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Joined: 12 May 2005
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Location: Richmond, CA
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:21 pm
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DrBiggles wrote:
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Vintage Sab wrote:
The old carbon steel Sabatiers are scarce, but a joy to use and sharpen.
The old carbon steel Sabs are in the here and now. eBay search Sabatier Nogent and see for yourself.
Yeah and no. That's recycled (weak) steel, it bends and snaps quite easily. I bought a 10 or 12 inch rig a few years ago. It was poorly made and bent the last few inches of the tip when smooshing garlic. The fit and finish of the finished product really shouldn't be compared to its earlier counterpart. At all.
Biggles - These particular Sabs are made of virgin carbon steel forged prior to WWII. Like I said, search Satabier Nogent.
Anyway, if SirSpice is still aboard, check out Ray Rantanen's site:
The last you said I believe was a desire for a slicer. For (my guess) $100-$125 Ray will make you a 8" slicer in L6 carbon. That's the stuff band saw blades are made of and its outstanding quality is that it is extremely "tough". That is the ability to take a pounding and still maintain its edge. I own some and will swear by the steel. I can sharpen a steak knife to 10 degrees per side (razor blades are 7) and not worry when my dinner guests mash the edge into a ceramic plate. The edge will still be there, or, if they roll it, I can bring it right back with a SMOOTH steel. By smooth I mean just that. Never ever use one of the grooved steels if you want to maintain a serious edge. They will rip a great edge to mediocre shreds.
You got me on the steel, I stand corrected. I'm still going to pass. They're far too inexpensive to have been produced in the same fashion from 60+ years ago.
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may i ask your opinions if what is the best chef knives? can someone tell me please.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:12 pm
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hardsteel wrote:
may i ask your opinions if what is the best chef knives? can someone tell me please.
no, there is no "one and only truth" -
"European" styles/designs tend to be a bit heavier, the "Japanese" styles a bit thinner and lighter.
and the manufacturers produce a lot of different handle styles and types.
hopefully there is a reasonably well stocked store in your area where you can visit and get your hands on type different types / brands / styles.
if you have absolutely no experience using a chef's knife, it may be difficult for you to judge - but it's a good place to start.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:59 pm
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hardsteel wrote:
may i ask your opinions if what is the best chef knives? can someone tell me please.
Since you're asking for opinions, here's mine:
Chef's Knives Rated
(I use a MAC MTH-80, my wife uses Global, and I recommend Forschner to save money.)
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:14 pm
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I have an 8" Messermeister cleaver.. Love it.
I find the cleavers to be infinitely safer than French Chef knives, (because you can maintain knuckle contact on the knife at all times when chopping) and I find them to be superior for smashing garlic, ginger, and everything else that needs smashing. My wife finds it too big, so she has the smaller 7" (japanese style) version.
Here's my theory: The Chinese have 5000+ years of history, and they need to cook for billions of people. So what they use is probably going to be the most efficient because by default, they are required to.. The French barely break 200+ years in cooking.
One of the most important things that doesn't seem to be mentioned is that; with a french knife, you are "push cutting", where as with a cleaver, you are almost always "chopping". Now chopping is a lot more tiring, and requires a lot more handstrength, but if you are talking about high vegetables (I mean high as in height.. i.e. cabbage etc) then chopping is vastly superior as a technique. Also, with chopping, you get super uniform shapes, where as pushcutting, because you are rotating the knife usually on the radius of the knife, so you don't get super uniform cuts. But because you aren't lifting the knife on every cut, it's less fatiguing. With a cleaver, I can chop or push cut, but with a french knife, I can only push cut.
So this is something to consider. Also, how round the "belly" of the knife is, is going to determine how easily or how much effort it takes to push cut. If I'm going with a french knife, I'm going to look for a good mixture of speed and precision, so not too round but not too flat of a belly. The Wusthof's excel at this IMHO.
I use to have a chinese high carbon steel knife, super sharp, but difficult to maintain (as far as rust, not as far as edge) My messermeister dulls faster, but no need to worry about rust makes life a bit easier.
I have 2 knives: A cleaver, and a fillet knife.. THAT'S IT. There's not much I couldn't do with these.. and ironically, I use the fillet knife mostly for fruits, like a cantaloupe, where I deskin it like a fish.
BUT it doesn't matter my opinion or anybody else's.. what fits your hand and what is easy for you to work with is the ONLY IMPORTANT THING.
But a well balanced knife will make for less fatigue and more enjoyable cooking. If in the kitchen, you are going to be anal in picking an item, let it be the kitchen knife. It's what you will be using 90% of the time in your kitchen.. [/img]
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The best knife I ever used was found in a 99 cents store. I kid you not I could use that knife for just about anything. anything but filleting. When it was stolen from me. (roommate) I tried to buy another one but it was discontinued.
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A Toronto man killed his ex-girlfriend in his home, then methodically carved up her body and scattered her remains in an effort to cover up his gruesome crime, prosecutors alleged in the first day of his murder trial.
Chun Qi Jiang is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Guang Hua Liu, whose body parts were discovered in Toronto and Mississauga days after she vanished in 2012.
Liu came to Canada from China in 2002 and eventually obtained citizenship, court heard. A single mother of three, she met Jiang while working at a factory before starting her own business, a now-defunct spa in the city's east end, the Crown said.
The pair had an "on and off" relationship for about four years but were no longer together at the time of her death, Crown lawyer Andrew Falls told a Brampton court on Tuesday.
Liu had recently moved in with her new boyfriend Kenneth Grotsky, though she had another home that she shared with her eldest son, Falls said.
The weekend before her death, she had a fight with Grotsky and went back to her own place, he said.
She invited several friends over — including Jiang — to cheer herself up, the lawyer said. The former couple spent the next two nights together, but then Liu and Grotsky reconciled, he said.
That Friday, Liu made dinner plans with Jiang, Falls said. She was never seen alive again.
"Mr. Jiang was not happy with (Liu) on Aug. 10. He took her back to his residence and killed her," Falls told the court in his opening statement.
"In an attempt to hide the murder, Mr. Jiang cut (Liu's) body into pieces and, in a very undignified way, dumped the pieces in Mississauga and Scarborough."
Liu's foot was found in Mississauga's Credit River on Aug. 15, triggering a massive investigation. Her head was discovered the next day in the same river, wrapped in two grocery bags, court heard.
Other body parts were found Aug. 17 and Aug. 19 in Toronto and on Sept. 5 in a suitcase floating in Lake Ontario. Some body parts have not yet been found.
Liu's body was "disarticulated at every major joint" after her death, Falls said the coroner found, adding that some parts were carefully severed "leaving the ball of the joint intact."
Her head also showed more than 40 "chop-like" wounds caused by a sharp-edged object, the lawyer said, adding the coroner couldn't rule out the possibility the injuries were caused by a hatchet.
"The chopping injuries to Ms Liu's head, if inflicted prior to her death, would have resulted in significant blood loss and blunt head injury and could have caused her death," Falls said.
