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Issue #49
November 1, 2003
In this issue:
-Sake Filtering
-A Steamy Scene
-Sake Professional Course Announcement
-Sake Worth Seeking
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Sake Filtering
Last month, we looked at nigori-zake, cloudy sake. As mentioned in that article, I try to consistently refer to the step of the process that removes the rice solids (in all sake that is not nigori-zake) as "pressing," rather than "filtering." While in a sense it is "filtering" the lees out, the mash is "pressed" through a mesh. But the real reason I consistently refer to it as pressing is that there is another filtering step used later in the sake-brewing process later.
Soon after having been brewed, most sake is filtered in a curious process in which powdered charcoal is mixed in, and the resulting black liquid is run through a series of filters that look like they are made of coffee filter paper. This is done for a number or reasons, but the most important ones are to filter out unwanted facets of the flavor, and to remove the naturally occurring faint amber color of the sake.
It seems that this charcoal filtering began around 1930. Back then, the level of Ginjo-shu that we enjoy today – taking availability almost for granted - was what they were submitting to national tasting competitions. Since the judges were showing a tendency to favor sake with lighter coloring, brewers began to strip away some of the natural coloring with these new techniques to appeal to the judges. It soon became the norm. Perhaps because transparent sake exudes more of a "refined" image, consumers too showed more liking for less color. Today, most sake is filtered in this way.
On an interesting tangent, these days the glasses used at the highest level tasting competitions for ginjo-shu are amber colored tumblers. These are used instead of clear glass to actually prevent the tasters from seeing the color, thus preventing them from exhibiting a prejudice for more transparent sake. In the end, color is easily controllable and is not related to the quality of the sake, at least not in such special sake brewed just for contests.
On another interesting tangent, perhaps the leader in this "colorless equals refined" trend was all the Niigata prefecture sake brewers. I was recently at a tasting for one Niigata brewer, and the toji (master brewer) was saying to a well-known retailer that he was not satisfied with his daiginjo as it had a bit of an amber color to it. The retailer laughed and said, "the only ones that worry about that are you Niigata folks. Sake is supposed to have a bit of color!"
In recent years, other methods of filtering have become more common place as well. In place of the charcoal, or sometimes in addition to it, some brewers use mechanical filters with mesh holes as small as one or two micrometers. But the use of powdered charcoal allows for a bit more play and subtle adjustments.
Actually, this charcoal filtering can be incredibly accurate. By varying the size of the charcoal particles, the amount used and the time, brewers can filter for color and to clean up rough spots in the flavor, but they can also filter for either one separately. The technology, so to speak, is actually quite advanced, and most kura are quite adept at using such filtration techniques.
Yet, at times it is overused, and occasionally we find sake over-filtered, and stripped of any character whatsoever. It becomes like "weighted water." When really overdone, it is even possible to taste a semblance of charcoal in the recesses.
However, at the other extreme, this filtering step is not always done. In fact, "muroka," or unfiltered sake (i.e. non-charcoal-filtered), has become popular in Japan over the last few years. A bit too popular, methinks. It seems to be a backlash of the super-refined and very dry sake era of the 80s and 90s, and while backlashes in consumer preferences and normal and desirable, this one often goes a bit too far.
I say this because very often this "muroka" unfiltered sake is also sold as nama (unpasteurized) genshu (undiluted) sake. This combination of being unfiltered, unpasteurized, and undiluted, "muroka nama genshu," while not only being a hassle to remember, also adds up to a huge increase in width, depth, and height of flavor. In other words, this adds up to a huge sake, albeit (to some) appealingly rough-n-ready . While those consumers that clamor for such sake seek stuff close to its most natural state, too often it robs sake of its greatest treasures and quality: subtlety and demureness. But this is a rant for another day…
And, in all fairness, this is not to say that *all* unfiltered sake has such a big, rough- around- the- edges flavor. Not at all. There are some brewers that do not charcoal filter any of their fine sake, never have, and never make a big deal out of it. (Nanbu Bijin sake, produced by Kuji Shuzo in Iwate, is one such example.) A combination of outstanding water, superb skill on the part of the brewers, and massive experience makes such sake wonderfully clean, focused and refined with no filtering whatsoever. There are many brewers that eschew filtering, and still have wonderfully subtle and refined sake – and they don't make a big deal out of it; in fact, they don't even tell you it has not been charcoal filtered..
So, while almost all sake out there has indeed had some charcoal filtering done, some has not. And amongst that sake that is unfiltered, some is fuller and impacting, yet some is elegant and refined. In the end, charcoal filtering is intrinsically neither good nor bad; it is just one more option open to brewers.
There is an interesting historical anecdote tied to the origins of charcoal filtering. It is said that long, long ago in the erstwhile famous brewing town of Itami, a disgruntled brewery worker, fired for ineptitude, sought revenge on the offending toji (master brewer) by secretly dumping a bunch of powdered charcoal into a tank of just-brewed sake on his way out the door. The dismay of the brew crew was soon replaced by surprise, curiosity, and a willingness to experiment when they tasted the result and found it cleaner and more enjoyable than their regular sake. Instead of instilling ire, the discontented lad made a great contribution to the sake brewing world.
A Steamy Scene: "Cooking" Rice for Sake Brewing
The rice used to make good sake is vastly different from the rice we eat in bowls and under fish as sushi; this point is something that readers of this newsletter have certainly encountered often enough. Yet, even more importantly, the way that sake rice is prepared, or "cooked" as it were, before being used in the brewing process is just as important, and is vastly different from the way normal rice is prepared.
