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He's been taking lessons for his glider pilots license. His seatbelts were either not tight enough or somehow worked themselves loose to where he could go through the canopy (mistake 1). He went on the winch got too fast (mistake 2) tried to slack the rope up(something you're not supposed to do..mistake 3). The rope pulled his nose down, he went negative, went through the canopy about to his chin, and lost control of the plane. He blacked out for a while came to and landed.
They airlifted him to the hospital and nothing was actually broken (which is amazing to me). He's been up and around yesterday and today (with the help of codeine of course). Adrea |
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Geez!!! That is scary, Adrea! I'm so glad he's ok. Were you there when it happened? :( After DH heard every family member say he was going to end up killing himself in his little ultralight plane, he finally agreed to sell it...without ever even flying it, thank god. Brenda |
- Posted by catherinet z5 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 6, 07 at 10:43
Wow! Sounds like a miracle to me! He has gotten a second chance, for sure! |
Glad to hear it was only a close call - maybe enough to not fly again? |
- Posted by isis_nebthet 8b/11suns SoCA (My Page) on Thu, Jun 7, 07 at 10:16
I was hanging out before work getting ready to come on in the next 10 minutes. I got a phone call from my roommate and she did see it so she was shaken up enough to have to hand off the phone to the other roommate. The only thing that could have maybe been avoided by my being there was my unique ability to say if he was coherent or not. He did not want airlifted (it's over 3,000$) and was still conscience to tell them that however they chalked it up to concussion making him incoherent.... He still wants to fly and I support him on it. He is going to upgrade the seatbelts in the glider. The plane likes him it did maneuver that he was high enough when he came to and caused a loop trying to get resituated. His instructor is likely going to ground him for a while (not that he'll be up to flying in less than a few weeks anyhow). Adrea |
OMG, I'm so glad he's ok! Someone was looking out for you guys that day! I've got an 81 year old neighbor that has built, flown and sold 8 ultralights so far, and is looking for a new kit. So I guess the need to fly is strong. Course he's in better shape at 81 than I'll ever be. Still farms his own land and drives his motorcycle all over to check the crops every day! Hope Ocean's feeling better every day! |
- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 07 at 1:40
We want to be with them because what they are is exciting then we want them to stop it so they aren't exciting anymore....Sigh.... |
- Posted by sockmonkeyz6 z6PA (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 07 at 10:39
We have a guy flying around here in oneof those things, he comes down so close he waves, but I'm always surprised when I see him the next weekend, (that he's still around). My son runs out with the camera to get his picture and is so excited, I only hope he isn't planning on doing that when he's older! He's 10. I hope Ocean's doing well, but that is just too scary! You must be a heck of a strong woman, to support him Adrea, but then again, I'd support my man if he wanted to bungee jump without a cord. LOL |
- Posted by fairy_toadmother z5 ncentral il (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 07 at 17:32
wow! it says a lot for you to still support him, and for ocean to want to still do this. |
But of course he wants to fly again! It is an inherent XY chromosomer's trait to ignore any such near death experience in order to continue to do what he loves. He will learn from these mistakes and become MUCH better at this hobby. Don't ask me how I know this! ;-) My hats off to you for continuing to support him. |
- Posted by chickadeedeedee z 6-7 ish Ohio (My Page) on Tue, Jun 12, 07 at 15:35
Hi Andrea. I am so happy he was not seriously hurt! ~~~~> Sorry he's such an XY too. :-) Kindest regards always, Me |
"Sorry he's such an XY too." Heyyyyyy...... wait a minute! My mono brain cell tells me something ain't quite right with that comment. |
- Posted by isis_nebthet 8b/11suns SoCA (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 07 at 2:12
Well they decided he can still fly but he has to the glider first....mostly because it's the one he likes to fly. Everyone was glad it was a safety meeting and not a funeral. I'm going to ask if we can keep the old canopy it seems fitting to mount it over the computer in our room for some reason. Three weeks ago (may 19) we thought I broke my fingers in a sandrail (for those who don't know basically a VW engine on a frame with a rollcage) rollover. We spent four hours in my visit to the er. The next morning Ocean asked if I wanted to go for another ride....oh yeah I did......too bad it was broke (the cv joint popped). After all it was a simple miscalculation of speed and me ignoring no hands outside that caused it. Up until then it was fun. Maybe I'm enough XY to understand lol. Adrea |
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I have some plastic seed starting trays (see photo) which do not fit in the standard 1020 plastic flats. My trays are a little bigger than the 1020's. Is anyone aware of any plastic flats which would be just a little bigger than the 1020 flats which would allow me to sit my starting trays inside? |
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You might want to try Greenhouse megastore and see if they have anything that would work for you. |
Plug flats (what you have there) aren't normally used with trays. They are just dipped to water and then removed and left as is. But there are some trays made for them - called watering trays or carrying trays - but they aren't inexpensive. Check Novosel Enterprises website and amaplas.com if interested. Cheaper alternative is one of the Sterlite or Rubbermaid shallow closet storage bins sold at Walmart. Dave |
Thanks for your replies. Dave, just curious...What prevents the potting soil from coming out the bottom as the water drains from the plug flats? When the medium needs follow-up dipping's later it would seem that a little more of the medium would be drained out each time. |
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Dan Fong's previously unpublished rock photos on display this Friday at the Gallery on Santa Fe
Generally, when you speak with someone with strong ties to rock history, you either get an earful of tedious name-dropping or you're forced to endure an exhaustive lecture about how kids today just don't get it. This is not the case with Dan Fong, the famed Denver rock photographer who has shot legendary acts such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Doobie Brothers, among others.Dan Fong Pete Townshend proudly displaying his injured finger after a mishap with a champagne bottle.
Fong (whose previously unpublished archive of rock photos will be on display this Friday, July 6, at the Gallery at 760 Santa Fe Street), on the other hand, casually drifts into intimate, backstage stories on music's most treasured icons without a trace of pretense or ego. "I've been doing rock photography since the late '60s, but today is a very exciting time to be taking pictures. Denver has such a great music scene."
When Fong first got into the game, the price of admission to see the Stones or the Who was around the same as a Starbucks latte; whereas today, it can cost as much as $350 to see what's left of the Rolling Stones. And this is only one of the many changes that Fong has seen the music industry go through in the last four decades. "Back then," he recalls, "when you're backstage, you meet everybody, and they know you, and then when you walk on stage during the show to take pictures, nobody freaks out. There's no 'Who the hell is that guy?' Now you only get the first ten minutes of the set. And every newspaper photographer in the United States gets that ten minutes -- so all the photographs are the same."
