Reproduced with kind permission from CBA (UK) Brewers Contact – Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2006.
We all know about the friendly little fungus that does the business of converting our best efforts at mashing into fine beer, but how many of us treat them with the care and affection they deserve? It may seem somewhat anthropomorphic, but it really is true that most of us abuse our yeast and they reward this misuse with beer that isn't as good as it could be. So this short article (based on a talk given to the Midlands Craft Brewers) is all about the care and nurture of your most important brewing friend – your yeast.
Most homebrewers encounter yeast either as dried preparations in packets or liquid yeasts in foil packs or tubes. We'll leave slants for the serious yeast rancher, but even so, most of what's written here applies in that case too. Dried yeast used to have a terrible reputation. More often than not they contained a high level of spores, were slow to start, and produced beer that tasted suspiciously like bread. However big improvements in the processing of dried yeasts mean that some top quality yeasts are now available in this form and some commercial breweries rely entirely on them for their beer production. The main drawback these days is the relatively limited range of strains available, which is where liquid yeasts come into their own. But regardless of whether the yeasts are dried or liquid, you need to treat them with a little care and attention to make the very best use of your yeast.
It's my opinion that the single biggest mistake that most homebrewers make is that they use far too few yeast. You'll probably think me quite mad when I tell you that I use the equivalent of a one gallon starter for a five gallon batch of beer, and you won't be the first. Let me see if I can convince you. The reality of homebrewing is quite different to brewing in a large commercial brewery. The latter can spend money and time on maintaining a sterile environment whereas we're competing for space in a house with kids, pets, and the irate spouse who just wants to use the kitchen for cooking. Add to that the fact that we're creating a rich medium to encourage microbiological growth (the wort) and the end result is that sterility is a distant dream. In this context the best way of avoiding an infected brew is to crowd out the bacteria with overwhelming numbers of yeast. The longer the lag time between pitching the yeast and the start of fermentation, the greater the chance that the beer will become infected. A lag time of over 24 hours is indicative of serious problems with your yeast, and you should be aiming for four to six hours at the most. The other consideration is the health of your yeast. Straight from the manufacturer, dried or liquid yeast are in top condition, but the delay between distribution and sale, and a period of sitting around in the homebrewer's cupboard or even fridge takes the edge off their health. This directly contributes to long lag times and unhealthy yeast can produce off- flavours.
These considerations dictate that we should pay close attention to the numbers and health of our yeast. It's worth it since they pay us back in top quality beer.
Dried yeast is generally sold in packets of about 10g and one packet is recommended for use for five gallons of beer. I strongly advise using two packets of yeast. Check the sell-by date on the yeast – how long has it been since it left the manufacturers? Remember, recommendations are for yeast straight from the factory. If you do nothing else, please rehydrate your yeast. They've been carefully dried to stop all cellular activity. They need water to come back to life. It can be argued that they get that water from the wort, but if it is a high gravity wort the rehydration may not occur. In any case there is a significant lag while the yeast revive themselves with the obvious implications for infection.
To rehydrate your yeast simply boil and cool some water (about five times the weight of the yeast, so for 10 g, use 50 ml of water). Add the yeast when the water is at room temperature and leave it for about an hour. You can use boiled and cooled wort (so long as it is a relatively low gravity) as an alternative. If you use wort the added advantage is that you should see some fermentation starting after an hour, which is a useful check that your yeast are in fact alive. You can do this check with water by then simply adding a teaspoon of sugar.
If you use two packets of dried yeast properly rehydrated then there ought to be no need for a starter. The way to check is to measure the lag time between pitching the yeast and the onset of fermentation. If it is in the order of a couple of hours and you get a big crop of yeast on top of the fermenting wort, then you're doing just fine. Otherwise consider using more packets, or alternatively use a starter.
For liquid yeasts you almost always need a starter. They are sold in 50-ml packets or 35-ml tubes which provide roughly one quarter of the amount of yeast in a 10-g packet of dried yeast. Storage and delivery delays further reduce this amount. Some manufacturers now supply "ready-to-pitch" cultures of 175 ml, which if nothing else is an admission that the 50-ml packets are not enough. These cultures are not easy for UK home brewers to get hold of, so if you want to use liquid yeasts, you are committed to making starters. So to get to the equivalent of two packets of 10-g of dried yeast you need to step up the amount of yeast (50 ml) from the packet 16 times; that's 800 ml of yeast. However if we allow for the fact that the yeast will reproduce in numbers during the growth of the starters, then 250 ml of yeast is about right. Please note that it's 250 ml of yeast, not 250 ml of starter. A much greater volume of starter is required. The actual amount will depend on the starter's OG and how quickly the yeast grow in your home brewery. For me, the total amount of starter comes to about one gallon. Don't be alarmed, I'm not advocating throwing one gallon of pretty awful tasting starter into your prize-winning beer.
