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This rather shocking article needs to be further exposed. Cultural internationalism and a demand for antiquities justified for aesthic and "preservation" related reasons appears to be alive and well, at least where open-air purchasing of potentially authentic pieces of Angkor Wat in Thailand are conserned! Closing the article by stating how much they purport to have learned regarding the "rights, wrongs and grey areas" of tomb raiding is especially galling. My personal response to the article can be found here.
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The Fall/Winter 2010 edition of Cultural Heritage & Arts Review, a publication of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on Cultural Heritage & the Arts, is now available by subscription.
One of the articles "The Ancient World Meets the Modern World: A Primer on the Restitution of Looted Antiquities" can be found on Herrick, Feinstein LLP's web site. Authored by Herrick attorneys Howard Spiegler and Yael Weitz, it discusses the unauthorized excavation and smuggling of cultural artifacts and the legal issues involved in efforts made to reclaim stolen cultural property in the U.S., as well as the trend toward the resolution of claims without litigation. It is adapted from the lead article of Volume 6 of Art and Advocacy, the quarterly newsletter of Herrick's Art Law Group.
We are pleased to call attention to a helpful document by Christina Luke, entitled "Understanding the U.S. Border: Archaeologists, Law Enforcement, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage", aimed "to provide the archaeological community and others with an overview of how law enforcement works to protect cultural heritage; to outline the safeguards offered by cultural heritage law; and to suggest ways that archaeologists may contribute their expertise to this process."
This well-organized and clearly written document contains very helpful information, from an overview to deep content accessible through links provided throughout. It also includes Q and A section, as well as organizational flow charts. For example, it warns that under bilateral agreements (see SAFE's page about this here) that impose import restrictions upon certain classes of archaeological and/or ethnologic material between the U.S. and more than a dozen foreign countries, restricted material may be forfeited and returned to their countries of origin.
SAFE believes that combating cultural property crime (as with other crimes) begins with greater public awareness. Does a typical tourist who purchases an ancient artifact while visiting Peru know that their new-found treasure could be confiscated by the authorities? Does that same tourist know that importing such material into the United States without full disclosure on a customs declaration form may be a violation of law? SAFE applauds Christina Luke's effort to educate the general public about these issues by describing the laws and enforcement measures that help to preserve cultural property around the world.
Known for its "industrial charm", New York's Red Hook section in Brooklyn will soon be home to Christie's Fine Art Storage Services–a subsidiary of the auction house. In Wall Street Journal's article "The Ultimate Walk-In Closet", Kelly Crow questions if Christie's "is walking a delicate line": balancing clients' desire for confidentiality and customs' desire to "deter potential smugglers and money launderers from hiding assets or stashing stolen or looted works."
According to Crow, "Christie's said it will run credit checks on customers and check stored items against registries of stolen art, but added that it can't police everything it brings into its new warehouse."
In light of recent events in New York and London where stolen objects were nearly auctioned off undetected, one can only hope that auction houses will check more thoroughly where items come from while providing safe storage for them.
Dealers in unprovenanced archaeological material frequently evoke the argument that a lot of the material on the market today comes from the dismantling of old collections; collecting of archaeological artefacts has been going on, they say, since the Renaissance. In debate they can even show examples of such long-curated finds. Dealers assure buyers that this means that there are a good many legitimate artefacts on the market (see for example the websites of UK dealer Guy Rothewell, and that of Hicham Aboutaam). The pro-collecting lobby then argue that the concerns of the preservation lobby over the number of unprovenanced artefacts on the market today are exaggerated, holding that many items being collected today are from dismembered old collections. They insist that "unprovenanced does not necessarily mean looted". While that is of course true, it is clear that the buying and selling of unprovenanced archaeological artefacts with neither dealer or buyer asking where those items ultimately came from is one of the factors which shields the trade in illicitly obtained artefacts from scrutiny.
Preservationists point out that the market in antiquities has been undergoing massive expansion in recent decades. In addition, people are collecting the types of minor antiquities that were not collected in any quantity in the past and so are not available from old collections or abandoned dealers' stock. It is clear that increased demand for artefacts has forced traders to make up shortfall by the addition of new freshly dug up material (often illegally exported) to their stocks. The degree to which this is taking place is the subject of controversy. With facts and figures short on the ground, neither side can demonstrate grounds for either caution or optimism.
Recently however figures have been published which seem to resolve this issue quite decisively in the case of one commonly collected class of ancient dug-up artefacts, coins. In November last year, the Santa Fe-based Cultural Policy Research Institute published the results of its research, "Project on Unprovenanced Ancient Objects in Private US Hands". The figures presented there have "been developed with help from some of the most knowledgeable sources in the area". Apart from the main topic of its deliberations, the report contains an estimate of the number of "unprovenanced Greek and Roman coins in private hands', which however, since they are "not routinely of interest to AAMD Member institutions" are not discussed. Nevertheless an estimate is given of the likely number of such items currently in private hands to show what a resource for historical research they could comprise. The CPRI gives the total as "not less than 700,000 (200,000-300,000 Greek, 500,000-600,000 Roman)". So nearly three quarters of a million coins which have all come from somewhere, obviously quite a lucrative market with some of those coins going for four or five figure sums.