Photos of her severed foot, head and hands were shown in court Tuesday. Court heard from police officers who were at the scene and sent the body parts for forensic analysis.
Jiang, who wore a blue and white checked shirt with tan pants, stared straight ahead.
Falls said blood was found in the accused's basement and in the trunk of his car. Forensic tests showed the chances that someone not related to Liu would match that DNA profile were about one in 64 quadrillion, he said.
A pair of rubber gloves found in a kitchen drawer tested positive for both Liu and Jiang's DNA, Falls said.
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Questioned by police four days later, Jiang denied taking his ex to his home, saying he dropped her off at work after she cancelled their dinner plans, Falls said.
At the time, he claimed not to know she was dating anyone — though he admitted in a second interview with police that he knew about Grotsky, the lawyer said. Jiang even suggested Liu owed her boyfriend money, he said.
Jiang was arrested Aug. 26, 2012, and originally charged with second-degree murder in Liu's death. The charge was upgraded to first-degree murder last summer.


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The story of Daniel Fowler should have been covered sooner by The Star. When we first found out about his tragic death, we struggled with how to pursue the story or if it was even a story at all. No crime was committed, according to police, so we wanted to be sensitive to the business owners and the worker who had defended himself in the incident. We also wanted to be sensitive to the family of the deceased. When we did contact the family, we were told a civil case was in the works. We chose to initially wait for that official filing, hoping it could provide us with more context for this situation. In retrospect, we should have been more aggressive with our reporting.
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SHELBY � What happened at Ken and Mary�s Restaurant in Shelby on Nov. 23?
A man�s death � ruled self-defense by police -- has sparked widespread interest in and outside of Cleveland County, mainly through social media.
Here is what is known about the case so far:
What happened?
Daniel Fowler, 39, of Indianapolis, Ind., took a trip to the county with his wife, Marla, and 8-year-old son Logan, according to Josh Cathcart, his brother-in-law who lives in the area.
According to Shelby Police Capt. Rick Stafford, here�s what happened at the Dekalb Street restaurant:
Fowler entered the restaurant shortly before its 2 p.m. closing time and wanted to order lunch. He was told by co-owner Mary Donaldson that the restaurant�s grills had been turned off and that they were no longer serving.
Fowler started cursing and acting belligerent toward restaurant staff.
A kitchen employee told Fowler his behavior was unnecessary and asked Fowler to step outside and continue the conversation to prevent disturbing customers.
The only people outside the restaurant were Donaldson, Fowler and the kitchen employee.
Once outside, Fowler started to leave.
But he returned, approached Donaldson and the employee, reached into his pocket and said, "I have something for you."
The kitchen employee felt threatened and punched Fowler in the face.
Fowler fell, hitting his head on the pavement.
No physical contact between Fowler and the employee was made before or after the punch. No weapon was found on Fowler or the employee.
Events recorded in a 911 call made by Donaldson, of which The Star obtained a copy, match Stafford�s recount and a Shelby Police incident report.
�(Fowler) come in here and said, �I want to get a hamburger.� I said, �No, we�ve already shut the grills off.�� �He come, he come in the door and started cussing and acting like he was going to do something to us and a man hit him�,� Donaldson said in the call.
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Fowler was transported to Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Then, he was taken to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
Cathcart said doctors informed the family Fowler�s brain had swelled and he was inoperable.
Fowler died Saturday, Nov. 24. Cathcart said Fowler was recovering from cancer in his lungs at the time of the altercation.
What�s the decision on charges?
So far, all known leads in the incident have been followed, said Stafford, who spoke with Fowler's wife after the incident.
�She told me they had a witness they are using as their �secret weapon� (to their case). She won�t release the name,� he said. �That does us no good to investigate.�
Evidence from the scene, including interviews from parties involved in the incident, were given to Cleveland County District Attorney Rick Shaffer between Nov. 24-27.
Here�s what Shaffer wrote in an email to The Star:
�There is no evidence that the employee was the aggressor which would take away his right to act in self-defense. The evidence is that the amount of force used was reasonable. There is no evidence that the employee did anything he was not legally justified in doing."
Shaffer said the state would have to prove the employee did not act in self-defense. He wrote he understood the family�s loss regarding Fowler�s untimely death.
�However, it is the decedent�s actions that forced a law abiding person to take legal and justified action that resulted in a death,� Shaffer wrote. �Based on the information provided to me, the decedent was responsible for his own death and loss to his family.�
Why�s the case still open?
Stafford said it�s the police department�s responsibility to hold people accountable for their actions, but based on evidence in this incident, no one has been deemed �accountable for (Fowler's) death.�
�It�s a terrible situation for anyone involved,� Stafford said. �We owe it to them to keep looking into this case. We�re on their side."
The Star contacted Donaldson on Monday and she declined to comment. Her insurance lawyer, David Haugh, also declined to comment.
Fowler's wife also declined to comment.
�Now, our hands are tied as to what we can share,� Cathcart said. �Marla is being asked by her legal team not to speak.�
Her civil attorney, Lynn Prather of Raleigh-based Kurtz and Blum, said Fowler�s death was a �terrible, senseless tragedy.�
�We are continuing to gather information about what happened�We plan to press charges against anyone that we find culpable or negligent,� Prather told The Star Monday.
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Imagine facing potentially terminal cancer in your twenties. Imagine being prepped for surgery to remove a huge tumor in your brain. You're wheeled into the O.R., and nurses and technicians hook you up to more machines and monitors than you've ever seen in your life. In the meantime, the surgeons glibly discuss their golf handicap or compare yacht payments or divorce settlements as they finish scrubbing in. The anesthetic is administered, and there's a really good chance you may never wake up again.
After a 12-hour procedure, Paul Adams did wake up again. He was missing a section of his skull, but the tumor was gone and the doctors were optimistic. His wounds eventually healed, his bones mended, and he's remained cancer-free.
Paul has always been a racer. He had owned a low-10-second Fox-body Mustang before his surgery. After the surgery, his wife bought him this brand-new '03 Mustang SVT Cobra. He left the car mostly stock during the recovery process, but over the 18 months, he's gotten serious about making horsepower. There isn't a much better platform for making power than these cars, either. The engines are overbuilt from the factory and easily withstand power levels far greater than the stock 390hp rating. Adding more power is easy, too-add more boost. A Whipple supercharger is the popular weapon of choice for Terminator Cobra owners, and Paul's Mod motor now sports one of the biggest Whipples you can buy. Bigger injectors, an after-cat exhaust system, and ECM reflash support the bigger blower, but those were the only things needed to make this a 10-second car.
Paul's Cobra dials up more than 700 hp on the chassis dyno, and when he can hook up, it tears off low-10-second e.t. 's. Still, he wants more. He has an AOD-E and 9-inch rear axle conversion in the works to transform this daily-driven Cobra into a sub-9-second dedicated dragstrip weapon. After what he's been through, can you blame him?