Here's how to do it: Dissolve some malt extract in boiling water. Cover and cool it. You should be aiming for about 2 pints of starter with an OG in the range of 1030 to 1040 – 100 g of dried extract in a litre gives 1038. Put it into a sterilised container (a demijohn is perfect) shake it up well to aerate it and fit an airlock. Bring the liquid yeast up to room temperature (this is important) and then add to the starter. Mix well and put the starter in a dark place at room temperature – even 24°C is fine. Keep a careful eye on it. It will take a while to get going but after a day or two you should see some activity in the airlock. Once the fermentation has died down, let the yeast settle to the bottom of the demijohn. Pour off the liquid carefully so as not to disturb the yeast. A little liquid will be left. Swirl the container so that the yeast is resuspended into the liquid. Use this to pitch into another starter. The next starter will be much bigger in volume, say about 6 pints (6+2 = 8 pints = 1 gallon, that's where my 1 gallon starter comes from). Repeat as before. Allow the yeast to settle, pour off the liquid, and what's left is sufficient yeast to ferment one 5-gallon batch of wort. The second starter should have an OG as close as possible to the OG of the beer you're brewing to avoid "osmotic shock".
Many authorities recommend pitching yeast at "high kräusen" which is taken to mean "at their peak activity", in other words when the fermentation is going at full blast. If you do this, the yeast are distributed throughout the starter and it effectively means that you have to pitch the whole volume of the starter. That doesn't do your beer any favours at all. The yeast will remain on top form for about 2 days after high kräusen, so it is perfectly fine to use them up to two days after they have settled out. One day afterwards is probably best. After two days the yeast will start to drop off in activity and die, and it's best not to use them at this point. So although I've used one gallon of starter, I'll probably end up with about half a pint (roughly 250 ml) of yeast slurry and the fermentation will certainly get going quickly.
Having got all that right it's tempting to sit back and think that all is well in the yeast world, but the final consideration is temperature in the fermentation. I'm sure that sooner or later all of us come across beer that's been fermented in an airing cupboard (I'll admit to having done it when I was a student) and I'd lay money on you having had a horrible hangover if you drank it. Temperature directly affects the types of alcohol produced and a whole host of other flavours too, so it pays dividends to keep an eye on what's going on. Traditional ale yeasts like a temperature in the range of 13° to 24°C but even in this range there is a great deal of variation. In practice ale yeasts produce the best results if the temperature is kept below 18°C. Speciality beers such as Trappist ales or wheat beers may profit from temperatures in the range 20° to 24°C, but most British ales would start to produce odd flavours and headache inducing properties at the higher end of the temperature scale.
In contrast, lager yeasts tolerate a wider range of temperatures in the order of 0° to 24°C. It is usual to ferment lagers at a higher temperature, say 12° to 18°C to start off with and to progressively reduce the temperature towards lagering temperatures of about 4°C. As always there's an exception: the Californian speciality, steam beer, uses lager yeasts but fermented at the higher end of the ale yeast spectrum: 20°C. In all of this discussion, the temperature referred to is the temperature inside the fermenting wort. If you have a lot of yeast and a good vigorous fermentation, that temperature can be a few degrees higher than the external temperature in your room. Homebrewers vary in the degree to which they monitor and control the fermentation temperature, but it is worth paying attention to. A simple method of cooling the fermentation is to wrap the vessel in towels soaked in cold water, but you can go all the way to thermocoupled cooling devices if you wish. Whatever your sticking point is in terms of diminishing returns for effort invested, please do bear in mind that fermentation temperature can have large effects on the resulting beer. There is always much more to say about yeast, but these practical tips ought to help you get the most out of your yeast.
Advances in dried yeast production since the article was written mean that the note about rehydration of dried yeast is a little out of date and you should follow the manufacturer's recommendations.


With everything being moved forward by computers, coding has the power to put millions of young people on the path to successful careers. Instead, refugee camps are developing into permanent settlements where children don't have the opportunity for education and rates of child labor are increasing - while companies around the world and across the MENA region are desperately looking for skilled ICT workers.
So the question is not if a full lifecycle of skills support for young refugees needs to be created, but when. For SAP and the Camden Education Trust, the answer is 'now'.
The 2017 edition of Digital Skills for Today (DS4T) took place from October 15-22, with free coding workshops being organized across camps, community centres and universities in Egypt, France, Greece, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Sweden and Turkey. Leveraging the power of the ecosystem to bring coherence and scale to ICT literacy initiatives across EMEA, the initiative showcases the tremendous impact of public-private partnerships on youth empowerment in the digital age.
SAP's enduring vision and purpose is to help improve people's lives. With the global refugee crisis encompassing more than 21 million displaced people who have crossed international borders in search of safety, we can unequivocally say that those refugees are in dire need of assistance to improve their lives. This pledge is a recognition that government action is not enough to help address the crisis, and is in direct alignment with what SAP stands for as a company.
This is why SAP has teamed up with the Camden Education Trust to empower young refugees with software coding skills. The inaugural DS4T (then called "Refugee Code Week") took place across the nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt from October 15-23, 2016, introducing coding to 10,070 youth.
In addition to introducing these young people to coding basics, Digital Skills for Today helps host and transit nation integrate coding education within school curricula, referring the most promising students to SAP partner RBK and Re:Coded for assistance in securing job placement.


