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Btw, anyone else mildly amused by the fact that they removed the menu, added the ribbon, added tabs to the ribbon, and now it more or less looks like the menu used to in the above screenshot?-Jibz (August 30, 2011, 07:38 AM)
^ I've come to the point where I dislike context menus, because they are overused for the wrong things, and in doing so, the whole menu is slowed down.-wraith808 (August 30, 2011, 09:16 AM)
The direction* just doesnt make sense to me what with the default screen these days being 16:9 * pun not initially intended, but if it were vertical I'd consider trying it-tomos (August 30, 2011, 07:44 AM)
As this data shows, widescreen formats (those with a resolution ratio > 1.3) have become the standard. Of the top 20 screen resolutions, 17 of them are widescreen formats and they account for 83% of the total Windows 7 PC base. This should make sense to everyone because the majority of PCs are laptops and almost all laptops are wide screen. The two common standard resolutions are almost exclusively desktop PCs. We had a lot of good discussion about display resolution in Engineering Windows 7 and likely this will be an interesting topic again.Knowing this, we investigated a number of options for using widescreen formats more effectively with the goal that the total vertical space available for content was the same after we added the ribbon as it had been in Windows 7.This approach gives you a new Details pane that is much easier to read, makes better use of widescreen formats, and preserves screen real estate for the main file/folder pane. The exact number of lines might vary a bit from PC to PC depending on what add-ins you have, but for the out-of-the-box configuration running full screen at 1366 X 768, you can actually fit two more lines on the screen than you could in Windows 7.
Is really worth all this effort to force the user to do things the Microsoft way? Because without more data from them, one gets the impression that the user gets the job done with hotkeys and the context menu, but Microsoft wants everyone to use the toolbar! And if not, is the average user really making such heavy use of Explorer to the point he is going to appreciate the new design? I assume the power user is already using 3rd party alternatives, which are superior.-Lashiec (August 30, 2011, 06:37 PM)
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The NZCF is the primary cat registry and governing body for cat clubs and their members in New Zealand who are interested in the breeding, welfare, and showing of pedigree and domestic cats. Representing many hundreds of members and 38 affiliate member clubs, encompassing both specialist and all breeds clubs, who are spread throughout New Zealand, the NZCF has as it's objects:
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Catalonia Mulls Independence Vote After Elections
Catalonia's political leaders are considering their next move after voters gave broad backing to pro-independence parties in parliamentary elections, although the pro-secession ruling party lost seats. WSJ's David Roman assesses the momentum for an independence referendum.
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You failed to mention WHICH OS ...
Probably got carried away in all the excitement eh.
A couple of things
that you could do. Add it to the Startup Folder or add it to the Registry so that it will run.
Definition of the RunOnce Keys in the Registry
No I can't guess what your up to ah........
I would use either of these Keys. Start, Run and type in regedt32 and press Enter. Navigate to Run.
Right click on the Run Key and add a new String Value type a name MyScript and press Enter. press Enter again and type in the Path to your file. EG: c:\script.vbs
When posting questions to a professional forum or newsgroup it is vital to format the question and it's content in a proper way in order to greatly increase the possibility for quickly receiving a good answer, and thus saving you time and frustration.
After posting a question to a professional forum or newsgroup and waiting for a while, you get the following answer(s) from the active forum/newsgroup members:
"Your question does not contain all the required information needed for us to help you.
Please re-write your question, this time make sure you have all the needed info and
we'll try to help."
Another symptom of this error is getting the following answer:
"You question has been answered a hundred times. Please use a decent search engine
and/or search our archives before posting any future questions"
and others.
Other variations of the same answer exist, all depending on the forum/newsgroup quality and tolerance level.
In some severe cases, when trying to reply to this answer yourself, you may find out that the nickname you've been using to post on the forum, or that the alias you've been using to read and post on the newsgroup has been banned for any future use.
This article is a loose how-to guide for correct forum and newsgroup question-asking and general netiquette.
In most cases, getting such an answer (also called "Flame") indicates that you have not taken the right steps in formulating your question. In other instances, this type of answer might indicate that the information you saw fit to provide in your original question is either too little, too late, or totally missing or irrelevant to the question.
Use the following guidelines when posting questions to a professional forum or newsgroup:
Before asking
- Search the archives/FAQ before you post. Most forums and newsgroups have some sort of online FAQ (FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions) or archives. You should always perform a search on these resources before asking your "very important and unique" question. Many questions have already been answered, there is no point in answering them again, and some communities have members who will flame you for not doing so before asking. Another good idea is to do a keyword search for words relating to your question on the archives before you post.
- Use online search engines such as MSN Search, Google, Yahoo! or other search engines. Post the error message you're getting on your preferred search engine and see what you come up with. Let us know what you found, especially if your problem is identical or similar to your findings.
- Look for an answer in the manual, documentation or readme file and tell us about it.
- Ask a skilled friend, but don't take their advice for granted. Many troubleshooting scenarios just got worse because "my friend told me to erase the E00.log file and"...
The title of your question
Although it might seem silly for some, selecting a good title for the question/thread will be the one of the main driving forces for others to want to actually read your item. Choosing a badly-formatted title will drive people away, thinking that since the title is so badly written, so must be the information and the question within the thread. For example:
is an example for a really bad selection of a title for your question. People don't like to waste time trying to help people that don't seem to be able to help themselves, or at least not being able to correctly describe their problem. Titles like these are likely to be filtered by reflex.
On the other hand. a short, informative title like this one:
"After swing server restore - MBX store won't mount on Exchange 2003 - error C1041737"
will actually bring people in. Skilled members can tell, at a glance, what problem you're having, on what product version, and perhaps even the reason for your problem. The ones that know the answer will gladly try to help, and those that do not know will gladly enter because they would like to find what the answer is for their own benefit.
The question
Know how to ask the question, and provide all the necessary information in your initial post. For example, a question like:
"Please help me, I cannot mount exchange mailbox store!!! I must repair this ASAP,
will someone help me?"
will also receive the same sort of answers that this article tries to teach you how to avoid, or no answers at all. And if someone did want to try to answer, they'd need to ask for more information, which in turn will cause you to come back and explain yourself, thus lengthening the answering process.
Good examples of questions will include information from most of the following categories:
- What are you trying to do?
- Why are you trying to do it?
- What did you try already, why, and what was the result of your actions?
- What was the exact error message that you received?
- How long have you been experiencing this problem?
- Have you searched the relevant forum/newsgroup archives?
- Have you searched for any tools or KB articles or any other resources?
- Have you recently installed or uninstalled any software or hardware?
- What changes were made to the system between the time everything last worked and when you noticed the problem?
Don't let us assume, tell us right at the beginning.
Some technical information we need to have (naturally, hardware or network-specific questions need their topic-specific information):
- What Operating System and Service Pack level are you using?
- What Exchange version and Service Pack level are you using?
- Tell us about your Active Directory domain environment, or if on a SOHO network, then information about your workgroup settings.