Tech NotesWho: Paul AdamsWhere: Torrance, CaliforniaWhat: '03 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra
Engine: The long-block is the same as the day it rolled off the assembly line. Heads, cams, even the stock exhaust manifolds and catalytic converters are all still there. The key to this engine's power potential lies in the block and rotating assembly. All Mod motor blocks are a deep-skirt design with cross-bolted main bearing caps. The supercharged 32V engines in the '03 and '04 Cobras got a forged crank, Manley rods, and forged pistons in a boost-friendly 8.5:1 compression ratio.
Boost: The stock Eaton Roots-style supercharger was designed for quiet operation and reliability over the lifetime of the car rather than ultimate power. Cobra owners usually replace them with a much more efficient screw-type supercharger. Paul's Whipple displaces 3.4 liters and delivers more than 24 pounds of boost. Fire hose fuel injectors are needed to keep up with all that additional air, so Paul replaced his with Ford Racing 60 lb/hr injectors. Longtime friend Derren Pruitt, owner of Quarter Master Racing in Whittier, California, handled the install. Danny Swanson of Swanson Performance tuned the ECM on his chassis dyno.
Exhaust: Believe it or not, the stock iron exhaust manifolds are still bolted to the heads. The restrictive-looking six-catalyst intermediate pipes are there as well. The only exhaust modification on Paul's car is a Bassani after-cat system.
Transmission: The stock T56 is still hanging in there.
Rearend: So is the stock rear. Though the Cobras has an independent rear suspension, the centersection is based on the tough, proven 8.8-inch rear.
Suspension: It's all stock. Paul didn't mess with the tallish factory stance. You'd never know by looking at it that this car could smoke nearly any other car on the road today.
Wheels/Tires: A pair of Nexan 275/40R17s are mounted up front. Hoosier 315/35R17 drag radials are out back, and all are mounted on the stock 17x8-inch wheels.


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They call them "super seniors," but it's nothing to be proud of.
They are overage high-school students who lack the required credits needed to earn a diploma, so they stay on — and on.
At Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers downtown, former Principal Andrea Lewis said she joined the then-2,300-student school in September 2010 and found "at least 995 students" between age 18 and 21.
Some, she told probers, were enrolled for five or six years or had earned just half a credit to five credits — 44 are needed to graduate.
The shocking revelation came in a report by schools investigator Richard Condon, who fielded complaints reported by Post columnist Michael Goodwin that some city high schools dole out undeserved diplomas in sham "credit recovery" programs.
Questioned over four days, neither Condon's office nor the city Department of Education could explain how Murry Bergtraum could accumulate so many super seniors.
Whether the lagging students ever showed up for classes, or just remained phantoms on the school registers — allowing the school to collect enrollment funding — is unclear.
"None of your business," ex-Principal Lewis snapped when contacted at home last week.
Nor could officials account for the failing students — how many dropped out, transferred to an alternative school, or settled for a GED.
Teachers said current school data show about 600 of 1,900 students "off-cohort," or behind schedule to graduate on time.
Lottie Almonte, Murry Bergtraum's new principal, did not return repeated calls.
The DOE gives Murry Bergtraum a low grade of "D." The school posted a 58 percent four-year graduation rate in June 2011, with just 18 percent deemed "college ready." The dropout rate: 14 percent.
One tall Murry Bergtraum student identified himself as a super senior, 18 years old with only 31 credits.
"I didn't complete what I had to do," he said.
Underclassmen told The Post that super seniors were among them in integrated algebra, living environment and gym — all basic classes required for graduation.
"I saw them last year, and the year before that," one student said.
But many super seniors have been shuffled off to alternative, or "transfer," schools, where overage, undercredited youths get a last chance.
"They kicked me out," said one, a 17-year-old visiting friends at Murry Bergtraum last week.
"They told me I should go last March when they realized I couldn't graduate next June," he said
Now in the "13th grade" with only 15 credits, he attends Forsythe Satellite Academy, a nearby transfer school. There, he said, "I'm getting credits faster."
Condon's report says Lewis landed a $200,000 DOE grant to run a Leadership Academy for the at-risk students but was only "partially successful." Officials had "no confidence" in the program and yanked the funds. No details are given.
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Michal Linial: March 2012
No witches in Portugal
Landing in LISBOA, Portugal last night. I need to get to my hotel in Cascais. The nice lady in the tourist information ordered a taxi and happily said: "Do not worry, our drivers speak excellent English.
Five minutes later my driver arrived, a huge person, nicely dressed with a fancy nice black car. "To Cascais, What is the price" I asked in a fluent English. Well, it depends he replied…
My huge driver, was very fluent in English as promised… Then he starts… Three years ago I had a ski accident, at that time I was much heavier… I was wondering how such information might be relevant to our trip… My driver continues: "From the time of the accident my leg is not the same. This is why I bought this car with a "gear" instead of an automatic transmission, so I can practice my left leg. Most of time I can move it, but I still do not feel it when it is cold"… "Is it cold today?" I asked. No, today it is fine. Yesterday it was cold.
How long is it to Cascais? I was asking. My driver relied honestly: "it depends on the road"… Oh, I said… waiting for an explanation. It took a minute for him to explain: "You know, I always drive by my feelings. Sometime, I have a feeling that it is not good to take the freeway. Today I have this feeling. "OK, it is best that you listen to your feelings", I relied quietly. He continues: "You know, there are no witches in Portugal, but it is better to listen to them". Of course, I said.
You know he continue, my brother in law who was a driver in our taxi company had a bad feeling 4 months ago when he took the small road instead of the highway, and indeed he died. A truck crushed him. But the passenger, a British person that was in the car was not hurt. The passenger had his seat belt fasten, like you… Do you want me to show you where he died?, it is on the way to the hotel, he insisted. Sure I replied. If it is on the way, and you feels that we should not take the highway, let's go on the other road…
We drove on a neglected road. It was not too cold… My huge driver mentioned me the spot where his brother in law died… We are now 10 min from the hotel he updated me. But I missed the entrance. You know, he continued, once I drove with my mother, I missed the entrance to the road. Then, I knew that I should not get into this road. Do you mind that I will drop you here? it is no more than 200 meters to your hotel. I happily paid the 60 Euro, another tip for 10 Euro for the good witch that was with us.
While I was walking with my luggage on the hill to the hotel, a taxi was stopping behind me. It was my big driver again… He said: I forgot to give you my card. Please call me when you want to go back to the airport. it will be only 30 Euro. We can take the highway. I am still in Portugal for another 2 days. I will call him if it will not be too cold.


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Film: Ekk Deewana Tha
Starring: Prateik, Amy Jackson
Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon
Rating: 3 Star
If God lies in the details then "Ek Deewana Tha", Tamil-Telugu director Gautham Menon's first Hindi film in 11 years, makes it all the way to the church.
But hang on with those bells.