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Nottingham Forest supporters can purchase tickets for tomorrow's trip to Ipswich Town on arrival at Portman Road.
The club have received an allocation of 1,267 reserved seat tickets located along the side of the pitch in the upper tier of the Cobbold Stand and tickets will remain on sale from the Forest ticket office until 3pm on Friday.
Supporters will be able to purchase tickets on arrival at Portman Road, with cash only, from turnstiles 10 and 11 with no price increase.
Any supporters wishing to collect pre-paid tickets need to do so before 3pm today or contact the Forest ticket office to arrange for these to be collect at Portman Road.
Tickets are restricted to one ticket per customer number. It is essential that you provide your customer number for all individuals purchasing away tickets. Each away fixture that supporters purchase tickets through the Forest ticket office during the 2017-18 season will be allocated one loyalty point. Loyalty points may be required to purchase tickets for high-demand fixtures.
Wheelchair disabled supporters and ambulant disabled supporters should purchase tickets in advance by calling the Ipswich Town Disabled Liaison Officer Warner Duff on 01473 400556.
There are eight wheelchair bays and 23 ambulant pairs of tickets available for visiting supporters and these are priced at £18 per pair.
Coach travel departs the Brian Clough Stand at 9.45am and is priced at £19.


Motivation is the reason you do something. It's the spark you need to get the job done. It's the magic lightbulb above your head that inspires you.
Motivation is such a natural thing, but some people lack in it. Sometimes it's just lacking for a little while, and sometimes it can seem like it's never there.
Children can find motivation hard to come by, especially when they need to be motivated to do things they really don't want to. In this blog, we'll work on learning what motivates your child.
When it comes to what motivates your child, examples can differ. Different kids need different motivators. It starts by knowing your child and considering their interests. Children can be driven by the things they want – like a new toy or a chance to see their favorite upcoming movie in the theater.
What does not motivate (at least not in a healthy way) children is yelling at them or threatening them. This raises fearful, not motivated, kids. Instead of putting punishments into place when it comes to motivating your kids, consider rewards that will teach them to enjoy the things they may not be as motivated to do.
There are different things children need motivation for. Some kids may love to do homework, while others may put it off so much that they're failing school because of it. Chores are similar – some kids make them fun, some do everything they can to avoid them.
Here are some areas where your children may need motivation, and tips on how to get them up and moving. Remember, motivation for kids needs to come from somewhere positive if you want them to learn and find internal motivation.
When it comes to homework, unless your child loves the subject they have school work on, it could be harder for them to get going. They may want to do everything but their homework. When they do have other things they want to do, you can use that in motivating them.
Child motivation perpetuated by offering the child something in return for their efforts. To get them to do their homework when they get home, set a ritual in which they get to do something they enjoy if their homework is done by a specific time.
Not only are you offering them an award, but you are also teaching them time management skills that they will be able take with them into the careers they have as adults.
Chores are no fun, but if you use them as a lesson in teaching your children about work ethic, you may be able to get them to do them when you want them done. Set schedules and pay them for the work they do. Sure, they may get free meals and a roof over their heads at no cost, but paying them for the work they do will help them appreciate the lesson a little more.
Not all kids show interest in extracurricular activities, but these activities can teach them teamwork and responsibility. It's because of the important lessons in these activities that you should consider motivating your kids to join.
Some of the ways you may find to get them to participate in clubs and sports is to tell them about the places they'll get to travel or the people they may get to meet. If they see rewards, they'll be more interested in participating. Don't force them though – clubs and sports aren't for everyone.
Rewards, monetary or otherwise, aren't the only things that get kids to do the things they may not be motivated to do. One thing that can really help is to talk to your kids – tell them about all of the benefits of the thing you want them to do and talk about it meaningfully.
It also helps to be willing to do some of these things with them. Kids are more likely to be OK with washing the dishes a couple of times each week if they see their parents doing them once in a while too. Lead by example.
Sometimes all it takes for anyone to get motivated to complete a task is a little appreciation. Make sure your kids know you love them and that you appreciate when they help out. Let them know you're proud of their successes and that you still love them even during their failures.


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Why Learn Languages Day at St Mary's Calne
On 3rd February 2017, St Mary's Calne hosted a 'Why Learn Languages' event held in conjunction with Cambridge University. Forty five UV and LVI linguists from St Mary's Calne attended, along with pupils from six visiting Wiltshire schools, including Abbeyfield, The John Bentley School, Sheldon and St John's.
Four visiting lecturers from the Modern and Medieval Languages Faculty, along with Mrs Alison Auvray (mother of a LV pupil) came to speak to our budding linguists about why learning Languages is becoming ever more important in our post-Brexit world, and ran taster sessions in some of the Languages that would be available at university.
