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Graduated from Air Force Academy, Sarapul, 1944 and from the Military Fighter Pilot School, Yeis, 1945. Belyayev was in the Soviet Air Force in various units from 1945 to 1959. He was then made a squadron commander in the Naval Aviation for only a few months before being selected as a cosmonaut. Cosmonaut training completed 3 April 1961. Call sign: Almaz (Diamond). From 1966 to 1967 he was head of the Almaz cosmonaut training group. Died of complications from a stomach ulcer - pneumonia after stomach operation for an ulcer due to pancreatitis.
Birth Place: Chelizshevo, Vologda.
Status: Deceased.
Born: 1925.06.26.
Died: 1970.01.10.
Spaceflights: 1 .
Total time in space: 1.08 days.
Khrushchev also visited a secret space fair, with Korolev, Chelomei, Yangel, and Glushko presenting their rockets and spacecraft. Chelomei presented his UR-700 heavy lift design as an alternative to Korolev�s N1. This presentation was a surprise to Ustinov and Dementiev. Khrushchev ordered Chelomei to prepare a draft proposal for the design. Chelomei hoped that 12 to 18 months later, when the UR-700 draft project would be completed, the fallacy of Korolev�s N1 design would be apparent to all. Korolev�s N1 plans were also reviewed and approved at the meeting.
Over the two days, Khruschev witnessed five launches of rockets by Korolev, Yangel, and Chelomei, all of them successful. Gagarin and Belyayev explained the Vykhod spacecraft to him, and Leonov donned a spacesuit and demonstrated how he would exit into open space form the inflatable airlock and return thereafter. All went very well.
This was the last time Khrushchev saw the chief designers of the Soviet rocket industry. Despite his support for them not one of them visited him in his retirement.
That evening the contingent watches the Arabic film "Black Glasses". At the same time an incident is developing when Khrunov insists that the second crew would only train in the capsule in their spacesuits - otherwise they would report to the State Commission that they were not ready for flight. That evening's training session was cancelled as a result.
This mission was originally named 'Vykhod ('Exit/Advance'). It almost ended in disaster when Leonov was unable to reenter the airlock due to stiffness of the inflated spacesuit. He had to bleed air from the suit in order to get into the airlock. After Leonov finally managed to get back into the spacecraft cabin, the primary hatch would not seal completely. The environmental control system compensated by flooding the cabin with oxygen, creating a serious fire hazard in a craft only qualified for sea level nitrogen-oxygen gas mixes (Cosmonaut Bondarenko had burned to death in a ground accident in such circumstances, preceding the Apollo 204 disaster by many years). Additional Details: here....
The recovery forces want to have a helicopter pick up the cosmonauts from the landing site, meaning hoisting them from a hover at an altitude of 5 to 6 m. Rudenko vetoes this idea due to the poor visibility, insisting they must be evacuated in snowmobiles. When he is told this is impossible, he becomes adamant that they must wait for conditions to improve. This is ridiculous. Kamanin believes there will be hell to pay if the cosmonauts have to spend a second night in the forest at a landing point only 70-80 km from the capital of the oblast.
Kamanin is furious. Mishin and Tyulin think an engineer can be trained to be a spacecraft commander in three months, without passing a flight physical, without being a qualifed pilot, without screening and training on the centrifuge or zero-G aircraft, and without parachute training. They put no value in six years of VVS experience in cosmonaut training. They give no weight to the years of general training, spaceflight experience, and ten months of Soyuz-specific training his candidates have already had. He notes that the United States trains crews for a minimum of one to two years before a flight. Kamanin says this decision will not stand.
A Zenit-2 spy satellite capsule has gone off course, splashed down in the Volga River, and sunk. Vershinin is in the hospital with intestinal polyps. Kamanin is reminded of Korolev's case, although he is told Vershinin's condition is not serious. There is criticism of the botched Zenit-2 recovery from Kutakhov. Meanwhile the Central Committee has decided to take no action on Czechoslovakia but send a letter to the Czech Communist Party. Kamanin is sick of this limp-wristed talk, talk, talk.
Kamanin also reviews the government decree on the DOS-7K space station program. The Ministry of Defence is against it - they want to continue with the Almaz and Soyuz VI projects already underway. DOS will bring both of these to a halt. This is a repeat of the situation in 1967. Kozlov was making good progress on the original Soyuz VI, when it was killed by Mishin. Now three years later Mishin's Soyuz VI is put on the back burner. The Soyuz 7K-OK is still the only manned program brought to completion. Kamanin blames all this on Ustinov and Smirnov's stupid political manoeuvring. The DOS decree has not one word on the training of cosmonauts for these space station missions...


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BELLINGHAM — Before Stephen Trinkaus slapped "GMO Alert!" labels on dozens of products in his Bellingham grocery store, he asked customers what they wanted.
The choices were: do nothing, label products that contain genetically modified ingredients (GMO stands for genetically modified organisms) or get rid of the items altogether.
Customers overwhelmingly chose labels, which began appearing on Terra Organica's shelves in March.
Trinkaus' customers made their decision ahead of Washington voters, who are likely to decide this fall whether they want food companies to label products with genetically modified ingredients. That could change if the Legislature takes action on Initiative 522 in a special session, but it is not expected to.
Labeling supporters say GMOs raise health and environmental concerns because many are designed to withstand weed-killing herbicides. They also say not enough research has been made public about the plants.
Labeling opponents say such crops can boost the food supply and that genetic modification has taken place for centuries in the form of grafting trees and selecting crops for certain traits.
The GMO labeling issue is heating up nationally as well.
Washington is among more than 20 states with GMO labeling efforts under way after the rejection of a labeling proposition by California voters last year.
A nationwide labeling bill was introduced in Congress last week by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.
Executives from big biotechnology developers Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical told Reuters they plan to fight back with a campaign to stem growing consumer concerns about GMOs.
In Washington, where the campaign is in its early stages, labeling supporters say they have raised more than $1 million so far, compared with about $1,000 for labeling opponents.
Meanwhile, some retailers are choosing voluntary GMO bans and labels.
In March, Whole Foods Market announced its suppliers have until 2018 to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients. Trader Joe's says it does not allow GMO ingredients in its private-label products, and some smallergrocers have begun eliminating or labeling GMO products as well.
Processed products
Although most food is not genetically modified — for example, most whole fruits and vegetables are not — GMO ingredients can be found in a lot of processed products.
In the United States, 93 percent of the soybeans planted are genetically modified, according to the USDA. Similarly, 94 percent of cotton and 88 percent of field corn are genetically modified. More than 90 percent of canola is, according to researchers, as well as at least 85 percent of the sugar-beet crop.
