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Mint Cleaner Official Press Release
Press Release
Source: Evolution Robotics
On Thursday January 7, 2010, 3:40 am EST
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – 01/07/10) – CES — Evolution Robotics, Inc., a leading robotics technology company, today announced Mint(TM), an automatic floor cleaning appliance designed exclusively for hard surface floor cleaning. Mint automatically dusts and wet mops hard surface floors using popular cleaning cloths, such as Swiffer brand Dry and Wet Cloths and other similar products.
Mint's innovations are grounded in the simple goal of making an appliance-grade product that reliably cleans consumers' floors and makes their lives easier.
"Similar to how the once manual chores of washing dishes or doing laundry evolved with the invention of the dishwasher and washing machine, floor cleaning has officially been replaced by an automated appliance that achieves the same result, if not better, than previous manual methods," said Dr. Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics. "To do the job well, Evolution had to rewrite the book on how floor cleaning is done. Mint packs aerospace-grade technologies that were specifically tailored to deliver consumers with an appliance that cleans like they do, while still providing a hassle-free experience."
Supplementing Mint's technical prowess and practicality, Evolution partnered with world-renowned industrial designer Yves Behar and his team at fuseproject to focus on usability and create a clear departure from the existing masculine and techno looking products in the market.
"We loved the challenge of working on such a transformative product for the home and aimed to create a beautiful appliance that fits within a home's decor," said Yves Behar of fuseproject. "The defined geometric shapes of Mint, clear color breaks, low-profile and very few visible buttons hint at great technology under the hood while giving a sense of simplicity and ease of use. We are very proud of the result."
Mint is smart enough to navigate and clean a room systematically without human assistance. Some of the advanced technologies and design considerations powering Mint's cleaning capability include:
Dusts and Mops
Mint offers dry and wet cleaning. With dry cloths, Mint systematically picks up the dust, dirt and hair that constantly accumulate on your floors. With wet cloths, Mint uses a special mopping motion to methodically clean each area of the floor, dissolving and wiping up the deeper dirt and grime, leaving floors shiny, fresh and clean.
Tracks Where It Cleans
To clean floors thoroughly, Mint's navigation system meticulously tracks where it cleans to ensure it doesn't miss a spot. Guided by Evolution's own NorthStar technology, Mint integrates information from three different on-board positioning systems to carefully map the room, plan areas for cleaning, and pick up spots not covered on the first pass. This first-of-a-kind navigation system represents unprecedented cleaning coverage for an automatic floor cleaner and truly clean hard surface floors for the consumer.
Square Shape
To clean into hard to reach places, Mint's unconventional square body breaks the mold of traditional round robots. Circular robots require the cleaning mechanism be nested inside a larger protective shell. Mint features a front-mounted cleaning pad, allowing the cloth to clean along edges of walls and all the way into corners. Sitting at under 10 inches wide, Mint also has a very small footprint, letting it clean into tight spaces, between chair legs and around obstacles.
Adapts To Environments
To deal with different home environments, Evolution integrated a range of sensors into Mint's design. Examples include first-of-their-kind floor sensors to detect floor transitions, enabling Mint to avoid driving onto area rugs and carpets. For cleaning on slippery floors, Mint automatically adapts to the floor and adjusts friction of the cleaning pad to maintain optimal traction with the wheels (similar to dynamic stability control on a car).
With the launch of Mint, Evolution is not only taking floor care to the next level but ushers in a new generation of robotic products for everyday life.
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Pricing and Availability
Mint is scheduled to be available through direct channels in Q3 2010 and retail outlets in Q4 2010 at a price under $250. To sign up to be notified of Mint's availability, and for additional information on where to buy Mint, please visit: http://www.mintcleaner.com
About Evolution Robotics
Evolution Robotics, Inc. is based in Pasadena, CA, and partners with brand leaders to make their products smarter by providing solutions for vision, autonomous navigation and intelligence. From toys to cell phones and vacuum cleaners to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the company's technologies have been brought to market through partners which include Sony, Bandai, Sharper Image and AU Phones from KDDI in Japan, representing more than 20 million installations. Evolution Robotics is an operating company of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology businesses.
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It looks like voters in Rio Rancho have a runoff election on their hands.
The unofficial results for Tuesday's regular municipal election show Gregg Hull and former city councilor Michael Williams are the two front runners for the mayoral seat.
Neither got more than 50 percent of the vote.
Shelby Smith and Thomas Buckner are also staged for a runoff election for District 5 city councilor.
Rio Rancho's governing body will set the date for the runoff election at their next meeting scheduled for March 12.
Meanwhile, in Santa Fe, unofficial results show Javier Gonzales will take over as mayor.
