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Is this any use to you PizzaSean?http://www.pizzasteel.com/pizza-steel/
That is stainless steel; waaay over kill and it's only 1/4 inch thick. A 1/2" thick piece of cold rolled A36 steel is the ticket and should cost half of that one. Have them cut it in half for ease of handling.
I can fit 18x20 if I recall. And would 1/2" at that size weigh too much for my oven shelf to handle? It sounds heavy in my imagination!
About 30 years ago my older brother chipped a front tooth in a fight. He took an olive pit into a Pizza Hut; ordered a pizza with olives on it, made a scene about the pizza cracking his tooth. PH settled with him in the form of a check for $1000.00. True story.I hope you don't chip your tooth Sean; but if you do.....
Sounds like the world would be a better place with more guys like your brother in it... What a douche bag.


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Norma,That is Mary Hellers of Buddy's. The same photo appears in Reply 26 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg62851.html#msg62851. Like you, I do not remember dough balls as such in any photo, just the panned doughs. At one time, Buddy's indicated at its website that it used a double kneading method. I called and spoke with someone at one of the Detroit-area Buddy's and reported on what I found, along with some related aspects, at item 2 at Reply 126 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg81436/topicseen.html#msg81436. As you will see from that item, there were several variations in the way that the Buddy's dough was made. The Buddy's website no longer mentions the double kneading. That kneading method may still be used but not revealed any longer. Ideally, if you want to determine how much yeast to use for any given application, you would establish a reference standard for the dough, just as we recently did with a Papa Gino's clone dough. The fermentation can be at room temperature or it can be a cold fermentation. However, you don't want to go through the rather convoluted method you recently used to get your Trenton Bill dough ball to double in volume. Once the reference standard is established, we can do some calculations to determine how much IDY is needed for any given application that you would want to use, just as we did recently with the last Papa Gino's clone dough you made. In your case, if you want to use 0.60% IDY for a room temperature fermentation, and you start sometime in the morning, I think that the dough should double in volume by sometime in the afternoon, assuming a normal room temperature for this time of year. The time and temperature that it takes to get the spacing of the poppy seeds to indicate a doubling of the dough would be used to establish the amount of yeast for any fermentation protocol you would then like to use. It can be a same day dough, an emergency dough, or a cold fermented dough. My guess is that Buddy's starts the dough in the morning and uses it throughout the day but with coolers available if needed to keep the dough from overfermenting, or possibly for holding over to the next day. That is essentially the way that Jet's does it. Peter
Norma,The only reason to ball the dough for your next experiment is to establish the reference standard. For the actual dough that goes into a pan, you might use the double kneading method. Some adjustment might have to be made to compensate for the fact that the two doughs have different shapes. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.Peter
I forgot to ask you, but do you think from madymo3d post at Reply 99 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg73884.html#msg73884 I should oil my fingers in a bowl of oil to press the dough out. Do you think he meant before panning the dough? The reason I ask is because the dough in the pans from the picture with Mary Heller doesnt look oiled.I guess since I am going to ball the dough, I will used GIBBYs method of punching down the dough (for the double knead method) after the dough is panned. GIBBYs post was at 112 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg79248.html#msg79248 When I spread out the dough yesterday, it did spread easily.
I saw this blog post this morning and the blogger said he asked questions about Buddys pizza to Wes Pikula (vice president of operation for Buddys Pizza), to explain how to make a Detroit-style pie at home. http://12inchpetetreat.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/guest-drop-1-buddys-pizza-of-detroit/ There really isnt a lot of information in the bloggers post, but I wonder what it means that the lean dough (I guess lean dough means no oil) makes a 2-3 pizza crust. That is a lot of difference in a baked crust thickness, at least in my opinion.
Norma,A lean dough is one that has little or no oil or fat in it. The 2"-3" thickness number mentioned in the article you referenced most likely refers to the height of the dough in the pan rather than the height of the finished crust. If that is correct, that would suggest that the pan rises to the full height of the pan and maybe a bit higher and may be a case where the dough should be punched down. But, in general, the procedure that Wes Pikula describes in the article seems to be consistent with the methods described by the former Buddy's worker in Reply 318 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg136795.html#msg136795. As for applying cheese to the unbaked dough as it proofs, as the article mentions, it is hard to say if that is the standard procedure at Buddy's. If so, that would mean that for a pepperoni pizza, the pepperoni slices would have to go onto the dough before the cheese since Buddy's puts the pepperoni under the cheese. I would imagine that the Buddy pizzas are dressed in the standard manner although it is possible that they put the cheese down on top of a proofing dough during peak times for basic cheese pizzas. Even that seems inefficient.You might want to reference the blog article at the Buddy's thread in case it was not found in the course of that thread.I forgot to ask earlier but did you prefer one of the recent Trenton Bill's pizzas over the other? Peter
Norma,I wouldn't worry about how fast the dough has risen. Actually, 0.60% IDY is a lot for a room temperature fermentation at around 71 degrees F. The roughly 71% hydration and the finished dough temperature of 75.4 degrees F no doubt also helped speed up the fermentation. But I view all of this as good news because it suggests that Buddy's may be using a similar set of values for its commercial operation. If the fermentation time is indeed as short as 1-2 hours, then it is possible that even more yeast is used at Buddy's. And they may rely on coolers to hold the dough for use throughout the day. Othewise, the dough balls would overferment.In your case, I would fit the dough to the pan and let the dough continue to rise and monitor its progress. You don't want the dough to rise to the point where it starts to collapse. If the dough approaches the top of the pan, then you might punch it down. From that point, you can let the dough rise again before using. The final height of the dough in the pan might be as shown in the photos in Reply 26 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg62851.html#msg62851. If you are not in a position to bake the pizza today, you might cover the pan and refrigerate the dough. Then, when you are ready to use the dough, let it temper at room temperature until it rises to the same point as shown in Reply 26.FYI, based on the spacing of the poppy seeds shown in your photo, the dough more than tripled in volume from the time you made the dough to the time where the spacing of the poppy seeds went from 1" to 1.5".Peter
This is what the dough looks like in the steel pan after two hours of proofing at the ambient temperature of 71 degrees F. I has tempered some, but not a lot. I measured how tall the dough has proofed and it has only proofed one inch. After thinking about it, I would think when I did the balling of the dough (and then letting it ferment at room temperature) that might have been like one kneading if my thinking is right. The time the dough has been in the pan I would guess would be like double kneading. If my thinking isnt right, let me know. I sure dont want to punch the dough down in the pan again since it isnt proofing very fast. I would venture to guess that Buddys has this all figured out right and I might need to do some experimenting to see what works for me when making a one day room temperature fermented dough to be baked the same day. I think it might take a long while for my dough to ferment enough in my steel pan, unless I use my oven with the light on, or my Styrofoam proofing box.
Norma,It is possible that if you had generally stretched and flattened the dough ball into the pan at the outset, the rise in the pan would have been higher. Maybe that is the way to do it next time. Also, we really don't know what amount of dough Buddy's uses for the 8" x 10" pan size, and we don't know the ambient temperature where the Buddy's dough rises. Peter
I wonder how long I should let this dough proof. I don't want to let the dough overferment.
Norma,If the dough isn't rising much anymore, you might want to use the dough to make a pizza.Peter


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Skip to comments.Bret Baier confirms more Benghazi tips are coming in
Posted on 10/28/2012 7:23:28 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Fox News anchor Bret Baier, who has been a leader in coverage of the situation in Benghazi, confirms more tips are being received.
Somebody's doing it deliberately. Personally I think its someone close to the Clintons.
He was asked if there was anything the military could have done. Short answer: No!
No? What if the First family was trapped there? Would that still be the same outcome?