The qualification "not less" however is an important one. This figure can now be compared with the number of fresh coins from abroad known to be being exported into the US market. In a study of the US coin market, Elkins mentions one documented case from Frankfurt airport in 1999 where one dealer in a matter of a few weeks illegally exported from Bulgaria to the USA a ton of ancient metal detected coins. Coins are imported by numerous US wholesalers and dealers from many countries and through many airports, but Elkins estimated that the Frankfurt shipments alone had contained 350 000 coins. To put that into perspective, that is fifty percent of the number of coins which the CPRI report are in private hands a decade later.
If the CPRI figures are an accurate indicator of the size of the private artefact holdings in the US, it is clear that in this case at least, the current pool of artefacts which has been on the market is to a very high degree composed of material which has indeed been freshly dug out of the archaeological record in foreign countries and illegally exported. They are by any definition illicit artefacts.
Vignette: a meeting of the Society of Dilettantes, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
My eye was initially caught by the large photo in the article (Egypt to retrieve ancient statue from Netherlands) about a case that has already been in the news recently about the shabti bought by a private collector which has been identified as coming from Sakkara and having been stolen. The accompanying text contains, unintended by the author, a comment which raises a question. It says:
the export of archaeological artefacts is strictly forbidden from Egypt, as from other cultural nations.
So what do we call nations which do little to prevent and punish the import of precious archaeological evidence which has been looted from the archaeological record in other countries only to be sold as aesthetically pleasing collectable gee-gaws? Cultural? I think not. It's nice to see from this case that some private collectors are trying to find out where "their" treasures come from and have scruples.
The following article is published at the request of its author, Mehiyar Kathem, who has recently completed a MSc in Development Management at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is currently fundraising for the Cultural Heritage Awareness Initiative (CHAI) – a project of the Baghdad based education focused NGO, the Culture For All (CFA) – www.cultureforall.org
One of the greatest tragedies of history has been the systematic looting of most of the 10,000 registered archaeological sites and monuments in Iraq. Our knowledge of Iraq is largely punctuated by events of the past twenty five years – that of the first Gulf War, the sanctions, and now nearly five years into the West's disastrous escapade, the US led invasion of 2003. But what we do not get to see on the news is a tragedy much larger than the war. Armed and organised gangs, many of them contracted by wealthy Western clients, are systematically looting Iraq's cultural and archaeological heritage. In the past five years, we forgot that the war has ransacked the house of the first civilisations known to exist – Sumaria, Assyria and Babylon.
Billions of dollars have poured into making Iraq secure and democratic but only a small portion of funds has gone to preserving and protecting its archaeological heritage. Democracy is necessarily about rights – and the rights of civilisations past and present have to be respected, including our human right to understand the past. It is ironic that while human rights promotion has been high on the agenda of so many international NGOs focusing on Iraq so little focus has been on asserting Iraqi's right to their country's cultural heritage. Unfortunately for history much is at loss. While the past 100 years has uncovered only a small fraction of the country's archaeological riches, some of which looted at the Baghdad museum in the ensuing chaos of 2003, much remains to be discovered and understood of a history spanning 8,000 years. We may never know how many Gilgamesh like epics have been lost. As March 2008 marks the five-year anniversary of the war, we are forgetting that it also marks five years of one of the greatest catastrophes to befall humanity. In another five years, we will be marking the ten-year anniversary, and yet again our arrogance for understanding the meaning of life through past civilisations that gave us the wheel and the written word, will continue to blind us from the actions we need to take to protect the cultural heritage of what rightfully belongs to all civilisations and peoples of the world.
Protecting Iraq's archaeological heritage is essentially about civic engagement and public education rather than only the capacity building workshops in four-star hotels. For protection is not only equipping Iraqi academics with best practices, but about implementing public education programmes and engaging communities within the country. Any action necessarily requires over the next few years support to the credible, legitimate and sufficiently grounded community based organisations to spur people into building local protection schemes. Local strategic communication is essential in this process but so is creating the incentives so that tribal and community leaders understand that safeguarding the sites is a tool by which to rebuild Iraq and preserve its rich history. While this may need the help of a government Ministry, relying on the Iraqi Ministry of Culture to help may actually end up delaying what is urgently needed – Iraq would be left with just broken fragments of looted artefacts before any assistance or national protection programme is tabled. Since it is quite obvious that the Ministry's priorities lie elsewhere grass-root campaigning is the surest way to pressure the government into devising a national protection strategy, educating and raising awareness amongst the general public.
Iraq is said to be a dangerous country to work in. But one should not forget that it is still home to more than twenty six million Iraqis and to effective grass-root NGOs, academics and functioning universities. In a new initiative to be announced in May, the British Army in the South of the country in co-operation with the British Museum will focus on what Western experts can do to help reduce the systematic looting in the sector. All good, but again the same mistakes are being repeated. It is just another effort concentrated within academic circles between the West and Iraq. Unless efforts address the deficiency of civic engagement initiatives with the general public, we should not be surprised to see the continuation of the monumental looting taking place in the country.