Gonzales ended up with 42 percent of the vote.
Gonzales, the former chairman of the state's Democratic Party, is the first openly gay mayor of Santa Fe.
In Farmington, Tommy Roberts was handily re-elected mayor, snagging 84 percent of the vote.
His challenger, Matt Dodson, had focused his campaign on legalizing recreational marijuana. It was a plan Roberts had argued wouldn't work since pot is illegal across New Mexico.
Roswell voters decided to unseat incumbent mayor Del Jurney in favor of Dennis Kintigh.
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Update – American Express is presently updating the Platinum Card. That means that some features that may be mentioned on this page is outdated. We expect to know the new information later today and will do any update when we get the information.
Update -(May 2009) – After a year of being a platinum card holder and documented my various experience, I have now written an official review.
OK – here is the latest from me. After being an American Express Gold Card member for 12 years and after a couple of years of getting offers in the mail and on the phone, I finally bit the bullet and got the American Express Platinum Card.
When I received my card in a nice package, I finally got on thinking as to why I decided to get the card? I felt slightly guilty. Why did I have to get a card with a $395 annual fee? Was it a prestige thing? Was it my ego? Afterall, I was pretty happy with my Gold Card ($150 fee – so I wasn't exactly starting from $0). I used my membership reward points for airmiles and it has worked pretty well for me for the longest time. Perhaps I was intrigued by their other perks like their concierge service and other stuff. But deep down inside my, I have to admit the card looks cool and it is probably an ego thing for me. It is nice knowing you can afford the card without blinking an eyelid.
But I also convinced myself that since I am Mr Credit Card, how can I not have the Amex Platinum? After all, I review credit cards (lots of them), and this is one card you cannot really do a proper review unless you actually have the card! (I'll probably write off the $395 annual fee as an expense of running this site!). So unlike any other credit card site, a review of the Amex Platinum will actually come from someone who actually has one!
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8m. The short roof crack is a real gritstoner's glory where subtlety is definitely not required - brute force rules OK!
This is really rather hard for 5b! Also, the comment re. tape is misguided: the inside surfaces of the crack are quite pebbly and had a liberal coating of someone else's blood when I got to them (with my sensibly taped hands).
No way is this E2 5b. More like Hard E3 5c.
I'd agree with E2, but not 5b. Not quite the horrific thrutch it looks like, and can actually be climbed rather elegantly, if your gear doesn't get in the way.
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"Hope is necessary in every condition," said Samuel Johnson. Most people would agree. It hardly seems sensible to contradict the man who termed patriotism "the last refuge of a scoundrel" and a tavern chair "the throne of human felicity." Yet throughout my life I have felt generally wary towards hope and have often doubted its wisdom, and even sometimes its necessity.
This "negative" attitude can in part be blamed on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, which I found compelling as a teenager. Camus talked about learning to live "without appeal" — hope was a distracter, a dilutor, a sop, distorting any clear comprehension of reality. Camus was not advocating despair — he was simply convinced that hope was illusory, and therefore inadvisable. Not only was hope a waste of time, it was an instrument of avoidable cruelty, "the worst of evils" according to Nietzsche, "for it prolongs the torments of man."
I still think Camus' notions make good sense, and still treasure the opening lines of Woody Allen's parody, My Speech to the Graduates, which begins: "More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." I always feel peculiarly at ease reading those words. There are worse things to do with existential angst than laugh.
As someone constitutionally disposed to Camus' absurdity of hope and Woody Allen's farcicality of hope, I was predictably Not Hopeful when I opened Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope this summer. I assumed it would court the warm, fuzzy, nausea-inducing sentiments of the politician venturing to speak "from the heart." But Obama's book does not turn one's stomach or even raise one's hackles unduly. Proposed solutions to problems can sometimes sound sketchy, improbable, too good to be true. And Obama is a bit too willing to praise and defend military intervention. While critical of the current Iraq War, he seems charmed by the last one, and expresses no misgivings about the war in Afghanistan. Support for military "solutions" may be the standard tune in American politics, but it is disappointing to hear Obama swell the chorus so readily.
All in all though, The Audacity of Hope is written by a man who sounds articulate, capable, intelligent, conscientious, considerate, and genuinely committed to a politics beyond the narrow interests of himself or his party. Americans ought to feel, if not hopeful, at least grateful that Barack Obama is in the running.
"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool," Camus wrote in The Rebel. Obama is neither a coward nor a fool — and I don't think Gore Vidal's shrewd one-liner has been lost on him: "It is not too wise ever to be too optimistic when it comes to the human race." Obama's brand of hope is not stupid or blind… yet. It seems to fall within the healthy scope of Dr. Johnson's "necessary."
