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By David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily
Before Brooklyn, N.Y., was a hotbed of indie music, hipsters and locavore restaurants, it was the borough of the Dodgers, a blue-collar work ethic and beer. In fact, a century ago, Brooklyn had 48 breweries within its borders. At the time, that was more breweries than in brewing hubs like St. Louis and Milwaukee. But just as many other businesses and residents had done, they slowly moved out of the borough, with the last two breweries closing their doors in 1976.
That was until the late 1980s, when Steve Hindy and Tom Potter took a chance and started Brooklyn Brewery. Their story, however, begins a few years earlier and several thousand miles away from King's County.
"I was a reporter for 15 years, six of those years were in the Middle East as a correspondent for the Associated Press," said Hindy, co-founder and owner of Brookyln Brewery. "I covered a lot of big stories like the Iranian Revolution, the hostage situation in Iran. I was with the Iraqi army when they invaded Iran in 1980 and I was in Lebanon during the civil war where I was actually abducted at one point in 1980. I moved to Cairo and I was sitting behind President Anwar Sadat when he was assassinated in 1981."
Although covering those stories was good for his journalism career, the danger and a job opportunity at New York newspaper Newsday brought Hindy and his family to Brooklyn. The move to Brooklyn gave Hindy the chance to perfect a passion that he had picked up while overseas.
Hindy said there is a long tradition of home-brewing beer in Egypt, where he was based. "I got interested in brewing my own beer," he said. "When I got to Brooklyn, I started making beer at home and serving it to all my friends and neighbors."
One of those neighbors, Tom Potter, turned out to be more than just a fan of Steve's home-brewed beers. Potter, a banker with a master's in business administration and a desire to start his own business, teamed with Hindy to start the brewery that brought beer-making back to Brooklyn.
"We decided to quit our jobs, raise some money and start the Brooklyn Brewery," Hindy said.
All of them failed
With a commitment to start the business, the partners began brewing, but they ran into a problem.
"Instead of building a brewery in Brooklyn, which would have been very costly, we decided to contract brew our first beers," Hindy said. "We made a deal with a brewery in Utica, N.Y., to brew Brooklyn Lager, our first beer. That beer is based on the beers that were brewed in Brooklyn back in the heyday of brewing in New York. Part of our mission was to bring brewing back to Brooklyn, but we decided to start brewing upstate, truck the beer to Brooklyn, then sell it ourselves out of the back of our van."
The partners also set up a distribution business that helped them get the products into the hands of consumers. Although setting up the distribution company proved difficult, Hindy credits it with being a major impetus behind the future success of the business.
"I think there were about 20 other small breweries that started up in the first 15 years of our existence," Hindy said. "All of them failed, and most of them failed because they had trouble … getting their beer distributed. A lot of them made really good beer, but they were unable to get it into the hands of the customers. I think that the distribution company was a key for us, both in educating us and in enabling us to build a market for craft beer."
Do you know who Milton is?
Early on the partners also realized the importance of branding their product.
Hindy said he knew having a great brand was just important as having a great beer.
Despite knowing several graphic designers and artists, Hindy had a problem finding the right designer.
"I really wanted someone to educate me about what I should be doing," he said. "Eventually, with some urging from my wife, I went to the best designers in New York and Milton Glaser was one of them." [5 Entrepreneurial Cinderella Stories That Inspire]
Getting a meeting with the famed designer who came up with the "I Love New York" logo proved to be more difficult than Hindy expected.
"When I called Milton's office the first time the woman who answered the phone shooed me away," Hindy said.
Hindy continued to call the office every day until he was finally able to meet Glaser, who loved the idea of Brooklyn Brewery. Glaser agreed to design the logo in exchange for an equity stake in the company.
Together, they came up with the "B" logo now used on the company's products.
"When he unveiled it, I was kind of underwhelmed because I was looking for the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Dodgers," Hindy said. "I wanted something every Brooklyn guy would want to have tattooed on his arm. The more I looked at it, the more I grew confident in the brilliance of that logo and the way it expresses the history of Brooklyn. It was a fresh, but timeless image of Brooklyn."
Breaking ground in Brooklyn
With a strong brand in place and a booming distribution company and brewery, the partners began to expand their offerings. They hired a brewmaster named Garrett Oliver in 1994 and began offering new beers such as Brooklyn Brown Ale and Black Chocolate Stout.
Oliver also played a role in designing the Brooklyn-based brewery Hindy and Potter opened in May 1996. Mayor Rudy Giuliani celebrated the opening of the brewery in Brooklyn by cutting the ribbon.
Eventually, owning both a brewery and a distribution company became too much to handle.
"At a certain point it was very difficult to fund the expansion of the brewery and the growth of the brewery and to fund the distribution company at the same time," Hindy said. "We ended up selling the distribution company to the big distributors in New York, the people who wouldn't have given us the time of day five years before."
The sale of the distribution company gave the company $12 million, which they invested in expanding the brewery in Brooklyn and paying back initial investors.
Today two-thirds of Brooklyn Brewery beers are brewed in Utica, while the rest of beer production takes place in Brooklyn. There are plans to move 50 percent of production to Brooklyn within the next two years. The company had sales of $35 million last year and projects sales to increase to between $40 million and $45 million in 2012. The company employs 120 workers upstate and 57 in Brooklyn.
You never know what you are going to run into
"I think our story is a lot about adaptability and persistence," Hindy said. "It took us six years to make a profit and even then it wasn't a very big profit and it wasn't very consistent. But we were always growing our sales and reaching new markets. It really took a lot of persistence and endurance to get to where we are today. I think that is true of a lot of businesses."
With that persistence Hindy believes anything is possible.
"You really have to commit yourself to success and never look back," Hindy said. "I kind of compare it to going off to cover a war, because when you go off to cover a war, you never know what you are going to run into. It's going to take everything you have got to do the job. That is sort of the way it is with a company. You never know what you are going to run into when you start a company and it takes every bit of gumption and courage that you have."
Reach BusinessNewsDaily staff writer David Mielach at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @D_M89.
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He got more than he expected.
Hunt told him he was considering bringing the Grey Cup to Newfoundland this summer in their initial conversation a couple of months ago.
Foley, who is president of the new Western Newfoundland Football Association, figured the program would get a boost with the Redblacks owner stopping by with the Grey Cup for a short visit while he was back home.
But, the visit will actually be part of a provincial Grey Cup tour that will see Hunt and star Redblacks receivers Greg Ellingson and Brad Sinopoli bring the Grey Cup to Corner Brook on May 2, Labrador City on May 3 and finish up on May 4 with a stop in St. John's.
"I'm absolutely over the moon," Foley said Monday. "I mean to have a figure like Jeff Hunt to put this off is not only great for our association but the sporting community and the community all around."
Brian Williams and a crew from TSN will be making the trek to the province to cover the tour for the purpose of producing a video of the action in all three communities.
Details are still being worked out, but the plan is to bring the community together for a day with a number of events in an effort to promote football and also raise some money for the league in its infancy stage.
A visit to an elementary school, a football clinic in the afternoon and a Quarterback Club event at a local sports bar later in the evening with Brian Williams hosting are expected to be the highlights for the tour.
Hunt has the distinction of being the only Newfoundlander to have his name engraved on the Grey Cup.
It's only the second time the Grey Cup has been showcased in this province and the first time on the west coast.
"It should be a fun time. We want to help them promote the game of football," Hunt said.