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Less a photo-journalist and more of archival artist, Fong has been focusing his lens on historical moments for as long as he can remember. "I've always been taking pictures -- no matter what," he says. "The way I look at it, I've been documenting my own life. I started taking pictures in Junior High School for the newspaper. My first assignment was taking pictures of Eisenhower when he came to town for a fundraiser. I also took pictures of Frank Tripucka, the first quarterback for the Denver Broncos."
Like any career success story, Fong used his wits to hustle his way into spaces that most would consider inaccessible. "KMFL, the big underground radio station at the time, was a few blocks from my house," Fong remembers, explaining that he got a job reading advertisements on air at the radio station in exchange for being allowed photo access to the bands that were traveling through town. "I met a lot of record people, and they needed food for their events when they were in town. My parents ran a restaurant, so I knew how to cook. So I started a catering company for the events. When the Stones came through in '72, I did the catering for their big party at Barry Fey's house."
The Stones 1972 tour of America -- supporting their career-defining album, Exile on Main Street -- was not only one of the most infamous tours in Stones history, but it holds a place in the legacy of rock-and-roll debauchery that has yet to be matched -- death threats, cocaine, Truman Capote, guns, all captured in a road film titled Cocksucker Blues. The mayhem of this tour has been written into bohemian history as something to be longed for and never forgotten. And Fong was there when the circus came to Denver.Dan Fong Mick Jagger with Barry Fey
"We had a party, a luau, for the Stones after their show, a thirteen course meal that I made," Fong recollects. "The Stones were supposed to play Red Rocks, but they got rained out, so they played two dates at the Denver Coliseum, and then afterward, we threw a party at Barry Fey's house. Everyone sat on the ground, and we had tiki torches and papier-mache mushrooms, movies projected, and a big tongue and lips." This Denver party itself is documented in the book, S.t.p. A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones.
As an added bonus for catering the Stones party, Fong was allowed on-stage access to the band for both of their Denver shows -- the only photographer granted such a privilege. His photos stand as unique documents of a time in western pop history that has since been lauded as one of the most influential in music culture.
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Bloomberg has a great report on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, No. 14 on Forbes list of the richest people in the world, screwing over the kids to save a few bucks.
Seems Ellison paid $200 million to build a house south of Frisco in the manner of a "16th-century Japanese emperor's country house" and screamed because the county assessed its value at $166 million. Get this: he argues that it shouldn't be assessed that high because "the property was so elaborate that no one else would pay that much for it."
Two years later, Ellison wins his appeal, lowers his future tax bills, and gets $3 million in taxes back. That will shave 3 percent off the Portola Valley School District's annual $10 million budget, which will have to cut six jobs. The Bloomberg report doesn't quite spell it out, but it appears that the ruling dropped the value of the $200 million house to $66 million.
Ellison has a net worth of $25 billion. Dude has a 450-foot yacht.
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There is investor demand for new deals and supply has picked up. Last week alone, $4.6 billion in new offerings were sold, mainly offerings backed by credit cards and auto loans.But the market still has a long way to go before a full recovery can be declared. Issuance has plummeted in the latest quarter and prices remain soft, as investors have turned selective, even on deals with top-notch credit rankings amid worries about the state of the consumer…
Asset-backed securities bundle consumer debt—such as car, home and student loans—into new securities with different risks and returns and then sell them to investors. In the first quarter of this year, securitization of such loans totaled $43 billion, a 75% drop from the year-earlier quarter, according to J.P. Morgan research.
If it's not a false dawn, this would be big news— a sign that the financial crisis is finally easing somewhat.
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In a rare interview, Mr Reed said it was unclear whether the company's model or its management deserved the greater share of blame for its problems. But he said Citigroup turned out to be a "sad story"."The specific merger transaction clearly has to be seen to have been a mistake," Mr Reed said.
"The stockholders have not benefited, the employees certainly have not benefited and I don't think the customers have benefited because our franchises are weaker than they have been."
And the former president of UBS, which has been hammered by two write-downs of at least $18 billion apiece, is now calling—in a shareholder-activist campaign—for the Swiss banking giant to be broken up. Come on, guy. That's not very sporting for a former exec. Aren't these things best handled behind closed doors in smoke-filled rooms? The WSJ's C1 Heard on the Street column:
For British investor Luqman Arnold, the fight will mark a rematch with the bank that forced him out in 2001 after a dispute over governance and how much power he would have. Among Mr. Arnold's proposals: UBS should legally separate its investment bank from its private-client bank and consider selling the investment bank; sell its asset-management business to raise money; and remove the chairman it named just Tuesday, according to a letter Mr. Arnold sent to UBS Thursday night.The surprise attack from Mr. Arnold, chairman of London investment firm Olivant Advisers Ltd., promises to increase acrimony inside UBS, which has gutted its leadership since becoming one of the hardest-hit banks in the credit crisis.
The WSJ gets our Quote of the Day for this gem, pointing out what seems obvious when you point it out:
"It's hard to make a case to someone wealthy that you can manage their money well when you've just lost $37 billion yourself," said Dirk Hoffmann-Becking, an analyst at Bernstein Research in London.
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Date and Time: | 04/05/2008, 1:00PM |
Opponent: | at Trinity |
Result: | W |
Score: | 10-8 |
HARTFORD, Conn. - Bowdoin's Rob Halliday scored the game-winning goal with just 2:48 remaining to lift the Polar Bear men's lacrosse team to a 10-8 win over Trinity in NESCAC action on Saturday. The Polar Bears improve to 6-3 overall and 2-2 in the NESCAC, while the Bantams fall to 4-5 overall and 2-3 in the league.
Both teams came out slowly as Trinity senior Jeremy Ulan scored the lone goal in the opening quarter. Bowdoin's first goal of the game was scored by senior Mike Giordano at 8:06 of the second quarter, who added another goal in the second frame to put, the Polar Bears up, 3-2, by the end of the first half. In the third quarter, the Bantams came out strong with two goals within the first minute of the play. Bowdoin answered late in the frame to end the third in a 5-5 deadlock. Trinity held an 8-7 lead with 5:20 left in the game, but the Polar Bears scored the game's final three tallies, including Halliday's to win it.
