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Data Cuisine goes against everything i've learnt as a child: Don't play with food! Don't mix meals with political discussions! In these workshops, participants experiment with the representation of data using culinary means. I suspect they are even allowed to put their elbows on the table.
The workshop invites participants to translate local data into culinary creations, turning arid numbers into sensually 'experienceable' matter.
Participants chose their topics, investigate related data, shop for comestible ingredients and under the guidance of chefs, they learn how to create dishes that will not only be delicious but also act as entry points to discussions about local issues that range from emigration to criminality, suicide rate, unemployment, sexuality or science funding.
There's been two editions so far. The first one was the Open Data Cooking Workshop in Helsinki. And the latest was a Data Cuisine Workshop that took place last month in Barcelona.
I had a quick online chat with the creators of the workshops, data visualizer Moritz Stefaner and curator Susanne Jaschko from prozessagenten, process by art and design.
Hi Susanne and Moritz! Seen from the outside, the idea is somewhat simple: just take some data and assemble them on a plate instead of a graph, use culinary ingredients instead of lines and block of colours. Yet, i suspect the process must be more complex than that. What are the challenges participants encounter when trying to turn numbers into dishes?
SJ: It might sound simple, but cooking and data visualisation or representation are two very different disciplines. Food is sensual, tangible, ephemeral, emotional and social. Data is not like this at all. This dialectics is the starting point of the Data Cuisine workshop and for someone who has never done it, it is already a challenge to think both together and to play with the various qualities of food such as its cultural connotations, colour, taste, shape, nutrition and the range of techniques to prepare food such as melting, freezing, boiling, baking, foaming...Not to speak of the various ways one can present and consume food.
Actually there are so many possibilities to explore on both ends, the data and the food, that most participants end-up with something relatively simple, because they are overwhelmed by the complexity. A translation of data into a visual edible diagram is relatively easy, but that's not what we are striking for, but for creations that work and communicate on both levels, visually and as regards taste.
One of the questions the workshop asks is "Have you ever tried to imagine how a fish soup tastes whose recipe is based on publicly available local fishing data?"
So does data affect taste and how? For example, do you have to make concession and be a bit less respectful of data to ensure that a dish is delicious?
MS: Generally, when it comes to tasting precise quantities and differences, of course, our taste organs are more limited than our visual system. It is simply much harder to determine what is "twice as sweet" as opposed to as twice as long line in a graphic. Then again, taste is a much more emotional and temporally complex experience that just looking at a dot on a screen. So, the mechanisms to encode information might be more fuzzy, but potentially much deeper.
Depending on the theme, there could also be a case to be made for dishes that don't taste all that well (like, e.g., the noise visualization through salt).
In the end, our goal is to create eating experiences that teach you something about the data, and taste is one dimension you can vary, but there is also temperature, texture, amounts, the plating, all the cultural connotations different dishes and ingredients have ... all this plays together in creating a successful dish. Here, precision of data readability is not of primary concern, but rather, the overall personal experience, and the dishes' concept.
Can any data be turned into something edible? Or did participants find themselves in front of data that when cooked together could only lead to unpleasant flavors?
SJ: We ask the participants to work with local data, ideally open data, and the experience from the two workshops shows that most people tend to pick data that reveal social and economic problems. This is not really surprising as we encourage people to pick a topic that they feel close to, that motivates them to work on, and to turn it into some kind of food experience. Creating a dish that tastes terrible is sometimes the best way to communicate a negative development or a problematic situation. Good examples for this are the 'Suicide Cocktail' that looks at the relation of alcohol consumption and suicide rates in Finland and 'Unemployed Pan con Tomate!' that visualises the drastic increase of unemployment among young people. We tell participants that they should decide early on, if they want to be that radical or if they want to try something that is more subtle and comparably more difficult to produce.
You work with chefs in each of these workshops. How do they intervene? What exactly is their role in each workshop?
SJ: The chefs are very important, when it comes to creating the dishes. In most cases, a 'data' dish is created by either remixing, altering or re-interpreting existing recipes. The group of participants is usually very heterogeneous and have different professional backgrounds. However, they all have an interest in cooking or at least in doing something with food, but some are knowledgeable than others. The chefs bring the real cooking expertise to the table. Usually our participants quickly develop ideas what they want to do and which dishes they want to create, and then it's the chef who -- with his or her experience and creativity -- pushes them to open up their mind, to try something new and unusual, such as trying out other techniques or ingredients. When we are in the kitchen, the chef is in high demand, not only for the preparation of dishes, but also for their final presentation on the plate.
So far you've organized 2 Data Cuisine workshops. One in Helsinki and one in Barcelona. These are two very different kind of countries in terms of cuisine. Do you feel that participants approached the idea of mixing data and food differently? Because i somehow feel that a lot of personal culture and subjectivity enters into account when dealing with food.
