jelly Cake comes from another cake recipe that was made up of 5 to 6 thin layers of cake with jelly between each layer. It made a thick, high cake. Jelly Cake (layer cake) is an old English recipe.
In America for many years, there was no clear distinction between the name "Jelly Cake" and "Jelly Roll" to describe a rolled cake spread with jelly. During the period from 1852 to 1877 it was called: Jelly Cake (1852), Roll Jelly Cake (1860), Swiss Roll (1872), Jelly Roll (1873), and Rolled Jelly Cake (1876). The name "Jelly Roll" eventually became the common popular name in America.[citation needed]
The name "Swiss Roll" appears to be British, though the name may not have originated from there. A bill of fare dated June 18, 1871 for the Union Steam-ship Company's R.M.S. Syria listed Swiss Roll. That bill of fare was published in the 1872 book A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer "Syria" in London. So far this is the earliest British reference to a rolled cake. The 1872 The American Home Cook Book, published in Detroit, Michigan, listed a recipe for Swiss Roll.
In the 1894 American Pastry Cook, published in Chicago, there is an unusual arrangement of recipes. It started with Jelly Roll Mixture followed by Swiss Roll, Venice Roll, Paris Roll, Chocolate Roll, Jelly Roll Cotelettes, and Decorated Jelly Rolls. Each recipe utilized the basic Jelly Roll cake made from the Jelly Roll Mixture. In turn, each recipe was completed and finished in a different way thus distinguishing several European versions. In this cookbook, the Jelly Roll has a different name in each country. Several 1880's to 1890's cookbooks from London, England used the name Swiss Roll exclusively making it the popular name for the rolled cake recipe in England.[1]
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The origin of this pastry is likely from the UK, since Hong Kong was an integral British territory from the 19th century to 1997. The cake is never pre-packaged, as it is sold fresh daily in the Chinese bakeries. Overall, this cake has been sold next to other Chinese pastries well before the popularising of western-style bakeries such as Maxim. There are several popular variations.
- Swiss Roll (Chinese: 瑞士卷 or 瑞士卷蛋糕). Cake layer is made of a standard recipe, and a whipped cream filling is standard.
- Chocolate Swiss Roll (Chinese: 朱古力瑞士卷). Cake layer is made of egg in combination with chocolate flavouring. It also has a whipped cream filling.
- Some bakeries offer their own variations, such as layers of egg and chocolate swirl. Other variations include strawberry, coffee or orange fillings.[2]
- Another flavour popular in Hong Kong is the Mango version, which has a mango flavoured roll with a whipped cream filling.
Overseas Chinatowns[edit]
Most US Chinatown bakeries sell the basic Hong Kong Swiss Roll version. It essentially looks and tastes identical to the one sold in Hong Kong. A popular flavour in Chinese bakeries in the US is the Tiger Roll, which has a coffee-flavoured golden-esque striped outer appearance, and is chocolate-coloured or light-coloured, with traditional white cream inside. It is similar to the look of a Tiger Bread, or as known in northern California, the Dutch Crunch Bread.
In Japan Swiss rolls are called "Roll cake". They are filled with whipped cream and sometimes with fruits like strawberries.[3]
In India Swiss rolls are called "jam rolls".
In Indonesia, the Swiss roll cake is called Bolu Gulung. Most bakeries sell Swiss rolls daily, and they are filled with butter cream, cheese or fruit jam. It is also very common for Swiss rolls to be sold by the slice, but some shops sell by both slice and roll.
Latin America[edit]
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In Colombia, a Swiss roll is called either pionono or brazo de reina, where it is filled with dulce de guayaba (guava jam) or arequipe. In Argentina and Peru, it is also called pionono, where it is filled with dulce de leche manjar blanco. In Chile, it is called brazo de Reina. In Venezuela it is known under the same name as in Spain, but there is a vast array of fillings that include cream, chocolate truffle, dulce de guayaba (guava jam), dulce de leche manjar blanco, combined with fruits.
Varieties produced in Malaysia include kaya, pandan, blueberry, strawberry, sweet potato, taro, vanilla and even local fruits like durian, cempedak and mango.[4]
In the Philippines, it is called pianono, and has been adapted into several variations which use native flavors, such as ube and macapuno. A similar roll is the Brazo de Mercedes, Spanish for "Mercies´ arm. It however is composed of a soft meringue body and a custard core.
In Portugal, desserts called "tortas" are commonly found on restaurant menus. Such desserts are not tarts, nor are they similar to German torte. They are simply Swiss rolls with jam filling.
In Spain, the dessert is called brazo de gitano (literally translated as gypsy's arm) and is commonly filled with cream or chocolate truffle.
Sweden and Finland[edit]
In Sweden and Finland, the Swiss roll is called rulltårta, respectively kääretorttu (both meaning roll-cake), and it is commonly served with coffee. The filling often consists of butter cream and strawberry jam. The base of a chocolate version, called drömrulltårta (dream roll-cake), is made mostly of potato flour, instead of the typical wheat flour, and it is filled with butter cream. More elaborate versions of the Swiss roll can be found in bakeries, with, for example, whipped cream and a whole banana rolled in the middle, or with a thin marzipan coating that resembles a birch log.
Despite its name, the Swiss roll did not originate in Switzerland. Swiss rolls are called Biskuitroulade or Roulade in Swiss German, gâteau roulé or roulade in French, and biscotto arrotolato in Italian.