Foley asked Hunt to be the honorary chairman for the association and Hunt graciously accepted.
Not a bad guy to have on your side if you're looking to build a football program to great heights.
Ottawa Redblacks president Jeff Hunt working on plan to bring Grey Cup to his native land


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|Mysteries#Mystery_Fri,_01_Mar_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|What object is assembled from the components in the [[Component_drops|Component Drops]]?
|Mysteries#Mystery_Fri,_01_Mar_2013_00:02:00_+0000 +
|What's with the [[Message_Desk/Investigation#Message_desk_tones|Message desk tones]]?
|Mysteries#Mystery_Fri,_01_Mar_2013_00:03:00_+0000 +
|Can anybody reach the [[Malaysia rest stop drop|Malaysia]] drop?
|Mysteries#Mystery_Mon,_04_Mar_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Lots of stuff to interpret in the [[Worm book]].
|Mysteries#Mystery_Mon,_04_Mar_2013_00:01:00_+0000 +
|Call the [[Worm phone numbers]] and record your findings.
|Mysteries#Mystery_Mon,_26_Aug_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|We need to collect components at some active member and measure them exactly, dimensions, waight, volume... We also need some better pictures and see how parts could be assembled. [[LOG_with_more_data_about_components_from_27.8.2013|More details]]
|Mysteries#Mystery_Mon,_30_Dec_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Check these Agent codes regularly: 6873, 6875, 6876, 16041, 16042, 16043, 33330, 674826, 4064436, 4822010112
|Mysteries#Mystery_Sun,_16_Jun_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|'''We need somebody who knows how to make a phonecall with spoofed number.''' Please report to #arg channel. You will need [http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/43665-my-recent-travels/ this link] with you.
|Mysteries#Mystery_Sun,_26_May_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Help us to recognize [http://vocaroo.com/i/s1T7Q0URid2Q mysterious song] from micro SD card found in [[Santa_Clara_drop|Santa Clara drop.]] It is [http://archive.org/details/GroverClevelandMarchByGilmoresBand1892 Grover Cleveland March by Gilmore's Band (1892)]
|Mysteries#Mystery_Thu,_26_Dec_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Fix the AGENT SYSTEM!
|Mysteries#Mystery_Thu,_26_Dec_2013_00:01:00_+0000 +
|Call MD (202)-204-2303, Post results in http://sukasa.rustedlogic.net/md/, RECORD ALL CALLS and post them in chat for others to enjoy.
|Mysteries#Mystery_Tue,_12_Mar_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Is there anything we've missed in the [[Bangkok DVD]]?
|Mysteries#Mystery_Tue,_12_Mar_2013_00:01:00_+0000 +
|What are the messages on [[202 999 3337]]?
|Mysteries#Mystery_Tue,_30_Apr_2013_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Find agent to go and check FDD phones in Florida, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315, USA 140 ft E [[Message:04/29/2013/18084/22:36]]
|Mysteries#Mystery_Wed,_01_Jan_2014_00:00:00_+0000 +
|Help at transcribing [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1026650#1026650 Happy Songs] - turned out they were all old messages from oct 2012
|Mysteries#Mystery_Wed,_27_Mar_2013_16:07:00_+0000 +
|How do we get the agent system back up?
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_05_Oct_2012_00:00:00_+0000 +
|An [[Named_regions#Updated_Message_.2810.2F5.29|updated binary tone message]] from the (709) 700-0122 number was decoded.
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_07_Dec_2012_21:50:00_+0000 +
|New message on agent number 16041 [[202_999_3335/Investigation#New_message_on_December_7|INFO]]. [http://dialer.otp22.com/2012-12-07%2020-50%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2016041.wav Recording 2012-12-07 20-50 UTC 202-999-3335 16041].
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_13_Jan_2012_00:00:00_+0000 +
|[http://www.godlikeproductions.com/members/32539/profile Captain_Jack] (aka [http://www.youtube.com/user/wprtradio wprtradio] on YouTube) on the GodLikeProductions forum [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yv7ODD2HQk posts a YouTube video] to the [http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1702191/pg2 initial GLP post]. The condition code recorded in this call is '''Blue'''.
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_14_Dec_2012_00:30:00_+0000 +
|MD is up. Nadando found that almost all of the numbers in the 3xx range give output in the xx/xxxxxx/xxxxxxx format.
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_14_Dec_2012_02:30:00_+0000 +
|Agent systems seem to be down and sometimes calls to MD will forward to [[Message_Desk#Operations|"Operations"]] instead. Who is this guy, and what kind of input is he looking for?
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_14_Dec_2012_05:30:00_+0000 +
|Xkeeper got MD to be somewhat conversational[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27790736/otp22/4xxx.ogg]. MD describes the Message Desk as a "contract that requires him to dial into an ancient mainframe using an ancient modem." First confirmation that he is an employee?
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_14_Sep_2012_00:00:00_+0000 +
|The dead drop was picked up at [http://otp22.com/index.php?title=Lake_Oswego_Public_Library Lake Oswego Public Library] on page 271 (not 272) of the specified book.

|News/2011-2012#Fri,_14_Sep_2012_19:00:00_+0000 +
|A [[Message:09/15/2012/99286/19:00|NATO phonetic message was recorded with Agent code 99286]]. This message was decoded using ''p1.txt''. PAYLOAD THREE-TRAJECTORY GOOD-READY FOR REENTRY-TARGET MELTING COMPLETE. Another [[Message:09/15/2012/2896/14:40|NATO phonetic message was with Agent code 2896]]. Decoded using ''p2.txt''. MELTING OF INCOMPLETE-PAYLOAD THREE REENTRY WINDOW DELAYED BY NO LESS THAN FIVE DAYSS-SEA TROOP REQUESTING DROP.
|News/2011-2012#Fri,_18_Nov_2011_00:00:00_+0000 +
|A [http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-303-309-0004 post] is made to 800notes about the (303) 309-0004 number. Again, this post is not available in archive.org's repository.


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William Kornblum Award Statement
The Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology is presented each year in recognition of outstanding contributions to sociological practice. The award recognizes work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others, work that has significantly advanced the utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing, has elevated the professional status or public image of the field as a whole, or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the discipline for its significant impacts, particularly in advancing human welfare. The selection committee selected William Kornblum as the 2005 recipient of the Practice award.
William Kornblum has spent more than thirty years at the City University of New York, applying his sociological insights to community and labor issues. In reports prepared for the general public rather than academic specialists, Kornblum has examined New Yorkers' relationship to Central Park; the "bright lights" of West 42nd Street; Harlem teenagers' life aspirations and struggles; and, more recently, the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attack on airline workers. Since 1997, he has chaired the board of the Grand Central Neighborhood Agency, an agency serving the homeless in midtown Manhattan. Kornblum's multi-faceted work that uses sociology to tackle urban problems has over the years influenced hundreds of his students to become similarly engaged in their communities.


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Monday, October 11, 2010
Fancy Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese are broad terms. Tomato Soup can be described as thin, bland, soup poured from a tin can and Grilled Cheese can be a soggy, greasy, American-cheese-filled-white-bread-sandwich OR it can be defined very differently. It can be a gourmet, craveable, comfort food delicacy! I think it was a combination of Bread and Company's Soup and Fido's Grilled Cheese that originally rocked my Tomato Soup/Grilled Cheese definitions.