- Tell us about your name resolution topology (DNS, WINS etc.)
- If applicable, what does the LAN/WAN topology look like? Include TCP/IP-relevant information.
- Migration scenarios - add in your exact details.
- What does the Event Log say?
- Do you have current backups? Why not?
- What does the backup log say?
- Are you using Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware/Adware tool?
- Have you checked for virus infection?
- Is there a Firewall on the host or on the network?
- Do you have sufficient free disk space? Check again.
- Any other information you think we might need in order to help you.
- Do not make us ask your clarification questions, and do not make us point you back to the manual or readme file, or ask you to search the web by using search engines such as Google, MSN Search or Yahoo!. The more relevant info you provide, the more likely it is that your problem can be resolved quickly. Help us help you. If you chose not to provide us with the relevant information you're just making it more difficult for us to provide you with good answers in a timely fashion. If you don't care enough about your own problem, it will be much harder for us to care enough about it to help you. Don't be surprised if people are less enthusiastic about helping you under such conditions.
- Tell what you have done prior to asking your question. This will help us understand that you've done so far. Add information about the steps you took so far towards what you think might be the solution to your problem, related KB articles you found, relevant search results you found when searching the web and any other information you've gathered from various sources. Most active forum/newsgroups members like to help those who they think are doing a better job in trying to help themselves. They tend to ignore or give laconic answers to those who, in their opinion, are not doing their own research, and seem to be to lazy to do the work themselves.
- Write in a clear language, avoiding spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Don't type IN ALL CAPS, which in most cases is read as shouting and considered rude. Try to express yourself in a clear language, and by all means - do try to use punctuation marks in the right place.
Follow up with a brief note on the solution. If one of the answers helped you, we would all like to know which one it was, and what you did to finally solve your problem. This is what an online community is all about - sharing information . Sharing information is not just by taking information from us, but also by sharing your success and failure stories, and by helping others who might read your post in the future understand what was the outcome of the thread. Consider how you might be able to prevent others from having the same problem in the future.
Also, saying "Thank you" and letting people understand that you care about their time and effort is a good way of getting noticed. However, saying "Thank you in advance" is not, and most people feel bad about it because they read it as "I have a very urgent question I want you to help me with, but I don't really have the time to come back and personally thank you, because it's MY time I care about, not yours"...


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The fight card is set for Cage Warriors' season opener, which includes a title fight and a loaded 14-bout lineup.
As previously announced, welterweight champion Gael Grimaud (17-5) meets challenger Cathal Pendred (11-2-1) in the headliner.
Cage Warriors takes place March 9 at HMV Forum in London, and the main card streams live and free on MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) following prelims on Facebook.
Check out a video preview of the event, which also includes welterweights Matt Inman (9-4) vs. Jack Mason (22-11), bantamweights Liam James (6-4) vs. Alan Philpott (7-3), welterweights Bruno "B.C." Carvalho (14-6) vs. Mohsen Bahari (5-0) and a load of other bouts.
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MAIN CARD (MMAjunkie.com, 4 p.m. ET)
- Gael Grimaud vs. Cathal Pendred – for welterweight title
- Mohsen Bahari vs. Bruno "B.C." Carvalho
- Fouad Mesdari vs. Graham Turner
- Matt Inman vs. Jack Mason
- Paul Marin vs. Paul McVeigh
- Liam James vs. Alan Philpott
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 2:15 p.m. ET)
- Chris Fishgold vs. Steve O'Keeffe
- Alex Enlund vs. Martin McDonough
- Paul Redmond vs. Alexei Roberts
- Dan Hope vs. Gary Kono
- Merv Mulholland vs. Brad Wheeler
PRELIMINARY CARD (Untelevised, 1:30 p.m. ET)
- Anthony Ferguson vs. Ben Hajir
- Richard Griffin vs. Shah Hussain
- Olly Battell vs. Shaj Haque
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Hassan, Lamontagne discuss ideas for NH tourism
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's gubernatorial candidates are talking about tourism, one of the state's biggest industries.
It's the latest subject up for discussion between Democrat Maggie Hassan and Republican Ovide Lamontagne, who are vying for the seat being vacated by Gov. John Lynch. They're attending a forum on Wednesday morning in Concord. Previous forums and debates have focused on topics such as health care and business.
Direct spending by visitors to New Hampshire for fiscal year 2011 topped $4.2 billion.
Nineteen organizations from across the state representing restaurants and hotels, ski resorts, chambers of commerce and other groups are sponsoring Wednesday's event.


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Adobe responded yesterday to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' latest attack on Jan. 30, when Jobs called Google's "Don't Be Evil" mantra "bullshit" and characterized Adobe as "lazy."
According to Wired, Steve Jobs says Adobe is lazy, Flash is buggy, and the world is moving toward HTML5 anyway. Whenever a Mac crashes, it is most frequently because of Flash, Jobs asserted.
Adobe's response, in the form of a blog entry by Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, begins with a jab at Apple's iPad: "Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device."
Lynch then goes on to explain that Flash was presciently designed for "pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off." He mentions that Flash is currently used in more than 85 percent of the top Web sites, including Nike, Hulu, BBC and Major League Baseball. Also, Flash is a vital part of the smartphone market; Adobe is "on the verge" of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with "all but one" of the top manufacturers, including Google's Android, RIM's BlackBerry, Nokia, and the Palm Pre. Even the Nexus One will be Flash 10.1-equipped — and, according to Lynch, it "will rock."
Lynch says it is unlikely that HTML5 will supplant the need for Flash in the foreseeable future. "If HTML could reliably do everything Flash" can, it would "certainly save us a lot of effort," Lynch says. But because Flash is still enabling more than 75 percent of Web video, according to Lynch, Flash will be around "even as HTML advances."
This is not the first time Apple and Adobe have clashed over Flash — Apple's been resistant to adding Flash to the iPhone for more than three years now. On March 6, 2008, Steve Jobs made another public jab at Adobe, saying that the Flash Lite Player wasn't "advanced enough" for use on the iPhone, and that it performed "too slow to be useful."
In October 2009, Adobe announced a workaround solution to Apple's lack of cooperation — their next version of Flash Professional would allow Flash developers to export their code in a format that would enable it to run on the iPhone as an application — a solution that Adobe hoped would please Apple. Not that it matters — Adobe's Creative Suite 5 (which includes Flash Professional) is currently in private beta and will be released soon.
Sure, the iPhone has gotten along fine without Flash thus far (although it's recently taken a hit in the smartphone market — could lack of Flash be an issue?). But Apple may need to step it up when it comes to the iPad, as many find the lack of Flash on a tablet computer — especially as tablet computers are designed to offer an enhanced Web-browsing experience — simply unacceptable.


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CCSF to miss key deadline, overseer says
CCSF CCSF will need more time to fix problems, state told
Sacramento -- City College of San Francisco will not be able to fix all of its financial and managerial problems by the March 15 deadline to retain accreditation, and the best it can hope for is to win more time to work on its issues, a special trustee told state officials Tuesday.