When ancient objects are studied from recorded contexts, usually through scientific excavation, they are invaluable historical sources. In archaeological excavations, all classes of objects are systematically recorded and studied by specialists. Archaeology has evolved from its origins in treasure-hunting and the indiscriminate antiquarian accumulation of objects into a scientific discipline, which treats each object as an historical source, the usefulness of which often revolves around the find's context. Despite archaeology's place as an academic discipline, which makes little aesthetic distinction between the ability of different archaeological objects to inform us about ancient society, media coverage of looting activities, detrimental to archaeology, frequently revolve around 'high art' objects – large statues, signed Greek vases, etc.(1) News stories devoted to cultural property issues frequently reference some unique statue or vase returning from X or Y museum to its home-country or the theft of 'high art' objects from museums or archaeological sites. It is clear, however, that the majority of trafficking in illicitly excavated and exported antiquities revolves not around these 'monumental' aesthetic objects, but the minor arts: coins, brooches, buckles, small ceramic and metal vessels, glass, oil lamps, Byzantine crosses, etc. Objects such as these are easily available on the Internet and sold in large numbers on eBay (all sites), VCoins, and through other websites and auction houses. Curiously, advocacy efforts to educate the public about looting regarding these classes of objects are increasingly opposed by lobbies and special interest groups that cater to a dealer interest. Is there a difference between the trade in unprovenanced examples of 'high art' and that in unprovenanced examples of the minor arts?
According to recent news articles, five or six smugglers in Cyprus were arrested and their cache of antiquities, which they had allegedly intended to export illegally, was seized (for two versions of the news article see the International Herald Tribune and the Cyprus Mail). David Gill has already commented on this report in "Coins and Cyprus: action on the ground." The first article in IHT stated: "The antiquities, confiscated in the southern town of Limassol, include gold leaves and rings, two mediaeval gold coins and a bronze cross." It continued: "Police said the suspects were trying to sell the finds for €280,000 ($395,000)." If the smugglers were trying to sell the artifacts for such a sum, we can be confident that a complete inventory of the cache was not supplied. The CM article provides a bit more detail:
"Around 100 items were found at the Kato Polemidia house, ranging from the Paleolithic to the Byzantine period. Confiscated items include hundreds of gold coins, bronze coins, statues, gold, bronze and metal antique jewelry, bronze seals, sheets of gold and albums with pictures of archaeological finds. Approximately 40 more items were confiscated from the Ypsonas garage. An officer of the Antiquities Department is currently assessing the value of the finds. 'The confiscated items are of great archaeological value: they are a treasure. Only part of this collection would have been sold for 280,000 euro,' said Latropoulos. The sale would have occurred yesterday morning, but was prevented by the police raids and arrests."
Much of this material is 'common' on the market; nevertheless, it is clear that such materials come from archaeological sites. Some have argued that fresh supplies of ancient coins that reach the market in response to widespread collector and dealer demand only come from empty fields, devoid of any associated archaeological remains. However, this is a great misconception, which I rebutted, citing published records of the systematic looting of archaeological sites for coins and other metal objects, in the SAFE feature: "Why Coins Matter." Clearly, in the Cyprus case, the other 'minor art' objects recovered are the sort that come only from historical sites or ancient tombs.
In 2006, Greek authorities raided a villa on the island of Schinoussa occupied by the sister of Christos Mihailidis, former partner of London-based antiquities dealer Robyn Symes, whom Italian and Greek authorities suspect of being a major antiquities smuggler. The report stated: "The hundreds of relics discovered so far in and around the Papadimitriou villa include temple parts, statues and busts, ceramic vessels, coins and Byzantine-era icons." Another article from the New York Times states: "Evidence retrieved in the raid indicated that many of the items had been bought at Christie's or Sotheby's between 2001 and 2005, although none had been declared to the Greek authorities before entering the country, as required by law." Clearly, these smugglers made no distinction between trading in parts of a temple and selling coins – both are profitable on the market.
In 2005 in Egypt, one smuggling ring is known to have illegally exported around 57,000 objects from the country. These individuals dealt in all classes of objects; the article states:
"Officials estimated the smuggling gang exported some 57,000 pieces worth about $55m, including human and animal mummies, coins, statues and wooden sarcophagi. The authorities intercepted some of the antiquities at Cairo airport, but others were smuggled all over the world, including some that were found in Australia for sale on the internet. They have been returned to Egypt."
It is curious that some (whose professions are outside of archaeology and field archaeology) have tried to argue a special case that coins should not be considered archaeologically significant objects, despite the fact they come from the same places as other objects: historically significant sites with associated archaeological remains (see "Why Coins Matter"). Are not these caches further evidence that looters are not just detecting in empty fields for coins but are also systematically looting tombs and other archaeological and historical sites for material, taking everything that will fetch money on the market?