I have tried different tomato soup recipes for years and have finally landed on the one I think is marvelous! It is well-seasoned and lightly creamy, packed with nutrients and chunks of tomatoes. There are several ways you can adapt it to your liking. It has milk in it and has cream as an option- your call on if you want it more bisque-like and can handle the fat, or if you prefer it less creamy. The original recipe calls for hands-full of fresh spinach thrown in, which is wild and I love it, but in this season of young children and many guests in our home, I omit the spinach most of the time. This recipe came from a friend of a friend and was copied from a restaurant cookbook, I believe.
The recipe is a little intimidating at first glance, as there are many ingredients listed, but with a closer look you will see that the majority of them are seasonings, and the others you can easily keep stocked in your pantry. The soup makes a vat- which I cherish as a quality in a soup recipe. It lasts a good week, freezes well and is great to share.
The Fancy Grilled Cheese is pretty straightforward. Since there are only 3 ingredients to this one, you want to choose well, because it will make all the difference. We are big fans of artisan ("crusty") bread of all kinds- Farm, Baguettes, Tuscan loaves, something with a good crust and a chewy crumb and we like cheeses with some sharpness to them. Often times I put Cheddar and then I add a little of whatever I find in the refrigerator drawer. So, my suggestion is to choose bread you enjoy, cheese that is strongly flavored that you love, and grab a stick of butter. Butter your griddle (or a pan for the stove top), place the bread on the hot surface and add cheese to half of the pieces. Then after a few minutes, put the sandwiches together (so the cheese will melt). Cook and flip until cheese is melted and bread is golden, and you have got yourself one amazing companion to a bowl of soup.
TIP - if you are serving a big crowd you can use jellyroll pans and bake the sandwiches in the oven at 350 degrees. I suggest you melt the butter and brush on the bread when doing using this cooking method.
My son is not YET crazy about soup, though my girls love it (thankfully), but he digs these grilled cheeses! I almost always serve this meal with slices of apples. That way at least the fruit food group is represented on his plate.
We eat this soup and grilled cheese often in the cold months. We've even incorporated it into our Halloween tradition. I love traditions and I am learning how much intentionality it takes to create and maintain them. Thankfully, several years ago we began trick-or-treating and eating with a few friends, and our menu involves tomato soup and fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. We leave the soup on the stove or in the crock-pot and we run around the neighborhood with friends gathering some much-wanted-much-unnecessary candy. We then return to the house to crank up the griddle and make some grilled cheese yumminess while the kids watch Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin. This menu along with apples and caramel dip, and some pumpkin shaped sugar cookies make the event a sweet and simple tradition. (I'll be sure to post the sugar cookies, but wanted to go ahead and share the soup and grilled cheese...couldn't wait!)
Tomato Basil Soup (click for printable version)
3 Tbsp olive oil
½1/2 cup onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 cup white cooking wine
1 bay leaf
2 tsp dried basil
2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp chicken base
3 Tbsp flour
6 cups V8 juice (or the entire jug)
2 28 ounce cans diced tomatoes, with juice
3 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream, optional
1 10 oz bag fresh spinach, optional
In large pot heat oil and sauteé onion and garlic until light in color. Add wine, bay leaf, basil, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and let reduce for 5 minutes. Next add sugar, chicken base; stir well. To thicken, stir in 3 Tbsp flour. Slowly add V8 juice, stirring over medium heat until you have a smooth sauce. Add tomatoes and milk. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add cream and spinach (if you are adding them) simmer another 10 minutes.
Serves a crowd.
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I just posted a similar idea on Twitter. Totally planning on using this as a party idea sometime this fall. Yum!ReplyDelete
I'm going to print this recipe so I can make it next week. I love tomato soup but have never found a good and easy homemade recipe.ReplyDelete
Have you ever had grilled cheese on homemade sourdough bread? It's marvelous.
I can't wait to try this soup recipe! It's perfect for a rainy day like today.ReplyDelete
Tomato soup! I've been wanting a good recipe for you.ReplyDelete
Thanks, julie.
Your apple slice photos reminds me of a favorite way we like to fancy-up our grilled cheeses: Grilled sharp cheese with thinly sliced granny smith apples.
that's the best halloween tradition i've ever heard. i wish i was a kid in your house.ReplyDelete
Julie, I made your yummy soup this weekend while my parents were in town. It was great! I think next time I'll double the sugar and emulsify the soup with one can of the diced tomatoes and then add the other as is. Maybe it will bring out a little more tomatoey flavor. I also used all the V8, added fresh basil before serving, and the cream, in my opinion, is a must :-) Thanks so much for the amazing recipe!ReplyDelete


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Reflections, observations, random thoughts and bon mots, relating to the literary and geographic landscapes of American history. And book reviews too.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Melancholy, Scot and Robin, The Who, President's Wall, Brave Ulysses
This is the painting that hangs over my computer (my poor digital photograph does not do it justice). I enjoy staring at in it from time to time as I withdraw from the keyboard, sit back, and take a breath. There's something mesmerizing about Grant's countenance. Images of him are weighty, with a wisp of melancholy that is always felt, if not intended.
This is a rare, one-of-a kind portrait. It was painted by a street artist in South Korea—commissioned by my good friend Scot Halpin and his wife Robin. Scot handed the man a small photograph of Grant, and returned a couple days later to pick up this stunning painting. Scot, who passed away about a year and a half ago, was an important person in my life, and his untimely death makes the Grant painting all the more cherished. Scot was not a Civil War buff, but he knew about my interest and surprised me with this gift. I have other reminders of Scot—including a few of his own paintings—but the Grant portrait speaks to me every day. Usually, it's very polite, but sometimes it's sarcastic.
I will dedicate another bit of writing to Scot, as this may not be the best venue, but suffice it to say he—more than anyone in my life other than Jerry, my eternal Berkeley Writers Club compatriot—and Robin—inspired me to never give up the dream that artist's dream from a young age, and which the world and life conspire to squelch every day in every way. He, more than anyone I have known before or since, lived the life, and walked the walk—making his way in this world as an artist, a musician, a free thinker. He, more than anyone, served to remind that creating art will always matter more than the reasons we all come up with to put it off, or let it go. What I've been putting off, among other things, is writing. But I've not let go, and am excited more about it now than ever.
Robin has begun an ambitious and fantastically beautiful project to post one of Scot's paintings, and a piece of his musical legacy, more or less every day for a year. See her tribute site here.
Robin's blog was highlighted at The Who's official web site, where the band expressed their condolences, and recounted the night in 1973 when then 19-year-old Scot Halpin was recruited from the crowd at the Cow Palace in San Francisco to finish the set for a passed-out Keith Moon. Scot was Rolling Stone's "Pick-Up Player of the Year." You can see video of Scot's great Who adventure on YouTube. TimesOnline published this obit. Scot's 15 minutes of fame.
I'm not a collector of presidential portraits—or at least, I didn't set out to be—the Kennedy photo (left of Grant) was something I glommed onto when my parents died, and is inscribed to my father. The Lincoln photo (right of Grant) is a print of that beautiful glass negative fragment. The Production Director gave that to me after it was used on the cover of a Stanford University Press catalog. We had these images scattered around the house, and it was my wife's idea to collect them together on one wall. Now I love to scrutinize them in quiet moments (with my kids, that means the middle of the night)—they are inspirational figures all.
I'm no Grant groupie, and it would never occur to me to take an ad out in the Civil War News to attack Grant detractors, but I'll say unabashedly that he is the Civil War-era figure that I have always gravitated toward in my reading, and that I never tire of studying. Some of my long-time Civil War correspondents will see this as validation of a certain bias, and it's true I believe he was the preeminent general in a war well-stocked with intriguing and successful officers.