"We're making significant progress. I don't want to minimize that," Bob Agrella told the college system's Board of Governors in his first report since the board appointed him in October to oversee City College's efforts to remain open and accredited.
The vast college of 85,000 students learned in July that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges will yank its seal of approval and shut it down if it cannot quickly repair years of management problems that have led the college to live beyond its means.
Although the college has made many changes since then - including improving long-term budgeting and bringing in more experienced leaders - there remain pockets of resistance to other essential reforms, Agrella said, expressing particular frustration with labor unions. He cited other groups, including college trustees themselves, as continuing to resist some major changes.
For example, the college operates nine campuses, now known as "centers," and may not be able to afford them all.
"But the mere mention of closing certain centers has caused much acrimony at board meetings," Agrella told the Board of Governors at its meeting in Sacramento.
He also pointed to local battles over salary givebacks and a reduced role for faculty in running the college as examples of obstacles that will keep the college from fixing everything by the March 15 deadline.
"That's going to be an impossibility in my opinion," Agrella said.
Will ask for extension
Given progress so far, however, Agrella said he and interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman will ask the accrediting commission to use its legal authority to extend the deadline or, at least, to place City College on probationary status when it issues its judgment three months later, on June 10. "That would be good," Agrella said. "I don't think we'll move to full accreditation."
Manuel Baca, president of the Board of Governors, listened to Agrella's presentation with dismay.
"This is sounding like the fiscal cliff discussion - but worse," he said. "Is it likely to improve?"
"There's always hope," Agrella replied. "The college is filled with a lot of people who really care for City College. As for labor, I'm hopeful that the logjams will be solved amicably."
Union resists pay cut
Last month, City College unilaterally imposed an across-the-board pay cut of 8.8 percent, for which the faculty's union, the American Federation of Teachers, filed an unfair labor practices complaint. This month, the college is also laying off 34 full-time clerical workers, 20 to 30 part-time instructors and 18 part-time counselors.
It's part of wage cuts and layoffs of at least $6 million that the college says it needs immediately to make up for an enrollment plunge of about 3,000 students this spring.
Agrella told the Board of Governors that the union's position is that salary cuts aren't needed because San Francisco voters recently approved Proposition A, a parcel tax to benefit City College that's expected to bring in about $16 million a year beginning this summer. But he said college officials want to use the money to shore up the school's dangerously low reserves and to pay pension obligations.
Union President Alisa Messer, who was not at the meeting, said the administration hasn't shown that salary cuts are needed. Nor does she believe the college has the right to use Prop. A money for the reserves or pensions.
"The fact that the administration thinks it can divert that money and use it for reasons completely unrelated to the promises that we made to the public is a huge misstep," Messer said, noting that voters were told the money would be used to avoid layoffs and maintain quality education. "Our concern is that the goodwill of San Franciscans will be used up."
Another debate unlikely to be resolved before March 15 involves streamlining governance. In October, City College trustees voted to require many department chairs to give up administrative duties and return to the classroom, for a savings of $2 million a year. The accrediting commission cited the current system as too cumbersome and expensive. But department chairs are resisting the new approach.
"Let me be clear: The acrimony around this change continues to be a rallying cry at the college," Agrella said. "This perspective is, of course, entirely opposite of the findings of the accrediting commission."
Faculty not convinced
Karen Saginor, president of the faculty senate, said the faculty remains unconvinced that the new approach will be better for students.
"I have no objection to changing the way things are," said Saginor, who wasn't at the meeting. "But even if you have to change things in a hurry, you want to change them to something better."
Meanwhile, state community college leaders agreed that City College's status remains precarious.
"Dr. Agrella's report today was sobering," said Brice Harris, chancellor of the state's community college system. "We remain very worried about the accrediting status of City College."
The accrediting commission did not respond to questions about whether it would extend City College's deadline. But Harris confirmed the commission is legally permitted to do so.
Nanette Asimov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @NanetteAsimov


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I don't have this one, but I did stare at it in my catalogs for hours when I was younger. Nowadays, looking back at the "good ole days" makes me sad. For some reason, I just know LEGO is gonna go downhill and never return to their former glory.
Anyway, 6 knights! You get that many on a $99 castle these days. Minifigures were always an important point with me. They made things more personal, I guess.
The battering ram wouldn't work, sure, but look at the crap the newest sets try to pass off as siege weapons. This one gets my vote any day.


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Noted legal scholars create Robert E. and Elizabeth S. Scott Research Professorship in Law School
Two alumni who are noted legal scholars—Board of Visitors member and William & Mary Law School graduate Robert E. Scott and his wife, Elizabeth S. Scott, a graduate of the College of William & Mary—were honored at a Sept. 22 reception in the Wren Building for their generosity in creating a new research chair in law. During the celebration, Michael Steven Green was recognized as the first scholar to be designated as the Robert E. and Elizabeth S. Scott Research Professor of Law.
In his remarks, William & Mary President Taylor Reveley said that the Scotts' creation of the research professorship was especially meaningful since it was made by two "highly acclaimed law professors and scholars." Robert Scott is the Alfred McCormack Professor at Columbia Law School, a former dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elizabeth Scott is the Harold R. Medina Professor at Columbia Law School. She taught previously at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was founder and co-director of the interdisciplinary Center for Children, Families and the Law.
Law School Dean Davison M. Douglas recalled that as a newly appointed dean he turned for advice to Robert Scott, who he considered one of the "great law school deans of the twentieth century ... and one of the great commercial law scholars in the United States." Scott, he recalled, had shared with him the perspective that research chairs are essential to attract and to reward outstanding faculty and to advance "the scholarly mission of a law school."
Green, the first member of the law faculty to be designated a Scott Research Professor, completed his undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley and then earned a J.D. and Ph.D. (Philosophy) at Yale University. Before entering the legal academy, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Tufts University and later practiced law at Paul Weiss in New York City. A member of the law faculty since 2006, he is a noted Nietzsche scholar and also is widely published in areas such as legal philosophy and civil procedure.
Elizabeth Scott praised Green's selection as the first to hold the new research chair. It was impressive, she said, "to look at [Green's] scholarly accomplishments in really such as relatively short career as a legal academic."
Robert Scott said he was confident that Green walked in the footsteps of another great law professor, Dudley Woodbridge, who taught law at William & Mary for 39 years.
"My first-year contracts class with Dean Woodbridge was, and remains to this day, the most intellectually stimulating and engaging experience of my entire life," Scott said. "His charismatic teaching and his rigorous scholarly devotion to the truth quite fundamentally and importantly changed my life forever. And so this research chair idea ... is specifically designed to nurture and support exemplars of just that sort of excellence. I know that there are students today in Michael Green's first-year civil procedure class whose lives and careers will be shaped for the better just as mine were some forty years ago."
Green, in addition to thanking the Scotts for their generosity, said that he had ampleevidence that they are greatly esteemed by their colleagues and former students. Since adding the designation of Scott Research Professor to his email signature and publications, he said he has received many emails in which people have expressed their "love and admiration" for the couple.