To introduce studying languages at university to a wide range of students – specifically those languages which they have not studied at school. Cambridge offer an open day for languages – we wanted the lecturers to come here, so that the local schools in Wiltshire could all benefit from this. Forty seven girls from St Mary's attended and 33 pupils from six other schools (four state and two independent schools). (We invited seven schools and of those seven, six came to the event). The success was measured by the feedback from those who attended, with many schools emailing to say how beneficial the event had been. The beneficiaries are the students who attended. Also, students who could not attend still heard about the day, as their peers presented to them in class. The students' families also increased their awareness of the opportunities available post-school through their children.
Mrs Zoe Ross, Head of MFL at St Mary's Calne, contacted Cambridge University (MML Dept) directly, to see if they would provide this outreach service. She was then put in contact with Mr Felipe Schurey, Lecturer of Portugese, and the day was arranged together. This was the first time the event had run and was six months in the planning.
Teaching Staff for the language sessions were required: three from Cambridge and one parent of a St Mary's girl, sourced by Mrs Ross. The school facilities used were: meeting rooms, seminar room, the library and a main presentation room (the Chapel). None of the people who delivered sessions were teaching staff from St Mary's, but the day was put together by Mrs Ross, Head of MFL and a teacher. The event lasted three hours. The MFL Department at St Mary's Calne paid for the Cambridge Lecturers' travel and expenses, in total £280 for the day. The pupils and teachers from local schools made their own way to the school.
The assessment will be if any of the pupils decide to include a language as part of their university studies. As the pupils were in Year 11 and Year 12, we will not know this for at least one year.
Forty seven girls from St Mary's Calne – twenty four were 16/17 year olds; twenty three were 15/16 year olds. From the state schools (Abbeyfield, Sheldon, St John's, John Bentley) we had a total of sixteen girls and boys, aged 15-17.
As yet unknown. This was an inaugural event and we may look at repeating it in a year's time with a different university.
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St Mary's Calne's case studies
Classical Symposium
German Theatre Production
Wellbeing Talk on Mental Health for Staff and Parents
Lecture Programme
Oxford Interview Preparation
Spanish Language Club
Listening to Primary School Children Read
Musical Theatre Day
'Pop Lacrosse'
South West Artist Teachers (SWAT)
Theatre In Education (TIE) performances
'Science Matters' Day (The Castle School)
'Science Matters' Day (Abbeyfield School)
'Science Matters' Day (Hardenhuish School)
'Science Matters' Day (The John Bentley School)
Introduction to German Day for Year 5 Pupils
Mentoring Programme with The Springfields Academy
University Outreach Programme

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Watch Too Short's New Video for "Oaklandish" f/ Guapdad 4000 and Rayven Justice
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For nearly 40 years, Too Short has been rap's personification of Oakland. Now, the icon is once again paying homage to his soil with his new single, "Oaklandish."
Like the Golden Gate, Too Short uses this track to bridge Oakland's generational gap by tapping two of The Town's brightest young stars, Guapdad 4000 and Rayven Justice, to help him. Although Too Short, Rayven, and Guapdad make a point to show their love for their hometown, Short also shows loyalty to The Bay Area as a whole.
"If you from The Bay let me hear you say 'Yee'/When you out of town tell the DJ play me/I love E-40, Too Short, and Mac Dre," Short Dog raps as the video transitions from a shot of him to one of E-40.
The visual matches the song's lyrics and theme perfectly. Along with featuring Bay Area legends like Mistah F.A.B., it also shows popular landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, and Alcatraz Island. These tourist attractions were paired with local staples like sideshows.
Too Short's single comes after he clashed with fellow Bay Area titan, E-40, for the last Verzuz of the year. The duo also revealed that they would be teaming up with Los Angeles' Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg to release a new album.
Watch Too Short's video for "Oaklandish" above.
Guapdad 4000 Releases Debut Album 'Dior Deposits'
Too Short Is Now a Father at 53
Too Short and E-40 Will Face Off in Last 'Verzuz' of 2020
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UBC professor examines: Does your dog loathe the love of a hug?
WATCH: Dogs are said to be man's best friend and love us unconditionally, but there may be one exception. It turns out, they aren't huge fans of hugs. Mike Drolet explains why hugging your pooch may be stressing it out.
Your dog hates hugs, or more specifically, hugging your pooch raises its stress and anxiety levels.
That's according to an informal study done by Professor Stanley Coren, a canine behaviour expert from the University of British Columbia's Department of Psychology.
Coren's findings, which he blogged about in Psychology Today, are causing quite the debate amongst dog owners.
So, does your dog loathe the love of a hug?
A resounding yes, according to the UBC professor, and in fact it's been a long-standing fact that hugging a dog, any dog, is not a wise move.
"It is been generally accepted by anyone that studies anti-dog bite behaviours that hugging a dog is a bad thing," Coren says.
Even though Coren says the idea of not hugging a dog is "widely accepted" amongst dog behaviourists, surprisingly the scientific literature showed there had been little experimental evidence to support the belief.
To conduct his informal study, Coren selected 250 photos randomly of people hugging their dogs from Google Image Search and Flickr. To keep the data clean and precise, he only used photos where the dog's face could be clearly seen and eliminated situations where a dog's stress levels would be raised due to alternate factors (ie. being picked up) other than hugging.
