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Beer on TV: We Chat With James Watt of the New Show Brew Dogs
There's no denying it: craft beer is huge right now. The once-niche beverage is an increasingly mainstream product and craft beer can be seen just about everywhere these days. This fall, James Watt, Martin Dickie, and the team behind the new show Brew Dogs are bringing it to your television, too.
Tomorrow, the new Esquire TV network will premiere the show, which follows two quirky brewers as they tour the US making unusual beers in even more unusual locations. The show stars Watt and Dickie—the founders of BrewDog, the Scottish brewery most known for wacky marketing, packaging beer in rodents, and for producing the world's once-strongest beer. In the series, the guys visit seven different breweries across the US to meet up with fellow brewers to make experimental beers on trains, boats, and atop mountains.
We had a lot of questions, so we checked out a rough cut of the premiere episode and spoke with James Watt to learn more:
In the first episode, converting 'craft beer virgins' and giving some screen time to local San Diego beer plays a central role. Is that a theme that runs through the whole series and would you say that it's representative of a mission for the show?
Yeah, completely. Each episode is based on a different city, and in each of the cities we take a look into local beer culture. Each has such an amazing, diverse, exciting beer scene, so we got as involved in that as we could. It's also part of our mission to make as many other other people as passionate about craft beer as we are, so we do beer tastings in unusual places. In San Diego we did a beer tasting in an old folks' home.
During the show, you worked with Stone Brewing Co. and Sam Adams, plus Deschutes in Oregon. Are you able to tell us which other breweries you visited?
Hell yeah! So we started off in San Diego, and we made beer with Stone. This was cool because Stone inspired us so much when we started up our own brewery back in Scotland back in 2007, so to go there and hang out was awesome. In San Francisco, we made beer with the legendary Anchor, perhaps the people that kickstarted the whole West Coast hop phenomenon. We did something quite cool... So San Francisco is famous for steam beer, so we wanted to make a steam beer, but we wanted to do something quite unusual with it. We captured fog using fog nets in the Marin Headlands. We got 15 gallons of water that we used to mash in with, and we fermented it in an open coolship on the roof of Anchor. Once we made the beer, we used a technique called hydrodynamic cavitation to turn the beer back into a fog—back into steam—so people could actually inhale the steam beer.
Did any of the beer flavor come through in that, or was it more of a crazy experiment?
So much beer flavor came through. So much of what we taste comes from what we smell, so it was interesting to smell the beer turned into steam with all its flavors, and then to let people taste the beer side by side with that.
Then we went to Seattle and made a beer with Dick Cantwell at Elysian. Seattle's famous for coffee, so we wanted to make the most caffeinated beer that had ever been made. We made an imperial stout but we used chocolate from a local artisan chocolate company. We roasted our own coffee to add to the beer, so we made a classic, big imperial stout with loads of coffee and with loads of chocolate in it.
Then we went to Denver, where we made a beer with the guys at Oskar Blues. So much fun to hang out with those guys. We made that beer on top of Mount Evans and we heated the hot water, the mash, and the wort using only the sun. No solar, no propane, no gas, nothing. What we did, we had these big lenses, and we just used these lenses to focus the sun's rays onto our vessels. That's what heated the beer, so it was a fun way to make a batch.
From there we went on to Philadelphia where we hung with Bill Covaleski of Victory and we made what we hoped would be the ultimate American beer. We made it on the 4th of July on an Independence Day float in Potsdam.
You seem to be consciously trying to push the boundaries of what beer can be. While I appreciate that, it seems like a lot of people online have been throwing out the word 'gimmicky' about the beers themselves. Do you have anything to say to respond to that?
Yeah, definitely. We love to push the boundaries. We love to challenge peoples' perceptions about what beer is—about how it can be enjoyed—get people thinking about beers in slightly different ways. We feel like doing things that are a bit wacky or a bit unusual will get people that are not necessarily beer geeks per se excited and interested about beer and thinking about beers in slightly different ways. We love to have fun doing what were doing. We're doing some unusual things, sure, but it's all been about making fantastic beers as well. I think the fact that we've done it in unusual locations using slightly different techniques is going to hopefully open the eyes of people watching the show to this whole world of craft beer that they never knew existed.
I suppose you kinda have to tell your friends about the vaporized beer you drank that day.
Yeah, exactly! So it's a bit fun, it's a bit quirky, it's a bit irreverent, but hopefully it'll make for much more interesting TV, the fact that were doing these quite outlandish things.
Did any of the beers totally flop?
No, none of them totally flopped. Some of them were better than others. The one we made with Stone—we used the worlds hottest chile in it—that's a 2 million Scoville chile. It was interesting. It was definitely not something you could drink too much of, but some of the beers were fantastic. The imperial stout with Elysian was phenomenal. The Berliner weisse that we made with Deschutes—we made our own syrup for adding to it—was absolutely phenomenal as well.
How did the show happen? Was it your idea, was it the network's?
Well, it kinda spun out of our video blogs. We do a lot of video content for our own website. A TV production company had seen these video blogs, so we got together with them. We put together a pilot and we showed it to a few networks. This network seemed to like it and seemed to not have too much of an issue with our Scottish accents, so yeah, we went ahead and put together the show.
I was wondering about the accent thing. You guys did a great job of enunciating.
Yeah, a lot of the times we were told to go slow—turn down our accents a little bit—otherwise we would have had to use subtitles.
The San Diego episode has a major segment about pairing. Is there an element of beer with food in every episode?
Yes, and that's something we are massively passionate about. We want to show people that the stylistic diversity within craft beer gives you much better potential to put together amazing beer and food combinations than you have with anything else. To go all the way from a hoppy, bitter IPA to a light, zesty, effervescent saison to a decadent opulent imperial stout to a sour, tart, acidic lambic beer to a comforting, malty, Scotch ale—all these different flavors give you so much potential to do awesome things. So in each city we go to, a good part of the show is dedicated to pairing beers with food. We've done that with everything from oysters to doughnuts to molecular gastronomy. It was so much fun.
You guys made beer in some compromising situations. Did you have any dangerous situations arise from, say, trying to mix boiling wort and rafts as you did in the Portland episode?
Yeah, definitely. So the beer that we made in Portland, the cooling didn't work. I had to jump off the raft with 15 gallons of boiling wort, sort of relying on the Willamette River to cool it down. The beer that we made in Boston—we made it on a tall ship. Having 15 gallons of very hot liquid on a boat in the open seas without splashing, scalding, burning ourselves was definitely tough. In each episode we made the beer in quite a challenging way, so we had to come up with some quite inventive solutions such as jumping off the side of the raft and taking the wort with us.
Given the opportunity, would you do a second season? If so, is there any place in particular you'd like to go?
I would love, love, love to do a second season. There's so many places we just couldn't get to that I'd love to go. In the second season, we'd love to go and hang with Garrett [Marrero] out at Maui [Brewing] in Hawaii. We'd love to do something with Three Floyds. It'd be so much fun to go up to Alaska. We'd like to go to Florida to do something with Cigar City. Hopefully, if enough people watch season one, we'll get to do a season two. There's an endless list of people that we'd like to go visit—places we'd like to go and beers that we want to make.
Brew Dogs premieres Tuesday, September 24 at 10 p.m./ 9 Central on the Esquire Network. You can check out the extended trailer here.


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Here at The Sweethome, we're looking for the best ice scraper for cleaning winter windshields. We'll be testing and comparing the top models to see which ones clear windshields fastest.
Do you have have a favorite ice scraper, one that you'd recommend to other people? Or do you use an old CD, or whatever plastic doohickey they're giving away free at the bank?
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Christie Keith's house pulled some electrical shenanigans last night before Glee aired, so she was unable to recap this week, which means you're stuck with me. Allow me to pre-apologize and beg your mercy. You will be back in Christie's capable, graceful hands next week, I promise.
Previously on Glee, an intergalactic election was held to determine if any couple in any sector of the space-time continuum was as cute as Kurt and Blaine, and the answer was no forever. Also: some students started campaigning for McKinley High class president. Dianna Agron somehow managed to keep her perfect, perfect head from exploding despite being stuck in the worst storyline in the history of moving pictures. Puck boned Idina Menzel a little bit. And Santana and Brittany officially became official, and while they shared some off-screen tub time, they didn't share an on-screen kiss. Which will, of course, be rectified in an episode titled "I Kissed a Girl," right? RIGHT? (Spoiler alert: Wrong!) Oh, and Finn outed Santana and so Santana walloped Finn, and all the fandom feelings were felt that day.