That means most common ingredients made from those crops — noncane sugars, cottonseed oil, aspartame, lactic acid, modified food starch — are genetically modified.
Although the Gates Foundation and others are working on GMO crops with heightened nutritional benefits, those now in production are modified primarily to resist certain pesticides and herbicides. That means the crop will not die when sprayed with the herbicides and pesticides, but everything else — namely, weeds — will.
Some manufacturers test for GMO content after processing, which in many cases, such as with canola oil, can destroy the GMO markers. That makes it impossible to know if the ingredient is genetically modified, according to the Non-GMO Project.
Others send statements on company letterhead saying they have tested it. "They can't give me a paper trail that's convincing," Trinkaus said.
Nonprofit grows
That's where the Non-GMO Project comes in.
Like organic certifiers before the USDA developed a standardized organic label, the project has compiled its own set of criteria to determine if a product is non-GMO.
Megan Westgate, executive director of the Bellingham-based nonprofit, started it in 2006 with interest from retailers. The organization, the primary third-party certifier of non-GMO ingredients on U.S. shelves, requires testing of ingredients using private laboratories before they are processed.
The cost of testing averages a few hundred dollars per product, depending on the number of ingredients and facilities in which they're being produced.
Typically, the label, which says "Non-GMO Project Verified," appears on the front of a package along with the project's website address.

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Ever since she had her long locks chopped off on camera for a dramatic Les Miserables scene, Anne Hathaway has been setting a raging pixie cut trend. As the award winning actress gushed over her Golden Globe win last night, we were fixed on her classic, almost Audrey-esque look that included a perfectly styled pixie, effortlessly gorgeous face and breathtaking Chanel gown.
As evidenced by the red carpet, hair trends seem to be going the way of either super short or extra long, but not too much in between. If you're daring enough to try Anne's look on yourself, here are a few things to get you started (Chanel not included.)
Pixie cuts aren't a challenge to style if you have a stylist who knows what he or she is doing. Once you have the right cut, styling it is pretty much a breeze.
Apply a texturizing spray like Short Sexy Hair Play Dirty (middle) to damp hair and work with fingers as you blowdry. Once dry, you shouldn't need much more than a small dab of Texturizing Taffy (left), or other styling wax or putty, to give hair a piecey texture. Wrap it up with finishing hairspray (right) and call it the easiest 5-minute hairstyle of your life.
Products, from left:
Kenra Texturizing Taffy, Got Beauty
Short Sexy Hair Play Dirty texturizing spray, Classy Chassis Beauty Supply
Matrix Vavoom Freezing Spray, Got Beauty
Keep the fresh and natural look with a subtle matte pink and taupe shadow combo like Urban Decay's Naked Basics palette. Line eyes using a small angled brush and M.A.C.'s 'Apres Chic' longwear eyeliner in Rich Experience (a dark brown). Top it off with a petal pink lip color like this one by Bobby Brown.
Products, from left:
Urban Decay Naked Basics eyeshadow palette, Ulta
M.A.C Pro 'Apres Chic' Longwear Eyeliner in Rich Experience, Nordstrom
Bobby Brown Rich Lip Color in Uber Pink, Sephora
Photo of Anne Hathaway from 2013 Golden Globe awards by Steve Granitz/Getty Images


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3A No. 5 Yorktown (2-0) at 4A No. 3 New Palestine (2-0)
GAME TIME: Friday, 7:30 p.m.
BROADCAST: Dragon Radio at newpalestineathletics.com.
COACHES: Mike Wilhelm, 55-45 in 10th year at Yorktown. Kyle Ralph, 15-1 in 2nd year at New Palestine.
SAGARIN RATINGS: New Palestine, 82.65, 15th overall, 4th in Class 4A. Yorktown, 72.82, 51st overall, 9th in Class 3A.
LAST WEEK: Yorktown defeated Muncie Central, 33-6. New Palestine defeated Richmond, 42-6.
OPPONENTS' RECORDS: Yorktown 0-4, New Palestine 1-3.
LAST MEETING: New Palestine, 35-14, Sep. 27, 2013..
NOTES: NP has won 11 consecutive regular season games dating back to an Oct. 2012, 48-13 loss to Mt. Vernon … Dragons signal-caller Alex Neligh is 3rd among 4A quarterbacks with 416 yards passing this season. … New Palestine's stifling defense has allowed 6 points. LBs Sterling Curran and Noah Grable have combined for 7 sacks, the most of any 4A pair in the state. … Yorktown QB Riley Neal (Ball State commit) has 7 TD passes in 2 games. "He throws the ball incredibly well," NP coach Kyle Ralph said. "Very accurate, very poised kid. He's got great pocket presence. When he's on, he's one of the best you'll find." … Neal's favorite target has been senior receiver Clay Dungan, who has 11 catches for 89 yards and four touchdowns this season. ... Defending Hoosier Heritage Conference champ NP has possession of the HHC traveling helmet trophy.
Greenfield-Central (2-0) at Mt. Vernon (1-1)
GAME TIME: Friday 7:30 pm.
HHC: Greenfield 0-0. Mt. Vernon 0-0.
COACHES: Roger Dodson, 31-57 in 9th year at G-C, 95-116 in 22nd year overall. Doug Armstrong, 26-11 in 4th year at Mt. Vernon, 78-67 in 14th year overall.
SAGARIN RATINGS: Mt. Vernon, 49.47, 193rd overall, 42nd in Class 4A. Greenfield-Central, 49.23, 196th overall, 43rd in Class 4A.
LAST WEEK: G-C def. Northwest, 62-12. Mt. Vernon def. Marion, 42-9.
OPPONENTS' RECORDS: Greenfield-Central 1-3, Mt. Vernon 2-2.
NOTES: Since 2007, G-C is 4-4 against Mt. Vernon. Six of the eight games have been decided by six points or less. ... Mt. Vernon is without QB/S Pete Werner (leg, 5-6 weeks), RB/CB Jordan House (knee, 3-4 weeks) and OT Danny Stephens (knee, 2-3 weeks) ... Greenfield hasn't won 3 straight games since winning 4 in a row in Weeks 4-7 of 2011.
Class 3A No. 9 Indian Creek (2-0) at Class A No. 11 Eastern Hancock (1-1)
GAME TIME: Friday, 7 p.m.
MIFC: Indian Creek 1-0. Eastern Hancock 1-0.
COACHES: Mike Gillin, 119-35 in 14th year at Indian Creek, 285-107 in 36th year overall. Jim O'Hara, 1-1 in 1st year at Eastern Hancock, 88-49 in 13th year overall.
