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Digital Anthropology
The Centre for Anthropology aims to be the leading research hub which locates digital technologies in the rich context of human society and culture... full description
The volume edited by Heather Horst and Daniel Miller is the manifesto for the Centre of Digital Anthropology and is the handbook for the Master... full description
Programme Components
The MSc in Digital Anthropology is based on the following components:
In term one Digital Anthropology students are required to take two core courses (comprising taught lectures and small group seminars). The first will be taken alongside students in Material and Visual Culture, and Culture, Materials and Design, which introduces them to a core analytic framework of understanding the importance of objects, materials, and materiality in social worlds.
This core seminar is typically convened 1.00-4.00 on Mondays.
The 2012/13 seminar topics included:
- Introduction
- Bourdieu (1984) Distinction
- Strassler (2010) Refracted Visions
- Boellstorf (2010) Coming of Age in Second Life
- Practitioners Profile: Gell/Ingold
- Practitioners Profile: Appadurai/Taussig
- Reading Week
- Practitioners Profile: Latour/Forsythe
- Marxism, Benjamin & Foucault
- Structuralism and Poststructuralism
- Phenomenology
Alongside this course, Digital Anthropology students will take a second core course focused exclusively on developing an analytic framework and overview of Digital Anthropology.
The readings in the spring are largely built around Miller & Horst's Digital Anthropology (2012).
Digital Anthropology Core Seminar for 2012/13 included:
- The Digital and the Human
- Rethinking 'Digital' Anthropology
- Free Culture
- Digital Technologies and Indigenous People in the Congo Basin
- Approaches to Personal Communication
- Reading Week
- Geomedia
- Polymedia and Cultural Relativism
- Digital Anthropology in Design Anthropology
- New Media Technologies in Everyday Life
- Digital Politics and Political Engagement
Both courses are examined by a combination of a 2-3,000 word course work essay, a methodology practical, and a written examination at the end of the year.
Methods Training
Typically 16-18 sessions are convened within the Research Methods seminar over the academic year. These sessions are made available to all masters students, and while only six are usually compulsory for students in the Digital Anthropology programme they may attend as many as they wish. In 2011/12, the Research Methods seminar included the following sessions:
- Participant observation
- Investigating kinship and relatedness
- Investigating space and place
- Notes, categories, organisation
- Ritual
- Language and culture
- Photography
- Interviews
- Historical sources
- Ethnographic writing
- Fieldnotes
- Film
- Questionnaires I & II (including sampling)
- Internet research
- Participatory Rural Appraisal I & II
Please note: this sequence is subject to change in 2012/13.
Digital Anthropology Practical
In term two, all students take practical training module in digital anthropology (two hours a week) This will allow students to be guided through the different stages and tools needed to study digital practices. Working intensively on a single, common ethnographic project, students will be required to commit to a small fieldwork project and will be guided through a number of different methods on a weekly basis. Some training in software tools for presenting and visualizing research will also be given. In the past students have worked on the idea of "Digital London", and on a comparison of digital technologies and practices in London home environments (example of practical project).
This term we have obtained a Grant for Teaching Innovation and in 2013/2014 we will be able to offer a series of high level workshops on new forms of data analysis. The workshops, which will be held by experts, will cover big data visualisation, web analytics, smart cities and citizen science
The Digital & Visual Culture Lab
The Digital & Visual Culture Laboratory is a dedicated space within the Anthropology Department for practical instruction, project development, and experimentation in research methodology and digital media production. The Lab provides access to a wide variety of applications via UCL's WTS (Windows Terminal Service), including:
- Atlas.ti and NUD-IST (qualitative analysis of textual and multimedia data)
- ArcGIS (a GIS or geographical information system)
- Dreamweaver 8 (web page/web site development environment)
- Google Sketchup Pro (a computer-aided design or CAD package)
- Nvivo (qualitative analysis of textual and multimedia data)
- SPSS (statistical analysis)
We also employ a set of portable digital video fieldkits developed
in-house for the rapid, flexible acquisition of qualitative video data in
support of the practicals and student projects.
Seminar Series and Special Events:
Finally, during the both terms there will also be weekly Material, Visual, and Digital Culture public seminars with invited speakers on Mondays at 4.30-6.00 (usually followed afterwards by drinks in the department and dinner in a nearby inexpensive restaurant). The Digital Anthropology program also hosts a seminar on Anthropology in the Professional World in which practitioners are invited to present and discuss their work in industry and the media.
All students are required to attend both of these seminar series and will be given opportunities to meet and network with all speakers.
Formal classes are not convened during term 3, but the research seminars typically continue and shortly after the first week of the term, the exam is administered. Following the exam, students typically complete their research and writing proposals and any preparations for fieldwork for their MSc dissertations. A 15,000 word dissertation to be submitted by September 15th of each yearnducting under the supervision of a member of the material and visual culture staff, on an agreed topic. This will count for 50% of the overall mark.
Over the year, Students take three optional courses, at least two of which are typically from among those taught by Material & Visual Culture staff. These courses are examined by one essay each of 2-3,000 words.
Details are provided below on the most relevant options taught within the department. Additional options can be found online under their respective postgraduate programmes, and may also be available in other UCL departments (e.g. Information Studies) or other schools within the University of London system).
Anthropology of Art & Design
The course is aimed at those who wish to deepen their understanding the place of art and design in society. We will identify the performative, textured and material dimensions of artworks and products of design through cross-cultural case studies and explore the role of the material aesthetic in a world dominated increasingly by digital media and modalities of communication.
Alfred Gell 1998, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
Alison Clark 2010, Design Anthropology
Svasek, M. 2007., Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production, Pluto Press
Morphy, H. and M. Perkins 2005, The Anthropology of Art, Blackwell
Pinney, C. and N. Thomas (eds) 2001, Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technology of Enchantment, Oxford: Berg
Bourdieu, P. 1996, The Rules of Art, Polity
Mason, Peter 2001, The Lives of Images, Reaktion Books
Anthropology and Photography
This course has three central purposes: to provide a historical introduction to the way in which anthropologists have used photography, to provide a grounding in photographic theory, and to encourage students to think how they might best use photography in their own anthropological projects. We will explore how photography was used both before and after the systematization of fieldwork as the central anthropological method, explore criticisms of photography's "externality", and look at recent ethnographies of "vernacular" photographic practices. The course is assessed by an essay and a portfolio.
