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- Post to the Host: An Entirely Different Job
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This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's a live broadcast from The Town Hall in New York City. With special guests, British rock 'n' roller Nick Lowe, actress Debra Monk, and satin-voiced singer Nellie McKay. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
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My granddaughter is a freshman in college. What advice does a grandmother who has made more mistakes than you can name give to her? She's bright, talented, her own person and so excited. Perhaps she needs to go where she's never been without advice from me. What do you think?
Take care of yourself.
Pat Hall
Green Bay
What would be good for your granddaughter is an older, wiser, familiar soul (you) to whom she can speak freely and tell the truth and know that you respect her independence. A benevolent listener who will offer advice if asked but who will not pry and will not tattle, except in extreme circumstances. So make plans to drive to her town and take her out to dinner. A college kid can always use a free meal. Skip the advice. Tell her about the dumbest thing you did when you were her age, or the Five Dumbest Things. Have a good talk. Make her laugh. Get yourself a motel room and ask if you can come to a class with her. She'll be impressed that you take an interest. And you'll get to take vicarious pleasure in her adventures in the world. Don't discuss her with her parents except to stick up for her when they rag on her, as parents are wont to do. You're her grandmother. Entirely different job.
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I am 35, and used to listen to the show when I was driving semi-truck. The music brightened my day, and reminded me how important it is to keep playing and writing my own music. What advice would you have for a young man trying to dedicate his life to his music and present himself to the world?
Steven Jones
Newman Lake, WA
Thirty-five is not so young in the music world, Steven, and I'm sure you know that. Eighteen is young, twenty-two is young, and thirty-five is sort of a gray area. My advice is to focus on the craft of performing, developing your musical craft, and put your original music on the shelf for a little while. Try playing music that people want to dance to, or hear in the background as they eat their dinners, or that has ceremonial weight (weddings, funerals), or that you could play in a public place and make people smile as they pass by. Music that will lift up the lonely. There are a lot of lonely people in the world and music can be therapeutic for them and right there is a big vocation. Think of people at the beginning and end of the life cycle, a roomful of 2nd graders squirming in their seats, a roomful of elderly in wheelchairs, and think what you could give them in 15 minutes that would brighten their day. That's a huge service and an enormous challenge. And those people are available for music. They need it, unlike most people in the middle years who are ferociously busy, distracted, hard to reach. At the age of 35, a person has lost some of that youthful ambition and drive to excel, but he has not lost the need to Be Useful.
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I am now living in Norway and I am faced with the ultimate question -- Lutefisk: should I try it? I have put it off for two years, should I hold out?
Andy Reeves
Stavanger, Norway
Let's just substitute the word "kale" for Lutefisk -- Kale: I have put it off for two years, should I try it? One: there surely are more important questions in your life that you need to be taking care of -- are you getting enough exercise? Are you consuming too much beer? Have you read enough Dickens? Two: if you have put off eating kale for two years, probably you have built it up in your imagination to the point where it would be impossible for you to enjoy kale. On the other hand, if you go on refusing kale, you might well start to obsess about this and to blame all your other problems on your kalelessness -- your inability to understand algorithms, your awkwardness on the dance floor, your shyness in the presence of lawyers, your confusion about the subjunctive mood -- I say this because your phrase "hold out" shows you already have made this into an issue, not a simple matter of choosing what to eat. I, for example, have not eaten lutefisk in the past two years: avoiding lutefisk is not a problem for me. I stay busy around the holidays so that if someone invites me to a lutefisk dinner, I have an excuse: all my evenings and weekends are spoken for. Anti-lutefiskism has not taken over my life, as it threatens to take over yours. "Put it off"? Mr. Reeves, you write as if you feel an inevitability about lutefisk. As if you have no will of your own. As if something is drawing you inexorably into the dark chasm of lutefisk. You are not, believe me. Even in Stavanger, there are plenty of people who are strangers to lutefisk, who will always prefer the meatballs. The answer to your question is very simple: you will meet a woman and fall in love and either she will be a lutefisk person or she will not, probably depending on whether her family is pro- or con- and you will, at least in the early stages of courtship, follow her lead, especially if she takes you home to meet her parents over the holiday. Either they will serve you this disgusting gelatinous offal or they will not: if they do, you will eat a small portion and smile and say it is the best lutefisk you ever ate. And in your case, that will be true.
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My pal Alan Dove has thoughtfully suggested that these guys might've done better to build themselves a trebuchet. I quite agree. [Thanks, Alan!]
My pal Alan Dove has thoughtfully suggested that these guys might've done better to build themselves a trebuchet. I quite agree. [Thanks, Alan!]
I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.
I was surprised to see such a badly designed machine. The thing was clearly underpowered for the payload (they were pulling the arm down by hand, which is fine for a payload of ounces, but not for the several Lb that they were tossing). They were using 1:1 ratio with the arm, which given their wimpy springs makes some sense, but really lowers the tip speed.
Trebuchet are easier to construct than a spring catapult, but don't have the same sort of range. (the record for a spring catapult is over 3300′, the trebuchet record is 2044′)
Of course it's only a matter of time before the smugglers move up to using long-range artillery. I can imagine modifying a traditional spud gun design to become …
wait for it …
a bud gun.
Most mechanical catapults are "stealthy" – minimal noise, no muzzle flash, etc. The spud guns (both pneumatic and combustion actuated) are very noisy. The combustion operated will also have relatively easy to spot muzzle flash (even if its IR only).
Sure something like "Big 10 Inch" could do a fine job of "export", but its annoying loud at distances well over a mile. (I expect such a cannon would have a range in the range of two miles or so, especially since a drug package would be a lot sturdier than the vegetable ammo normally fired)
If I needed to do some "alternative cargo" international shipping, I would use a somewhat scaled up Slocum Glider. (an autonomous underwater vehicle, intended for long duration oceanographic survey http://www.webbresearch.com/slocumglider.aspx ) They would be almost impossible to detect – the usual stealth of submersibles, without the noise of propellers, etc.
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Dec 19, 2012, 6.30 PM - Jiří Myron Theatre
Colourful retro fairytale for adults with a happy ending.