SAGARIN RATINGS: Indian Creek, 71.41, 60th overall, 12th in Class 3A. E. Hancock, 65.39, 96th overall, 5th in Class 1A.
LAST WEEK: Indian Creek defeated Greenwood, 15-14. Eastern Hancock defeated South Decatur, 37-6.
OPPONENTS' RECORDS: Indian Creek 2-2, EH 3-1.
SERIES LAST 20 YEARS: Indian Creek, 10-2.
LAST MEETING: Eastern Hancock, 33-25, Sep. 6, 2013.
NOTES: Eastern Hancock's 8-point win against Indian Creek last season was its smallest margin of victory the entire year. EH went on to win the Mid-Indiana Football Conference title… Last week, the Royals' Cooper Henderson totaled 185 rushing and receiving yards, a career-high. … EH's 4 interceptions lead all Class A schools. …. Indian Creek is the largest school the Royals will face, and the Braves' lineman might be the largest physically. The IC offensive line averages 6'3, 265 pounds. "Dealing with that size will be a challenge," Eastern Hancock coach Jim O'Hara said. "But we're small, and we're quick, and we're crazy, so we're going to apply that mentality to our game plan and hope to slow them down." … Indian Creek junior QB Gynson Robley has thrown for the fourth most passing yards (469) of any other Indiana 3A quarterback. His QB rating of 137.5, boosted by a 4:0 TD:INT ratio, is third among 3A QBs with at least 30 attempts.


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The Loves of Kate Livingston is a historic novel, fast paced, romantic, steamy, and escapist reading. Set in 1915 our feisty heroine travels from the debutant balls in Newport to Yellowstone National Park, San Francisco, Hawaii, Paris, New York and the front lines of WWI. Kate wants her life to have meaning, her mother needs her to marry the richest bachelor she can find, fast! Her sweet roommate Lucy is the daughter of Hawaiian missionaries. Abigail, posing as chaperon to the younger girls, is on her way to San Francisco to find her brother. Little does she know he trades in human flesh. There is beauty, music and romance in the world of society. There is tragedy and violence in the Chinese slave trade, sensuous longing under the palm trees in Hawaii and death waiting in the front lines of France. The women find redemption in the arms of the men who love them and in lives and passions experienced to the fullest.
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 372
Published: 30th November 2009
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Midfielder JJ Koval of the Stanford men's soccer team was one of 50 U.S. Division I seniors invited to the 2014 adidas Major League Soccer Player Combine, MLS announced Wednesday. The combine is set for Jan. 10-14 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
The 2014 MLS SuperDraft is scheduled for Jan. 16 at 9 a.m. PT in Philadelphia.
The 50 seniors were selected by a committee consisting of NCAA Division I coaches and MLS representatives. They will be joined at the adidas MLS Player Combine by other seniors, including from lower NCAA divisions, underclassmen who sign Generation adidas contracts and other international invitees.
Koval, the Cardinal captain in 2013, was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team after leading the Cardinal to a 10-7-4 overall record and the program's first NCAA Tournament since 2009. Stanford would advance all the way to the Round of 16 before falling at No. 2 Washington on Dec. 1.
This past season Koval was again one of the top holding midfielders and aerialists in the Pac-12. The Camarillo native also made his presence felt in the attacking third, scoring a pair of goals and assisting on another while taking 51 shots, second-most on the team. Koval's assist came in a familiar situation, as he won a 50-50 ball which was picked up and bolted home by Aaron Kovar for the winner in a 2-1 overtime victory over No. 5 California that sealed the Cardinal's berth into the NCAA Tournament.


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Rheugene James Branton
Position: WR
Height: 6-4 Weight: 223 lbs.
Born: November 23, 1960 in Tampa, FL
High School: C. Leon King
College: Texas Southern (school history)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 6th round (148th overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)


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Golden Gate Estates
Golden Gate Estates History
A developer in the 1960s had the ambitious plans to create the world's largest subdivision, and he did it by converting 80 square miles of swamplands. Do you want to buy some swampland? Yes, that is how that old adage came about. The developer dredged miles of cannels through the wet lands, allowing standing waters to funnel and flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Home lots in Golden Gate Estates were originally plotted to be at least an acre in size, with many being much larger. In later years, Collier County mandated that a plot of land in that area could not be subdivided into less than than 2.5 acres
Many of the original owners made land purchases sight unseen, through the developer's telemarketing efforts. The developer eventually went belly-up, and home building of any significance did not start until the late 1970s.
Golden Gate Estates Area
Golden Gate Estates Today
Living in Golden Gate Estates is large-lot, rural living. Homes are on well water and septic systems. Streets do not have curbs, sidewalks or streetlights. Residents in Golden Gate Estates can pretty much do their own thing as there is not an homeowners association governing things. If you want a mansion, a barn, a couple of goats, or a dump truck park on the property - go for it.
A home's location in Golden Gate Estates might be an hours drive to Olde Naples. That is how vast it is, yet it still has a Naples Florida mailing address. The eastern edge of Golden Gate Estates can be miles from gas stations, stores and other services. And plans are for it to remain that way.
The very western edges are close to everything. The further west the property is located in Golden Gate Estates, the more valuable it is. The further east, or remote, then not so valuable. The western sections of Golden Gate Estates would have fewer vacant lots. The eastern sections would have many vacant lots. Some streets in the eastern sections of Golden Gate Estates might have only a couple of homes on it.
Residents in Golden Gate Estates consists primarily of the local workforce. If you have a light budget and need a single family home, just keep driving east in Golden Gate Estates until you reach the distance where they are affordable. Second home owners make up a small percentage of the owners. These would be second home owners that want the great Naples weather, and also value the benefits of large-lot rural living. The trade-off is the same, if the budget can not afford a home at the western edges of Golden Gate Estates, then keep driving east until it becomes affordable.
Values in Golden Gate Estates
Similar to all of Naples, the value of property in Golden Gate Estates depends significantly on its location. The further west the greater the value. But in addition, a lot in Golden Gate Estates could be wet or dry. If it sits lower by a few feet it could be mostly wetlands, or it sits higher by a few feet it could be dry. A lot that is mostly wetlands would have standing water on it for much of the summer months. In that case, an owner would need to haul in tons of fill (rock) to raise the driveway and home site. This would keep the home above standing water during the rainy season. An owner with a lot that is mostly or completely dry, could have full use of the property throughout the year. Swimming pools, tennis courts, work shed, tropically landscaping or whatever. And would need little fill to build.