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By Rachel Cromidas, third-year in the College
Photos by Jason Smith
When Sara ElShafie was asked to explain "scientific method" to a classroom of teenagers, she started talking about Supercrocs. They're the prehistoric crocodiles whose fossil remains were discovered by University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno on an expedition to Niger in 2000.
"You've seen the Supercroc skull—it's 6 feet long," she said. "We don't have the entire animal, but Dr. Sereno was able to say that it was probably 40 feet long. How did he do that?"
The group of 14 Chicago Public Schools students receiving a crash course in paleontology as part of Project Exploration's Junior Paleontologists field program was silent. "Sereno studied measurements of living crocodiles," ElShafie said, and he found a ratio between head size and body length that he was able to apply to the Supercroc. "You have to have solid evidence like this. And only then can you present your data to other scientists," she explained. "I love that fact."
According to ElShafie, a third-year in the College studying biology, students first must learn the importance of scientific assumptions before getting their hands dirty as part of the nonprofit science program called Project Exploration.
Project Exploration programs for middle and high school Chicago Public Schools students met on the University campus throughout the summer. The Junior Paleontologists is a three-week program that starts in Chicago and culminates with a weeklong expedition with researchers at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, S.D. After the summer portion of the program, Junior Paleontologists participate in Project Exploration science programs and mentoring—and stay in touch with budding scientists like ElShafie—year round.
Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy, co-founded Project Exploration in 1999, with his wife, Gabrielle Lyon, AB,'94, AM,'94, after realizing the science announcements that were traveling around the world were barely reaching students at area elementary schools like Fiske Elementary, where Lyon was teaching.
Since 1999, Project Exploration has brought nearly 1,000 Chicago minority youth and girls together with scientists from around the country in after-school, summer and weekend programs. Many of those programs have launched from the University of Chicago campus.
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Sereno and Lyon share a passion for teaching unconventionally. Lyon credits her years as a teaching assistant in the University's Neighborhood Schools Program for showing her the value of "learning by doing."
"I was personally interested in public education, school reform, social justice, and equity. My work-study job [at NSP]," she said, "gave me hands-on, real-life experience working alongside real teachers in a school."
To the teaching duo, the hallmark of Project Exploration is its ability to inspire teenagers with hands-on experiences alongside caring adults, many of whom are scientists.
"A lot of these kids will travel outside of Chicago or Illinois for the first time through our programs. In the Junior Paleontologist program, students actually excavate and study real fossils, basically participating in a formal dig program as guest interns," Sereno said.
ElShafie said volunteering for Project Exploration has helped her realize her love for teaching, and she wants to pursue academia after graduation.
She said the program's hands-on activities and mentorship make the program effective. "I have no idea where these kids are coming from or what their grades were before this program, but it doesn't matter: When they come back [from South Dakota], I know they will see the world differently and have a sense of purpose in their lives."
ElShafie is one of dozens of enthusiastic undergraduates, graduates and faculty scientists who have participated in Project Exploration programs, trainings and outreach efforts in the past nine years. Many of them get connected with Project Exploration through Sereno's Fossil Lab and the University Community Service Center.
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Though Rey Alcala had only been on campus one week, his field journal already held pages of notes about the mammoth site, where he and his peers would later be digging for bones.
"We put a big emphasis on journaling," said Kristin Atman, Project Exploration program director. "These kids will only have five days at the site to record in their journals what they see. We want them to build skills like reading, writing and sharing what they observe."
Sereno and Lyon are sketching out larger plans to expand the program and establish a permanent community center, where local youths, families and University faculty can come together to make discoveries.
"It would be like a community center focused on science and science activities," Sereno said. "As the South Side continues to develop, Project Exploration can be a real bridge between the students, their communities and the University community. It's so clear that this personalized approach has a huge impact, and this kind of model doesn't yet exist anywhere else in the country."
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In October 2011, I was lucky enough to visit the set of Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies. The film follows R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie who falls in love with the non-zombie Julie (Teresa Palmer) after eating her boyfriend's brains. Judging by the trailers, it looks like Levine has crafted a sweet, funny rom-zom-com.
In addition to getting zombified on the set, I got the chance to interview producer Bruna Papandrea. We talked about how she got involved with the project, working with Jonathan Levine, trying to appeal to fans of the zombie genre, getting inside R's head, how zombies get it on, and more. Hit the jump to check out the interview. Warm Bodies opens February 1st.
How did you get involved with this project?
BRUNA PAPANDREA: I work with Anthony Migello, there's a gal working for them who has a business where she takes unpublished novelists and screenwriters and becomes the de facto editor and she was editing his manuscript. She's a brilliant editor and she had just finished editing it and sent it to me.
Twilight kind of reinvented the mythology of what vampires are supposed to be, and it seems like everybody is going through the process with every type of supernatural thing, so what was it about zombies specifically? It seems like we've seen every sort of incarnation.
When she first pitched it to me as a zombie movie, I had only ever made character-driven specialty movies. So, when she pitched it to me, I said "it's not going to be my thing." But the book is such an amazing character piece, it's such a different bend on the genre. For the most part, I was just captivated by R as a character and the whole story.
What about R captivated you?
PAPANDREA: I thought it was so interesting to come at that genre from a zombie's point of view, to get inside his head, just hearing someone struggling to speak and coming back to life.
Historically, the zombie genre has been R-Rated, featuring dead rotting people eating living people. You guys are aiming for a PG-13. Do you think this is the kind of movie that will still satisfy the hardcore fan?
PAPANDREA: I don't think it'll satisfy every hardcore zombie fan, but I think it will be very emotionally satisfying. When I describe this film, there's always a little bit of I Am Legend in there, which also pulled off that rating quite well and was a very suspenseful movie. I think we'll tread that line as well.. I hope so. I think there will be something new for those hardcore fans.
Twilight reinventing the vampire stuff sort of makes sense because there has always been a romantic element to vampires. Zombies tend to be the least erotic and emotional of all monsters. Is that something people are ready for?
PAPANDREA: I think so. I believe that with most narratives, if you can capture the audience's emotion right from the beginning, then you'll invest yourself in the character. Because it's actually R's voice in the book and screenplay, you get inside his head very early. I think that'll be the catalyst.
More to the point- do zombies bone in this movie?
PAPANDREA: (Laughs) There is some uh..some uh…there's romance. I wouldn't consider it necrophilia. He's coming back to life, guys!
This is Jonathan's biggest film. How did you end up working with him?
PAPANDREA: We sold the book to Summit and a few filmmakers, and got a lot of interest. Filmmakers want to make genre movies but they really want something more sophisticated and character-driven. We had a lot of interest, particularly from big music video directors, as the book is very visual. I had seen The Wackness, as had Summit and was so impressed with it, it had so much craft in it. I love the way Jonathan grounds his humor, which is a super important element. The fact that he's a brilliant writer is a huge plus, so obviously when he came in and pitched his take, it was kind of a no-brainer.