Famous American musical in the Czech adaptation written by Jiři Voskovec and Jan Werich. The central character and the pillar of the whole musical is a water goblin, Čochtan, who Werich created for himself. In Ostrava's production you can see popular actors Norbert Lichý or Jiří Sedláček starring in this role.
The arrival of the Czech emigrant Josef Maršálek and his daughter Káča in Štědrá Dolina (Generous Valley) in the state of Missitucky triggers a series of events when Maršálek buys a part of the land so that he can bury a pot of gold which, as he says, he borrowed from the South-Bohemian water goblin. Maršálek is hoping to become rich and to have a large dowry for his daughter. The pot is magic. Wishes expressed by someone standing above the pot are fulfilled, but only three. Thanks to this magic pot the injustice of the corrupt senator Randall is remedied, mute Susan is healed and Čochtan becomes a human being. Káča marries handsome and rebellious Woody even without the dowry and her father returns back to the vicinity of Třeboň where his home is.
From the history:
Most likely it is the very first American musical staged in Czechoslovakia. The premiere of the Czech version written by Voskovec and Werich opened on 6 March 1948 and it was the very last theatre production of the co-authors. The cast consisted of Ljuba Hermanová, Rudolf Cortéz, Soňa Červená and František Černý and Jan Werich starring as Čochtan. The music was adapted by Zdeněk Petr and played by Karel Vlach's orchestra.
Production team
Stage director | Lumír Olšovský |
Conductor | Bohumil Vaňkát Karol Kevický |
Dramaturg | Patrick Fridrichovský |
Musical preparation | Bohumil Vaňkát |
Set designer | David Bazika |
Costume designer | Sylva Zimula Hanáková Blanka Tesařová |
Music | Burton Lane |
Choreography | Vladimír Kloubek |
Assistant director | Jana Tomsová |
Assistant choreography | Jana Tomsová |
Chorus master | Bohumil Vaňkát |
Rehearsal accompanist | Jakub Žídek Petr Miller |
Performance manager | Slavomír Chmiel |
Prompter | Andrea Krzystková |
Rehearsal gallery
Photo by: Radovan Šťastný
Photo by: Radovan Šťastný
Photo by: Radovan Šťastný


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Two years after dirty surgical tools prompted an RCMP investigation and delayed surgeries, Interior Health unveiled a new $10.75-million sterilization department on Friday at Royal Inland Hospital.
Not operational for another five weeks, the state-of-the-art department will make such incidents a thing of the past and reduce surgical wait times, said Marg Brown, the hospital's health services administrator.
Brown wasn't in a position to say how much wait times were projected to go down.
"We'd like to look at that. That's still a moving target," she said.
The department's five new sterilization units will clean more than 11,000 surgical tools from RIH and hospitals in Merritt and Chase better and faster than before.
The current department has three units but it's not unusual to only have one working at a time, said Brown. The new technology will make a dramatic difference.
"I think, with some of the equipment we were using and the processes (in place), that contributed to the incidents we were having," said Brown, referring to the dirty surgical tools.
Those incidents prompted Interior Health to conduct a thorough review of the hospital's reprocessing unit, Brown said at the press conference.
The resulting report made several recommendations, the most significant being a department redesign and the purchase of new equipment, she said.
Phase one — with its spotless floors, shiny metallic surfaces and fake ambient windows — is done. Becky Geeson, the department's co-ordinator, said a new, dedicated elevator is being installed to allow speedy delivery of surgical tools between the department and operating rooms.
Renovations to the supply room, and a new case cart delivery system will now occur, she said. This second phase will be complete early next year.
Geeson's staff toured the facility along with the media, Mayor Peter Milobar and MLAs Terry Lake and Kevin Krueger. One of the technicians couldn't help expressing her feelings out loud.
"This is awesome," she said.
The department is the backbone of any hospital, said Geeson. If a dirty tool makes it into a surgical room, it can cause grievous harm to a patient.
When equipment is breaking down and tools aren't being properly cleaned, it can also kill staff's morale, she said. The increased workload causes stress that only heightens the problem.
"This really disrupts their flow of work. If they have to redo everything, they aren't going to get their instruments done for the next day's surgery," said Geeson.
The new department is unlike anything Geeson has ever seen and should make a world of difference, she said.
Surgeries were cancelled at the hospital in early 2010 when blood and bone fragments turned up on surgical instruments in an incident of tampering at RIH's operating rooms.
RCMP conducted more than 120 interviews on the matter, but it went unresolved.
The province and the Thompson Regional Hospital District provided funding for the project.


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13 Meetup Groups match "Motorcycle Riders" near Virginia Beach, VA
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This group is for bikers who are off work through out the week and want somebody to ride with, as well as those off on the weekend. this group is for bikers who like to ride all the time, and want somebody to ride with. this group is for people who want to ride on short rides, long rides, and the big events.
The purpose of this group is to find and create a group of people who are interested in getting together with like minded people to get out and enjoy a ride. The group will feature new riders as well as those more experienced with all types of motorcycles. Rides will be set up by anyone interested in leading a run. This will include long touring trips, short localized meet ups, Pungo back roads as well as those who might want to participate in Bike weeks including OBX, Myrtle Beach, North Landin …
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Welcome to 757 Sport Bikes Welcome to the 757 Sport Bikes! We are soon to be one of the largest motorcycle communities in all of Virginia! Heck, we are already the largest within 200 miles of Virginia Beach! It's great to have you with us and we can't wait to see you at future meetups! Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/757SportBikes View List of ALL Motorcycle Events: http://www.zyuum.com/motorcycle-events/
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This group is for serious motorcycle riders who want to ride with others who love to be in the saddle. The group will ride as often as possible and do so out of Smithfield VA. Most weekend rides will start at or after breakfast and be back mid/late afternoon, lunch along the way. Weekday rides will be a few hours after dinner while the sun is still up. Overnight rides may be planned. Everyone will be welcome to plan and lead rides and each ride will have a ride captain. Groups Goal: Great riding …
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We are a small group of riders who like to ride. The rides are often in excess of 150 miles. We don't always stop for lunch. We do overnight trips and trips to most events up and down the east coast. Look for us on the streets.