Values in Golden Gates Estates rose and fell along with the rest of the Naples area. Lot values in the western sections of Golden Gate Estate were at higher values than eastern section. Lot values in the eastern sections are lower but rose and fell along with the other sections.
Average Selling Price per Acre by Year
Western Golden Gate Estates vs. Eastern Golden Gate Estates
The source of the information in the chart above, is from the proprietary database compilation of SunshineMLS, LLC - Naples' Multiple Listing Service. The accuracy of this information on Naples Florida Real Estate is not warranted or guaranteed.


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Coast to Coast CaravanJune 29, 2006, marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Even though this system profoundly altered our society by changing the way we move people and goods, there is an increasing percentage of Iowans living today that cannot remember our nation without an interstate system, often taking it for granted.
To assist in raising awareness about the importance of this highway system and its needs, the Iowa Department of Transportation joined the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) of Washington, D.C. and several member states in co-sponsoring a celebratory transcontinental motor caravan in June 2006.
The caravan began in San Francisco, Calif. and ended in Washington, D.C., traveling nearly 3,000 miles along the interstate system on a route parallel to that taken by Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower in 1919 during his epic transcontinental military cavalcade. Eisenhower acknowledged that this trek laid the foundation for his belief that the nation required an efficient interstate highway system. (Click here to see the 2006 caravan route map).
Eisenhower crossed Iowa in 1919, where his soldiers battled days of engine-clogging dust, and bridges and culverts that collapsed under the weight of their heavy trucks. Despite the difficulties the troops encountered, the caravan was greeted by throngs of welcoming Iowans who supplied them with bountiful Iowa hospitality.
While many things have changed since that precarious trip in 1919, the hospitality of Iowans has endured. When the transcontinental caravan crossed Iowa in 2006, we had the opportunity to welcome the national delegation. AASHTO scheduled stops in Urbandale and Walcott, where media events were held.
Both events were tremendous successes, drawing hundreds of supporters from local communities and beyond


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Pumpkin Chawanmushi
I haven't been posting or blog visiting for a while because I just had wisdom tooth surgery last Friday (still ouch!). So amidst recuperating at home, sleeping at 10pm every night, catching up on some work, and playing fable2 on xbox360, I didn't have a lot of online time left. And sadly, one of my beloved hamsters Nikole passed away suddenly yesterday, which couldn't come at a worse time (not that anytime is a good time) T_T
No matter how busy life becomes, Halloween comes but once a year, so how can one miss cooking with pumpkin at this time of the year? Glad I still managed to sneak in some pumpkin into the cooking and make these adorable, (post-surgery-chew-friendly) pumpkin chawanmushi. The addition of pumpkin sweetens up this popular Japanese appetizer.
For those who aren't familiar, Chawanmushi (茶碗蒸し) is egg custard that's steamed in a tea cup and usually consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce, sake and dashi. It is a traditional Japanese dish, commonly eaten as an appetizer. It can be eaten either hot and cool with a small spoon. I love to order this when I go to Japanese restaurants, but I realised that making it at home isn't difficult at all and you can make all kinds of variations like this pumpkin variation by tweaking the basic recipe.
(makes 3-4 cups)
A) For the egg custard mixture::
– 3 eggs (4 if the eggs are small)
– 1 2/3 cups (about 250ml) kombu and bonito stock
– 1 tsp sugar
– 2 tsp sake or white cooking wine
– 3/4 to 1 tbsp light soy sauce
B) Filling::
– Kamaboko fish cake slices
– 4 large Prawns, de-shelled and de-veined
– feel free to add other ingredients (such as mushrooms, chicken, Imitation sharks fin, gingko nuts etc)
– 80g (raw) pumpkin flesh (skin and seeds removed)
1. Blend the pumpkin until smooth using a blender.
2. Break the eggs into the bowl. Gently stir the eggs with a pair of chopsticks using a cutting action.
3. Add the rest of the ingredients from A to the eggs mixture, as well as 50g of blended pumpkin. Blend the mixture till fine. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
4. Place fish cakes, chopped prawns and other ingredients at the bottom of each cup and pour the egg mixture over (do not fill to the brim, leave some gap on top).
5. Cover the cups with lids, transparent food wrap or aluminum foil (do not leave an opening).
6. Steam the cups over high heat for about 10 mins. To test if the chawanmushi is cooked, insert a bamboo stick into the mixture: if a little clear liquid comes out, it is cooked.
7. Steam the remaining blended pumpkin and 1 large prawn (half) for 5 minutes. Garnish on top of chawanmushi. You can also add some ebikko (egg roe) to garnish if you wish.
Cooking Notes:
– Straining the mixture through a fine sieve prevents bubbles from forming on the surface of the custard.
– You can cheat by buying instant powdered kombu and bonito stock (I did!), or you can also make it from scratch.
– Use a ceramic material for steaming the egg custard. Plastic material will melt during steaming. I bought my tea cups at Daiso.
– When steaming the cups, make sure they are sealed, other wise the evaporating droplets will land on the custard during steaming and cause unsightly bubbles.
Related Recipe
– Basic Chawanmushi


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STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford returns home after three weeks on the road to play host to No. 10/10 Washington.
The series begins Thursday at 8 p.m. (PT), continues Friday at 7 p.m. and concludes Saturday at 7 p.m. Thursday's game will be televised on ESPNU and Saturday's game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
The Cardinal dropped three games last week at No. 10/10 Arizona. The Cardinal fell 18-12 in a thrilling game Friday to open the series, lost 12-3 on Saturday and dropped a difficult 5-3 decision in eight innings on Sunday.
Erin Ashby paced Stanford offensively, hitting .600 (3-for-5) with two home runs, three RBI, five walks and a 1.800 slugging percentage. Kylie Sorenson also had a good weekend at the plate, going 4-for-9 (.444) with a team-best six RBI, three walks and a home run.
Madi Schreyer saw a majority of the innings in the circle, going 12.2 during two games, while Kylie Sorenson and Tylyn Wells also saw time at pitcher.
Game times, live statistics and results are available via GoStanford.com.
• Washington enters the weekend 22-10 overall and 2-6 in Pac-12 play. The Huskies went 1-0 last week, defeating Seattle 11-0.
• Washington has been balanced offensively with eight players hitting .300 or higher on the season. Victoria Hayward leads the team with a .439 batting average, followed by Ali Aguilar (.372), Marki Creger-Zier (.360) and Kelli Suguro (.352). Kylee Lahners has provided a majority of the power for the Huskies with a team-high 10 home runs and .713 slugging percentage.