After examining 250 photos, Coren found that 82 per cent or four out of five dogs had at least one stress sign when being hugged. Only eight per cent of the pictures showed the dog looking comfortable.
So what's an owner to do if they want to give a little love to their dog, or any dog?
"If you want to express your affection to your dog, you're better off patting them or giving them a kind word or a treat," Coren says.
And save your hugs for the humans in your life.


The French-Belgian Service for Jobs and Qualifications (SFMQ) was created in 2009 with the objective of bridging the gap between the demands of the labour market and the training that is offered. It sought to create a common language amongst stakeholders including employers' and workers' representative organisations; and all the VET providers (education and training institutions that focus on initial and continuing VET) for the French-Belgian Community. The SFMQ is in involved the quality assurance of the design of qualifications based on learning outcomes, and the assessment, certification and review of qualifications.
This case study describes the working practices and the methodology underpinning the design of these qualifications.
This case study was prepared in 2017 as part of the work on EQAVET+ organised by the EQAVET Network.


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Financial Trends
Has Penn Square sunk in?
30+ years later, is credit due diligence all it should be?
Written by Ed O'Leary
A banker friend reminded me recently that Penn Square Bank failed 32 years ago this past summer.
"That seems like such a long time ago. I wonder if we learned anything useful" was my response.
Post-financial crisis, Penn Square may be an episode forgotten, or hardly known.
But for me, it would be easy to think back about that long-ago event, and all that it entailed, including the demise of a huge American bank (Continental Illinois) and much damage to other institutions. The trouble arose from purchases of loan participations from Penn Square in oilfield credits.
I could lapse into clichés and jargon about the Five C's of Credit. I could bloviate about the myriad risks that flow from concentrations of credit—concentrations of collateral by type; by size of loan (oil exploration and extraction are capital intensive businesses); by geography; and by the collective ignorance of many of the participants in understanding the specialized risks of the business.
But instead, in thinking about what we learned, my first reaction is to rephrase it:
"What should we have learned?"
The lessons are many. But probably underappreciated both then and since.
Due diligence: You can't stint the essentials
If there was a singular lapse by the bankers of that day and time (and I am of that vintage, I should add) I think it was a failure of doing anything approaching an adequate job of due diligence.
Look at the list of points never adequately examined:
• Penn Square bank itself.
It was a bank tucked into a corner of the Penn Square Mall Shopping Center several miles from downtown. I moved to OKC two years after the bank failed, but I've been in that shopping center many times and clearly remember the site of the bank's home office.
How could a bank of that tiny scale mount a credible oil and gas exploration operation that would attract loan participations of major money center banks?
It's implausible in hindsight. But it happened.
• The bank's management.
The CEO of the bank was a long-time community banker, as I recall the lore of the time. He wasn't flashy or flamboyant. His principal lieutenant, Bill Patterson, was another matter. More about him a bit later.
• The bank's rate of growth.
It was enormous in a short period of time. How good was that bank's back office? How solid was the underwriting? How do you know? Whom do you ask?
The fact that it was almost impossible to get any reliable, hard information signaling some distress should have been a big red flag.
But it wasn't.
• The bank's ownership.
Were the stockholders notorious risk takers or conservative business people? What were their strategic objectives? Could we identify with them and their plans?
Or would our instincts be to run as hard as we could in the opposite direction?
No one seemed to be asking things like that.
• The bank's customers.
The oil industry in a simplified way is divided into two broad groups—"the major international and integrated companies" such as Exxon, Shell, etc. and the "independents."
The latter are the smaller players and they in turn range in size from small to enormous in absolute dollars. Their financial capacities and appetite for capital are substantial and grow almost exponentially as the scope of activities increases. At the small end of the scale, these are players often relatively new to the business, lacking depth of human and financial resources.
Often they are inveterate risk takers.
• The bank's funding sources.
The bank was originally funded primarily by retail consumer deposits but as its lending appetite grew, increasingly funded by brokered deposits. In other words, non-core funding was propelling entrepreneurial activity in the hands of small and often less-experienced players.
One easy way to get a perspective on the breadth of the risks assumed by the bank is to focus on the concentrations. They were everywhere, and created a special class of risk by that measure alone.
July 4, 1982: A taste of the times
Penn Square failed over the long Independence Day holiday weekend in 1982. My wife and I were visiting one of my best friends, whom I had met in the training program at The Bank of New York.
He was living now in Oklahoma City as an independent oil and gas operator and had a substantial credit line from the bank to support his exploration and production businesses. He was clearly "jolted" by the news. I recall he spent a fair amount of time on the phone that weekend on "business."
Back then I was the credit administrator for a big independent bank in Midland, Texas, and from my vantage point in the middle of the oil field, the industry was stressed and very nervous.
Oil prices had peaked at $41 a barrel the summer before and had slipped to somewhere in the mid-30s by that fateful weekend. The industry thrives on leverage. So a drop of 15% or so in the commodity price of oil was having its impact on the cash flows of some substantial borrowers all over the oil field.