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This group is for Hampton Roads/Tidewater Virginia area adventure & dual sport motorcycle riders. This should be a place the locals can organize rides in the area and share insights on local routes and attractions.
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This group is open to all sport bike riders and enthusiasts. Our purpose is to create an enviroment where you can come to enjoy good times and common ground conversation with like minded people. We sponsor a wide variety of events all year long. All groups and individuals are welcome to join.
Meetup details are available only to members.
Are you a female rider in the Tidewater area of Virginia who wants to get out and ride more with other local women? You've found the right group. We're ladies from all around the Tidewater area in southeaster Virginia who enjoy getting out and riding our motorcycles together. To be a part of this group, you should be a lady with a bike to ride or a lady in the process of getting the 'M' class and a bike to ride. All bikes and all experience levels are welcome. You'll find plenty of support from …
Bike community of all bike styles and ages. Controlled casual riding & more distance riding. All riders are welcome to RSVP for Tidewater Biker events. Laid back atmosphere where everyone has one thing in common, a passion for riding.
Hi We are glad to see you have a interest in joining our family. V-twin is a family club and welcomes all types of riders and bikes however we are a club with colors, which basically means you have to apply for membership and be voted into the club by the Executive committee, so it's not as easy as just hitting the except button. If you think you might like to be part of our family just let us know and we will be glad to email you an application and a copy of the bylaws for you to read. After yo …
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We are a riding group and nothing more. There are many places around the Hamptonroads area that offer great rides with some great scenery. All are welcomed to come ride with us, we only require that you have a valid mortocycle license and current insurance. Hope to see you on a ride and please bring a sense of humor.
A group of bikers that just love to ride. We're interested in meeting more people like ourselves for some safe riding, friendship, and fun. We are Saints and Soldiers Riding Club. The club was founded in Feb of 2010, in Hampton Roads, VA. We claim no territory but can be found in the Tidewater area. We are a group of prior, retired or active duty military members. Our service careers start from the Vietnam era to the present. We help support each other in all fashions that a family should supp …
REACT is a multinational, multicultural riders group dedicated to the love of motorcycle riding. Comprised mostly of NATO assigned military and civilian personnel, the group is a melting pot of cultural diversity with a common unity.
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And some days the bear eats you
From the diaries by Erick. The Russian bear is awake from its hibernation. Russia's response to the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia was typically Russian – "disproportionate" – in the words of the Bush administration. The conflict, killing thousands and dsplacing tens of thousands in just a weekend's short time, has serious implications for the United States, its newer friends among the former Soviet | Read More »


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Marc by Marc Jacobs
Classic Marc Enamel Disc Bangle
Fashion legend Marc Jacobs introduced his diffusion line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, with a spring 2001 runway show. He has gone on to win seven CFDA awards including Womenswear Designer of the Year, Accessories Designer of the Year and Menswear designer of the year.
- Bangle measures approx 2.5" in diameter and 0.5" wide
- Enamel and rhodium plated bracelet
- Engraved logo disc accent
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ScriptureLog Version 1.1.0 with the Old Testament
ScriptureLog version 1.1.0 is now available.
Upgrade automatically through your WordPress plugins administration panel or download and install it manually. See the download page for more specific download and installation instructions.
This version includes the Old Testament as well as The Book of Mormon. The addition of the Old Testament corresponds to the upcoming 2010 course of study for the Gospel Doctrine class of LDS Sunday School.
You can browse a demo of the ScriptureLog Old Testament here.
Announcing Scripturelog for WordPress
Daniel Bartholomew and I are very excited to introduce you to ScriptureLog.
Scripturelog is a free, open source plugin for the popular WordPress blogging platform that turns WordPress into a collaborative online LDS scripture study journal.
ScriptureLog can be used by a family or a study group to read and comment on the scriptures from a distance. It can be used by a Sunday school, seminary, or school religion class to allow for preparatory or follow up discussion by class members on the scriptures being studied for a class. It can be set up on an local network for private use or hosted publicly.
ScriptureLog benefits from all of the great features of WordPress. And there are scores of free plugins and themes that can be used to customize the site to your liking: plugins to make the site private, or to require registration; plugins to allow people to subscribe to be notified of comments by email; plugins to allow people to login using Facebook or Open ID; plugins to interface with twitter.
Currently only the Book of Mormon is available. It is organized in a way to help readers understand the textual structure of the book. Though not yet available for download, the code for the Old and New Testaments, the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price is substantially complete. However we are still working on an organization that helps illuminate some of the textual structure of these other books, like we have for The Book of Mormon, so we have not made them available quite yet.
Every ScriptureLog page links to the corresponding section at the official LDS Scriptures website.
Because it is open source and built on WordPress, the plugin is open to innovation by others. Wordpress has a well documented plugin API and we hope that in addition to suggesting patches to the plugin itself, other developers will produce companion plugins to enhance features.
In March of 2009, I posted an Outline of the Textual Structure of the Book of Mormon to my blog. The outline was an outgrowth of our work on the ScriptureLog Plugin.
President Ezra Taft Benson, in his famous sermon on the Book of Mormon said:
"The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way."
ScriptureLog represents the culmination of our personal attempts to find ways to better study the scriptures, in particular the Book of Mormon, and we hope that it can contribute to the fulfillment of President Benson's prophetic vision.


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I have a 2007 toyota yaris and need to do 90,000 mile service,and I wnt to know how much it will ...
Toyota Q&A
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scheduled 90,000 mile service check list and how much it will cost?
water dripping from under the dash on passenger side when turning.
Also when staring and stopping. Slight hiss before dripping. happens AC on or off. No antifreeze ...
will going thru water makr ur engine light come on muddy water
my egine light was on got a diagbostic nothing was wrong but light didnt go off. drove about 5 mi...
Motor stopped running dealer told me that it lost compression.