Chelsea, on behalf of her mother.
Thanks for the post Bob. Pinging Ernest.
I have no doubt that the military folks are the ones that still have some integrity regardless of their position. It has been increasingly apparent that few have the honesty and integrity to spread truth but the military is one of our only options. Don't expect any of the political leadership to do the same!
These CIA guys are so stupid that they don't realize there isn't anyone even within hours, that could help them?
So, they ask for help, when there is no available help?
Bull crap....
150 whistle blower reports so far to Congresscritter on fnc this morning.
Keane is being paid by the administration.
Yep, clearly racists trying to bring 0bama down.
I find it really difficult to listen to Geraldo since he has spent so much time with the military protecting him when he has been embedded. He selects only those liberal military folks that support his view without other sources. Actually, most of these I would classify as dishonest or spouting their positions for their advancement.
I really wish that he would give more opposite opinions during his broadcasts but since he is of a Liberal bent, I doubt that he even thinks about that. I do not expect and have not been disappointed in his biased reports.
They may have been involved with the Benghazi situation, perhaps more than the Commander-in-Chief desired.
If so, I hope those two Flag Officers will honor their country more than the National Security Council staff and State Department folks who are keeping silent through all this less-than-honorable behavior by our leaders Obama, Clinton and Panetta.
The survivors of Benghazi better hide. What they know and will report is going to destroy careers and lead to criminal prosecution and possibly the impeachment of the president.
There are tapes, emails and all other forms of paper trail. What that trail exactly is, is unclear. But what is becoming more and more obvious is that it is covering up something terrible, corrupt and or incompetent. Fortunately, it is just a question of time before it all gets spelled out.
Wasn't there a report that they were "painting" the target where the mortars were firing from, and asking for help. Doesn't that mean an AC-130 Gunship was somewhere in the area?
The Seal's Dad called for people to do the right thing and speak up. I think some people are heeding that call.
Wesley Clark was too busy being briefed on the Clinton line to appear.
There was a story from six months ago in the business news...which never got picked by any national news group. The story? The Libyan government, under the Colonel and his family, had plowed a bunch of cash into a Wall Street investment bank (I think it was Goldman Sachs)...and the 2008 hit basically wiped out near a billion dollars of their money. They were extremely upset, and demanded that a team from the US bank come out to Libya.
So the two investment counselors got on a private jet and flew to meet the Colonel's family. The first hour went fairly negative, and there were some various hints that the two might not walk out of Libya alive. I would imagine the two investment geeks were way out of their league on this event.
However, the Bank had this 'insurance' package that went through a British organization, that had various people throughout every single country in the middle east. They had the right people, with the right 'tools'...to grab a threaten person, and within minutes...get them to safety, and on a plane within an hour or two. The two bank representatives dialed the number...walked out the back door, and went into safe-mode until the British rep arrived and handled the rest of the event.
In this case....the ambassador should have had his charge card...called the British security team in Libya, and asked them to get him to safety...rather than counting on some US government guys who may or may not care one way or another about the safety of the ambassador. It might have cost $750k for such a rescue...but obviously, you weren't going to get help from the Americans.
Just my two cents on the topic.
Did you see Geraldo hanging all over Tyrone's dad and then kiss him? The man looked totally shocked.
Geraldo was so glad that the dad said even if Obama is guilty he will forgive him.
It was a repulsive moment.
Geraldo is doing everything he can to support the administration. He never asks the admin to be more forthcoming or to accept blame for their known mistakes and misrepresentations in this matter . No, he only says that folks shouldn't guess or second guess. Wtf?
What Keane said was nauseating. He stated that we allow soldiers to die in Afghanistan by denying them air support because of the chance of collateral damage. He implied that Benghazi was analagous. WTF ever happened to NO MAN GETS LEFT BEHIND?
Good for them...Mr. Woods didn't want to come forward, but I believe the country will benefit as a result...
Normally I'd agree, but here that pig Hillary has just as much stink on her as hussein.
The geraldo kiss was really creepy. I cringed.
Geraldo really wanted to under cut him and persuade mr woods.
Do you have a link?
On the four or fifth day after September 11th, just as the scandal was breaking, Brett Beir held up the New York Times on air and said: "There isn't a single story in this paper about Libya."
After Pat Caddell's rant this weekend...it's time to do it again Monday Brett!
Too many good military people were put to extreme points of anger not being allowed to do their jobs and save people.
It will come out.
Great point. If support is dozens of hours away as the general implied, then laser pointing would make no sense.
The idea that we have people in Libya and leave them with some pistols is at least pathetically stupid at the very least.
Seriously. How how hard is it to drop a smart bomb from an attack plane capable a speed of sound type speed?
I'm no military guy. But I'd thinking some base could deliver a plane from Italy to Libya inside of 20 minutes? Someone help me out here.
First he brings on Keane to support his nonsense, and then he sucks up and slobbers all over Mr Woods to try and get him to see that "keane was right".
Woods whole family kind of stepped back and recoiled at that kiss. Ugh, it was so creepy.
You bet there are military people unhappy with Obama and Panetta's jihadi, treasonous, rules of engagement and Muslim Brotherhood infiltration.
But also, consider how this would sit with the State Department's foreign service people and CIA agents and those people in Washington loyal to protecting their lives.
This was a big betrayal of three big agencies (CIA, DOD, and State Department). Suddenly they all look quite expendable to the anti-American jihadist in the White Hut and his insane politically correct agency leaders.
This has to stop and Lord only knows what Obama's idiots have set up of jihad in our country over the past three years while he diverts homeland security to go after the Muslims' American political and social enemies and vets.
If Romney comes in, he's going to have to work quick or he'll be left holding the bomb like Bush. The Clintons and Panetta ran betrayal scam with when they had power.
First he brings on Keane to support his nonsense, and then he sucks up and slobbers all over Mr Woods to try and get him to see that "keane was right".
Woods whole family kind of stepped back and recoiled at that kiss. Ugh, it was so creepy.
I don't discount the Chelsea Factor at all. Not that she's the leaker but that she is a factor in Bill and Hillarys decsions as to what they hold and what they leak or release. I have no doubt that they see her carrying on their political legacy, and going down in disgrace is not what any parent want to leave their kid.
First he brings on Keane to support his nonsense, and then he sucks up and slobbers all over Mr Woods to try and get him to see that "keane was right".
Woods whole family kind of stepped back and recoiled at that kiss. Ugh, it was so creepy.
BOMBSHELL: US Forces Would Not Have Been Painting Targets on Ground Unless Air Support Overhead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2950841/posts
-and also later posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951636/posts
Yes this trial balloon about nobody being in the area, ready, within seven hours.... Is laughable.
No. on FNC 12 pm show I think. He also said he was with 4 star general, don't remember his name, who said he never got the order to go in. Peter King later same show backed the critter up. Name block, Issa associate, kind of curly hair.
Remember Issa's hearing, some of the State people weren't happy.
Listen to "Part 2" video, minute 51:00 to the end.
"...to me, the Taliban are on the inside of the building"
Yes, he is doing everything he can to support this administration without regard to the truth. He can spout all he wishes but he should at least question what is coming out of this administrations spokesman - don't you think?
They have been lying through their teeth (easily determined - but of course you would say being political) and you wish to support Geraldo supporting them?
I don't mind lefty's supporting Obama as long as they are truthful and don't just spout the propaganda. There are many on the left who can't abide with the outright lying and obfuscation by this White House crew.
Thank you
Was Keane implying we did not use a drone or other air support in Benghazi because we wanted to avoid collateral damage?
Yes, if Romney wins (almost assured), he should purge many groups including the military if he wants to remove the leftist ideology from within.