Giordano paced the Polar Bears with a game-high four goals. Justin Starr, Boomer Repko, Harry Ashforth, Matt Legg and Eric Thompson also scored for Bowdoin in addition to Halliday. Alex Gluck and Gordon Convery split the game evenly with four and five saves, respectively.


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Just wanted to say thanks to FFG for a great time and thanks to all the Cthulhu Worlds participants for great fun. You're the best! Congrats to Tom. I hope to get the time to post again with more details and shout outs.
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Posted 14 November 2012 - 12:14 AM
I agree it really was a good time. Anyone who has the chance to go next year should. FFG did a really good job with the entire event, and everyone was friendly. I think we only had 13 people for the Cthulhu event, but the competition was pretty steep!
I hope Tom gets a chance to do a write up as well, but I recall he mentioned he had trouble with his PC, so that might not happen anytime soon.
Posted 14 November 2012 - 02:28 AM
Yes, that's true - he's been having to go online on his phone which isn't very conducive to article-writing
Hopefully the problem will get sorted out soon and we can get a report from him and his deck listing.
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:16 AM
I think it's probably ok to talk about decks now. You can tell from the video what factions he used, and the basic strategy. His deck was very close to the one he used at Gencon. Nyarlathotep on turn 2 usually equals a loss for your opponent.
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It seems like the problem with peat-based potting mixes if they have too much peat is that they not only compact but retain too much water if it rains alot, like it can where I live in the early fall. However, if you don't get a lot of rain and it is very hot, like it can be where I live in the spring, the peat helps to keep the moisture level more consistent.
I can't get the true nursery mixes that have more composted conifer bark in them and the orchid bark I can get looks too chunky/uncomposted to me. I have read that composted pine bark fines are sometimes labeled as soil amendments, but I haven't seen them in the big box stores and nurseries around me. What I have available to me are the retail mixes like Miracle Gro, Fafard (not the nursery mixes) and Jungle Growth. I am concerned that if I try to amend these retail mixes I will make them worse. I take it that most are anti-Miracle Gro so I am deciding between Fafard Professional Mix and Jungle Growth Grower's Mix and Jungle Growth Flower and Vegetable Mix. Are any of these better than the others for growing container tomatoes? |
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I'm Florida Zone 10 and before I found a source for pine fines the two closest commercially bagged blends that I felt were *** reasonably priced *** that worked for me in containers are the one you mentioned, JG Flower and Veggie mix (55% fines), and the one from Wally World, Expert Growers mix which has slightly more fines in it. Neither need any amendment but your right, there's a fine line between too much moisture retention if we get too much rain, and wilted plants if we don't get enough rain as we transition during September into the dry season. IME, for container grown maters here, it's better to have a little more peat in the container mix and back off on supplemental watering until the plants get big enough that root systems readily absorb the excess moisture, as opposed to wilted/stressed plants that may not produce well down the road from repeated periods of drying out too much. For this reason if I were to use a commercial mix again I'd favor the JG F&V mix with more peat and less fines.... Tom |
- Posted by yumtomatoes 10a (My Page) on Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 8:59
Thanks, Tom! You said 55% fines above, but I think you meant 55% peat, yes? |
This really is yet another Container Gardening question and is discussed in GREAT detail on that forum. As the forum use guidelines state at the top of each page please take the time to make sure you are posting on the correct forum. Otherwise the Tomato forum quickly turns into nothing but discussions on container mixes and container gardening rather than a forum about tomatoes. Dave |
- Posted by yumtomatoes 10a/FLA (My Page) on Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 12:23
My post was about tomatoes and more specifically, the best mix for me to use for growing TOMATOES in containers in 10a/Florida. Thus, my post is appropriate for any of the Tomato, Container or Florida forums. The people most knowledgeable about growing tomatoes, though, post here. |
No, this post like so many of your others are not about tomatoes but are about container gardening. We love to discuss issues specific to tomatoes here but the focus of this forum is not container growing. So issues that are not about tomatoes need to be discussed on the forum that exists for that subject. Otherwise off-topic posts just bump off all the tomato posts - another reason why redundant and already often discussed topics should be avoided and the search used as required by the forum guidelines. The issue of this post has nothing to do with growing tomatoes. The issues you keep raising is which brand of potting mix is best and how to achieve proper drainage in containers. Those are container gardening issues, not tomato issues, and there are umpteen in-depth discussions about both issues on that forum and that fact has been pointed out to you politely by several people now. When it comes to container gardening and container mixes the plant growing in the container is basically irrelevant. You just "happen" to be growing tomatoes in yours but the same guidelines apply to beets, flowers, peppers, squash, etc. etc. etc. There is no BEST mix just for growing tomatoes. There are good container mixes and bad container mixes regardless of what you are growing in the container and the Container gardening forum is where you can learn about the various mixes. Dave |
Yum, you are more than welcome to email me (see My Page) and we can discuss some good container medium qualities. I don't know if it's still like this as I haven't visited the Container Forum in probably over a year, but for a while there was kind of a "this way or the highway" mentality. It drove lots of interested folks away. Since discussing container medium seems to be taboo here in the Tomato Forum (who knew?), we can chat off forum. |
this question is posted on both forums and yumtomatoes is gettig lots of answers over there. |
- Posted by yumtomatoes 10a/FLA (My Page) on Mon, Aug 29, 11 at 20:33
I will say it again - I will be the one who decides what and where I post and several paragraph long screeds won't deter me. |
- Posted by yumtomatoes 10a/FLA (My Page) on Mon, Aug 29, 11 at 20:42
thanks, rhizo. I definitely would like to learn more about bark-based medium in the future. But this season I am going to have to go with the peat-based retail mixes because I don't have the time to research and drive to where I would need to go to get the raw materials to mix my own properly. There is so much to learn and I enjoy learning about it - I just wish I had more time to devote to my gardening. |
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Hey, Yum....I'm not into driving all over the place to search for 'ingredients', either! Been there, done that, as they say. The product I'm talking about is used straight out of the bag. I've not found a better product in over 20 years of professional and home growing. |
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Dave - You don't own this site so stop with the threats. You older folks may not understand how the internet works, but I do. I can't be banned from any site as long as I can change my ip address, which is easier than taking candy from a child. Again, I will post as I see fit and scroll past your pedantic drivel. |
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What is bull? terrybull, lol! |
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Brooklyn Supper headquarters is starting to gear up for Thanksgiving. It's our favorite holiday, and we take it pretty seriously. Though we're expecting an intimate group this year we're still going to do it up right. This week we blogged about a few Thanksgiving-worthy salad options over on Babble's Family Kitchen. These recipes are also great for everyday dinner, or brown bag lunches. Now that chilly weather has arrived here in NYC I'm really enjoying the warmer side of fall foods. Here are three seasonal fall salads sure to add another layer of cozy to this wonderful time of year.