In the SAFE feature, I commented on the significant problem of looting in Balkan countries, which supplies much of the fresh material on the coin market. Yesterday, I read an article, on the MSN list, discussing the problem of looting in Romania and efforts to recover looted material. Apparently, 'minor objects' such as coins and jewelry are not exempt from being repatriated when their illicit export can be traced:
"Selon une statistique de l'IGP, en 2006, environ 17 000 biens archéologiques
étaient recherchés hors des frontières de Roumanie, la plupart étant des
pièces de monnaies : des pièces romaines en argent (12 000 pièces), des
pièces d'or de Chersonèse taurique (2 440 pièces) et des monnaies d'or de
Lysimarque (2 700 pièces)."
And for our readers who do not read French, here is my rough translation:
"According to statistics of the IGP [L'Inspection général de la Police roumaine], in 2006, around 17,000 archaeological goods were recovered from outside the borders of Romania, most were coins: Roman silver coins (12,000 pieces), gold coins from Tauric Chersonese [essentially the Crimea] (2,440 pieces) and gold coins of Lysimachos (2,700 pieces)."
The well-known case of the dekadrachm hoard, illicitly excavated and exported from Turkey, illustrates that foreign governments have a legal basis to sue for their return, when they can track the sale of illicitly excavated and exported material.
The Medici Conspiracy tells the story of Giacomo Medici's distribution and exportation of illicitly excavated antiquities (primarily 'high art' objects) and how authorities used his own records to track down the loot. Although 'high art' gets more press and museums with indiscriminate acquisition policies frequently pay the price, the minor arts of antiquity are equally important to our knowledge of past societies – especially when they can be studied from recorded excavated contexts – and they are, and have been, liable to litigation should their illicit sale be traced.
As the market in 'minor antiquities' flourishes and continues to grow, there can be no doubt we will likely witness future court battles involving the plunder of the minor arts. Should the records of some smuggler or some unscrupulous dealer be seized by law enforcement in the future, the sale of some coins and other small objects could potentially be traced and be subject to possible litigation. Unfortunately, an unsuspecting collector may well pay the financial price. There is a multitude of evidence demonstrating that such objects are entering the market in very large quantities, supplied by organized rings of smugglers and looters. Is it enough that a dealer can say "I acquired this legally, in good faith, but I can't tell you anything about the previous owner or where I got it – I have to protect my sources!" Should this be enough to assure the collector that the object was not recently looted? Is this due diligence? (for due diligence see: David Gill's "Cultural Property Advice" and also keyword 'due diligence).'
(1.) Ironically, many contemporary collectors and art galleries regard Greek painted vases as 'high art' objects, but there is a scholarly debate concerning how highly Greek painted vases were regarded by the Greeks themselves. In general, see: Vickers, M. and D. Gill. 1994. Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery. (Oxford); and also: Vickers, M. 1985. "Artful Crafts: the Influence of Metalwork on Athenian Painted Pottery," Journal of Hellenic Studies 15; Vickers, M., O. Impey, and J. Allan. 1986. Silver to Ceramic. (Oxford); Vickers, M. 1986. "Silver, Copper and Ceramics in Ancient Athens," in M. Vickers (ed.) Pots and Pans (Oxford). These works, and others, suggest that Greek painted vases imitated more valuable gold, silver, and other metal vessels, which would have been more routinely used by aristocratic classes and that painted vases were a more economical substitute.


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Some people discover pencillin. Others spill battery acid and then somehow, suddenly, they've invented the phone. Me? I improvise Sazeracs with applejack brandy.
While riffling through my ever-beloved Difford's Encyclopedia of Cocktails recently, I was stopped dead in my tracks by Simon Difford's recipe for a Sazerac. Ask any goomba how to make a classic one and you'll be told rye whiskey, bitters (Peychaud's, sometimes Angostura too), a sugar cube, and an old-fashioned glass coated with absinthe. Well, that's just not good enough for Monsieur Lord Simon Difford, Esq., Ph.D. VII…
The real reason we all drink, I think, when you get right down to it (and I'm paraphrasing myself here), is to whisk(ey) ourselves away in our mind's eyes to another place and time, preferably involving fedoras, garters, cigarette holders, evening gloves, watch fobs and other accoutrements of a halcyon generation past.
This is certainly true when you now do all your drinking at 9 p.m. in your messy kitchen, with your kid finalllllly asleep a couple rooms away, a geriatric dog who perpetually smells like pee hanging out at your feet and a mound of dirty dishes staring you down from across the room.
But I don't want any of you to think, now that I've got a daughter and a book that happens to be called The Big Book of Martinis for Moms, that this blog is taking a permanent turn towards all things parental. Far from it (just a little for my first week back, perhaps), and my proof to you of this is the Stork Club cocktail.
I need to make an Ur-Cocktail. Like, I want to just mix a liquor (bourbon, a-doy, although I'd then be game for trying several others) with sugar, water and bitters — the original notion of what constitutes a "cock-tail" — and see what it tastes like. I kind of assume it's gonna taste awful, or at least undesirable, right? Because, for one, when have I ever employed water as an ingredient, and for two, what kind of cocktail enthusiast thinks it a swell idea to include a diluting agent as a key part of a recipe? Water's what you drink at the bottom of your near-emptied highball while you're waiting for the barkeep to make you a fresh one.