However, let us recall that it is the nature of politics to turn vital things impotent and necessary things pointless. Politics is the mill that grinds spirit to letter. Hope's a pleasant enough starter but if it's all Obama's got cooking, better tighten your belt. As Francis Bacon observed, "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Or as the wonderfully pragmatic Ben Franklin put it, "He that lives upon hope will die fasting." A hungry public feels drawn to hope, but it will take more than cotton candy to fill our stomachs.
Anyway, it's down to Obama or McCain. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Join Franklin Street Works on Thursday, March 14 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. for a casual tour of the contemporary art space's current exhibition, Your Content Will Return Shortly. Those in attendance will walk through the show with three of its exhibiting artists, Jeff Ostergren (New Haven, CT), Catherine Ross (Brooklyn, NY) and Siebren Versteeg (Brooklyn, NY). While walking through the three galleries, artists will discuss their works, including how videos and installations reflect themes in the exhibition and relate to their larger practice. The evening will end with an open discussion and reception in the café. Please join us for this free event that is open to the public – a unique opportunity to explore the current show with some of its artists that are emerging figures in contemporary art today! This event program is made possible in part through the support of the Community Arts Partnership Program awarded to Franklin Street Works by the City of Stamford and a two-year grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Your Content Will Return Shortly, curated by Franklin Street Works' Creative Director, Terri C Smith, explores television as both medium and subject. Rather than taking a comprehensive view of television as inspiration in contemporary art, the exhibition explores works that highlight televised elements tangential to the main narrative arc. The artists take their cues from the physical and functional qualities of television and a variety of elements associated with broadcasting. They touch on phenomena that include: advertising; laugh tracks; the effects of VHS, DVD and remote control devices on viewing habits; public service announcements; and nuances observations of the relationship between spectacle and cable news. Exhibiting artists are: Christopher DeLaurenti, Eric Gottesman, Jonathan Horowitz, Sophy Naess, Jeff Ostergren, Lucy Raven, Martha Rosler, Catherine Ross, Emily Roz, Carmelle Safdie, and Siebren Versteeg. Your Content Will Return Shortly is on view at Franklin Street Works through March 24.
Jeff Ostergren is a New Haven, Connecticut, based artist who focuses on the raw materials of culture itself: advertisements, synthetic chemicals, and language, to explore our contemporary states of embodiment. His work explores the libidinal space of anxiety, violence, and desire that activates and consumes us all. Ostergren's video practice draws inspiration from the work of Sturtevant and Gretchen Bender, who use appropriated footage not merely as image but as object itself. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Soi Fischer, Vancouver, Canada; Greene Park Gallery, Los Angeles; Artspace, New Haven; West Cove Studios, New Haven; Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republic; and Shneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon.
Catherine Ross works in video and photography, framing instances that often go unnoticed in their original context. Isolating the movements of humans and/or objects, her videos create new sequences that reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Here she finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including venues in Brazil, Finland, France, Ireland, England, Canada and the United States. Ross attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2002, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2003 and received a 2005-06 residency from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Ross was awarded "Best International Short Award" at the 2006 Darklight Festival (Dublin, IRELAND). She received her BA in studio art from Dartmouth College in 1994.
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George Braly, co-owner of GAMI (General Aviation Modifications, Inc.) says the time is now. As we all know, lead in aviation fuel has a grim future and the need for a solution is urgent. In a presentation Tuesday at Airventure, Braly said that GAMI is developing a solution, G100UL that is now being tested and in the certification stage. It is a fuel consisting of 60 percent 100 octane fuel without lead and 40 percent ingredients that Braly declined to identify. GAMI's G100UL meets all the necessary operational criteria for reciprocating engines to safely operate and can be mixed with 100LL. The problem is that it doesn't meet all the technical requirements of the ASTM standards now in effect.
Braly (pictured) says these nonconforming criteria do not affect aircraft operation or safety. He suggests that since G100UL actually works in airplanes, a new ASTM standard needs to be established so that it will be allowed in GA aircraft. He brought up several interesting issues re leaded fuel. Lead is not necessary for valve lubrication. To the contrary, engines run better without it, think of your fouled plugs. Why lead? Lead boosts octane. That's it. The successful replacement for 100LL will have to be able to deliver the same octane as 100LL. Braly says that G100UL actually exceeds this octane rating. At full rich, the octane rating for G100UL is much higher than 100 which will be much appreciated by war bird owners.
So far testing has gone well. GAMI has flown a Cirrus with one take tank having G100UL and the other 100LL without any problems for 2 ½ years. It has also been used use successfully in a turbocharged engine. Braly expressed frustration that the bureaucracy is moving so slowly when urgency is required. He anticipates bring G100UL to the aviation community by the end of 2013 at a price competitive with 100ll.