United Kingdom[edit]
In the UK, the Swiss roll is popular for tea time or as a dessert. A variety of Swiss rolls are available on sale in supermarkets in the United Kingdom, such as the chocolate Swiss roll, lemon Swiss roll or the jam Swiss roll; these Swiss rolls will have different colours. The jam Swiss roll will be filled with jam and also possibly cream as a filling, and sugar covers it on the outside. The chocolate Swiss roll is made in Great Britain in a similar way to the United States version. Jam Roly-Poly is a similar dessert, but made with suet pudding rather than cake, filled with jam and served hot with custard.
United States[edit]
The most common method of making a Swiss roll is to use a basic sponge cake recipe. Chocolate Swiss rolls called Ho Hos were made in the same way, but cocoa powder is substituted for some of the flour, and the cake is filled with either whipped cream or with butter cream, and sometimes flavoured with vanilla, chocolate, or a chocolate-flavoured liqueur. A chocolate Swiss roll is sometimes called a chocolate log. Swiss rolls in the United States are usually called jelly rolls.
In other languages[edit]
- Bahasa Indonesia: Bolu gulung (literally rolled cake)
- Bosnian: Rolat
- Catalan: Braç de gitano
- Chinese: 瑞士卷
- Croatian: Rolada
- Czech: Roláda
- Danish: Roulade
- Estonian: Rullbiskviit
- French: Gâteau roulé or Roulade or Rouleau Suisse
- Finnish: Kääretorttu
- German: Biskuitrolle, or Biskuitroulade (Austria)
- Greek: κορμός (literally "tree trunk")
- Hebrew: גלילה (gəlēlah)
- Hungarian: Lekváros tekercs, or Piskóta tekercs
- Icelandic: Rúlluterta or rúllukaka
- Italian: Tronchetto (literally "little trunk" (of the tree))
- Japanese:ロールケーキ (Roll cake)
- Lithuanian: Vyniotinis
- Norwegian: Rullekake or rullade (Roll cake)
- Persian: کیک رولت (Rolet Cake)
- Polish: Rolada
- Portuguese: Torta (Portugal), Rocambole (Brazil)
- Romanian: Ruladă
- Russian: Рулет or Рулетка
- Serbian: Ролат
- Slovenian: Rolada
- Spanish: Brazo de Gitano (Spain), Pionono (Latin America), Brazo de Reina (Chile)
- Swedish: Rulltårta (Roll cake)
- Thai: เค้กโรล
- Turkish: Rulo pasta (Roll cake)
- Ukrainian: Рулет
- Vietnamese: Bánh bông lan cuốn
See also[edit]
- ^ Gage, Mary. "Jelly Roll". Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ Izzy Ozawa (11 May 2010). "Hong Kong's bakers du jour teach us how to roll a fat one". CNN Go. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ http://www.cakepia.info/cooking/search/detail_e.html?LM_ID=685
- ^ http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx/?file=%2f2012%2f6%2f23%2fmetroperak%2f11528473&sec=metroperak
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Birth of a Bird Dog Litter
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
It's time for me to pass out the cigars. Two weeks ago, a litter of nine German shorthaired pointers was born in Iowa via the pairing of Hope, the dam, and Snuffy, the sire. The litter consists of four females and five males attached to nine different families anxiously anticipating their homecoming later this summer. I am excited to report one of those little female pups will be joining my family.
Familiar Bloodlines
After the tragic death of "Izzy" last autumn, I wanted to fill the void left in our home immediately. As with any loss – person or pet – it took time for me to come to terms with the fact my beloved bird dog was gone. During that time, I searched online for litters, evaluated hundreds of online German shorthair rescue profiles, and scoured the aisles of National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic for breeders. I considered a wide variety of breeds, sent my wife dozens of rescue profiles, momentarily considered adding two puppies at once, and learned a lot through the process.
Ultimately, however, I came back to the bloodlines I know fit my family and hunting style. Both of my bird dogs, "Trammell" and "Izzy," have come from Top Gun Kennels and their "Higgins" bloodline. Steve & Jodie Ries, owners of Top Gun (and longtime Pheasants Forever supporters), provided me with the best option in a breeding with Izzy's dam, Hope. So with a heavy dose of patience, I'm proud to announce I'll be bringing home Izzy's half-sister later this summer. And yes, I do indeed have her name already picked out, but I'll be saving that proclamation for a future post.
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The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre and listen to Bob and Billy Hildebrand every Saturday morning on FAN Outdoors radio on KFAN FM100.3.
Can't Discount the Old Guys
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
This is probably one of those you-had-to-be-there stories, but I'll give it a try.
Background: Harley was a 14-year-old German shorthair in good physical shape. Mentally, however, was a few biscuits short of a full box for a year or two. Never a rocket scientist, Harley spent his senior years in his "happy place." The daily schedules that keep our other dogs riveted to the food bin or back door no longer mattered. Two minutes after Harley'd been out, he'd think it was time to go out. At dinner hour, he needed a personal escort to his food bowl. Sometimes he just showed up in a room, circle it a couple of times in his slightly shaky, half-hitch gait, then disappear upstairs again for another nap. Other times, when addressed, he'd simply stare, as if the words were in a foreign tongue not meant for him. He never seemed unhappy, though.