He was a small, unassuming man (hmmm, just like me). A failed farmer, an officer who had given up on a military career. By 1854, having risen to the rank of captain, he resigned from the army—a dead end road—and went to work as a clerk in his father's leather shop. In other words, he was pretty ordinary.
When the war started, he struggled to get a commission, finally getting command of a regiment as colonel of the 21st Illinois in 1861. In relatively short order, he was commanding armies. By the end of 1863 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, the first to hold that rank since George Washington, and placed in charge of all United States forces. By 1868 he had completed the transition from anonymous small town store clerk to President of the United States (but he was not the shortest president—in your face, Madison!)
I'm inspired by Grant's calm demeanor, which sometimes showed cracks, to the point of weeping (hmm, just like me!), and his seemingly unambitious rise to the top. He was an enigma to many, a man who gave few hints of potential greatness, then achieved spectacular things. I love that he wore "the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general," rather than the full regalia to which he was entitled. To me, that captures a quintessential American spirit, one that disdains ostentatiousness, even in a regimented military culture. He was a brilliant warrior, and a kind and gracious victor. And he left us the best memoirs of any officer on either side of the Civil War.
I've looked at a lot of Grant photographs, and am confident that this is the one from which the South Korean artist created such a beautiful painting. It's nearly the only Grant image I can find where he seems to be looking directly at the camera. The buttons, the ear, the tufts of hair sticking out, the precise pattern of the white underneath the chin and on the collar, the just visible star on the top of the shoulder strap—all seem to be spot on.
Thanks anonymous South Korean painter.
Thanks Ulysses. And thank you, Scot.
6 comments:
- TPS said...
That's a great post. Of course, I have long known of your "bias." :)
We are about to contract a book on Grant that is quite unique. It is an examination of how the public's perception of Grant has come largely from his own pen (his memoirs), and that scholars have shaped that image by relying on his memoirs in a wide variety of matters (especially with regard to how history has come to view some of his subordinates). According to this author, however, Grant's memoir does not always square with other writings (reports, journals, newspaper accounts, et.al.), which scholars often ignore.
I posted the second part of the cave adventure on my blog: www.savasbeatie.blogspot.com. Check it out and take Atticus.
- Bob Pollock said...
Hi David,
Enjoyed this post. I share your admiration of Grant. Because Grant affected so many lives, so many issues, and the course of American and world history one can easily spend a lifetime studying him.
I would point out that Grant did not go directly from being a Captain in the Army to being a clerk in his father's leather goods store. He returned to Missouri where he lived for over five years at White Haven, his father-in-law's plantation, trying to make a living as a farmer.
Also, I would be interested in the book mentioned by TPS, but I am skeptical of the premise. First, Grant's Memoirs do not cover his Presidency which had profound influence on public perceptions of him. Also, I'm not sure how perceptions of Grant as a drunk, a butcher, a sphinx, or a failure (all common) could come from his memoirs.
By the way, did you ever find out anything more about Grant's visit to your local suffragette?
Bob Pollock
U.S. Grant NHS
- Dan said...
I like this "six degrees of separation"-style post, drawing together an artist, a Civil War fan (and one-off drummer), a rock band, and a warrior.
While reading it, another degree occured to me: one of the bonus tracks on The Who Sell Out
(originally releaseed in 1967) was..."Melancholia."
- dw said...
Thanks for the comment. Yes, there was a farming interlude between the army and the Galena sojourn. That would have been the period in which he emancipated the only slave he was known to have owned (distinct from the Dent slaves), William.
I have not confirmed anything more about Grant's visit to the SF Bay Area, though Brooks Simpson confirmed your suspicions -- Grant's post-presidency itinerary up until he left for Europe did not allow time for a trans-continental visit.
That, coupled with the confirmation I found about his one-day sidetrip from SF to San Jose on the later California trip, satisfies me that if he visited Sarah Wallis, it was after he returned from Europe.
I'll keep looking though.
- dw said...
Thanks for the note, and the "Melancholia" reference. Nicely done.
- ANovelMenagerie said...
Congratulations. YOur blog has been nominated for a 2009 BBAW Award. If you would please email me your email address, I'll send you a note about it.
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Question: I'm reading with interest your answer(s) to Partitioned Views vs. Partitioned Tables in your Q&A. My question is how can I prove to myself I have everything configured correctly and partition elimination is indeed occurring? I tried SET STATISTICS XML ON, and then searched the XML Showplan for 'PartitionsAccessed' and 'PartitionRange,' but didn't find either.
First, check out the two prior Q&As here for background and important design considerations:
- Partitioned Tables v. Partitioned Views–Why are they even still around?
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Answer: PartitionsAccessed and PartitionRange are solely for partitioned tables. For partitioned views what you're looking for are "executes" against a table. Only the table(s) that aren't eliminated should have an execute that's greater than zero. Probably the easiest way to see this is SET STATISTICS IO ON. On SQL Server 2005 and higher, this will ONLY list the tables against which you execute (I seem to remember there was a bug against SQL Server 2000 where it would list ALL of the tables in the statistics io output but the executes were zero and the Scan Count was zero as well).
And, by using statistics io you can also gauge the relative efficiency of the reads. With SHOWPLAN you can see how SQL Server did the reads (for example: scan vs. seek).
So, in summary:
- I use SET STATISTICS IO ON to see which table (or tables) were accessed.
- I use the graphical or XML showplans to see HOW the tables were accessed.
If SQL Server is still accessing a table where you don't think it should then check these things:
1. Check to make sure that the query supplied has some form of predicate against the partitioning key. If you don't reduce rows specifically on the partitioning column then SQL Server cannot eliminate over it. If you have your data partitioned by date, every query (ideally) should supply a limited date range.
2. If you have supplied a predicate over the partitioning key and SQL Server still doesn't seem to be eliminating your partitions then you might have an untrusted constraint. To check to see if a constraint is trusted check the property state using:
SELECT OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id('ConstraintName'), 'CnstIsNotTrusted')
If the constraint returns 1 (true) then the constraint is NOT trusted. No, I'm not sure why they used a double negative here but that's what the property is checking. You could even run this against all of your constraints within your database.
SELECT OBJECT_NAME (parent_object_id) AS [Table Name], name AS [Constraint Name], OBJECTPROPERTY([object_id], 'CnstIsNotTrusted') AS [NOT Trusted] FROM sys.objects WHERE type_desc = 'CHECK_CONSTRAINT'
So, check those objects and make sure that your constraints are trusted. If they aren't – you might be accessing partitions where you really don't need to. This wastes resources and most importantly, time!
And, we skipped a week in between posts… Why? Especially because I still have A LOT more to post on partitioning… I'm just, er, (pardon the pun) partitioning it over multiple Q&As. OK, that was bad. Seriously, though, we took last week off and did some diving (and whale watching) off the Kona coast of Hawaii. As you may have read in our bio, one of our "other" passions is seeking out frogfish and we were highly successful there (Paul was the ultimate frogfish finder having found more than 5 and these guys know how to hide!!). I've created a small album of just a few of my favorite shots. I thought you might want to see them and enjoy a little non-SQL time. I know we sometimes do!
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Group Big Bang's G-Dragon on top star Lady Gaga stylist's show, will release a new song.