First, let us consider the objectives: one, to get the koji mold to flourish, growing into the rice and creating the array of enzymes needed to chop the starches into fermentable sugars for yeast food, and two, to help the rice to dissolve in an even, predictable way inside the fermenting mash.
Second, why do we need to cook the rice at all? If it has starch in it, is that not enough? Actually, not. "Cooking" the rice softens it, and breaks down the starches to a certain degree (converting beta starches to alpha starches). Without this initial step, the enzymes later can not do their sugar-conversion work. Also, the thorough heat treatment sterilizes the rice, killing any and all bacterial comers that may have been picked up along the way.
But the "cooking" method is somewhat unique. In short, the rice sits in a large cauldron-like vessel called a koshiki while steam is blasted up through it from holes in the bottom for the better part of an hour. Contrast this to the way rice is usually cooked: by mixing it with water, boiling that, and then simmering it until the water is all absorbed. In preparing rice for sake brewing, it never sits in water, but is exposed only to the steam.
In the end, it is all about moisture content. The koji mold needs a very specific water content to propagate properly: just about 38% to 40%. When the rice is soaked in water for a precise period of time and then steamed like this, the water content is perfect. However, if it is prepared by boiling with water first, the water content is about 65%; this is too moist for vigorous koji mold propagation.
Note that rice can also be fried or grilled, i.e. dryly heated, to accomplish the starch breakdown. However, as might be imagined, the water content if far too low for sake brewing.
Also, when rice is properly steamed in the cauldron-like koshiki, it ends up soft on the inside yet firm on the outside; much more so than rice that is eaten. This is good for two reasons: one, the mold has a field day once into the center of the rice grains, and two, the rice dissolves nice and slowly and evenly inside the fermenting tank.
Perhaps the most interesting observation that can be drawn from this discourse is that sake developed as it did over the centuries in a very natural progression. Long ago, people in Japan steamed their rice, they did not boil it. As such, this was naturally how the rice for sake was prepared, and it was miraculously perfect for sake brewing in many ways. So sake is what it is because of the way they cooked the rice in the old days.
When they went back and tried other methods (like boiling or grilling), this one still proved to be the best for sake brewing. It is interesting to note that if people had boiled or grilled their rice long ago, sake today would likely be a completely different animal. The ties to culture are deep.
This is but one example of how sake is closely tied to the history, culture and even anthropology of Japan. In fact, just about any aspect of sake brewing and sake appreciation could be likewise connected to Japan's long past. And certainly this could also be observed for any traditional alcoholic beverage, perhaps anywhere on the planet.
Announcing the Second Annual Sake Professional Course
From Sunday night, January 11, 2004 to the morning of Saturday, January 17, 2004, I will hold the second annual Sake Professional Course here in Japan. Open to anyone with an interest in sake, this course will provide the environment for a focused, intense, and concerted training period. It will consist of daily classroom sessions on all things sake-related, followed by relevant tasting sessions, and will include several sakagura (sake brewery) visits, and exposure to countless brands and styles in several settings, both in comparison to other sake, and with food.
Participants will stay together at a hotel in Osaka. Lectures will take place inside a sake brewery, and evening meals will be off-site at various sake-related establishments (sake pubs of all shapes, sizes and environments). The optional final night will be spent at "onsen ryokan" (a traditional Japanese inn at a hot spring resort).
The course is geared toward wine professionals and other industry professionals wishing to expand their horizons in a thorough manner into the world of sake, but anyone is welcome to participate. It will certainly be fun! The course lectures and tastings will begin with the utter basics and will thoroughly progress through and cover everything related to sake. There will be an emphasis on empirical experience, with plenty of exposure to a wide range of sake both in class sessions and with evening meals.
The dates (Sunday night, January 11, 2004 to the morning of Saturday, January 17, 2004) allow participants (from the US at least) to leave on a Saturday and arrive home the following Sunday. (A second weeklong course period is being considered for February.)
The weeklong course, with all instruction, materials, sake, accommodations, and evening meals with sake is JPY350,000 (at 120 yen to the dollar: US $2999). Participation is limited to ten (10) individuals.
For a more detailed description of the course, its content, pricing, and a testimonial reference, please go to www.sake-world.com.
Sake Worth Seeking…
Having last month discussed nigori-zake and this month muroka, below are a few relevant recommendations. The sake reviewed here, except where noted, are available in the US. (Apologies to readers not in the US or Japan!)
Tsuki no Katsura Nigori (Kyoto)
This is the brewery that first made nigori-zake legal again in the 60′s, and they still make more of it than anyone else in the country, despite their relatively small output. Balanced, smooth and creamy, with an overall sweet flavor profile.
Rihaku Nigori (Shimane)
Tokubetsu Junmai-shu
A rather thin nigori (deliberately so; known as "usu-nigori," a direct translation), but one with a mildly fruity aroma. Too thick a nigori would not allow such an aroma, and this product balances premium sake and the nigori style. Note, this brewery also makes a ginjo version of this product (although that ginjo is available only in Japan) that is even more balanced and aromatic.
Shirakawa-go Sasanigori (Gifu)
Junmai Ginjo
Quite elegant, smooth and creamy, especially considering the pina-colada-like texture. Not as sweet as its appearance would lead one to believe, and mildly fruity with a touch of refinement – for a nigori-zake.
Shinkame Nigori-zake (Saitama)
This one will have its friends and foes, although I am personally quite fond of it. As far as nigori-zake goes, it is a bit thin, and rather than sweet it is decidedly tart and spicy. However, it is also ever so slightly carbonated, not deliberately but rather because it was bottled while very fresh, without fermentation totally halted. Be careful when opening it and drink it soon. (Not available outside of Japan.)