Dealer said that it needed new motor at $4500.00.I find that it does have copression but find it ...
have a 2007 Toyota Yaris and won,t shift into drive until engine cold light goes
have 70'000 miles.This stays in 2nd till cold light goes out.
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How offen i have to change the transmission oil in toyota yaris 2007
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Strong gas odor and car idles rough
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Flasheo de bolsas de aire conductor y pasajero
Adquiri este vehiculo sin el parachoques delantero y al repararlo las luces de las bolsas de aire...
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Applications installed from QtCreator fail to autostart (Known Issue)
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Devices(s): Nokia N8
Keywords: autostart
Created: User:Nokia Developer KB
(26 Oct 2011)
Last edited: hamishwillee
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Adding an application to the start-up list fails when it is installed silently from QtCreator to a Symbian^3 device using the Run on Symbian device feature. On Symbian, applications can be launched automatically at device start-up with the Startup List Management API.
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MONUMENT, COLO. -- A situation in Lewis Palmer School District 38 this election season has some voters scratching their heads, wondering what to do.
Next month voters in District 38 will be making a decision on two possible tax increases.
The first is Amendment 66, a statewide proposal to increase Colorado income taxes to benefit schools and education.
In addition voters in D-38 will also be voting on Initiative 3A. That is a mill levy override which would only help fund District 38.
In July the Lewis Palmer Board of Education approved a resolution to add 3A to the November ballot.
That was before the state decided to add Amendment 66.
Now that there are two potential tax increases on the ballot, school board members are working to education voters on them and which one is best.
"When they see them both they are going to be concerned they are going to be taxed twice," Mark Pfoff, VIce President of the school board, said.
Legitimate worries Pfoff said he understands.
"The concern that we have with Amendment 66 on the same ballot as 3A is that voters will look at 66 and have some concerns with it and then they will decide that too much is too much and vote no on both," he said.
Which is exactly what Pfoff and many others do not want.
"One is a statewide increase to income taxes to fund all districts, but not evenly," Pfoff said. "The other one is 3A which is a local increase in property taxes for our citizens to give money directly to our school district."
When asked which would be the best for District 38 Pfoff said hands down the mill levy override.
"Our estimate at this point is that we would receive about $1.5 million with Amendment 66, and with Initiative 3A we will receive $4.5 million," he said.
Money the board said would be used to bring more teachers into the schools and decrease class sizes.
So what will happen if both pass?
"We will have a discussion to make sure we do not double tax our community," Pfoff said.
FOX21 recently did a story on Amendment 66. To read it click here.


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The Disney-planned community of Celebration, Florida is the latest site of a condominium auction. The picture-perfect town seeks to replicate an idealized slice of small town American life but like most Florida towns it has become a victim of the real estate crisis. Now 27 condominium homes in the Artisan Park complex at Celebration which were once listed from prices of $480,000 to $600,000 will be auctioned off with suggested opening bid of just $95,000. The auction starts at 10 a.m on August 1 at the Celebration Hotel. Some units have a waterfront view and the complex includes a clubhouse with a swimming pool, cabana and restaurants all amid Celebration's cookie-cutter perfection.
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DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Public Library is preparing to organize and catalog the papers of late-Mayor Coleman A. Young.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the project will begin next month and take about two years to complete.
An $87,400 Council on Library and Information Resources grant will pay for the work. Young's communications with Detroit residents, departments, local, state and federal officials is held in 1,175 boxes.
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Product review: medium-spicy Nacheez! »
Great news, vegan cheese-lovers—Nacheez innovator Ilsa Hess has added a new flavor to her line of nacho cheese sauce! What was once only available in spicy or mild is now accessible in a medium spice level. I was generously sent a couple of jars to sample, one of which was simply heated up and poured atop tortilla chips immediately after I ripped the package open—delicious!
For the second jar I wanted to be a little more creative, as my first impulse was to eat it with a spoon over the sink. I'd been meaning to make the Nacheez banana empanadas for about a year, but to be real, it has sounded a little too eccentric for my taste.
I did make the empanadas, and though it is a funky combination of flavors, they're actually really tasty! The sweetness of the bananas combined with the tang of the Nacheez is an eclectic harmony! Next time I think I'm gonna skip the work of shaping empanadas (okay fine, I really made calzones) and just make a pizza. That way the bananas, uncovered in the oven, will caramelize to their fullest potential (or at least until the pizza dough is nicely browned on the bottom).
Even if banana-Nacheez pizza isn't your thing, you can enjoy medium Nacheez in a variety of different ways, like my personal fave—a chili cheese dog!
Medium Nacheez is available for purchase directly from Nacheez.com.
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Vegan road trip: Phoenix! Check out Green restaurant and make your own Big Wac! »
What's a girl to do when a case of winter S.A.D, holiday fatigue, and the daily grind have got her down? Go to the Grand Canyon for Spring Break! Beat the blues by visiting one of the greatest natural wonders the Earth has to offer. Cautiously stand six feet away from the ledge, watch a group of men take a picture of their friend plank on the edge (thinking that surely you are going to watch a handsome Englishman plummet to his death right before your eyes, frozen in fear and experiencing vertigo just looking at him) and forget your own emotional baggage for a couple hours.
Sick of winter and worn out from the holidays, my bestie Britney and I began planning Spring Break 2013, or SXAZ, as it seemed everyone else was in Austin at the time. What was initially envisioned as a road trip from Vegas to Santa Fe quickly became reduced once travel time and expenses became a reality. Enter PHOENIX! VegNews just profiled Tempe and Phoenix vegan hotspot Green, Air BnB rentals* are plentiful, and for the four-hour drive to the Grand Canyon, Zipcars are available.
Now, if you should for any reason, find yourself in Phoenix, it is imperative that you eat at Green restaurant. Britney and I ate at Green three of the four days on that trip, we just COULD NOT get enough. By far, for both us, the most incredible item on the menu was their Big Wac, a vegan take on the (in)famous McDonald's burger. We loved this sandwich so much, we stopped by for the third visit on our way to airport so we could eat our Big Wacs for dinner in San Francisco. Consider us obsessed.