YG Entertainment's official who on the afternoon of the 15th, called OSEN and said via telephone call " On the 16th, G-Dragon will come to Lady Gaga's stylist's Nicola Formichetti's show and unveil a new single."
This morning on Nicola Formichetti's own twitter, he said "Coolest Asian dragon is making music for my show on Wednesday", revealing it.
In this post Nicola Formichetti and G-Dragon's charisma is overflowing in the photo, bringing great interest to fans. Now Nicola's twitter/SNS has received over 1,500 comments from abroad, commenting things like "exciting" and "I am really looking forward to it!".
The YG official commented "This morning, G-Dragon will depart for the awards show in Malaysia." And added, " So the schedule for Nicola's show has yet to be released."
Meanwhile on March 30th and 31st, G-Dragon is scheduled to hold his World Tour concerts in Seoul.
I was too lazy this morning but the article is unclear about certain things.
Nicola Formichetti is Mugler's creative director and it's very likely that the song will be used for his fashion show in Paris, so no actual GD I guess.
Moreover as ashiva pointed out the translation is a bit off:
1.So the schedule for Nicola's show has yet to be released."
<-This is a wrong sentence. I think you wanted this sentence translated.
"따라서 니콜라 포미체티 쇼에서는 음원만 공개될 예정이다" This sentence means " So, in Nicola's
show, he will reveal only the digital single music." This meaning is
G-dragon will not be in the Nicola's show. GD will not physically
feature in the show. I think GD just allows Nicola to use his new
single. I think Nicola asks GD to use GD's new song using friendship
2.YG Entertainment's official who on the afternoon of the 15th, called OSEN
<- The article was not said who called who. Just saying they had telephone conversation
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bar = tomo pi telo nasa
your bar = ? (tomo sina pi telo nasa maybe?)
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tomo pi telo nasa pi laso jelo = a green bar? (not a bar serving green drinks (absinthe, I guess.))


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CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Walt Jocketty today announced acquisition of LHP David Holmberg from the Arizona Diamondbacks as part of a 3-team trade that sent Reds C Ryan Hanigan to the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Rays also received from Arizona RHP Heath Bell and cash, while the Diamondacks acquired from Tampa Bay minor league RHP Justin Choate and a player to be named.
"Devin Mesoraco will have the opportunity to become a front-line catcher for us," Jocketty said. "Holmberg provides us with the quality pitching depth that every team needs."
Holmberg, 22, is ranked by MLB.com the fifth-best prospect and by Baseball America the sixth-best prospect in the Diamondbacks system. His control is rated the best among all Arizona minor leaguers.
In 2013, the Southern League All-Star threw at least 154 innings for the third straight season. He spent last season at Class AA Mobile, where in 26 starts he went 5-8 with a 2.75 ERA and 116 strikeouts over 157.1 innings. He made his major league debut and only appearance of the season for Arizona on August 27 against San Diego.
Originally selected by the White Sox in the second round of the 2009 first-year player draft, Holmberg was traded to Ariziona with RHP Daniel Hudson for RHP Edwin Jackson on July 30, 2010.
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Type study: A responsive 3D text effect
Type study is an ongoing series of guest posts about typography on the web. In this article, we hear from Russ Maschmeyer on a nifty trick for creating a responsive 3D text effect.
While perusing the Lettering.js website, I saw this example post by Trent Walton. When I saw that dynamically-generated graphic and the words "My site is responsive," I assumed those letters would fold and unfold like an accordion to accommodate any browser width. Suddenly all seemed right and good in the world.
Alas! As I pushed and pulled on my browser's window pane, the graphic folded not. But what a great idea! Why hadn't it been done? My life had new purpose. The result was foldup.js.
Foldup.js works with jQuery and Paravel's Lettering.js to create an adaptive folding and unfolding effect for headlines, body copy, or any other text deemed worthy. Let's walk through how to use it.
Before we begin, let's see it in action; the demo works in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, but not Internet Explorer. (Think of it as an experiment.) Be sure to stretch and squish your browser's window pane to really get the full effect.
Getting started
The goal is to get this working with as little HTML as possible, so, we'll start very simply:
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">

Hello World!

We've created an
 document, added a generic style sheet called style.css, and created a

 element which will become our page within the browser window. Finally, we've included some paragraph content that we'd like to fold up, and added a class of
foldup to that paragraph. This will allow us to identify which elements on the page we actually want to fold up.
Adding style
We've got our content marked up, so it's time to add some CSS so that our letters and words look and behave properly.
First, we'll set the body background to orange (
#ffa500) and declare our font stack — featuring Brevia, plus some appropriate fallback fonts. Next up, we want to set up a responsive, centered page to put our text in. We'll give our
#page element a width of 80% and center it with
margin: 0 auto.
body { background-color: #ffa500; font-family: brevia, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; } #page { width: 80%; margin: 0 auto; }
Next, we'll style the element to be folded up. In this case, we're going for large, uppercase, and center-aligned for our folded letters.
.foldup { text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 3em; text-align: center; color: #FFF; }
Now for the fun part. Lettering.js will dynamically wrap each word in its own span and label them sequentially (e.g.
.word3, etc.). We can then use the child selector (
.foldup > span) to style every
span element within
.foldup without having to know how many there are going to be. We'll also set a display property of
inline-block to keep long words from breaking into two lines and use
margin: 20px 10px to set both the line height (
20px) and the word spacing (
.foldup > span { display: inline-block; margin: 20px 10px; border-radius: 12px; }
Lettering.js will also wrap each letter of each word in its own sequential span element. We can reference these new child letters using another child selector:
.foldup span > span. We'll again set display to
inline-block; next, we'll set the width for each letter to
1.5em to make sure they have a consistent width which adjusts appropriately to the font size. We'll also set the top and bottom padding to
.2em and set
position: relative; the latter allows us to adjust the vertical position of the letters with our JavaScript for the accordion effect. If you also wanted to add a background texture to each letter, this would be the place to do it!
.foldup span > span { display: inline-block; width: 1.5em; padding: .2em 0; position: relative; }
The last three lines of CSS combine child selectors and pseudo selectors to round the corners of the first and last letters in each word; if there's only one letter in the word, it rounds both the left and right side of the single letter.
.foldup span > span:first-child { border-radius: 10px 0 0 10px; } .foldup span > span:last-child { border-radius: 0 10px 10px 0; } .foldup span > span:only-child { border-radius: 10px; }
Making it happen
Now that we've got our content and style prepped, it's time to make it dynamic. First, let's add our script files to our HTML document, like so:
      (function(){ var foldEverything = function(){ $('.stranger').foldup(); } $(document).ready(foldEverything); $(window).resize(foldEverything); })();
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Nike Sues Guy Who Ordered Single Pair Of Counterfeit Sneakers Over The Internet
from the nike-picks-up-the-RIAA-strategy deptWarning: you might not want to ever buy Nike shoes again. If you accidentally buy a counterfeit pair of shoes, Nike might sue you. Via Glyn Moody, we learn that Nike chose to sue a guy who ordered a single pair of trainers online, believing they were legitimate Nike shoes. The shoes were seized at the UK border as counterfeits. Nike could have gone after the actual counterfeiters. Or it could have (perhaps more questionably) gone after some other third parties, such as the retailers who sold the shoes. Instead, it chose option 3 and sued the buyers directly. Most of the suits were settled (or, apparently, ignored).