Anthropology of Media & Consumption
This is a specialist course for postgraduate students only.
The intention of this course is to provide students with an introduction to a relatively new area of study and one that hopefully points some directions towards the future of material culture and anthropological studies. It will not attempt to provide comprehensive and `fair' coverage of the literature in the manner of a second year course. Instead the course will try to bridge the gap between taught courses and academic research work by using the term to pursue certain research ideas and show their value in exploring new areas. The structure of the course follows from this intention. The first part of the term is devoted to different ways we can consider the relationship between media and social relations, this includes an examination of social networking sites, of blogging and of cybersex as well as more traditional forms of media. The final week of this section examines a current research project that tries to assess the impact of new media on long distance parenting by Filipinos. The second part of the term looks at consumption starting with the background literature from various disciplines. It then examines the larger context for modern consumption in the study of capitalism and particular facets of capitalism such as the advertising industry. We then examine consumption in non-capitalist contexts, followed by a study of how people accumulate and divest themselves of goods. A week devoted to a theory of consumption is followed by its application to the study of the home and Christmas as a festival of the home. The course ends with a consideration of theories of value and objectification and the wider poltical and environmental consequences turning to the impact of the internet and mobile phone in the Caribbean.
Week 1 : Old Media
Media Production and Consumption Soap Opera
Week 2 : New Media (Caribbean)
Internet Studies and Mobile Phones
Week 3 : Media & Relationships
Relationships sex and cybersex
Week 4 : Media & Relationships 2
Facebook and social network sites; the Philippines and migration; parenting by New Media
Week 5: reading week
Week 6 : Migration and Media
Impact of media on transnational relationships
Week 7 : Approaches to Consumption
What is consumption, where does it lead? Disciplinary approaches to consumption
Week 8 : Advertising and Capitalism
Local and global consequences of consumption
Week 9: Home and Shopping
Consumtion in the private sphere including the domestic, shopping and the festival of Christmas
Week 10 : Theory: Objectification, Virtualism, and Value
Anthropology of the Built Environment
Buildings are good to think with. This course will explore anthropological approaches to the study of architectural forms. It will focus primarily on the significance of domestic space and public private boundaries, gender and body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials and the study of architectural representations. The course will be structured chronologically beginning with early anthropological encounters with built forms and the philosophical, historical and social context of these approaches up to the present day within anthropology.
Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
The course presents recent ethnographies of emerging digital practices and discuss the social contexts in which they are developing. Every week students will read a book which presents an ethnography of a digital phenomenon from hacking, to gaming to communication. Some of the areas we will cover are the use of digital channels in migration, the impact of ICT in the workplace, online virtual communities and gaming, new digital property forms and economies, and new processes of digitization. Key questions asked are: what is new and different about our engagement with digital technologies? Do digital technologies and practices alter or perpetuate continuities in social relationships, hierarchies and political structures? What does it mean to be off line in a digital age? What kinds of new subjectivities and publics do digital practices bring into being? All of this will be folded into a wider discussion about developing critical tools and methods to understand emergent digital worlds.
Documentary Film and the Anthropological Eye
Through the presentation of a range of ethnographic,
documentary, fiction and 'current affairs/news' films (including
historic material) we will explore the ways in which film can frame and
convey ethnographic investigation. We will look at the basic
possibilities and limitations of film for going beyond traditional
written ethnography to communicate the significance, style and substance
of other modes of life as well as considering film as a distinct means
to explore social interaction through what you might describe as its
'call to performance.'
Against the grain of current trends, rather than read films 'intertextually,' or as part of a closed world of 'discourse' we will endeavour, together, to discover the historical and social contexts in which filmic ethics and aesthetics have developed. It has become fashionable to lament a past when ethnographers were 'orientalists.' One of the dangers of such interpretive strategies is that they tend to glorify ourselves in a distorted mirror of 'post modern otherness'. This course will encourage you to question such naïve (and patronising) approaches.
Practical Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking (Lab-Based)
The course will train students in the practical and creative skills of video and digital technology to represent and document social and ethnographic research to a broadcast standard. For anthropology students there will be a requirement to complete a film theory or film history course as well (ANTHGS17 or ANTHGC19). Each student will be assessed on the quality of a 10-15 minute short documentary to be devised, shot and edited during the course by each student. This course will entail a lab fee for UCL students of £1,000 on top of any fee for a Masters degree to cover the staff costs of putting on this course. Students will have full access to the UCL Anthropology Audio Visual lab with 11 Final Cut Pro enabled Macs as well as cameras for the duration of the course. Students and others from outside UCL may take this course, for an unsubsidised rate of £1,300. Students who bring their own cameras will be reimbursed £180.
Social Construction of Landscape
This interdisciplinary courses cross-cuts the boundaries of anthropology, archaeology, history and human geography to examine the relationships between landscape and the construction of social identities in the present and the past. Topics include: landscapes, biographies and identities; social values and contested landscapes, concepts of nature and culture, phenomenological approaches to experiencing landscapes, ways of walking, urban landscapes and globalization, landscape gardens and ordinary domestic gardens, the landscapes of Stonehenge. Assessment involves a written project individually chosen by students in consultation with the course tutor. This may involve the use of film and other digital technologies.
Transforming and Creating the World
This seminar series will approach two interrelated topics: the first is the question of technology within anthropology and other social sciences. The second will consider objects as "processes-made-things", that is, objects as the coalescence of what we call "practices", "techniques". Technology is always about more than material production, but can in fact recruit and produce ontologies and meta-physics. Through this perspective, we hope to investigate how an anthropology of techniques (disentangled from its colonial and determinist past) contributes to our understanding of the relations between material culture, environment and sociality. Our exploration might take us through a series of examples ranging from indigenous gardening systems to modern transport technology, and from carving or cooking to rituals and magical operations, as well as digital technology. Complementing contemporary approaches of material culture, and issues of heritage, environment, development and technical innovation, these anthropological analyses of techniques show how to link body, mind and materiality through the course of choices, strategies, and actions on materials.