Hey, what am I thinking, that would remove 60% of our government...geez.
The look on Geraldo's face while he was shaking his head followed by that kiss was beyond creepy.
I do believe there are plenty of career civil servants in the various national security agencies that don't like The Regime. The Obamunist can't keep them down, and DC is leaking like a seive.
Meanwhile, Fox is the only ones to take advantage. Others may follow post-election, but for now, Fox needs to keep doing what they are doing (saving America) and beware of plants and set-ups.
This was my original thought on the WH strategy. However, I heard that we suffered huge intelligence damage, and lost huge amounts of intelligence info.
I'm wondering why the WH didn't do something to damage the consulate enough to destroy all information. We already know the WH doesn't value our human life, but does value our enemies' lives.... but what about protecting our intelligence?
One could infer that but his main argument was there was no air or rapid reaction force that could reach them. I think this is a lie because the Seal was painting the mortar position. He certainly wasn't playing laser tag.
Just take care of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Communists will always be with us and can be kept out of leadership positions and slapped down when they get uppity.
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On Saturday, some 50,000 anti-nuclear protesters formed a 27-mile human chain from Germany's Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant to the city of Stuttgart to protest against its government's plans to extend the life of the country's reactors. Green politicians in pro-nuclear France urged an end to its dependence on the atom, and Ed Markey, a leading Democratic US Congressman, called for a moratorium on building new reactors in seismically active areas.
But Chancellor Angela Merkel, after holding a meeting of the German cabinet on the issue, reaffirmed her confidence in the safety of nuclear power. The leader of Silvio Berlusconi's party said that Italy would stick with plans to build new reactors. And a spokesman for US Senator Lisa Murkowski said it would be "poor form for anyone to criticise the nuclear industry, or pronounce the end of nuclear power, because of a natural disaster that has been a national tragedy for the Japanese people".
Poor form, indeed. Now we have an example of an unseemly statement on nuclear power at the worst possible time from a religious leader.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Orthodox hierarch based in Istanbul, Turkey, today called for nations to stop using nuclear power and to adopt "green" energy technologies:
… with regard to the explosion of the nuclear reactor and the aftermath of a nuclear adversity, there is indeed a response that we are called to make. With all due respect to the science and technology of nuclear energy and for the sake of the survival of the human race, we counter-propose the safer green forms of energy, which both moderately preserve our natural resources and mindfully serve our human needs.
Our Creator granted us the gifts of the sun, wind, water and ocean, all of which may safely and sufficiently provide energy. Ecologically-friendly science and technology has discovered ways and means of producing sustainable forms of energy for our ecosystem. Therefore, we ask: Why do we persist in adopting such dangerous sources of energy? Are we so arrogant as to compete with and exploit nature? Yet, we know that nature invariably seeks revenge.
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U.S. Women's Sitting Team Sweeps Brazil to End Pool Play
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 3, 2012) - The U.S. Paralympics Women's Sitting Volleyball Team swept Brazil 25-13, 25-20 25-19 on Monday evening in front of a packed crowd at the ExCel London in its last preliminary match at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
Advancing to a 2-1 record, the U.S. will prepare for its semifinal match against Ukraine (3-0) on Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 4 p.m. London time (8 a.m. PST). The match will be live streamed at paralympics.org. The U.S. is ranked second in the world and Ukraine is ranked third.
U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team head coach Bill Hamiter started the first and second sets with Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.), Brenda Maymon (Charlestown, Ind.), Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.), Monique Burkland (Ardmore, Okla.), Aldrich, Nichole Millage (Champaign, Ill.) and libero Kari Miller (Washington, D.C.). Kaleo Kanahele (Oklahoma City, Okla.) subbed in the second set and started for Maymon in the third set. Michelle Gerlosky (Lake Wales, Fla.) subbed in the second and third sets.
"I was really pleased with how we played tonight," Hamiter said. "We were focused and got the job done. We out hit, out served, out attacked and out passed Brazil and I am very pleased with that. We now will look forward to our semifinals match."
Holloway continued to lead the Americans with points, posting 15 off of 13 kills and two blocks. Erickson contributed 11 kills for 11 points while Burkland tallied seven points off of six kills and a service ace. Aldrich connected on two kills, two service aces and a block for five points. Gerlosky served a team-high three aces and a kill for four points and Millage posted two kills, a block and an ace. Mayon rounded out the American scorers with three points off of two kills and a block.
Miller posted an 80 percent positive reception rating, 40 percent excellent.
The U.S. held a 7-3 ace and 37-19 kill advantage over Brazil. Brazil out-blocked Team USA 6-5.
2012 U.S. Women's Paralympic Sitting Volleyball Team
#- Name (Hometown/UCO Resident Athlete)
1 - Lora Webster (Phoenix, Ariz.)
3 - Brenda Maymon-Jensen (Charlestown, Ind.)
4 - Michelle Gerlosky (Lake Wales, Fla./UCO Resident Athlete)
5 - Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash./UCO Resident Athlete)
6 - Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C./UCO Resident Athlete)
7 - Monique Burkland (Ardmore, Okla./UCO Resident Athlete)
10 - Kari Miller (Washington, D.C.)
11 - Allison Aldrich (Schuyler, Neb.)
13 - Nichole Millage (Champaign, Ill./UCO Resident Athlete)
14 - Kaleo Kanahele (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
15 - Kendra Lancaster (Westfield, Ind.)
Bethany Zummo (Dublin, Calif./UCO Resident Athlete)
Angela DeHaan (Yuba City, Calif.)
Head Coach: Bill Hamiter (Bethany, Okla.)
Assistant Coach: Cara Lang (Sartell, Minn.)
Statistician: Elliot Blake
Athletic Trainer: Brian Choate
Team Leader: Cecile Reynaud
2012 London Paralympic Sitting Volleyball Schedule
Times are in local time in London and in (Pacific Standard Time).
Friday, Aug. 31
Ukraine def. Great Britain 25-9, 25-20, 25-14
China def. USA 22-25, 32-30, 25-23, 25-17
Netherlands def. Japan 22-25, 25-18, 25-13, 25-14
Saturday, Sept. 1
China def. Brazil 26-24, 25-15, 20-25, 25-16
Netherlands def. Great Britain 25-13, 25-12, 25-15
USA def. Slovenia 25-8, 25-15, 25-8
Sunday, Sept. 2
Ukraine def. Netherlands 26-24, 15-25, 25-11, 25-19
Brazil def. Slovenia 25-17, 30-28, 19-25, 21-25, 15-7
Japan def. Great Britain 25-11, 25-21, 25-14
Monday, Sept. 3
China def. Slovenia 25-12, 25-15. 25-16
Ukraine def. Japan 25-20, 25-9, 25-16
USA def. Brazil 25-13, 25-20, 25-19
Tuesday, Sept. 4
Brazil vs. Great Britain, 7 a.m. (11 p.m. PST on Sept. 3), Women's Classification 5-8
Japan vs. Slovenia, 9 a.m. (1 a.m. PST), Women's Classification 5-8
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Ukraine vs. USA, 4 p.m. (8 a.m. PST), Women's Semifinals
Netherlands vs. China, 7 p.m. (11 a.m. PST), Women's Semifinals
Thursday, Sept. 6
Women's Final 7-8 Classification, 9 a.m. (1 a.m. PST)
Women's Final 5-6 Classification, 11 a.m. (3 a.m. PST)
Friday, Sept. 7
Women's Final Bronze Medal Match, 7 a.m. (11 a.m. PST)
Women's Final Gold Medal Match, 9 p.m. (1 p.m. PST)
Women's Medal Ceremony, 10:45 p.m. (2:45 p.m. PST)


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (185 votes).