Upon returning home, within four days I had to make my own. So I present you with the Big JB.
I like my junk food with a side of sautéed kale. Or chocolate cake, whatever is available.
Two imitation burgers of your choice (I used Whole Foods brand)
Vegan cheese (Daiya cheddar wedge)
Romaine lettuce
Buns (whole wheat if you are healthy, white flour if you love decadence like me)
Equal parts vegan mayo and ketchup (probably about 2 tablespoons of each)
Dill pickles
2 to 3 tablespoons diced white onion
Cook your burgers as instructed on the box. I fried mine up in vegetable oil, in a saucepan on the stove, because if I'm making glorified fast food for dinner, I'm not going the healthy route. Melt your vegan cheese atop burgers as you see fit. I like to put it on the burgers when they are almost done in the frying pan, turn off the heat, and cover the pan till the cheese melts. Smear your buns with "special sauce" (i.e. ketchup and vegan mayo), add diced onions and a couple pickles. Add your romaine lettuce as desired for nutrient value. Design burger as pictured, because you need that extra bun layer, believe me.
*We stayed in a hippie house that put Berkeley to shame. TO SHAME. No matter my minor in hippie studies from Humboldt State; I broke pretty much every rule in that house with my mere existence.
∞ posted at 12:22 by jennybradley
Tonight: Vegan happy hour at Source in San Francisco! »
The rumors are true—Source now carries organic, GMO-free wines and beers!
To celebrate, we're hosting our own vegan beer and food fest on our patio, from 4 to 6:30 tonight, Wednesday, March 27. We'll be serving all-you-can-drink beer and house wines, as well as some tasty bites including mac n'cheese, chocolate stout cake, salads, and bruschetta.
It costs $25, but if you picked up a Source pin on our anniversary, we'll take $5 off. What a steal, right? Small bites, dessert, AND drinks for $20-$25? This shindig is my little brainchild, and if it's a success, I'll get the green light to keep it up, which I'd like to do probably once a month!
Let's party, vegans—and be sure to bring your omni/vegetarian friends. What better way to show them the thrills of veganism than with cake and beer?
Source is located at 11 Division St. in San Francisco. Call us for more details at 864-9000. See you tonight!
∞ posted at 11:30 by jennybradley
Second anniversary party at Source in SF on Saturday! »
Hey San Franciscans—Source restaurant is throwing a second anniversary party and you're invited! We'll be serving our tremendously popular and incredibly delicious brisket platter, which includes smothered moo brisket, creamed spinach, candied yams, cranberry relish, and my favorite—macaroni salad! I don't know what we're going to do for dessert yet, but there will definitely be a large assortment of gluten-free goodies, including Twinkees and chocolate Heaven Dogs.
I can't wait till Saturday!
In addition to the festivities (read: feeding frenzy), we'll be giving away Source buttons as a thank-you to our customers for keeping us inspired, motivated, and excited about what we've been doing at the restaurant for the last two years! We ordered quite a few of them, but when they run out, they run out. If you get your hands on one, make sure to wear it on future visits for FREEBIES! (If I see you wearing one, you're getting dessert on me!)
These stylish adornments were made by our friend the lovely Jen at Never Felt Better!
Source's second anniversary is tomorrow, Saturday, March 8. We'll serve brunch and our full menu from 11am until 2:30pm; after that we'll serve our full menu and the brisket platter until we close at 10pm! If you weren't aware, Source is BYOB—and stay tuned, as we should be getting our wine and beer license in the next couple of weeks!
See you tomorrow! MENTION THIS POST, VEGANSAURUS READERS (or just mention Vegansaurus, whatever you like), FOR 10 PERCENT OUR ENTIRE MENU ALL DAY SATURDAY! Thanks for supporting us for the last two years!
Source is located at 11 Division St. in San Francisco. Call us for more details or inquires about reservations and take-out orders at 864-9000.
∞ posted at 11:22 by jennybradley
Seven day challenge to "Get Crunk" with Bianca Phillips starts today! »
Let's get crunk this week, you guys. Seriously! Starting today, Cookin' Crunk author Bianca Phillips is teaming up with both Vegan Mainstream and Book Publishing Company to launch a seven day "Keep On Crunkin" challenge, as a social media campaign for her cookbook! Each day Bianca will share tips and recipes on her blog, Vegan Crunk. The posts will then offer a social media option that you can take to Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest, with a chance to win some awesome prizes, including cookbooks and Cookin' Crunk aprons! According to Vegan Mainstream, if you're on twitter, use the hashtag #KeepOnCrunkin to join the conversation at anytime. Being a huge fan of pretty much anything Bianca does, I'm pretty excited to check out what this week-long challenge is all about!
Remember the challenge starts today (Feb 19th) and ends on the 26th —you can find more information about this lively campaign right here! Now let's go get crunk!
∞ posted at 10:54 by jennybradley
Cookin' Crunk!: Veganizing the Dirty South »
I don't know exactly when it happened, but sometime in 2012 I found myself in the biggest creative slump. Even the once exciting outlet of cooking for myself had become a drag, and I knew I needed some inspiration, but from where? Fortunately for me, inspiration came in the mail, in the form of Bianca Phillips' recently published cookbook, Cookin' Crunk: Eatin' Vegan in the Dirty South!
You've probably stumbled across (or follow!) Bianca's blog, Vegan Crunk (a Vegansaurus favorite!), which has been around since 2007. I found it a couple years ago while traveling through the South, looking for a vegan place to eat in Memphis. Bianca had me covered with her Memphis vegan dining guide, and so I got to eat tofu scramble at Brother Juniper's (which I would love to tell you was delicious, but unfortunately I was so very sick, and therefore had to douse it in hot sauce to clear my sinuses. It looked scrumptious!). Anyway, I was super delighted to find that she had published a cookbook and even more stoked to be generously given a copy for review!
I own many cookbooks that I just love, and Cookin' Crunk has definitely made its way to the top. The recipes are straight-forward and quite manageable, while the task of gathering the accessible ingredients can be accomplished at one grocery store. Of this Bianca says (via email), "I was raised in a small town in Arkansas, and it's Whole Foods-less. So I was thinking about those people in small towns. … Of course, there are some things, like nooch and black salt … but I figure most vegans can find those things, even if they order online."