For more from my set visit, click on the links below:
- Matt Visits the Set of WARM BODIES, and Gets Turned into a Zombie
- Director Jonathan Levine Talks about Zombie Movies, What He Learned from 50/50, Horror and Romance, and More on the Set of Warm Bodies
- Nicholas Hoult Talks about Eating Brains, Playing an Unconventional Hero, Communicating without Words, and More on the Set of Warm Bodies
- Teresa Palmer Talks about Her Favorite Zombie Movie, Having a Relationship with a Zombie, the Influence of Romeo and Juliet, and More on the Set of Warm Bodies
- Rob Corddry Talks about Learning Zombie Moves from Cirque du Soleil, His Love of Zombie Movies, Children's Hospital, and More on the Set of Warm Bodies


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Here's a wonderfully colorful photo project by photographer Robert Weingarten that shows how psychedelic our world can get. Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 in the morning of the same view of Santa Monica Bay from his home in Malibu for an entire year. Even with all that sameness, each photo captures something completely different than before.
Called "6:30 AM Series" and shot in 2003, Weingarten used the same camera on the same tripod at the same spot with the same lens focused on infinity and at the same aperture of f/22. He tweaked with the camera's shutter speed but mostly just let each day differentiate itself from the one before and the one after. You see orange, red, white, blue, purple, pink and so on. The world, the clouds, the fog, the weather—it's just lovely to see each sky take on its own personality.
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- Modify recipes. Making small changes to traditional recipes to cut calories and fat can go a long way. Use less butter and oil when possible. Opt for fat-free chicken broth and fat-free yogurt instead of cream in dips, mashed potatoes and casseroles.
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- Choose wisely. Only eat the foods that are unique to Thanksgiving and save ordinary foods for another day. Save some room for side dishes and dessert.
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- Limit alcohol. Calories from alcohol add up quickly. Alcohol also triggers cravings for high-calorie comfort foods. It's also a good idea to drink some water between alcoholic drinks.
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Hebron Kabobs on Randolph is right down the street from J.P. Graziano Grocery Co., which is a polite way of saying that I've never been before. But when I found myself in the West Loop with a sudden craving for Middle Eastern food, the tiny corner storefront glistened like manna in the desert (forgive my metaphorical plucking of the low hanging fruit).
I fully intended to order one of the namesake kabob sandwiches, but the slowly rotating rotisserie of glistening meat made me an offer I couldn't refuse. The Chicken Schwarma Sandwich ($6.99) features straight from the spit slices of marinated chicken, grilled onions, tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, and cucumber, all wrapped in thin Jordanian shrak bread and heated under a hot press until crisp. The chicken was assertively spiced, though the included sauces stole the show. The nondescript white tahini sauce left something to be desired, but the green jalapeño and dried red pepper sauces provided welcome zip to the sandwich. With a just added a breezy back patio (BYOB!) and hookah forthcoming, you could easily make an inexpensive evening of it here, a feat that is becoming more and more difficult in the increasingly gentrified West Loop.
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The NHL and NHL Players' Association will be hunkered down Wednesday in an "undisclosed" location trying to get talks for a collective bargaining agreement back on track.
This time, they'll be joined by representatives of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for the second time in these negotiations. The only hope is they don't go back to war again and emerge further apart.
After the NHL pulled its offer off the table in New York last Thursday, the two sides agreed to meet on Day 88 of the lockout without any owners. Only commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy Bill Daly will represent the league.
The union will respect the league's wishes to avoid the microphones and TV cameras after what took place last week. Also, mediation means there is a strict policy not to speak to the media.
Yup, even reporters are locked out now.
"I'm not sure media attention and presence is particularly conducive to making a deal," said Daly in an email to QMI Agency Tuesday.
Even getting to the table has been a huge chore.
The league confirmed the talks will not be in New York, but nobody is giving up the address. It's believed NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr reached out to the league Saturday to see if the two sides could get back to the table.
Since then, there has been a lot of back and forth on the format, who is going to be part of the talks and where they'll be held. Sources say the union wanted a change of venue and the federal mediators to return.
The union doesn't have office space in Manhattan because the lease ran out. They toyed with the idea of Toronto or a neutral site like Chicago. If asked, the media would vote for Palm Beach to celebrate Bettman's 20 years in office.
It does make you wonder if the NHL and the NHLPA can't agree on the simplest of details -- like where they'll meet and whether or not they're going to talk to the media -- how could they possibly get a CBA in place?
"It's a valid question," said a league insider Tuesday.
A week ago, Bettman told reporters he had no interest in mediators. Some believe this is nothing more an attempt by NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr to look like he's pulling out all the stops to save the season.
Even Daly "isn't sure (mediation) can help."
Every detail has to be negotiated and both sides have plenty of work left to do if they're going to play this year. If they can get a deal by Jan. 1, they could still have a season of 50-56 games.
Fehr, who will be at the table along with players on the negotiating committee, told reporters on the weekend the two sides remain "close" despite how ugly it looked last week.
The NHL doesn't agree with Fehr's take because to get a deal the union had to accept: New contract term limits of five years, a 5% variance on deals and a 10-year CBA with an opt out at eight years.
The union wanted to negotiate on all three points and that has left the league with a sour taste in its mouth.
"I guess 'close' is a relative term," Daly told QMI. "Our offers last week were all premised on the (NHLPA) agreeing to asks in three distinct areas. They missed on all three. I don't know how that leaves us 'close.'"
The divide is wide as the league and the union head back to the table with a third party. Many believe it's time for Bettman to give Fehr a "drop-dead" date to save the season so there is a hard deadline to work towards.
We'll find out soon enough if silence is indeed golden.
As the NHL and NHL Players' Association sit down at a undisclosed location, what they have left to negotiate is no secret:
LENGTH OF THE DEAL: The NHL has had enough and wants labour peace for at least eight years. They're offering a 10-year term with an eight-year opt out for the CBA. Union wants an eight-year deal with a chance to get out at six years. BOTTOM LINE: You can't blame the league for not wanting to go through this again in six years.
CONTRACT TERM LIMITS: Bill Daly called this "a hill we will die on" with five-year limits on deals. The union wants eight-year deals. Not sure they couldn't get this figured out by meeting somewhere in the middle. Not sure why the NHL wouldn't want long-term deals. BOTTOM LINE: A lot of NHL officials aren't convinced a deal should die here.
A 5% VARIANCE ON DEALS: The NHL doesn't want player contracts to go up or down more than 5% annually so they can avoid contracts like Ilya Kovalchuk's that constantly go down. The players don't want this and only want this to apply to deals that are seven years or longer. BOTTOM LINE: This is part of Daly's hill and needs to be negotiated.
TRANSITION ISSUES: With a new CBA in place, the owners and players are going to have to find a way to honour deals and not go above the salary cap. The owners offered up $300 million in "make whole" money last week, but they don't want amnesty buyouts of existing deals. BOTTOM LINE: The players are concerned they'll pay higher escrow if there aren't buyouts allowed.