SJ: In Helsinki less of the dishes were local, maybe also due the fact that a lot of Helsinki workshop participants were either immigrants or just visiting. I remember that Moritz and I were wondering what constitutes Finnish cuisine before we had our first meeting with Antti Nurka, the Finnish chef. And it was particularly interesting to see how the shortage of vegetables that grow in Finland and the variety of local mushrooms, berries and fish influence the Finnish menu. But other than that I couldn't discover much differences in the general approach of the participants, maybe because the people who join the workshop are usually food-aficionados.
I think what i like about this workshop is that it breaks a taboo for me. I grew up being told that you don't mix politics and food, that you can't talk about sensitive or potentially divisive topics while having a meal. Yet, many of the projects were directly related to politics and social issues. Besides, one of the objectives of the workshops is precisely to merge food with data in order to "gain unexpected insights into both media and learn about their inner constructions and relations". So what have you learn so far about these constructions and relations?
MS: From a data visualization point of view, I found it really interesting to watch how deeply people meditate on very simple data points, when they think about turning them into food experiences. In a way, this is a very needed counterpoint to the current trend of consuming lots of data in a very quick and superficial way. As Jer Thorp said, "we are so used to flying at 10,000 feet that we forget what it is like to be on the ground" and both the preparation and consumption of the data dishes providesa very earthy, grounded way to connect with statistical information and the human stories behind the numbers.
From a food point of view, knowing how expressive food is as a medium, it is surprising to me by now, how little the intellectual side is stimulated in high-end cuisine. It is surely nice to just enjoy interesting tastes in good company, but it can also be quite enriching if there is a whole extra conceptual and intellectual dimension to the dining experience. I think this side has been quite neglected in the history of cuisine and we are hoping to provoke a few reactions in -- and hopefully some inspiration to -- the traditional cooking scene.
What's next for Data Cuisine?
MS: We aim for a few more editions of the workshop, in order to understand the local differences better and continue to explore the medium. We might also vary the format in the future - one format we were considering is a high-end "data dinner", which would put less emphasis on the collaborative workshop process, but more the final outcome and dining experience. And I would like to learn more about the science of cooking and the technological advances in the area - this field is buzzing right now!
Thanks Susanne and Moritz!
All images courtesy of Data Cuisine. More photos.
Given my notoriously campy taste in music, you will be relieved to know that i'm going to carefully avoid reviewing the music side of Barcelona's International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. What's left then? Fashion, a bit of advertising and the SonarMàtica exhibition.
Sonar's participants' fashion sense was tamer than i expected this year. Hop! Hop! Let's move on to the festival's advertising campaign which have, so far, shown an unconstrained taste for shocking, surprising and amazing. Taxidermied animals, Smiley, people with pee stains on their pants, creatures of worrying genetic heritage, notorious fraudsters and even Maradona have starred in Sonar's posters and promotional videos. Have a look at the photo set of Sonar's most provocative ad campaigns and at the video that the festival created back in 2001. That year, broadcasters refused to air the original video but didn't object to this ridiculously censored version.
This time, the Sónar image is on the safe side but it is nevertheless striking. The heroes of the posters and video are cute majorettes from the world of dreams, who have lost their bearings in the land of the living as a result of calls from a fiendish telephone booth. Follow their 14 minute long adventures:
SonarMàtica is actually what usually brings me to Sonar. The title of the exhibition this year was Mecànics. It aimed to give a platform to some of the driving forces behind nowadays' artistic and mostly DIY creation: mostly centres of production based in Barcelona (with notable exceptions such as MediaLab Prado in Madrid) which were given the opportunity to showcase ongoing projects and postgraduate projects but also to organize workshops, tours and open rehearsals.
Mecànics is the third and final exhibition in the SonarMàtica XIXth Century trilogy, a research project drawing comparisons between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first century. Unlike the two previous exhibitions, Et Voilà!, which highlighted the relationship between magic and technology, and Future Past Cinema, which looked at the recovery of pre-film formats in contemporary, Mecànics had a fairly diluted identity/ The reason for that lays probably in the fact that the exhibition was showcasing the best of what Barcelona makes in art production center rather than exploring with brilliance and cohesion a defined theme. The result is rolllercoaster that leads you from gems to strikingly weak pieces.
I caught myself thinking i shouldn't have bothered. This edition of SonarMàtica had decided to write off SonarCinema, Digital à La Carte and also the artists talks and debates i had enjoyed so much last time i was there (unless, damn! i've missed it). A few projects i've (re)discovered in the exhibition made it worth the trip though:
The Sounds of Science (los sonidos de la ciencia), developed by Jay Barros during MediaLab Prado's Interactivos?'09: Garage Science workshop, uses off the shelf and mostly recycled equipment to create audio visual remixes of sounds and images captured from the urban micro-environment, to "lay-down" some beats and frequencies that serves as a musical score for a visual display of what exists beyond the realm of our everyday vision. At the heart of the project is a home-made microscope designed with a CCD sensor from a camera and the lens from a CD player. Image processing programs analyze various samples from protozoa gathered in urban environments and turn them into algorithms which provide the basis for visual and sound composition.