Penn Square's principal energy lender was Bill Patterson, a young, attractive banker in his early 30s. He was known as an aggressive lender. He was not formally trained as a geologist. Nor did he have other specialized training nor a long tenure at a lending desk that would burnish his credentials as an energy lender. Instead, Patterson was a business developer, par excellence, and had a big following among the "oilies" in and around Oklahoma City.
On one occasion Patterson was seen at a lively social gathering drinking champagne from his cowboy boot. When that tale reached one correspondent banker's boss back in New York, the word back to the banker was "We don't do business with people who act like that."
Patterson had a fun-loving reputation and seemed to be living up to it, according to the locals. There were a number of stories flying around, perhaps truthful but perhaps apocryphal, of extravagant behavior.
Some very large upstream correspondent banks were badly harmed with "junk" deals that Penn Square bank originated. Continental Illinois failed in 1984 as a consequence of such paper, while other marquee names, including Seattle First National and Chase Manhattan were linked to soured loans originated by the bank.
Ripples to today, and beyond
By the time I moved to Oklahoma City in 1984, Penn Square was well in the rear-view mirror, but the damage was extraordinary and long lasting. My own bank, as the largest in West Texas in the heart of the prolific Permian Basin, had failed in 1983. The safety and soundness exam that signaled the beginning of our downward spiral was hastily arranged as a direct consequence of Penn Square's collapse.
How many otherwise sensible and experienced banking practitioners missed the signs of excess and the reckless abandon with which business was apparently conducted is amazing to me in hindsight.
No one was hiding anything. We just weren't paying attention.
A reasonable amount—a modicum—of due diligence would have exposed all of this—or at least enough of it to slow down the process and allow our normal instincts to work as they should have.
So the real lesson is that we weren't trolling for information in the normal places. What were we thinking?
I wonder what we might be missing today?
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The Hidden Brook Press
North Shore Series
Fine Canadian Literature
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Eel Pie Island Dharma
A hippie memoir/haibun
Chris Faiers
Hidden Brook Press
ISBN - 978-1-897475-92-8
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I like books that open new worlds for me. This is one. It will take you on a tour of the weird and wonderful world of hippies—not as seen by an outsider or imagined by us ordinary people, but as remembered by a genuine draft-resisting, love-making, pot-smoking 1960s hippie.
Things like that couldn't happen today. The world has changed. I remember going to a love-in on a California beach in 1966, where the security was provided by the Hells Angels and everything went swimmingly. Even with the brutality of the Vietnam War in the background, in some ways our society was more innocent then.
The literary form of this memoir is haibun—prose narrative mixed with haiku—a form that dates back to the accounts of the first haiku master Matsuo Bashō of his long journeys on foot in Japan in the late 1600s. His The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches still makes exemplary reading. Chris Faiers' Eel Pie Dharma, first published in 1990, is one of the early applications of haibun in the English language.
Chris, an acknowledged pioneer of English-language haiku, has been writing haiku for over forty-four years and has published them by the hundreds. So, what are they like? Here are two examples from this book:
to a naked man
with a peeled egg
sheep grazing
among gravestones
Players of the Oriental board game Go have a proverb: "If a move is not necessary, it is bad." Chris writes haiku like that. With a good eye for telling detail, and leaving everything else out, and never stooping to cleverness, he gives you simple unadorned kernels of what he saw or felt. You can take them or leave them.
In many ways, this little book gives us much to think about. But you don't need to think about it, you can just jump in and let Chris take you for a ride.
John Hamley/snowflea
Blurb about the book:
This book is one of the most important historical document of the 60s, a memoir in haibun form. It is part of the Hidden Brook Press, celebrated North Shore Series – the 28th book in this renowned Canadian literature series.
This memoir of a sixties survivor has become a haiku/haibun classic and an oft-quoted reference for the heady ferment which was the tail end of the 1960s.
Meet a Beatle! Attend the first Glastonbury music festival! Fight cops and skinheads at the infamous 144 Piccadilly squat! Hear a banshee and walk across Ireland ... live in the derelict Eel Pie Island Hotel with hippies, junkies and bikers ... be seduced by school girls ... drop acid in Cambridge ... sleep in a cave on Formentera ...
Before the draft for the Vietnam War called, Chris Faiers was a shy bookworm. But he read his Kerouac, and when the draft notices kept coming, "Canadian Chris" hit the dharma road feet first and didn't look back for three years.
A review by Honey Novick
The touch of the book "Eel Pie Island Dharma" is beautiful and smooth and instantly becomes part of the hands holding it. That's the way it felts to me as it grew to be an extension of me, the reader. I thought I would read this incrementally. That didn't happen. As I got into Chris' story of hippie remembrance, I took myself on to the road Chris travelled and journeyed with him to England in the 1960's and 1970's. For me the personal journey was American and Canadian but the sensibility of being young and anti-war and curious and intelligent and creative is the same. I could not put this book down and cancelled most of the appointments I had the day I read this book. The writing is fluid as we go to the commune and the pubs and the orgies and nights under the stars. Chris' love of life and writing is clear as with this book he becomes a spokesperson for a generation. Kudos also to his publisher for encouraging the telling of this important part of history. Bravo Chris and readers for embarking on a tale that leads to friendships and knowledge and greater understanding of time universal and seemingly unchanging.