Wedding season's sprung up early this year here at the blog. Last week, besides my trucking down to NJ to attend Cousin Mark's fiancee's shower, one of you e'd me desperate for help with a groom's cocktail to serve at his upcoming nuptials. Why desperate? Because of when upcoming: This very gracious gentleman, Jon, e'd me on a Wednesday needing a recipe for the reception on Saturday. Ladeeeeez, dudes and wedding planning OMG AMIRITE??!?
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I can feel another Eric Felten rager coming on — my curious condition wherein I just want to make cocktails from his book, How's Your Drink? — and as this one coincides with the advent of the new season of Mad Men, I give you the Vieux Carre.
First, please allow me to quote liberally from Felten's prose regarding the Vieux Carre's New Orleans origins (New Orligins?):
"Then there's the Hotel Monteleone's Carousel Bar, where the circular bar revolves slowly under a whimsical carnival canopy of carved wood, mirrors, and bare bulbs. The barstools don't go up and down, thankfully, but the experience can still be a little disorienting; get caught up in a conversation, and the next thing you know, you're on the other side of the room. Ask bartender Marvin Allen to mix you up a Vieux Carre, a terrific drink invented by the Carousel's barman in the 1930s, and unknown to most mixologists outside of the Hotel Monteleone."
In my rush of enthusiasm for all things post-vernal equinox, the Triple Crown is of course on my mind. I have a love/huh? relationship with horse racing which is also not a very deep relationship, but it's also a fun relationship. What I mean is, I really really don't understand horse racing, but when I lived in St. Louis I enjoyed playing "horse hooky" on summer afternoons, sneaking off with my friend Mike to the track, and of course there are all the cocktail traditions that go along with the sport.
The Preakness Cocktail actually bears a closer resemblance to a Manhattan than a mint julep, and it's not even the most "official" cocktail of the Preakness Stakes. That would be the Black-Eyed Susan, so named because the winning horse is ceremonially sheathed in a coverlet of Maryland's state flower. The Black-Eyed Susan, in turn, is like a first cousin to a Hurricane or some such monstrosity: it's made of vodka, cheap whiskey, sour mix and orange juice, garnished with an orange slice and a Maraschino cherry (skewered together on a cellophane-frilled toothpick, I'm sure). I believe it's what they serve to the muddied masses who buy the cheap tickets that allow them standing-room admission to the infield, which this May includes a Maroon 5 concert! Sounds about right.
Booze is at Defcon 1. Repeat: BOOZE IS AT DEFCON 1.
After drinking down our whiskey supply last week to the unspeakable amount of none, on Friday night the PhoBlograpHusband and I (were we drugged? hallucinating?) offered to supply the hard liquor at a friend's get-together in her nearby Plateau apartment. Sean put together an impressive travel bar backpack full of drinkies-poo: gin, both vermouths, Campari and I think dark rum and bitters. This was not the most experienced cocktailing crowd, which was more than fine, because all we had to do was mix up a nice round of Negronis and we were regarded as freaking geniuses.
Also dry geniuses: Four weeks to go 'til the end of Sean's semester, and what remains of the home stock is… vodka. And I think Calvados. And like two bottles of ouzo. So when Sean mentioned that he came across this Absolut Maple Sour recipe from a Google ad or spam mail (if I were in his shoes, I wouldn't fully cop to it either), what else was a girl to make? Times is tough, and recessions ain't just for breakfast anymore.
We close Death & Company week with a cocktail that, on paper, scares the hypothetical caca out of me. A drink made up of three hard liquors, and when I read the names of three hard liquors and one of them is bourbon (facilitator of happy Rose) and one of the others of them is scotch (moody-bordering-on-surly Rose) and then there's simple syrup — well, it makes me not trust the simple syrup, makes me paranoid that the simple syrup's lurking in there as some sort of sleight-of-hand trick with the scotch dodging behind it and getting away with murder, and I think this is not going to be a very productive Friday night.
If gins and whiskies are the big, fat, celestial love gods of the mixology universe, bitters are a bartender's obsessed-over, oft-hoarded little fetish objects: twee phials packed with alchemistic potions made from unpublished recipes that cocktail nerds like me can wax on about until we belatedly realize everyone else has left the room. Heck, I even arrange my bitters bottles all Sleeping with the Enemy neatnik-like atop my bar like I used to do my Smurf figurines (in their Smurf village, amongst their mushroom houses — not atop a bar, or because I was trying to kill Julia Roberts).
Unfortunately, the current proliferation of small-batch bitters products can diminish the line between cocktail nerd and cocktail snob. It kind of reminds me of the Great Brooklyn Music Scene Paroxysm of '09, with the name-checking of bitters brands like Bittermen's, Fee Brothers (the company I keep) and Regans' akin to referencing your close, personal relationship with the latest Panda Bear or Japanther album — with the added stress test of feeling like a total uncool dweebheel if (*gasp*) you don't make your own bitters???
I've yet to mention scotch on this blog. There are a couple of reasons why. One: Bourbon exists, so what's the point? Two: Scotch precipitates a taste-memory flashback to my first year of living in New York, specifically the hours between midnight and 5 a.m. of that year, a year I'm happy to leave fuzzy, hazy and behind.