Indeed courtship is treated as a religion in this intense take on that thing called love. The romantic situations though weather-beaten and seen in scores of films, exudes a sincerity and a freshness, thanks to the locations. And we don't mean just the mesmeric backwaters of Kerala and the leafy bylanes of suburban Mumbai.
A master storyteller, Gautham Menon locates his story right in his leading man Prateik's heart. The gentle actor carries off the role of the love-struck adamant Romeo with a more than a fair amount of earnest passion, bringing to his character a landscape of longing desire bitterness and finally satisfaction in love.
The initial scenes where the modern-day Romeo Sachin (Prateik) tails his landlord's daughter (stilted newcomer Amy Jackson) radiate an ambrosial amour. The mo'bike, the furtive glances, the movie sneaked together…it's all done with a warm splendour that covers a range from the sly to the tender.
A.R. Rahman's music is used for a number of dance pieces where Prateik uses his newly-enhanced body language to show us what love can do to an ordinary regular guy aspiring to be a filmmaker under the tutelage of, ahem, Ramesh Sippy who at some point spews this wisdom on the lovelorn Sachin: "First solve your heart problem then get back to work."
The trouble with this elegantly-packaged but somewhat selfidulgently-edited love story is that it takes a very long to get to the point. Like many notable love stories directed by South Indian directors the aaj ka Romeo must prove his love by traveling through various cities and emotional levels before…well, getting there.
The journey in "Ek Deewana Tha" is not as bracing as in K. Balachander's "Ek Duuje Ke Liye" or Mani Ratnam's "Saathiya". But there are many nerve-points in the storytelling that pinches the pulse of the core emotion.
It's the detailing that both nourishes and diminishes the film's impact. Menon takes us through the various levels in the love relationship in excruciating detail leaving nothing and everything to chance. While delineating every step in the courtship, the screenplay also makes room for plenty of those quirky coincidences that make for a star-crossed love affair.
Interestingly like last week's "Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu", the couple's love reaches a point of no denouement. And then Menon pulls back. In a lengthy monologue (well written and enacted by Prateik, but far too long and self-indulgent specially since it comes at the fag-end of the story) the entire relationship unravels and comes undone in a twirl and torrent of emotions.
And there you know, Gautham Menon has got a hang of the romance. Like Prateik's courtship this film is labour of love. Problem is, the going gets laborious after a point. But for the diehard romantic "Ek Deewana Tha" lets us into a world where love is not only a means to salvation, it is also a helluva pain in a place where it hurts the most. – IANS
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After Frau's recent stints in the hospital, I was thinking about their poor use of technology.
The lowly call button is the problem. Patients push but … and frustration ensues.
Sitting there with little to do, I mused about how, if I was KING, I'd rework that.
It's a perfect call center application.
In my world, I'd have room full of "911 operators" to answer the calls. And, I'd have the staff equipped with the latest mobile technology. Like a push to talk cell phone on their hip with a blue tooth headset.
Patient pushes the call button! ,
In the current system, the unit clerk usually answers the bell with a not so cheery "whaddayawant". OK, that's not the exact words, but it really is the exact message.
In my system, the "911 operator" would answer: "Yes, is this urgent?" If response = "yes", set priority to "immediate". If response = "no", set priority to "routine". "What do you need?" And parse the response. "Pain" = "Nurse" "Bedpan" = "Aide" "Spill = Housekeeping" "Lawyer" = "Notify Risk Management" (You get the idea?)
Then, my system would be different in many ways. For "urgent", I'd go down the list for first available: patient's regular nurse, the backup, the charge nurse, any available floor nurse, and finally the Director of Nursing. (Wanna bet how many hit the honcho's phone?)
For routine requests, the "911 operator" would speak to the appropriate party (i.e., nurse, tech, or housekeeper). If they were busy, they could queue it with a "remind me". The "911 operator would have the person's queue of items on screen and be able to say "you have five reminders, can I get you some help?"
Nothing would be "forgotten". Response times would be measurable. Patient satisfaction would improve.
And I'd FLOG the leadership to help motivate them. :-)
These folks work very hard with what I call "a suit from Omar's" (You know the tailor that has two sizes — too big and too small.) for technology support.
I can quickly list: bp / temp / pulse ox machines that down't talk to the patient records; blood glucose testing devices that have to be docked to communicate; static white boards that have last shift's names on them; quality assurance sheets to be signed each hour to ensure that the folks physically visit the rooms and are filled out just before the end of shift; no one monitors what the patient eats; ripoff tv and phone service; no exercise equipment; no technology for communication — people yell for people even on the quiet critical units.
It's a Leadership problem. It obvious; they just don't care. Argh!
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3DS Impressions: Two weeks later
GameSpot staffers sound off on the 3DS after having played with the system and games for the past two weeks.
GameSpot staffers sound off on the 3DS after having played with the system and games for the past two weeks.
Jane Douglas runs down the top five games for Nintendo's latest handheld.
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Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100T01-A)
Audience Profile
This course is aimed at data scientists and those with significant responsibilities in training and deploying machine learning models.
Course Objectives
Gain the necessary knowledge about how to use Azure services to develop, train, and deploy, machine learning solutions. The course starts with an overview of Azure services that support data science. From there, it focuses on using Azure's premier data science service, Azure Machine Learning service, to automate the data science pipeline. This course is focused on Azure and does not teach the student how to do data science. It is assumed students already know that.
Before attending this course, students must have:
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How to program in the Python programming language and use the Python libraries: pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, and seaborn.
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Module 1: Doing Data Science on Azure
The student will learn about the data science process and the role of the data scientist. This is then applied to understand how Azure services can support and augment the data science process.
- Introduce the Data Science Process
- Overview of Azure Data Science Options
- Introduce Azure Notebooks
Module 2: Doing Data Science with Azure Machine Learning service
The student will learn how to use Azure Machine Learning service to automate the data science process end to end.
- Introduce Azure Machine Learning (AML) service
- Register and deploy ML models with AML service
Module 3: Automate Machine Learning with Azure Machine Learning service
In this module, the student will learn about the machine learning pipeline and how the Azure Machine Learning service's AutoML and HyperDrive can automate some of the laborious parts of it.