Another feature of this book I'm taken with is that the recipes are so flavorful, sometimes with only a few ingredients: She knows how to spice food up! Last but not least, the narratives and anecdotes presenting each recipe are warm, funny and make me feel like Bianca's in my kitchen, guiding me through these culinary adventures, dishing out the history of these meals. Cookin' Crunk was one of my favorite vegan finds of last year, and I honestly cannot wait to make everything in it. I definitely recommend you add this cookbook to your collection. But don't just go and hit up Amazon; if you buy it through Vegan Crunk, you can purchase a signed copy!
All right, onto the food!
The very first dish I made was the Jalapeño-Lime Watermelon Salad. Now, I was taken aback by mixing jalapeño, lime, and basil with my watermelon, and thought for sure I'd hate it. Turns out, I don't know if I can eat watermelon all by it's lonesome in the future, EVER AGAIN.
The second thing I made was the Mess O'Greens with Turnips. I'm embarrassed to admit that this combination of food is too bitter for my California palate, so now I substitute kale and sweet potatoes for collards and turnips!
Here we have the Deviled Tofu Bites, which were reminiscent of the food at my own family get-togethers growing up.
Entree-style is the Country-Fried Tempeh Steak with Soy Milk Gravy (and a side of the Mess O'Greens), which is one of the best things I have ever tasted. It was better than any comparable restaurant version I've had, for real. Full disclosure: I used the bake option instead of frying it. Looking at this picture reminds me that I need to make this baby again real soon!
Of course there's a dessert section! Pictured above is the Old-Fashioned Coconut Pie and it's KILLER. I've made it about five times, I love it so much. I make desserts for a living, which means I've both baked and eaten A LOT of vegan treats; let me tell you, this pie is beyond words. I could probably eat the whole thing in one sitting, which is coming to you from someone who usually wants nothing to do with sweet and decadent desserts in her off-time.
What are you waiting for? Go get yourself a signed copy of Cookin' Crunk!
∞ posted at 09:22 by jennybradley
Happy Almost New Year: it's the Vegansaurus best meals of 2012! »
You didn't think we'd let 2013 come at us without a best of list, did you? OF COURSE NOT. So for your reading pleasure, we came up with our very favorite meals of 2012. Let's do this!
Jenny (that's me!): My new favorite restaurant of all time is Pura Vida in Las Vegas. I ate so many wonderful meals this year, but Pura Vida topped them all. Chef Mayra is a culinary mastermind—her dishes are vibrantly colorful and packed with so much flavor! Almost every day I think about the breakfast burrito I had about eight months ago, and I cannot wait to to get back to Vegas to hit her up again! I've actually planned my entire wedding in Vegas (sans groom) (for now) solely based on Chef Mayra catering the elegant debauchery that will no doubt ensue.
Latin'tude breakfast burrito, I love you!
Megan: "For me, it was the year of chickpea flour—and more specifically, the Tuscan chickpea frittata. Oh boy did we have some good times this year! I made them every which way from Sunday. So easy and so yummy! And totes versatile. It's the best!"
Man, that was a lot of fun, when Megan was making all those frittatas! I can't believe I never tried one myself, but I suppose that will have to be what 2013 is for!
Vegan, gluten-free frittata; so many delicious combinations!
Laura: "The VegNews all-cheese holiday party, catered by Miyoko Schinner was, in a word, mind blowing! Cheese, cheese, and more cheese!! Giant cheese-stuffed ravioli was maybe the best thing I've ever eaten in my life (SORRY ABOUT THE PHOTO, I'm too pretty to be good at anything!) and fried croquettes on amazing salad, and so much more. Vegan meringue, too! Holy mother!
"Vegan cheese, you've come a long way since your days of gross inedibility! Buy Miyoko's book IMMEDIATELY!"
Hot dang, that VegNews staff knows how to get down!
Vegan cheese, you HAVE come a long way!
Meave: Of course, sometimes it is impossible to pick just one, so our Meave gives the lowdown on her top five! First, comes Isa's Maple Pecan Pie, because what holiday is complete without this delectable dessert? (Follow Meave on Instagram to see how her beautiful pie turned out—I was blown away at its loveliness!)
Maple pecan pie, before meeting the oven!
Next up we have a filling and colorful veg bowl, to which Meave explains, "Angela Liddon, salad genius, made so many of my lunches better with her legume and veg bowls, but my favorite was her Lightened Up Protein Power Goddess Bowl. Meave is quite the salad dressing connoisseur ("I'm picky"), so if this made the list, you know it's got to be good! Of course we can't leave out the brunch at Donut Farm, which includes Meave's personal faves — the winter hash, double-dipped donuts, banana fritters and potato works!
Winter hash forever! Or at least until spring!
Last but certainly not least, Sinto Gourmet kimchi, and for ogling, everything by Tofu666 ("my No. 1 source for food porn").
Sarah: Keeping up with her title, Sarah dishes out some raw opinions, telling us her favorite dish of 2012 was "Cafe Gratitude's I Am Whole bowl. Always". I bet she's missing that over on the East Coast! Hope you got your fill on your recent L.A. adventure, Sarah!
Sarah's version of said bowl, via her personal blog queerveganfood.com.
Andrew: "I'm going to have to go with our recent Mexican vegan Christmas dinner menu—homemade refried beans, Spanish rice, homemade mole with tofu, three kinds of homemade tamales (soyrizo, mushroom and mole, and green chile and cheese); margarita pizza with soyrizo (definitely NOT homemade); and horchata made from scratch, which was used for Mexican White Russians. This fed seven of us at dinner and then everyone got some to take home. And we've had leftovers for one meal a day since." I did manage to get myself invited to this magnificent dinner, but alas, Long Beach was just too far away!
Check out this magnificent plate, made complete with a Tecate, of course!
That's enough about us and our favorites—now it's your turn to rave about your absolute faves from 2012, so the rest of us can enjoy them in 2013! Happy New Year everybody!