Risk, Power and Uncertainty
This course sets out to explore risk, power and uncertainty. Why so? Because, increasingly, late modern settings come to be specified and evaluated in terms of the hazards, risks and uncertainties they appear to generate: more so, perhaps, than the inequities, oppressions and alienations that formerly characterised the social analysis of modern malaise. The extent of this shift; the reasons for it; the place of power in its operation; its socio-cultural (and indeed, cosmological) implications are all matters of controversy that need to be rigorously examined. The course begins with a brief survey of pre-modern notions of fate, destiny and magical protection; moves onto consider key contributions in the anthropology of risk (Douglas); assesses the applicability of the concept of 'chaos' in socio-cultural anthropology; and concludes with a critical examination of the sociology of 'the risk society' (Beck) and associated ideas. The second part of the course tackles a series of special issues chosen from areas of science, environment, medicine, politics, marginality, material culture, art, finance, gambling and extreme play. It is intended that the course will link together social, biological and material cultural trends in contemporary anthropology.
Religious Symbolism
This course aims to familiarise the student with the major anthropological approaches to religion. Different topics will be studied week by week and will include belief, magic and science, possession/shamanism, religious experience and reflexivity, the Protestant ethic, new religions, syncretism and fundamentalism. A solid background knowledge of social anthropology will be assumed.
Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
This course focuses on theories and practices of ethnicity, race and nationalism. The reading material is divided between theoretical work on these issues and a variety of ethnographic examples. Though most of the readings are contemporary, historical sources will be used as well. The course will combine lectures, seminar discussion, student presentations, and a few relevant films. Attendance at all sessions is a requirement.
Please note: not every course is available in every year.


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This is true of us, too. One of the "nice" things about fast food is its uniformity. Dd has so many allergies that she can't eat chicken nuggets, McD's fries, or tacos--but she can eat McDonald's soft serve ice cream. I'd love to take her to local place that makes homemade ice cream--but I can't guarantee that the scoop hasn't been dipped into a flavor that will send her to the hospital. But processed soft serve from a machine that makes only one flavor she can actually eat. When we pass a McDonald's, she calls it "the ice cream store."
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Comments by Stafford Gordon
Go to: The Dawkins Challenge
Jump to comment 50 by Stafford Gordon
Further to my last, Christopher Hitchens said words to the effect, that it's not possible to argue with the religious mentality.
He was right, it flits from the subjuntive but impossible, to the indicitive and realistic, with alacrity.
We all do it, but if you know when you're fantasizing and when not, that's fine, but it seems to me that religion renders people incapable of knowing it.
Is it cognitive dissonance, or arrested development, or, a combination of both?
Which ever, I have always found it really weird.
Permalink Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:58:13 UTC | #947403
Go to: The Dawkins Challenge
Jump to comment 43 by Stafford Gordon
Permalink Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:32:09 UTC | #947373
Go to: Cleric says polio vaccination 'un-islamic', warns of jihad against docs
Jump to comment 10 by Stafford Gordon
Of course, had a Muslim developed the vaccine it'd be wooooonderful beyond words!
But having been on their knees with their arses in the air talking to themselves for a thousand years not a lot has got done.
Permalink Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:24:28 UTC | #947354
Go to: Genetically-modified mosquito designed to avoid malaria spread
Jump to comment 5 by Stafford Gordon
Permalink Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:51:02 UTC | #947209
Go to: Gorillas Seen Using "Baby Talk" Gestures—A First
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Permalink Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:46:48 UTC | #947167
Go to: Church accused of 'scaremongering'
Jump to comment 17 by Stafford Gordon
A whinge a day keeps the dole queue at bay; much more of this sort of thing and they'll be out of a job.
People standing up for, and thinking, for themselves; what ever next?
Permalink Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:45:38 UTC | #947074
Go to: Search for truth leads to rejection of religion
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Permalink Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:31:09 UTC | #947045
Go to: Search for truth leads to rejection of religion
Jump to comment 5 by Stafford Gordon
What is the world coming to? Where will it all end?
On the bright sunlit uplands of reality; where else?
Permalink Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:43:04 UTC | #947026
Go to: Louisiana lunacy: tens of millions to be spent on faith-based education
Jump to comment 41 by Stafford Gordon
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Go to: Dawkins calls for 'Catholic' honesty
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Permalink Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:10:12 UTC | #946705
Go to: How religion promotes confidence about paternity
Jump to comment 16 by Stafford Gordon
Part and parcel of living is trusting and being trustworthy. In other words - becoming adult!
Religion infantilizes.
Permalink Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:58:42 UTC | #946522
Go to: Leo Igwe—The Constant Fight Against Irrationality
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How weird that this kind of fight back is necessary!
The one thing which distinguishes us from all other animals is our level of intelligence, so how come so many of us just don't use it?
Really weird.
I'm presently wading through the KJB and Qur' ran, and they are both full of weirdness, none of which, I submit, would stand up in a current day court of law; although I think I'd probably be proved wrong were the presiding Judge to be Cheri Blair.
Permalink Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:43:42 UTC | #946322
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Jump to comment 14 by Stafford Gordon
I think what she's doing is informing the informers/teachers and bolstering their moral.
For my part, I'm circulating flyers about a Chiltern Humanist meeting being addressed by Annie Marie Waters about the "One Law For All" campaign.
My only criticism of Eugenie Scott is an irritating vocal mannerism she has; she seems to have a constantly dry throat. Remedial tuition is simple enough.
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Go to: Does this candidate have a prayer?
Jump to comment 25 by Stafford Gordon
Permalink Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:25:09 UTC | #945301
Go to: Richard Dawkins & Daniel Dennett. Oxford, 9 May 2012
Jump to comment 10 by Stafford Gordon
Apropos of dance, there are any number of dances - Waltz, Quick Step, Tango, etc etc, which carry on in one form for centuries.
There is also a code/notation for ballet productions, so that they can be replicated.
Great discussion though.
Permalink Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:47:35 UTC | #945169
Go to: Sixty Years of British Science Innovation
Jump to comment 33 by Stafford Gordon
I'm pleased to see Rosalynd Frankln mentioned, she rarely is; one of the houses at our daughters' school was named after her.
When Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, one news paper headline read "Girl discovers star." ; so what's new folks?
Permalink Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:33:39 UTC | #945034
Go to: Sixty Years of British Science Innovation
Jump to comment 32 by Stafford Gordon
I'm pleased to see Rosalynd Frankln mentioned, she rarely is; one of the houses at our daughters' school was named after her.
When Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, one news paper headline read "Girl discovers star." ; so what's new folks?
Permalink Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:31:21 UTC | #945033
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Permalink Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:39:48 UTC | #945009
Go to: You want to ban hate speech? Isn't that what religion is?
Jump to comment 23 by Stafford Gordon
19: Tyler Durden.
Thanks for the insecurity mechanism suggestion; it fits perfectly, she did actually once ask me if I was trying to convert her.
Sadly, I think it's all too ingrained now, and I'd best do as she's asked and leave her alone; but, you never know, I might have started something, and she might want to hear the Daniel Dennett talk!
Thanks also to : 13, Premiseless - 14, strangebrew - 15, Sample - and 18, richard jr miles, for your comments.
Permalink Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:45:43 UTC | #944996
Go to: You want to ban hate speech? Isn't that what religion is?
Jump to comment 10 by Stafford Gordon
I have a friend - friend? Well, an acquaintance, who until recently I thought was a friend, who, when I try to discuss religion with her calls me a born again atheist, a bully, and bonkers, and tells me to leave her alone; it's a kind of hate talk, albeit mild.
I never employ an ad hominem approach in discourse, but she just flies off the handle when ever I try to discuss "faith".
She doesn't think Tim Minchin is funny, just very angry, she found "From Abbotabad to Worse" infuriating, and at present I'm waiting to hear from her as to whether she'll agree to let me send her Daniel Dennett's recent video "How to Tell You're an Atheist". ; this will be my last shot, although I don't really know why I'm bothering.
She suffers from having been born into the Catholic tradition, and it's proved absolutely impossible to get her to discuss the matter. About everything else she's perfectly rational, and I like her, but her behaviour when it comes to religion is a text book example of what I've observed over many decades, cognitive dissonance, in spades; actually, it may be more similar to schizophrenia; I'm using both terms very loosely of course.
Questioning and enquiry of her beliefs are absolutely forbidden, but she feels completely at liberty to slag off those with different views to her.
An interesting syndrome perhaps?
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A wordly well educated politician; well there's a thing; still a faith head though.
But, clearly a thinker and a jolly good chap, what? Although a colloquial and rhetorical question, one that's deserving of an answer I think.
Get the irony; nod nod, wink wink, tap nose side!
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The final paragraph is chilling.
I think it's safe to say that people who've been afflicted by religion at an early age find it incredibly difficult to free themselves from the dogmas which as children they believed implicitly; they just can't quite let go of that comfort blanket.
Evolution is so manifestly true that I find it hard to believe that people of faith can't really see as much, but masses of them can't; it is really weird.
The paucity and poor quality of science education results in non scientists failing to understand what a theory is. They think it's a kind of hunch or inkling or wishful thinking. No, that's religion.
It's not understood that in science theories are the result of the accumulation of findings reached via rigorous, disciplined processes which finally unite and explain facts about matter; if they survive the pounding they receive that is.
And even then they remain vulnerable to being superceded by new discoveries which occur in the sciences all the time.
Theories are permanently in foxholes.
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How depressing.
It'll take a world wide generation fire wall to distance us all from this childish nonsense; would religious leaders resist such a thing? Do bears dump in the woods.
Perhaps we would be better off leaving the whole sorry mess and moving to another planet; trouble is, there would almost inevitably be faith heads among the emigrant community who would screw up the enterprise for everyone else.
Ah well, we'll just have to keep up the battle against the wing nuts, if only in honour of Christopher Hitchens; that's well worthwhile doing which ever way you slice it.
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Instead of migrating to other planets, why don't we get our act together here on Earth?
As a species we've only been around for two or three nail filings of time, and although so far we have indeed made a bit of a dog's dinner of it, surely we could do better, try harder, instead of scurrying away leaving the place like a teenager's bedroom.
A good start would be to ditch superstition; we know we're susceptible to fanatasising, and we know why, so why don't we just grow up and make the most of this wonderful world of ours?
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I love this hotel!!!!!! – As many have reviewed in already the Grand California, aka GCH is a awesome hotel. The rooms are FAB!!! You want luxury? Book it at the Grand Californian at Disneyland Resort! Most every room facing the tram plaza see's the fireworks at night and view of Disneyland, the other rooms at the back of the hotel face California Adventure and at night you can also see World of Color. The pools at the GCH are really inviting!! And for the adults, they have poolside drink catering?beer, cocktails and wine! If you are a disney vacation club member you get DVC points that you can redeem and stay at the new villas.