- Automate Machine Learning Model Selection
- Automate Hyperparameter Tuning with HyperDrive
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April 15, 2012
Chestnut and Mushroom Sauce with Rye Tagliatelle
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Beautiful, such a comforting dish :) I love being dense rye bread from the markets, so I'm sure I'd love the rye pasta- I'm always wanting to try alternatives to regular pasta! xReplyDelete
This looks fantistic, although I will have to wait half a year for lovely fresh chestnuts in my part of the world. But then...I do have lots of dried mushrooms picked in Sweden last year, so I might have to purchase some of those vacuum packed chestnuts, just to try it!ReplyDelete
A delicious pasta dish!ReplyDelete
Chestnuts have to be one of my favorite foods! I also love using chestnut flour! This dish looks heavenly!ReplyDelete
I have a couple of large tins of chestnuts. It takes all the hard work out of it and I have to admit that they taste pretty good. I will try this recipe with mushroom sauce. Thanks DianeReplyDelete
This one I truly love for its originality and healthful properties. Have never seen rye tagliatelle here in the country, but beautiful spelt pasta is available, so now to hunt for chestnuts :) !ReplyDelete
I always make the most of chestnuts during this season. So warm and as yes, as you've put it, sweet and adds a warmth to the dish. I love what you've done with themReplyDelete
Yum! you almost make me crave the Fall weather with this recipe. I always love reading your posts because we are in opposite seasons. Delicious.ReplyDelete


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Today I installed the new Ubuntu 12.10 (fresh install) and I noticed that Google Chrome was in the wrong language. I am Portuguese, from Portugal, and Google Chrome is now on Brazilian Portuguese (which is kind of annoying).
I had this problem before, but downloading the DVD edition of the OS would fix the problem (Google Chrome would be in PT-PT on a DVD installation).
The problem is that Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't have a DVD specific edition... So, how can I manualy change Google Chrome's language?


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Caramelised carrots & onions
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- Vegetarian
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal129
- fat7g
- saturates4g
- carbs15g
- sugars13g
- fibre3g
- protein2g
- salt0.15g
- 500g carrot, peeled and cut into long chunks
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- 8 red onions, peeled and quartered with root intact
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Blanch carrots in a pan of boiling salted water for 3 mins, drain well, then pat dry. In a large pan, melt the butter and oil, then fry the carrots, onions and thyme over a low heat for 30 mins until golden.
Stir in the sugar and red wine and bubble for a few mins to boil off the alcohol. Add the vinegar, then continue to cook until syrupy, about 5 mins. Remove the sprigs of thyme and serve. Make up to 2 days ahead, stored in a covered container. Tip back into a pan and reheat or use a microwave.


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You know, we're really not especially fond of our hometown of Sacramento. Sure, there're a few good things about it, but really, we couldn't wait to get out of the place at 18, and we'll hopefully never end up back there. Plus, it's expensive and congested now, too — two things it never used to be. But one great thing came out of the Golden State's seat of government today: reader Jared snapped this fully-awesome two-tone Kombi-fied Dodge van, complete with homemade rear window and "Beware of Dog" decal. Plus, green and white are the colors of El Camino High, which, of course, is our alma mater. And really, who can't get behind that? Viva Sacto!
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I saw this film yesterday. I was going to write a review of it, but then I found this review which sums up everything I would say about the film. I will say this about the audience – there was a woman sitting behind me who clearly was more the rom-com type who remarked "See how they treated women THEN?" when the lead female character (a junior journalist, something of a secretary) is introduced, and then proceeds to make coffee. "SHE has to make the coffee," exclaimed my fellow movie-goer, who also could not grasp that there was snow in the Swiss Alps in July. Oookay. And the guy behind me who had to say "Whoosh" every time there was a shot of the mountain, and there were a lot. Kudos to this blogger for writing a top-notch review. Hope you will read it.


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Online Discernment Lesson # 3: Pronounce everyone as unbiblical.
We discernment ministries always take the low ground…. pointing out to anyone who will listen (usually only the most righteous of readers) that everyone who does not agree with us is in fact….UNBIBLICAL.Say it out loud "U-N-B-I-B-L-I-C-A-L" doesn't that give you a sense of power and authority? Say it again.
Under tutelage from Dr. Walter Martin's cassette tapes has allowed us to discern the most difficult issues into simplistic cliches. When all else fails we toss in the "you are unbiblical" to settle the issue once and for all. If you don't have OUR biblical worldview on ALL THINGS….you are not saved. Despite the fact that Jesus says "believe in me," we discern that what he really meant was be a Capitalist-American-Conservative-Calvinist-Anti-Rob Bell-Pro-Reformed believer….and THEN you will be saved. Its not about Jesus, its about true doctrine.
In addition, please make sure that you NEVER share…that according to ODMs could be construed as Marxism.
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A man armed with a handgun beat a clerk at a Sarasota hotel and then stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the hotel's safe early today, authorities said.
The clerk sustained unspecified injuries during the robbery, which occurred around 1 a.m. at the Marriott Residence Inn at 1040 University Parkway, according to the Sarasota Police Department.
The incident unfolded with the suspect walking into the hotel lobby and confronting the clerk, pointing a handgun at her and demanding she hand over money, a police press release noted. The clerk refused, however, and tried to grab the suspect's handgun.
In the ensuing scuffle, the suspect pulled back the handgun and then hit the clerk in the head, knocking her to the ground. Fearing for her life, she later told investigators, she then opened the safe for the man and handed over money. The suspect then ordered her to lie face down on the floor as he fled the area.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, in his 20s, standing 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10, with a slender build. He was last seen wearing a black, baseball-style hat with a white letter, a black, long-sleeved shirt with a gray design or undershirt, and black short and shoes. He wore a gray bandana over his face during the robbery.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sarasota Police Department at 316-1199, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by calling 941-366-TIPS (8477) or online at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com
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A man armed with a handgun beat a clerk at a Sarasota hotel and then stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the hotel's safe early today, authorities said.


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Troops must be registered as Teen, Cadette, Senior, Ambassador or Juliettes they must be 11 years or older by October 1st of the current girl scout year to participate in FROG.
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The issue of divorce has two aspects that need to be considered:
1) how divorce should function according to our understanding of egalitarian halachah
2) how to deal with the practical reality that not all of the Jewish world shares our understanding of egalitarian halachah.
Now #2 is an important issue that should not be minimized (at least for opposite-sex couples). If a divorce is not recognized by all parts of the Jewish world, and then the woman subsequently has children with another man, those children (and their descendants) can face serious future consequences. And unlike having a marriage or conversion that is not recognized by some, there is no remedy.
However, as important as #2 is, there is an unfortunate tendency to consider only #2, to the point that it overshadows #1. For example, as mentioned in previous posts in this series, the model of marriage that Rachel Adler proposes in Engendering Judaism goes to great lengths to emphasize that it is not kiddushin. For example, the order of the service begins with a cup of wine, but Adler writes: "In the kiddushin ceremony, this blessing would be followed by the erusin blessing, and only the couple would drink from the cup. ... To distinguish this cup from the erusin cup, it may be passed to all those around the huppah." Why is it so important to do various things with a shinui [change] to make clear that kiddushin is not happening, even egalitarian kiddushin? "[B]ecause any kiddushin requires a get, a halakhic divorce, for its termination, it is important to establish that b'rit ahuvim is not equivalent to kiddushin. For if b'rit ahuvim is not a halakhic marriage, then it can be dissolved without a get." And why is requiring a get a bad thing? "Greedy husbands blackmail and extort in exchange for granting divorces. Vindictive husbands withhold divorce for years, leaving their wives in limbo. ... In our own time, religious courts research and record marriages and divorces with unprecedented assiduousness in a central computer bank." In other words, because the process of gittin in other parts of the Jewish world is undeniably disgusting (both because of the potential for abuse and because, even when the system is "working", it creates a huge power imbalance), we should rule out anything in our part of the Jewish world that resembles gittin, and therefore anything that resembles kiddushin. (The possibility of egalitarian gittin isn't even considered.)