In short: Good race, well organised and traffic free. Shame about the wind on the back straight...Date of review: August 17, 2009
In short: This must be one of the best 10k events in the South West.In full: I ran my first ever 10k here at Castle Combe last November on a cold windy day and I was keen to come back and run the course again in what I hoped would be better weather conditions. I have run in a couple of other 10k events since then, so what is it that drew me back to Castle Combe?Firstly, the circuit itself must be unique. Running on a motor racing circuit guarantees a pretty flat and even course and it is also an interesting experience to run laps of anything other than a 400 metre track. In fact, the laps here are a fraction under three kilometres! There are really clear kilometre markers, so monitoring one's pace is an absolute joy (and I even remembered to switch the Garmin to operate in metric units today!) Coming to the venue in the summertime, I was amused to see that the area within the circuit must be let to a local farmer, as there was a crop of wheat growing there. I was also taken aback to be reminded that the far side of the circuit could not be seen from the main grandstand area – this is an indication of how big the track is.Secondly, the venue is – not surprisingly – perfectly set up for competitive events. There is loads of parking right by the track along with the race HQ, plenty of WCs, a café and lots of spectator areas. Thirdly, the organisation of this event is very good – the organisers take a down-to-earth and no nonsense approach to the day and it all runs very smoothly indeed. Many other event organisers could do with a megaphone just like Will's.It was a cloudy day with some wind and, although it was sheltered in the start/finish area, I knew from experience that the back straight would be a bit of a challenge. And indeed it was. The first two kilometres went exactly according to plan, but by the time I finished the third, I had given away over 20 seconds! The wind is the one challenging factor here, because it would be necessary to run down the back straight two more times! Otherwise, the weather was great – cool and largely cloudy.All in all, a most enjoyable outing. I missed the PB by less than a minute, partly because of the wind and partly through lack of preparation, but I have already put in an entry for the November event ...Many thanks to the organisers and marshals and all involved in the staging of this event. Keep up the excellent work!Date of review: August 16, 2009
In short: Good pb course, great set up - parking, cafe etc etcIn full: Great setting in the sense that 'everything is under one roof'. Course is a bit dull but the km markers help make it motivational. My aim was that the front runners didn't lap me .... and they didn't. p.s. what was with all the wasps?Date of review: August 16, 2009
In short: Another well run eventIn full: Some might say that three laps round a race track is a bit boring, and they may well be right, however this is a fantastic race to be able to run well thought out race plan, you know exactly what is coming when and know when to make your move, defo PB potential!Date of review: August 16, 2009
In short: well organised and friendly raceIn full: no matter how fast or slow you are you are made to feel welcomed. Traffic free course and plenty of support from fellow runners too.Date of review: March 5, 2009
In short: Thoroughly enjoyable and nice weather for a changeDate of review: March 4, 2009
In short: Well organised, friendly raceDate of review: March 2, 2009
In short: My first 10k, great day Date of review: March 2, 2009
In short: Love Castle Combe....best weather conditions for ages!In full: What a lovely day for a race at Castle Combe? Normally we have to battle the hail, rain, wind...but today....bliss! A well organised event and a nice statue momento to all finishers, goodies and OK facilites, nice hot food in cafe afterwards!Always a joy to run on such a 'true' surface and traffic free....see you in August!Date of review: March 1, 2009
In short: Pleasant time, although my ankle timer failed to work so had no time recorded.Date of review: March 1, 2009
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When I started to drink Sencha I used to bring the water's temperature down by pouring the boiling water from the kettle into an empty teapot and immediately from the teapot, equally into 2 teacups. I waited for one minute and then I transferred the water from the 2 teacups back into the already pre-heated teapot with a tea spoon of tea leaves now inside.
Many told me that doing that way I may not get the "exact" temperature for each of my preferred brand of tea and that this way of brewing is not accurate enough. So I purchased a digital thermometer specially for measuring fluids and since then I get the "exact" temperature. Using the thermometer is easy of course but the truth is that I do it very unenthusiastically and sometime I go back to my old way and find the result very fine.
That led me to the following question: what did the Japaneses do for about a thousand years to get their water to the exact temperature without a modern thermometer ? How did they know that their water is 74C or 76C or 79C simply by using a samashi water cooler?
I guess that the tea prepared during a genuine traditional tea ceremony (a real one, not one for entertaining tourists) is a good/right traditional Japanese green tea; I maybe wrong but thermometers are not used during such ceremonies, so how do they get their water to the exact right temperature?


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Riding the Next Wave: Michael GordonPosted by John Clare in Bang on a Can, CDs, Composers, Concerts, Festivals, Music Events, New York, tags: BAM, interview, Lightning at our feet, Michael Gordon, mp3, Next Wave Festival
This week the Next Wave Festival 2008 is raging at BAM, and there are several chances next week to hear Lightning at our feet, the latest from Ridge Theater and Michael Gordon at the Harvey Theater. (Dec 9, 11-13)
Gordon and I spoke on the phone about the new work that premiered in Houston. Listen to our conversation here – Lightning Interview with Gordon and Clare.
Here's an added bonus, Gordon has a new EP coming out Tuesday, a fascinating "Purgatorio: Popera" on Canteloupe. We talked about it, as well as being married to a composer (Julia Wolfe) and everyone's favorite 100 year old on Thursday, Elliott Carter! mp3 file
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About this item100% organic repellent discourages deer from your property.
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Now Foods, Beta Carotene, 25,000 IU, 250 Softgels (Discontinued Item)
Shipping Weight:?0.24 lbsShipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
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Beta Carotene is converted into Vitamin A in the body. It performs antioxidant functions which regular Vitamin A does not. Beta Carotene and Vitamin A are essential for the maintenance of healthy epithelial tissue, which is found in the eyes, skin, respiratory system, GI and urinary tracts.
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As a dietary supplement, take 1 softgel 1 to 2 times daily, preferably with meals. Consider taking this product in combination with NOW Tru-E BioComplex, Alpha Lipoic Acid and Vitamin D.
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Why Go From Technical Director To Coach?
The Columbus Dispatch - September 27, 2013 10:10 AM
When Alexi Lalas learned that Brian Bliss had been named the Crew's interim coach, he was surprised.
It wasn't that Lalas was concerned about Bliss' coaching abilities. Rather, the ESPN analyst wondered, why would Bliss want the job after spending the last six years as the team's technical director?
"To hear Brian talk about this is what he wants to do, I am happy that he's come to that conclusion but I question why would you have somebody in the technical director position who wasn't 100 percent committed to the technical director position as I define it," Lalas said. "That, to me, is surprising, although maybe Brian saw the writing on the wall and recognizes that the head coach position is the best possible chance he has of continuing, and I can completely respect that and understand that."
As the technical director, Bliss was responsible for helping to shape the Crew's roster. Among his crowning achievements was last year's signing of designated player Federico Higuain. But when the Crew fired coach Robert Warzycha after a 1-0 loss to Seattle at the beginning of the month, Bliss was approached about taking the reins of the team on an interim basis with the chance to permanently land the job. He is currently fulfilling both roles, but Bliss made no bones about his desire to land the coaching job when he was publicly introduced on Labor Day.
So why the desire to move to a less-secure position within the technical staff?
"It's a challenge that I've always enjoyed," Bliss said. "I think I have more to offer on the field. Not that I can't offer it off the field with the job that I was doing before but I think I can make a bigger impact on the organization by being on the field. Look, I've spent pretty much my whole life in the locker room with a team and that's where I'm probably most comfortable. Yeah, it's more security the other way but I can't live my life on the sideline (as a metaphor).
"That's why I'm gearing for the job, because I think that I can make an impact and have an influence."