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text: Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat What are some of the best move combos in Pokemon you have found? 131 votes I breed pokemon in the game and am pretty good at IVs and EVs and such. I have thought of a few good tactics, such as Safe Guard and Outrage/Petal Dance/Thrash (avoids confusion ailment) Mimic and Imprison (permanent Disables last move) Swagger/Flatter and Psych Up/Haze (either gives you upped stats or resets theirs) Defense Curl followed by Roll Out (makes roll out stronger) Rain Dance and Thunder (Thunder never misses) Belly Drum and Rest (works best with a chesto berry. Maximizes attack) Sunny Day and Solar Beam (solar beam no longer needs to charge) Endure and Flail/Reversal (makes the attack moves really strong compared to normal) What are some of the best move combos that you have found so far? :D Explain your choices, and why they make good combos. Please read all the answers before posting, to avoid duplicate answers. Yes, all 100+ of them. And no full on movesets either, there are separate questions for that :-) moves combos asked Apr 28, 2010 by uberchrisp edited Apr 7 by Pokemaster Show 24 previous comments One more flaw is if the move is like rock blast or ice shard and can break sturdy. commented Jun 4, 2013 by JarJar~ That is true. commented Jun 5, 2013 by Mega Evolution Guru We already have that combo listed. commented Jun 5, 2013 by Nindzya Oh. Thanks. (So it *is* a "combo"!) commented Jun 5, 2013 by Mega Evolution Guru Wow I never thought this would pass 110... commented Jul 1, 2013 by Flare Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 168 Answers 2 votes Try this set it will trap your opponent completely! Ok so have a Poke'mon with this moveset: Roost Feather Dance Sucker Punch Taunt And this set: Mean Look Psychic (Your Choice.) Heal Pulse Earthquake Set one Strategy: Here is how you use it Start up with a use Taunt Attack to Make the opponent use offensive moves for sure, Then, use a Feather Dance to lower it's Attack, After that, use a Sucker Punch that is sure to hit, (With alot of Power!). Roost is to heal all the damage it's taken while doing this. Keep doing this for Ultimate power! Try out an Metronome or a Leftovers as an item. Set two Strategy: Heal Pulse Just in-case team-mate needs help. Mean Look Keeps the opponent from switching out & ruining this combo. Earthquake Covers The Electric Weakness the Flying Poke'mon Team-Mate has. Psychic is STAB to Gallade. Needed Poke'mon: (Set 1.) Murkrow or Honchkrow Needed Poke'mon: (Set 2.) Gallade Hope I Helped! ^_^ answered Jul 13, 2012 by ∞Charizard∞ edited Jul 13, 2012 by ∞Charizard∞ I can switch out, then all that wears off. commented Jul 13, 2012 by 5th of November edited Jul 25, 2012 by Pokemaster Oh, well for double battle maybe a poke'mon with mean look... xD commented Jul 13, 2012 by ∞Charizard∞ When you edit the answer, i can see it on the front page. You do not need to comment. commented Jul 13, 2012 by 5th of November Oh, xD ok commented Jul 13, 2012 by ∞Charizard∞ Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes THE ALMIGHTY Double Battle Strategy Requirements: Raikou @ Life Orb Trait: Volt Absorb Evs: 4 Hp / 252 Spa / 252 Spe Timid Nature ~ Discharge ~ Hidden Power Ice ~ Substitute ~ Calm Mind Don't even ask. They do not have to be shiny. Jolteon @ Life Orb Trait: Volt Absorb Evs: 4 Hp / 252 SpA / 242 Spe Timid Nature ~ Discharge ~ Signal Beam ~ Shadow Ball ~ Hidden Power Grass The Strategy: Use Discharge when your health is low and you can attack the opponent as well as heal yourself! You would never die! You Can easily recover from the recoil use by doing this. answered Aug 14, 2012 by Gʟɪɢᴜʀʀ Until a ground type comes in and is unafected by both discharges, and is scarfed or something and uses earthquake commented Aug 14, 2012 by |SentByRavens| right. well a scarfed ground type is the only thing stopping me because of jolteons high speed it would probably outspeed whatever its hitting commented Aug 15, 2012 by Gʟɪɢᴜʀʀ Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Shuckle (Ability: Sturdy, Held Item: Rock Gem) - O EVs Speed, 252 Defense, 252 Sp. Defense Trick Room Power Trick Stone Edge (Any Attack of Choice) Wall first attack by opponent (Shuckle has the lowest speed of all Pokemon, so the first step shouldn't be that hard) Use Trick Room Use Power Trick (This will switch Shuckle's abysmal attack stat with it's high as hell defense) Sturdy the next attack by opponent (This is surefire but is difficult. If you Shuckle does not have Sturdy, though unreccomended, use Focus Sash) Stone Edge + Boost by Rock Gem = Instant Kill Since Trick Room is still up, continue using Stone Edge. After that, Shuckle is pretty much a sitting duck This isn't really a technique, but it is quite a decent gimmick. Just don't use against Ground or Steel Types with high defense. answered Aug 29, 2012 by Pokemod3 If you take a hit on the 1st turn, Sturdy will no longer activate. Of course, it could be set up if your opponent is locked into a non-damaging move from Encore... Which means this could actually work ^_^ Pretty cool! commented Sep 6, 2012 by Excadream Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Note this is a double battle strategy A pokemon with Anger Point as a ability. Take for example. Pair him up with a pokemon that can learn Frost Breath or Circle Throw. They always result in Critical Hits. Anyways the pokemon i will be using is . Have use Frost Breath on your . Watch as your primeape get Anger Point activated and you get max attack and you can even give primeape something like a Choice Scarf to make it faster. Now sweep with your massive attack. answered Sep 4, 2012 by Pokenubz *Switches into resistant Pokemon commented Sep 6, 2012 by Mewderator Lolz *Primeape used Close Combat* *Mew sent out Frosslass* UMADBRO?! commented Sep 6, 2012 by 5th of November "Frosslass come back" "Go Rotom-W"(Holding life orb) "Rotom-W used Trick" Now Primape has a Life Orb and Rotom-W has a Scarf. Sweep with Hydro Pump kill the others with Primeape commented Sep 8, 2012 by Pokenubz Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Rest+Shed skin=Full heal!! (Every turn, it has a 1 in 3 chance of healing from a status condition like sleep) answered Sep 26, 2012 by Exca le roi edited Sep 26, 2012 by Exca le roi Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote this really works as double battle combo have 2 zebstrikas or any pokemon with the abilty motor drive and discharge have them use discharge on each other it rasies there speed stat alot answered Nov 20, 2011 by PikaMaster edited Nov 22, 2011 by PikaMaster Species clause. commented Nov 24, 2011 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Swagger/Flattter+Defog answered Dec 10, 2011 by Pokenubz That is totally unnecessary; you could always use Confuse Ray to match with that combo way better. Also, the point of Swagger is that when they are confused and hit themselves, the +2 Stage Attack will deal more damage. commented Dec 10, 2011 by Sam Sam Sam Sam first off what about Pokemon who cant learn confuse ray.Secondly what about when they snap out of confusion they will have +2attack and you don't want that.Thirdly they don't always hit themselves so its still going to hurt.This is mostly for Pokemon who cant learn confuse ray commented Dec 11, 2011 by Pokenubz Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Venoshock+Poisoning move = PAIN!!! answered Jan 7, 2012 by PokeGirl Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote How about fling + theif. It works good with a poison heal pokemon when your using a toxic orb. You get the poison heal and you toxic a pokemon when you fling then steal their item