Back then I was interning at a magazine during the day, waiting tables at the now-defunct Bottom Line at night, then spending several hours and most of the tips I'd just earned at some of Greenwich Village's finest last-ditch saloons along with my Bottom Line co-workers, most of whom I haven't been able to recall by name for over a decade. My go-to drink during those lost mornings was scotch and soda — a highball I settled on solely because it was the most grown-up-seeming thing I could think of to order. I was 22, recently graduated from a fancy-name college and hanging with middle-aged, stage-crew guys sporting frazzled, gray hair and incomplete sets of teeth. I wanted to fit in.


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I've written about Homecoming before, but if we're covering the Flyway Film Festival and it's in competition, then there's no reason not to write a few more words about it.
Homecoming stars Brea Grant (Dexter) as Estelle, an Army medic home on leave for 18 days. Her mother, in an attempt to provide some sense of normalcy, attempts to cram an entire year's worth of holidays into these 18 days, both giving the mother a chance to celebrate the holidays with her daughter and the film a sense of a greater passage of time, of seasons, if you will.
Of course, like all members of the military, she's left behind an entire life. She runs into people she knows from high school, and hangs out with her close friends Owen (Sean Hackett) and Austin (Tom Fox Davies), two guys who you might classify as slackers. Although, I don't know… I don't know that they've got the initiative to become slackers.
Estelle's been in the military for a while now, and essentially Owen and Austin are killing time in their hometown, waiting for her to come home for good. Only, it's not happening.
I like to think of Homecoming as something of a mumblecore antidote. Hackett, who's worked with the Duplass Brothers, spends his first feature on a story of white guys in their mid-20's doing nothing much and then essentially kicks their asses into gear. In a similar vein, Hackett turns the military film on its ear, making a war movie without the war, without the politics of war, and just focuses on this one soldier and how her decision to "help people" affects the people around her. In that way, it's a rare film that isn't really about the lead character at all. It's about the domino effect her life creates on those who are left behind.
The story takes a few minutes to ramp up, but once it hits the second act, it really starts to take off, telling a story with a surprising amount of emotional depth and tension, doing things you never really expect this sort of film to do. Where you think it'll zig, it zags. Well worth the journey.
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Microbial production of xylitol from D-xylose using Candida tropicalis
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Candida tropicalis DSM 7524 was used to produce xylitol from d-xylose. The fermentation conditions were optimized during continuous cultivation. The strain employed showed no great dependence upon temperature in a range between 30° C and 37° C. It achieved its best yield of xylitol from d-xylose at a pH value of 2.5. Such low pH values allow non sterile cultivation, which is a major economic factor. With an oxygen uptake rate of 0.8–1 ml oxygen per litre culture medium, the C. tropicalis produce xylitol at a yield of between 77% and 80% of the theoretical value. Higher yeast extract concentrations prevent the conversion of d-xylose into xylitol. d-xylose acts as a growth inhibitor in higher concentrations. The maximum xylitol yield was reached at a d-xylose concentration of around 100 g/l. In a non sterile batch culture with substrate shift 220 g/l xylitol were produced from 300 g/l d-xylose at a xylitol productivity rate of 0.37 g/(lh). In order to increase the specific yield, C. tropicalis was immobilised on porous glass and cultivated in a fluidized bed reactor. In a continuous non sterile cultivation with immobilised cells 155 g/l d-xylose produced 90–95% g/l xylitol with a productivity of 1.35 g/(lh).
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- Havenaar, R.; Huis In T.; Veld, J. H. J.; Stoppelaar, J. D.; Backer Dir Ks, O.: Anti-cariogenic and remineralizing properties of xylitol in combination with sucrose in rats inoculated with Streptococcus mutans. Caries Res. 18 (1984) 269–277
- Wåler, S. M.; Assev, S.; Rölla, G.: Xylitol 5-P formation by dental plaque after 12 weeks' exposure to a xylitol/sorbitol containing chewing gum. Scand. J. Dent. Res. 100 (1992) 319–321
- Van Eys, J.; Wang, Y. M.; Chan, S.; Tanphaichitr, V. S.; King, S. M.: Xylitol as a therapeutic agent on glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in: H. L. Sipple; K. W. McNutt (Eds.) Sugars in nutrition, p. 613. New York: Academic Press 1974
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- Microbial production of xylitol from D-xylose using Candida tropicalis
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Bioprocess Engineering
Volume 11, Issue 4 , pp 129-134
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- 1994-09-01
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- 1615-7605
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- Springer-Verlag
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- S. S. da Silva (1)
- A. S. Afschar (2)
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- 1. GBF-Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Mascheroder Weg 1, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
- 2. CEBIQ-Center for Biotechnology and Chemistry, Faculty, of Chemical Engineering of Lorena, University of Sao Paulo, 12600, Lorena Sao Paulo, Brazil


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We are pleased to announce that the Weymouth Beach Kite Festival will be held on Saturday 3rd, Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May 2013.
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Ok, so the sound-money voters in Switzerland lost the election, but it looks like the election may have affected the Swiss National Bank (SNB) after all. While the Swiss won't be backing their currency with gold, they also won't be following the European Central Bank down the "quantitative easing" road in lock step at a ratio of 1.2 francs per Euro.