Green salad with bacon, pears and buttermilk dressing
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It is official! Today at the World's largest Diabetes Congress, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 70th Scientific Sessions (Booth 305) in Orlando, Florida, Diabetes Health Magazine (www.diabeteshealth.com) launched the first diabetes magazine Mobile Application, Diabetes Health Mobile (DH Mobile.)
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EAST KILBRIDE -- Handling systems specialist, Caley Ocean Systems has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 to design, manufacture and supply a deepwater lowering system (DLS).
The DLS will initially be deployed by Subsea 7 on the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, located off the northwest coast of Western Australia, to lower subsea structures weighing up to 950Te in water depths in excess of 1,300m.
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The range of equipment to be handled by the DLS in the Gorgon and Jansz-Io fields will include subsea structures and foundations and heavy lift spools.
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EPA Pulls An IRS And Admits To Losing Agency Text Messages October 9, 2014
It appears the Environmental Protection Agency has the same IT people as the Internal Revenue Service. Agency officials are now telling a federal court they lost text messages sent from top officials' phones.
Justice Department lawyers said they will soon be telling a federal judge the EPA misplaced text messages sent to and from the phone belonging to agency chief Gina McCarthy and former chief Lisa Jackson.
"Defendant has decided to formally notify the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about the potential loss of federal records relating to text messages," DOJ lawyers admitted.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, has been pursuing EPA text messages since last year, after McCarthy was confirmed by the Senate to head up the EPA. CEI filed a case in 2013 to prevent the EPA from destroying agency text messages, a practice the think tank says it discovered through other government records requests.
"Here we see EPA agreeing to the court to 'do an IRS,'" CEI senior fellow Chris Horner told The Washington Times. Horner's past transparency work has revealed numerous attempts by EPA officials to avoid public scrutiny by using private email accounts and stonewalling government records requests.
The judge rules CEI could seek an injunction, which would force the EPA to notify the National Archives that it destroyed the text messages of top agency officials. The judge ruled that it's "implausible that EPA Administrators would not have suspected the destruction of any federal records with the removal of over 5,000 Agency text messages."
"The American people deserve transparency and accountability from the federal government, and today's court ruling was a preliminary win in that much larger battle," said Hans Bader, senior counsel at CEI. "This may signal a possible end to EPA officials destroying their text messages with impunity based on their self-serving claim that all text messages are personal rather than work-related."
Obama administration lawyers say they plan on notifying the archives "within the next couple of days" and release documents detailing the records it lost.
The EPA's lost email claim echoes claims made by the IRS. The tax agency claimed it lost emails sent between 2009 and 2011 from Lois Lerner's email account. Lerner headed up an IRS department that was accused of targeting nonprofit conservative groups with audits. The IRS, however, didn't inform the National Archives until this year that it had lost Lerner's emails due to a hard drive crash.
Like the IRS, the EPA has not been very forthcoming with text messages sent by top officials. McCarthy told federal lawmakers earlier this year the agency was having trouble getting the text messages due to a hardware malfunction — just weeks after the IRS claimed losing Lerner's emails from a hard drive crash.
The EPA, however, claims it had no obligation to preserve text messages from agency officials because they were personal in nature and not subject to federal records law. The agency says it's still not aware of any unlawful destruction of text messages.
"Recent litigation filed against the Agency claimed that EPA failed to report the destruction of text messages," an EPA spokeswoman told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "However, EPA reviewed information about the Agency's policies, practices, and procedures with respect to retention of text messages that qualify as federal records."
"EPA is not aware of any evidence that federal records have been unlawfully destroyed," the spokeswoman added. "EPA reviewed information available to it, including information related to the Agency's upgrade to Microsoft Office 365 that impacted Agency-issued mobile devices."
3 E-discovery Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore September 30, 2014
Benedict Y. Hur and Matthew M. Werdegar, Corporate Counsel
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are supposed to be "construed and administered to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding." Yet, as anyone who has ever been tasked with handling discovery in complex litigation knows, the judicial system has struggled to reconcile this overarching goal with the explosion of electronically stored information (ESI) and the corresponding skyrocketing of e-discovery costs.
Despite various attempts at e-discovery reform over the past decade, studies indicate that discovery continues to account for the vast majority of the cost of civil litigation. Indeed, according to one survey, discovery is responsible for 70 percent of total litigation costs in cases that are not tried. Litigants can spend upwards of $18,000 to collect, process and review a single gigabyte of data. And in large cases, potentially responsive data can measure in the hundreds or even thousands of gigabytes. We are facing the very opposite of inexpensive.
Yet the potential costs of not managing e-discovery properly also are enormous. Thus, the first trend in e-discovery that inside counsel cannot afford to ignore is the rising cost of mismanaging the process.
Trend No. 1: Rising Stakes
According to a 2010 Duke Law Journal study, sanctions for e-discovery violations have mushroomed over the last decade. In 2009, e-discovery sanctions were awarded in more federal cases than in all the years before 2005 combined. While more recent data suggests that the growth in e-discovery sanctions litigation may have leveled off, courts are continuing to impose monetary and issue sanctions for e-discovery misconduct at a rate that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In late 2013, for example, a federal judge issued sanctions relating to e-discovery mismanagement of almost $1 million, warning that more could be imposed. In re Pradaxa Products Liability Litigation. And earlier this year, another federal court considered terminating sanctions for e-discovery violations in a trade secrets case, but ultimately settled on a spoliation instruction. Quantlab v. Godlevsky.
Trend No. 2: Help from New Model Orders
Fortunately, real relief from the e-discovery scourge may arrive soon at a court near you. Over the last three years, more than two-dozen federal courts, including such IP-litigation-heavy venues as the District of Delaware, the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California, have utilized their local rule-making powers to enact new e-discovery model orders and guidelines. These new e-discovery rules are the second e-discovery trend that counsel cannot afford to ignore.