∞ posted at 08:31 by jennybradley
Need last minute gifts? Check out Buyer's Best Friend in the Upper Haight! »
Though in the past San Franciso's Upper Haight may not have been a mecca for vegans, I can assure you that it is most definitely becoming one! Thanks to Whole Foods, I can get my fix of Food For Lovers vegan queso anytime I fancy; Sunrise Deli just opened up and man, they KILL IT with their avocado falafel sandwich; Escape From New York offers Daiya cheese; Picnic Bakery is coming soon; and we also boast one of the cutest specialty boutiques in the city—Buyer's Best Friend!
Buyer's Best Friend has been open for a little while now. I think they may have had their grand opening party over the summer. Every time I go in they have new and interesting products, and because they buy straight from the companies, they are able to sample out all their artisan food products! This is incredible news because most of their specialty food items are vegan, even raw! Buyer's Best Friend also carries housewares, bath and beauty supplies, and cold-pressed Stumptown coffee!
Of course I took some pictures — let's check it out!
All kinds of interesting, locally made, and beautifully crafted soaps, with creative names to boot!
The sales representatives were most excited to have me try this VEGAN bacon-flavored hot sauce. It was delicious, and completely cruelty-free!
Their shelves are stocked with all kinds of artisan oils, sauces, mustards, and glazes!
Pickled vegetables galore via Emmy's!
Get yo' hipster cold-pressed coffee ON.
Or you can get some beans to brew at home.
Raw vegan delights by Just Pure Foods!
Truffle oils and flour!
Before Buyer's Best Friend opened, I had never had Cocomel's coconut-milk based caramels. These caramels are definitely one of my most favorite things, ever!
Most of these chocolate delectables are vegan! Some are even raw!
Buyer's Best Friend is located at 1740 Haight St. in San Francisco, between Cole and Shrader in the Upper Haight!
∞ posted at 06:59 by jennybradley
LA's Pressed Juicery to open SF location in Noe Valley! »
Two weeks ago, on a recent trip in a paradise I like to call LA, I hit up one of my fave spots — Pressed Juicery in West Hollywood! While purchasing a mass amount of juice and trying to make small talk with the register dude, I was told two incredible things: that it was their one year anniversary, so I'd be getting 10% off my order and that they were planning on opening up an SF location. I was very excited upon hearing this, but while walking away I couldn't help but think of the lip service and broken promises we in the Bay Area have been given about getting our own Babycakes and Native Foods, and so I promptly let it go.
However, it looks as though we actually are getting a Pressed Juicery and soon too! Eater SF says it's going to be in Noe Vally; that the space is already available! I'm not going to hold my breath or anything, but I'm pretty stoked about this — I think my heart even skipped a beat. I'll be here waiting for you, Pressed Juicery. I love you so!
∞ posted at 09:26 by jennybradley
Product review: Sophie's Kitchen Vegan Crab Cakes! »
I've made no secret of the fact that I miss seafood. Thankfully, many a talented chef and vegan company have heard my incredibly influential sobs, and risen to the challenge of putting this kind of delectable food item on the market! Today, we talk about Sophie's Kitchen — specifically the crab cakes.
I got these bad boys at Whole Foods, a market I did not previously notice them at until recently. Here's what I have to say — if you see them, grab them up. Honestly, I could not be more stoked with this product.
I am not a fan of frying my food my food at home, which some of you might find surprising since I eat so much of it when going out. Whatever, let's move on. I baked them, at 350, for about 15 minutes, or golden brown on the edges. I immediately ate one of them plain, because waiting for both the oven to pre-heat and then the cakes to bake was excruciating. Delicious! I don't know how Sophie's Kitchen does it! The best part is that these are gluten and soy-free! The texture is spot on, without being too much, if you aren't a fan of faux-meats that are exactly like the real thing. The taste itself is also pretty spot-on, without being overly "fishy", thanks to the wakame powder.
Baked to perfection and demolished in 30 seconds.
Being a San Francisco Bay Area native, hot crab sandwiches were a part of my childhood. They bring back family lunches out, in Marin County while visiting my grandparents, and then my mom replicating those same sandwiches in our kitchen at home. Sometimes the hardest part of being vegan is not being able to eat the food that is linked to my family and our memories. Sophie's Kitchen Vegan Crab Cakes are delightful to me, not only because they are scrumptious, but also because for the first time in over a decade I got to eat a hot 'crab' sandwich!
My crab sandwich was nothing too spectacular, as I made it at my grandma's house with only the crab cake, some french bread and Veganaise on hand. You can bet when I make them at home, I'll be going all out with an english muffin, green onion, Veganaise and melted vegan cheese. I can't wait. However plain this one may seem, I was happy none-the-less!
The crab cakes are somewhat small, so I thought I could eat all four that come in a box, no problem. I actually could only get through two, because they are quite decadent!
Last but not least — the ingredients! I know a bunch of you are into analyzing this part of processed and packaged food items, so have at it!
I can't wait to try all of this company's other products!
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In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames.
A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions . . . and it has already begun.
Filled with the boundless invention unique to Clive Cussler, this is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.
Details- ISBN-13: 9780399160134
- Publisher: Putnam Adult
- Publish Date: May 2012
- Page Count: 416
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
Series: NUMA Files (Hardcover)
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- Reviewed in: Publishers Weekly, page .
- Review Date: 2012-04-30
- Reviewer: Staff
Global climate change poses a threat in bestseller Cussler's exciting 10th thriller featuring Kurt Austin and the gang from the National Underwater and Marine Agency (after 2011's Devil's Gate, also coauthored with Brown). When everyone aboard a NUMA research vessel dies after their catamaran runs into a mysterious black oily substance in the Indian Ocean, where they were investigating water temperature anomalies, Kurt and partner Joe Zavala rush to find out what happened. Wealthy Yemeni Jinn al-Khaif, who's behind the killings, has dumped billions of microbots into the sea to cool it and create weather patterns that will deliver rain to certain areas and prevent rain from falling in others. Jinn plans to become even richer by selling these weather patterns to governments. Kurt and Joe are out to stop him, and, as always, the fate of the world rests in their hands. A clever twist at the end shows Cussler still plotting at the top of his game. Agent: Peter Lampack, the Peter Lampack Agency. (June)


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Global growth in the recent period, especially in emerging economic giants such as China and India, has been much stronger and sustained than expected, putting the issue of energy availability at the forefront of the global agenda. Looking forward, experts concur that more primary energy will be needed until 2020, and expect a doubling of world energy demand by 2050.