The story: After dinner one warm June night, I let Harley out the back door for his usual short stroll around the back yard. Knowing he wouldn't be aware of me in the big field in front of the house, I walked a track with a dead duck for my husband Terry to practice the Utility Test "Retrieve by Drag" with his German wirehair Tank. It was a good 85-100 yard drag with a big bend through tall grass before crossing a thick brush line. After placing the duck inside a patch of dogwoods, I circled back to the house to get Terry and Tank. We turned around and headed down the driveway towards the spot in the front field where I'd left feathers marking the start of the track. Terry had Tank heeling properly, with me following solemn as a judge, everything in a serious demeanor as it would be on test day the next week.
But there was Harley! Trotting right towards us up the driveway with that big old mallard – tracked and fetched 100 yards out – now held proudly in his mouth. His white legs pumped up and down, pistons in even tempo. His head was high, boney spine and tail up, course steady. I'd like to say his eyes were full of glee or maybe even focused on mine in a message of determination, but, to be truthful, they were as vaguely crazed as always.
Pump, pump, Harley came straight at us. As he reached me, clearly with no intention of stopping, I grabbed the duck and he skittered away as if I had one of those handshake buzzers and was about to zing him. He then zigged and zagged to the garage without a second glimpse back at the duck, giving no indication whether he'd tracked me doing the drag or somehow simply stumbled across the duck in a newly expanded route.
Nonetheless, for that first minute or two down the driveway, Harley once again looked like a determined, noble bird dog bringing game to hand, confident in action, steadfast in delivery. For a moment. Then he was back to being a resident of Planet Zorwack, living out his days in an otherworldly state of bliss.
Nancy Anisfield, an outdoor photographer/writer, sporting dog enthusiast and bird hunter, serves on Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's National Board of Directors. She resides in Hinesburg, Vermont.
It's Porcupine Season
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Ahh…springtime. The time of year when a dog owner's thoughts turn to porcupines and skunks. I basically have nothing against either creature, but when my dogs are involved, it gets personal.My first porcupine-hunting dog encounter was many years ago on a warm August evening. I took my German shorthair, Harley, for a run in the woods down to a small duck pond. He flew by the pond to explore the ditch beyond, and when I called him to me just moments later, it looked like he had something white in his mouth, a rabbit maybe. It seemed odd.
As Harley ran towards me in the dimming light, I realized what now looked like a Santa Claus beard was actually more than a hundred quills covering three quarters of his face. I didn't even consider pulling them myself. I leashed him and rushed home to grab the phone and find out what vet was on call that night. Thinking back, even though I now have had some experience pulling quills, I probably wouldn't have tried it myself. With so many in his muzzle and in his throat, better for him to be mildly sedated and not have to feel the pain for the hour plus that it took to remove them all.
My next notable porcupine encounter was the opening day of ruffed grouse season. Rimfire had been doing an odd point and sprint dance down a wooded hill towards a broad cornfield, not his customary grouse tracking style. Eventually, I saw him locked solid between two rows of still standing corn. Odd place for a grouse, but it was possible an early woodcock was resting there as I had once or twice found woodcock in the corn.
On closer look, I saw the humped brown bristly back of a porcupine. I leashed Rimfire, then dragged him back to the trees explaining that we were after birds and that while I appreciated his varmint tracking skills, porcupine stew was not on my menu.
Two years and several unremarkable encounters later, I was at our cabin with my two shorthairs, one a puppy barely four months old. After unloading the truck and settling in, my eyes caught sight of something big, lumpy and dark trundling across the grass between the cabin and the river. First thought: a beaver – and I am always nervous about beaver and dog confrontations. Then the beaver climbed a tree, thus, not a beaver. It was a huge porcupine.
Until it moved on, we were held hostage. Versatile dogs love to hunt fur or feathers, and the laws of nature predicted a snout full of quills for my 15-week-old puppy. A few stripped tree tops told me the porcupine had been hanging around the cabin for a while. There's no closed season on porcupines in Maine, so I opted to take it out of the equation.
Some gun dog owners are lucky and haven't had to deal with quills. Others, like Dave Kuritzky, who owns Riley in the photo here, has had to remove face and mouthfuls of quills over and over. Even with aversion training, Riley still loves to go after those porkies. I guess some days a 20 lb. rodent with a back full of toothpicks is just too irresistible to a hunting dog.
Nancy Anisfield, an outdoor photographer/writer, sporting dog enthusiast and bird hunter, serves on Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's National Board of Directors. She resides in Hinesburg, Vermont.
Happy Birthday Bird Dog
Monday, March 11th, 2013
Today marks the first birthday for my youngest bird dog, Izzy. During the standard "what's for dinner" chat with my wife this afternoon, Meredith informed me she'd be late arriving home this evening. The delay – she had to stop at the "fancy" pet store on her way home to purchase Izzy a special birthday present. Truth be told, I hadn't realized it was the pup's birthday . . . or that we'd be celebrating said occasion.
After an initial scoff gurgled out of my clenched cheeks, I warmed to the idea of rewarding the newest member of our family with a minor indulgence. After all, this youngster has already played a sizeable role in answering our daily "what's for dinner" question with pointed pheasants, grouse, quail and woodcock.
While I'm admittedly guilty of anthropomorphizing my bird dogs . . . and I'm guilty of posing this same question at Christmas . . . do you celebrate your bird dog's birthday?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre .
The Best Compliment for a Bird Hunter: I Want a Bird Dog like Yours
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Last autumn, on a bird hunting trip with Anthony Hauck, Pheasants Forever's online editor, we stopped by my brother's house in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Anthony's little nugget of a bird dog, "Sprig," was in tow.
Sprig, an English cocker spaniel, made fast friends with my niece, nephew, and brother. So much so that my sister-in-law, Julie, said that Sprig might be just the ticket for helping push my brother over the ledge to adding a bird dog to their busy family. We ventured further on the trip to Escanaba, Michigan where both my parents also offered to "take Sprig off Anthony's hands."
While "nice shot," is always an appreciated sentiment on a pheasant hunt, I don't think there is any greater compliment for a bird hunter than a fellow hunter remarking "I want a bird dog like yours." For all the trials of potty training and the tribulations of obedience afield, bird dogs provide the greatest rewards when others appreciate the fruits of your labor.
Although my immediate family seems fixated on Anthony's Sprig, I've been honored to have many hunting partners comment on their desire to have a shorthair like my "Trammell" pup. A few have even gone so far as to connect with Trammell's breeder and seek out her bloodlines through Top Gun Kennels. That's a fact I'm flattered by . . . although Top Gun's breeding has more to do with Trammell's prowess than any training I accomplished.
At its foundation, following the bloodlines of a bird dog you enjoy hunting behind is a great formula for finding a bird dog pup that you'll cherish for a decade and more. Have you ever pursued the pup or breeding of a hunting partner's stellar bird dog?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre and listen to Bob and Billy Hildebrand every Saturday morning on FAN Outdoors radio on KFAN FM100.3.
The Marriage Proposal Puppy
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Steve Ries, owner of Top Gun Kennels, may have stumbled upon a new business model for his German shorthaired pointer kennel business: incorporating marriage proposals with puppy pickups. For at least one customer, that was the business arrangement last Saturday.
When Brandon Berg of West Concord, Minnesota visited Top Gun Kennels in Iowa this spring and put a deposit down on a GSP puppy, he told Ries the puppy was part of a surprise for his girlfriend. Yes, only part of the surprise. You see, Brandon was also in the process of designing a one-of-a-kind engagement band for Shay Jurgensen of Kasson, Minnesota.
"Shay loves German shorthairs and I wanted to make the perfect proposal very special and unique to her," explained Berg. "After I told Steve my idea, he was all-in and excited to give me advice on how to best pull my plan off."
So with Brandon's plan in place, the couple road-tripped from southern Minnesota to Iowa last Saturday to "look at" Top Gun Kennel puppies. Shay had no idea what lay in store for her.
"Steve handed me the pup I had picked out earlier this spring. Around the pup's neck was the collar I had given him with the engagement ring I designed attached," explained Berg. "When I handed Shay the puppy, I dropped to one knee. With puppy in her arms and Shay's eyes fixed on the ring, the tears began to roll pretty quickly down her face."
The happy couple named the new pup, "Remington," and plans to hunt pheasants, ducks and geese over him this autumn. Most bird dog owners will tell you that there is one dog that stands out as their "dog of a lifetime." I'm confident Remington will be exactly that dog for Shay and Brandon. No word yet on Remington's role in the wedding ceremony, but I'm placing the smart money on the position of ring-bearer.
Tune in to FAN Outdoors radio this Saturday morning at 7:30AM CDT to hear Steve Ries tell the story in his own words.
NOTE: In a twist of serendipity, Remington happens to be from the exact same litter as my new shorthair pup, "Izzy."
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.
Puppies Mimic Older Bird Dogs
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
As I embarked on the adventure of adding a second bird dog to my family, an age-old question hung in my mind: "Do puppies learn from older dogs or are they simply clay in the hands of a human trainer?"
For years, I'd heard opinions on both sides of this argument, but having never owned more than one dog at a time, I found it hard to pick a side to believe in this debate. However, after just a few days of owning two bird dogs, I have formed a very strong opinion that puppies ABSOLUTELY mimic older dog's mannerisms, actions and behaviors. There is zero doubt in my mind that my 5-year old shorthair is constantly "training" my 12-week old GSP puppy.
I've watched Tram (the 5-year old) pick up a stick during a walk. Moments later, Izzy (the 12-week old) was carrying a stick of her own. When running a field together, Izzy measures the distance Tram works away from me and stays at a similar distance. Every cue Tram drops, Izzy mimics.
Recognizing my sample size in formulating this opinion was extremely small, I asked renowned dog trainer and Purina pro-staffer Rick Smith for his opinion in the debate during a FAN Outdoors radio interview. You can Podcast the interview by following this link; listen for my question on the topic at the 19:12 mark of Hour 1 of the program originally airing on May 26th.
Without hesitation Smith confirmed my quick-formed opinion that young dogs learn a lot more from older dogs than from people. "I like having a young dog with an older dog," added Smith.
The caveat Smith made special point of noting, however, was to keep in mind that young dogs are going to learn good AND bad habits from your older dog. That hit home with me as well. Izzy is now a dinner table beggar thanks to Trammell's habits (obviously my fault to begin with), and Izzy also enjoys sleeping on the couch as opposed to the floor (guilty as charged).
This entire sequence of observations has me even more eager than normal for bird hunting season to see how much Izzy mimics Tram's hunting expertise. Izzy has already honored Tram's point of a mallard pair, so I'm hopeful that's a sign of things to come . . . yes, I realize there won't be much need for either of my duck pointers. Laugh it up!