Santana and Finn and Will and Idina Menzel are in Figgins' office discussing the finer points of Santana's savage attack on Finn. Figgins goes, "Obviously we have a zero tolerance violence policy, so I'm going to have to suspend you for two weeks." Santana is like, "Even on a show that values continuity the way banks value Monopoly dollars, that's a little bit ridiculous. Rachel Berry and I have murdered at least a dozen people in these very hallways and buried them under the bleachers in the gym. Also, the promo campaigns for the last two seasons have been built around slushie and dodge ball attacks, so." Actually, she says she has a Hulk-shaped alter-ego named Snicks who sometimes takes over her body to seek vengeance against the moronic. Frankly, I wish that were true. That and the Berry/Lopez Murder Club.
Finn jumps in and says Santana only stage-slapped him, not for-real slapped him, and so she doesn't get suspended after all. For a hot second, it seems like Finn is feeling appropriately sh–ty for outing her, but really he just wants her to be able to compete at Sectionals so New Directions can beat the Trouble Tones fair and square. Or something. But also — and this is where things take a turn toward epic patronization, so if you're prone to head explosions, stop reading — he "feels sorry" for her because she's not ready to come out.
OK, and I'm not going to have a rage aneurysm about this or anything, but this storyline is ridiculous. First, let's be clear: Finn outed Santana because she pissed him off. Which: Fine. Whatever. Some people think she deserved it. Some people think being outed isn't a thing anyone ever deserves. Either way, it's realistic, and at the very least, it was the catalyst for some really intense dialogue about outing from gay and mainstream media outlets alike. But this whole coming out intervention business is infuriating.
It's rad that Finn wants Santana to feel free to be her unicorn-loving self. It's cool that he knows how sometimes people turn their aggression inward when they're so full of anger. But come on, man. He feels sorry for her? HE FEELS SORRY FOR HER? That's condescending to a face-punching degree. Even the most empathetic straight ally cannot begin to comprehend the dynamic process of coming out. The way antecedent experiences and cultural triggers and zeitgeisty conversations and religious leanings and familial relationships and a badrillion unspeakable hopes and fears and dreams and nightmares collide inside a person when they say out loud for the very first time, "I'm gay." And all the well-meaning guilt-trippin' and in-your-face singin' in the world isn't going to change that. As gay people, we don't get to choose whether or not our friends and families and co-workers and church leaders and politicians accept us, but coming out in our own time in our own way in our own space is the one thing we do get to choose. And we deserve to figure out how to do that in our own time in our own way.
So I appreciate all the support Santana's friends are going to lavish on her, I really do. But coming out is about more than loving yourself and believing in yourself and acknowledging that you're f–king perfect just the way you are. Yeah, that's part of it. But the fact that Finn thinks that's all of it is just proving my point. A for effort, Hudson. F for execution.


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The road to WrestleMania culminates next Sunday in New Orleans with the 30th edition of the best spectacle in sports entertainment, so we dedicate this week's #WNSTSweet16 to the greatest professional wrestling moments in Baltimore history.
Baltimore has a rich pro wrestling history that includes countless moments from WWE (and the WWF and WWWF before it) and WCW as well as a strong presence of smaller promotions such as Ring of Honor and Maryland Championship Wrestling to this day. In fact, WNST.net's own Nestor Aparicio named a WWE card at the Baltimore Arena on the #WNSTSweet16 list of "must-attend" events for Baltimore sports fans.
Professional wrestling has changed dramatically over the years as the legendary Vince McMahon began referring to his product as "sports entertainment" years ago and began peeling back the curtain on his brand of theatrical athleticism, but Baltimore's passion hasn't waned as events are well-attended on a regular basis.
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Caitlin Daly said someone needs to speak for the animals and � by golly � she�s going to do it.
�I know how much they need help and need a voice,� said Daly, newly appointed executive director of The Humane Society of Alamance County.
Daly, 27, is a native of Arlington, Va., who graduated from Longwood University in Farmville, Va., where she majored in psychology and sociology. After a couple of years working in another field, Daly returned to her first love � assisting animals. She was until recently director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of the Triad.
�I just couldn�t stay away from animals,� Daly said. �When I was growing up, my best friend was my dog.�
When she was in middle school, Daly organized a program where she and classmates volunteered at the local animal shelter. In high school, she created an animal awareness group. And in college, Daly volunteered almost every day at an animal shelter.
Her pet dog accompanies her to work each day.
Molly Whitlatch, outgoing president of The Humane Society of Alamance County, said leaders of the organization hope to expand its low-cost spay/neuter program under Daly�s guidance.
�(We) also hope to expand our volunteer network so we can reach even more animals and their owners in need,� Whitlatch said. �(We�re) very excited (Caitlin) is joining the organization.�
She said Daly is experienced with spay/neuter programs, increasing pet adoption rates and animal health and training. She�s also worked in emergency hospitals, rescues and with relief organizations as they work to save animals following natural disasters.
Daly is engaged to Steve Kloope and lives in Greensboro. She said one of her goals as director of the Humane Society will be to develop a group of volunteers who�ll serve to provide foster homes for dogs and cats. Daly said one of her long-range goals is to start a shelter to house stray dogs and cats.
�I just want to get out there more and be more involved in the community,� she said.
Daly said she welcomes the opportunity to speak to school and civic groups. She�ll come either with or without live animals. Daly said she�s also interested in training and retaining volunteers to educate in all aspects of the work of the Humane Society.
For information on the low-cost spay/neuter program, or to get involved with The Humane Society of Alamance County, contact Caitlin Daley at 438-2023 or find more information at www.hsaconline.org.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday's Child - Rudolph Boegel
The home of Mr. and Mrs. John Boegel, a farmer residing about a mile and a half east of St. Kilian, was thrown into extreme sorrow, last Sunday night, December 7th, 1924, when their sixteen-year-old son Rudolph was almost instantly killed, while out hunting skunks in company with his brother Clarence, aged 19, Leonard Schmitt, aged 16, and Peter Dieringer, aged 15. The latter three are neighbors of the deceased. The accident happened at about 11 o'clock Sunday night, in the old M.E. church located on County Trunk F in the town of Ashford, the church has been deserted for about twenty years and is falling into ruin. The four boys had torn up a section of the floor of the church when the dog which accompanied them ran across the gun which had been laid on the floor, and knocked it into the hole. It was discharged by the fall, according to the story given out by the boys, and the full charge entered Rudolph's body just below the heart, and took an upward course toward his right shoulder, inflicting a wound about an inch in diameter and about seven inches long, killing him almost instantly. Just how the gun could be discharged from the fall will probably remain a mystery, as the boys stated when questioned by Coroner Joseph E. Murray of Fond du Lac, who arrived on the scene at about 12:30 a.m. that the hammer had not been cocked.
Besides his grief stricken parents, deceased leaves to mourn his sudden and untimely death, two brothers Clarence and Roman, and one sister Leona, all at home.
Rudolph, who was born on March 31, 1909, was well liked by his companions, among whom he was a leader. He was a bright and faithful young lad and very active. His tragic death came as a great shock to his many friends, who join in extending heartfelt sympathy to the surviving relatives in this their hour of deep affliction. The funeral was held on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock with services in the St. Kilian Catholic church. Rev. J. B. Reichel officiated. Interment was made in the adjoining cemetery.
The pall bearers were: Reinhold Ottmar and Raymond Bonlender, Roman Kuehl, Arnold and Roman Boegel. Many relatives from Milwaukee, New Fane, Kewaskum, Theresa, LeRoy, Lomira, Ashford and Campbellsport attended the funeral."
NOTE: Under Pallbearers "Roman Kuehl" should be "Romand Kuehl". He would later marry Rudolph's sister, Leona.
News clippings were passed on to me by my mother-in-law, Dolores Cayemberg nee Kuehl. It is unknown, which newspaper the clipping was from, but it is most likely from a newspaper in Brown or Fond du Lac county. The clippings were collected by her mother Leona Kuehl nee Boegel.)