L'Orquestra dels Luthiers Drapaires (the Luthiers Drapaires Orchestra) is made of spectacular robotic instruments that have been created out of technological waste found on rubbish dumps and in the street. Telenoika has decorticated the waste and enhanced it with a little help from circuit prototyping and acoustic research.
"Luthiers Drapaires" is proof that the waste we generate provides enough raw material to build sophisticated devices. Besides, the growing amount of tools and information available online provide everyone with the possibility to access the knowledge needed to turn rubbish into artworks.
For Sónar, the orchestra was composed of a percussion set made of electromagnetic pistons; a theremin made from two radios; an adapted television which works as an oscilloscope; a guitar made of string, a crate of wine and the engines from a hair removal machine; and a set of automated tubular bells.
Yuri Suzuki brought some much-needed poetry to the exhibition. He displayed some of his charming Physical Value of Sound pieces but also a 2004 piece called Jelly Fish Theremin. The movement of a fish in a horizontal bowl controls the sound, air- conditioning, the visual image and lighting.
Small gold fish were swimming inside the instrument at Sonar but the original work used a jellyfish: I used jellyfish as the control center, since jellyfish are made up of 98% water, and I thought that the will of the water would be reflected in the movement of the jellyfish, if only a little. If we were able to create a space controlled by jellyfish, wouldn't it be the ultimate place of relaxation?
And if you understand japanese...
Image on the homepage courtesy Yuri Suzuki.
While in Barcelona for the LOOP festival, i had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk by Harun Farocki, an independent filmmaker who has spent the past decades investigating the relationship between technology and our representation and understanding of the world. I only got to discover his work at Documenta XII where 12 screens were showing in real time different views of the 2006 World Cup final (France - Italy), some were surveillance camera footage, some focused on isolated players, others overlaid the game with graphic and statistical analysis of ball direction and player speed. Titled Deep Screen, the installation provided an excellent case of 'too information kills information.'
Harun Farocki's presentation in Barcelona focused on two of his short experimental documentaries which, each in its own way, explore the status of new technical images.
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (video extract) is a two-screen installation. On the first screen are images from the maximum- security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a concrete yard where the prisoners are allowed to spend half an hour a day. The camera suddenly zooms in on a fight between two prisoners. Those not involved lay flat on the ground, arms over their heads. They know that fires rubber bullets are coming if the convicts ignore the warning calls. If the fight continues, the guard shoots real bullets. The pictures are silent. The camera and the gun are right next to each other. This video also emphasizes the social relationship between the one who fires and the one who films, between the one with force and the one who takes shots. After that, it takes nine minutes before the convict is taken away on a stretcher. Farocki explained that in the course of 10 years, guns went off 2000 times in the prison. Hundreds of inmates were wounded, a few dozen heavily injured, five were shot dead.
The second screen displays found sequences, images generated by computers that track shoppers as they move through the aisle of the supermarket.
Unlike the prison sub-genre that the cinema industry produces, the images that surveillance camera churn out are excruciating to watch. There's no artificial condensation of time nor space that even the cheapest tv show can create, no close-up, no director trick that would shorten time, no possibility to re-install the camera, sometimes the images have such a low definition they are hard to read. What these images have however is a high level of authenticity, of believability.
Farocki pointed us to Prison Focus, a Californian organization which, in virtue of the Freedom of Information Act, makes prison surveillance images public.
Check also this interview of Farocki about I Thought I was Seeing Convicts.
The second film, Farocki discussed was Immersion (2009). He recently attended a workshop where films war veterans undergoing therapy for their Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the Institute for Creative Technologies, a research centre that develops and uses virtual reality and games to recruit and train the soldiers, but also to treat them. The traumatized soldier has to done a head mounted display and immerse himself into the first person shooter game while a psychotherapist coax them into re-living the most traumatizing moments of their war experience.
What interested the film maker was the fact that if in the past an image was a direct reference, today it is in competition with images generated by computer science. The computer image have now acquired a higher status of believability because scientists have worked together to tune it and make it as close to the reality as possible. These sophisticated models are now competing with 'the real thing.'
Video art is best screened inside isolated dark rooms. Seats are more than welcome, especially if you have to watch tens of videos in a row. LOOP art fair understands the importance of the comfort factor better than most biennales, museums or even film theatres. The fair took place inside the snug rooms of the Hotel Catalonia Ramblas (great breakfast buffet, über-shitty wifi) right in the center of Barcelona during 3 afternoons. Videos were displayed on big screens inside bedrooms and some galleries added a smaller screen in the bathroom to show another piece. So here we were all cosying into armchairs, spreading over beds, taking notes in the dark and chatting in the corridors of the hotel.