So, for all those multi-dog owners out there, how much have your younger pups learned from your older bird dogs? Any special advice you'd offer me in this two-dog process?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.
Naming my Second Bird Dog, Part 1 of 2
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Bird dog names are a big deal to me. Admittedly, they're probably too big of a deal. However, as I've written about in previous posts about dog names, a bird dog's name says a lot about the owner as well as what you hope the bird dog will become. In naming a bird dog, there are two qualities I hold as important guidelines: creativity and personalization.
Although you may not realize it at first blush, a creatively named dog is an advantage in the field. I've often been in hunting groups with multiple dogs named the exact same way. Not only are the owner's commands confusing for the dogs, they're confusing for the other hunters too. Under this guideline, I personally throw out the nation's most popular dog names as well as a few names commonly popular to other bird hunters. The names "Drake" and "Hunter" fall in this second category, as does any name referencing your favorite brand of shotgun.
If you're struggling to find a creative name, consider a different language to fit the breed of dog you're getting. There are lots of fun ways to connect a dog's German, French, Spanish, English or Irish heritage through their name.
For me, a bird dog's name should tell a story about the owner. Read some of the comments at the bottom of my Please Don't Name Your Bird Dog That post and you'll find fantastic examples of dog names in honor of people's heroes, favorite book characters and idolized musicians, as well as fun stories of the circumstances surrounding the dog's personality.
Admittedly odd for some to understand, I named my now five-year old female shorthair "Trammell," in honor of a male Detroit Tigers baseball player, Alan Trammell, who retired two decades ago. However, naming my pup "Trammell" immediately personalized that pup to me. Her name has also always served as a conversation starter about my love of baseball and my roots as a grouse hunter from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Later this month, my wife and I will be adding our second bird dog to the family. The new pup comes from the same Top Gun Kennel bloodlines as Trammell. In the sequel to this post, I'll finally spill the beans on our new pup's name. Got any guesses?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.
Are you like your Bird Dog?
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
We've probably all heard the sayings about owners and their dogs looking alike, but what about shared mannerisms? I'll venture our bird dogs mimic their hunting masters in a variety of ways. Here's a sample of the similarities and adaptions I believe my shorthair, Trammell, and I share.
- Methodically Short and Deliberately Dainty. I am not the tallest guy in the room, any room, even an 8th grade classroom. At 5' 7", my short legs work harder than most to cover the fields and forests. Thankfully, my shorthair works slower and more methodical than other pointers I've observed. Amongst my Pheasants Forever co-workers, Trammell is referred to as a "dainty" hunter. To some guys, those may be fighting words, but I'm pretty sure Tram and I bag more roosters than those China Shop Bulls. We may not vacuum up big expanses of ground, but I'm relatively certain we don't run over too many hunkered birds either.
- Hunting Marathoners. While Tram and I may not beat many tag teams to their daily limit, our deliberate pace does allow us to hunt from the day's sunrise to the day's closing bell.
- Cattail Skirters. Unless one of us gets "birdy," we're both content to work the outside edge of the cattail sloughs and keep our feet dry.
- Rain, Rain, Go Away. Speaking of dry feet, Tram and I both avoid being outside on rainy days. It's funny to watch Tram go outside for a potty break in the rain, she tip toes into the yard as if she's literally melting and zooms back inside the minute her "business" is complete. Likewise, I've been quoted as saying "this isn't fun for me anymore," during a rainy hunt.
- No Water Wings. While I love to eat ducks, I'd rather spend my time and energy walking in pursuit of any bird without webbed feet. Tram has a similar aversion to spending her hunting hours stuck in the mud over plastic fake birds when the real thing is to be had one step in front of the other.
- Favorite Color is Orange. Hunter orange and Detroit Tigers orange compose our wardrobe's two seasons.
- Birdy Buddies. Probably most important of all is our shared affinity for upland birds; including, pheasants, quail, grouse, woodcock, sharpies, and prairie chickens.
What about you? What traits do you and your bird dog share?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.
Reading your Dog's Getting Birdy "Tells"
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Successful poker players often talk about identifying opposing player's "tells" in route to victory. Some card players can't look others in the eye when they've got a good hand, or they start tapping their fingers on the table when they're bluffing. Baseball pitchers are known to have similar "tells." I can remember one pitcher from high school who would only grunt when delivering a curve ball. Fastball = no grunt. Curve = grunt. I hit pretty well off that guy.
I believe a parallel can be drawn between successful hunter and dog teams. Without the ability to talk, the hunter is left to interpret the pup's body language in the field to determine what that dog's nose is communicating to the rest of its body. Most of us refer to this interchange of scent to body language as a dog getting "birdy."
While there are common traits consistent across bird dogs, I believe each birdy dog's tells are as unique as batting stances in the Hall of Fame. In my opinion, the basic birdy dog indicators are a pup's tail, ears, eyes and pace. The key to being a successful hunter over your bird dog is honing in on how your dog's tail, ears, eyes and pace behave when your pup's hot after a bird.