Eric Amann, publisher of Haiku magazine, gave Chris early encouragement circa 1967. Chris has been writing and publishing haiku his entire adult life. His work has consistently been at the forefront in the development of English language haiku and haibun, and the online version of this book is likely the most widely read English language haibun.
His poetry has been widely published internationally in literary magazines, anthologies and scholarly texts and broadcast on radio and TV. EPID has become a frequent reference for documentaries and historical books.
Chris is also known for lyrical and political poetry. In 1987 he was honoured with the inaugural Milton Acorn People's Poet Award. Chris has been active as an organizer of poetry events and associations. He founded Unfinished Monument Press in 1978, and the Main Street Library Poetry Series in Toronto in 1979. In 2007 he began coordinating annual Purdy Country Literary Festivals (PurdyFests). Chris was a founding member of Haiku Canada and the Canadian Poetry Association. He is an honourary life member of the Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance.
In 1989 he moved to an Ontario village on the edge of the Canadian Shield, where he earned his living as village librarian. Now retired, he wanders remote trails and acts as steward of his ZenRiver Gardens retreat. Chris' 2008 Hidden Brook Press collection, ZenRiver: Poems & Haibun, relates some of his experiences in this wild and untamed countryside. He continues to develop and promote this new subgenre of "shaman haibun" which he helped create with ZR:P&H. You can follow his poetry and activities on his blog Riffs and Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens.
Previous Collections by Chris Faiers
ZenRiver: Poems & Haibun (Hidden Brook Press, 2008)
Small Press Lynx (co-editor with Mark McCawley; co-published
Unfinished Monument Press, Greensleeve Editions, 1991)
Eel Pie Dharma: a memoir/haibun (Unfinished Monument Press, 1990)
Moon City (haiku - Greensleeve Publishing, 1989)
13 Bohemian Dreams (Unfinished Monument Press, 1988)
Mr Library Man (Haiku Canada broadsheet, 1988)
Foot Through the Ceiling (Aya/Mercury Press, 1986)
5 Minutes Ago They Dropped The Bomb (Unfinished Monument Press, 1984)
The Unfinished Anthology (co-editor, Unfinished Monument Press, 1984)
Island Women (HMS Press, 1983)
White Rasta in Wintertime (Unfinished Monument Press, 1982)
Unacknowledged Legislator (blewointmentpress, 1981)
Sleeping in Ruins ( haiku - Unfinished Monument Press, 1981)
White Rasta (Unfinished Monument Press, 1980)
College Streetcar Runs All Night (Unfinished Monument Press, 1979)
Dominion Day in Jail (Unfinished Monument Press, 1978)
Guest in a Garden (haiku - C&C Printing, 1969)
Cricket Formations (haiku - C&C Printing, 1969)
Reviewers: If you would like to write and publish a review of this book please contact the publisher for a free copy of the book and author contact info. Please feel free to use any material from this website. On request we will email you high res pics of the cover and author if needed. Contact - Richard Grove / Tai 613-475-2368 or writers@hiddenbrookpress.com


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The National Development andReform Commission of China(NDRC) released on August 27a report on the first-half operation antthe second-half expectation of the coalindustry. The coal industry is predictedto have a consecutive balance of sup-ply and demand this year with a lessstrained supply in the second halt.
This year, due to faster growinginvestment and demand coupled withwider increase in transportation capac-ity, the coal turnout is rebounding.
The fixed-assets investment in theindustry saw rapid increase in the firsthalf. In particular, the investment inreal estate, a strong momentum to theincreasing coal demand, jumped 28.5%,6.7 percentage points higher than thefull-year of 2003. In this regard, in thefirst half the domestic coal consumptionis estimated at roughly 1.263 billiontons, leaping about 12.2%, more than 2percentage points higher than last year.
From January to June, 599 milliontons of coal was transported by trains,rising 10.1% year on year. The rise is 3.8percentage points higher than the full-year of 2006 but still slower than that inthe coal production and demand. RailTransportation strain still reins in coalsupply, though more slightly than before.
According to the National Bureauof Statistics of China, in the first fivemonths of this year China"s coal industryachieved a profit of RMB 30.86 billionyuan, increasing 43.1% year on year.
Despite the profit increase, the wholeindustry began to incur a negative influ-ence of the excessively rapid growth inproduction cost, which has pulled downthe profit. In May, coal companies un-der the aegis of the central governmentsuffered a year-on-year profit decline of5.2%.
In the second half, China"s coal de-mand will continue to go up rapidly at aslower pace. The fairly rapid growth incoal supply is bringing the pressure ofoversupply. In recent years, the coal pro-duction capacity has kept a rapid growth.From 2002 to 2006, the new capacityof about 666 million tons had been putinto operation. In 2007 and 2008, morecapacity will be brought into operation,which will lead to a faster increase incapacity than in demand.