Here's a few works i noticed:
Specta Gallery brought two animations by Lars Arrhenius. One of them is The Big Store. A collaboration with Johannes Müntzing, The Big Store is set in the Stockholm department store where Swedish minister of foreign affairs Anna Lindh was assassinated in 2003. Arrhenius/Müntzing have set their focus on the minutes before the murder, as any other day at the store, except that customers, shop keepers, and other protagonists appear as if their body had passed through an x-ray machines. People wander quietly inside what is probably many people's nightmare: a long walk inside a shopping mall emptied of the only elements that makes it remotely appealing: its goods.
I couldn't find a video of The Big Store online but you tube features two other videos by Lars Arrhenius:
Max Estrella Galería de Arte selected the work of Daniel Canogar to represent his gallery. Now Canogar's didn't come with artworks that could be described strictly as videos and that's what made the gallery's bedroom all the more interesting.
One of the pieces on show, Jackpot, a collaged panel formed by broken fragments of slot machines. A projection back-lights the panel with Las Vegas-type flashing lights. The piece looks at our fascination with media screens, the extolling of money as the new religion of late capitalism, and indirectly alludes to the financial system as a game, whose current troubles highlight the inherent dangers of being seduced by its glimmering light. 'Screen' is the key word where LOOP and Jackpot intersect. The video installation is indeed the result of the artist's quest for new ways to break the traditional frames of the screen.
The bedroom of the gallery Filomena Soares was the magical one. I sat there for almost 40 minutes to watch in loop a video that lasts only a few minutes while people around me kept whispering words such as "fantastic" and "magnificent". "O Percurso" (El Camino), a video by Vasco Araújo, attempts to encapsulate three key elements that define gipsy culture: inheritance, nomadism and oral tradition. The video shows the journey through the inhospitable landscape of Andalusia of a man and his son, they just left a land behind them and are looking for a new one. While walking, the son wonders when they are going to arrive and his father tells him again and again that no land is theirs, just like the wind isn't, that what matters is never to stop. What matters is freedom.
Susi Jirkuff is interested in media perceptions and relations between reality and fictions, stories and images. Her videoanimations are playing with different TV genres. By remixing viewer assumptions they reveal the manipulation by the media. The espaivisor - Visor Gallery in Valencia, Spain, brought two of her videoanimations to the fair.
The works on show explored the paradox of pop music: on the one hand it's a product made to be a commercial success, no matter its quality. On the other, it's a expression for intense emotions.
The artist explained: I'm interested in the gap between the media presentation and the message that is received by the consumer. In pop music this gap is deep: on the one hand a settled product consisting of a constructed personality, visual perfection and music, on the other hand an often young recipient who is very much emotional involved in his own life and uses this product to express himself. Emotions are transferred into feelings, a sentimental consumable print of psychic experiences. We more and more learn to act and stage aside an authentic emotional expression believing that we are very authentic.
Braverman Gallery was screening an arresting video by Gilad Ratman. The 588 Project started when the artist discovered on you tube videos showing men immerging themselves completely inside thick mud, breathing only through plastic tubes. Ratman went to see those mud immersion enthusiasts and documented them as they are swallowed up by the mud. Watching the video only makes you feel claustrophobic.
Because of the huge amount of art events i attend each year i sometimes have the feeling that i'm slowly mithridatizing myself against the pleasures of art. I'm glad events like this reminded me why i got into art blogging in the first place. See you next year at LOOP, ok?
My favourite moment at the LOOP festival lasted exactly 47 minutes. I was sitting on the cold floor of one of Barcelona's most extraordinary landmarks, drinking orange juice and watching DOLLS, a video by Annika Larsson (extracts).
DOLLS explores forms of control or the codes and expressions of power, submission and violence. Five men are evolving in an almost blank space, performing excruciatingly banal tasks or just waiting to be served. The men don't seem to have any further meaning or purpose than to their fulfill routine tasks: pouring coffee in a cup or going from point A to point B in order to serve a piece of white bread with butter on a small white plate. These actions are so pedestrian, measured and dull, one would expect robots rather than human to perform them. But what will happen when we all have robots at home that perform menial tasks for us? Won't we find it desirable and exotic after some time to prepare coffee ourselves once in a while?
As the five men are evolving inside the highly abstract space, they obey rules that escape us, they crush objects in close-up with crampon mountain shoes, glide over the floor on their ice skates and their eyes never ever betray emotion.
The careful framing, cold colours, close-ups, slow-motions and Sean McBride's music further contribute to the derealizing effect.