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Some Parents Are Using Personal Trainers To Help Their Children Lose Weightby Summer+ in Parenting
Childhood obesity is a topic that continues to gain interest, as experts, doctors and parents all look for ways to help children lose weight. For some parents, keeping their children fit is worth every effort. That is why a new trend in personal trainers for children has suddenly began popping up.
Dyson Dunkle is 10 years old, a little over weight, and wants to become more active. So his parents hired a personal trainer to help him lose weight and get into shape. Children as young as 3 years-old are starting to work out with personal trainers, while their parents pay as much as $75 per hour in hopes of winning the war on childhood obesity.
For young children, lifting weights and other strenuous activities are not considered healthy to do. But some personal trainers have manged to re-aim their standard adult routines into workouts that are suited for children. Jumping jacks, push ups, and fun activities can help children be more active and hopefully lose any extra weight they have.
"Ultimately we want Dyson to be strong and happy with his body and his weight," David Birnbaum, Dyson's father.
Doctors warn that children need to be careful with any exercise routine. Because they are still growing and developing, they cannot work-out in the same way as adults. However, being able to work with an experienced, certified trainer who is knowledgeable about exercise routines designed especially for children can also help develop good habits early.- Summer, staff writer
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The landmark United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study showed similar results for people with Type 2 diabetes. If you can keep your HbA1c results around or under 6.0%, you will greatly lower the odds of having serious eye complications from diabetes.
Why and how does high blood glucose damage the eyes? The "stock" answer given by medical professionals is that high blood glucose levels damage the smallest, most fragile blood vessels throughout the body, and the eyes have lots of small blood vessels. While this explanation is not incorrect, it is somewhat simplistic. The fuller answer is quite a bit more complex. Essentially, high blood glucose has two harmful effects in the eyes:
- It impairs the ability of small blood vessels to precisely control the volume of blood traveling through them. The result is excessive blood flow that mechanically injures those vessels, making them leaky. To visualize this, imagine a garden hose trying to accommodate the water flow from a fully opened fire hydrant.
- The breakdown (metabolism) of excess glucose by the body leads to an increase in the formation of harmful biochemicals (called glucose metabolites). These biochemicals make blood vessels in the retina leaky, promote the formation of abnormal, new blood vessels, and bind ("stick") to the proteins that make up body tissues (including parts of the eyes), causing those proteins to function abnormally. Some of the harmful by-products of glucose metabolism include advanced glycosylation endproducts and protein kinase C.
Of course, the clear benefits of "tight" blood glucose control have to be balanced against the risks of severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose). Tight control is best achieved with close consultation with members of your diabetes care team, careful attention to diet (especially portion control), regular exercise, medicine if necessary, and blood glucose monitoring on a regular basis.
Living with diabetes is admittedly often like walking a tightrope between high and low blood glucose levels. There is great variability in each person's response to specific foods, activities, and treatments. The point is that the better you can learn to recognize and react to your unique blood glucose patterns, the closer to normal you can keep your blood glucose levels, and the healthier your eyes will be.
Blood pressure control
Keep your blood pressure well controlled through diet, regular physical activity, and medicine, if needed. The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study showed that for Type 2 diabetes, controlling high blood pressure lowers the risk of retinopathy and worsening of existing retinopathy even more than tight blood glucose control. A 10/5 mm Hg reduction in blood pressure (for example, from 150/90 mm Hg to 140/85 mm Hg) reduced the risk of severe vision loss by nearly 50%. (In addition, this same blood pressure reduction lowered stroke risk by 44% and death by 32%!)
Elevated blood pressure increases blood flow into the eye, accelerating diabetic retinopathy. It also increases the turbulence of blood flow to the retina and optic nerve, which increases the risk of abnormal blood clotting (as happens in ischemic optic neuropathy and retinal vascular occlusion).
Recent research on the dynamics of blood flow to the eyes (called ocular hemodynamics) has given new insight into the importance of blood pressure control. The results of this work can help eye doctors gauge the risk of severe vision loss from diabetic retinopathy for individual patients. Research has demonstrated (using a technique called laser Doppler velocimetry) that at the onset of retinopathy, the volume of blood flow into the retina increases dramatically. As mentioned earlier, this is believed to be caused by high blood glucose, which impairs the ability of retinal vessels to constrict and precisely regulate blood flow. The pressure generated by this blood flow, known as retinal perfusion pressure (RPP), injures the walls of the smallest blood vessels (making them leaky) and redirects blood away from the smallest vessels (capillaries) into larger vessels. This results in destruction of the capillaries and inadequate blood circulation within retinal tissues (a phenomenon known as capillary nonperfusion). This destruction, in turn, leads to the release of biochemical messengers that promote the growth of new but abnormal blood vessels that bleed profusely and can lead to retinal detachment (as happens in proliferative diabetic retinopathy).