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KDE's October Updates Improve Kontact Performance
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.7 series. 4.7.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.7 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.7.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE's software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come. The October updates are especially interesting for those using the new Akonadi-based Kontact Suite, as it contains many performance improvements and bugfixes for applications such as KMail, and others retrieving information using Akonadi.
Is there a changelog available?
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/10/05 - 8:11pm
Found them myself
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/10/05 - 9:22pm
thanks :D
Yeah, the bug list is actually quite informative, the change log is almost empty. You can also look through commit digests (commit-digest.org) if you want to know if your pet bug is fixed :D
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2011/10/06 - 12:22pm
Kontact and Nepomuk...
...work so much better now. A huge thank you to the PIMsters, and especially Sebastian Trüg, who has been squashing Nepomuk bugs like mad despite the circumstances. You're all heroes. :)
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/10/06 - 2:38am
The announcment says "September 7th"... ;-)
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While I like the updates,
While I like the updates, this doesn't feel user ready to me.
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This postcard portrait, also sent to me by Cynthia Maddock, posed a few identification problems for her. However, after an equiry through an article in the Derby Evening Telegraph's 'Bygones' section, reproduced on This is Derbyshire here, Derby author Anton Rippon came up with the information that it was Arthur Latham, a former Derby County player in the early days of the club.
He was one of the club's early players when they joined the Football League in 1888 and became trainer when he finished playing in 1891. He was the England trainer on several occasions. He died in Derby, in November 1929.The site Bygone Derbyshire, which appears to be an online version of the DET Bygones feature, has an article entitled, "Derby County: Plan Backfires" which has a photograph of the 1898 Derby County football team, the Rams, including a younger Arthur Latham. He is also mentioned in another Bygones article, "Derby County: Men who wielded the magic sponge":
One of the first ["men of the magic sponge"] at Derby County was Arthur Latham, who played right-back for the Rams in their early Football League days. By the mid-1890s, he had become the trainer and continued in the role until 1919. That was typical, for while players and managers come and go at an alarming rate, a trainer often stays with one club for many years.Arthur Latham was born in 1863 at Coventry in Warwickshire, the second child of a silk weaver Thomas Latham and his wife Ann Fleeman. Shortly after he was born, the family moved to Derby, where they settled in St Werburgh's parish. By the time Arthur was eighteen, he was working with his father as a house painter and decorator, a profession in which he continued for most of his life. In 1887, he married Harriet Ann Adcock at Derby, and they were to have at least five children (four daughters and a son).
The reverse of the postcard has a postmark showing that it was franked at 8 p.m. on 7 September 1912. The message, written on the same day and addressed to "Mr. J.J. Burnett, c/o The Elms, 40 North Parade, Aberystwyth," reads:
The County made a draw 1 to 1 but had the best of the game. Blackburn scored from a penalty kick. - Mrs. B. all right. J.H.S. 7/9/12.The 1911-1912 season was the one in which Steve Bloomer, who will feature in a future Photo-Sleuth article, helped Derby County to win the Second Division title. Being at the top of the table meant that they were promoted, together with Chelsea, to the First Division for the 1912-1913 season. Blackburn Rovers had finished the 1911-1912 season at the top of the First Division, so Derby holding them to a draw would presumably have been considered pretty good form. (Not that I know much about football, but I can read as well as the next man)
The front of the postcard portrait has the studio name, "Treble, Derby," in white at the lower left, indicating that it was printed by hand on the negative. Edward Montague Treble had a studio on East Street, Derby from around 1912 until at least the late 1920s.
Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843-1914, Supplement No. 118 to The PhotoHistorian, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209.
Trade Directories on microfiche from the Derbyshire Family History Society (Collection of Brett Payne):
"Postcard Picture was Rams Player", on This Is Derbyshire, from The Derby Evening Telegraph, 25 August 2008
"Derby County Plan Backfires" and "Derby County: Men who wielded the 'Magic Sponge'", on Bygone Derbyshire, from The Derby Evening Telegraph
Index to GRO Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes from FreeBMD
International Genealogical Index (IGI) from the LDS Church's FamilySearch database
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Prison Planet.com
April 23, 2013
We all knew this was coming.
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Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical
April 23, 2013
[…] Under the tutelage of a friend known to the Tsarnaev family only as Misha, Tamerlan gave up boxing and stopped studying music, his family said. He began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He turned to websites and literature claiming that the CIA was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Jews controlled the world.
[…] Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website. Khozhugov said Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,'' the classic anti-Semitic hoax, first published in Russia in 1903, that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world.
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text: "The Kamiah Kid" Ken Hobart is the first of a long line of great Vandal passers, but what sets him apart from the rest is his ability to make things happen with both his feet and his arm. Hobart's 1983 average of 345.5 total yards per game ranks 22nd in NCAA D-1AA history and his 3,800 total yards that season was the best in the nation, while his career total of 11,127 yards of offense ranks 12th. Hobart holds the third-best single-game passing total in Idaho history, with 527 yards against Southern Colorado in 1983 and holds the top rushing effort by a quarterback, with 155 yards against Simon Fraser in 1981. Hobart left the school with the all-time record for touchdown passes at 79, which now ranks second. For his career, Hobart averaged one touchdown per 15.4 pass attempts. A great athlete on the track as well, Hobart ranks sixth in Idaho track & field history in the decathlon.


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VVS students welcome FFA members from Connecticut
VERONA>> The Vernona-Verona-Sherrill FFA Chapter got some special guests this week from out of state.
The chapter participated in it's 6th exchange program, and brought in 4 members of Northwestern Regional High School in Winsted, Connecticut. This is the fourth state the program has excanged students with. In the past, the VVS FFA has entertained guests from Denmark, Wisconsin, Mumford, Tennessee, John Browne in New York City, and Lake Norman, North Carolina.
In order to participate in the program, we had to fill out applications and medical forms," said VVS Chapter Reporter, Sophomore Amanda Burkle. The four students from VVS that participated including Burkle and Sophomore Ashley Findlay went to Connecticut to stay with their exchange families and partners a few weeks before the Connecticut students visited VVS.
The students from Northwestern Regional High School noted that although the school sizes are relatively similar, the FFA programs are very different. Northwestern has a larger greenhouse and a smaller maple production program, and where VVS only has a few different agriculture classes to offer, Northwestern offers specialized courses in subjects like animal biology and plant production.
"I take animal science classes mostly in Connecticut," said Nortwestern FFA Vice President Casey Watson. "The classes are less specialized here at VVS. It seems like we have more diverse programs." Watson was glad to spend time with VVS and their maple program though, as the maple program offered at Northwestern is on a much smaller scale.
"I really liked going out to tap maple here," said Northwestern FFA President Katie Yetter. "We have such a small maple program back home." Both Yetter and Watson said they enjoyed learning about the willow evaporator because the system is state of the art and much different than what they use at their school.
"It was cool to go to school in Connecticut with Katie because she takes such different classes than I do," said Findlay.
"I think it's important to learn how FFA kids are involved in ag programs from state to state," said Yetter, "how other fulfill their desire and passion to be part of agriculture."
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Henry Ford Innovation Institute, a business-development unit of the Henry Ford Health System, will announce Friday that it has entered into a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to develop new digital health technologies to improve patient care, with an emphasis on the care patients receive after being discharged from hospitals.The partnership will involve the Quality of Life Technology Center, a joint venture of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. "We are excited to be working with Carnegie Mellon University toward the next generation of digital health solutions," said Mark Coticchia, vice president and chief innovation officer of the Henry Ford Health System. "This relationship with the Quality of Life Technology Center is a cornerstone of Henry Ford's digital health strategy, and will provide a new set of talent, resources and ideas to craft solutions for pressing health care problems." The center will focus on engineering in assistive robotics and other computer-aided systems that can support people in everyday living, including personal robots that serve people at home, computerized coaches for rehabilitation and support in daily tasks. "Henry Ford is one of the nation's most progressive health systems," said Jim Osborn, executive director of the center. "Together we will pioneer solutions that could benefit thousands of people." Tom Henderson: (313) 446-0337, [email protected] Twitter: @tomhenderson2
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The Regional Cuisine of South Asia in NYC, Part 1: Punjab and Pakistan
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New York's south Asian restaurants have long lingered in tikka masala territory, serving up watered-down versions of recognizable North Indian dishes. Aside from a few excellent exceptions to this rule, cream-laden sauces and muted spices have defined Desi cooking here—until now.