• Washington boasts an experienced pitching staff with seniors Bryana Walker (14-6) and Kaitlin Inglesby (6-3), and junior Kasey Stanchek (2-1). Walker has seen the majority of innings in the circle with 100.2, and holds a 1.32 ERA with 112 strikeouts and 34 walks. Inglesby holds a 2.09 ERA in 80.1 innings, while Stanchek has notched a 1.84 ERA in 19.0 innings pitched. As a staff, the Huskies have held opponents to a .225 batting average.
• Stanford is 27-37 all-time against Washington and went 1-2 against the Huskies in last year's series. The Cardinal dropped the first game last year 6-5, but responded with a 6-4 victory in the second matchup. Stanford fell 7-1 in the final game of the series. Stanford swept the series in 2012 – the Huskies most recent trip to The Farm – and went 2-1 in 2011.
• Stanford heads back on the road for a three-game series at Utah on April 17-19. The games on Thursday and Friday will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.
•Stanford is 1-2 in series-openers against Pac-12 opponents this season, defeating California 14-13, falling at Arizona State 16-15 in nine innings and dropping an 18-12 decision at Arizona.
• The Cardinal scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn the comeback victory against California (March 14). Trailing by six runs entering the top of the seventh at Arizona State, Stanford scored eight runs to take the lead. The Sun Devils scored two runs in the bottom half of the inning to send the game into extras, where it eventually earned the win (March 28).
• Six Cardinal players combined for 11 hits and Stanford held the lead through the middle portion of the game, but Arizona capitalized on two grand slams to earn the victory (April 4).
• Stanford has taken leads into the bottom of the seventh inning but been unable to hold on for the victory in each of its past two series finales. The Cardinal led the first six-and-a-half innings at Arizona State and took a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh before the Sun Devils rallied for five runs – including a walk-off three-run home run – to claim a comeback victory.
• Bessie Noll delivered a solo home run in the top of the seventh to put Stanford up 3-2 at Arizona, but the Wildcats responded with a run in the bottom half of the inning to send the game to extras. After Stanford was unable to capitalize on a bases-loaded situation in the top of the eighth, Arizona's Katiyana Mauga delivered a walk-off two-run home run to take the victory and sweep the series.
• The Cardinal has received votes in every regular-season poll for more than a decade. Stanford is receiving votes in both polls this week.
• Stanford's five-member freshman class has made significant contributions throughout the season:
• Madi Schreyer (17-7) has been strong in the circle, holding a 2.83 ERA with 129 strikeouts and just 67 earned runs in 166.0 innings pitched. She has held opponents to a .238 batting average, and of the 156 hits she has allowed, only 30 have gone for extra bases.
• Kylie Sorenson has been outstanding at shortstop and leads the team in batting average (.387), doubles (14), walks (30), slugging percentage (.642) and on-base percentage (.525) on the season. She ranks second on the team in RBI (32) and third in hits (41). She has become Stanford's second pitcher due to injuries and has pitched 36.0 innings, notching a 2-3 record with one save and a 6.22 ERA.
• Bessie Noll joined the team from Tokyo, Japan, with three summers of softball experience and an elite background in baseball. Noll has transitioned nicely on The Farm, batting .327 with 21 RBI, 31 runs, 7 doubles and three home runs.
• Lauren Bertoy and Carley Hoover have also made strong contributions this season. Bertoy has primarily played at second base and pinch-hit, while Hoover has made five appearances in the circle.
• While Madi Schreyer has been carrying a majority of the load in the circle, Stanford's pitching options have been limited due to injuries. This has led to a "pitching by committee" situation in which four Cardinal players that typically do not pitch, have spent time in the circle. Infielder Kylie Sorenson, utility player Kayla Bonstrom, designated player Tylyn Wells and infielder Erin Ashby have each seen innings at pitcher.
• The pitching situation has caused lineup changes in the infield with each starting infielder logging time at two or three positions during a weekend. Despite the regular shifting, the Cardinal has produced some outstanding defensive plays and holds a .956 fielding percentage.
• Leah White has been one of Stanford's most consistent players in all areas this season. The junior is second on the team with a .373 batting average, leads the team with 13 stolen bases and is second in hits (44) and on-base percentage (.464). She has been terrific defensively, starting every game in left field and recording a .967 fielding percentage.
• In conference play, White leads Stanford in batting (.433), hits (13), doubles (4), triples (1) and total bases (19). She is second on the team in RBI (10) and walks (8). She boasts a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage against Pac-12 competition.
• Erin Ashby and Kayla Bonstrom have played a majority of the time at second base and first base, respectively, and heated up offensively just in time for conference play. In the final preseason tournament before Pac-12 competition, Ashby went 9-for-17 (.529) with six RBI, two doubles and a triple over six games. Ashby's triple was a walk-off, giving Stanford a 3-2 victory over UC Davis.
• In conference play, Ashby is second on the team with a .409 batting average. Ashby leads the team with 12 walks, a .629 on-base percentage and a .818 slugging percentage.
• Bonstrom is tied for third on the team with seven RBI. She is the reigning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.
• Stanford has been electric on the base paths this year, stealing 48 bases in 53 attempts (91 percent). Leah White has swiped 13 bags in 14 tries, while Hanna Winter has taken 12 bases in 14 attempts. Tylyn Wells has been successful in 11 of 12 stolen base attempts.
• Cassandra Roulund – or "Boo" as she's known by teammates, coaches and fans – is third on the team in RBI (28), doubles (8) and home runs (3), and fourth in total bases (55).
• Hanna Winter has been outstanding defensively this season, leading the team with 95 assists and holding a .952 fielding percentage. While Winter has spent a majority of time at third base, she has made multiple appearances at shortstop. She has started every game of her collegiate career at second base, third base or shortstop.
• Jessica Plaza was one of 24 players selected to participate at the 2014 USA Softball Women's National Team Selection Camp on June 9-12. The sophomore catcher will compete for a spot on the 17-player USA Softball Women's World Championship roster that will compete for the International Softball Federation World Championship in Haarlem, Netherlands, this August. The final selection for the 17-player roster will be announced June 22.
• Plaza earned a silver medal with the U.S. Junior National Team at the 2013 International Softball Federation Junior Women's World Championship.
• Sophomore Kayla Bonstrom was one of 50 players in the nation named to the USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year award watch list. She was one of six sophomores included on the list that consists of players from 36 NCAA Division I schools and 12 athletic conferences. Bonstrom is one of 12 Pac-12 players included on the list.
• Stanford had eight players selected to all-conference teams in 2013. Five of those players return for the 2014 campaign, including Kayla Bonstrom, Hanna Winter, Cassandra Roulund, Leah White and Jessica Plaza.