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| The Kawaguchi Sex Museum sits at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Japan's most beloved -- and phallic -- icon. The figurines within represent either War or Love: one half of the museum displays the paraphernalia of the samurai, while the other exhibits carved figures once used to teach the privileged art of a good fuck. This odd little segue of an edifice, while it pays tribute to the highly romanticized Edo Period, also exemplifies the divided mind of the Japanese culture as a whole. This is a culture that has always been tolerant of extremes, even invested in them. The question is how the Japanese will embrace the whole new set of extremes ushered in by the monumental changes of Japan's recent history.
Mt. Fuji, once the site of religious pilgrimages, is a striking symbol of these changes. Besides the sex museum at its base, the mountain also boasts a vending machine at its gracious, 12,395-foot peak. This crowning glory, a Suntory soda machine, purveys Pocari Sweat and Oolong Tea with the precise rhythm of a slot machine. Japan's rigid economy of tradition seems to meet the new economy of commodity at this lofty point: just high enough to inspire altitude sickness, the summit of Mt. Fuji (an extinct volcano that last blew its top in 1707) feels like the apogee of a revolution, the cusp of a transformation. Its extremes are heralded by the ping-ping of coins dropping steadily into the machine, a unique tribute to the uberaccessibility of all things shiny and packaged.
Only recently has commercial culture reared its enormous, ravenous head in Japan, seemingly counterpoised against the nation's age-old, deeply entrenched belief system. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Japan existed in glorious cultural isolation; outside attempts to conquer the island had been preternaturally doomed to failure. When Kubla Khan sent his Mongolian army to conquer the Land of the Rising Sun in the late thirteenth century, a set of twin typhoons repulsed and destroyed the would-be invaders. The Japanese affectionately nicknamed these timely, fleet-wrecking storms "divine wind." Or, to translate: kamikaze. For centuries the Japanese held their archipelago -- and their culture -- to be impregnable.
The spirit of the divine wind could not, however, repel atomic clouds from Japan's sky. Into the disillusioned afterglow of a nuclear winter marched Douglas MacArthur, who announced to the Japanese that the emperor was no longer God, that they were now "liberated," and that (by the way) there would be chocolate for everyone -- even if Japan's cities had been decimated. It was this other holocaust, the Eastern death by fire, that led to a new constitution, a new parliament, and the now-legendary rebuilding of Tokyo. These radical changes inspired new myths and new fears: Japan finally began to abandon Shinto and Buddhism and construct the Cult of Convenience that has come to suggest a crisis of faith.
This breach is nowhere more profoundly evident than in the lives and works of post-war Japanese artists. Yukio Mishima illustrates the more dramatic schism of mind, being, and spirit, the imbalance of the traditional with the new. Mishima was at once skilled at penning Western-style novels and traditional Kabuki plays. Far from moving toward a new world of convenience, however, Mishima was instead attracted to the militaristic and manly values of traditional Japan. His suicide in 1970 by seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, was enacted as a display of his loyalty to the imperial system -- Mishima's romanticization of samurai ideals. His assistant, attempting to finish the job (according to tradition) by severing Mishima's head, failed and had to try it three separate times.
In stark contrast to Mishima's severe traditionalism is the wild digital ride of photographer and video artist Mariko Mori. This model-turned-art-star revels in an ecstatic realm of Warhol-esque pop surfaces, blending the futuristic, the plastic, the cyborgian, the ancient, and the spiritual. While she refers to Japanese traditions in her works, in everything from her choice of gender representation to her clothing, she doesn't attempt to recover any authentic history. Instead, she pulls ancient elements from time and places them in ambiguous, space-age landscapes. Mori's self-portraits as girly girl, as intergalactic geisha, as subway cyborg say nothing of the individual in time and everything about consumable fantasies of identity in manufactured settings. What appears to be a fabulous narcissism is also a new take on the Japanese fascination with ritualized imposture (in the vein of Kabuki theater). Mori's interactive critique of consumer culture is simultaneously belied and enhanced by the sense of fun implicit in her work.