In the last few years, a handful of new restaurants specializing in regional south Asian cuisines have arrived in Manhattan, and both homesick Desis and adventurous Americans are taking notice. Is food from the subcontinent finally coming into its own in our fair city?
This mini-series will help you make the most of these heady times. Not sure of the difference between dosa and roti or how to distinguish good chaat from the rest? We've got you covered. Our week-long exploration of south Asia's regional cuisines covers the basics of how cooking varies from region to region and where to find specific regional specialties in local shops and restaurants.
It's a brave new world of south Asian cuisine, so get hungry. First up: Punjab and neighboring Pakistan in the northwestern corner of South Asia.
Cooking from the north Indian state of Punjab has long dominated menus in the city's South Asian restaurants. Indeed, many of the south Asian dishes most familiar to New Yorkers—aloo gobi (potato and cauliflower cooked with spices), paneer (mild, fresh cheese), and chana masala (spicy, stewed chickpeas)—are mainstays of Punjabi cuisine.
Unfortunately, quantity doesn't guarantee quality. Many Punjabi restaurants cater to American palates, adjusting their spice levels accordingly. Some even take shortcuts, relying on ready-made tomato sauce and commercial condiments rather than coaxing deeper, more nuanced flavors from fresh ingredients.
But if you know where to look, you can find some very decent Punjabi cooking in New York. At Raja Sweets & Fast Food in Jackson Heights, the steam table always stocks Kadhi, a tangy yogurt stew thickened with chickpea flour and simmered with onion and cumin seeds, and Rajma, a piquant, tomato-based kidney bean stew.
Both dishes are effort-intensive to prepare and, thus, rarely made well in restaurants. Raja succeeds where others fail simply by sticking to traditional recipes which draw flavor from key ingredients that typify north Indian cooking: onion and tomato, cumin seeds, ground turmeric, fragrant spices (clove and cinnamon), and plenty of green chilies. Spoon either dish over basmati rice and enjoy some genuine Punjabi comfort food.
Punjab is India's "bread basket," and flatbreads accompany most meals there. Unless you're making your own at home, it's hard to beat the roti and stuffed parantha (whole wheat flatbreads) at Tawa Foods in Jackson Heights, where you can watch women rolling out fresh batches of dough in the open kitchen.
For something sweet, head to neighboring Maharajah Sweets for some mithai (south Asian sweets). Try the Milk Cake (milk, sugar, and cardamom slowly cooked down until solidified and browned) or the Gaajar Burfi (made with grated carrot cooked with sweetened condensed milk and creamy, ricotta-like khoya).
(A tip: Raja's sweets generally are less impressive than Maharajah's, but their gaajar halwa—sweetened carrots and creamy crumbles of khoya cooked with ample cardamom, slivered almonds, and raisins—is impeccable.)
On occasion, Mysttik Masaala, a newish food cart usually parked in Midtown East, also offers some Punjabi dishes not usually found outside of home kitchens. If you see Lobia Masala (black-eyed peas stew), Thurrywala Aloo (potato with a tomato-based gravy), or Lauki Chane Ki Daal (lentils simmered with bottle gourd) on the menu, you're in for a treat.
Wash all of this down with a cup of doodh patti, chai brewed in whole milk (no water) from Punjabi Deli in the East Village. This rich hot beverage hits the spot during the chilly winter months in north India—and New York City, too.
Despite their well-known rivalry, Pakistan and north India (especially Punjab) share very similar cooking traditions. (Pakistan and India formed a single country until the British abruptly partitioned them into separate nations in 1947.) In the 16th and 17th Centuries, the Mughals—Muslims from Central Asia—ruled Pakistan and much of India. The rich, sophisticated cuisine served in these Mughal courts set the standard for haute South Asian cuisine. One key difference: Pakistani cooking is more strongly influenced by the meaty cuisine of south Asia's Mughal courts, while Indian dishes (rooted in Hindu culture) are more likely to be vegetarian.
Dishes like aloo keema (potato and ground beef cooked with spices) and chicken karahi (seasoned with tomato, ample green chilies, and piquant spices) are mainstays of Pakistani home cooking. You can find both of those dishes, and a huge selection of home-style Pakistani and North Indian fare, at Shadman Restaurant in Jersey City, a hub of south Asian immigrants in the tristate area.
Murray Hill's Haandi is beloved for its spicy-garlicky meat kababs and fluffy naan, the fast food of choice in Pakistan, as well as Afghanistan and north India. Haandi's steam table also offers several Pakistani specialties. The Haleem, as Haandi's counterman rightly noted on a recent visit, is "a complete meal." Shreds of tender chicken are blended with oats and yellow lentils in this thick, savory dish, which looks and tastes like a heartier version of north Indian lentil soup.
More impressive is the Beef Nihari, a rich Mughal breakfast dish traditionally made with cow trotters and bone marrow slowly cooked over low heat (often overnight) with a complex blend of spices. Haandi's version hits the spot on a cold day. The tender beef and gravy are spicy enough to leave an after-burn on the tongue, but the dish isn't so hot that you can't pick up hints of licorice-y fennel seeds, sweet cinnamon, and fragrant nutmeg.
These days, breakfast in Pakistan (and north India) is usually a simpler affair. Anda parantha (egg omelette rolled inside a thick griddled parantha) and halwa puri chana (deep-fried flatbread eaten with spicy stewed chickpeas and sweet semolina "pudding") are two popular options. Both are on the breakfast menu at Madina Restaurant and Sweets in Kensington, though halwa is available only on weekends.
For something sweet try the kulfi falooda at Al-Naimat in Jackson Heights, made with short vermicelli noodles, cardamom-scented kulfi (like a denser, richer ice cream), basil seeds, and a dash of fragrant rose water. This dessert has strong Persian roots, but as with many other Mughal dishes of the subcontinent, South Asians have made it their own.
Stay tuned for more south Asian dispatches all week!
Additional reporting by Max Falkowitz, Malini Sood Horiuchi, Rabia Ahmed, Carolyn Lengel, Sunita Apte, Chichi Wang, Reena Geevarghese, Naomi Baumol, Ken Start, Jared Cohee, Purnima Sahgal, Padmashree Tadepalli, Sarah Khan, and Sara Markel-Gonzalez.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Lependorf II
No doubt people employed by the conglomerates believe this childish nonsense. Just as Wal-Mart might believe that their growth and corporate practices are healthy and good for everybody. Wal-Mart is on the side of small business also! (Look at Sam's Club.) But what it's really after is increased influence, power, and control.
Jeffrey Lependorf says that Rick Moody is published by small magazines as well as by the gigantic houses. That's the point! The guy is everyplace. Lependorf uses a circular argument. Moody is chosen for writing assignments because he's well-known. He's well-known because he takes so many writing assignments.
At some point the small press has to develop its own stars. There are plenty of talented, even known underground writers who could've written the foreword. (Lyn Lifshin or Aaron Cometbus.) There are better, more authentic writers than Rick Moody on Soft Skull's own staff.
(Instead the Great Rich White God Moody steps down from the heavens to bless the small-press project. Small press people look up with wonder and gratitude.)
To say that no one would buy the book without the endorsement of someone from the monopolies is inferiority-complex slave mentality of the worst sort. Rather better I think to introduce someone real, exciting, and new, than just the same-old MFA same-old. Who's next? Joyce Carol Oates? She's missed out on one or two writing assignments of late-- has some open time on the 18th of next month, at 7 p.m. She'll try to squeeze you in.
(I'd think most struggling writers need to vomit, as I did, upon seeing a Rick Moody or another of his fashionable ilk feigning to speak for them.)
(One can't really blame Jeffrey Lependorf for his opinion. In the swanky Manhattan rooms through which he circulates, the writers he meets probably WOULD buy a book if Moody's name were on it. They're hardly representative of the nation.)