and make it gone by flinging it. answered Jan 7, 2012 by grasspokemon Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here is a trick I found you can use in a double/triple battle. Get a Preferably Tauros and Vigoroth, give Vigoroth focus energy and fury swipes, also maybe give it a scope lens, and after you use focus energy, use fury swipes on Tauros, Anger point will activate, And tauros will be at +6 Attack! answered Jan 7, 2012 by Chikyrocks10 But surely then you cut down on Tauros' HP massively by giving him a critical hit move... commented Jan 7, 2012 by Pokemaster Naw, give vigoroth 0 ATK EVs and 0 ATK IVs if possible, and maybe give Tauros some defense EVs. commented Jan 7, 2012 by Chikyrocks10 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Will-O-Wisp/Confuse Ray/Thunder Wave/Toxic/etc+Hex=More Painful Than Pain Toxic Spikes+Spikes+Stealth Rock=Poison+Pain+Pain answered Jan 8, 2012 by Haxorus1997 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Bulk-up+Drain-punch and priority if you can. Gallade, Conkeldurr, and Toxicroak work well with this answered Jan 9, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Possibly the greatest combo in all of Pokemon. Credit to DT: http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/10312/i-may-have-a-plan-for-shedinja and Pwnyta. Ok, so start in a double battle with Shedinja and a Pokemon (Preferably Porygon2) that can has Trace. If that Pokemon is Porygon2, It can use Conversion2 as well and then pass it to whoever. Shedinja is used for Trace making the ability Wonder Guard. Infact, you could have any ability. Pass it to a Pokemon with a weakness and start sweeping! I do not know if this will work on Spiritomb or Sableye. NORMAL - (68) NORMAL GHOST (0) WATER GROUND (9) WATER DRAGON (2) ELECTRIC - (26) POISON DARK (3) PSYCHIC DARK (0) BUG STEEL (6) Some Dual types that have one weakness. answered Jan 28, 2012 by Nindzya edited Jan 28, 2012 by Nindzya Wonder Guard can't be role played, only traced. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wonder_Guard_(ability) commented Jan 28, 2012 by Pwnyta Still, status things such as poison and burn would affect the pokemon. Weather would also affect them as well. Really cool, though. commented Feb 29, 2012 by NuffSaid Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Double strategy. Have two Pokemon. Have one know Skill-swap and the other have the ability Intimidate. When sent out they will cut the opponents Attack. Then use Skill-swap and they will lower there Attack again. You can repeat this process again and again thus crippling users of Rock-slide, Earthquake Etc. + Note: This strategy can work with any pair with Intimidate and Skill-swap, Scrafty and Alakazam are not required. answered Feb 3, 2012 by Speed freak edited Jul 25, 2012 by Pokemaster I would recommend having one of the Pokemon that you use being able to take on Special attackers as well to make it more effective. commented Feb 3, 2012 by Speed freak multi hit moves: EQ, surf, have their power reduced by 25% in doubles/triples commented Feb 4, 2012 by Pwnyta Earthquake and Rock-slide are still very common, they can still be fairly strong Intimidate really helps sometimes. commented Feb 6, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Give Blissey Simple. Calm Mind yourself and have some fun. Pwnyta: Simple Manaphy with Tail Glow. Simple Volcarona with Quiver Dance. answered Feb 12, 2012 by Nindzya edited Feb 12, 2012 by Nindzya Simple manaphy with tail glow in rain commented Feb 12, 2012 by Pwnyta Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Best Way to beat Josh? In a Rain team the lead is usually Politoed so, lead with a Cofagrigus and get them to attack you thus making their ability Mummy. Switch to an Instant weather Pokemon. answered Feb 12, 2012 by Nindzya I am making a team with Cofagrigus as it's lead! Although I think that Mummy is only passed when the user touches the Pokemon with Mummy; correct me if I'm wrong. commented Feb 12, 2012 by Fate Itself I run specialtoed 90% of the time :D commented Mar 15, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here is a deadly combination for defending! Set a Zoroark to the first slot of your party and set a Giratina (Origin-Form) to the sixth slot of your party! In a battle against a friend, Zoroark will transform into Giratina using it's ability Illusion! Zoroark's only weakness is the Fighting-Type, but the opponent will think that Zoroark is the real Giratina!!! So if the opponent tries to use a Ghost or Dark-Type move on what they think is Giratina, it won't be very effective! Also, they know that Fighting-Type moves don't effect what they think is Giratina, so they won't use Fighting-Type moves on Zoroark! It's also a bit funny if you think about it because your tricking your friend!!! answered Mar 2, 2012 by Megajed Dark type pokemon have also weakness to Bug ;-) commented Mar 10, 2012 by Mr.Bombastic yea but bug is not very effective on ghost so no one would use it commented Mar 15, 2012 by uberjackel97 You could also use gengar with 4x resistance to bug and fighting immunity + people wont use earthquake because of levitate EDIT: if they use psychic attacks because they think its super effective but i doesn't have an effect on Zoroark commented Apr 13, 2012 by Heatran507 edited Apr 20, 2012 by Heatran507 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote In Triple/Double battles have pokemon with the ability Storm Drain.The best choose is Then use again and again Surf .While you are hitting the foe, your Gastrodon is getting more Sp.Att. and the power of Surf is awesome.Also when Gastrodon hits,gets STAB.Works best in Triple Battles . That's why I love Surf. answered Mar 10, 2012 by Mr.Bombastic edited Mar 21, 2012 by Pokemaster I also love SURF, and GASTRIDONS! commented Mar 16, 2012 by PeanutGallery Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote After you + any attack that is stronger if you were hit first answered Apr 2, 2012 by omg698 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Swagger / Confuse Ray / Flatter or anything that lowers stats.. Screech being the most useful here. Works well when combined with Pursuit. Turn 1: 10% used Screech! - Opponent: Aww crap! I better switch out! Turn 2: Opponent goes to switch out, but Pursuit hits for a great deal of damage. Basically you're trying to force a switch then hit them before they leave. answered Apr 6, 2012 by 10% Why to switch out because of the Screech ? commented Apr 6, 2012 by Mr.Bombastic If you have your defense cut in half, you can switch out into another pokemon and then defense cut is no longer there. Same thing with confusion. If you switch out, it goes away. commented Apr 6, 2012 by 10% but not everyone switches when they get hit with stat lowering moves;because most of them have either substitute or a move to raise stats them self...this also gives them time to set up so basically you just screwed yourself commented Apr 6, 2012 by Pokenubz Please log in or register to add a comment. Page: « prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next » Related questions What are some good combos? What 2 move type combos have at least neutral coverage on the most types? What are all the move combos? Does Razor Wind have some sort of a helping move? Banned move combos? what are the item combos Cheren has for his starters What are some good move combos you have found for Electivire Link Shop in Explorers of Sky? What are some good combos with substitute? Useful Meta Posts How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? The points system Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ


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Take the one that says, "you can't go home again."