Although laments over the rise of commercialism have become familiar to the point of cliché, the ping-ping of demand is fresh. And it's faithful: from the crest of Fuji-san to the interiors of pachinko parlors where off-duty salary men dream of outsmarting pinball machines, the ghost in the apparatus whispers its promises. Even the soundtrack of this Postmodern world jives with it. Rap groups like Sha Dara Parr bust rhymes about Pacman while karaoke machines pump out calliope-like revamps of The Carpenters, and all these riffs play carefully over the rigid surface of politics. After all, cultural hegemony becomes obsolete when authenticity becomes irrelevant; the depth of tradition collapses and flattens into endlessly reproducible sounds and images. The burgeoning Japanese pop movement works this surface. All-consuming, it endlessly re-dresses and exhibits itself, and its sounds are those of a happy child in a frenzy of pleasure. But this isn't a naïve sound. Carefully composed and styled, Japanese pop constructs deep grooves and complex layers from the grab bag of global music.
While such hyper-engagement with commercialism may seem thoroughly superficial or pathologically disengaged, perhaps this careful respect for surfaces actually reflects a reluctance to participate in an imposed system that is alien to a once-proudly imperialistic nation. Democratic discourse is the pill that Americans are taught to swallow as a panacea for all social ills, but it is not Japanese. In Japan, tradition, habit, and belief must live on in holy paradox alongside consumerism and pop culture. Although the leap of faith once required at the altar of a divine emperor might now be approximated in a random vending selection, Japan's centuries-long coexistence with extremes has set the stage.


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I have a lamb's head in my freezer, haven't figured out what to do with it yet. It's from Kinderhook. I love trying new stuff.
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Pastrami Reuben for lunch before work, and another one today! I'm perfecting my technique
Depends on your definition of forever! I always use navy beans, but pinto will be fine. Add crushed tomatoes, brown sugar , dry mustard, chopped onion and kielbasa. Cook overnight -- baked beans for breakfast are great! -- or start in the morning and when you come home from work awesome dinner will be ready.
I have some blood orange marmalade from my sister, I will try this. Last night I made apple and olive oil cake (Ottolenghi) and it was great. The batter was incredibly stiff but it baked up beautifully. Marmalade is one of my fave condiments.
I always cook rib roast at 325* steady until it's 125* in the center, it never fails. I like to stick it in the oven and forget about it (busy prepping other things) until the thermometer tells me it's ready.
My Mom's pasties cannot be changed -- diced potatoes, onions, and flank steak. The crust can ONLY be made with lard. I have added at various times rutabaga, carrots or parsnips and the uproar was unforgivable.
A slice of tomato on a piece of toast, smeared with hummus or pesto or nothing at all with a sprinkle of salt. Every day.
Tomatoes and corn and Vermont cheese, give me some blue!
Blue cheese and caramelized onions, I could eat the whole thing myself. I'll make this on Saturday and my husband will be fighting me for it.
When I get home from work at midnight it's scrambled eggs and toast, perfectly satisfying.
It's been around a long time, but for the inexperienced cook I would give Julia's The Way to Cook. I still reference it, and the recipes cover everything.
For the other two cooks it might be Moro by Sam & Sam Clark, Dishes From the Wild Horse Desert by Melissa Guerra, or Tender or Ripe by Nigel Slater. I could go on, I love giving cookbooks!
Asparagus and morels with pasta.
If you're heading toward home stop at Deitrich's Meat Market to stock up on farm raised beef, pork, poultry, lamb. You can't beat their products. They always have samples so you can nibble! Exit 40/Kutztown, easy on and off. They don't take plastic but they have an ATM. I always plan a stop there. When hunger hits I go to the Red Robin next to Cabela's at exit 29B, I know, it's a chain but I can't resist. Then, of course, I go to Cabela's.
Roasted brussels sprouts with bacon and red onion. Broccoli rabe sauteed with garlic, or made into a pesto. The vegetable kingdom is a veritable playground of flavor and invention.
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I just got back from the Dutchess County Fair (NY). It's my chance to eat sinfully one day a year. The best thing I had today was fried pickles with horseradish dipping sauce -- what a treat! I hope the guy comes back next year. John's Famous French Fries were darn good, too. What do you like to eat at the county fair?
There's a place a few miles from me, behind a gas station and next to a bait shop. It looks like a dump. Major potholes in the parking lot. A friend tried for over a year to get me to go there, so finally I went to get her to shut up. I am forever indebted!! Gawd, the food is so good . . . steaks, chops, seafood, pizza, pasta . . . I can't wait for out of town friends to come so I can take them there to see the look on their face. I have to duck to get through the door. There are only twelve tables, a pellet stove (so cozy in the winter), and a tiny bar. They finally patched the hole in the floor in the far corner. There's a blue marlin mounted on one of the walls. One waitress works the room and some nights it feels like one big raucous family. My favorite place outside of my own kitchen!