The three-part video takes place in an uncomfortably closed space, a location that would evoke a contemporary art "white cube" would it not be for the coloured markings and geometrical symbols carefully placed on the walls and ground. Is it a playground that could come straight out of a scene from Mon Oncle? Is it a video game set? Both? Or is it rather a Suprematism painting stirred into motion? The signs on the floor and walls are actually similar to the ones used to teach humanoid robots how to find their way and execute some tasks in a given space.
DOLLS was screened inside the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and I can't imagine a more suitable place than the pavilion to show Larsson's video. They have the same geometrical architecture and coldish beauty.
I was surprised to discover that Annika Larsson is generously making some of her work available online. As far as i could have observed, not many video artists are ready to share their work on youtube or vimeo. I had the opportunity to meet the video artist in Barcelona and asked why she didn't restrict her video screening to the strict perimeters of a brick and mortar art gallery. She told me that first of all, watching a video on a laptop screen at home is a very different experience than the one that would see you dress up, go to an art gallery and experience in a space that the gallery has dedicated to it, with the sound played at the right intensity and quality.
Larsson isn't afraid that the online distribution would enable other people to take undue inspiration in her work, "being an artist has always been about copying and stealing anyway," she explained.
She even shot PIRATE, a short film using images taken during a demonstration by the Swedish anti-copyright movement (Piratbyrån and the Swedish Pirate Party) in Stockholm. I'm going to bow goodbye and leave you with the film:
Annika Larsson's work was also part of the LOOP video art fair where she was represented by one of my favourite galleries in Madrid: La Fábrica Galería.
As i mentioned yesterday, the LOOP video art festival and fair that closed a few days ago in Barcelona has been the good surprise of this Spring. To be honest, i arrived expecting intense boredom to fall over my head. Video art to me evoked mostly those long days at the Venice art biennale where i'm usually too tired to stand through a long string of videos that last at least 30 minutes each. Sure, the LOOP fair presented a couple of videos that didn't make me want to check whether they would last more than 20 seconds but my experience of the whole festival was generally a very enthusiastic one.
The festival part of LOOP was distributed throughout the city center, in museums, cultural centres and other venues. Meaning that i could shop, see a video, shop, get lost in the small streets, see another video, have a drink, see a video or just have an aimless walk. No video overdose in sight. I didn't find the time to see everything but over the next few days, i'll blog some of the pieces i particularly enjoyed in the festival:
For his video series, War Tourist, Emanuel Licha traveled to five cities which have recently been through a war, deep crisis, natural catastrophe or which are known to be dangerous. There, he pretends to be curious tourist, hires a professional guide and asks him to organize a guided tour of the worst destruction or the most dangerous zones of the city.
The videos brings into full view our voyeuristic attraction to human misery. The guide organizes a tour of his client's phantasmed city, inventing an idealized version of reality, thus not reality itself. It would be easy to pretend that none of us, politically correct, smart and sophisticated people, could risk to be regarded as a war tourist. Yet, the videos are so fascinating that one realizes that it's hard to be immune to the fascination for suffering, ruins, destruction and desolation. War Tourist is therefore a deeply disturbing series. Not only does it contains heart-breaking details about the tragedy that the cities have been through, it also reveals a voyeuristic side we'd rather pretend we never had.
In every city the guide speaks in a perfectly clear English. Yet, his speech is subtitled in English, keeping thus a safe distance from all that torment and devastation.
War Tourist in Sarajevo visits post-war Sarajevo's ruins; War Tourist in New Orleans goes on tour of the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina; War Tourist in the Suburbs of Paris brings the visitor to Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris where riots took place in 2005; War Tourist in Auschwitz is set in the famous death camp and War Tourist in Chernobyl visits the area devastated after the explosion of the nuclear power plant.
You can get a tour of the city of your choice through the project website. If you understand french, you might be interested in watching a video interview of the artist. Or maybe this other one.
Related: Adel Abidin's travel agency ABIDIN TRAVELS that caters for those who'd fancy vacation trips to Baghdad.


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There are so many fabulous looking pumpkin pies on the web this week that it's torture trying to pick just a few to move to the top of the Pumpkin Pies I Must Try This Thanksgiving list. You're probably having the same difficulty, so I'm going to give you a little help.
To narrow the selection process, I decided to see what some of the awesome food bloggers in my own hood–wonderful, weird Portland, Oregon–are making this year. Luckily, I didn't need to go further afield than a Facebook group I belong to–PDX Food Bloggers.
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Pumpkin Streusel Pie to Knock Your Socks Off
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The name of this gorgeous pumpkin pie says it all. Better just go ahead and remove your socks before you take it out of the oven. Dana Zia of the Go Lightly Gourmet foodblog gets pumpkin pie and knows how to have folks lining up for seconds. It's all about textural contrast. So she loads the top of this creamy custard pie with a super crunchy pecan and candied ginger streusel. Did I mention that the whipped cream topping is flavored with ginger? Seriously, I want to jump in the page and dig in.