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Written by Dennis Behreandt on Monday, 14 April 2014. Posted in Europe, World
While Americans, distracted by the diversionary propaganda tactics of the mainstream media, have largely forgotten the outrageous spying campaign being conducted against them and the rest of the world by the federal security apparatus, the same can not be said for Europeans in general and Germans in particular.
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In a unanimous vote, Russia's Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, gave unanimous consent to President Vladimir Putin's request to use armed forces in Ukraine.
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With anti-Russian forces having seized power in Ukraine, tensions in Russia over the situation are running high. Russia ordered what CNN called "surprise military exercises on Ukraine's doorstep" on Wednesday, as pro-Russian leaders in the Crimea organized ad-hoc "gangs" to defend against anti-Russian forces.
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In Mirandola, near Modena in Northern Italy, pictures show scenes of buildings turned into rubble, the result of a second earthquake in a region struck just nine days ago by a previous destructive trembler.
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Many of the northern tier of states in the U.S. have experienced above average temperatures so far this winter. The warm weather has meant lovers of winter sports like cross country skiing and snowmobiling have had to look elsewhere for outdoor activities. It also has meant that many homeowners have saved money on the cost of heating fuel this year.
The situation in Europe, however, is quite the opposite. There, this winter's warmer than usual temperatures have come to an abrupt end, and bitterly cold weather has turned deadly, with several dozen people killed in parts of flash-frozen Eastern Europe.
According to Euronews, several of the deaths have come in Poland where mild temperatures quickly plunged to deadly levels of chill. Polish police have reported that "at least ten people froze to death as weather worsened," Euronews reported.
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The U.S. State Department and the government of Romania have announced that the "the Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement on deployment of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system in Romania has entered into force, effective December 23, 2011."
The missile defense agreement with Romania is part of a larger US and NATO plan to place missile defenses in a number of Eastern European nations.
In an op-ed published on December 6, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the rationale behind the missile defense plan.
"The missile threat we face is grave and growing," Rasmussen declared. "Over 30 states are working on advanced missile technology. Some of them already have ballistic missiles that can be fitted with conventional warheads or with weapons of mass destruction. Some of our major cities are already in range. That is why at the Lisbon summit, NATO agreed to develop a missile defense capability to protect its population, territory and forces. That remains our position today. We owe it to our people to defend them."
Written by Dennis Behreandt on Wednesday, 16 November 2011. Posted in Europe, World
A German official has criticized the UK over its reluctance to accept a tax on financial transactions in order to prop up the Euro.
The criticism over British reluctance to agree to the tax came from Volker Kauder, the "parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union," the London Telegraph reported. According to the paper, the criticism came in remarks delivered to the party congress in Leipzig.
"I can understand that the British don't want that [the financial transaction tax] when they generate almost 30 per cent of their gross domestic product from financial-market business in the City," Kauder reportedly said. "But Britain also carries responsibility for making Europe a success. Only being after their own benefit and refusing to contribute is not the message we're letting the British get away with."
Written by Chris Szymonski on Friday, 04 November 2011. Posted in Europe, World
Thirty minutes after takeoff from Newark, NJ on the way to Warsaw, Poland, the crew of Polish Airlines Flight 16 reported partial failure of the hydraulic system. The defect was not deemed serious enough to warrant return to Newark, so the flight continued.
Flaps and slots are mechanical devices on wings that reduce stall speed and promote good low-speed handling on takeoff and landing. On modern aircraft, just as the landing gear, they are activated hydraulically. Both flaps and slots worked upon preparations for arrival at Warsaw, but the landing gear did not extend.
The Boeing 767 has quadruple redundancy in lowering the landing gear. In addition — there is a mechanical emergency back-up system.
Written by ADH Staff on Monday, 19 September 2011. Posted in Europe, World
In an interview about the economic crisis televised on Russian TV, billionaire Russian "oligarch" Alexander Lebedev attacked wealthy real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky, punching him and knocking him off the stage.
According to the London Telegraph, Polonsky quipped during the program that he would like to "punch someone's lights out." Lebedev, a former KGB agent, felt that the remark was aimed at him.
He responded by actually punching someone's lights out.
The Telegraph recounts: "Mr. Lebedev, who owns The Independent and The London Evening Standard, said he felt the threat was directed at him and that he was left with no choice but to strike first, delivering two swift right hooks to fellow Russian tycoon Sergei Polonsky knocking him backwards off his chair and off the studio podium."
The German industrial giant Siemens AG will no longer build equipment for or manage nuclear power plants, according to reports from Germany.
According to the BBC, Siemens chief Peter Loescher told Spiegel magazine that the company's decision is intended to align with "the clear positioning of German society and politics for a pullout from nuclear energy."
Loescher continued, saying: "The chapter for us is closed."
The decision is a stunning reversal for a company with a long history in the nuclear power industry.
The BBC noted that the company "was responsible for building all 17 of Germany's existing nuclear power plants."
Written by Alex Newman on Thursday, 25 August 2011. Posted in Europe, World
Most of Europe's economies are struggling right now, some worse than others. But the so-called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) are tottering on the brink. So what happened?