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According to best estimates, huge investments in energy infrastructure ($22 trillion) will have to be made by 2030 to meet rising global energy demand. Nearly half will have to be spent in the power sector, mostly in developing countries which by 2030 will account for nearly 80% of global installed generating capacity. One-fourth will be spent in the oil sector, mostly for exploration and development; and one-fourth in the gas sector, with emphasis on the upstream and LNG.
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What emerged from the many roundtables and discussions at the 20th World Energy Congress was a general industry-wide consensus that we are moving towards greater energy interdependence, requiring much deeper integration of regional and international energy markets.
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More public-private partnerships will be needed to address growing global interdependence, especially to help speed up the transfer of technologies best suited to developing countries. The Clean Development Mechanism, which allows companies in the developed world to offset emissions by investing in projects in the developing world, should embrace efficiency programmes and all sustainable technologies, such as large hydro, nuclear power, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) from fossil fuels.
To promote this higher level of cooperation, as acknowledged by governments at the Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP13), the WEC is expanding its global mandate. The new remit will amplify the WEC's efforts at alleviating energy poverty, setting a global carbon value, and establishing global rules of energy trade and investment.
Focusing on technology transfer to meet the world's emerging energy needs
Developing countries have a particular energy challenge - how to increase access to modern energy for the two billion of the world's poor in their midst who are currently without. In the emerging global dialogue on meeting the world's energy needs, there is a general agreement we have to respect the priorities of developing countries in fulfilling this important objective.
The energy industry must have incentives to transfer the latest and cleanest technologies for all possible sources of power generation, including nuclear, gas, coal-fired plants and large hydro, in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. At the national level, appropriate policies, measures and instruments that are environmentally effective need to be established and constraints removed.
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Climate change is a true planetary challenge, one that affects every energy company differently because of long investment timelines and large capital requirements. To curb greenhouse emissions, the energy industry urgently needs a global framework beyond 2012 that reconciles the need to adapt to different realities while providing common rules.
One idea for the post-Kyoto period would be to devise a model combining commitments to targets for developed countries and investment commitments for developing ones. At the same time, while the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is determining the objectives, the WEC believes the World Trade Organisation should be involved in creating global rules of energy trade and investment.
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Hopefully, whatever official document produced will have captions, explanations because the images themselves explain no context. For example the one where the road descends into the water, we don't know if it's a freak flood, or a permanent feature.
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Photo project documents rivers of the interior U.S.
Jeff Rich's photo project started at the French Broad river outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Since then, 'Watershed Project' has taken him to the Tennessee River and now the Mississippi in an effort to document and raise awareness of the safekeeping of these rivers. He tells Wired's Raw File of the project, "I've had to be careful about setting some boundaries," keeping the scope of his project limited to the aspects relating to stewardship, pollution and control of the rivers. The resulting images are arresting reminders of the beauty - and vulnerability - of some of the U.S.'s great waterways.
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I agree. I was expecting a little more info going into this article. The Wired article (linked in the beginning) helps a bit though.
Those are beautiful shots And interesting subject matter. I wish he would've used an iPhone too so we could get some side-by-sides to compare.
As an avid fisherman (I actually fished the French Broad, where this project began, in April.) living in the rust belt, a project like this really speaks to me. Though I rarely fish the big rivers, it's all too common to see the scars (and in some cases open wounds) of industrialization on the streams and creeks that feed the big water.
There are riverbeds dyed orange from decades of industrial dumping and acid mine drainage, and miles of flowing water more or less completely devoid of fish...even so, over the past twenty years, great progress has been made toward undoing that damage, and the recovery has been very promising.
Now, with most of the steel industry a thing of the past, fracking threatens these waters, and I guess only time will tell if the people around here will take a lesson from history.
I'm glad DPReview featured this, but it certainly pays to visit the original article on Wired as there are more, larger photos, and they have captions.
The Flint River in Georgia is listed as a threatened water way in the U.S. In the late 70's the Corp of Engineers decided they were going to dam it without basically telling anyone. The only way anyone found out was when the bulldozers arrived at one the the major put-ins. My brother, and the wildlife club he belonged to, contacted then Governor Jimmy Carter and took him on a canoeing trip down the river. Only then did the dam project get halted.
To me, the photos in the article on wired.com have a look which I remember seeing in the print edition of National Geographic about twenty years ago. (We stopped subscribing.) What's the secret of this look? Grading? Composition? Are photos with people staged?
If you are speaking of colour quality, the National Geographic look and feel is the Ektachrome look and feel. There are Photoshop plugins that do similar and GIMP has a filter to do the same.
The pose (look over my left shoulder at something 3 km away) is likely staged but can be natural - just depends if you have something interesting over your shoulder 3km away.
They look like film. But I think the secret is that this is un-enhanced color, the way reality actually looks. No tobacco filters, graduated ND, super saturation plug-ins, etc.
These photo's are shot on film, cited from the article on wired.com:
"All the work is shot on film with either 4×5 or 8×10 camera. Rich says he wanted to shoot larger format work because he liked the sharpness and depth of field you get on negatives that size. But it also slowed him down and created a pace to the photos that feels similar to that of the rivers he's photographed."
Well, it is film. :D
"All the work is shot on film with either 4×5 or 8×10 camera."
That fourth shot is just haunting......
great way to raise awareness - with beautiful photography
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For residents of the close-knit community, the arrest brought a glimmer of hope
"Quite honestly this has been troubling. It is a tragic series of events that none of us would have ever expected to occur in our county," Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood said. "There is a sense of relief that perhaps this case is moving forward."
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