• Stanford was picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll. Arizona State and Washington tied for the top spot, while Oregon was picked third and UCLA fourth. Arizona was selected to place sixth, followed by California at seventh, and Oregon State and Utah tying for eighth.
• The Cardinal finished the 2013 season with a 39-21 overall record – the 17th consecutive winning season under head coach John Rittman. Stanford finished fourth in the Pac-12 with a 13-11 mark, and was 26-10 against nonconference opponents. The Cardinal competed in its 16th straight NCAA Tournament, concluding its season with a 2-2 result at the Lincoln Regional.
• In his 18th season at the helm of the Cardinal program, head coach John Rittman is one of the winningest coaches in collegiate softball, boasting a 744-348-3 (.682) career record. Since stepping onto The Farm in July 1996, he has coached the team to 17 consecutive winning seasons, 16 straight NCAA Tournament appearances and 13 40-win seasons. Under Rittman, Stanford claimed a share of its first conference championship and made two appearances in the Women's College World Series (2001, 2004).


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External hemorrhage
To develop evidence-based guidelines for the use of tourniquets and hemostatic dressings in the U.S. civilian prehospital setting
Individuals with extremity hemorrhages
Note: The following interventions were considered but not recommended:
Literature search included 13 external and internal electronic databases, including CINAHL, EMBASE, and MEDLINE, from 2001 to 9/12/2013 for fully published, primary, clinical studies. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), and Health Technology Assessment and Database (HTA) were also searched for secondary reviews. Additional search steps included manual search of bibliographies listed in fully published studies; search and written inquiry to regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and search of www.ClinicalTrials.gov and www.controlled-trials.com for ongoing clinical trials. Publications were also suggested for inclusion by expert panel members who commented on the draft report.
The criteria for inclusion in the systematic review were studies published in English that reported on traumatic hemorrhage treated by Emergency Medical System (EMS) personnel in the prehospital setting with tourniquets or hemostatic dressings currently available in U.S. commercial markets. In addition, the studies reported findings on at least one of the outcomes identified in the populations, interventions, comparators, outcomes, timing, and settings (PICOTS) questions and included at least 5 patients per treatment group; results for extremity and junctional hemorrhage were considered separately. To avoid duplication, when several sequential reports from the same study center were available, only findings from the largest, most recent, or most complete report was used. Because of the paucity of published studies on hemostatic dressings, for these questions the inclusion criteria were expanded to include animal studies of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared or approved hemostatic dressings using either a swine or goat model of extremity bleeding. Risk of bias and other indicators of strength of evidence were assessed and reported.
For more information see the evidence report (see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field).
The overall strength of evidence for each key question and outcome was assessed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) principles. The strength of evidence grade is a composite of the study design, study limitations (risk of bias), consistency, directness, precision, and publication bias domains. These strength of evidence grades are described as High, Moderate, Low or Very Low and reflect decreasing confidence in the estimates of the effects of interventions on outcomes.
Although the initial assignment of a strength of evidence rating is based on study design, GRADE allows the evidence appraisal to be upgraded or downgraded, depending on such factors as the size and consistency of the reported effect or the presence of a dose response.
The absolute risk differences and relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence intervals for the primarily dichotomous outcomes were calculated for individual studies. In cases in which meta-analysis was possible a summary odds ratio (OR) was calculated using a random effects model. Studies were combined using meta-analysis when populations and interventions were similar. Given the nature of the populations examined in this report, military populations were separated from civilian populations and data from children (younger than 18 years of age) was also examined independently. Statistical heterogeneity was examined using I2, but the small number of studies in the comparisons limited our confidence in measures of heterogeneity.
For more information, see the evidence report (see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field).
Expert Panel
An expert panel was convened by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma EMS Committee to include nationally recognized experts in prehospital trauma care. Representatives were included from the military's Tactical Casualty Combat Care Committee, Prehospital Trauma Life Support, civilian State Emergency Medical System (EMS) directors, trauma surgeons, emergency physicians, a pediatric surgeon, an EMS researcher, a Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodologist, and a paramedic.
Representatives were from both the United States and Canada. Panelists provided input to the formulations of the populations, interventions, comparators, outcomes, timing, and settings (PICOTS) questions prior to the initiation of the literature review. For the PICOTS questions, the population of interest was defined to be individuals with extremity hemorrhages; the interventions were commercially available tourniquets and hemostatic dressings; comparators were external wound pressure and nontourniquet or nonhemostatic interventions; outcomes of interest were limb salvage, hypovolemic shock, survival, and adverse effects. Because timing and setting were considered to be key aspects of the investigation the PICO format was expanded to include both immediate and long-term outcomes and the setting for the intervention was defined as the prehospital environment, before any procedures are performed in the hospital emergency department or operating theater. Following the completion of the systematic literature review, the panel met to review the literature in a full day meeting in Washington DC, on October 6, 2013. An expert in the application of the GRADE methodology facilitated the meeting and the panel used this approach to develop recommendations for each PICOTS question.
Evidence Review
A systematic review of the literature was conducted by ECRI Institute, one of the eleven Evidence-Based Practice Centers (EPC) designated by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Their systematic literature review and evidence tables were used by the expert panel to develop these recommendations. A summary of the findings is included in the original guideline document; the full ECRI report will be simultaneously published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and will be available at www.ems.gov . The PICOTS questions used to guide the literature review were developed with input from the multidisciplinary expert panel.
PICOTS Questions
GRADE Methodology
The panel used the GRADE methodology to guide the process of PICOTS question formulation, evidence appraisal, and to designate the strength of recommendations. The process also adhered to the National Prehospital Evidence- Based Guideline (EBG) Model Process approved by the Federal Interagency Council for EMS and the National EMS Advisory Council. Panel members received an introduction to the GRADE methodology and reviewed the evidence for structured clinical questions using the PICO framework. After reading and discussing the systematic review of the evidence, the panel drafted graded recommendations.
Using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) terminology, strong recommendations begin with the words "the panel recommends" and indicate that the panel believes that the benefits clearly outweigh any risks associated with the treatment and that nearly all informed patients would want the recommended treatment. Weak recommendations begin with the words "the panel suggests," which indicates that the panel had a higher level of uncertainty about estimated benefits of the treatment the balance between benefits and risks.
A formal cost analysis was not performed and published cost analyses were not reviewed.
Not applicable
Definitions of the strength of recommendations (Strong, Weak) are provided at the end of the "Major Recommendations" field.
Recommendation 1: The panel recommends the use of tourniquets in the prehospital setting for the control of significant extremity hemorrhage if direct pressure is ineffective or impractical.