What Portugal, Spain, Ireland and other failing European states have in common — other than the Euro and membership in the EU, of course — are huge governments that spend well beyond their means.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Irish government adopted a series of pro-growth policies — slashing corporate tax rates, for example — that allowed the productive economy to rapidly expand. Ireland went through a period of fantastic growth that led to its description as a "Celtic Tiger." In the early 1990s, however, the government embarked on a massive spending spree, fueled by the private-sector wealth creation, that eventually saw public expenditures increase by more than 600 percent.
Written by ADH Staff on Thursday, 18 August 2011. Posted in Europe, World
In a gruesome twist, victim Olga Moskalyova narrated her own death as the bears ate her alive during three phone calls to her horrified mother. The attack took place in the rugged territory of remote Kamchatka, not far from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Written by ADH Staff on Monday, 16 May 2011. Posted in Europe, World
British cabinet ministers have reached a climate change deal that will radically alter the economy of the country, reported the London Guardian.
According to the paper, the deal is "far-reaching" and "legally binding" and "will require sweeping changes to domestic life, transport and business…."
Under the deal, the UK government will work to reduce carbon emissions by 80% of 1990 levels — a goal they hope to reach by 2050. According to the Guardian, under the plan "carbon emissions should be cut by 60% by 2030."
Left-leaning supporters applauded the measure and claimed that it would bring important "green" business development to the UK.
Written by ADH Staff on Sunday, 08 May 2011. Posted in Europe, World
Big oil has played a big part in Norway's economy, but production has dropped precipitously in the last ten years. As a result, a race has been on to find new oil. Government forecasts suggested that nearly 6 billion barrels of oil and gas would be found in the Barents Sea. But, despite heavy exploration the search for oil in the Barents has been disappointing.
That all changed this Spring when Transocean's Polar Pioneer rig finally hit oil in the Barents about 120 miles north of Norway and in 1,000 feet of water.
The find, called Skrugard, is thought to have hundreds of millions of recoverable oil. The Website Rigzone.com reported: "The estimated volume of the discovery is between 150-250 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent (boe), while Statoil sees opportunities for further upside in the license of up to 250 million barrels — for a potential total of 500 million boe."


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The Standard & Poor's Report In Plain Language
On Monday Standard & Poor stunned everyone by rating the United State's long term credit rating from stable to poor.
Let's break it down.
From Keith Hennessey:
Yesterday's report by Standard & Poor's on the U.S. government's credit rating is driving headlines. You can learn a lot more from reading the primary source document than from news coverage of it.
Here is what S&P did:
"On April 18, 2011, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its 'AAA' long-term and 'A-1+' short-term sovereign credit ratings on the United States of America and revised its outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.The news is in the latter part: S&P downgraded its "outlook on the long-term [credit] rating [of the U.S. government]." This is a warning sign.
Right. Kind of like a gaping bleeding wound is a warning sign that you might bleed out.
Let's put this in plain jargon.
Basically S&P said that they didn't believe that these yahoos in Washington (and I'm paraphrasing here) were going to reach an agreement on our "budgetary challenges." They say if these yahoos don't reach a long term agreement and implement it by 2013, the U.S. fiscal profile is screwed. That's not a technical term, but it fits.
"In 2003-2008, the U.S.'s general (total) government deficit fluctuated between 2% and 5% of GDP. Already noticeably larger than that of most 'AAA' rated sovereigns, it ballooned to more than 11% in 2009 and has yet to recover."
The S&P and Hennessey agree with Chairman Paul Ryan that entitlement spending is "the main source of fiscal pressure."
Plain jargon? Entitlements are killing us.
When are we going to take this seriously? What is it going to take? This is no longer partisan. This is about the financial health of our country. No leader has had the guts to force us to look at entitlements, with their fraud, with their ridiculous handouts. I believe we can cut entitlements, and still take care of those who truly need it. The problem is we take care of too many who are more than capable of taking care of themselves. It's become a con artist's game. It's time to shut that part down. We also pay for senior's health care costs when they are wealthy AND have their own insurance (my parents come to mind). It's crazy.
Hennessey has a more sophisticated view than mine. He describes the other short-term fiscal risks, so please read his.
But he ends with why this might not get done. He hits the nail on the head.
The greatest obstacle to constructive negotiations is the President's attack rhetoric, in which he today accused Congressional Republicans of "doing away with health insurance for … an autistic child" and potentially causing future bridge collapses like the one in Minnesota that killed 13 people.
Maybe the S&P report will scare the President's team into treating the long-term problem seriously rather than using it as a campaign weapon. I'm not holding my breath.
As long as Democrats use this sort of unacceptable scare rhetoric, nothing will get done. This isn't how a leader does things. He doesn't throw out fireballs when our country's health is at stake. This isn't about his re-election. This isn't about his campaign. So stop with the nonsense. Roll your sleeves up Mr. President, come to the table like a leader, not a candidate, and do your job.
Update: The Obama administration tried to get S&P NOT to lower it's outlook for the United States. No surprise there. S&P retained their integrity though.
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