My shorthair has a couple of surefire tells. The biggest indicator for me is the pace at which her tail wags left to right. The faster it goes, the surer she is to be on a bird's trail. Contrastingly, as soon as she believes she's located it, her tail and the rest of her body goes "rock solid" into a point and her ears are pricked at attention. In essence, the more statuesque she is, the more certain she has the bird pinned in the cover somewhere in front of her nose. As long as I'm not behind her, she'll also make eye contact with me; making sure I see her and know she's got one located. While I don't know if pro dog trainers would encourage or discourage this eye contact, I absolutely get a rush out of the interchange. To me, it galvanizes the passing of the baton from her job to mine as the shooter.
While Trammell's tail and eye contact tells aren't unique to her, she does have another tell that I've yet to witness in anyone else's bird dog. When Tram is hot on the trail of a running rooster, but she simply can't locate it after an extended chase, she'll let out a whine. When I hear that whine, I pick up the pace as fast as I safely can with shotgun in hand, because based on past experience that whine tells me she's on the scent of a wily old rooster that is going to flush before he ever lets her get close on a point.
When it comes to pace as a tell, my buddy Matt Kucharski's Lab, Lucy, provides my best example. There is no doubt a dog's chasing speed picks up as it zeros in on a rooster. Matt's Lucy is no exception. As the scent grows in intensity, so does Lucy's horse power, until Lucy finally zeros in on a rooster pinned under grass. At that point, Lucy stops, looks up to locate Matt, and then immediately pounces on the clump of grass concealing the bird.
What is your dog's surefire "tell" when on a bird?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.


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Re:It makes perfect sense (322 comments)
"...switch to a new system with unknown security risks..."
Yeah, that Windows 7 has only been out since 2009 and practically nobody uses it.
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Re:It makes perfect sense (322 comments)
"...switch to a new system with unknown security risks..."
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That's nice but... (470 comments)
While not an advocate for pseudo science, it's illuminating to consider how these seven symptoms can be applied to the practice of regular science:
1. The use of psychobabble – words that sound scientific and professional but are used incorrectly, or in a misleading manner.
Most specializations are rife with jargon, often using words that have been incorrectly appropriated from the English language and had their meaning changed. To test this at home, apply a spell check to a scientific paper.
2. A substantial reliance on anecdotal evidence.
Anecdotal evidence is there to guide your research (though not to validate it). It doesn't need to appear in your paper, but it is a critical part of the discovery process.
3. Extraordinary claims in the absence of extraordinary evidence.
I think this is a prerequisite to getting published in Science or Nature. Your claims have to be sensationalized to sell. Take your convenience sample with ten data points and spin it until it's ground breaking!
4. Claims which cannot be proven false.
Anything described as "universal" or "ubiquitous" probably falls into this category.
5. Claims that counter established scientific fact.
A dialectic is necessary to advance science. Surely you don't want dogmatic group-think to predominate?
6. Absence of adequate peer review.
Have you been through a peer review process? Why aren't you making eye contact with me?
7. Claims that are repeated despite being refuted.
You mean the type of stubbornness necessary to overcome the inertia of the currently dominant paradigm? So I should withdraw my research if a single group publishes a study indicating that they "were unable to reproduce" my results?
The Numbers Don't Add Up (712 comments)
One of the largest coal miners in the US (e.g. Arch Coal) has annual revenues of just under $5B and they claim to supply 17% of the US' domestic energy supply. Their Black Thunder mine produces around 115 Mt per year.
To put that into context, the US mines approximately 1 Gt of coal per year. At around 66 USD/t, you couldn't even buy all the coal the US produces in one year, let alone the companies that produce it for $50 billion!
The costs of purchasing a mine, then shutting it down in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner, are astronomical. The cost to acquire a SINGLE COAL PROPERTY (not even the company that owns it) can easily hit $0.5 - $1 billion, then you have to PAY to close it down and do something with the THOUSAND people who work there. Then you have to repeat this with every single mine, and who is going to do the phase out work and what are you going to pay them with?
The life of a mine may be 50 to 100 years and a lot of the costs for "close out" are reduced to their "net present value". As an oversimplified example, if it will cost $100 to build a fence in 100 years, and you get 2.5% return on every dollar you save for the purposes of building that fence, then you need to put in just under $9 today to pay for that fence in 100 years time. Regulations vary depending on the state / province / territory, but in many cases the company will need to pay the NPV of all their closure costs up front. If you prematurely close out the mine, you better hope you have enough money to cover the lost 20, 50, or 100 years of additional investment and interest, or you may go to jail.
Re:Confidential Grading (264 comments)
My thought was that they wouldn't even get their grades before finals, but afterwards. The only way to bring up questions about grades would be to file a grievance. Make it as much work for the student as it is for the department and you might see less people complaining. It would take a little attitude adjustment for both the institution and the students, but might in the end be less work and hopefully lead to a higher quality of both teaching and learning. On the other hand, most post-secondary course design and evaluation is somewhat ad-hoc, with departments relying on the expertise and experience of their individual instructors to both create and deliver useful content. The learning outcomes are wildly inconsistent, ranging from change-your-life-amazing to why-did-I-waste-my-money.
I think a significant part of the problem with grade-centered learning stems from the fact that many instructors use grades as incentive rather than evaluation. As a product of the very system they are perpetuating, they often comment to their classes on the importance of good grades and the strategies they personally used to obtain them. Many math and CS professors will actually take time to statistically analyse the results of assignments and tests as part of regular lessons. That activity loses value for the students after the first couple of showings.