Maple Cream Pumpkin Pie with Buttery Gingersnap Crust
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Do you know about pumpkin's special flavor affinity with maple syrup? No? It's true. Maple syrup just seems to make pumpkin taste, well, more pumpkiny. So it makes sense to add a little maple syrup to your pumpkin pie custard base. That's exactly what Kristina Sloggett of the spabettie foodblog did in this wonderful new pie. And she somehow also managed to make the pie dairy, egg, and gluten free.
Sweet Potato Pie with Marshmallow Meringue
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Ahhh, sweet potato pie. Such a lush, creamy texture. One of my absolute favorites. But Cathy Pollak's sweet potato pie gilds the lily considerably with the addition of a marshmallow crème meringue. Seriously, who will be able to resist this, even after double helpings of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing? Not me.
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I have no idea why Madey Edlin calls this her "imperfect" pumpkin pie. It looks pretty darned perfect to me. While this pie falls in the classic category, Madey does a few things that make it extra special. She calls these her "secrets." So head on over to her blog to find out what they are.
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517"A thousand kisses buys my heart from me,
518And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
519What is ten hundred touches unto thee?
520Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?
521_Say for non-payment that the debt should double,
522_Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?"
523"Fair queen," quoth he, "if any love you owe me,
524Measure my strangeness with my unripe years.
525Before I know myself, seek not to know me.
526No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears.
527_The mellow plum doth fall; the green sticks fast,
528_Or, being early plucked, is sour to taste.
529"Look, the world's comforter with weary gait
530His day's hot task hath ended in the west;
531The owl, night's herald, shrieks, 'tis very late;
532The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest,
533_And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
534_Do summon us to part and bid good night.
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537"Good night," quoth she, and ere he says adieu,
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The late Skip Prosser, wise in most things, had a saying to define the dilemma all coaches face at one time or another, when theyre deciding to sign a talented player whose issues precede him: Hes gotta be better than his problems.
If the guys name is Metta World Peace, he better play like Magic Johnson.
Chris Mack worked for Prosser. He had to be familiar with the phrase. He certainly acted on it. The Xavier coach decided Mark Lyons was not better than his problems. Given his extraordinary skills, Lyons must have had some impressive problems. At least in the eyes of his former coach.
Some were glaring enough, you could see them just by watching TV. Lyons sometimes forgot he had teammates. He let his passion get the best of him. Late in the season, he committed a late, silly foul after making a big basket. It could have cost Xavier the game. Bill Raftery was doing the game on TV. Raftery ripped into Lyons.
Raftery is the Joe Nuxhall of quasi-amateur hoops. Describing him as charitable doesnt do the word justice. If Raftery has an issue with you, you must have several.
This week, Chris Mack and Mark Lyons parted ways. It wasnt unusual for a player and coach to decide each had had enough of the other. Players transfer all the time. What was unusual -- astounding, really was that Lyons was Macks best returning player, and a rising senior on a team of kids.
Macks bluntness in assessing the situation was equally interesting. In a release, he said, During our meeting expectations were outlined for his fifth and final season, areas in which I believe needed improvement. Mark did not recognize these expectations as being important and ultimately it was decided that a change of scenery would be in his best interest.
Maybe Lyons was going to leave anyway. Its hard to fathom how any coach would call a cab for a veteran who averaged 15 a game last winter. Harder still at XU, where the cupboard might be full, but its a very young cupboard. Wasnt Lyons declared Xaviers Most Improved Player at the team banquet last week?
Maybe Mack decided to push Lyons, knowing Lyons was plotting to jump, anyway.
Regardless, its a dilemma anyone who has ever coached has faced. It works like this:
Coach sees prospect play. Coach is wowed. Coach does background checks. Coach hears player is a good kid. Coach asks, If hes such a good kid, how come he went to three high schools in two years? Coach is reassured when the answer is, there were things going on behind the scenes.
Coach believes, because he wants to. Coach is blinded by talent. Ultimately, coach figures he can change the prospect. What coach doesnt? If he cant, he believes the great environment at his school can. Coach signs kid.
Ive had coaches tell me they were miserable during some of their most successful seasons. The winning was good, but it wasnt good enough to overcome the sour relationships they had with their players, or that the players had with each other. Most coaches enjoy practice, more than games. They enjoy helping young people find their way.
Winning is most important, obviously. Mainly because it keeps them employed. But the devil-deals sometimes cut to win are not pleasant.
Chris Mack, like any coach, wants his players to reflect his attitude. He cant be happy with players who arent receptive to coaching, dont respect or get along with their teammates, or who get booted from practice again and again. Of course, great players are invariably given longer ropes. But if a team of players is going to lose, the coach wants them to lose his way, not theirs.