However, one customer, a Mr. E. Bateman, thought this was ridiculous, and fought it. He pointed out that he simply thought he was buying legitimate Nikes, and it seems rather ridiculous to then be sued for it. The judge noted that, under UK trademark law, the buyer's intent is absolutely meaningless:
"Whether or not the defendant believed the goods were authentic is irrelevant to the question of trade mark infringement. Whether the goods are infringing goods or counterfeit goods is an objective question. The Defendant's state of mind does not matter. Equally the Defendant's state of mind is irrelavant to the question of importation."In other words, don't ever buy Nike shoes, or you might get sued.
Of course, all this makes you wonder: what the hell was Nike thinking? We've seen how suing customers backfired badly for the RIAA and others, but this goes even beyond that. Here's a case where a guy appeared to believe he had just bought legitimate shoes, and Nike's response is to sue him, take him to court, and then win its lawsuit against him. The judge did point out that he "questioned whether the sledge hammer of these proceedings is necessary in order to crack this nut of this magnitude," and even then Nike pushed forward, claiming that the companies has "no realistic alternative to enforcing their rights this way."
Um. Sure they do: the alternative is not suing their customer. That said, at least the judge did not make Mr. Bateman pay any fine or award to Nike (even though Nike did ask for money), but rather, he has to promise not to infringe in the future, allow the shoes (still held by UK customs) to be destroyed and provide the details of where he bought the shoes. Of course, the only way he can make sure not to infringe in such a manner again is to never buy Nike shoes again, since he has no way of knowing beforehand if they're infringing or not. Nice work Nike.
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I don't get the pop culture references (Sechs Kies who?), I'm perplexed by the screaming (people in love whisper sweet nothings to each other, not yell their lungs out, eyes blazing), I like but am not enamored of the lead couple. (What?! Did you just say that? Are you feverish? How you crazy?) I also don't remember behaving this puerile when I was eighteen. By that age I had already experienced the loss of a father and the wrath of a customer whose pristine white skirt I had just made un-pristine with a generous serving of Coke. Of the latter… okay, I have butter fingers but hey, it was my first job and no one told me that placing a tall glass at the edge of a tray was a bad idea.
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Mehmet v. Add2net, Inc., — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2009 WL 3199876 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. October 8, 2009)
Plaintiff website operator didn't pay his monthly hosting fees on time. He called the hosting company and said he'd be sending a check, but in the meantime the web host exercised its right under the hosting agreement to suspend Plaintiff's account for nonpayment. Plaintiff called and left a nasty voicemail, using an obscene word to threaten to sue the hosting company if his website was not reactivated.
In response to this angry voice mail, the web host terminated Plaintiff's account. He sued for breach of contract. The web host moved to dismiss at the trial court level and the court granted the motion. Plaintiff sought review. On appeal, the court affirmed the dismissal.
Of particular importance was a provision in the hosting agreement that incorporated by reference an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), and provided that any breach of that policy would be grounds for suspension or termination of plaintiff's account. Under the AUP, plaintiff agreed "not to abuse whether verbally or physically or whether in person, via email or telephone or otherwise … any employee or contractor of [defendant]."
The nonpayment coupled with this violation of the web hosting acceptable use policy undercut Plaintiff's breach of contract claim.


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Children's Book Characters Arm Themselves for the Looming Fairytale Apocalypse
As if loose pages from an old Disney script were accidentally left on the set of Terminator 3, these children's book and cartoon characters including Whinnie the Pooh, Piglet, Daffy Duck and others have clearly armed themselves for the looming fairytale apocalypse. These welded stainless steel plate sculptures are by Korean artist So Hyun Woo, many of which are from his July exhibition at Song Eun Art Space aptly titled Cruel Fairy Tales 3. My hunch is that among regular readers of Colossal, for all the people who find these unbelievably wrong or plain weird, there will be an equal sized group who finds them juuuuust right. (via song eun art space, art hub, and staart)


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Is every long exact sequence $$\cdots\to\pi_{d+1}(B)\to\pi_d(F)\to\pi_d(E)\to\pi_d(B)\to\pi_{d-1}(F)\to\cdots$$ with topological spaces $F,E$ and $B$, where $F$ is a subspace of $E$ with inclusion map $i$, induced by a Serre fibration $p:E\to B$ ? By "induced" I mean that the maps in the sequence are given by $$p_*:\pi_d(E)\to\pi_d(B)$$ $$i_*:\pi_d(F)\to\pi_d(E)$$ and the boundary map $$\partial:\pi_{d+1}(B)\to\pi_d(F).$$
If not, what are the conditions under which this is the case?
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Current TV Unveils Name, Debut Date for New Keith Olbermann Show: "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" to Premiere on June 20
Airing Each Week Night at 8 P.M. ET, "Countdown" Will Be the TV Home for Olbermann's Unique Voice and Commentary, Only on Independently Owned Current TV
NEW YORK – April 26, 2011 – Current TV, the Emmy(R) and Peabody Award-winning TV and digital network, will premiere its much-anticipated week-nightly commentary show with Keith Olbermann, the acclaimed broadcaster, writer and commentator, on June 20, 2011 AT 8 p.m. ET.
The show, to be called "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocative and outspoken voices, on independently-owned Current, which was founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt and is now distributed in more than 75 million households around the world.
Olbermann's decision to join Current was announced in February. In addition to executive producing and hosting his show, Olbermann was appointed as Current's Chief News Officer.
At the time of the announcement, Olbermann said, "Nothing is more vital to a free America than a free media, and nothing is more vital to my concept of a free media than news produced independently of corporate interference. In Current Media, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have created the model truth-seeking entity. The opportunity to partner with Al, Joel and Mark Rosenthal makes this the most exciting venture in my career."
"'Countdown to Keith Olbermann' will showcase the return to television of one of America's most gifted thinkers and communicators," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Current. "Keith will be back, speaking truth to power and calling them as he sees them– but this time, on America's only independent news and information TV network."
"The show will combine familiar and popular features with some new elements that we can't wait to unveil," said Mark Rosenthal, CEO of Current. "We're creating a great platform for Keith's style, which includes a very sophisticated digital presence for him — that we think will appeal to his very enthusiastic and active following. The show will also appeal to new viewers tuning into Keith for the first time."
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" leads a programming slate on Current that includes original and acquired TV series aimed at an influential adult audience. The network's original, long-form programming includes "4th and Forever," the documentary series premiering May 26th at 9 p.m. ET, about the extraordinary players, coaches and families behind the Long Beach Poly football program (which has sent more players to the NFL than any high school in the country).
Current features compelling stories about everyday heroes and ordinary people in extraordinary situations, and takes you to sometimes dangerous and always intriguing places. Current shines a light on controversial subjects, tackling hot issues of the day in a thoughtful and sometimes humorous way. Current engages its viewers by sparking debate and discussion, and via interactive formats that allow viewers to inform its stories.
About Current Media:
Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects — opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide – 60 million households in the US – through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at http://www.current.com.


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Happy Mother's Day!on May 10, 2012 at 10:37 am
Actually I still have these brushes. The ones that survived my childhood. In the photo I used to draw my mom she's carrying a drawing pad, and I'm sure it was mine. I was 5. P.S. It turns out centipedes die when you paint them with oils.


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We have this little Korean deli across the street from work that makes bibimbap, and I crave it! Husband sent me this recipe and I was thrilled. And it was SO good. A lot of little steps, but really not difficult or time consuming. And the result was totally worth it.