Biwa no Choji Nigori (Shiga)
Another unique nigori-zake: very thick and rich, some of the rice grains are still discernible. It's so chunky, you'll be tempted to eat it with a fork. Mildly tangy yet sweet in the background. Fun and enjoyable. (Not available outside of Japan.)
Sake Events and Announcements
In the US:
Wednesday, November 5, The Japan Society of Boston
Thursday, November 6, Japan America Society of New York
On these two consecutive evenings, there will be a presentation on sake and pottery followed by a tasting of dozens of sake. The evening is co-sponsored by the Sake Export Association, and presentations will be given jointly by myself and Robert Yellin, Japanese pottery specialist, with whom I give regular seminars together in Tokyo. Sake will be poured by the ten or so sake brewers in attendance. For more information and those all-important reservations, contact:
The Japan Society of Boston at 617.451.0726
The Japan Society of New York at 212-715-1229
Do you work for a company in Japan? John Gauntner is available for corporate sake seminars. A wide variety of formats are possible: in house, at a sake pub, with food, without, with lectures on a variety of sake-related topics. Please contact John by email for more information.
Sake books:
THE SAKE HANDBOOK, published by Charles Tuttle.
This second edition of my first book, with more sake, more sake pubs in the Tokyo area, and updated information, is the most detailed on the brewing process.
THE SAKE COMPANION, published by Running Press
This book approaches the sake world from a bit more of a romantic, cultural side, and less of a technical touch, and covers material like sake history and the differences in sake styles and flavor profiles from the major sake-producing regions of Japan. Sake production is also explained, although not in as much detail as in The Sake Handbook. Almost 140 sake are introduced with an indication of the region from which each hails. Large, full-color photographs of the labels makes them easier to remember.
Also included is a listing of where to buy and drink sake in the US. As this book is geared mostly to a market other than Japan, where to buy and drink sake in Japan is not covered, as it is in The Sake Handbook.
The Sake Companion is available at bookstores such as Borders for $24.95, as well as at Amazon for a bit less. If you are in Japan, Amazon.co.jp is highly recommended, as the price in Japanese bookstores is quite high (4490 yen).
NIHONJIN MO SHIRANAI NIHONSHU NO HANASHI, published by Shogakkan
This anecdotal read describes aspects of the sake world from a foreigner's point of view, including the personalities, events, and techniques that make the sake world so unique and special, things that may be lost on those that are too close to the subject. Written in Japanese.
Also worth searching for:
-SAKE: PURE AND SIMPLE (John Gauntner, Griffith Frost): A light, pure and simple guide to sake.
-Sake, An Insider's Guide (Phillip Harper): A pocket sized, well-written book by an insider; Harper brews sake at a kura in Japan.
-Sake: A Drinker's Guide (Hiroshi Kondo): The original book on sake in English, nice historic notes and good peripheral information.
Home-Brewing Sake
If you have even a passing interest in brewing sake at home, you must check out The Sake Digest, a mailing list on sake home brewing maintained by Jim Liddil at firstname.lastname@example.com. On this list, issues both stylistic and technical, detailed and general, are discussed by enthusiastic and knowledgeable home brewers. Fred Eckhardt, easily the most experienced sake home-brewer in North America, regularly generously imparts his experience and wisdom to readers. A message is generated perhaps twice a week, so one in not inundated with information and countless emails. It is quite interesting to follow along with the apparently successful efforts of these brewers from a cyber-distance.
Most recently, several brewers are experimenting with koji obtained from SakeOne Corporation in Oregon, with apparently significantly improved results. This koji can be purchased from F.H. Steinbarts for about $8.00 for a 2.5 lb. Batch. For more information call Steinbarts, at 503-232-8793.
Also, koji spores (as opposed to completed koji) are also available from Vision Brewing in Australia. According to proprietor Brendan Tibbs, the product is available online for anyone, and is particularly suitable to the home brewer. Contact him at Vision Brewing: email@example.com, and see their site at http://www.kagi.com/vision/sake.
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Kentucky's Willie Cauley-Stein was named SEC Freshman of the Week Monday, after scoring 11 points and pulling down 11 rebounds against Eastern Michigan last week.
Cauley-Stein made the most of his second career start, as UK dominated in its final non-conference action of the season.
Cauley-Stein logged his second career double-double of the year in the 90-38 victory. The 7-foot, 244-pound forward was the first UK player to tally multiple double-doubles this season. He went 5-for-6 from the field, and pitched in defensively with a pair of blocks and two steals.
He joins teammates Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress as other UK Freshman of the Week honorees this season. Sophomore Kyle Wiltjer earned SEC Player of the Week accolades this season.


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Witness the birth of the most important super hero team ever in a universe-spanning event that will rock the month of March! Wade Wilson has been tapped to save the Universe, and to do that he's going to need help. Enter: The sexy-but-insecure Lady Deadpool! The devious-but-lovable Headpool (a.k.a. the Zombie Deadpool Head)! The bratty-but-brilliant Kidpool! And the irascible mutt known as Dogpool! Individually, they're, well, kind of messed up, but together, they're the unstoppable force know as DPC.
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Have been browsing a few ford sites and came across this one i thought id say hello too. At the mo im on the south coast just outside of pompey
i have a radiant red(no pinks) mk6 escort saloon
2.0 Silvertop Mondeo Engine partially rebuilt Dec 2008
1.8 115ps inlet manifold
4-2-1 Ashley exhaust manifold, sports CAT, 3.5" inward rolled silencer (if you can call it that!)