I find this approach problematic for two reasons: First of all, it results in a definition of marriage that is too negative ("not kiddushin") and cedes too much to other Jewish subcultures. In the name of avoiding the abuses of vindictive husbands and the Orthodox rabbinic establishment (a laudable goal), the unfortunate result is defining our own marriages as "not a halakhic marriage". When we make decisions about the wedding ceremony because of how it may appear to someone else outside our community, we lose the opportunity to decide what we would do if we were the only Jews on earth. That freedom might result in fixing kiddushin and gittin to eliminate these abuses and power imbalances. But yes, even under those circumstances, many would still oppose kiddushin, even egalitarian kiddushin, for other reasons. Adler herself rejects it as "equal opportunity commodification". But there's still a difference between the choice not to use the framework of kiddushin (a choice that could be made for many reasons) and the choice to essentially wave red flags saying "This is not kiddushin" (which seems motivated only as a reaction to external perception).
Second of all, despite all the efforts to say "this is not kiddushin" in order to avoid the need for a get, I'm not convinced it would actually work. That is, no matter how many ways you try to mark your wedding ceremony as "not kiddushin", there's always the possibility that some corrupt functionary in the Israeli rabbanut will deem that kiddushin has taken place anyway, and therefore that you need a get. And then you're back where you started, when it comes to practical concern for descendants. So since there's no way to avoid this possibility completely, it seems to me that it's not worth trying too hard.
And I don't mean to pick on Adler specifically. She does outline how the berit ahuvim is to be dissolved. Others, in contrast, don't consider the question of divorce at all, or if they do, they frame the issue as creating "rituals" rather than as determining the legal procedure by which the marriage is terminated; the legal procedures are either ceded to someone else or deemed unimportant.
Instead, I would advocate fighting the war as if there is no White Paper, and so forth: figure out how divorce works in the context of marriage as we understand it, then figure out whether any additional provisions need to be included to address the rest of the world. We did both of these, but kept them separate: the former was addressed in the structure of the sh'tar kiddushin, while the latter was addressed by a provision in the ketubah. The remainder of this post will look at each piece of this.
The first question is how egalitarian kiddushin should be terminated. As discussed in Part 3, the procedure for divorce (one partner writing and giving the other a document) appears explicitly in the Torah, while the procedure for marriage does not. Some of the laws of kiddushin (especially kiddushin bishtar) are derived from the laws of gittin. So it would appear that kiddushin and gittin are inverses of each other, and a get is required to terminate a kiddushin.
How does this apply to egalitarian kiddushin, in which there are two separate acts of kiddushin? The simplest answer might be that each kiddushin requires a separate get to terminate it. But this interpretation leads to problems in practice: Many liberal Jewish weddings include two acts of kiddushin, and very few divorces include two gittin. If we take egalitarian kiddushin seriously (which, fortunately in this case, the Israeli rabbanut doesn't), then this interpretation forces us to conclude that many individuals (usually men) who were married via egalitarian kiddushin and gave a get to their ex-spouses, but did not receive a get, are unknowingly agunim! (Perhaps one could address this bedi'avad through a less condescending (and more tautological) version of Moshe Feinstein's infamous ruling that marriages officiated by non-Orthodox rabbis don't really count and therefore don't require a get: one could say that if they were of the belief that their kiddushin didn't require a get, then ipso facto they didn't really have the intent to do kiddushin, and thus kiddushin never occurred. Still, lechatchilah we shouldn't be thinking that our kiddushin doesn't count.) It also leads to problems in theory: If both partners must give a get before the marriage is completely dissolved, this doubles the potential for abuse rather than eliminating it, since either partner can now hold the other hostage.
But maybe this interpretation (that a get is required for each kiddushin) is not the correct one. After all, a get does more than terminate kiddushin: it also terminates nisuin, a mutual relationship that has no other formal termination. So perhaps a get terminates not just a single kiddushin, but ALL marital relationships between the two parties, including the kiddushin in the reverse direction. If this is the case, then if one partner gives the other a get, then it would automatically terminate both kiddushins.
The second way certainly seems like how things should work: either party can initiate divorce, neither party can take hostages, and no new agunim are created. But how do we know how it does work? This would require much research to figure out, since the question wasn't directly asked in the classical sources.
In the meantime, to ensure that it would work this way, that one get from either party could terminate both kiddushins, we stipulated it explicitly. As discussed in Part 3, our sh'tarot kiddushin included a condition that they were dependent on each other, so that if one kiddushin is terminated, the other is too. It's possible that this condition was unnecessary (except in determining when the kiddushin first went into effect), if that's the way it would work anyway, and it's also possible that the condition was necessary; by including the condition, we covered all our bases. As discussed in Part 3, this condition could also be used by couples doing other modes of kiddushin; it would just have to be in a separate document or spoken.
So that should cover us in regard to our own understanding of egalitarian halachah (#1 above). That is, if (chas v'shalom) either of us gave the other a get, we would both consider ourselves divorced. But, as discussed above, that's not good enough. What about the practical realities in the rest of the Jewish world?
Ideally, the non-egalitarian portions of the Jewish world shouldn't accept our kiddushin in the first place, and therefore there should be no issue: one kiddushin is from a woman to a man (and therefore not recognized on those grounds), and the other kiddushin (from a man to a woman) is conditioned on the validity of the first kiddushin. However, it's dangerous to count on that working out in practice. There's always the possibility that someone at the rabbanut or wherever would consider the condition itself to be invalid, and therefore consider one of the kiddushins to be valid. So it's still important to be prepared for that possibility.
Also, the rabbanut or whoever would only accept a get from particular batei din, likely a proper subset of the set of batei din that we would consider valid. And we wanted to deal with the consequences of that reality, without suggesting that we consider only batei din in that subset to be valid.
To address this, we adapted a solution developed by our friends Debra Cash and David Fillingham (which has been included in newer editions of The New Jewish Wedding). They signed a document committing to a particular process in the case of divorce. We didn't use their whole process, but did take one piece of it: "[W]e pledge that neither will create an impediment to the other's Jewish remarriage. Specifically, we pledge that ... if one of us requires a formal get from the other, in accordance with any denomination of the Jewish world that the requester identifies, the other will not be recalcitrant and will participate in person or by a proxy acceptable under the norms of that denomination's practice." In other words, this requirement that a get be granted from any denomination requested is not the act that dissolves the marriage, but is part of the divorce settlement.