The new rules generally call for phased discovery of ESI, limits on email discovery, limits on the obligation to preserve and collect certain categories of ESI, increased cooperation between litigants on e-discovery issues and enhanced cost-shifting provisions to discourage e-discovery overreaching. The new rules impose new obligations on litigants. But they also create significant opportunities for creative, well-prepared attorneys to secure more rational and cost-efficient e-discovery frameworks. Now more than ever, courts are willing to entertain creative proposals for reigning in e-discovery, provided that they are tailored to the circumstances of the case and transparently describe what will be covered and why.
To take advantage of the new rules, you need to do your homework at the outset of a case. This includes realistically assessing the risk posed by the litigation and your own discovery needs. You also must understand where your relevant data resides, how much there is and how hard it will be to collect. You then need to use this information to craft a comprehensive, justifiable e-discovery plan. Depending on the circumstances, the plan could include limits on noncustodial sources of ESI that need to be preserved and collected, limits on ESI custodians and limits on email discovery. Such limits can significantly reduce the volume of ESI that ultimately will need to be reviewed—the most expensive part of the e-discovery process. But such limits also will restrict the discovery that you will be able to obtain from your opponent. Consequently, the decisions that go into a well thought-out e-discovery plan often are strategic ones and should be treated as such.
Trend No. 3: A Proliferation of Tools
The third trend that no attorney managing complex litigation can afford to ignore is the proliferation of new e-discovery tools. One of the hottest is predictive coding. Virtually every major e-discovery vendor now offers some type of predictive coding tool. Predictive coding involves using computer algorithms to determine which documents are relevant based on a review of test documents by humans. Humans code an initial subset of documents, and the computer "learns" what is relevant from the human coding and applies it to other documents. While predictive coding does take some up-front effort, when dealing with a large volume of documents the benefit of its use can be substantial. Predictive coding has the potential to curb e-discovery costs by reducing the amount of data requiring expensive human review.
But few courts have addressed the use of predictive coding and other emerging e-discovery tools either in their new local e-discovery rules and guidelines or in published decisions. Indeed, Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck in the Southern District of New York is one of the few judges who has. See Moore v. Publicis Groupe (2012). Peck's thoughtful order is required reading for anyone considering using predictive coding technology.
Because the law governing their use is still being written, litigants wishing to use the new generation of e-discovery tools must tread carefully, plan ahead and, most critically, negotiate with opposing counsel early and transparently. While transparency may be counterintuitive to most litigators, it is important if you want to minimize your cost of production by using predictive coding. Your opponent needs to know what you plan to search, how you plan to search it and who (or what) will determine responsiveness. While this may require disclosing more information than you are used to, courts so far have conditioned their approval of this technology on such transparency.
One caveat: It is tempting to believe that technology such as predictive coding allows you to look at only a subset of documents and then forego further human review. Not so. As even e-discovery vendors touting the new technology likely will concede, additional document sets will have to be reviewed and quality-controlled to provide assurance that the predictive coding is working. This can and will take time, and will require input from opposing counsel. But if done properly and fairly, it also can save significant resources in the long run. And if not done properly, the court may force you to go back to the drawing board.
In short, to stay out of e-discovery trouble, to take full advantage of the new wave of e-discovery rules and technologies, and to keep the costs of e-discovery as low as possible, it is critical to plan ahead, know your data and cooperate with opposing counsel early in the discovery process. Doing so will enable you to come out on top in the brave new e-discovery world.
Benedict Hur and Matthew Werdegar are partners in the San Francisco office of Keker & Van Nest. Hur's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and commercial disputes for companies ranging from start-ups to established corporations. Werdegar is experienced handling complex intellectual property and civil litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country and before the International Trade Commission.
Response to FOI requests getting worse September 26, 2014
By Nelson Bennett
The British Columbia government is doing a bangup job of providing the public information – just not necessarily the information the public wants, when it wants it.
That's the assessment of the B.C. Freedom of Information of Privacy Association (FIPA), following a report by B.C. Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham that finds the B.C. government's response times to freedom of information requests is getting worse.
Government bodies are supposed to respond to an FOI request within 30 business days. But the average response has rose to 44 business days.
"This is my office's fourth report examining government's performance responding to access requests within the 30-business-day time limit set out in the legislation," Denham said.
"In our last timeliness report card, government's performance had improved to an average of 93% on time; over the past two years their performance has fallen to 74% on time. Government's disappointing decline in timely responses to access to information requests frustrates individual applicants and erodes the public's right to know."
Denham's report came out September 23, just one day after Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services Andrew Wilkinson issued a press release for Right To Know Week that claimed B.C. is "recognized as a leader in providing open data to the public."
FIPA executive director Vincent Gogolek said it may be true that B.C. is making more information available online, but when it comes to accessing information through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the B.C. government has gone backwards.
"This is one of the things that governments do," Gogolek said. "They like things like releasing information that they think people would like to have and things that they are happy to give us. They get a lot more sticky when people decide to exercise their quasi-constitutional right to information."
Denham also underlines concerns about response to FOI requests in which the government claims the documents do not exist. Although there has been a slight improvement, one in five FOI requests are met with the response that the requested documents do not exist, underscoring concerns about the way in which government is managing information.
"While the percentage of no responsive records responses has improved from 25% to 19%, I remain concerned about government's records management practices and the deletion of emails that it considers transitory in nature," Denham said. "To address this issue, I recommend that government implement an email management system with respect to senior government officials to ensure these documents are preserved and archived.
Gogolek said his organization is also concerned about FOI requests that are initially rejected without a legitimate excuse, and cites the City of Vancouver as a glaring example.
In three recent cases, Gogolek said Denham's office has ruled against the city's rejection of FOI requests.
There were three orders in the last three weeks or so, and they lost all of them, spectacularly," Gogolek said. "Basically they didn't introduce any evidence."
PA state agencies are a study in email mismanagement September 24, 2014
In what is probably the most harebrained document management "system" in recent memory, emails sent or received by state agencies in Pennsylvania are archived on state servers for a mere five days before being permanently deleted. Agencies are free to archive email locally for longer if they wish but the decision to do so is made by each state employee of their own accord. It's okay, insists Pennsylvania Office of Administration spokesperson Dan Egan, because employees get training on what to keep and the majority of their email isn't really that important anyway.