IB5 gear box
Morette quad headlights with indicators mounted behind front grill
Lowered -40mm on cold coil springs with standard shock absorbers
Focus ST170 front brakes (300mm)
Escort RS2000 rear brakes (270mm)
Escort RS2000 Recaro front seats (combined with 5 door Si rears - same material pattern)
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Thats what it had when i got it since then ive added
Evotech Front bumper
Mk6 bonnet with RS2l humps
Afterburner rear lights
Replaced the Recaros for Full Leather Interior
Plasma Dials
my own clock face
Door lights both sides
Few bits of engine bay painted to go with the black/red theme
Removed the badge from the front grille
Things im am going to do next are
sort out the rusty sills (its behind the skirts but i know its there!!)
And as a side note this is what i got the Mrs for her birthday
Mk5 XR3I cabby
Since pic was taken ive added an RS2k bonnet to it
His an hers
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The always glamorous reality star looked smokin' in a sophisticated long, straight style with over-the-top bombshell height–here's how you can get her va-va-voom!
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I think her hair looks ugly in this style – the dress is ugly too, the other similar dress worn by a real somebody is much more attractive. I'm getting pretty tired of the "matchy matchy" between her and Kanye – isn't that teenage stuff? Bey and Jay soooooo outshone Kim and Kanye that it isn't even funny. I watched the awards and looked to me like the "group" pretty much ignored Kim as much as possible – Kim was totally out of her element. Kanye took a chance though taking her to the Bet awards – she was probably in hog heaven with all the black bodies around her.
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Kim whore looks nice when she's alone or photographed beside ugly Kanye but looks so old and boring when she is beside Beyonce or other beautiful women.
Kim whore's face is nothing repairs and make up. She looks like a wax esp her lips that looks like bitten by Queen bee. It's swollen!
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D-backs recall Skaggs, Roe
AUG 12, 2013 4:56p ET
Roe, 26, was 0-1 with eight saves and a 1.21 ERA in 23 relief appearances with Double-A Mobile and Reno this season. He has appeared in four games over two stints with the D-backs, going 1-0 with a 5.79 ERA.
Skaggs, 22, has combined to go 6-7 with a 4.16 ERA in 16 games with Single-A Visalia and Reno in 2013. In seven starts with the D-backs, he is 2-3 with a 5.35 ERA.
Ross, 32, suffered a dislocated right hip in the first inning of Sunday's loss to the Mets. He is hitting .278 with eight home runs in 94 games.
Spruill, 23, was the losing pitcher in Sunday's game. He is 0-2 with a 5.56 ERA in six games, including two starts.


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The Coronas, Dot Rotten, Meek Mill, Dry the River and Teengirl Fantasy have joined the bill for next month's music festival.
They will be joining headliners The Stone Roses, Kasabian and Snow Patrol as some 85,000 music-lovers per day decamp to Balado from July 6 to 8.
Platinum-selling Dublin based four-piece The Coronas will perform at the festival on Sunday July 8.
Currently the biggest-selling independent group in Ireland, the band are renowned for their high-energy live shows. New single Addicted to Progress , from forthcoming album Closer to You, remained in the top five Irish Airplay charts for over 13 weeks.
Danny O'Reilly of the group said: "We're so excited about getting to play T in the Park this year.
"The reception we get in Scotland has always been amazing and to play at such a historic festival is going to be a highlight of our summer. We promise to give every ounce of energy we have!"
Londonrapper Dot Rotten was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll and his forthcoming third single Overload (sampling the 1996 hit Children by Robert Miles) was selected as Zane Lowe's Hottest Record in the World.
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London-based band Dry the River sold out Camden's Electric Ballroom three months in advance and landed a coveted slot on the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Teengirl Fantasy released critically acclaimed album 7AM in 2010, which was praised for its creative use of samples and experimentation.
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Practice Squad and FA's
Is KFFL the best website to see when prctice squads are picked and FA's signed?
Anyone heard any info on Texans squad yet? |
The end of the waivers period ended at 11am. I don't know how long it will take to announce the players who will make up the PS, but look for some new names along with a few we expect.
Check out the defensive free agents. There are some good veterans that can back up Payne and Walker. Don't ask me who we would cut because I don't know.
http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/i...sort_order=ASC |
Casserly said last night on Channel 13 they would know who they were keeping on the PS by 1:00 today. They were planning on having them at todays practice. Haven't seen anything on it though.
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Texans rarely get into a rush on these types of announcements...now those practice spies on the other hand.
It's finally announced:
Sept. 6: Signed Linebacker D.D. Acholonu Defensive End Jason Davis Linebacker Anthony Dunn Safety Jammal Lord Tight End Matt Murphy Linebacker Shantee Orr Wide Receiver Sloan Thomas Runnning Back Renaldo Works to the practice squad. |
Surprised Duff wasnt asked to stick around...I thought he had a pretty good training camp and pre-season.
no real surprises...
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Perhaps Duff was signed to the Bears' practice squad.
Lord looked like he was adjusting well and working hard. I'm glad to see he's still working with the team. |
Looks like Works is the only "outsider" that made the practice squad.
Wasnt he with Oklahoma last year?
Renaldo Works
Renaldo Works
A little info. Read somewhere that he was cut last week by Miami. Guess Casserly just wanted to take a look for himself. |
Murphey is on the PS, so there's their 3rd TE. Still, I think it sounds encouraging for Joppru.
i guess Orr was eligible for the practice squad... :bag:
Yup, that kind of surprised me. The way I read the rules it didn't look like it, but I am not the rules guru. Kind of surprised that Lekkerker didn't get put on it. Must not have looked as good as it was sounding.