We adapted this provision and translated it into Aramaic: ודאי בעא חד מינייהו או תרוויהו למפרש דא מן דא ח"ו יהון פורשין בספר תירוכין באפי בי דינא דיתרעי כל חד מניהו ולא מעכבן דא לדא. ("And if a time comes that one or both of them desire to dissolve their marriage, they will separate with a get, granted by either to the other in a bet-din requested, without delay.") This clause appears in our ketubah, in the same paragraph quoted in Part 4 that talks about dividing possessions, etc. It was an intentional choice to put this in the ketubah and not in the sh'tar kiddushin, so that it is far away from the conditions dealing with what it takes to actually dissolve the marriage, and is instead categorized with the responsibilities that we have towards each other during and after the marriage. This is in the same spirit as Cash and Fillingham's making this provision part of the divorce settlement.
Ok, now let's get real: this requirement that a get be granted, above and beyond the get (or other act) that actually terminates the marriage, is very unlikely to be invoked by "either party" in "any denomination". In practice, the likely scenario is very specific: a woman would ask a man to give her a get in an Orthodox beit din, and this clause would require him to grant it. However, by keeping the language general, we can deal with the situation without hard-coding either the gender inequality or the denominational politics into our ketubot.
Of course, this sort of clause would be unnecessary for same-sex couples. However, they might still choose to include it, in solidarity with straight allies for whom it is necessary (since some straight allies do many things in solidarity with same-sex couples).
We didn't give this clause teeth, e.g. state that if one party fails to abide by it, s/he will be subject to a financial penalty, or that the kiddushin will be retroactively annulled. While we know that we are honest people and would take our commitments seriously with or without teeth, I realize that's not the point: the point of teeth is to establish precedent for the whole Jewish world, so that even less honest people would be subject to that precedent. So why didn't we do it? I guess it's because we had already done our Kantian duty in establishing precedent by doing egalitarian kiddushin that can be terminated by either party: if everyone did what we did, there would be no agunah problem, and this additional clause is just a concession to the fact that not everyone does what we do.
The case that we haven't dealt with is the original agunah situation: what to do if one partner is missing and presumed (but not proven) dead, or analogously, the Terri Schiavo scenario. The solution to this (for which there is historical precedent) is probably to write conditional gittin, which will go into effect only if one of those horrific scenarios takes place. But this doesn't need to happen at the time of the marriage; it can be written any time.
So that's all for now. I obviously hope nothing in this post has to be implemented, whether in my marriage or in yours, but I hope kicking off this discussion is still helpful. This is the end of the series, but if you have questions about anything, please post away in the comments.


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Brown's birthday: The road to equality in Charlottesville
Being able to use a bathroom is a basic human right– or at least, a basic decency one human extends to another, right?
Not under segregation, the degradations of which touched every aspect of life, even the right to use a public restroom or water fountain. And sometimes, "colored" bathrooms weren't even provided, as African Americans traveling through the Jim Crow South knew all too well.
That's how far reaching the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision was. Sure, its thrust was education, its purpose to dismantle the misnamed "separate but equal" laws that had relegated blacks to substandard schools since Reconstruction.
But once public schools were open to African Americans, the walls of segregation began to crack. It didn't all happen on May 17, 1954, the date of the Brown decision, and many will argue that the job still isn't done.
To look back 50 years, to when there were "colored" balconies in Charlottesville theaters, and black citizens could not get served in restaurants, when it was legal to discriminate in housing, jobs, transportation, and public access, well, it seems like ancient history. But not for the people who lived it, who remember half a century ago when such treatment of fellow citizens was the norm.
On the anniversary of the landmark civil rights decision of the 20th century, it's important that we, too, remember that part of our history, with a look at some local landmarks in the civil rights struggle.
Happy birthday, Brown.
Jefferson School
201 Fourth Street NW
Today Jefferson School is still the most controversial symbol of the city's uneasy racial past. An addition in 1958, four years after Brown, is a testament to the city fathers' determination to keep schools segregated. Before the current structure opened in 1926, Charlottesville blacks who wanted a high school education had to go elsewhere. In the 1930s, Jefferson was one of a half dozen accredited high schools for blacks in Virginia, even though its teachers were paid half what their white counterparts earned and were always short of supplies.
The now-empty building ended its career as a school in 2002. It survived the razing of Vinegar Hill in the 1960s, but nearly fell to developers when the city was ready to sell the dilapidated, lead- and asbestos-ridden building on a primo piece of real estate. "Within it is embodied much of the cultural legacy of African Americans in this community," says Mayor Maurice Cox. He foresees an African-American cultural center and a library in its once precarious future.
Jackson P. Burley High School
901 Rose Hill Drive
Before Burley opened in 1951 for city and county black students, there were three black high schools: Esmont, Jefferson, and the Albemarle Training School. In 1949, the county school board decided to "unite the Negroes' high schools" to provide better facilities and programs, according the June 1967 Burley Bulletin. With the city, for $18,000, Albemarle purchased 17 acres of land from Mrs. Jackson P. Burley, wife of the teacher and storeowner for whom the school is named. Marcha Howard, now assistant principal at Burley, endured an hour-long bus ride from her home near Proffit Road to attend Burley when she started as a freshman in 1959. "It was a long ride for a lot of students," she says.
The city/county venture was an irritation to city residents like Julia Martin, whose sons had to walk past the all-white Lane High School to reach Burley. And when county schools were closed for bad weather, so, too, was Burley– even though city students had no problem getting there. Martin joined a lawsuit against the Charlottesville School Board to send her sons to Lane. Burley remained segregated until 1967, when it became a junior high. Today Burley is a county middle school in the middle of the city, and in an echo of the past, students who live right across the street can't go there.
Lane High School
401 McIntire Road
Now the Albemarle County Office Building, Lane High School, which opened to students in 1940, was Charlottesville's white high school when the Brown v. Board decision was handed down in 1954. And when 12 black students prevailed in their lawsuit to attend Lane and Venable Elementary, Governor Lindsay Almond ordered the two schools shut in September 1958. They remained closed until February 4, 1959. The 1959 Lane yearbook, The Chain, is all about the students' coping with massive resistance that closed their school for most of the year and shipped them into makeshift classrooms. The 1960 Chain makes no mention of that school year's even more momentous event: John Martin, Donald Martin, and French Jackson became the first African Americans to attend Lane High School.
Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
When it opened its doors in 1931, the Paramount allowed African Americans to come in– through the "colored entrance" on Third Street. That wasn't unusual. The Jefferson Theater, too, steered African Americans upstairs to the "colored" mezzanine and restrooms, and the University Theater on the Corner (now apartments) didn't allow blacks at all because it didn't have a balcony. The Paramount wasn't integrated until 1964. Currently undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation, the Paramount plans to retain the "colored entrance" as a symbol of its segregated past, and is working on how to best memorialize the African-American experience there.