"What I think that really means is that some people think they're too good to go home again," Bragg says. "I think that's ridiculous. My whole life I've been trying to live up to the kind of men that I grew up with. Why would I not want to come home and talk about those folks?"
Calhoun County native and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of best-selling books including "Ava's Man" and "All Over but the Shoutin'" will serve as the guest speaker for the McWane Mayors' Prayer Breakfast on the morning of Wednesday, May 1.
Not only will it give Bragg the chance to come home again, but he will also get to do what he does best — writing notwithstanding.
"I do love to talk to people about my people," says Bragg, who is a professor of writing at the University of Alabama. "I've done that in Seattle and in the Northeast and all around the South, but doing it at home is special because I don't have to use an interpreter."
The inaugural prayer breakfast will stay true to its name in that each of the seven area mayors have confirmed that they will participate, bringing a clergy member to represent their respective community with each reading a different prayer for the occasion.
The event is being co-sponsored by the YMCA of Calhoun County and RMC Foundation Boards of Directors with the purpose "to bring all seven mayors and their elected councils together in a public venue to offer prayers for our world, nation and the people in our communities," YMCA chief volunteer officer Margaret Roberts and RMC Foundation Board of Directors Chairperson Vera Jordan said in a joint statement.
Roberts, the market president of Wells Fargo, and William Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University, will serve as co-chairs of the event, which is underwritten by Birmingham's McWane, Inc.
The breakfast was the brainchild of Jerry Adkins, president and CEO of the YMCA of Calhoun County who had noticed that prayer breakfasts after the election of local officials was a common way for communities where he'd live previously to come together.
"It was just a sort of natural thing for us to do here," says Vickie Simmons, executive director for the RMC Foundation. "It felt like the right thing to do. We want it to be a diverse event that represents all the people of Calhoun County."
The breakfast is being hosted at the newly renovated Oxford Civic Center and is catered by Western Sizzlin' and Waffle House, but seating is limited. There will be 54 tables seating six people each.
"We're hoping to have enough space," Simmons says, adding that tickets will be available for $5 on the day of the event. That does not include breakfast, only the opportunity to hear Bragg speak, and of course, to pray.
As for Bragg, he'll freely admit this is his first prayer breakfast, but save for a passing fear of lightning strikes, he's expecting a good time with friends.
"I'm not known to cuss in my books, but I have been known to speak in the vernacular of my people," he says. "So I'll have to careful."
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McWane Mayors' Prayer Breakfast
What: With mayors Leon Smith, Oxford; Vaughn Stewart, Anniston; Alberta McCrory, Hobson City; Johnny Smith, Jacksonville; Steve Baswell, Ohatchee; Rick Freeman, Piedmont; Wayne Willis, Weaver. Special speaker is Rick Bragg and music by Kate Falcon.
When: Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 a.m.
Where: Oxford Civic Center, 401 McCullars Lane, Oxford
Cost: $15 for individual advance tickets, $5 the day of (breakfast not included day of), $500 for premiere seating (table of six, listing in the program, VIP reception with Rick Bragg on April 30, complimentary personally autographed book, professional photograph with Bragg), $250 for preferred seating (table of six, listing in the program)
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The last time Weaver beat Saks was also the last time Saks started the season 6-0.
It was in 2011, and, yes, it came in Week 7: Weaver 29, Saks 19.
In a series that has gone back and forth, Weaver has the upper hand, winning 20 of 36 games. At the same time, Saks has outscored the Bearcats 727-601.
For Oxford, the Yellow Jackets have played Grissom only once, and it was a lopsided 42-14 last season. Grissom appears to have struggled just as much this season. While Oxford has won four straight, Grissom is 0-6.
SHINING STARS: Of all the players who stood out in the area last week, none shined brighter than Jacksonville running back Dominique Thomas.
The senior's 247-yard, five-touchdown performance in last week's 40-39 win over Anniston nearly had Thomas named the Alabama Sports Writers Association Offensive Player of the Week for Week 6. He was one of three finalists.
W.S. Neal's Quenton Samuels took top honors.
Although Thomas was not recognized by the Alabama High School Athletic Association, several players were mentioned by both organizations.
Spring Garden's Matt Mullinax, who has become a household name on both lists, finished Friday's 47-22 win over Woodville with 223 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. Teammate Ben Ivey made both lists after he recorded a fumble recovery and intercepted a pass. Piedmont's C.J. Savage was also recognized by the ASWA and AHSAA after he had an 80-yard punt return for a score and a 24-yard touchdown reception in a 68-13 win over White Plains. The Bulldogs' Denard Spears was mentioned by the AHSAA after his performance in the victory.
The ASWA recognized a host of other players.
Weaver's Chris Arnold and Racean Thomas of Oxford were two tailbacks who made the cut. Quarterback Daylon Brackett of Jacksonville Christian continued his success Friday night and Anniston's Quint Dobbins and Ranburne's Dylan Wiggins joined him on the list. Spring Garden defensive lineman Corey Williams joined Ivey and Mullinax.
RANBURNE RANKED: Welcome back to the ASWA Top 10, Ranburne. It's been 12 years since the Bulldogs were ranked, but after a strong 6-0 start, Ranburne is No. 10 in this week's Class 2A poll.
In 2001, which also is the last time Ranburne started the season 6-0, the Bulldogs were No. 8 after Week 7, No. 10 after Week 9 and No. 9 in the final poll. Ranburne finished that season 9-2 and lost in the first-round of the playoffs.
ALEXANDRIA SLUMPS: This time last season, Alexandria was heading into what would be its second win of a four-game winning streak, which would lift the team to the Class 4A, Region 5 championship.
This year, Alexandria enters Friday's game with Cleburne County fresh off back-to-back losses to Saks and Munford by a combined score of 74-0.
Although a loss Friday night would have bigger implications toward the playoffs, it would also be the first time Alexandria would have lost three games in a row since 2010. In 2010 and '11, Alexandria finished the season on four-game winning streaks. Last season, the Valley Cubs won four out of five. Alexandria made the playoffs all three years.
PIEDMONT STREAK: Piedmont is still keeping alive a streak that began with the 3A state championship season in 2009.
Last week's 68-13 win over White Plains secured the second-ranked Bulldogs' fourth straight 6-0 start.