I'll be spending 5 days/4 nights in New Orleans in May. Where should I go to eat? I really want to maximize every meal opportunity. Where do the locals go? I've never had crawfish, and I love boudin! I don't want to miss anything special.
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The Rogers W. Rogers Gallery Exhibitions
Consilience: Paintings by Elise Richman
August 21 – December 13, 2014
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Where-Wolf (Willamette University): A Drawing Installation by Andrew Myers
January 13 – May 15, 2014
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
The installation includes a large scale half-human, half-wolf figure made from a patchwork of collaged drawings. The human hands of this hybrid figure hold the ends of two strands of string: one connecting it to the moon, and the other to the diagonal, zig-zag path of OR-7's journey across an implied map of Oregon...
Dead Ends & Domestic Talismans: Prints by Keith Dull
August 26 – December 13, 2013
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Dull employs the visual language of graphic design in his prints. The bright colors, iconic images, and symbols he uses remind us of the images we normally see in manuals and pamphlets, which aim to communicate explicit meaning in a clear and literal way that is immediately accessible to the viewer...
Piling Up: Paintings by Bethany Hays
January 14 – May 15, 2013
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
Anyone who has ever watched in despair as their home fills with a mountain of laundry waiting to be washed can relate to the recent series of watercolor paintings by Bethany Hays. As a single mother Hays is intimately familiar with the feeling of being swamped by the mundane domestic tasks that are necessary for the everyday maintenance of family life. Her paintings offer a glimpse into the endless daily battle between entropy and order that characterizes the struggle to tame domestic chaos.
The Hand That Finds, The Hand That Feeds, The Hand That Fails: An Installation of Sketchbook Drawings by Nathan Lewis
August 28 – December 7, 2012
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
This installation of the sketchbook pages of painter Nathan Lewis provides us with a valuable opportunity to observe the evolution of his work firsthand. Lewis's sketchbook is filled with his energetic drawings, compositional studies, technical experiments, anatomical and architectural studies, and copies of masterworks...
The Geography of Phenomena: Paintings by Kendra Larson
January 13 – May 13, 2012
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
Kendra Larson's landscapes engage the grand tradition of using depictions of the land as a mirror to reflect our cultural attitudes towards nature, our sense of the geography of memory and identity, and our desire to see the epic of nature as an expression of the sublime...
Technology Transforms Tradition: Digital Drawings by Mikko Ijäs
August 15 – December 17, 2011
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
While Mikko Ijäs made the drawings in this exhibition from direct observation in a very traditional manner, the means by which he executed them is anything but traditional: He used his finger to draw them directly on the touch-screen of a portable, digital device. By combining the disciplined observation and skill of a traditional draftsman or painter with the capabilities of contemporary digital equipment and technology, the works Ijas produces with the Brushes application on an iPhone and iPad are imbued with a startling and productive tension. His luminous and colorful drawings are simultaneously steeped in the history of art and on the edge of technological innovation...
Remains: Photographs by Frank Miller
January 18 – August 14, 2011
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
In his series "Remains", Frank Miller finds beauty in ugliness and value in the worthless. The photographs record discarded consumer items found along the banks of the Willamette River in Salem's Minto Brown Park, and are characterized by a startling contrast between the verdant landscape and the mundane items of trash that litter it. Far from presenting the discarded items as ugly and intrusive, Miller has photographed them with a sensitivity that borders on reverence. It is as if the act of photographing abandoned objects represents an effort to restore their value and dignity...
Tracing Topographies
October 10 – December 18, 2010
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
In this installation, mixed-media artist Michael Boonstra responds to the landscape of the American West in two very different, but related ways. He combines a suite of graphite drawings on paper entitled "Division Drawings: Fall Creek Tree (24 of 57 total segments) with a group of inkjet prints of aerial photographs entitled "Spending time in places I have not been... (the drawing we all are creating)"...
November 1, 2009 – February 3, 2010
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
At first glance the latest series of drawings by Richard Martinez reads like a tempestuous and fatalistic version of the Lloyd's shipping register, but the works gradually and subtly reveal themselves to be nuanced meditations on the nature of history and identity.
The mixed-media wet and dry drawings fix dramatic nautical scenes on a frosted but translucent surface as small, austere and minimalist silhouettes. The restrained palette and minimal treatment seem to deny the inherent romanticism and drama of shipwrecks, voyages of discovery and an elemental struggle against the violence of storms. It's as if these seascapes are rendered in a way that embodies the clash between J.M.W. Turner's paintings of ships outlined against golden, turbulent skies, and the ascetic minimalism of a work by Donald Judd. The tension between heroic, dramatic subject matter, and cool, formalist execution seem to argue that history is more complicated than any one perspective or depiction might suggest...