Crew president and general manager Mark McCullers said the club will examine the team's front office structure once the season comes to a close. The technical director position as it once stood when Warzycha was on staff might no longer exist once the Crew names a permanent coach, McCullers said.
Lalas, who has been president and general manager for three different MLS teams after a stellar playing career, said new investor-operator Anthony Precourt's takeover of the Crew could revitalize the team's fortunes.
"I think it's exciting," Lalas said. "From a personal perspective, I think it's a wonderful opportunity for Anthony and for the entire organization to sit down and map out and decide what they want to be. The fact that he is at least initially going to be much more visible and hands-on, I think that's a good thing. I think that goes along with the trend of owners in MLS at least for the majority being there and being on hand and taking an active role in this club that they are spending money on. I think that's a positive thing."
Whether it proves to be a positive thing for Bliss' future on the sideline remains to be seen. It's often said that coaches are hired to be fired, but Bliss said this opportunity was one he could not pass up regardless of risk.
"It is a risk involved," he said. "You're hired and eventually you're going to get fired becuase you're never going to stay in any one place far too long. You hope you do enough good work in one location and have enough results and a resume of work that you can move to another job. Yes, it's an inconvenience to me, to my family, absolutely, but my family is very good and supportive and understanding of the risks involved."
To read more on Bliss' attitude toward being the interim coach, click here.
And as for the Crew as a whole, Lalas said he hopes this is the start of something big.
"My thought in general about Columbus it that it's lost its way," he said. "It has lost the identity that it had. When I think of Columbus I no longer have a good idea of what this team looks like, what I'm going to get from Columbus. When I think of Columbus I no longer have a defining character, personality, person, player that really represents what that organization is about and it's all in the context of what Columbus has been and I do believe can still be. Hopefully new ownership comes in and says, 'Hey, this is what we want to do.'
"Don't for a second think that I don't understand the challenges that Mark and that organization have are the same as other markets. It's apples and oranges and they've done a tremendous job of navigating some very difficult and challenging waters, but this is just my impression from the outside."


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WESTFIELD – A 17-year-old Jamestown boy died after being pulled from Lake Erie in the town of Westfield Saturday afternoon at around 12:15 p.m
According to a press release, the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office Dive Team responded with the Westfield Fire Department and Westfield Police to Barcelona near Monroe Marina for the report of a possible drowning victim in Lake Erie.
Members of the dive team located Jan Carlos Delosantos-Nunez of Jamestown the water. He was taken to shore and transported by ambulance to Westfield Hospital.
Delosantos-Nunez was later flown to Children's Hospital in Buffalo by Star Flight for further treatment.
Around 6 p.m. the teen succumbed to his injuries.
Armed robbery and shooting in the city
Two Jamestown men were arrested Friday night in separate incidents in the city of Dunkirk.
According to a press release by the Dunkirk Police Department, the first incident occurred at about 9:45 p.m. on the 100 block of King Street, where a man reported being robbed at gunpoint. A description of the suspect and the vehicle involved were obtained.
At around midnight, patrols located the suspect vehicle near Central Avenue and Second Street. As patrols approached, gunshots rang out and subjects were seen running toward the suspect vehicle.
Officers apprehended Terin Butler, 22, and Anthony Darling, 21, as they attempted to get into the vehicle.
A Dunkirk man was struck by the gunfire during the incident, but fled the scene. He was located on Fourth Street with a gunshot wound to the arm. He was uncooperative with the police and refused treatment.
Further investigation led to the arrest of Butler for second-degree robbery and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies in reference to the first incident on King Street. He is being held in the city jail pending arraignment.
Darling was arrested and charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and third-degree criminal mischief, all felonies, in reference to the second incident on Second Street and Central Avenue. The criminal mischief charge stems from the subject smashing a rear window of a patrol car while in custody. Darling was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and discharging a firearm. He is also being held in the city jail pending arraignment.
Dunkirk Police were assisted by both the Fredonia Police and the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department.
Anyone who has any further information about these incidents is urged to contact the Dunkirk Police Department at 366-2222 or the confidential tip line at 363-0313.
Dunkirk Police Department
Neil Delaney, 28, of Brocton, was charged with third-degree assault on Thursday.
Noel Jimenez, 41, of Brocton, was charged with driving while intoxicated and failure to keep right on Friday.
Raymond Santiago Rodriguez, 39, of West Second Street, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation and no seatbelt on Friday.


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Latest open-government newsletter now online
The Columbus Dispatch - December 13, 2013 11:13 AM
The Ohio Coalition for Open Government's latest newsletter is a must-read for lawyers, journalists, public officials and Ohioans interested in public records access and government transparency.
In the new issue, lawyer David Marburger dissects an Ohio Supreme Court ruling regarding the sealing of court records and fellow media-law expert John Greiner discusses public records and the police.
The issue also is chock full of other transparency news and an update on legislative attempts to further restrict access to information.
The coalition, a nonprofit affiliate of the Ohio Newspaper Association, promotes government transparency and supports efforts to win court rulings and laws favorable to disclosure of information.
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This paper appears in: Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2010
Issue Date: 19-21 Jan. 2010
On page(s): 1 - 6
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-6264-3
In this paper we consider a variety of real world AMI smart meter networking scenarios. We examine the network performance as a function the following parameters: the size of the network, node scheduling, and polling interval (period) under normal conditions. Then we introduce malevolent agents to the network to demonstrate the effects of their actions. Although there are several inherent security related issues involving wireless network the most relevant and attacks to launch against the de facto networking protocols used by AMI smart meters is a black hole attack. Focusing on the black hole attack we demonstrate, through simulations, how to avoid these attacks by creating dedicated paths between the source (smart meter) and the sink collecting the information (access point). In addition to this, we simulate a network of nodes that use a hybrid routing protocol when time sensitive data is needed in order to ensure that outages do not occur due to excess demand.


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by Anton Shilov
LucidLogix, a startup working on special-purpose load balancing hardware, at Intel Developer Forum 2009 announced yet another Hydra 200 chip. The developer promises that its new processing engine will offer better functionality than the previous-generation Hydra 100 chip (which has never made to the market) and will enable commercial applications.
"We've further refined our Hydra engine and made it faster and more flexible, allowing for a near limitless combination of GPUs. Hydra 200 allows the consumer to get more 'bang for their GPU buck' by extending the life of their current GPU investment, providing even faster graphics performance and later upgrading their system with whatever card they choose," said Lucid vice president of research and development, David Belz.
The Hydra engine sits between the chipset and several GPUs and acts like a dispatch processor within the array of graphics processing units (GPU) to distribute tasks between the chips. The technology drives the GPUs, performing scalable rendering of a particular image or scene, and relies on "unique adaptive decomposition and acceleration algorithms to overcome bottlenecks". The Hydra engine combines a PCI Express system-on-chip with exclusive software technologies that load-balances graphics processing tasks, delivering near-linear to above-linear performance with two, three or more graphics cards, according to the company's promises. Lucid claims that even completely different GPUs – from ATI and Nvidia, for example – can work in the same tandem.
"The graphics-vendor-agnostic Lucid HYDRA SoC allows consumers who are tired of complicated graphics solutions to transition towards ultra-responsive, ultra-realistic 3D graphics performance. The Intel and HYDRA 200 solution levels the playing field for users and provides seamless compatibility and interoperability across components," said Moshe Steiner, chief executive of Lucid.
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The forward is set for a reunion with the club he left in 2009 in the last 16 of the Champions League next year.
Ronaldo, who spent six years at Old Trafford, winning the Premier League three times and the Champions League once, will take on his former employers at the Bernabeu on February 13 before returning to Manchester on March 5.
"If I score against United I won't celebrate," the Portugal international told Spanish newspaper AS.