Strength of Recommendation: Strong
Quality of Evidence: Moderate. The overall quality of the evidence for survival benefits of tourniquet use was upgraded from Low to Moderate, based on the large effect size. The evidence for preventing amputation was very low, due to a smaller effect size and issues relating to confounding (see Table 2 in the original guideline document).
Remarks: The panel believes that tourniquets used to treat severe extremity hemorrhage have a clear survival benefit, demonstrated by a large and consistent effect size across several studies. The panel discussed that direct pressure may be ineffective in the setting of major arterial injury or impractical in circumstances with limited manpower, unsecure scene, or when complex extrication or extraction is required.
Recommendation 2: The panel suggests using commercially produced windlass, pneumatic, or ratcheting devices that have been demonstrated to occlude arterial flow.
Strength of Recommendation: Weak
Quality of Evidence: Low
Remarks: The panel discussed the military experience with varying types of tourniquets and felt that tourniquet selection should be based on proven effectiveness at arterial occlusion. Tourniquets that impede venous return without adequate arterial occlusion may only worsen hemorrhage and increase complications.
Recommendation 3: The panel suggests against the use of narrow, elastic, or bungee-type devices.
Recommendation 4: The panel suggests that improvised tourniquets be applied only if no commercial device is available.
Remarks: The panel discussed the military experience with varying types of tourniquets and felt that tourniquet selection should be based on proven effectiveness at arterial occlusion. Tourniquets that impeded venous return without adequate arterial occlusion may only worsen hemorrhage and increase complications. Commercially available tourniquets are favored over improvised tourniquets unless there is no other option.
Recommendation 5: The panel suggests against releasing a tourniquet that has been properly applied in the prehospital setting until the patient has reached definitive care.
Remarks: Given the relatively short transport times for most civilian emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, the committee felt the safest option was to leave a tourniquet that had been placed in the field in place until the patient can be assessed in the hospital. There may be exceptions to this approach for prolonged transport times or austere environments. In these circumstances, prehospital providers should consult direct (online) physician medical direction.
Junctional Hemorrhage Devices
Regarding the questions related to junctional hemorrhage devices, the panel believes this is an important area for further study, but did not find sufficient evidence to make a recommendation at this time.
Topical Hemostatic Agents
Recommendation 1: The panel suggests the use of topical hemostatic agents, in combination with direct pressure, for the control of significant hemorrhage in the prehospital setting in anatomic areas where tourniquets cannot be applied and where sustained direct pressure alone is ineffective or impractical.
Remarks: While the evidence was low, there are consistent data from animal models, suggesting reduced hemorrhage with these agents compared to standard gauze and the committee felt that junctional hemorrhage and torso wounds may benefit from the combination of direct pressure and hemostatic dressings.
Recommendation 2: The panel suggests that topical hemostatic agents be delivered in a gauze format that supports wound packing.
Remarks: This recommendation was based on the military experience and the animal studies suggesting that products that allow packing of the wound have superior hemorrhage control.
Recommendation 3: Only products determined effective and safe in a standardized laboratory injury model should be used.
Remarks: The U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research has developed a standardized large animal model for comparison of hemostatic dressings. The committee felt that all new products should be subject to this testing.
An algorithm titled "Prehospital External Hemorrhage Control Protocol" is provided in the original guideline document.
The type of supporting evidence is identified and graded for each recommendation (see the "Major Recommendations" field).
Appropriate management of trauma patients with extremity hemorrhage treated in the prehospital setting
An implementation strategy was not provided.
Not applicable: The guideline was not adapted from another source.
This publication was developed in part with funding from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
Committee Members: Eileen M. Bulger, MD, FACS; David Snyder, PhD; Karen Schoelles, MD, FACP; Cathy Gotschall, ScD; Drew Dawson, BA; Eddy Lang, MD, CM CCFP (EM) CSPQ; Nels D. Sanddal, PhD, NREMT; Frank K. Butler, MD, FAAO, FUHM; Mary Fallat, MD, FACS; Peter Taillac, MD; Lynn White, MS, CCRP; Jeffrey P. Salomone, MD, FACS, NREMT-P; William Seifarth, MS, NREMT-P; Michael J. Betzner, MD, FRCPC; Jay Johannigman, MD, FACS; Norman McSwain, Jr., MD, FACS, NREMT-P
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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Sreevathsa <honnavalli_sreevathsa@...> writes: > > Hnasom, > I am sorry.. I am newbie here. Can you please give me a step wise > instruction of what to do, to make CyGnome work on my windows desktop?? > > Thanks, > Sreevathsa Eh, that depends on whether you're familiar with Cygwin and GNOME 2 themself. A rough instruction could be found on the homepage (http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net) But currently, Cygwin GNOME 2.4 could only run roughly on Cygwin. There're still a lot of problems there. You're expected to found them and solve them by yourself, If you're not an experienced user on Cygwin and GNOME 2, you can just install gtk2 and the applications based on gtk2 (GQview, dia, gftp etc). They could be found in section 'gtk2' and 'gtk2-apps' in Cygwin setup.exe. Hansom Young ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com


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You can't turn your head these days without catching sight of some new effort to build sustainability, greenness, and environmental consciousness into just about everything. As a Northern California hippie child and card carrying Sierra Club, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Federation, and Natural Resources Defense Council member, I couldn't be happier about it. I have to chuckle though at the speed with which business has seen the opportunity to turn green practices into PR and profit (once they finally realized it was good for both).
The wine industry is on the same bandwagon, of course, with some wineries making the leap to solar power, and many striving to reduce their "carbon footprint," or the amount of carbon they put into the environment. The latter, of course, being particularly relevant to the pressing issue of global warming.
While wineries and other businesses are working hard to figure out how to operate sustainably, consumers are being faced with choices about how they live, and perhaps more importantly, how they buy, with an eye towards reducing their impact on the environment.
This is not as easy as it sounds. For any simple product that we purchase there is a huge, complex chain of resources, actions, processes, and relationships that have brought that product to the shelf in front of us. Trying to calculate the carbon footprint of a particular bottle of wine, for instance, is a nearly impossible task.
But that didn't stop Tyler Colman, who runs the blog Dr. Vino. Colman, a writer and professor spent some time trying to figure it out, and wrote a very interesting post about it a couple of weeks ago. Among his findings are that, depending on where you live, buying New York wine may be better for the environment than buying California wine.
I'm not sure Colman and his collaborators have taken into account ALL the complexities of what goes into wine (as some commenters on the post have noted, the impacts of whether the wine is shipped in Styrofoam or in refrigerated trucks or ships can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint) but it's an interesting exercise nonetheless.