The Sordid Life of Toys
October 10 – February 3, 2009
Roger W. Rogers Gallery
While we like to think of childhood as a time of innocence and adventure, it has a darker side. In childhood we fall prey to a catalogue of fears and terrors. We fear abandonment, we fear darkness, and we fear the imagined creatures under our beds. In his black and white images Raines emphasizes this side of being a child. While the photographs are beautiful, they are also dark and foreboding. The not so oblique reference to a traumatic incident in Disney's "Bambi," in Raines' work "My mother is dead-finish what you started," exemplifies this approach...


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Misogyny in the Catholic Church
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|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 12:18am
Since I'm currently taking a history class focused on early religion (pre-reformation, so there is no other church but the Catholic church), I'm repeatedly struck by the absolute misogyny of the Medieval Church. The portrayal of women as she-devils and amount of propoganda (Peter Damian is one to read) positively villifying women culminating with Pope Gregory VII's reforms in the 11th century positively take my breath away.
While I realize why it was done: get rid of simony & lay investiture (corruption), centralize power & reestablish the papacy as the dominating geo-political force in the region and the patriarichal context of the society at the time, History was rewritten to wipe out the fact that women (deaconesses, wives of priests) served right along side the men for the first millineum of the church's existence. Now, in the third millineum, I am struck by the fact that, women are still second class citizens in the Catholic Church.
Galatians 3:28 says "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." So how do you come to terms with a faith in which you are not equal (or worthy of ordination/performing sacraments) because of your genitalia?
|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 6:02am
a topic near to my heart as you know. I remember back about oh 1980 before our parish had altar 'girls' and my sister was teaching and 8th grade CCD class and wanted them to serve a full mass with the parish priest.. he flat out refusedto have 'girls' on 'his' altar as euch ministers, lectors, or altar servers.. my sister, god bless her soul... stared. him. down. and the door opened. and the next year we had altar girls all the time. a small step. what my sister showed me was that one person can make one small difference.
In college in my feminist theology seminar (catholic college as you all know by now) I remember learning about the role of mary magdalene being summarily changed from disciple to prostitute in the writing on the gospels by men.. and I read Mary Daly and scores of other writers who really opened my eyes to the ways that women had been excluded from leadership and their true legacy in the church.
but this was at war with the tradition I knew . .. that of male priests. Even as I understood the centuries of exclusion I couldn't reconcile myself to the thought of a woman priest. even now women ministers seem strange to me.. while at the same time I admire the denominations who allow women to serve as church leaders, and envy them their exclusiveness.. the internal war with my Catholic tradition still sparks that little voice in me saying "that's odd." It demonstrates to me again and again how powerul a religion steeped in tradition can be and how hard it is to overcome that even internally let alone through out the whole church.
I think most of you kow I no longer practice my Catholicism and it pains me. For me it's been the Church or nothing and as a gay woman it's not exactly a place I have felt welcomed so even though I tried for the sake of my daughter and even though I miss the community of our parish that i had during her catholic school years I know that it isn't the place for me right now. maybe this Pope will change my mind, I don't know.. the Benedict years were.. .rough for women and gay catholics LOL.
so that's my mumble jumbled answer... or nonanswer as it were..
|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 6:04am
Was the mother of God treated like a second class citizen? Reform your church all you want but stay off the Catholic church. Misogyny is harsh and it's ignorant.
|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 6:20am
My brothers were only allowed to serve back in the 70s and 80s, I remember that. But women did have a role, They were ccd teachers and they were lectors and eucharistic ministers at mass. They had important parts in First Communion formation too and they stood next to Monisgnor B in my First Communion class picture. I am personally appalled there is a reform of women that are trying to change American Catholics and I'm grateful that is denounced by the Vatican. I love this pope already, I hope he returns some humility to the church.
|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 6:23am
<p>I am personally appalled there is a reform of women that are trying to change American Catholics </p>
What on earth is "a reform of women"? and why would such a thing be harmful to a Church that is vested in the idea of denying women voice in any true form of Church leadership?
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I am a big fan of Sister Simone and admire her greatly, and was apalled at the sanctions that Benedict sent down on American nuns... I do like many things about this new Pope but recently read he agreed with benedict... so I don't know. All I do know is that for me and for many many Catholic women (and men) like me it's a complicated and painful issue. I love my faith but I do not love my church leadership very much, I am devoted to my prayers to divine intercession to Mary and continue to pray to her daily, and currently am really torn about what to do about whether to have my daughter confirmed or not... there's no easy answer right now
|Wed, 04-17-2013 - 6:58am
Maybe she's mad at the "Nuns on the Bus." One of my favorite fb pages.
No, It's more than that.
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