This is from the Texans site they signed 8 plyers to the practice squad after they cleared waver.
I think Orr and Murphy will be moved up and see some action this year. :twocents:
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Murphy will see some playing time this season. All he needs is a chance.
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UPDATED 5:25 PM CDT Apr 23, 2014There's a new indoor race track featuring state-of-the-art go-karts in Grimes.
Video Transcriptapproved earlier this year. There's another new race track in town! This one involves state of the art Go Carts in Grimes. KCCI's Cynthia Fodor gives us the first look inside... . Before you get behind the wheel at MB2 indoor Kart racing " 10;18 I'VE NEVER RIDDEN A GO CART IN MY LIFE SO.." You need the proper safety gear..and a little confidence. " 11;20 IT FEELS LIKE I CAN'T BREATHE." As a novice, I'm racing Jenny Will and Tammy Hansen from the Iowa Speedway. "11;40 IT'S JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE...I"M STARTING TO HYPERVENTILATE.." I chose car number 8 of course.. And we're off.... "17;20 WHERE'D YOU COME FROM... " No fumes here. These carts are electric, green and mean.. "3;40 THEY TAKE OFF LIKE YOU CAN'T BELIEVE. " with 4 12 volt batteries each, " 20;49 ahhh laughing." one could power your whole house. " 3;20 THE CARTS ARE EQUAL TO 27 HORSEPOWER GAS CART..3;28 MOST ARE 9 HORSEPOWER, THEY'RE FASTER " Flying at 45 miles per hour.. " 19;44 SHE'S BEATING ME, CATCH UP" the racers from the Speedway put the pedal to the metal. "5;23 YOU'RE RACING FOR TOP TIME, OR GRAND PRIX STYLE, RUN THRU ..AND SCORE YOU AS A RACE" " 27;12 WITH THIS BARRIER SYSTEM... SO THAT YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS DRIVING THE SAME TRACK" After 14 laps..you don't want to stop... " 23;56 IT'S FAST, IT'S THRILLING, IT'S SAFE. YOU CAN PUSH YOUR LIMITS AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT 23;29 THIS LAST CURVE IS WHERE I GOT SPUN AROUND ONCE..IT'S FUN..JUST CAN'T BE AFRAID...JUST GO FOR IT." When you're done, you see your stats.. "SHE BEAT ME BY TWO-TENTHS OF A SECOND" It's no fun to lose but if you're just here for the ride, it's a thrill and the next best thing to a real Nascar experience. CF kcci ... You have to be at least 4 feet tall to drive. MB2 officially
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Syracuse, NY.---My colleague Maureen Nolan has a really cool story in today's Post-Standard about a program that seeks to encourage children to read at Onondaga Lake Park. Read Maureen's story.
Michele Romeo, a library media specialist at LeMoyne Elementary School, helped Onondaga County develop the "Come Out and Read,'' a new program that allows parents to check out a backpack filled with park-appropriate children's books to read during their park visit.
I like this idea. I know many of you who are regular readers of this blog also frequent Onondaga Lake Park.
If you're looking for another activity for your kids to do at the park, check out a backpack filled with books.
Books are available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Griffin Visitor Center, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Salt Museum.


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Healthier body care
Why standards matter
Sound Consumer | May 2012
The brands are unfamiliar. The prices look high. What happened to your favorite shampoo?
We hear you. Yes, some products are gone. And yes, the new brands are a bit pricey — but well worth it if you value your health.
The shampoos and lotions you don't see anymore contain ingredients with risks we don't want to pass on to you. They don't meet our standards. Here's why.
Almost any chemical can be an ingredient in personal care products. This includes shampoos, conditioners, lotions, cosmetics and skin and body care products. There is no required safety testing of ingredients or products.
Personal care products can make unsubstantiated claims about benefits. They may have misleading or incomplete ingredient labels. Many shoppers are unaware of this lack of regulation in the personal care industry.
PCC adopted the standards of the Natural Products Association (NPA) to protect our interests as health-conscious consumers. In 2010 the NPA created a list of ingredients not acceptable in products labeled "natural." It includes suspected carcinogens, hormone disruptors, and ingredients with other health risks. (See chart on right)
We've asked the vendors of all our skin, facial and body care products to comply with the NPA standard. Many brands at PCC already comply and PCC is working with others that are striving to become compliant by reformulating. PCC has discontinued brands and products that are choosing not to comply.
We're also welcoming back brands that have reformulated to meet NPA standards. Kiss My Face, for instance, has reformulated its liquid soaps, bath and shower gels, and shaving creams. Desert Essence has reformulated products that previously didn't meet NPA standards. Avalon Organics has reformulated most of its line and is working on the rest.
Without the diligence of our merchandisers and support from PCC shoppers like you, this wouldn't have happened. We want cleaner, safer products and we need your continued support to keep them on our shelves.
In categories of products, such as toothpaste, that may contain an ingredient that doesn't meet NPA standards, we provide choices. The ingredient sodium laurel sulfate (SLS), for example, does not meet NPA standards and is pervasive in toothpaste, shampoo and deodorant. SLS is not in any shampoos at PCC or the vast majority of toothpaste brands we sell, such as Comvita, Coral White, Desert Essence, Ecodent, Essential Oxygen, Heritage, Kiss My Face, Nature's Answer, Organix, Nature's Gate and Burt's Bees. Most Tom's of Maine toothpastes still contain SLS, except the ones labeled Clean & Gentle.