"I still talk to (Sir Alex) Ferguson. I miss him a lot, like I do Manchester United. I felt very happy there, it was like a family.
"I spent six great years there and I am still friends with my former team-mates.
"It is thanks to Manchester United that I am enjoying football at Real Madrid. Without them I wouldn't have become the player I am today."
Meanwhile, Patrice Evra has told Ronaldo he needs to return "home" to Old Trafford if his talent is ever to be fully appreciated.
By the time United and Real collide next year, it is likely Ronaldo will have once again missed out on the major individual prizes.
Even at Real, it seems Ronaldo does not feel his contribution has been recognised despite scoring an incredible 170 times in 169 appearances.
It leads Evra to conclude his one-time team mate needs to rejoin United if his stellar talent is ever to receive true recognition.
"I have been in touch with him many times," Evra told MUTV. "He still loves Manchester United and misses Manchester United.
"He has done some incredible things for Real Madrid, he broke all the records, but they didn't show him the respect he deserves.
"When Ronny was here, he got the love from all the players, the manager and the fans. He is a winner. But he likes people to like him. He misses Manchester United because it was his house.
"I always say I hope he will come back because this is his home. If he wants to win the Golden Ball (Ballon d'Or) he has to come back to Manchester United."
Ronaldo won the prestigious individual award in 2008, when he contributed an incredible 42 goals to United's Champions League and Premier League double season.
Since then, Lionel Messi has dominated the individual prizes. But, whilst Evra is not dismissing Messi's ability, he is adamant Ronaldo is better.
"Ronny is an incredible player, the best in the world," he said. "He is better than Messi.
"It is not because he is my friend or that I played with him but he has everything.
"Messi is unbelievable but Ronaldo does it on his own. In Madrid he has to score the goals and create them.
"At Barcelona, Messi has Xavi and Iniesta."
Yet Evra is not worried about facing his former training ground partner.
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"I hope he plays on my side," said Evra. "He knows from training what a tough defender I am. I know how to catch him.
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Robertson Davies August 28, 1913–December 2, 1995
(Full name William Robertson Davies; has also written under the pseudonym Samuel Marchbanks) Canadian novelist, dramatist, essayist, journalist, short story writer, editor, and critic.
For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes 2, 7, 13, 25, 42, and 75.
A leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the first Canadian novelists to gain international recognition, Davies is best known for the three novels that comprise The Deptford Trilogy (1983): Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), and World of Wonders (1975). Typical of his fiction, these intricate narratives incorporate religious symbolism and the supernatural, underscore the mystery and wonder of life, and are infused with a Jungian sensibility that informs the individual's quest for identity. Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, and attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, before enrolling in Balliol College, Oxford, England. After graduating in 1938, he served with a theater troupe for two years before returning to Canada. In 1942, Davies assumed editorship of the Peterborough Examiner, a newspaper for which he also later served as vice-president and publisher. During his twenty-year tenure at the Examiner, Davies wrote under the pen name Samuel Marchbanks, adopting a curmudgeonly persona for his humorous and extravagant attacks on provincial life, Canadian politics, and contemporary culture. In 1960 Davies began teaching English literature at Trinity College in Toronto, and the following year was appointed first master of Massey College, a graduate school at the University of Toronto, where he taught until his retirement in 1981. In the 1950s Davies began writing novels, the first three of which—Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties (1958)—comprise The Salterton Trilogy (1986), which examines life in the small university town of Salterton, Ontario. While The Deptford Trilogy begins with a seemingly inconsequential snowball fight, the three novels variously examine the extent to which the individual must accept the irrationality of the self in order to achieve mental and emotional well-being. The dominant themes in these books stem from Davies's fascination with the search for identity and his belief in the moral value of living a well-examined life. The Cornish Trilogy, like his first three novels, explores the lives of individuals living in a Canadian college town. Comprising The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1985), and The Lyre of Orpheus (1988), Davies's third trilogy has been hailed by several critics as the culmination of his literary philosophy, which, they argue, largely eschews the aesthetics of contemporary fiction for nineteenth-century Romanticism. Remarking on Davies's works, Michiko Kakutani wrote that Davies "has created a rich oeuvre of densely plotted, highly symbolic novels that not only function as superbly funny entertainments but also give the reader … a deeper kind of pleasure—delight, awe, religious intimations, a fine sense of the past, and of the boundless depth and variety of life."
Principal Works
Shakespeare's Boy Actors (nonfiction) 1939
Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course (nonfiction) 1942
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (journalism) 1947
Overlaid (drama) 1947
At the Gates of the Righteous (drama) 1948
Eros at Breakfast (drama) 1948
Fortune, My Foe (drama) 1948
Hope Deferred (drama) 1948
Eros at Breakfast, and Other Plays [first publication] (drama) 1949
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (journalism) 1949
At My Heart's Core (drama) 1950
King Phoenix (drama) 1950
∗Tempest-Tost (novel) 1951
A Masque of Aesop (drama) 1952
Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, 1953 [with Tyrone Guthrie and Grant Macdonald] (nonfiction) 1953
A Jig for the Gypsy (drama) 1954
∗Leaven of Malice (novel) 1954
Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, 1954 [with Tyrone Guthrie and Grant Macdonald] (nonfiction) 1954
Hunting Stuart (drama) 1955
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada, 1955 [with Tyrone Guthrie, Boyd Neal, and Tanya Moiseiwitsch] (nonfiction) 1955
∗A Mixture of Frailties (novel) 1958
†Love and Libel (drama) 1960
A Voice from the Attic (addresses, essays, and lectures) 1960; also published as The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purposes, 1961
A Masque of Mr. Punch (drama) 1962
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (journalism) 1967
‡Fifth Business (novel) 1970
Stephen Leacock (nonfiction) 1970
Hunting Stuart, and Other Plays [first publication] (drama) 1972
‡The Manticore (novel) 1972
Question Time (drama) 1975
‡World of Wonders (novel) 1975
One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics (addresses, lectures, and short stories) 1977; also published as One Half of Robertson Davies, 1978
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (journalism and essays) 1979
§The Rebel Angels (novel) 1981
The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man's View of Theatre and Letters in Canada (addresses, essays, and lectures) 1981
High Spirits (short stories) 1982
The Mirror of Nature (lectures) 1983
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (journalism and essays) 1985
§What's Bred in the Bone (novel) 1985
§The Lyre of Orpheus (novel) 1988
Murther & Walking Spirits (novel) 1991
Reading and Writing (essays) 1993
The Cunning Man (novel) 1994
∗These works were published as The Salterton Trilogy in 1986.
†This work is an adaptation of Davies's novel Leaven of Malice.
‡These works were published as The Deptford Trilogy in 1983.
§These works are collectively referred to as The Cornish Trilogy.
Clyde H. Farnsworth (essay date 15 December 1994)
SOURCE: "A Land Apart: A Canadian Looks South Sourly," in The New York Times, December 15, 1994, p. A4.
[In the following essay, which was based on an interview with Davies, Farnsworth presents the novelist's views on Canadian culture and politics.]
When American invaders crossed the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812, they came upon the family farm of one of the forebears of the author Robertson Davies and were astonished to find angry youths shooting at them from the farmhouse windows.
"They thought we'd be delighted to lay down the hateful British yoke, but they didn't think they were bringing another kind of yoke with them," said the man some consider to be Canada's greatest living writer.
Four of his ancestors fell in that engagement, the Battle of Stoney Creek, and he is proud that it helped to turn the tide against the invaders.
That Canadians are distinct from Americans is a subtheme of his novels, the most famous of which are the Deptford trilogy, Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders. In the 11th and latest novel, The Cunning Man, the aging hero—not unlike his 81-year-old creator—rues the withering of Canada's British connection and the growth of the American connection "under the caress of the iron hand and buckskin glove."