Mack likely worried what effect Lyons would have on his team next year. He asked Lyons to be more coachable, assume greater leadership and be a better teammate. Lyons didnt see a problem.
You could see Chris Mack as gutsy, or you could see him applying damage control. Either way, hes moving ahead without his best player. Xavier might lose games next year it would have won, with Lyons on the court. But ultimately, its a team game. And its Macks team.


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South St. Louis (KSDK)- St Louis Police have been busy this morning investigating a series of smash and grab break-in's at businesses in south city.
Detectives are working separate investigations at an AT&T store, a Radio Shack, and a sports bar and grill all within miles of one another.
Authorities believe the bandits smashed windows with bricks to gain entry into the Radio Shack store in the 3500 block of Bamberger, then stole a variety of electronics and assorted merchandise before fleeing the scene.
An AT&T store in south St. Louis was also the scene of a similar crime, however police did not immediately release any details on that crime.
Police were also on the scene of a smash and grab crime at Bommar's Sports Bar and Grill in the 4600 block of Beck near Kingshighway and Chippewa where the thieves got away with more than a half dozen television sets, rifled drawers, and left that business is disarray.
Investigators said entry into Bommar's was similar to the other businesses, however police have not commented on whether the crimes are connected.


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- Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Kamerun (Cameroon)
Dr David Dalby
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- Comparative study and mapping of African languages; referential classification of the languages of the world; development of indigenous African writing systems; problems of language and education in Africa.
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- filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre);
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- contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema';
- exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media;
- structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film.
Dr Kai Easton
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A computer can be very useful in producing printed diagrams of Go positions. There are various techniques:
The diagrams in the British Go Journal used to be produced using a program called Diago, which was specially written for this job. It is not particularly easy to use, but it works: you can inspect the results in the Journal. It allows the stones to be numbered with three-digit numbers.
Diago is a Basic program, and requires GWBasic, running on a Dos or Windows system. GWBasic was formerly supplied as part of Dos/Windows.
The main snag is that it produces output in only two forms: PostScript, and Encapsulated PostScript. To use these, you will need to have either a PostScript printer, or to run a PostScript interpreter (such as GhostScript). In my own experience, a postscript interpreter was insufficient to obtain usable diagrams.
Another method, if you have a Windows system, is to use a special Windows font, designed by Andrew Grant. This includes
This font, with instructions for its use, are available for download from here. You install it as you would any other Windows font.
Alternatively, again with Windows, you can use Robert Nutter's set of special Windows fonts. These include:
These fonts, with instructions for their use, are available for download from here. You install them as you would any other Windows font.
Some oriental 15-bit fonts also include characters for drawing Go boards with unnumbered stones. This page shows examples of their use.
There is a commercial set of fonts for Drawing Go positions, available for purchase in versions for Mac and for Windows, including TrueType and PostScript formats. See the Alpine Electronics web site for details.
Lauri Paatero's program GoWrite allows easy creation of game analysis articles from sgf. It converts the textual element to html and the diagrams to eps format. Current version 2 runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS and there is also a version for mobiles.
Another method for Windows is to download and use Simon Goss's program GoFigs. It allows blank stones, triangled stones, and stones with any number from 1 to 100; also vacant points marked with any letter.
It includes tools that make it very easy for you to draw a diagram the way that you want. Once you have done this, you select the diagram, or any rectangular part of it, and cut'n'paste it into some other Windows application, from which you print it. You can do this as a bitmap, but this is not recommended, as it is likely to produce pixellated printout. The recommended methods of exporting diagrams from it are as a Windows metafile, and as html (see html method 3, below). Two big advantages of a metafile are that the image can then be resized as you wish; and that the stones will be rendered correctly, to the resolution of your printer.
Its biggest disadvantage is that it does not allow stones with numbers greater than 100.
Dave Jarvis' program Jigo allows the board diagram to be exported as a .PNG file. This can then be converted to .GIF, .JPG, etc., with a graphics program.
Anders Kierulf's program SmartGo allows the creation of EPS and PDF diagrams. This procedure is explained on their website.
Another method of producing game diagrams is to use one of the programs described on the game recording page and to produce printout from it. The snag with this approach is that all of these programs automatically remove dead stones from the board, so that if your game involves any captures, you will not be able to show the captured stones in the customary way.
If you choose to use this method, the program which I would recommend is Denis Lambot's Yago, as it is the only one that is able to number all the moves, rather than being restricted to numbers up to 100 on stones. To persuade it to number the stones, use Options - Editing Mode, then Edit - Properties - All.
You can print directly from Yago. But better, as with GoFigs above, you can export a diagram to another application as a Windows metafile, and print from there.
For Linux, you can try Asc2ppm, which the author describes as like GoFigs, but for Linux. It may be used to create diagrams representing...