About the standard
Products that meet the NPA standard for "natural" have ingredients that "come or are made from a renewable resource found in nature (flora, fauna, mineral), with absolutely no petroleum compounds." The NPA website currently lists 806 ingredients as safe, and there could be more. The NPA seal may appear on a label only if at least 95 percent of a product's ingredients meet the NPA standard.
A synthetic non-natural ingredient can be used only when there is not a readily available natural alternative ingredient and only when there are no suspected human health risks.
"We periodically review these synthetic ingredients to determine if natural alternatives are commercially available," says Cara Welch, Ph.D., vice president of scientific & regulatory affairs at NPA.
The standard also states that a company must be fully transparent, listing its ingredients "accurately and truthfully." This is not standard practice in the industry.
The NPA standard does not allow animal testing for ingredients or final products. It also requires that companies strive to use only recyclable or post-recycled packaging.
The NPA website lists 37 banned ingredients, "but really any synthetic ingredient that isn't specifically allowed is prohibited," says Dr. Welch.
Prohibited ingredients include parabens, SLS; sodium laureth sulfate, petrolatum/mineral oil/paraffin, chemical sunscreens (avobenzone/oxybenzone), glycols, phthalates, and formaldehyde donors. Many of these chemicals are known carcinogens, hormone disruptors and toxic irritants.
The research
It's good so many natural choices are available, given the growing body of research showing that chemicals in conventional products can have serious negative health impacts.
"Personal care products may be the primary exposure route for many chemicals that raise significant health concerns," said Jane Houlihan, vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group in testimony before Congress in 2008.
According to the Campaign for Safer Cosmetics, "research indicates that many personal care products ... contain chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, skin problems and other health effects." Pthalates, for example, which are common in cosmetics, soaps, perfumes, hair products and nail polishes, are hormone disruptors linked to birth deformities, reproductive problems and cancer.
New research indicates the chemicals in conventional products also are linked to obesity. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D., calls chemicals such as phthalates, "chemical calories" because they can mimic hormones and prevent normal hormonal responses that impact metabolism.
A recent report in "Obesity Reviews" analyzed 450 studies on hormone disruptors and obesity and found nearly every study showed a strong correlation between the two, especially when subjects were exposed to the chemicals in utero or as young children.
"Endocrine disruptors may play a significant role in obesity," says the report's author, Jeanett Tang-Peronard, although she acknowledges the research is just in its infancy. Remember, there's no required safety testing of ingredients or products, and only a few of the tens of thousands of known environmental chemicals have been tested for an association with obesity.
The environment and other animals also suffer from chemicals in personal care products. The hormone-disrupting chemicals in shampoos, for example, may not be removed by water treatment systems after they wash down your drain. Eventually they join the watershed, and damage fish (at least), causing male fish to grow ovaries.
One study looked at the fish downstream from where treated sewage was released into a river. Researchers discovered female fish outnumbered males 9 to 1, a disparity attributed to hormone disruptors in the water.
Scandals involving mercury in face cream, formaldehyde in hair products, and lead in lipstick have people calling for meaningful regulations of body care products.
In March, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held the first Congressional hearing on safety in cosmetics in more than 30 years. Three legislative proposals are circulating including the Safe Cosmetics Act, which would phase out carcinogenic and reproductive toxins in cosmetics, provide a safety standard, require full disclosure of ingredients, and give Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to recall dangerous products from the market.
The bill is being supported by more than 100 consumer, public health, medical, faith and environmental groups.
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Dwight Schrute Spoofs The Two And A Half Men Kid's Meltdown
I didn't even know The Office was still on the air. But its just great to see that other actors think the Kid From Two And A Half Men is an asshole too. Like I'd love to just hear Darryl speak freely about what he thinks of that prick. Would love to hear some actor who went on thousands of failed auditions before they ever found a home on a TV speak about that ungrateful shitbag bashing his own show. Specifically Danny Devito. Would love to hear him talk about his failed auditions and finally making it big despite being 4 feet wide and 4 feet tall and how he's now completely throwing his standards and dignity out the window for Always Sunny. Compare that to this fat fuck kid who got handed millions for being awful and doesn't appreciate it one shred.
PS – I love his family talking about how the kid was "brainwashed" and shit by the church. Uh, thats not an excuse. If you get brainwashed into becoming an asshole then you're just a mental midget who's still an asshole. Being "brainwashed" just means you're an idiot who believes stupid shit.


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Fillip 16: Berlin Launch
May 30, 2012, 7 pm / Fillip and Motto Berlin are pleased to present a special launch event for the sixteenth issue of Fillip magazine with contributing artist Olaf Nicolai, writer Patricia Reed, and Fillip Associate Editor Antonia Hirsch.
Colour is a major factor in a magazine's "shelf appeal" and Fillip magazine, though a publication more aligned with academic journals, has more than a few times been advised to "go colour" in order to facilitate a larger sales volume. Olaf Nicolai's project for our new issue, 2500 × Fillip 16, subverts this market pressure by causing the magazine to be printed in colour—yet this application of colour is undelineated and flows across the spectrum of the rainbow as well as across the page regardless of the printed content. The printing technique used to achieve this effect is called split fountain printing; with a history that stretches back to the inception of the art of printmaking, it gained renewed currency in the 1960s and '70s as a method to introduce colour in printed material without having to go through the expensive four-plate colour process. With its evocative, quasi-psychedelic effect, the technique was particularly popular in a countercultural context.