Greg Gatenby, the literary scholar who directs the Harborfront International Reading Series in Toronto, said that "in anyone's delineation of the pantheon of Canadian writers, Davies holds a place close to Zeus."
With his magnificent snowy beard, great white mane and protuberant brow, Mr. Davies has a magisterial look as well. As he talked about his views of Canadian nationality on a recent day, wisps of sunlight filtered into his second-floor office above the red-brick quadrangle at Massey College, the University of Toronto's graduate college, where he is the founding master.
Mr. Davies, who was born in Ontario, said the biggest difference between Canada and the United States is in their underlying myths. "The myth of America is a very powerful one and one that we in Canada look toward with envy," he said. "You have your heroes. You have your great men of the past, you have your myth of tradition, of the conquering of the west, and the pioneer life and the gold rush life and all that sort of thing, which is enormously romantic, and nations feed on the romantic tradition." "We don't go for heroes," he said. "As soon as a man begins to achieve some sort of high stature, we want to cut him down and get rid of him, embarrass him."
He also sees Canada as "very much a northern country—much more like Scandinavia or Russia than the United States." Moreover, he went on, "Canada is a socialist monarchy. You hate monarchies and socialism—and we're both."
Mr. Davies is just as eager to see Canada hold together as he is to avoid an American yoke.
"The present hullabaloo about Quebec is precisely that," he said. "It will not die down, but it will not come to anything."
He contends that economic considerations will keep Quebec in the fold. "What happens to the thousands of French Canadian civil servants who are no longer on the public payroll?" he said. "They're suddenly going to be without a job, and certainly the new Quebec wouldn't be able to provide them with comparable income. And what would Quebec do with its share of the national debt? They wouldn't want to shoulder it."
He also expects pressure from the United States. "I don't imagine for one instant that the United States wants a balkanized Canada to the north," he said. The United States says officially that it supports a strong and united Canada.
Quebec separatism is Canada's civil war, Mr. Davies said, but unlike the American Civil War, he predicted, it will not become violent. "Our civil war is a psychological one," he said. "It's a tough kind of war to fight because it's very wearing. There is never any letup. There is never any cease-fire. There is never any stopping to celebrate Christmas."
His comments about French Canadians underscore the observation of Richard C. Davis, professor of Canadian literature at the University of Calgary, that Mr. Davies "comes from a traditional male, English-Canadian base."
The French are "always complaining." Mr. Davies contended. "They have never got over the defeat on the Plains of Abraham," the battle in 1759 that established British rule in Canada.
"They're terribly unrealistic about this sort of thing, but they are also very shrewd and very practical," he said. "They know the dollar better than they know their mothers, and if they think that is threatened by leaving the dominion, they will stay."
Mr. Davies's reflections on politics come from a certain academic distance.
His cozy office is dominated by a large writing desk, book-cases and portraits of Shakespeare, Rabelais, Robert Burton—whose Anatomy of Melancholy provides inspiration for the latest novel—and John Cowper Powys, the 19th-century novelist whom Mr. Davies called "a great, great, undervalued man."
With the help of a secretary, he handles correspondence in the office and researches current projects. For example, he is now working on an article for the Dictionary of National Biography on a 19th-century English actor, Henry Irving. But his main creative work is done on his 150-acre estate in the hills of Caledon East, about an hour from downtown Toronto, where he lives with his wife, Brenda.
He taught literature at the university for 21 years and still confers with students, including many, he volunteers, who ask whether getting a job on a newspaper would harm their writing style.
A former editor of The Peterborough Examiner, as well as an actor and playwright, he tells them that journalism "teaches you to write more concisely and to get busy and write when you must, instead of just sitting around waiting for the inspiration, which isn't going to come."
And if students are making noise below, he has no qualms about opening his window, looking down sternly, beard flowing, and thundering, "God is watching!"
Mel Gussow (essay date 5 February 1995)
SOURCE: "'A Moralist Possessed by Humor': A Conversation with Robertson Davies," in The New York Times Book Review, February 5, 1995, pp. 24-5.
[Gussow is an American journalist, nonfiction writer, and critic. In the following essay, which was based on an interview with Davies, Gussow discusses Davies's career and most recent novel, The Cunning Man.]
Robertson Davies, unceasing in his creativity at the age of 81, fervently makes a case for the place of melodrama in our lives. "Very few people live in a mode of tragedy," he says, "and when they do, we pity them deeply. Very few people live in a mode of real comedy; they laugh a lot but their lives are not comic. Comedy is almost as cruel and exclusive as tragedy. Most of us live in a world of melodrama, a world of mingled laughter and tears, gain and deprivation and excitement—the hurly-burly of normal life."
Taking off from a poem by Henrik Ibsen, he believes that "a man's self-judgment" is "the conscience of a writer." Through a process of self-analysis that has been both painful and joyous, his life has provided him with the raw material for what he writes. Interwoven, with overlapping characters, his 11 novels can be regarded as a kind of masked autobiography. The books often begin in Canadian villages as small as his birthplace of Thamesville in southwest Ontario, but they soon open up to reveal allegorical allusions and magical transformations. Accidental incidents can have endless effects, and behind everything is the immutability of the human heart. A misaimed snowball in his 1970 novel Fifth Business, for example, sets off a chain of events. It becomes a defining moment, touching scores of lives and a trilogy of novels. In the case of his new novel, The Cunning Man, there are medical and spiritual mysteries. Skeptics need not enter Mr. Davies's bewitching world.
Sitting straight-backed in a chair in his office at Massey College of the University of Toronto, Mr. Davies, with his patriarchal white beard and flowing white hair, exuded eminence and a kind of actorly presence. Indeed, he began his professional life as an actor, and he has also been a playwright. As he does every week, he has come down to Toronto from his country home in Caledon, an hour out of town. After many years as the master of Massey College, he no longer teaches but still keeps quarters on campus. It was a wintry day, and he was prepared for a long, warming conversation. In common with his character Brocky Gilmartin in The Cunning Man, he regards language "as a great unfailing...
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Obituaries And Tributes
Jane Gross and Craig Turner (obituary date 4 December 1995)
SOURCE: An obituary in Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1995, p. A16.
[In the following obituary, Gross and Turner provide an overview of Davies's life and career.]
Robertson Davies, one of Canada's most celebrated novelists and the master of multiple, eclectic careers in theater, journalism and academia, has died.
Davies died Saturday night of a stroke at the age of 82. He had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
Davies' breakthrough as a novelist came with the 1970 publication of Fifth Business, the first work in the renowned Deptford...
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Reviews Of Davies's Recent Works
Anthony Bailey (review date 17 November 1991)
SOURCE: "How the Dead See It," in The New York Times Book Review, November 17, 1991, p. 9.
[Bailey is an English-born journalist, nonfiction writer, novelist, and critic. In the review below, he discusses Murther & Walking Spirits, remarking on the unexpected turns in Davies's plot and the protagonist's development.]
The epigraph to Robertson Davies's new novel, Murther & Walking Spirits, is as apt as can be. It comes from the Samuel Butler who was a 17th-century poet and satirist: "Printers finde by experience that one Murther is worth two Monsters, and at least three Walking...
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If 2010's $3.6 billion midterm elections are any gauge, reporters tasked with following the money in campaign 2012 face a tall order: unparalleled millions—much of it untraceable—spent on political communications; new breeds of intentionally opaque advocacy groups jockeying alongside corporations, unions, candidates, and parties to make the most of the ever-evolving patchwork of campaign finance regulations. It is plausible the president could spend $1 billion on his reelection bid. For reporters, a close familiarity with election law and the tax code would come in handy. Ditto, a sizable investigative team. To consider how reporters might confront these challenges, Liz Cox Barrett, a CJR staff writer who specializes in money and politics, spoke with Dave Levinthal this spring, when he worked as communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics and edited its OpenSecrets blog. Levinthal, a onetime Dallas Morning News reporter, will leave the center on July 15 to cover the influence beat for Politico.