I had many instructors excitedly review my grades with me when I had done particularly well on an assignment; however, this was not a motivator for me as I was always horribly cynical about the whole evaluation process. After all, if I recognize your evaluation of me as valid, I am tacitly acknowledging that you are a master of that subject area (and while this is sometimes true, I know too many post-secondary instructors among my friends and acquaintances to have much faith in the quality of their instruction).
Confidential Grading (264 comments)
It would be interesting to grade students in the following way:
For assignments and tests, grade the assignments as usual but don't let the students see the actual mark until the end.
Instead, give them a "credit / no credit" assessment for each item, coupled with feedback / answer sheets / group review.
At the end of the year, students will receive a final grade based on the value of all the assignments. This could eliminate some of the pressure that professors feel from students who are constantly badgering them about marks. It would have the side benefit of making it impossible for students to obsess over every single percentage point and instead focus on learning the material (or, conversely, they would be crippled by uncertainty and--rightly--weed themselves out of the system).
This would also necessitate increased accountability. For example, the professor and student would each be expected to keep a copy of all materials submitted for grading and if there was a dispute at the end of the year, a 3rd party audit could be conducted.
Has anyone experienced a system like that? How well did it work?
Re:All Programs Are Like That (308 comments)
In 20+ years in the industry I haven't seen a single well-designed piece of code.
This reminds me of a funny story I heard once:
There is this guy who is driving home from work when his wife calls him on the phone and warns him,
"Be careful on the way home, the news report says there's a maniac driving into oncoming traffic on the highway!"
To which he replies, "One maniac? There's hundreds of them!"
Re:It sounds cooler than it is... (463 comments)
As beings raised in a mostly 2 dimensional plane,
I have stairs in my house, don't know about you.
Re:It sounds cooler than it is... (463 comments)
Yes, EVE is great at perpetuating broken game mechanics. For example, please explain how an energy transfer module can provide more energy to its target than it takes to activate? Or, explain how a starbase (POS) forcefield can "eject" the ships inside at a velocity that will literally "bowl" anything in their path out of their way (e.g. Drebuchet)? I'm sure you had fun in B-R5RB but let's face it, EVE's subscriber base isn't exactly growing.
It sounds cooler than it is... (463 comments)
To manage the number of users involved in that battle, the system went into "Time Dilation". What that means in practice is that you queue an action, go make coffee, drink the coffee, then queue another action. Very cool in concept, but when a 30 "minutes" take 6 hours of real time to process, it looses its novelty fairly quickly.
Let's say you own a Capital Ship and want to play EVE, so you commit to the fight. An hour later you have to go get groceries / make dinner for the family / go to the toilet. You are unlikely to be able to disengage, and so you can just log off and your ship gets destroyed instead. Not much fun.
To me, the battle doesn't even look cool. The ships are all mashed on top of one another, pointing in random directions, and it's almost impossible for an observer to see what's actually going on. If I wanted to interest someone in EVE, I wouldn't show them a video of this battle, nor The Battle of Asakai. I would show them the Alliance Tournament XI (if anything).
Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm (BBC) (208 comments)
The following series are great for both children and adults. Fantastic production quality, packed with factual information, but lacking the terrible sensationalism typical of American documentaries. I challenge you to watch even a single episode and not learn something awesome!
I used to teach a technology related course at a local college, and I liked to show an episode of the 6-part BBC documentary Victorian Farm to show students how advances in technology during the industrial revolution had a massive impact on day-to-day life. Off the top of my head, I can remember seeing demonstrations of technologies like basket-making, clamps, black-smithing, steam trains, horse-powered machinery, straw-plaiting, etc.
The same group of academics who did Victorian Farm were part of the 12-part BBC series Edwardian Farm. There are cool technologies like early fish farms, brick kilns, tractors, automobiles, vacuums, bicycles, leather-making, stoves, mining, fertilizer, pesticide, wool mills, etc.
There's also the 8-part BBC documentary Wartime Farm which is a recreation of the English farmer's life during World War II. Technologies like canning, paraffin range cooker, electric clothes iron, and linoleum flooring are just a few of the things covered in this series.
There is also a 12-part documentary with the same people called Tales from the Green Valley but I haven't seen it and can't comment though it's probably also really good.
Re:FOI (209 comments)
I guess you missed the part about--oh, well, nevermind. Here's a link if you want to file a request.
Re:A war. (209 comments)
Saving $500K/year AND getting people better access to information is a good thing.
Except that number is manufactured. Did you know that many governmental institutions rent space from themselves? For example, the library is in a government owned building, but the DFO has to pay premium rent for each square foot of space to one of these other Canadian government departments. Then there are the heating and power costs. Although the space has to be heated anyways regardless of its use, they factor that into the costs of operating that library. Do you think they employ an army of librarians? Or maids to dust the books? Or exterminators to hunt bookworms? No, the library is a storage space and if we have anything in Canada it's tons of space. The $500k figure might just be for rent, power, and heating most of which they will continue to pay to themselves even after the library is gone. You really have to have worked as a bureaucrat in Canada to understand this madness.
Secondly, if you have ever tried to get access to information, scientific or otherwise, from any Canadian federal, provincial, or territorial government website, you know that it is a crapshoot. Sometimes you hit a good site (or at least one that isn't terrible), and then for some reason they feel the need to change it next month and make it terrible so that it fits the nonsensical shitty guidelines constantly under development by CIOs and lawyers (of all people) who are completely disconnected from the reality of how their clients use their sites. Better access to information? They should have shipped it all to Google. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where those dumpsters went after all, because our bureaucrats are wicked sneaky sometimes.