In addition, a win against Susan Moore on Friday night will extend Piedmont's 7-0 streak to three seasons. A win Friday also will clinch a spot in the postseason for the seventh straight season.
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"Take this in," she told the group, illuminating the gnarled stump. A moment later, we were following behind again. This time, outside apartment buildings, homes. I had pictured her wading into thickets of autumn leaves and branches. Instead she stuck to sad, trampled patches and found a bounty of flowers, roots, lettuces. She told us about a 125-year-old pear tree she found in Chicago. When asked where the tree was, she said she would never say. When a man pointed out what many were thinking — that she was foraging where people walk their dogs, and she wasn't washing anything before she ate it — she said she believed in eating whatever bacteria was on the plant when she found it.
A guy sitting on his stoop smoking a cigarette watched with amused eyes.
She rooted along bushes, just beneath windows where people could be seen on couches playing video games and watching TV. She pointed to plants and explained origins; she said many times that not everyone should do this unless you know what you're doing. Outside the gated garden of a school, she asked a friend to jump the fence; the friend did, letting Klehm into the garden. She emerged a minute later with apples. The tour began to feel like a long, vaguely illicit pop-up restaurant.
Though when I asked if she could sell what she collected, she said, "I'm not one of those foragers who sees dollar signs on nature."
When Jared Van Camp, the chef at Nellcote on Randolph Street, introduced himself at the end of the forage, she looked visibly irritated. She doesn't want to suggest to chefs — who often call for advice, though she rarely helps — that a smorgasbord is waiting to be exploited: "Why should I be supplying a restaurant I could never afford to eat in?" But Van Camp told me later he went on the tour because he had been to a farm dinner of foraged food, and he had felt ashamed.
"I thought to myself, 'How is it that I am a chef, and I don't know how to identify or pick stuff?' I felt so stupid and I felt like I needed to know how to do this if I was going to be able to call myself a chef now."
An ancient practice
The good news for Klehm is that foraging for restaurant ingredients isn't especially practical for a Chicago restaurant. This is not the Pacific Northwest, where the climate is more agreeable to foraging and woods more plentiful. The commercial scene in Chicago is small. There's Klehm, who, again, is not all that helpful to restaurants (though she did recently show Greg Hall, the former brewmaster of Goose Island, how to forage on land he bought in Michigan), and there's a handful of mushroom pickers who sell to local restaurants.
There's also Dave Odd, a stand-up comedian. He began foraging professionally after turning a small profit on mushrooms that he stumbled across during a hike in Indiana. He provides foraged food to City Winery, Blackbird, Longman & Eagle; most of the restaurants along Randolph Street have bought from him. He used to forage in parks and along roadsides, though now, he says, he negotiates with landowners. "Or like, there was a nursing home in the southern suburbs with an apple tree, and I asked, 'Can I pick your apples before they rot on your lawn?' That kind of thing does happen.
"I think it's hilarious how this is an alien concept to people, when foraging food is one of the oldest things humans have had to do. When I take people with me, I will pick a apple off a tree and offer it, and they'll be like, 'No, I don't know where that thing has been.' And I'm like, 'It's from here! It's from this tree!'"
And winter?
That's when Odd becomes a hunter of small, hidden ingredients at obscure markets, he said. "Some people say it's shopping, not foraging, but it is foraging if you see it as a needle-in-a-haystack job."
As for Regan, the public face of Chicago foraging: She grew up in Indiana, foraging woods with her father, "always curious about what I could and could not eat." In Chicago she foraged neighborhoods and wooded areas but, the truth is, running a restaurant means she is not actually foraging that much anymore. She's buying a lot of ingredients from food importer Rodrick Markus.
Also, winter means "a lot of preserving and freezing," she said. "This is the time of the year I break my rules. In the winter, the fact is you just can't be as locally sourced as you can be the rest of the year." She added: "What foraging is done for us is done in rural areas. We do not forage in preserves, though people seem to think that. We are not pulling up weeds in Lincoln Park and serving them. This is not happening. I like to highlight foraged items, but that's on a smaller scale."
Indeed, at my dinner at Elizabeth she served foraged Queen Anne's Lace, carrots, celery root, walnuts — often in tiny pieces, rarely as the focus of a dish. I pressed my fork into foraged lamb's quarter that resembled a coral sponge. Like the best of her foraged dishes, it had a slight grit.
"This," the woman across from me said, "is not my favorite thing in the world."
I liked it.
I thought it tasted like dirt. But then, so did she.


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SURFING NOT ALLOWED - NICE DOCUMENTARY04.05.11 - Surfing is prohibited at the Norwegian coastline. And you´ll get a fine of 6000NOK if you get caught. National TV made a great documentary about this. And Norways elite surfer and SHIT Team Surfer Jan Erik Jensen represents. (In Norwegian. Still great shots).
SHIT Team Surfer Jan Erik Jensen on Norway´s National TV, NRK, protecting the coastline. (Pic: NRK)
Surfing is not a crime. That is for sure. But old Norwegian politicians have forbidden surfing in Norway. If you get caught you get a fine of 6000NOK. NRK made a very nice documentary about this restriction, as well as forbidden to kite in the mountains and also bike and ride horses in the montains. How silly can the law be.
This nice documentary shows SHIT Team Surfer Jan Erik Jensen riding some classic Norwegian waves. And pay attention to the surfboard. A SHIT surfboard.
Link to the online version: www.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/730488/
This is how it looks when Jensen is rippin the waves... (Pic: Felix Andre Skulstad).
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Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an influential United States writer, journalist, and political commentator.
- Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
- A Preface to Politics (1913), quoted in The Essential Lippmann, pp. 516-517
- It does not matter whether the right to govern is hereditary or obtained with the consent of the governed. A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats.
- A Preface to Morals (1929)
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- A Preface to Morals (1929)
- If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
- The Miami Herald (December 18, 1947), p. 6A.
- The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
- "Asia and the West", New York Herald Tribune (European edition; September 15, 1965), p. 4
- The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
- quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being--which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs--where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
- With exceptions so rare they are regarded as miracles of nature, successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular—not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.
- A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
- A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
- A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.
- In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and ….superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to ….get what it thinks it likes.
- So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
- The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- The news and the truth are not the same thing.
- The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
- There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means to detect lies.
- When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
- Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.