Olaf Nicolai's project for the Intangible Economies series extends the artist's existing research interests, previously explored in such works as Warum frauen gerne stoffe kaufen, die sich gut anfuehlen (Why women like to buy fabric that feels good to the touch) (2011), and Considering a Multiplicity of Appearances in Light of a Particular Aspect of Relevance. Or: Can Art Be Concrete? (ongoing in varying formats since 2006). These works consider the role of colour as an agent to activate affect as a consumer incentive. Nicolai's project for Fillip 16 also represents another instance of the artist's ongoing infatuation with print media in general through which he consistently mobilizes production techniques in order to articulate conceptual concerns. The printing technique used in 2500 × Fillip 16 causes each single copy of Fillip magazine's sixteenth issue to become
a unique original as no printed copy is exactly like the other. Accordingly, the affective power of colour in relation to consumer behaviour is complicated by questions of value and circulation vis- à-vis the unique art object.
Copies of the new issue will be available at the launch, as will Olaf Nicolai's new Irisdruck edition, Fillip Poster One and Two, produced in tandem with Fillip 16.
Olaf Nicolai is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. His work has been exhibited at documenta X, the Sydney Biennale, and the 51st Venice Biennale, as well as at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, among others.
Antonia Hirsch is Associate Editor at Fillip.
News and Events Archives
- Slide Shows at X Marks the Bökship 2013-10-19
- Institutions by Arists Launch at Et al. 2013-04-07
- Intangible Economies at Artists Space 2013-02-07
- Institutions by Artists 2012-10-12
- Intangible Economies at Art Berlin Contemporary 2012-09-16
- Sumi Ink Club 2012-08-18
- Grouper: Sleep 2012-08-16
- Robert Ashley Speaking Thru Will Holder 2012-06-14
- Fillip 16: Berlin Launch 2012-05-30
- Fillip 16: Toronto Launch 2012-05-01
- Pa/per View Art Book Fair 2012-03-23
- It's a Book, It's a Stage, It's a Public Place 2012-03-17
- Destroy All Monsters Screening 2012-02-25
- Fillip at ARCO Experts Forum 2012-02-18
- Intangible Economies 2011-11-18
- Quiz Night 2011-10-12
- David Horvitz: Room 129 2011-06-02
- Recent Publications 2011-04-28
- Of Times Recent and Distant 2011-03-30
- Secondary Information: The Persistence and Absence of Criticism 2011-03-19
- The AAAARG Library 2010-11-04
- Everything is Dangerous 2010-10-28
- Fillip 12 Now Available 2010-10-01
- Unter dem Motto 2010-09-03
- International Chilliwack Biennial 2010-07-28
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- Motto Storefront: Oscar Tuazon 2010-06-26
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A record entry of 61 has been received for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday, March 14.
The absence of Big Buck's, winner of the last four renewals, means the champion trainer will have to find a new leading stayer among his team of six.
Classy chaser Kauto Stone and Lexus Chase winner Tidal Bay feature among his possible contenders along with Aaim To Prosper, Celestial Halo, Prospect Wells and Wonderful Charm.
Long Walk Hurdle winner Reve De Sivola is there for Nick Williams and Mark Bradstock has entered the novice Coneygree.
Nicky Henderson has Oscar Whisky, Riverside Theatre and Oscara Dara among his seven entries while Willie Mullins has 10, with Quevega given the option although she is reportedly going to bid for a fifth successive win in the OLBG.com David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle.
Thousand Stars and Zaidpour are also in Mullins' team.
Noel Meade's Monksland looks a major player after winning the Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown and he is on target for the race and will go straight there.
"All is well with him at the moment and the plan is to run Monksland in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle. I am just giving him an easy time - a bit of break - and then we will start building him up for Cheltenham," said Meade.
"We were hopeful he would get the three miles at Leopardstown because he was staying on well in the Hatton's Grace Hurdle, but maybe the way the race was run suited us.
"The leader went off at a hell of a gallop and perhaps the favourite followed him sooner than he should have, but Paul (Carberry) was very good on Monksland.
"With Big Buck's out of it, the World Hurdle has opened up. Monksland obviously stays well, but he isn't a slow horse and has the speed to win over two miles.
"The plan is not to run him before Cheltenham and we are hoping there could be a bit more improvement to come from him.
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A Graceful Movie About Painful Loss Due to War
Movie review of Grace is Gone, official entry of the Sundance Film Festival
By Stacy Dymalski
It's no secret that the bulk of American people are disillusioned with the War in Iraq. What started out as a nationwide united front on the war on terror has now morphed into a concerned country that wants nothing more than their sons, daughters, husbands and wives to come home safely. The war on terror is even more terrifying when it creeps down to an average American's miniscule level and takes away their loved ones. Unfortunately, for those with friends and relatives stationed in the Middle East, homeland security has come to mean losing the security of having your family at home, sometimes forever.
Which is exactly the point of the Sundance competition film Grace is Gone, written and directed by James C. Strouse, and starring John Cusack, who also executive produced the film. In this illustration of how an everyday family deals with the grief brought on by war, Cusack plays Stanley Phillips, a red, white, and blue American who supports the efforts made by the good ole U.S. of A. to ensure world peace. Stanley himself had planned to make a career in the military, but was blind sighted when he didn't pass the eye exam. As a result, he was discharged early, but not before he met his wife, Grace, who also is as patriotic as fireworks on the Fourth of July.
Stanley and Grace get married and have a couple of daughters, who are now (in the movie) ages 12 and eight. The twist in this story is that after Stanley comes home to civilian life, Grace continues her career in the military, and ends up serving in Iraq. Stanley has an uneventful job as a manager at a home improvement store, while raising his daughters as a temporarily single parent. All very middle American, except that mom is off fighting a war on foreign soil.