Departmental Mandate (209 comments)
Did you catch this:
""The department may remove only content that is duplicated at one or more libraries and, in rare instances, materials which fall outside the subject disciplines pertinent to the department's mandate," says the DFO website, describing the material discarded from its collection."
Departmental mandates are revised to suit the political flavour of the day as part of strategic planning activities (mission, vision, values, etc.) and it happens every couple of years. This allows for some really pernicious and creative manipulation of public institutions that exist to regulate and monitor shared resources. Here is the mandate for DFO. In real terms, a high level deputy minister might instruct his senior management staff that, "it is not in our mandate to keep records of X because it is not required by the legislation that defines our work." It's a very prescriptive and disingenuous approach, but it works with career bureaucrats because they lack the expertise to form a cohesive argument against it. You can be sure they're digging in their heels, but they have to pick their battles very carefully. Federal agencies have been eviscerated in the last few years and management is trying to weather the storm in the hopes that the political climate will change soon.
This is reminiscent of the de-funding of the Experimental Lakes Area in 2012, which also involved the DFO. It was a project area that had existed for 45 years and produced 745 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 126 graduate theses, 102 book chapters and synthesis papers, 185 data reports, and several books. With respect to the destruction of data, I'm sure one could argue, "Since the ELA is no longer part of the DFO's mandate, that data can be destroyed."
What's noteworthy about this article is that the DFO has impressive, far-reaching regulatory power and this cost saving measure is part of an attempt to make the department more "effective" in conducting its regulatory duties. Ultimately, the hope is that industry projects can be approved in a more timely manner. I don't think it's an evil plot to destroy the environment, rather it is a misguided attempt to make a Canadian governmental agency better able to do its day-to-day job. Ultimately, it will impede the agency's ability to adapt and respond to changing client needs. A lot of people of a certain political ideology don't value research because it is hard to describe its utility in financial terms. This is self-evidently foolish, as continuous research is essential to improving the health of the population, effectively managing resources, and developing new technologies and techniques. Unfortunately, this reasoning really appeals to the masses of Canadians who "don't want their tax dollars wasted."
Re:or Brazil (1365 comments)
I hear most Universities offer courses in Political Science.
Re:His most famous work (315 comments)
My favourite quote from the book was,
"Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
I feel like that was one of the main themes of the book, which I only read a couple of years ago.
I grew up hearing about how Farenheit 451 was a dystopian authoritarian state-control type story. I was completely surprised by the prominent role of individual agency and the poetry of the prose. The value of the book is completely lost in the "Coles Notes Version" (or the summary your friend gave you) because a good portion of the work is conveyed through the deliberate use of specific language.
Re:I'm sorry for writing this... (402 comments)
I think you might be posting to the wrong audience.
The average highly-trained adult human can give the impression of higher than normal intelligence, even though they are fundamentally the same fumbling child they always were. They may say "insightful" or "interesting" things but are simply imitating something they read or heard somewhere else. The interesting thing is that they don't even fully realize that some of their contemporaries possess orders of magnitude more capacity.
Re:Stack overflow? (402 comments)
If you are a programmer and can see the myriad of possibilities inherent in every state we occupy then you should be able to harness those few days of inspired capacity to create solutions for the crowd that they didn't know they needed.
You might end up still unemployed but you also stand a chance of realizing one of your many dreams, despite the bitterness.
Re:This just in... (402 comments)
While "you reap what you sow" may be true to some extent, the concept of a just world is generally used as a way to build an illusion of safety. For example:
The woman who gets raped was asking for it. If we are morally chaste, nobody in my family is likely to be raped.
The person who is poor simply isn't working hard enough. As long as I work hard, I will never be poor.
(1) The world isn't fair - being a genius doesn't automatically mean you have compensating disadvantages. It's quite nice actually!
That reminds me of the All Children Are Gifted diatribe.
Re:Let go? (141 comments)
Yes you've got a valid point -- procurement in government is just as broken as the overall IT infrastructure. On the other hand, if someone isn't willing to raise a stink and put their job on the line to prevent a disaster of that nature, they don't deserve to call themselves a public servant. The "lowest bidder" is not the same thing as the "best value", and you have to be willing to fight for what's right.
Re:Let go? (141 comments)
I recognize you! You work for the [insert government here] ITS department down the hall from my office. You and your just adequate, barely competent colleagues are the reason I'm stuck with a brand new, yet somehow still limping, T520 that takes four minutes to start. You are the reason I can't "exceed the level of my cluster". You are the barrier to innovation. The attitude you just espoused is the reason our monolithic organization is stuck in the stone age. How is it that you guys can take five years and one billion dollars to develop an application that is buggy, user un-friendly, doesn't do the job it's supposed to, and cripples the department it's supposed to be helping by eating their entire IT budget. You and your colleagues have never heard of Brooks' law, are complacent, risk averse, and unimaginative. I hate you.


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The UTEP men's basketball team has defeated Houston 80-69 in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA tournament.
Julian Washburn scored 20 points while John Bohanon had two points.
UTEP will play Southern Miss in Friday's first semifinal game at 2 p.m. MDT.
The UTEP women defeated UAB 61-59 and will play UCF at 9 a.m.
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