What stories do you wish reporters on the money-and-politics beat would pursue?
Some of the most interesting stories to be had between now and 2012 will focus on the outside spending that's going to be pouring into races all across the country. In the 2010 election cycle, in the aftermath of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, we saw just a flood of money come into the races—four times more than we saw in 2006. All indications are the 2012 election cycle will be utterly unprecedented in terms of this outside spending.
The bottom line is, it's a brand new world for campaign spending of this sort, and reporters have an opportunity to try to track this type of spending, which in some cases is going to be even more than the candidates themselves are spending.
The question of Who Spends the Most Money to Influence Elections—Soros or the Kochs, union money or corporate money, Left or Right—seems to take up a lot of air. Is it overemphasized by the media, to your mind?
The challenge is to go beyond the numbers. If you're just reporting that X group spent X amount of dollars in X state and offer no more, no context, no sense of what this is doing to the nature of the race, to the conversation in the race, then such stories can be a little thin and not necessarily provide the electorate with a whole lot of useful information. What people need to know is who candidates are being supported by, who their political brethren are, who's opposing them—and why. Why is often the biggest question of all. Why would some big national group want to involve itself in a congressional election in northern Idaho or southern Alabama?
You are a go-to source for all manner of money-and-politics stories. What are the most frequently asked questions?
The campaign finance landscape at the federal level ranges from confusing to confounding. We get a lot of questions just about who is able to raise what, how much, what types of groups have to disclose their donors and don't have to disclose their donors, whether candidates have the right to use money in certain regards or not in others. At the federal level—and the same at state and local—depending on who you are and what you are and what you're using your money for, the rules can change wildly.
I like to tell the story of how we sat on the phone with The New York Times trying to pin down all the different permutations and spending limits and disclosure rules for all different types of groups at all different political levels. It took five or six of us numerous hours to produce a painstakingly detailed flow chart that ran in the Times. Here we are with one of the best newspapers in the world and it's taking us an incredible amount of time to produce something that is not going to be completely impenetrable for the average reader. We were just about banging our heads against a wall. And that doesn't even count the calls we made to campaign lawyers and others to double- and triple- and quadruple-check our work.
Now, in a time of campaign finance deregulation, what are the biggest obstacles to following the money (both tracking the money—how much, from where, to where—and tracking the effects of the money)? What makes this a tough beat?
For candidates, you're able to see any donations more than $200 through our website. We break down those donations in various ways so you can see whether a certain industry is playing an outsized role in funding or supporting a candidate. We track about a hundred and twenty different industries and special-interest areas; we assign a code to every reportable donation that is made to any federal-level candidate. So if a VP of Chevron makes a donation to John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi, we'll be able to say that a contribution from someone who works in the oil-and-gas industry went to Pelosi or Boehner. Now, multiply that by thousands and you see all the different candidates and all different types of money from these one hundred twenty different industries.
On the other end, go back to the brave new world, the widened avenue of outside money. These types of organizations that now exist—527 groups or super PACs or traditional PACs or not-for-profit entities or the types of political entities that can make independent expenditures—in some cases you can find out their donors. In many cases you cannot.
If you're trying to find out who is raising money in order to air TV ads in a particular Senate or congressional race, if it is a not-for-profit organization then they don't, by law, have any requirement to disclose their donors. So if $500,000 worth of TV ads has been bought up in your congressional district by a group called Americans For Peace, Love, and Joy and they're a 501(c)(4) and they're slamming the heck out of one candidate or lovingly promoting one candidate and you ask yourself the question, "Well, who's funding them?" There's no way to find out. That's just the way the law reads at this point.
As you've touched on, one ongoing challenge is keeping readers' attention, given the complexities involved. Any advice there?
Local is key. Can you go beyond the numbers and really tie those dollar figures to political movers and shakers, to people who may have prominent roles in your community, to political bankrollers? Then you have the material to begin asking questions. Why? What's in it for them?
Those types of stories have multiple dimensions to them. You go beyond the horse race story to delve into the realm of payback. At the end of the day, if someone gets in a position of power, often his or her backers are going to come calling. The people with the thickest wallets can have the greatest sway or, at the very least, the greatest access to the politicians they've been backing.
Conversely, if you see some national groups or groups that don't have a logical stake in a political race in a certain part of the country, that should raise a red flag for reporters. Use the money not as a reporting end in itself, but as a bridge to ask deeper questions about the role of special interests in elections.
Any predictions for what the top stories of 2011 and 2012 might be?
Absolutely. First on the list is the outside spending and how so many races in the country stand to be notably affected, if not dominated, by it. The presidential race stands to be the most expensive in US history, and the congressional races stand to be incredibly competitive; people with political money to spend will have that much more of an incentive to make a bet.
Also: the potential decline or even death of the public presidential fundraising system. Since Obama opted out of it in 2008 and most assuredly will do the same in 2012, special interests that push for public financing of federal campaigns may be in a more marginalized position than they have been before, particularly if Republican candidates also eschew public funding to raise and spend unlimited sums.
What do you make of the recent news that the IRS might begin collecting gift taxes on some big donations to nonprofit advocacy groups, the sorts of groups that have spent millions of anonymous dollars on political ads?
It's emblematic that the landscape is in total flux. If the IRS does what the IRS says it's going to do, it could turn off some big-dollar donors from actually making these sorts of donations. After standing on the sidelines in regard to this type of political activity, the IRS is showing some sort of willingness to inject itself into the process a bit more. Donors will have to, potentially, pay for their anonymity. If you want to make a big donation to this sort of an outside spending group, then what the IRS is effectively saying is, "We're going to enforce charging you a tax for that."
Looking back, what did reporters on the money-and-politics beat do well during the 2010 election? What stands out?
Generally, the coverage of the very turbulent, almost month-by-month changing nature of outside spending in the aftermath of Citizens United was excellent. There were some reporters who took great pains to explain exactly what was going on—a more than Herculean task. Everyone was effectively having to earn their amateur election law degrees in order to understand this stuff.
What were some holes or shortcomings in the coverage?
If you don't invest the time to really understand the new rules and regulations, it is going to be harder to report on this in a worthwhile way and you open yourself to inaccuracy. You absolutely have to understand this very well in order to have any shot of explaining it in a clear way to a general readership—or even a specialized readership. It just takes a lot of time to build up the requisite knowledge. Do it now while you've got the time when things are not nearly as harried as they are going to be once the debates and the Iowa caucuses and the primaries heat up.
Last year American University cited OpenSecrets.org as a key player in "the new journalism ecosystem," along with nonprofit news outlets like ProPublica and MinnPost. You've traditionally been known as a place that generates data "enabling" good journalism. Are you now focusing as much on producing journalism of your own? Why?
The core of what we're doing is always going to be centered around our research. Without that, we can't help people, we can't help journalists do their work, and we can't produce anything of great value on our own. In recent years we've put added emphasis on doing our own aggressive journalism in the public interest. It's something we're really proud of. Increasingly, we're partnering with news organizations, sometimes to run our stories in their entirety for free in their newspapers.
At the end of the day, our mission is to explore as deeply as we can and enlighten people as much as we can about the role money plays in politics. We see this as a next logical step for us in order to achieve what's always been our mission, but in a media environment that has changed dramatically just in the past five years. We want to reach people where they're looking for their information.


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