These jaw-dropping revelations are highlighted in a fascinating, if not somewhat mind-boggling, article published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Journalist Bill Schackner says the information cropped up during a recent investigation of Pennsylvania's Education Department.
"Mr. Egan said employees receive mandatory training in proper records retention practices and noted that deletions help manage unwieldy inboxes and make it easier to find relevant records," writes Schackner. "He said the vast majority of emails are casual 'chatter' and not the kind that state rules say must be preserved as public records."
Government watchdog groups are appropriately horrified at the lackadaisical approach to email preservation that begins at the gubernatorial level and works its way down to every local government agency in the state.
According to the Post-Gazette article, a chief concern is that even with proper training, not every state employee has the legal training to know which emails might be deemed important in the future. Since there's no secondary verification method in place, experts argue that the five-day window isn't nearly long enough to catch misfiled emails before they disappear forever.
Missing or deleted email is often merely an inconvenience but the far-reaching implications are much more serious. "The result [of destroying emails after five days] is that an untold number of emails by thousands of public employees are excluded from legal review by a Right-to-Know officer whenever the public seeks release of materials that might illuminate how government works," notes Schackner. He says that, according to Egan, "Right-To-Know document requests are filled by employees who forward what they believe are relevant emails whenever a Right-to-Know request is received, instead of routinely searching servers."
In what may be the understatement of the century, the executive director of Pennsylvania's Office of Open Records says the state has gotten better about records management in recent years but still needs to beef up its policies a bit more. If there's a bright spot in the current tangle of policies it's that court records are handled separately and the state's school districts typically preserve email for several months.
Egan counters concerns about the state's email management by suggesting that longer retention times would not be cost effective and that it makes little sense to store large volumes of spam or other documents that aren't agency-related.
Those are valid points, to be sure. However five days isn't nearly enough time to retrieve documents set for deletion, especially when there's no review process in place to check out what's in the pipeline for disposal. Furthermore, as Emily Grannis, a legal fellow with the Committee for Freedom of the Press, told Schackner, "You're leaving it up to the person who created the record to determine whether or not it needs to be archived. That's a problem."
I'll say.
As Paul Wester, chief records officer at the National Archives and Records Administration, told a crowd of attendees at a records management conference last week, "If you don't want to have to stand before Congressman [Darrell] Issa with your hand raised, touching the chin of God, get your email under control." - Lisa
'Email delete' policy is misunderstood according to LAUSD September 22, 2014
'Email delete' policy is misunderstood according to LAUSD
A policy intended to delete unnecessary emails on LA Unified district computers has caused a media storm and much confusion, but ultimately is misunderstood, according to officials who spoke to LA School Report.
"It could be this is much ado about nothing" said school board member, Steve Zimmer.
The bottom line: the 'delete' program does not apply if employees are following policy, that is, properly archiving emails from their inbox.
"Those are absolutely safe," said Lydia Ramos, district communications director. "If it's on your hard drive then it stays."
Last week the school board voted to approve software by Microsoft that would routinely destroy emails left in the "inbox" of LA Unified employees after a calendar year, in compliance with a policy from 2012 called the Record's Retention and Instruction Policy – that has not yet taken affect.
But, Ramos confirmed, emails properly archived by employees on department servers or on individual computers are not affected – and at least for now, the district says, it will not delete any emails at all.
Ramos also added that a controversial batch of iPad-related emails that were recently released would not have been slated for deletion, had the policy been fully in place.
Concerns about the unintended consequences of the new email management system and the retention policy arose almost immediately after the board approved the $295,000 contract. Several members voiced concern at the board meeting, saying it could lead to the destruction of public records – a contentious topic on the heels of the release of two-year old emails revealing previously unknown communications between Superintendent John Deasy, former district Deputy Jaime Aquino, and top Apple and Pearson executives leading up to the district's $500 million iPad deal.
The LAUSD policy, which should have taken effect July of 2013 but has been delayed due to lack of infrastructure and staffing, establishes guidelines for identifying three "classes" of records:
- Permanent records, which should be kept indefinitely or a minimum of seven years
- Non-permanent records, which should be kept for three but reviewed for re-classification after one year
- Disposable records, which can be deleted after three years
Determining which emails fall under each category is up to the discretion of individual employees. The iPad-related emails would, at the very least, fall under the "non-permanent" category, said Ramos.
Many school board members report archiving emails to their hard drives regularly.
"It's not even because I choose to, it's because I have to," said Zimmer. "Every few weeks I get an alert telling me I'm running out of email storage space and in order to make room, I go through and delete what I don't need then store the rest."
But confusion remains. Board member Monica Ratliff announced Wednesday she plans to discuss the issue at the October board meeting. "In reviewing the policy, I was alarmed to learn that our current, existing policy is that emails are to be automatically deleted after one year," she said in a statement.
"I believe the District should preserve any emails of Board members, the Superintendent, senior officers and their respective staffs. Often, older emails may have historical importance that cannot always be assessed until later."
Board member Tamar Galatzan expressed similar concerns.
"The 2012 policy was designed to let us declutter email accounts and better manage a system that serves more than 60,000 employees," Galatzan told LA School Report. "At the time, we were told that employees would be able to save relevant emails for as long as they needed to and also that the district would be able to recover important documents. I'm no longer confident this is the case and will support changes to ensure that critical information is preserved."
Zimmer, who admits he's also confused about the new policy, said he was not alarmed by the change until after the vote.
"I just assumed that if the policy has been in place since 2012 and those emails, which are more than a year old have all been released, then the archiving system was working and this really wasn't a big deal."
Ramos said the new software will make it easier to search for archived emails and respond more quickly to public records requests. "The spirit of the policy is to help employees manage their records and help them identify which documents are important and need to be kept."
She also pointed to a survey by the San Diego Union-Tribune. According to the report of more than 100 local governments found that a one-year policy is generous, "Carlsbad keeps emails 90 days, San Diego County keeps them 60 days, San Marcos for 30 days. At the Fallbrook Public Utilities District, it's nine days."
Pennsylvania Gov't investing in email archiving September 2, 2014
In response to the recent intense public scrutiny they have faced in the past 10 days over records retention policies, specifically access and retention of emails, the Pennsylvania Gov't plans to invest $2-$3M dollars in an email archiving solution. This re-active approach is unfortunately the practice of a lot of Public and Private corporations that face monetary penalties, compliance adherence, litigation and regulation scandals because of their lack of email archiving practices and policies internally.