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Paulie Gee on Belief, Baltimore, and Being Your Own Boss (Part 2)
Last week, we ran Part 1 of our in-depth interview with Paul Giannone, pizzaiolo extraordinaire and owner of the acclaimed Brooklyn pizzeria Paulie Gee's. In the midst of readying himself to open a new branch in Baltimore, Paulie agreed to sit down with us and talk about his whirlwind journey from IT desk jockey to pizza legend. Today, we pick up with Part 2!
In my experience, once somebody opens a place they usually don't have the time or inclination to eat a lot of other people's pizza, but according to your Twitter, you're doing it all the time.
Well, I love pizza. And I'm only around one kind of pizza every day. Typically you won't see me go out and have Napoli-done or Napoli-inspired pizza. But I love it. And that's why I think things went so well for me in the first place. You know, my restaurant opens at six o'clock so there's plenty of opportunity to do that. People see me and ask me all the time, "Oh, are you doing research?" and I say no, I just like to eat pizza.
You collect shirts and ballcaps from different places, right? Which one's your favorite one?
I stopped collecting t-shirts because I like to wear a shirt with a collar and most of the time you don't find those at pizzerias. But I do have a favorite hat. I mean, I have so many I like but I have this Cane Rosso hat and it just looks so good on me, no matter what which pair of glasses I'm wearing. I just love that hat.
What's the place again?
Cane Rosso. It's the only place that has a pizza named a Paulie Gee. Not even here.
What's on the pie?
It's hot soppresata, caramelized onions, and Calabrian chiles. The reason the guy, Jay Jerrier, named it after me is that I've always been a proponent of using soppresata on a pizza rather than pepperoni.
Speaking of other places, a lot of folks have done time at Paulie Gee's and then gone on to do their own thing. I know David Sheridan, Stephen Menna, and Jon Greenberg...
...Steve Menna was here for like two days.
Yeah, I like the guy, but he wasn't here very long at all. But there are a lot of people who come through here and I do that intentionally. I find that you get a different work ethic from people like that. They're not doing it for the money. I mean, you don't make a lot of money making pizza. If you're here for the money...it's not gonna be too good. And typically I start by paying them nothing. People are willing to come here and work for free and it doesn't last long but that's what I do. And they work hard at learning and getting better because they want to do this themselves.
So who do I have to kill to get a Paulie Gee Los Angeles?
You don't have to kill anybody. I'm workin' on that, pal. But when I do something I want to do it with people like Kelly, a pizza enthusiast. Legally, I had to form a franchise company, but I am not lookin' to sell franchises to people. I'm looking to find other people who want to be like me, and for a price I'll teach them everything I've learned along the way so far. But I want to be able to help people experience what I've experienced. I want them to feel the freedom and the happiness that I've been able to bring into my life. But it has to be the right person.
I also look for a neighborhood like this, where it's a community. I was curious if something could work in Miami and I what I found were neighborhoods that have restaurants and bars like we have around here, but they don't have any residents. People would drive there, it was sort of like a destination, but it wasn't a community. Where we're opening in Baltimore is very much Greenpoint. I have a few cities where I want to do something and when I find the right person, I mention it to them. I tell them where to find me if they're interested, and if I hear back from them then I know maybe I found the right person. Maybe. And we go from there.
You mentioned that you never wanted a partner, so what's it been like working with Kelly? What makes that different than a partner in your own place?
It's Kelly's restaurant. For him to do what I do, it has to be his. I give him advice and I tell him some of the stuff that I learned, but he's dealing with the building department, he's dealing with the community, he's doing all of those things, and he's learning along the way. I'm helping him be his own person. I'm giving him the tools to do it and it's exciting. I just let him go with it, otherwise, he's not going to go at it the way I've gone at this. What I enjoy is getting people pumped up about this.
Going back, it wasn't about the pizza as much as creating a job for myself, that's really what I did. I was tired of working and worrying about where my next paycheck was going to come from, so I created my own job. Not enough people do that these days, not enough people are willing to take care of themselves. I think they're afraid, more afraid than ever, because they think that the economy is bad, and if they do take a chance and things don't work out, where do they have to turn? There are fewer places to turn than, say, 20 years ago. But to do something that I enjoy that's effortless for me and reaps rewards, it's an amazing thing. And I'd like to encourage more people to do that.
Two of the greatest things that came about through this thing are, number one, I got to go to the Columbia Graduate School of Business and speak to those students. How ironic is that? Here's someone who didn't finish high school, and they're there looking to me for advice, and...I couldn't talk, Lance, I couldn't talk. I was too choked up. It was very difficult for me to get through answering their questions, but I was showing them through my example that this is what you do with your life. You create something that people want and you make sure that they're happy with it. And hopefully some of them got it because a lot of them are wasting their parents' money.
The other thing I got to do was I was on The Today Show. Jane Pauley does this thing, "Your Life Calling." The purpose of it is to show that there's life after 50, and sometimes an even better life than you had in the first place, and it was great to be a living example of that. I felt really good about being featured on the show and then they invited me to New Orleans to speak at the AARP conference to talk about experiences there. It's such a satisfying thing to be able to talk to people and let them know that whatever it is they're doing, they can do something that's going to make them happier. Doing those two things was very satisfying.
Do you think you could have done this at 25 or 30? Or do you think you needed the experience of your life to get here?
What I needed was the things that I learned along the way. One of the things I did before was I got involved in multi-level marketing. And as it turns out...it didn't work. But along the way, one of the things they do is they encourage you to be positive and go out and make commitments. And you go to these conferences where they bring people in to talk about things like belief and commitment. And those are two very powerful things for me. They teach you how to speak it into existence and I did a lot of that. I also learned to smile when I talked to people, and I was encouraged to read.
The greatest book I ever read, and I never wanted to read it, was How To Win Friends And Influence People. From the outside it just seemed like this old book that was teaching people to be manipulative, but once I read it, it really taught me a lot. And it's just so discouraging that when kids go to school, especially high school kids, they're at an age where reading books like that could really help them. And you never, ever see anything like that taught in the high schools.
So I learned a lot from that whole experience: setting goals, going out and saying you're going to do something. And the same thing in the corporate world, they had me doing corporate training and a lot of it had to do with believing in yourself. They send you out for these training sessions. And that really helped me when I finally did this.
I should have asked you this before. When did you actually start making pizza?
The very first pie I actually made, and I used store-bought dough, was Thanksgiving Eve, 2007. I'd never made pizza before. When I decided I wanted to open up a pizzeria, that's when I built an oven at home. I used to buy Boboli or something and I'd put sauce and basil and fresh muzz on it, that kind of thing, but I never ever made pizza. I was making the fresh muzz from day one, but I was buying the dough at Stop & Shop.
That was easy, but then I said I had to start with the dough. Like I said before, you need to believe. And I didn't have that belief yet, but I told myself I could do this, I could actually make a pizza in an oven. But when I was actually able to build a fire in an oven and have a pizza come out that actually tasted decent, the flood gates open.