Lependorf states that writers take their cues from the literary establishment. In some lap-dog demi-puppet circles this is true. There are a few trendy lit-journals, founded by literary Insiders like Elissa Schappell, Tom Beller, or Dave Eggers, whose sole purpose is to publish the same prepster authors the big guys publish. They exist as little more than promotional extensions of the big houses. (If there's no disagreement between these journals and the big guys, it's because they're from the same schools and backgrounds, carry the same mindset, have the same premises: can't for a moment look outside the walls of their privileged assumptions.)
For some, it goes beyond imitation. Beller's Open City is published, distributed, and promoted by Grove-Atlantic. McSweeney's Books does numerous joint ventures with the conglomerates, to the point it's become an embedded part of them. Do its journals qualify as independent? What do you think?
What we're being handed by the literary world as "alternative" is not.
I'm reminded of the end of Orwell's book Animal Farm, when the animals outside the house look from the farmers to the pigs, the pigs to the farmers, and can't tell the difference.
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- King Wenclas said...
The demi-puppets have not been granted permission to speak!
Your claim is that a lesser-known writer penning the introduction would be more authentic. His claim is that a better-known writer attracts more readers. He'd have you accept that Moody's high profile will cause more people to purchase, open and read the book. You'd rather have the book attract fewer readers rather than sully independent publishing with Moody's name.
Which one of you is elitist, again?
- chapman said...
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I fail to see how Thurston Moore, whose band has been with a large, corporate record label for about 15 years, is somehow more underground than Rick Moody.
As for Kathy Acker with an Updike introduction, I think that'd be a hoot, but I understand those who'd object to it. I'm cool if people don't want to sell out by attaching themselves to a larger structure. But face it: it's an elitist stance. If you wander around the cultural landscape deciding who's more "authentic" or has more "credibility" and thus is deserving of a writing gig, then you're practicing elitism. It's no different from Moody thinking that only certain people ought to celebrate Ginsberg.
Myself, I think Moody's lame. But if his name makes people pick up a Soft Skull book and learn about independent presses, I think it's worth it to have a lame introduction. Fuck, I'd be happy if Katie Couric talked about independent presses on TV. I think Kathy Acker should be sold at Wal-Mart so that kids living in places where there's no other damn stores could read Kathy Acker. I grew up in such a place, and I didn't learn about cool poets until I stumbled upon a zine in a bar when I was 25.
As for anonymous postings, well, I work for a living and try to make art at night, and I sneak back to the storeroom to go on the web during my breaks. I don't have time to have a blog. If that makes me a scared rabbit who's not cool enough to state his opinion - well, there's another elitist stance. If you're really concerned with freedom of expression and honest debate then I don't see how posting anonymously matters.
- Noah Cicero said...
anonymous person,
The thing is, is that Rick Moody IS elitism.
1. Rick Moody's fans are all white collar upper class white people.
2. Moody and McSweeney's have a tiny niche of several hundred thousand they cling to.
Therefore if Moody fans picked up the book, Soft Skull would just become McSweeney's. And that wouldn't really be very underground or an alternative would it?
This is a question of pretense. You say you are an independent press and you are edgy but you get someone like Rick Moody to write the introduction. I agree with Chapman, they had other choices, Di Palma is still alive, Ralph Steadman, Dennis Cooper. Norman Mailer is still alive, he always supported the weirdos. Even Bret Easton Ellis, he might be a rich kid, but at least his books are fucked up.
Personally I don't know who is credible or whatever. But having Rick Moody write an introduction to a book concerning Independent writers is absurd.
There are two kinds of people living in 2006 America, those who know the media has been bought and being used as a propaganda machine. And those who don't know.
More points:
Katie Couric is a nazie.
Kathy Acker having a John Updike introduction is not funny.
I was going to buy Wayfarers by Hamsun, but I didn't because there was an Updike introduction.
"I'm cool if people don't want to sell out by attaching themselves to a larger structure. But face it: it's an elitist stance."
--Huh?!? Since when is not attaching yourself to a "larger structure" automatically elitist? People may not want to be big-businessized or corporatized or part of a corporate machine for many reasons, one of them being the way big business too often operates, which is too often discriminatory, polluting, exclusionary, wasteful--too often too many negative things.
I've debated this kind of thing with myself many times when there isn't any real "debate" because no one's offered me anything. But I wouldn't wanna be published by a publisher I despised, a publisher who regularly published works I couldn't stand and had questionable businesses practices, even for a six-figure advance. I wouldn't even query an agent who represented other writers I couldn't stand, not because I think I'm better than those writers, but because I don't like the stuff they say so don't want to be associated with them in any way--and I'd feel dishonest if I had to hold in my dislike. The less I get in life, the more selective I become.
"I think Kathy Acker should be sold at Wal-Mart so that kids living in places where there's no other damn stores could read Kathy Acker."
--Actually, I agree because I think Wal-Mart and other big places/companies can maybe be turned alternative and "green" (or at least greener and more alternative) by consumers making better buying choices WITHIN THOSE PLACES (which is why I try to buy only the better products in corporate stores, and I've noticed that they've slowly been getting a bit better). However, putting "big" writing names in books related to small presses--that's the opposite, that's like turning the small press system brown. To me, small press writers can often be part of big press publications but big press writers shouldn't often be part of small press publications. Smaller's probably better. That's the more ideal model--and it shouldn't be contaminated with brown shit. Maybe it's unfair that I don't think this stuff should work both ways, but, tough shit. The bigger press writers usually get more money and more publicity. Now they gotta steal the limelight from small press writers on their own street--they can't even allow them that? Bullshitey!
- Frank Marcopolos said...
Although I can understand the argument of "How much street cred is enough street cred?" on these types of things, there is a line to be crossed, and Moody is way, way over the line. The guy was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.
And besides, as one critic said, "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation." Perhaps that should have been taken into consideration as well.
- King Wenclas said...
Besides, as I said, Moody will turn off more struggling writers than he attracts. He'll probably hurt sales.
- King Wenclas said...
("Anonymous" would probably think that the large plantations of the antebellum South were more populist than small independently-worked farms, because with their slave labor the plantations had more customers; could deliver their products to the market at cheaper prices.)
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KW: ("Anonymous" would probably think that the large plantations of the antebellum South were more populist than small independently-worked farms, because with their slave labor the plantations had more customers; could deliver their products to the market at cheaper prices.)
Give me a fucking break. Disagree with me all you want, but don't say I'm supporting slavery. As I said, I think Moody's lame, but I'm all for getting more people into the tent. All the other suggestions I see here - Thurston Moore, Norman Mailer, Dennis Cooper - are all tied to the corporate publishing structure. How is a Norman Mailer introduction somehow less credible? That guy goes to black-tie dinners and writes in the New Yorker about Tom Wolfe.
And yeah, it's elitist to say "You're not [blank] enough, you can't play in my sandbox," whether the blank is "rich and well-educated" or "underground and street." Elitism is "consciousness and pride for belonging to a select group." Go ahead and be elitist - I don't want Matthew Barney making art next to me - but then don't go whining about how you're slaves. You're not slaves. I think I'm 10,000 times more free than some artist who has to suck up to the NYC gallery snobs.
And the stupid stockroom computer crashed nine times while I tried to register, so there's that. My name's Jim, if that's so important to you. I live in a crappy city and I'm tired today because I stayed up all night pasting my political posters to underpasses. You haven't heard of me. You haven't seen my art. I thought it'd be cool to check out the ULA but I see you'd rather compare me to a slaveowner. Cool with me. My art goes on. The poets in my town warned me you were schoolboys but I guess I had to learn for myself.
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Chapman: "no, you don't get grace paley or rick moody to introduce a soft skull anthology. you get henry rollins, thurston moore, ferlinghetti, whoever - somebody with some credibility."
Chapman: "dude, dance! forget these categories and dance!"
Which is it? You think Soft Skull chose a writer from the wrong category - whatever category that might be - or you think you ought to forget about categories? If you'd rather dance in the parking lot, then why are you all whining about Soft Skull's new corporate image?
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word to that, chapman. let's both do good work.
(although I gotta say, sonic youth's DIRTY is a lameass sellout record.)
I just posted this without registering for a Blogspot account, and it was easy enough.
If I hire someone to dance at my strip club, and I like the way they dance, then I'll keep paying them money. If a certain portion of my clientele disagrees with me, that might affect that person's future employment. But, for now, I'm running the business, and I can do as I please.