Five methods are used for presenting Go diagrams in HTML:
Other methods may be in use: look for some Go pages, particularly those which present problems, and see how they do it.
Method 1 is described on the Chinese diagrams page.
Method 2 is used in http://www.britgo.org/intro/intro3.html.
Method 3 is described on the example page and used in the pages linked to by http://www.britgo.org/bgj/bgj.html.
Method 4 looks like this:
. . . . . . . . . . X . X . . . . . O X . . . . . . O , . X . . . . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A snag with method 4 is that it is necessary to make it clear that this is an upper left corner.
Method 5 is described on Mori's Go page.
It requires a java-enabled browser, and does not work perfectly with some browsers. It requires the browser to be connected, so that it can collect the java code from Mori's site.


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RoK-FOR, a project funded by the FP7 Regions of Knowledge (ROK) programme, aims to create a true 'region of knowledge' in the forestry sector in order to encourage the sustainable use of natural resources, renewable energy, sustainable construction materials and bio-based products across Europe.
The project involves encouraging the co-operation of five regional research-driven clusters from six European countries: Germany (Baden-Württemberg); Finland (North Karelia); Spain (Catalonia), and the cross-border clusters from Croatia-Serbia and France-Spain (Aquitaine-Basque). The aim is to share forest product and service innovations, and to demonstrate how regional forestry strategies can have positive impacts on other policy areas.
To date, RoK-FOR has enabled project partners to share good practice and know-how and to learn from each other. North Karelia in Finland, for example, has a highly developed forest-based bio-energy cluster, while Aquitaine is a recognised centre of expertise for companies working with wood. Baden-Württemberg has a very highly developed forest cluster.
"This 'cross-fertilisation' across sectors using wood-based solutions has already opened up new research and development initiatives," says RoK-FOR Coordinator Dr Timo J. Hokkanen from the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for North Karelia. "For example, by connecting sustainable construction with energy generation using forest-based resources, such as residues from woodworking industries, and connecting R&D in this sector with regional strategies and priorities."
The project started by investigating the R&D capacities, policy instruments and strategies in each of the regions, before defining common priorities for a Joint Action Plan across the participating clusters. Workshops were arranged in order to link up the RoK-FOR network with other international projects and networks.
According to Hokkanen, a major success of the project has been to unleash the potential of the partners. "There is excellent spirit within the project, with lots of expertise and contact-building," he acknowledges. "We are proud of the work done so far, and the spirit is high to take the necessary next steps and to think beyond the project timeline."
The involvement of clusters in defining strategic priorities for regional development has been emphasised throughout the RoK-FOR project. Even though there is no European Union forestry policy as such, several other sector policies are directly impacted by forestry, such as renewable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, and nature protection.
"The RoK-FOR project's participating regions illustrate concrete examples of what kind of challenges and opportunities there are for forest sector development at regional level," says Hokkanen. "For example, how to achieve sustainable resource supplies for the demands defined by renewable energy targets, or how to promote wood-based solutions for a sustainable construction sector."
Another objective of RoK-FOR has been to translate EU policy targets at the regional level, and to increase awareness of the need to develop forest sector strategies in different parts of Europe. "In line with green public procurement, forest certification could be accepted as additional criteria for the sustainability of raw materials, but in practice forest ownership structures vary considerable from country to country and from region to region," explains Hokkanen.
"In short, a lot of ground work has already been done in the participating regions, and what RoK-FOR brings as an added value is the possibility to share this with wider audiences – also at European level – and to develop new solutions through international co-operation.
"However, we still have some work to do. For us, success will be measured by how many companies we succeed in involving in our activities; we need businesses to participate, and that is the real challenge and measure of success."


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"The study results show conclusively that in preterm infants with high rates of vitamin D insufficiency at baseline, supplementation with 800 IU of vitamin D3 per day compared to 400 IU per day reduces vitamin D insufficiency at term equivalent age and at 3 months," Dr. Natarajan said. "There also is a trend toward a decrease in the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency even in the 400 IU group at 3 months. Therefore, 400 IU per day may be sufficient after 3 months."
Despite significant improvement in serum vitamin D levels in the 800 IU group, higher levels did not result in better bone mineralization at 3 months of age as measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). In addition, weight, length and head circumference did not differ significantly between the groups.
Dr. Natarajan also noted that one infant in the 800 IU group had vitamin D levels that were higher than recommended levels at 3 months of age despite the levels at term age being normal. Excess vitamin D for at least one month can cause decreased muscle tone, decreased appetite, irritability and constipation, among other problems. The infant did not experience any major effects.
"The incidence of vitamin D excess in the 800 IU group may indicate the need for monitoring vitamin D levels in infants on vitamin D supplementation, but we need larger studies to answer this," he said. "Similarly, larger studies with longer duration of follow-up may be needed to find out any meaningful difference in clinical outcomes such as bone mineralization."
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