Word of a potential new system came as an aide to Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi announced plans to review Pennsylvania's statute and hodgepodge of regulations governing records retention to see what changes may be needed.
An archiving system, if purchased, would cover 47 agencies under the governor's jurisdiction, said Dan Egan, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Office of Administration. Details on how it would work, the length of time those emails would be preserved and exactly how long a system could take to install were not available, though Mr. Egan said it probably would take months. He did not know precisely when planning started.
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Jatheon Technologies Launches New Email Archiving Product Line-Up June 24, 2014
Jatheon Technologies has refreshed its entire family of PnC based email and message archiving solutions for companies seeking full regulatory compliance, internal policy management, storage space management, and eDiscovery functionality. With this product refresh comes a new naming convention, the new products will be known as the cCore™ family of appliances.
Jatheon offers an all-in-one comprehensive, cost effective, and easy to deploy archiving appliance. It requires minimal IT support, offering simple management of corporate messaging data and related policy implementation.
With the new Jatheon cCore™ email archiving appliance, companies are provided with a turnkey solution to establish and enforce policies and compliance processes to meet Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, NASD, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, HIPAA and other regulatory and corporate governance requirements.
"Customer feedback was paramount in the new hardware refresh, as it is with all of our product development initiatives," said Scott Charlton Vice President, Marketing at Jatheon. "Customers are assured best of breed uptime with Jatheon's four year free hardware refresh program, standard with all of our products, combined with Enterprise grade components to ensure virtually no downtime."
New hardware features and enhancements include higher capacity Enterprise grade SAS HDD's, self healing and rapid recovery SSD for all queuing and caching, 5x to 16x more memory for faster processing to ensure rapid indexing and eDiscovery, file system level bit rot and corruption prevention, unlimited instantaneous file system snapshots for archive protection and backups, and highly efficient file system replication.
Founded in December 2004, Jatheon Technologies has designed the world's first non-intrusive network appliance simplifying email and information archiving, indexing, retrieval and dynamic monitoring of corporate email and messaging data.
The Jatheon email and information archiving appliance allows organizations to meet and exceed the highest standards of regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Jatheon's solutions also enables organizations to effectively manage their federal, industry and corporate compliance commitments including SEC, NASD, NYSE, Sarbanes Oxley, USA Patriot Act, HIPAA and other state regulated legislation requirements.
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Congress Probes How IRS Emails Could Go Missing June 20, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) – Eight federal employees connected to the tea party investigation experienced hard drive crashes, resulting in an unknown number of lost emails, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen told lawmakers Friday in an unusually tense congressional hearing.
A week ago the IRS acknowledged it could not produce some of the emails of the IRS executive at the center of the probe because her computer crashed in 2011. Koskinen acknowledged to lawmakers that the hard drive was recycled and presumably destroyed.
"I want that hard drive and I want the hard drive of every computer that crashed," said the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. Koskinen said the IRS took extra measures to try to retrieve the lost emails. But he was unapologetic about the computer crashes or the period when the IRS advised Congress that emails it had sought were lost.
"I don't think an apology is owed," Koskinen said. Koskinen says it's not clear whether all eight of the hard drive crashes resulted in lost emails. Koskinen also said appointment of a special federal prosecutor to investigate the IRS handling of tax-exempt applications would be a "monumental waste of taxpayer funds."
The congressional investigation has been highly politicized because of allegations that the IRS improperly singled out tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status. Friday's hearing was unusually tense, as Camp and other Republicans occasionally interrupted Koskinen and continued to ask other questions before Koskinen had an opportunity to answer. The senior Democrat on the committee, Rep. Sander Levin of Mich., chided his colleagues that, "Witnesses deserve some respect." An FBI investigation is ongoing.
The former IRS official at the center of the investigation, Lois Lerner, has invoked her Fifth Amendment right at least nine times to avoid answering lawmakers' questions. Lerner did not learn that IRS staffers were improperly reviewing applications of tea party and other conservative groups for tax-exempt status until weeks after her computer crashed, according to an earlier audit by the Treasury Department inspector general for tax administration.
Lerner's computer crashed sometime around June 13, 2011, according to emails provided to Congress. She first learned about the tea party reviews on June 29, according to the inspector general.
Koskinen told Congress that Lerner's hard drive was unavailable to them because it had been recycled. The IRS said last week it became aware of the missing emails in February of this year. The IRS did not know whether the other computer crashes have resulted in lost emails as well. It will also not say how often its computers fail and lose data. The lost emails are raising questions even by the government's records officer. In a June 17 letter to the IRS, Paul Wester Jr. asked the agency to investigate the loss of records and whether any disposal of data was authorized. Wester, the chief records officer at the National Archives and Records Administration, was responding to the IRS' June 13 disclosure of Lerner's lost emails. Wester's letter did not address the lost records of six other employees that the IRS disclosed that day. Wester said the IRS is required to report its finding within 30 days. Federal agencies are supposed to report destruction of records — whether accidental or intentional — to the National Archives "promptly" after an incident.
The IRS said that after Lerner's computer crashed in June 2011, technicians were not able to retrieve data from her hard drive.
In May, more than two months after the IRS discovered the emails were missing, the IRS assured Camp that it would provide all applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status in 2010 and 2011, including all files, correspondence and internal IRS records related to them. Camp had asked for the records in May 2012. It's similarly unclear why the IRS didn't attempt to recover the emails from backup servers in June 2011, especially since Lerner told an IRS computer technician in a July 2011 email, "There were some documents in the files that are irreplaceable." Shawn Henry, the FBI's former cyber director, said technicians should have been able to retrieve data from the servers around the times the computers crashed. "If they knew there was a problem in 2011," said Henry, now president of CrowdStrike, a security technology company, "they could have or should have been able to recover it." The IRS told Congress last week that recovering emails has been a challenge because doing so is "a more complex process for the IRS than it is for many private or public organizations."
The IRS was able to find copies of 24,000 Lerner emails from between 2009 and 2011 because Lerner had sent copies to other IRS employees. Overall, the IRS said it was producing 67,000 emails to and from Lerner, covering 2009 to 2013. The agency said it searched for emails of 83 people and spent nearly $10 million to produce hundreds of thousands of documents. At the time that Lerner's computer crashed, IRS policy had been to make copies of all IRS employees' email inboxes every day and hold them for six months. The agency changed the policy in May 2013 to keep these snapshots for a longer, unspecified amount of time. Had this been the policy in 2011, when at least two of the computer crashes occurred, there likely could have been backups of the lost emails today.