First Baptist Church
632 West Main Street
During segregation, black churches served as community centers, and Charlottesville's were no exception. After Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, 800 blacks who'd worshiped in the segregated balcony of First Baptist Church on Jefferson Street decided to start their own congregation. They met at the Delevan Hotel– the church was known as Delevan Baptist. That building was razed in 1876, and the current structure opened for worship in 1883. In 1983, it was designated a historic landmark. Church members have been active in civil rights since 1931: The Reverend Benjamin Bunin was a founder of the local chapter of the NAACP.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
105 Ridge Street
Founded in 1867, Mt. Zion is Charlottesville's second oldest African-American church and is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks register. The Italianate and classical revival building was built in 1884, and served the Mt. Zion congregation until it relocated last year. The church has served as a community center throughout its history, most recently when black Charlottesville High students attacked white UVA students in 2001, and congregants rallied to the black youths' defense. The structure, now owned by Gabe Silverman, continues to serve the community as the Music Resource Center.
Washington Park
Preston Avenue
The site was known as the Pest House Property, stemming from a scarlet fever epidemic in 1905. By 1916, the land had become an unofficial dump, according to the city parks website. Community philanthropist Paul Goodloe McIntire (of McIntire Park fame) bought the property in 1926, and donated the land as "a public park and playground for the colored people of Charlottesville." Says Eugene Williams, "Parks were not popular for black people in the early years. They were too much of a luxury." A "Colored Recreation Board" was formed in 1934. And although one of its first requests to the city was for water, the park didn't get a water fountain until 1942. Black civic organizations helped clear and landscape the site, which included three tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a rec building called "the Barn." A wading pool was built in 1950, although the park still lacked "adequate dressing rooms and toilet facilities," according to the city's history of the park.
The Budget Inn/Gallery Court
140 Emmet Street
When Martin Luther King came to Charlottesville on March 25, 1963, the Budget Inn was known as the Gallery Court and was one of the few places in town where blacks could stay. After King's speech at Cabell Hall, UVA history prof and civil right activist Paul Gaston went back to King's room with him, and remembers King saying, "I'll be shot at sometime." He was, April 4, 1968, at another motel in Memphis.
100 Main Street
Today it's a national shoe store chain on the Downtown Mall, with the swanky Terraces retail and residential in back and on top. Fifty years ago, it was a five and dime. Blacks could shop in Woolworth's– but they couldn't sit down and eat at the counter. Then a February 1, 1960, sit-in by four black college students at the Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC, made national headlines, and became a tactic for desegregation actions around the south. Scheryl Williams Glanton remembers sitting in at Woolworth's with her father, Eugene Williams. She was a little girl who wanted a milkshake– but she couldn't be served because of the color of her skin.
104 Emmet Street
The site of Charlottesville's first violent racial encounter during the civil rights movement, Buddy's offered breakfast, lunch, dinner, and fountain service– unless you were black. Owner Buddy Glover actually had served some African Americans, such as visiting musicians and athletes, according to Coy Barefoot's local history, The Corner. But when a group of whites and blacks sat down to eat at Buddy's Memorial Day weekend in 1963, they were ignored until closing, and when they came back the next day, they weren't allowed in the restaurant. UVA history professor Paul Gaston and two black leaders, Floyd Johnson and William Johnson, were beaten up, and after the maelstrom of bad publicity following that incident, restaurants, movies and theaters all over town suddenly desegregated. But not Buddy's, which remained segregated until July 2, 1964, the day the Civil Rights Act passed. That day Buddy's closed. Today it's the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church
717 Rugby Road
Unitarians have always been known for their liberal bent, so it's not surprising that the church hosted meetings of the Council on Human Relations, one of Charlottesville's only integrated groups in the 1950s. After federal Judge John Paul ruled in favor of the Allen v. Charlottesville School Board plaintiffs and ordered Charlottesville to integrate Lane High School and Venable Elementary, tensions soared. The Seaboard White Citizen's Council came down from New Jersey to show its displeasure with desegregation by burning a cross in front of the church on August 23, 1956.
Dr. Frank Daniel's house
202 E. High Street
Now the site of Queen Charlotte Square, in 1955, it was the site of another cross burning. Dr. Frank Daniel, a beloved family doctor, was active in the local NAACP and the Council on Human Relations. His daughter, Nancy, a sixth-grader at the time, was terrified when she saw the charred cross in her front yard and realized that someone was out to get her father. She says the Progress reported a six-foot cross, but that it was no bigger than four feet. The pieces of wood were hauled down to the basement, and the family never spoke of the incident– at least not around Nancy.
The Holiday Inn restaurant
1600 Emmet Street
In the 1960s, long before it became a Red Lobster and a Days Inn, the Holiday Inn would rent rooms to blacks– but wouldn't allow them to eat in the separately owned restaurant. That practice led to a sit-in the summer of 1963. Eugene Williams and area ministers went to the restaurant and were ignored by the waitresses while one white couple was served. After the couple ate, Williams says, they patted the Rev. R.J. Kennedy of Zion Union Baptist Church on the shoulder and congratulated the group.
"We spent a whole, solid day there," recalls Williams, who loaded his station wagon with kids and took them to the restaurant, where they spread out at tables. The restaurant closed after lunch, and the group left. But Williams knew the dining room would reopen at 5pm to serve dinner, and the protesters were waiting there when it did. "The manager came out and said, 'Can we sit down and talk about this?'" says Williams. "He said, 'If I give you my word we will integrate Sunday morning, will you not picket tonight?' We agreed." The Holiday Inn restaurant was integrated the next morning.
Bell Funeral Home
108 Sixth Street
Raymond Bell, who died in April, was one of the founders of Charlottesville's very active NAACP. One reason funeral home owners often became civil rights leaders across the South was that they served the black community, so they didn't face the financial repercussions of business owners with a white customer base. Bell Funeral Home, the oldest African-American owned business in town, opened in 1917, when "there wasn't a white bank that would make a loan [to blacks]," Eugene Williams points out. "Ray Bell went to Boston University. Why didn't he go to the University of Virginia? Because they wouldn't admit him." And as much as the Charlottesville NAACP founders accomplished, Williams often talked with Bell about "how much more we could do if we had a better economic base."
George Ferguson's house
702 Ridge Street
George Ferguson, the son of a physician, was one of three black undertakers in Charlottesville when he started his business in 1941. "After looking at other things black people could do 50 years ago, the only professional opportunities available were to be a doctor, dentist, minister, or school teacher," he says in From Porch Swings To Patios: An Oral History Project of Charlottesville Neighborhoods, 1914-1980. "At that time, black lawyers weren't too popular." Ferguson's daughter, Olivia, was a plaintiff in Allen v. Charlottesville School Board. A federal judge assigned her to Lane in 1958– the year Lane and Venable closed. When the schools reopened in February 1959, she spent the rest of her senior year sitting in the superintendent's office. Today the Ferguson house is the home of Charlottesville's third black mayor, Maurice Cox.
Ebenezer Baptist Church
113 Sixth Street NW
An offshoot of Mt. Zion, this historic church, across the street from Bell Funeral Home, just celebrated its 112th birthday in March.


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