People now talk about your pizza in the upper echelon. That's a pretty quick and meteoric rise from 2007. How did you get it to such a high level so quickly?
I was very determined. I kept on testing and experimenting for a couple years until I got it right. Every two weeks, on average, I would have a pizza tasting year-round, and I kept playing with the dough recipe. When we opened up, we were very fortunate that the community wanted us to succeed and they were willing to overlook a lot of our blemishes. You go back and look at some pictures from when we opened up...the dough wasn't stretched far enough, I was leaving too much dough in the crust.
I had a kid come in and volunteer the summer of 2010, his name's Tom Kirton, he opened up a place in New Zealand called Tommy Millions...he had some tricks with the dough. And there was another guy in Austin now, Clint Elsmore, this attorney who had studied in Naples with Enzo Coccia, who contributed. But for those six months I really had to play with it. The guys at Nomad, they told me that the longer you can keep the dough, the better it's going to be, but it gets difficult to work with. So I kind of pushed the envelope on that, I pushed it an extra day. I wish I had known ahead of time because my walk-in's not big enough to keep an extra day's worth of dough now.
It's perception, as well. I'm a good story, I'm like other people. People see me and it wasn't like I went to school in Naples or was some guy who came over from Naples with a red neckerchief around my neck, or this expert pizza guy. I was just another guy like everybody else. And I think a lot of people liked that. I think that helped, they accepted it more, they looked at my pizza with a less jaundiced eye, I think.
So the fact that you weren't throwing your credentials in anybody's face was a plus?
One of the things that shaped the pizzas that I serve now is that I very much did not create an Italian pizzeria. My oven isn't red, white, and green, I don't have any quattro formaggi pizzas on there, I don't call my pies "pizze," anything like that. And also with the ingredients...I mean, I put guanciale on a few of my pies, and I use hot soppresata, but I use combinations that the Italians would never use like pickled grapes because I wanted to get away from those standards. I like to contrast sweet and savory when I can, so I came up with a different kind of menu because of that. You go into my restaurant and it does not look like an Italian place at all and that was intentional. The oven is certainly Italian, that's where it was made, and it says Napoli on it, but I don't have a Napoli soccer flag hanging in back of it. That doesn't have anything to do with what you call my "meteoric rise," but it made me a little different.
How much do you think your personality and your story affected the reaction to your restaurant and do you think anybody else can learn from that? Or do you think it was just you being you?
Here, it is. My entire corporate career I suffered from extreme stage fright. I'd be sick to my stomach the night before I had to make a presentation in front of a big crowd or even a meeting. Sick to my stomach! But it's because I was talking to people that knew a lot more about what I was talking about than I did in a lot of cases. But I feel really comfortable talking about what I've done because I'm talking about me and my journey, I'm talking about the pizza that I make, and I love doing it now. I look forward to it. I've been on TV and I've never, ever gotten that feeling in my stomach. I had Jane Pauley talking to me, I knew I had millions of people watching and it never crossed my mind because I'm comfortable talking about what I'm talking about. And I think that helped. Does that answer your question?
Do you think it applies to other people though? How important is a story to a pizzeria now? Or do you think you can get by just on pizza?
First and foremost you have to make a good product because that's what people are looking for. But they're also looking for more. I don't know why people like "the story," I never got that. I don't give a damn about a story when I go to Motorino or whatever. But obviously it is important. The other thing that's important is, I did not create a restaurant to sell pizza, I created a dining experience. I wanted to be a part of North Brooklyn and what was going on there. To do that, I had to fit in with people that are not like me. And I was very fortunate to seek out the Haslegrave Brothers. I knew that if I could get them to contribute to my restaurant—I didn't think I could afford for them to do the whole thing—but if I could get them to contribute to it, then I would be more accepted in the neighborhood. I also thought that they had a lot of friends, and they'd come to the restaurant and want to hang out there, and that would help it be more successful, so I went out of my way to get them involved so I could bond with the community. Along the way they built me a restaurant that's incredibly seductive and that was not my plan at all.
What did you have in mind in the very beginning?
My inspiration was Roberta's. You go to Roberta's, it was a cinder block space where they used to fix cars. Now it's a cinder block space without the cars and some cheap tables. Obviously they expanded out in the back, but that's what it was. And in spite of that, you go in there and it felt very special. I said, "Ya know what, I don't have to worry about spending hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars...if you just focus on the pizza and everything will be fine." So I didn't go overboard on that, which financially could've crushed me. The restaurant could have been owned by someone other than me. Now I'm using that model with other people. Down in Baltimore, the only way Kelly could afford to do this was to take the space down there the way it was, and leave it that way. It happened to be a very cool space and the irony of Napoli-inspired pizza being made in a Republican Club has pretty great.
It obviously turned into something more.
I thought I was just going to take the restaurant the way it was and throw the ovens in. They created something that, fortunately for me, is just incredible. People want to come to my restaurant for a dining experience, not just to get pizza. There's plenty of people doing really great pizza. You can go to Forcello, you can go to Motorino, you can go to Keste. But there's something a little different when you come into my place. I'm very fortunate that I was able to team up with the Haslegraves. I owe them my life.
And here's the other thing. I loved the neighborhood atmosphere, the community atmosphere at Roberta's. I was infatuated with that, I really was. You go in there and you feel like you're someplace special. And part of that was that it wasn't some restaurant where the guy's just trying to make money. I know people who will hire really cheap labor wherever they can get it, but those aren't the people that come in the restaurant, and it doesn't feel like a neighborhood place that way. I love going to a place like Roberta's, where the employees are like the same people coming into eat.
So I love hiring local people. Not because I'm going to save the world by not having some guy drive 30 miles to the restaurant every day to work, but because if we have a problem they can walk to work. Plus, they're part of the community, their friends are going to want to come in, and it just works that way. You walk in my kitchen and it's the same people as out front. That was very important.
Your menu is big and pretty creative.
Eh, it's not that big.
Who else is doing, like, 20 pizzas?
Look at Fornino's menu. And I also don't really let people make up their own pizzas, I come up with pizza that I think works so I gotta have a selection. We started with a specials list of like four pies, and whenever we came up with a pie that we liked it went on the regular menu to the point where I said, "let's forget the specials menu." And you get a pie that's really a hit, what am I going to do? Take it off to make room for another one?
It's very difficult. It's very dark in here, which I will not relent on, and I have to make the print on the menu very small, but that's what I gotta do. And it's kind of frustrating because now there's really not room for more pizza without taking off a pie that people love. The Regina (Fresh Mozzarella, Italian Tomatoes, Pecorino Romano, Olive Oil and Fresh Basil), I wish I didn't have to have it on the menu because everybody says, "I have to have the Regina to compare you to other people." And to me, that's nonsense.
Compare what I do well to what other people do well. Compare my strengths to their strengths if you want. But I wish people wouldn't compare...just eat my friggin' pizza. I hate when people say, "I like your pizza better than here or there." That's not the idea. I love wearing other peoples' gear to send that message across. I'm not doing this to be better than somebody else, I'm doing it to make good pizza.