As much as I hate Rick Moody's writing and his career, and as much as I think his intro was another smug, self-serving turd, I didn't hire him. No one asked me to evaluate his performance. If the ULA wants to gang up on him, I'll politely decline, as I have better things to do and it's not my business.
Wenclas's last Monday report, though, is a thing of beauty. It's spiteful yellow journalism, but I'm glad someone's doing it, and I'm glad Wenclas is doing what he does best.
Whatever his motives, Thurston Moore has gone far out of his way to support independent writers and musicians. And I'd rather have "Sugar Kane" stuck in my head than the opening paragraph of Purple America.
- King Wenclas said...
I'd wager that "Anonymous" is a bullshit artist. Seeveral anonymous posters we've dealt with have been revealed to be bullshit artists-- Dave Eggers most famously, who was pretending to be someone else on Amazon.
That's the thing about posting without an identity-- the person has no credibility, can say most anything.
What distinguished the ULA from other lit people is that we put our names frankly behind our ideas, when we signed the original Protest in October 2000. We've taken responsibility for our words-- held ourselves accountable. If I've said anything slanderous or untrue, the high-priced lawyers on CLMP's board can go after me.
If someone can't see the difference, they're out of touch with reality. (As anyone who would call ULAers "elitist" is out of touch with reality.)
The people who hold power, who have all the access, all the cards, would love if we all do our own thing. Maintaining the status quo works in their favor. No way!
- King Wenclas said...
p.s. It's noteworthy that those who've been given and have used every lever of power available in this society, after they're sitting comfortably, want to insist, "We're all the same!" (They live in an abstract world without context.)
"Let the writing itself tell the tale!"
This is total bullshit, an argument floating in the air, removed from reality.
Frank Walsh is a better poet (and far better performer) than any poet promoted by the literary establishment. Put his words against theirs, side-by-side. Let him read publicly against Berman, Gluck, Shinder, any of the fakirs, and we'd quickly see.
But who knows of Walsh? Where's the apparatus for announcing HIS talent to the world? (Only the ULA.)
Writers from the bottom half of society are shut out; roads of access closed. The people who put up the roadblocks then say, "All is fair! We're all the same!"
Sure we are!
The writing itself will determine things when there's a fair, open, and level playing field.
Here's something to ponder, Sherlock. The writing itself can't determine anything if no one knows about it or hears about it. Without access, without noise, it'll lay on a shelf or ina drawer undiscovered. Moody isn't shy about putting HIS name out there, grabbing every benefit open to his highly-placed class to grease his way.
This is the point about the Soft Skull foreword. HERE was an opportunity to introduce some other writer, for a change, to the world.
Think for a moment about the business idiocy of it all. Richard Nash has his own writers to promote. Did he lobby for them? Was there not one small press writer available to write the foreword?
Forget Thurston. We can give you names from Nash's own list more qualified than Moody.
It's like Royal Crown Cola putting a photo of a bottle of Pepsi on the cover of their catalogue. It's like finding a book listing stores which sell beers from microbreweries-- and on the cover, a photo of a can of Budweiser! It's insanity.
There is not, by the way, even a short-term gain to having Moody there. People buy the directory for addresses. Period. It's why I found it in the Reference section: to look up a particular address.
There WOULD'VE been a long-term investment in having an outsider writer in the pages-- introducing his or her name to those who otherwise wouldn't have heard of it. A start in necessary promotion.
Instead, Nash is promoting: who?
Rick Moody!
- King Wenclas said...
p.p.s. "Let's both do good work" is something Moody himself would say.
How cute! Moody sitting around his place on well-guarded Fisher's Island is feeling very generous today.
"I will allow you to write," he thinks. "Let's both do good work!"
Meanwhile you're working some ultra-shitty job just to survive, which tires your body and burns out your brain, while he's casually collecting checks from the Guggenheim.
"Let's both do good work!" He smirks. YOU, unknown writer, will have no access to publishing entities. Your manuscripts will be returned unread. He'll appear in huge spreads in the New York Times, his latest book published in ample copies and assuredly reviewed all over the place. We already know the work he's doing. But the other writer's "good work" won't have a chance in this starkly inquitable society unless someone champions it-- as Mr. Chapman for instance is championing the cause of talented underground writers.
Well, at least I see now the schoolboy is Wenclas, and not other ULAers.
I told you my name's Jim and that you don't know me. Yeah, that means I have no cred. I know I don't have any cred. Nobody knows my art or what I do. But here's a news flash, King: not everybody who disagrees with you is a rich insider trying to fuck with your head. I'm just a guy. I think Moody's a loser. I don't care if he writes an introduction, but I don't think it's the end of the world. And yeah, I'd like everybody to do good work. I picked a bone with Chapman, we agreed the important thing was getting work done and not bitching at one another. Sorry if that's an opinion that doesn't have enough cred for you. I foolishly thought that me, an unconnected visual artist making underground posters at night, might be welcomed here, but fuck it. I'll never bother your precious comments section again - I'll just work.
And speaking of work, my boss is yelling at me now. And he's not the fucking Guggenheim Foundation.
- King Wenclas said...
I'll stick to my bet that you're a fraud: a bullshit artist. Nice story though.
(Next time try addressing the person's argument. Bye.)
- King Wenclas said...
Who was "Jim"? Maybe just a friend or fan of Moody's. (Note how little of my posts he addressed-- he ended defending not Lependorf or CLMP, but RM.)
The character, whoever he is, sought to accomplish two things that Rick Moody and Birnbaum sought to accomplish in their "interview."
1.) Stress the "we're on the same side" theme. The status quo will survive if we come to terms of agreement. What the aristocrat desires above all is societal peace.
This is shown well in the old western "The Big Country," when the winner is not the ruthless cattle baron, or his enemy the socialistic impoverished rancher, but aristocratic Greg Peck, who gains peace-- and control of the Big Muddy river to boot!
2.) In the interview, Moody sought to turn reality on its head, through potraying himself as the aggrieved party. Yes, everybody's been picking on him; it's been tough, but somehow he'll survive.
"Jim" here played the same little game. I was so mean to him! By alluding to the sweatshop slavery (very real) and prison slavery which fuels China's capitalist success-- by extension Wal-Mart's success-- I've somehow been too cruel; just too, too cruel. My final argument then was the last straw. He was willing to give us a chance! Yes, indeed. Meanwhile he addresses none of the hard evidence given in the Monday Report, in my posts, in the debate.
Moody can be the aggrieved party only by ignoring the evidence of reality.
Anyway, tactically manipulative, in both cases. Quite well done; turning reality on its head.
- chapman said...
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- King Wenclas said...
The "poets in my city said you were schoolboys" was a giveaway also. I can picture him talking out of the side of his mouth in a bad Jimmy Cagney imitation. (Or like Moody trying to sound "radical" in the Soft Skull intro.)
And what city would that be, I wonder? The poets I correspond with in other cities fully support what we're doing. (The non-academic ones of course, who i'm sure don't know who we are, or at least would never encounter us.)
The voice, though, of Jim sounds familiar.
If I had to bet, longshot in the dark, I'd say he's David Berman, friend of lit-insiders who attacked us once before, and not incidentally is a terrible poet.
- King Wenclas said...
p.s. My brain got ahead of my typing in that last post. I meant that academic poets in other cities have never encountered us. Except one or two in NYC of course.
my real name is brie.
please don't ask me to create an account, because i have never even seen a computer.
i am in favor of the overthrow of the capitalist system.
i work in a coal mine for 14 cents a day.
i think john updike and katie couric are awesome.
very truly and sincerely yours,
- Frank Marcopolos said...
ha ha. just wanted to say that i got that joke by "lonelygirl15." funny.
- chilly charlie said...
Anon. 9/17 is Tim Hall.
Have a nice day.
"There are a few trendy lit-journals, founded by literary Insiders like Elissa Schappell, Tom Beller, or Dave Eggers, whose sole purpose is to publish the same prepster authors the big guys publish. They exist as little more than promotional extensions of the big houses"
One has to wonder if you've ever read any of these journals. They all consistently publish first time authors. And if they were little more than extensions of the big houses, there would be more monetary rewards to keep them up to their "privelidged assumptions". But there aren't. It's done out of sheer dedication to facilitating creative, community conversations. Sheesh. Which one of them rejected what I'm guessing must've been some similar blather you sent their way?