A few minutes into the story Stanley gets the news that Grace has been killed in the line of duty. Stunned and devastated, Stanley spends the rest of the film trying to figure out how he will tell his daughters. A small act, you may think, but given the emotional enormity of this task, it makes you stop and wonder, how does a father tell his little girls they'll never see their mother again because she's been killed in a war that the nation, and maybe even he himself, has lost faith in? When is a person ever equipped to handle that? How do you justify to 12 and eight-year-old children that Mom will never again attend their piano recitals? Chaperone a field trip? Sit at the dinner table?
Stanley is at a loss. Unable to think straight, he embarks on a road trip with the girls to a Florida amusement park. The girls go along with it, but they can tell there's something up with Dad because he's acting so weird; one minute being dangerously over indulgent, the next yelling at them for the smallest things.
Cusack does a very believable job as an average father who initially doesn't have the strength to tell his daughters what they need to know. We see from the beginning (before he learns his wife is dead) that Stanley is emotionally stunted, going through the daily motions of a job he doesn't like, living a lonely life he wishes could be different. Given this brief set-up, we understand why he can't bring himself to be open and honest with his daughters; he's probably never been open and honest about anything with anyone. I personally like the character subtlety Cusack chose. It might have been too over-the-top for Stanley to start out as a happy man, who turns into an overly dramatic emotional pile after his wife's death. Instead he's just an average guy, ill-equipped to deal with the tragic circumstances at hand, simply trying to maintain some sort of normalcy until he can figure out how to share this trauma with his daughters. What exactly is the blueprint for a person faced with this experience? Who can really say until they've gone through it?
In addition to Cusack, Shélan O'Keefe and Gracie Bednarczky as the daughters fill out the family triangle. O'Keefe in particular is great as a preteen who questions her father, but still is not old enough to have the confidence to stand up to him and demand to know what's going on. Instead, she handles her confusion in a normal preteen way with defiant passive aggressive outbursts. Being a parent of a child this exact same age, I find her behavior to ring absolutely true to character.
Many critics will say this film is overly emotional, but given the subject matter, I don't know how you could eliminate the emotion and still portray the pain of these characters. Unlike other movies about loss due to war, this story is on such a personal level, that an audience would be robbed if emotion weren't front and center. I will concede, however, that the musical score was a bit unnecessarily sappy. The writing and performances were strong enough to stand on their own without the inclusion of the cliché, soap-opera style piano gushing in the background. As far music is concerned, less would have been more in this case.
However, this small criticism isn't enough to take away from the impact of the film. In Grace is Gone we get to experience an aspect of war we seldom see or hear about in the news; that being the permanent mark it leaves on the average human being we pass on the street. This graceful little movie gives us insight into a situation we all hope we never have to personally endure.


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Developmental mechanisms regulating gene expression and the stable acquisition of cell fate direct cytodifferentiation during organogenesis. Moreover, it is likely that such mechanisms could be exploited to repair or regenerate damaged organs. DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) are enzymes critical for epigenetic regulation, and are used in concert with histone methylation and acetylation to regulate gene expression and maintain genomic integrity and chromosome structure. We carried out two forward genetic screens for regulators of endodermal organ development. In the first, we screened for altered morphology of developing digestive organs, while in the second we screed for the lack of terminally differentiated cell types in the pancreas and liver. From these screens, we identified two mutant alleles of zebrafish dnmt1. Both lesions are predicted to eliminate dnmt1 function; one is a missense mutation in the catalytic domain and the other is a nonsense mutation that eliminates the catalytic domain. In zebrafish dnmt1 mutants, the pancreas and liver form normally, but begin to degenerate after 84 h post fertilization (hpf). Acinar cells are nearly abolished through apoptosis by 100 hpf, though neither DNA replication, nor entry into mitosis is halted in the absence of detectable Dnmt1. However, endocrine cells and ducts are largely spared. Surprisingly, dnmt1 mutants and dnmt1 morpholino-injected larvae show increased capacity for pancreatic beta cell regeneration in an inducible model of pancreatic beta cell ablation. Thus, our data suggest that Dnmt1 is dispensable for pancreatic duct or endocrine cell formation, but not for acinar cell survival. In addition, Dnmt1 may influence the differentiation of pancreatic beta cell progenitors or the reprogramming of cells toward the pancreatic beta cell fate.
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Waxy has been threatened with a alwsuit by Walt Disney (which holds the rights to Queen's music and trademarks) for linking to a site where you can download the stunningly good Night and the Hip-Hopera, a staggering mashup of Queen's music with basically everything. These are the links that got Waxy threatened:
01 - Precession.mp3Here's what Waxy has to say about it:
02 - See.mp3
03 - Live.mp3
04 - Bite.mp3
05 - Jazz.mp3
06 - Rock.mp3
07 - Love.mp3
08 - Fight.mp3
09 - Fuck.mp3
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17 - Work.mp3
18 - Come.mp3
19 - Expose.mp3
20 - Jerk.mp3
21 - Save.mp3
22 - Stop.mp3
23 - Question.mp3
The irony is that I'm not even hosting the files anymore... The links on my site are all redirected to someone else's server, and have been for weeks. At any rate, I'll be forced to remove the direct links by November 23.LinkAs far as I know, I was the first person to put the DJ Dangermouse's Grey Album on the Web. Now, I see the suppression of artistic freedom again with the Kleptones album, which has always been freely-distributable and never made a dime. It's depressing to think that our horribly broken copyright law means that nobody can legally hear this album or create others like it.
The cease-and-desist is below. The album itself can still be downloaded from the mirrors on the official Kleptones site, but I'm not sure for how long. If anyone has any ideas for creative protest, now's the time.