Are there any crazy combinations that you thought were going to be amazing but that ended up being horrible?
I never think that anything's going to be amazing, but last night I put some cashew ricotta on a pie pre-oven and put in the oven to see how that would work because I don't really like putting Daiya on the menu. I was looking to see if we could do something for vegans who want melted cheese on their pizza and it tasted like bad mashed potatoes.
You recently took a pretty amazing trip to Italy. How important do you think that pilgrimage to Italy is for a pizza person? What are you going to get there that you aren't going to get here, and where do you think New York stacks up now?
It really is apples and oranges. I found that pizza there is not taken seriously. It's just sort of there. And people make it well, but it's not like here where pizza has this cult status. However, the best pizza I ever had in my life I had in Rome. It wasn't Napoli-style pizza, it was pizza al taglio from a place called Pizzarium, and it was on a re-heat. They make these big long pizzas, they cut 'em by whatever size you want, and they re-heat it and it was out of this world. I was really surprised. But the other pizza I had in Italy was not remarkable—except for Da Michele. The rest of it was very good, but I've had just as good here.
There's this Anthony Mangieri quote where he says by the time he went to Naples he was already making pizza better than they were over there and since then it's been ten years and he's a million times better. And when I read it I thought it was kind of outrageous...but I kind of understood what he meant after I went there. Maybe not to that extent. But his pizza is better than the pizza I had in Naples. I had pizza in Capri, and Naples, and on the Amalfi Coast...and the pizza was all very good. But it was not better than anything I've had here in New York. Except for Da Michele. I didn't go to every place, but it's just like Tom from Nomad said, "It's just pizza."
I have this weird obsession with identifying the most important step in the pizzamaking process. Like there's concept, recipe, sourcing, doughmaking, prep, stretching and topping a pie, and cooking it. They're all important, but what's the most crucial step in your opinion?
Well, the oven. Because how well you prepare everything and how much you spend on ingredients, a few seconds too long in the oven and it's in the garbage can. In fact, that's the most important thing, the garbage can. Don't be afraid to throw it in the garbage can.
I can't imagine you're doing a lot of that now.
No, the pizzamakers have gotten to the point where they can do four pies in the oven and they get them out when they have to. The dough, once in a while we get some holes. We carry the dough over sometimes—there's no waste in the pizza business by the way—and it tastes better the next day but it's more delicate so sometimes we'll rip them. If they go in the garbage, that's typically why. The most important thing is that oven, but first you have to do all those other things to get you there.
Some pretty great Neapolitan places are still opening and doing well in New York. In other cities they're opening but maybe they're not the best quality. Where do you think pizza is going in the next 10 years? Do you think a new style will catch fire or is Neapolitan just going to get more creative as people stop worrying about orthodoxy as much?
I think something new's going to emerge. This Roman style pizza I had at Pizzarium has a lot of potential if you're doing it right. The crust was just amazing. And Tom from Nomad is opening up a new place in Philly, a Roman style place. That's where there's room for creativity and going in a different direction. But I think that if the economy ever gets better, I think you'll see people going away for pizza and more towards more expensive fare. But for now, pizza and burger and mac 'n' cheese, and other comfort foods are king, and it'll stay that way as long as the economy sucks.
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With world powers playing a bit of brinksmanship over international action on Syria, Syria's largest opposition coalition is presenting an ultimatum of its own: Either the UN Security Council passes a resolution with real consequences targeting President Bashar al-Assad and his regime's violence, or the opposition will turn elsewhere for the means to defend itself and the Syrian people.
The implication of the opposition's message is that the Security Council's failure to finally act on a crisis that has left it paralyzed for over a year will lead to the full-blown civil war and wider regional conflict that world powers say they dread.
"What we are saying here is that if there is no possibility of counting on what is the legitimate mandate of the United Nations Security Council, then we have other options," says Bassma Kodmani, head of foreign relations for the Syrian National Council (SNC) executive office. "If the door is closed in the face of the Syrian people, then we need to explore other scenarios."
Dr. Kodmani is part of an SNC delegation meeting at the UN in New York this week with members of the Security Council in the run-up to an anticipated vote on a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN's observer mission in Syria.
Western powers are demanding that any extension of the monitoring mission fall under a UN Charter provision – the charter's Chapter 7 – that authorizes consequences for noncompliance that could run from economic sanctions to, eventually, the use of force. Russia, which has already vetoed two resolutions on Syria over the course of the crisis, says it wants only a reauthorization of the 300-member mission charged with monitoring the "cease-fire" that was supposed to have taken effect under international Syria envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.
The monitoring mission's mandate expires Friday. But by Tuesday afternoon and as intensive negotiations continued, it appeared a vote on a Syria resolution set for Wednesday would lapse until at least Thursday.
Speaking Tuesday afternoon with a group of journalists, Dr. Kodmani said her organization supports a resolution under Chapter 7 as a "very last chance to breathe life into the Annan peace plan." She also said it is the only way for the Security Council to convince the Assad regime that the international community is serious about halting violence that has left more than 17,000 Syrians dead – more than 4,000 of those since Mr. Annan's plan for a cease-fire and a political transition was launched effect in April.
The Syrian delegation members say they relayed the same message to the Russian officials they met in New York this week and to those, including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, they met with in Moscow last week: a failure to include "enforcement measures" in a Syria resolution would send a message of a weak UN unable to manage international security crises.
Another Russian veto of a Syria resolution would "send the wrong message back to both the regime and the Syrian people," Kodmani said they told their Russian interlocutors. The Assad regime would hear that it is "free to continue the violence, continue the massacres," she said, while the Syrian people would hear the international community saying, "We cannot do anything for you, you will have to fight [this] out."
On Monday Mr. Lavrov said in Moscow that the West's pressure for a Chapter 7 resolution – which Russia fears would lead to foreign intervention in Syria of the type that occurred in Libya – is "a kind of blackmail" and he gave every suggestion that Russia would not alter its stance.
But after Annan, a former UN secretary-general, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday in Moscow, Mr. Lavrov softened his words and suggested a compromise might yet be found between the two positions on the council. "Russia is ready to work" with its council counterparts, Lavrov said.
At the New York press conference, Kodmani was not specific about the "alternative scenarios" the Syrian opposition would pursue in the absence of forceful Security Council action.
But the implications from her and from background comments made by other SNC officials with her were clear: Syria's opposition would have no choice but to turn directly to regional supporters who would see the council's inaction as a green light to more robust arming and protective measures for the Syrian civilian population.
Kodmani said the SNC would also like any resolution to demand unimpeded access across Syria for international humanitarian aid – Syrian authorities have been blocking aid and denying visas to aid workers – and to provide for referring the regime's "criminals" who have been killing Syrian civilians to the International Criminal Court.
This last demand is unlikely to have traction at this point under any scenario, but it does suggest where the opposition has its sights set as it moves forward.