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A look at the pros and cons of both.
While looking for a new health club recently, I found I was asking salespeople about their Spinning classes. In this day and age, it's a given that any club would offer the class. And I assume, since I've been taking Spinning classes for three years, that I would be able to walk in, hop on a bike and follow along without starting from ground zero. Such is the value of licensing or franchising an exercise program.
Here's a look at what a club can expect from such a program:
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How? When a member relocates, looks for a new club or travels for business, chances are he or she will "look for a club that offers Spin-ning," says Baudhuin. And that can mean more business for a club that offers the program. Madd Dogg Athletics even operates a Web site (www.spinning.com) that offers a club locator for Spinning devotees.
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Over the next six months, in-structors progress through the 180-page Spinning manual and then take a graded open-book test. "By passing this exam, we know instructors understand the issues we feel are important to conducting a proper class," says Baudhuin.
Applicants for Jazzercise (a franchised exercise program) are screened by a district manager and, after obtaining CPR certification, participate in an instructor certification program. Most training happens by video, and candidates then meet in a central location for a final audition. That's followed by about 13 hours of training in areas such as anatomy, exercise science, teaching techniques and safety.
* Instructor follow-up. Madd Dogg Athletics provides licensees with an assessment program that allows the fitness director to determine whether the instructor is teaching the class properly. "We provide a lot of tools and resources for facilities to help them keep their programs alive," says Baudhuin. "We help the clubs implement their own quality control." The company also offers nearly 100 certification courses, as well as classes in continuing education and the opportunity to attend two conferences a year.
* A robust aerobic program. "A lot of clubs have trouble hiring staff and getting people to stay," says Maureen Brown, director of franchise programs and services for Jazzercise Inc., in Carlsbad, Calif. "If you hire a franchisee, she has already invested in her business. She's serious. She's in there for the long haul." With a turnkey program, the "aerobic part of your programming will be taken care of and you don't have to hire the people and train them."
* Variety and freshness. When you franchise an exercise program, the routines are provided to you and kept updated. For example, every 10 weeks Jazzercise franchisees receive videos of new routines. And the company offers classes in a range of formats such as Step by Jazzercise, Body Sculpting, Cardio Quick, Circuit Training, Musical Chairs by Jazzercise and Jazzercise Lite. There are also kids' programs and a nutrition and weight-loss program.
* Access to fitnes information. "We can provide a club with resources that even the largest clubs can't offer," says Baudhuin. "We can afford to spend $5,000 on a study and spread it out. If an instructor has a question about exercise parameters for someone who is pregnant and taking a Spinning class, he can call an 800 number and get the answer. We have access to quality, timely information and a huge library that puts resources into the hands of those who need them, when they need them."
* Name recognition. Madd Dogg Athletics spends about $6,000 a month on public relations and is cited in magazines as a leader in indoor cycling. So a club that licenses Spinning "gets the benefit of having a leading program that people have heard about," says Baudhuin.
A club that brings in a Jazzercise franchise gets prepared newsletters, ad slicks and flyers to promote the classes. "Nothing has to be recreated," says Brown.
* Equipment requirements. When Madd Dogg Athletics licenses its Spinning program to a club, it requires that the club use the Johnny G. Spinner by Schwinn. The bikes are fully warranteed through Schwinn. "We encourage clubs to adopt a program of preventive maintenance," says Baudhuin.
The company also urges clubs that purchase the Johnny G. Spinner to follow the trademarked Spinning program. "From an own-er's standpoint, it's a liability issue," says Baudhuin. "Here they have bought a piece of equipment and yet they decide to shortcut the very training that could help prevent an injury."
* Trademark policing. Madd Dogg Athletics clearly spells out the terms of its trademark to licensees. "We allow a club to use the Spinning trademark to promote classes," says Baudhuin. "In return we expect the club to use trained instructors and our bike."
Madd Dogg Athletics owns the Spinning trademark worldwide. Included within the trademark are the Spinning program, the bicycle, the videos, the music, nutrition, clothing and body products.
How does Madd Dogg Athletics find out when someone is infringing upon its trademark? The company checks class schedules at clubs to be sure classes are being taught by certified instructors. Every month, Madd Dogg Athletics combs the Internet looking for sites that are misusing the name. And Madd Dogg Athletics follows up on complaints.
"Instructors feel a lot of pride in the program," says Baudhuin. "Often we'll receive an e-mail from an instructor telling us that a facility is using untrained instructors."
And plenty of clubs turn in trademark infringers. "Believe me, if you've paid for the Spinning program, you're not going to let the club down the street advertise Spinning," says Baudhuin. "We send every infringer a nasty letter that essentially tells them to stop.
To Franchise or License?
While franchising and licensing may seem similar, there are distinct differences between them. For example, Jazzercise franchises, Madd Dogg Athletics licenses. Here's an overview of what this means:
FRANCHISING: "Franchising is like buying your own business," says Maureen Brown, director of franchise programs and services for Jazzercise Inc., in Carlsbad, Calif. Basically a company, such as Jazzercise, develops a program and trains an individual to implement that program. A club then hires the individual to put the program in place and oversee it. For a club it's a good deal: The club works out a financial arrangement with the individual. In the case of Jazzercise, the individual has invested an initial franchise fee of $650 and pays 20 percent of her gross revenues to Jazzercise each month. She also absorbs additional expenses, such as a liability insurance premium, audio recordings, musician's royalty fees, equipment such as the appropriate sound system for the class, a VCR to view new routines, a telephone answering machine, and facility rental and promotional costs.
The franchisee is then responsible for teaching the classes, keeping the choreography fresh, making sure a sub is in place if she can't make it, and providing the music. And the company franchising the program handles the advertising, promotion and choreography. "What franchising does is give you a structure," says Brown. "The processes are all in place, from what to do if an instructor gets ill to what to do if a class doesn't like an instructor."
LICENSING: This means a company has created a program and licenses the right to use that program to a club. The licensee provides the framework of the program, the training, the name recognition and, in some instances, the equipment. Once the program is in place, the club oversees it. "We provide a club with the tools to understand the parameters of their program and to create the programming that will work for their member base," says John Baudhuin, president and CEO of Madd Dogg Athletics Inc., "but we leave the actual programming up to the facilities."
What does it cost to put a Spinning program in place? A typical program, which calls for 20 bikes, might cost $14,000 to $16,000. This includes the bikes, the training of about eight instructors, as well as access to the company's resources.


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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Penn State and Illinois camps seem to agree on one thing ahead of their Big Ten opener Saturday: Last summer's visit by Illinois coaches to talk to players interested in leaving Penn State doesn't matter much now.
Illini quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase said he doesn't think the players will be talking about "what went on in July" after that first series. And there's no shortage of on-field drama to focus on instead.
Start with Penn State (2-2).
The NCAA sanctions that followed the child sex-abuse scandal mean Penn State can't go to a bowl game. But the Nittany Lions can still win the Big Ten Leaders Division, a carrot that gives many of them something tangible to chase. They've won two straight games and appear to be getting better after the shocks, and departures, of the offseason.
"As soon as I had seen it on Twitter, I reposted it so the whole team could see it," tight end Kyle Carter said of the division title eligibility. "The whole team, they're really ready to around it, and now we have something to play for."
Then there's Illinois.
The Big Ten season is just starting, so the Illini (2-2) are still in the divisional title hunt, too.
But Scheelhaase hasn't been healthy since he sprained an ankle in the season opener almost four weeks ago, and has missed all but one quarter in three games since.
And year one of the Tim Beckman era became decidedly more uncomfortable last week when Louisiana Tech dismantled Illinois, 52-24, two weeks after another team that runs a spread offense, Arizona State, beat the Illini 45-14.
"There's no question that they've been disappointed by the outcomes of those football games," said Beckman, who came to Illinois from Toledo to replace Ron Zook. "I think our players understand that they've played together against some good offenses, but we haven't played up to our abilities yet in those football games."
A year ago, the Illini defense was among the best in the country and almost all the key players are back.
Defensive tackle Akeem Spence this week said that the defense Beckman and new defensive coordinator Tim Banks are running has cut down on blitzes coming from linebackers and the secondary. And a team that was among the most dangerous in the country for opposing quarterbacks has seen its sack total cut more than in half.