Vegetarian Bibimbap
via crazy vegan kitchen
1½ cups cooked Medium-Grain White rice
1½ cups sliced Shiitake Mushrooms
2 tablespoons Tamari
2 teaspoons Brown Sugar
1 tablespoon Mirin
½ cup Julienned Carrot Strips
⅛ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Sesame Oil
2 cups Baby Spinach
⅛ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Sesame Oil
1 cup fresh Bean Sprouts
⅛ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Sesame Oil
½ cup Julienned Cucumber Strips
Gochujang Chilli Sauce: (or substitute Sriracha if needed)
2 tablespoons Gochujang
1 teaspoon Sesame Oil
2 teaspoons Brown Sugar
1 teaspoon Tamari
1½ teaspoons Rice Vinegar
To Serve:
Black and White Sesame Seeds
To prepare Shiitake mushrooms, place slices in a hot pan and add Tamari, Brown Sugar and Mirin. Cook on medium heat until mushrooms have wilted and absorbed seasoning. Set aside whilst preparing remaining vegetables.
To prepare your Julienned Carrot Strips, place in a hot pan with salt and sesame oil. Cook for 30 seconds or until lightly wilted. Immediately remove from pan and repeat this cooking process with the Bean Sprouts and Spinach.
To prepare Gochujang Chilli Sauce, whisk all ingredients in a bowl till smooth.
To serve, place a mound of warm cooked rice in the middle of a plate and arrange prepared Mushrooms, Carrot, Bean Sprouts, Spinach, Cucumber and Gochujang chilli sauce.
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If you have Vista or Windows 7, or throw something like Twonky onto Mac or a Linux box, you have a DLNA network, and since your phone is almost always to hand, you have an extra pair of speakers. DLNA first appeared on Nokia handsets four years ago and when even Nokia's E-series business phones include this, you wonder what's going on out there, to quote Fred Trueman.
The 12Mp camera also packs a xenon flash
Photography is the centrepiece of the N8, and lots of work has gone into this. The camera features a custom five-part fixed aperture f2.8 Zeiss lens. Its 5.9mm focal length is equivalent to a 28mm wide-angle lens on a 35mm camera. There's digital zoom, which is capped at 2x for photographs and 3x for video. At 1/1.83in the sensor is, apparently, the largest to be installed in a mobile phone and is capable of 12Mp images. More significantly, the N8 really endeavours to minimise image processing where possible. So in good light, edge enhancement and noise reduction are set to a minimum.
The xenon flash, a rarity even on smartphones, produces excellent illumination although video recording can't use it, of course. The N8 offers 720p HD video recording at 25fps. It can capture smaller sizes up to 30fps, or lower for low light movies. The digital zoom is anything but smooth, however, sound quality is particularly impressive. The handset can capture stereo audio using its two microphones, front and back. Audio is encoded into 128kbits/s AAC format.
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Overall, the camera can deliver spectacular results. In tests, using its simple control functions for tasks such as closeups works out better than relying on the automatic settings. The onscreen "shutter release" button rather often worked out better than the physical button, which seemed more prone to introducing camera shake. A nice touch is that the N8 saves your favourite configurations.
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A Hollywood producer and environmental activist accused in a tabloid report of breaking up Al Gore's marriage said there's no truth to the rumor.
Laurie David, the ex-wife of HBO funnyman Larry David and a co-producer of the 2005 Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," put the global cooling Tuesday on a Star report that claimed she'd carried on a two-year affair with the former vice president.
"The story is completely untrue," David told The Huffington Post. "It's a total fabrication. I adore both Al and Tipper. I look at them both as family."
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David, whose marriage to "Seinfeld" creator and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David ended in 2007, added that she has "happily been in a serious relationship since my divorce."
In a separate statement to People, David's agent said: "I have no idea where it started from or why, but it is absolutely, positively and patently untrue."
Al and Tipper Gore, former high school sweethearts, announced June 1 they were calling it quits after 40 years of marriage, saying it was "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together."
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The Downfall. Safari as RSS Reader, Part II
I'm abadoning Safari as my RSS reader. Yes, I know, I've written several times Safari was my favorite child. Lately though, and quite inexplicably, Safari has been exhibiting repetitive repetitive disorder. Meaning, it keeps telling me about feeds I've already read. A waste of my time. (Even a year ago Safari had cracks in the armor.)
Second, Apple's putting RSS into Mail.app for Leopard. This isn't some kind of secret bit of news. Steve Jobs demo'd it on stage at WWDC07. It's supposedly not the default method of capturing/reading feeds. But why, if I'm exposed to feeds in a browser, would I want to read them in my mail application? That's just weird.
So, I'm either going with Google Reader (highly likely) or NetNewsWire or Endo. Since it's been a while what's the take on the Mac's RSS feed reading landscape. (offline reading's not important to me at all – when I'm on a plane I'm working on code).
Now, this also hints at something more ominous… I just realized Safari has lost a LOT of value to me. I have Firefox, Opera, Webkit and Camino installed. (No way Flock comes back onto my Mac) I'll probably even consider buying OmniWeb (in fact, the demo is downloading in the background).
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Up Is Down: The Military Budget
Wed, 2009-04-08
By David Swanson
The largest military budget in the history of the world is being increased. Certain weapons are being cut back, others expanded. But the overall budget is going UP. However, you don't need me to tell you that. You've learned it from these fine news sources:
"With Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposing broad cuts in Pentagon spending, a new war over the president's budget has begun. While critics already are warning that the plan could compromise U.S. security, the greater resistance appears to be coming from lawmakers worried that the cuts threaten thousands of jobs in their states."
There really are cuts and critics and chicken littles, but nowhere does Fox tell you that the overall budget is INCREASING. Then again, if Fox didn't lie, how would we know what was true?
Rachel Maddow:
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates today proposed a massive overhaul of Pentagon spending. Since the year 2000 the already huge defense budget has risen 72 percent. Gates' new budget would pry the Pentagon away from its preparations for big conventional you-line-up-here we'll-line-up-here wars ... Anticipating criticism that he is making too big a change away from things that the Pentagon has traditionally LOVED spending money on, Mr. Gates said this: 'Every defense dollar spent to to overinsure against a remote or diminishing risk ... is a dollar not available to take care of our people.' ... And that was the head of the Pentagon acknowledging that there isn't infinite money available for his department, that there have to be tradeoffs. And that thump-thump-thump sound that you heard in the distance as he was talking was the sound of executives at all the big defense contractors passing out."
Love ya three-quarters of the time, Rachel, but you really should have waved blue pom-poms for this one. As noted below, many "defense" contractors are cheering for Gates' budget.
The New York Times:
"WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a major reshaping of the Pentagon budget on Monday, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but new billions of dollars for others, along with more troops and new technology to fight the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. … Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican, reacted strongly against Mr. Gates's proposal to end spending for the F-22, which employs 25,000 workers in Georgia and across the country. 'It's outrageous that President Obama is willing to bury the country under a mountain of debt with his reckless domestic agenda but refuses to fund programs critical to our national defense,' Mr. Price said in a statement. In addition, a bipartisan group of six senators urged Mr. Gates not to make large cuts in missile defense programs. In a letter to Mr. Obama, they said the reductions 'could undermine our emerging missile defense capabilities to protect the United States against a growing threat.'"
If the New York Times didn't use "objective" (quote one war monger and a second war monger) reporting to back militarism, how would we know we weren't dreaming?