In the following days, Colman even offered to try to calculate the footprint of a particular bottle of French wine purchased in Berkeley, California.
If you're at all interested in the environmental impact of your wine habit, the posts are worth checking out, if only as food for thought. The problem with all these calculations are, of course, that if we really wanted to save the environment, we'd all just grow our own grapes, make our own wine, not bottle it at all, and simply pour some out of the cask into our homemade earthenware mugs every time we wanted a drink. Sigh.
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The Buzz, 2-28: The Rockwell
Files, 4
"Why John Rockwell of all People?"
By Anonymous
Edited by Paul Ben-Itzak
Copyright 2005 The Dance Insider
"Somehow, in dance criticism,
editors will accept the writing of someone who obviously has not
had an adequate education in dance history or movement art."
-- Anonymous
To monitor the errors
being disseminated by the new New York Times chief dance critic,
John Rockwell, the Buzz has opened the floor to your contributions
to The Rockwell Files. Got a Rockwellism? E-mail the Buzz at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include
your first and last name. Dance artists wishing to contribute can
request that their names be withheld, as long as we know who you
are and your comments aren't libelous.
Balletomane on Board
A reader writes:
It is with great sadness
that I write this assessment of John Rockwell's work. I am a performing
arts critic who has published on the arts for 15 years. My comments
come from a well-developed understanding of the nature of the profession
of dance criticism.
1) We are at a time
when there are more truly qualified dance critics and dance writers
than ever before. The New York Times is one of the most powerful
organs in the public dissemination of dance. The paper's location
in the de facto dance capitol of North America is one reason for
its power. Another reason is that NY-based presenters, publicists
and artists depend upon the Times for serious, well-informed writing.
So when the former chief
dance critic is replaced by a critic whose writing is consistently
culturally biased, tonally flippant and historically as well as
aesthetically weak, such a misstep of hiring and advancement in
the editorial department truly means something in the field.
2) In no other NY Times
form of criticism would the flagrant or even indirect presence of
cultural biases be tolerated -- that is, bias against Europeans,
against homoeroticism, and against popular dance forms. Nor would
prose so weakly and unartfully formed be tolerated.
Somehow, in dance criticism,
editors will accept the writing of someone who obviously has not
had an adequate education in dance history or movement art.
Music critics must not
only understand music theory and performance on an intimate level
even if they are not performers, they must also demonstrate such
an understanding by commenting on BOTH the composition and the performance.
This is, in fact, where
John Rockwell is weakest: He does not understand dance composition
enough to actually document what has been shared with him -- and
by composition I mean how the movement experience has been composed
structurally and qualitatively. Opinion reigns in favor of critical
analysis and an actual attempt to describe, however fleetingly,
what truly happened rather than to take pot-shots based on fleeting
mis-characterizations and odd annoyances.
Certainly, John Rockwell
may have experience. But do we know his background? Again, there
are so many superb dance critics in the NY region -- even those
that already freelance with the paper. Why John Rockwell of all
He writes like a lost
generation of balletomanes and dilettantes who wrote about dance
without the proper aesthetic, compositional or performance training
and who covered dance with an obvious chip on their mostly male
shoulders and who approached the task of dance reporting as a time
to lace their reviews with indirect contempt for the art form if
not outright bitterness.
3) It is a wonder to
me why Jennifer Dunning was not promoted to chief dance critic.
What can possibly be going on in the arts editorial department at
the Times?
Why aren't readers,
audiences and artists given an explanation?
4) Audiences, artists,
presenters and publicists are powerless if we complain about John
I have written three
letters to the editor and not one has been published.
The only way that we
can be heard is if we get organized and develop a unified front
to appeal to the arts editor at the Times to stop John Rockwell's
tenure before its too late.
I call on all critics,
artists and presenters to forward their names to Paul at the Dance Insider. I will work
vigilantly to produce a formal, collectively written letter to the
editor that voices our grievances clearly.
At the very least, why
wasn't a ***proper*** explanation made to the dance public when
this awful change of guard took place?
Please, let's get organized
and not let the powerful work of dance criticism at the NY Times
disadvantage us in ways that so much uninformed, biased and poorly
written dance criticism has done for so many years.
Please spread the word
like lightening and get organized. Paul will give you my information.
I cannot be more open unless I am joined by others in a united front.
Obviously, John Rockwell's
reporting shows that artists who frustrate him have much to lose.
Got a Rockwellism or something else buzzing under your bonnet?
E-mail the Buzz at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I would like to say something about the struggles of single men and women in the biker world. I'm referring to the single men or women who are riders or those women who are attracted to bikers. It always seems easy to meet people in the biker world. We already have something in common, chances are we already have mutual friends, and the reasons we gather together are usually for pleasure or some worthy cause, so the odds of having a good time are pretty much in your favor. However, I realize that as a married woman, I haven't given much thought to what it might be like for me if I were attending all of these events and carrying some hope in the back (or front) of my mind of finding love. Love—not lust. Let's face it – we can all find lust if what's what we want. But what about LOVE?
I'm not blind. But love really is, isn't it? I do see so many beautiful women, like my friends, trying to find someone who will take them seriously, someone who will treat them like a lady, respect and care about their feelings—and all that jazz. I always figured it was a matter of bad timing or bad choices. Here's a tip: STOP CHASING ALL THE EYE CANDY! Now, some eye candy is good for you, but some eye candy is like junk food. You need to learn to recognize the difference. My friends and I, in our disco days, always went out to a diner after dancing all night. All 15 of us would stumble half-toasted into some diner around 2AM every weekend night, and I would watch my friends, one by one, order cheeseburgers, French fries with gravy, and every kind of greasy-filled plate you could think of, while I ordered my usual cottage cheese and cantaloupe. They all laughed at me, but it never made sense to me to eat all that junk in the middle of the night. The next morning I'd wait for all the phone calls that always came from my friends, telling me how they woke up feeling like sh*t. That's what I mean. Eye candy = junk food = wake up feeling like sh*t. Go after QUALITY.
Maybe the problem is that nobody believes in courtship anymore. Do men send flowers anymore after a first date? Do women leave any mystery about themselves to be uncovered until after the first or second meeting? (I'm not just talking about sex).
I would love to hear what you think. If I get enough feedback from males and females, maybe I can write a follow-up to this and we can come up with some answers to, and if we're lucky, or should I say, if YOU're lucky, we'll make some matches along the way.
After all, there are plenty of other fish in the sea—or bikers on the road!
Happy Valentine's Day, especially to my friends in Boston who are surrounding the heart of their family today, as she continues to fight her illness! God is in charge!