With Big Ten play starting, Spence said he hopes the Illini see less of the spread and can put a little more pressure on quarterbacks.
"With Penn State, we've seen them do a lot of play action so that gives our edge guys a chance to rush the quarterback a little more," Spence said. "Our front seven should be able to clog that up pretty well."
Beckman said early in the week that Scheelhaase is his starter, and Scheelhaase said his ankle felt better this week than it has any time since he injured it.
"Hopefully there'll be nothing holding me back on Saturday," he said.
Penn State should have Bill Belton back, too. He opened the season as the starting running back but has been out with an ankle injury.
"Billy is a guy that has good feet, good vision, and can catch the football," Penn State coach Bill O'Brien said, adding that Belton will likely share time with his replacements. "So it's good to have him back, because he's another type of change of pace type of running back."


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Purchasing regulations will be followed by all college employees.
- All purchases of materials, supplies and equipment with a cost of $5,000 or less will originate with the faculty or staff member desiring to make the purchase.
- A purchase requisition form will be completed by the originator and must contain the quantity, description and cost of the item(s) to be purchased. The general ledger account number to be charged should be noted.
- The signed requisition form will be submitted to the immediate supervisor for review and approval.
- If approved, the administrator will also sign the requisition and forward it to the Business Office.
- The Senior Accountant will code and enter the requisition into the computer system for the purpose of confirming available funds, and for the creation of the purchase order. If funds are not available, the computer will reject the requisition as NSF, and the requisition will be returned to the originator for assistance. If funds are available, the general ledger account will be encumbered for the amount of the requisition.
- The Administrative Assistant in the Business Office has the primary responsibility of then producing the purchase orders as needed.
- Upon producing the purchase order, an electronic copy of the purchase order is e-mailed by the computer to the originator. Once the merchandise is received, the originator will return the e-mail to the Business Office confirming receipt of the merchandise. This confirmation will serve as authorization for the Business Office to also process and pay the related invoice for the merchandise.
- The original purchase order is created and printed within the Business Office on a single part form containing all required information as well as a system generated signature of approval by the institution's purchasing agent. The form is sealed and mailed to the vendor by the Business Office.
- A purchase order report is generated by the computer system and made available to the Central Receiving Clerk.
- A file copy of the purchase orders is generated and provided to the Senior Accountant, who will later match the copies to incoming invoices for processing.
- The Senior Accountant supervises the entry of the approved invoices into the computer system. The previous encumbrance is then removed and the general ledger account is charged with the actual cost of the purchase.
- Accounts Payable checks are generated weekly to pay approved invoices.
- Purchases that do not involve an expenditure of more than $5,000, exclusive of freight or shipping charges, may be made without advertising or otherwise requesting competitive bids. See Mississippi Code 31-7013 for further details.
- Purchases that involve an expenditure of more than $5,000 but not more than $50,000, exclusive of freight and shipping charges, may be made from the lowest and best bidder without publishing or posting advertisements for bids provided that at least two competitive written bids have been obtained. See Mississippi Code 31-7-13 for further details.
- Purchases that involve an expenditure of more than $50,000, exclusive of freight and shipping charges, may be made from the lowest and best bidder after advertising for competitive sealed bids once each week for two consecutive weeks in a regular newspaper published in the county. See Mississippi Code 31-7-13 for further details. The Vice President for College Operations will present the bids to the Board of Trustees for final approval. Any bid accepted other than the lowest bid will have justification written into the minutes of the Board meeting.
- Purchases made as "Confirmation Only," (i.e. purchase order is obtained after placing and/or receiving materials) may be used only in an emergency situation. Such emergency purchases will be presented to the Board of Trustees for their information only. Written justification must be attached to the requisition. Abuse of this procedure may result in the suspension of purchasing privileges.
- The purchase of computer hardware and/or software is to be coordinated with the Chief Technology Officer.
- Due to the nature of their work, the Maintenance Department and the Transportation Department are allowed to make emergency purchases less than $150 per day, per vendor, with the use of the departmental short form requisition.


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Waukesha County authorities sounded their storm sirens Wednesday night, but there was no tornado watch or warning.
WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater got some answers from emergency management about why they turned on the sirens.
Many of the people who heard the sirens wondered why they were going off when there wasn't a tornado warning, including Mark Privadera who wondered whether he and his 9-year-old son, Justin, needed to head to the basement.
"Well the concern is, is it really a tornado warning. Is this really an actual warning or is it preventative meaning it may not actually be that serious. Which in essence it takes away the effect of the siren," Prividera said.
Neighbor Tony Caravella said he also thought the only time sirens go off is when there's a tornado.
"I think we're all kind of taught from the time we grow up than when we hear that siren we kind of know what that means that there's either sightings or imminent danger that there could be a tornado or that type of activity," Caravella said.
Waukesha County's emergency preparedness director said it's a misnomer; warning sirens are only used to alert for a tornado. In this case, winds up to 80 mph had already done damage in Columbia County, and the storm was heading for Waukesha County.
"Based on what the Weather Service advised us, there was a potential that every community in Waukesha County could be hit with those winds," Waukesha County Director of Emergency Preparedness Richard Tuma said.
Waukesha County emergency officials said it's better to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.


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A multi-alarm fire destroyed a carriage house at the rear of 32 Summit Street on Tuesday morning, sending one firefighter to the hospital and displacing the three residents of the home. At 10:30 a.m. fire engines and emergency responders were called to the property owned by former Chestnut Hill Community Association board member and treasurer David Mansfield and his wife, Kelley.
Fire officials said the two and a half story structure was completely engulfed in flames when they arrived at the scene, describing it as a "heavy fire throughout."
More than two fire stations battled the fire for almost an hour before putting out the flames at approximately 11:12 a.m.
The American Red Cross was called to help the two adult female occupants and one adult male occupant of the house, who were displaced by the fire.
The injured firefighter was treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital by Thursday, officials said.
There was no damage to the main house or surrounding residences.
Pedestrians were drawn out of their homes and businesses as sirens starting blaring up Germantown Avenue. As smoke billowed above the Hill, shocked onlookers stared as the firefighters worked to get the fire under control.
One woman said, "This is horrible, I feel so sad for the homeowners."
The Mansfields purchased the historically certified, 8,500-square-foot house in 2003 for $725,000. There is no estimate on the cost of the damages.
Fire department officials said a determination as to the cause of the fire from the Fire Marshall's office could come as early as Friday.
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At the heart of Europe and between the Netherlands, Germany and France, Belgium is a concentrate of the old continent. Influenced by both Latin and Germanic cultures, Belgium is a haven with a rich history and unique lifestyle.
Centered around Brussels, the capital of Europe, where its cultures are brought together, Belgium is a small welcoming country which is open to various experiences: a beautiful green and wooded countryside, charming villages with brick-walled houses, lively cities and a famous cuisine served around a warm and merry table.
2012 and 2013 being the "Years of Taste", you will certainly have a feast in either small or star restaurants of Brussels and Wallonia (southern region of Belgium). More than the Belgium fries, waffles, chocolate and 600 types of beers, other delightful dishes await you!
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Across from the Grand Place, walk through the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, one of the largest covered galleries in Europe, to reach the Belgian Comics Strip Centre, temple of the ninth art! Shopping lovers will have a broad variety of choice in Brussels. Indeed, the Rue Neuve and its brands, the Sablon and its antiques, the Place du Jeu de Balle and its flea market as well as the Avenue de la Toison d'Or and its luxury goods, are prescribed!
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Do We Observe "Creative Destruction" in China?Deng, Poul; Jefferson, Gary (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We adopt the framework of Schumpeterian creative destruction formalized by Aghion et al. (2009) to analyze the impact of foreign entry on the productivity growth of domestic firms. In the face of foreign entry, domestic firms exhibit heterogeneous patterns of growth depending on their technological distance from foreign firms. Domestic firms with smaller technological distance from their foreign counterparts tend to experience faster productivity growth, while firms with larger technological distance tend to lag further behind. We test this hypothesis using a unique firm-level data of Chinese manufacturing. Our empirical results confirm that foreign entry indeed generates strong heterogeneous growth patterns among domestic firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8594
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