Air America:
"Regular Army No More? (Audio)
"By Ana Marie Cox
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates builds in unprecedented cuts to defense spending, especially on experimental and "next generation" weapons like the F-22 and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. What's next? Lower-tech, proven options such as intelligence and counter insurgency. What it has in common with the rest of the Obama program may surprise you."
I love Air America and was on it yesterday, but fluff is fluff and some of it I'm allergic to.
Center for American Progress:
"Gates Reins In Bloated Defense Budget
"Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced his recommendations for the department's 2010 budget, offering 'deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but new billions of dollars for others, along with more troops and new technology to fight the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.' The Los Angeles Times described his proposal offering 'the most sweeping changes in military spending priorities in decades.' The Wonk Room's Matt Duss wrote yesterday that Gates's recommendations represent 'an appreciable shift in the way that the United States approaches the issue of military acquisitions.'"
This went on at length without ever mentioning that the budget was going UP not DOWN.
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"Tell Congress to support the Gates/Obama defense budget.
"Dear David,
"At last!
"Some of us wondered if this day would ever come. Today the Secretary of Defense explained to Congress exactly the points TrueMajority members have been making for years: wasting taxes on weapons which don't work and have no conceivable use against real-world enemies makes us LESS strong as a nation1.
Show Congress we're ready to invest in True Security -- sign the petition."
OK, I know this isn't a news source. But this is an activist group that drives giant displays of Oreo cookies around the country to illustrate the relative sizes of the military budget and budgets for schools and healthcare. An Oreo got added to the military stack, and "True" Majority wants us to cheer instead of vomiting.
You could find the news if you searched, of course. CNN included the news in its 39th paragraph. AP included the total cost in its second paragraph but not whether it was an increase or decrease. A New York Times editorial in favor of more cuts included the total cost in its ninth paragraph. A USA Today editorial admirably noted and lamented the huge size of the budget but praised the supposed cutting of it and did not note that the overall budget was increasing. The Washington Post's editorial claimed to approve the cuts but deemed them politically impossible, never noting the INCREASING military budget. And, of course, columnists in the Wall Street Journal screamed "Obama and Gates Gut the Military".
But business sources told a very different story. Here's Market Watch:
"Pentagon still a cash cow despite budget cuts
"Analysts weigh in on the winners and losers from Gates' spending proposal
"By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch
"NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The proposed 2010 defense budget from the Pentagon had a lot of changes, but Wall Street analysts said Tuesday there's still plenty of funding for the country's top military contractors. 'Lockheed Martin had the best outcome from [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates' budget decisions, there was also strong support for Northrop Grumman's and General Dynamics' shipbuilding businesses,' said Douglas Harned, an analyst with Bernstein Research. 'Notably, there were no indications of plans to bring budgets down significantly in 2011.'"
Here's Jane's:
"US defence stocks surged on Gates' budget proposal
"Major US defence stocks were raised out of the doldrums by Defense Secretary Robert Gates' budget proposals thanks to the lifting of a degree of uncertainty and proposals that were not as dramatic as the markets expected. Fitch Ratings was among those who noted that although four of the top 10 US programmes face reductions or delays, several of the leading projects - including the F-35 and F/A-18 aircraft programmes - were to be increased. The proposal to increase intelligence and reconnaissance support by USD2 billion highlighted the new priorities of the Pentagon and threw up clear winners ranging from sensor and systems providers such as Raytheon (which closed 8.2 per cent up). Textron - which successfully divested its HR Textron unit the day before and increased its exposure to unmanned air systems through the buy of AAI Corporation - was the leader of the day, with a double-digit jump of 11.3 per cent."
The second round articles tended to be worse than the first:
ABC News:
"Will New Military Budget Prolong Recession?
"Many Cities and Towns Rely on Government Spending to Keep Their Economies Strong
"By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, ABC NEWS Business Unit
"April 8, 2009—Many cities and towns across this country rise and fall with military spending. And with Defense Secretary Robert Gates' announcement earlier this week of new defense spending priorities, many communities are bracing for drastic cuts or a windfall."
This article mentioned that the budget was actually increasing in its 35th paragraph.
My point is not that the reported cuts aren't real, that jobs won't be lost, or that congress members aren't bought-and-paid-for schmucks. And my point is not just that the military should be cut and that non-military investment produces more and better paying jobs. My immediate point is that we are not getting the news, even from sources that would be screaming it from the rooftops if Obama had an "R" after his name.
Now, the last time I claimed that everybody had something wrong, Hullabaloo complained that they had got it right, so I checked and sure enough Hullabaloo got this right by quoting TPM which got this right. My advice is to follow such sources closely if you want to know you can believe what you're reading.
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A bill repealing renewable energy standards for utility companies won approval in the Kansas Senate on Tuesday.
House Bill 2014 would end the renewable portfolio standards that require Kansas utility companies to receive 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.
The vote was 25-15. The bill now goes to the House.
Sen. Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, who carried the bill, contended that repeal was necessary because of the expiration of a federal tax credit for wind production. He said Kansans would be stuck making up for the loss of that tax break in their electric bills.
He also said increased use of wind power has caused an increase in electric rates, citing statistics from the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, and argued that this costs Kansas businesses thousands of dollars each year.
Democrats disputed this and cited other studies that indicate renewable energy helps stabilize the energy market.
Opponents of the bill also said repeal of the standards will hurt the growth of an increasingly important industry.
The repeal sends a negative message to potential investors about the friendliness of the state toward wind energy, said Karin Brownlee, a former senator and secretary of labor who now represents Kansans for Wind Energy.
"The facts are that wind has provided billions of dollars of capital investment in our state, and it's provided thousands of jobs. So if you look at those facts, that's a reason to keep the RPS," Brownlee said.
Supporters of the repeal say the standards are not needed. Mike O'Neal, the president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, noted Tuesday that utility companies already receive 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources, their benchmark for 2015.
"I don't necessarily buy this message argument. But if we want to talk about messaging, we would much rather have the message be that we are a free-market state that is wind friendly than we are a mandate state," O'Neal said.
"Are they seriously claiming that if the RPS goes away the appetite for wind, the appetite for renewable goes away? It doesn't," O'Neal added.
Sen. Jeff Melcher, R-Leawood, said the RPS as a mandate undermines the free market and that the market on its own should guide the state's energy policy. "I always trust the free market."
But Sen. Dan Kerschen, R-Garden Plain, pointed to flaws in this logic.
"If you're an energy producer, there's a mandate to who you sell your energy to, and the buyer is mandated who they can buy it from," Kerschen said.
Kerschen asked Knox whether he thought the standards had contributed to the growth of wind power in the state. Knox agreed it had, and Kerschen said the Legislature should consider that before dropping the mandate.
Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence, noted that the strong renewable mandate had helped attract the Mars Company to build a facility in Topeka and said repealing the standards could hamper the state's ability to attract environmentally conscious companies.
Knox said he did not intend to abuse the wind industry. He noted there are wind farms in his district and called windmills "gods of the prairie." But he argued that the wind industry should stand on its own without the mandate propping it up.
But some senators who vocally supported the repeal clearly took issue with the growth of wind power.
"When I drive through western Kansas and see these wind turbines, it just puts my heart out, to see that beautiful land with all them turbines, some of them turning, some of them not," said Sen. Robert Olson, R-Olathe.
He was one of several legislators who complained that the renewable energy standards were part of a compromise that was also supposed to result in the building of a coal plant in Holcomb.
"We held up our agreement. They didn't," Olson said.
Plans to build the plant have been held up in federal court.