The chief executive for an email-archiving company, Pierre Villeneuve of Jatheon Technologies, said most public and private sector organizations keep emails for several years, not six months, because of financial regulations and inexpensive computer storage. "To have a large agency like the IRS have a very weak policy for email archiving and retention is quite shocking," Villeneuve said. "If this were a private enterprise and they couldn't produce this information on demand, they'd be in trouble. They'd either be fined or accused of hiding information."
The IRS has said technicians sent Lerner's hard drive to a forensic lab run by the agency's criminal investigations unit. But the information was not recoverable, a technician told her in an Aug. 5, 2011, email.
Jatheon Technologies Appoints New President And Chief Executive Officer June 18, 2014
Jatheon Technologies is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre Villeneuve as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Pierre is a seasoned entrepreneur and business leader with over 30 years experience starting and growing small to medium sized businesses involved in the development of software solutions and applications in technology driven businesses. Pierre received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, as well as a Masters of Business Administration designation from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Furthermore, Pierre also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute based in Charlottesville Virginia.
"I look forward to expanding Jatheon's growth in product breadth and market share. It is extremely exciting to be working in a dynamic and fast moving industry", stated Mr. Villeneuve.
Founded in December 2004, Jatheon Technologies has designed the world's first non-intrusive network appliance simplifying email and information archiving, indexing, retrieval and dynamic monitoring of corporate email and messaging data.
The Jatheon email and information archiving appliance allows organizations to meet and exceed the highest standards of regulatory compliance and corporate governance. Jatheon's solutions also enables organizations to effectively manage their federal, industry and corporate compliance commitments including SEC, NASD, NYSE, Sarbanes Oxley, USA Patriot Act, HIPAA and other state regulated legislation requirements.
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It is time again to bring out The Chicken-Fried Pork Belly Salad, which I created in August 2007 in the midst of my fury at the chief icon of American restaurant food: The Chicken Caesar. Today's post was sparked by Sam Sifton's NYTimes magazine column on the Caesar salad, which addresses the fact that few dishes are truly authentic, and he uses the Caesar salad as an example. For me putting a chicken breast on a perfectly good Caesar is an emblem of American mediocrity, a lack of imagination, and our fear of food (The Shame of the Chicken Caesar Salad). But Sifton, while he makes the unconscionable error of failing to include my Chicken Fried Pork Belly Casear in his list of famous variations, does us a service by telling us a freeing truth: Read On »
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During a recent phone call with the excellent Elise of simplyrecipes, Elise wished aloud that I would address the nitrite issue directly. "Trader Joe's carries it! Go look. Is there one near you?" Indeed there is, and indeed they sell at least two products pitching themselves as a "healthier" bacon because they don't add sodium nitrite. This is as odious as those sugar laden granola bars trumpeting "No Fat!" on their label—food marketers preying on a confused consumer who has been taught to fear food because of harmful additives (such as the recent, apparently genuine, Red Dye 40 warnings). Full disclosure if you don't already know: I am a vocal bacon advocate, and one of my books, Charcuterie, relies on sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate for many of its recipes to cure foods such as Read On »
I've been learning from the hog all week it seems. It just keeps giving. Making salami, curing all parts. Tenderloin and loin and coppa. I've made a lot of fresh sausage and the headcheese is underway, the last of the hams are coming off the cure. Including this one, a portion of the ham, from the culo, stuffed into the pig's bladder, which James and I blew up to dry earlier in the week. Once it had dried in its expanded shape, I reconstituted it in water, cut it open, and sewed up the salted ham inside. I'll do my best to tie it up neatly so that it will hang well. I'll keep an eye on it, but figure it will cure in about 6 months. What a wonder the pig continues to be. Read On »
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by Michael Ruhlman |On Saturday I picked up a hog from the North Union Farmers Market, about 330 pounds with the head and some other requested parts. "They're big, long and slippery," James had told us. Just getting each half into the back of our jeep was an effort. The first step was to break the pig down for salumi into its three main sections just so we could store the creature in a friend's walk-in: shoulder, middle and ham. Then back to work all day Sunday to break it all down into salumi cuts and sausage. It took about six of us five hours to bone out the whole hog, isolate the muscles for curing, get everything on the salt and get the first of the salamis stuffed and hanging, about 20 pounds of it. And still Read On »
©photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman—see more at: Ruhlmanphotography.com When Donna found herself in NYC at the Ace Hotel last fall, she spent a couple nights in the Breslin kitchen watching executive chef April Bloomfield, Breslin chef de cuisine Peter Cho, and crew rock (that's Peter and April top right). The trotter caught her eye. It's the perfect example of why this post could be called Why April Is Not the Cruelest Month But Rather the Best Porker, or simply Why We Love April. The British chef takes a great Italian classic, a zampone, as she notes, breads it, fries it in olive oil and butter, and serves it as their "Pig's Foot for 2." It's the boned out trotter, stuffed with cotechino, a pork and pig skin farce. Peter says it's currently served with braised Read On »


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As it was stinking hot on Sunday I went down the basement to my sewing room and put together my June block of the month. It's another Pinwheel variation. This was all cut on the bias, and I thought the most difficult one yet, not helped by the fact one of the fabrics they provided wasn't enough, so I subbed my own for the rectangle piece. Not to fond of the colour way but still pleasing to the eye.
Dh decided to treat me to a Tim Hortons coffee; though due to the heat I had a frozen lemonade. While in town we called in Zehrs where I picked up the three hair dyes, they were on clearance for $2 and I had $4 worth of coupons, so all three only cost me $2.78 and I have enough dye to last me the rest of the year.
We also called in at Sobeys as I had a free product coupon and a $1.50 coupon for the Dempster's Garden Vegetable bread. Personally I think it's an expensive product even when it's on sale at $2.99 a loaf as it's only a small loaf. However with the coupons I only paid 75 cents a loaf. I also had a $1 coupon for the sausages, and with cashing in $5 worth of points I only paid $1.96 in total.
Not sure if you can see them in this photo but here are four of the baby squirrels. I couldn't get the other three in the photo. They are getting more and more adventurous and moving a little further afield.