Rail transportation is expected totake a looser control of coal supply inthe second half, but the latter can hardlybe free of the control entirely.
The NDRC predicted a less strainedcoal supply for the second half than forthe first six months.
Next year, China will possibly wit-ness a new round of coal price increase,pointed out China Coal Transporta-tion & Sale Society (CCTSS). Thebalance between supply and demandwill change in the coal market in 2008.There will likely be a coal shortagein the Eleventh Five-year Plan period(2006 to 2010). At the end of 2010, theshortage will reach approximately 100million tons.
CCTSS attributed the shortage totwo factors.
Firstly, the state"s macro-controlof the coal industry will rein in coalsupply then. It has put a clamp on newprojects in the industry, which is saidto have potential overcapacity. Con-sequently, the fixed-assets investmentincrease in the industry has started toslow down obviously.
Secondly, the Ministry of Land andResources issued a circular in Februarythat no approval would be given to newapplication for coal exploration right inorder tO avoid overhed investment incoat explorafion, Which usually resultsin overcpacity.


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No point in trailing all the way into store to find out the meals I like are not on the selected list.
Also on a side note it says selected stores only, what selected stores?
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The Meatballs in onion gravy are lush. I have bought these for a while now but have noticed that they have reduced the number of meatballs in the pack, but never the less they are still lovely.
Hot as mostly aree £3 quid each new about this awhile ago as i work at prem foods who makes all the food for every m&s store not sure when it started tho. explains why its so busy in work this week.
I buy 3 count on us meals a week, love markys food....shame non of my usual ones are in the deal.....hot non the less!


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The human perspective
Boehringer's HR lead Andreas Neumann on the company's strategic changes and the role of company culture
Last year Boehringer Ingelheim took some big strategic decisions that it hopes will keep it on course to maintain its competitiveness and sustainable business development.
Chief among these moves were the German company's exit from the generics business, via a $2.6bn deal with specialty firm Hikma, and its forthcoming asset swap with Sanofi. The latter deal will see Boehringer hand its consumer health interests to Sanofi in return for the French pharma firm's animal health arm Merial. Contracts for this are due to be signed by 30 June, with Boehringer's management expecting the deal to be finalised by the end of this year.
Internal changes are also in the offing from July, when Boehringer's R&D operations, led by Dr Michel Pairet, will be renamed the 'Innovation Unit' and tasked with all stages of development up to clinical proof-of-concept. Meanwhile, a 'Prescription Medicines Business Unit' led by Allan Hillgrove will take on responsibility for the subsequent 'highly market-oriented development' of products.
Overseeing these strategic manoeuvres will be Hubertus von Baumbach, who takes over as chairman of the board of managing directors from Prof Andreas Barner on 1 July. But leading the charge from an HR perspective will be Andreas Neumann.
Neumann was appointed to his present role, where he has responsibility for the corporate human resources board division, last September, having joined the German pharmaceutical company in 2011 and managed its corporate legal division, ahead of assuming charge of its human resources corporate division in early 2015.
PME joined him recently in Ingelheim, Germany to look at how the personnel implications of such changes are managed, as well as the role of company culture, when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent.
Neumann noted that the changes at Boehringer, and particularly its deal with Sanofi, will be "transformational" for his company, but he said that, for him, it was part of a wider context of change. "When I look at Boehringer, I think about transformation times three," which he says encompasses firstly rapid changes in the company's external environment and secondly the way Boehringer is transforming itself.
When I look at Boehringer, I think about transformation times three
"The third one is HR - at Boehringer that is also in transformation, in many respects. And when I think about that transformation, I think about the following. How are we going to serve the company best? How can we make sure, from a strategic point of view, that we do a good job supporting the mid- to long-term goals of the company, from a people perspective. That's what is really important, and we have started to embark on a journey where we are trying to link the business discussions with the people discussions in our company."
Andreas says he prefers to see these changes as "opportunities, rather than challenges". But looking at how a transaction such as the yet-to-be-completed asset swap with Sanofi is managed, from a people perspective, he notes that such transactions are a big deal for an organisation.
"This is where leadership and open communication kicks in, being transparent about the entire process from the early stages, to the signing at the closing of the agreement, to the integration piece. The sooner you get clarity, the sooner you get answers, and the sooner you can shed some light, and I think then people are going to be more convinced about the business rationale of that transaction."
This is easier when it comes to Boehringer's internal changes within its business units. "Because this is more of an internal change in our company, I am convinced people understand the rationale for the creation of those business units, the innovation unit and the prescription medicine unit, because it's going to make our company better prepared for the future."
Culture and talent
Turning to the role of company culture, and Boehringer's own culture specifically, Neumann sees it as one of the fundamental ways for a firm to retain talented individuals.
"In my mind, there are a number of reasons why people leave an organisation or decide not to join an organisation. One is they don't like the culture. Second, they don't like their respective leader. Third is they don't see the opportunity for personal growth, or fourth, there is just a better opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity coming up.
"From an HR standpoint, you can never argue against the latter because this is out of your control. But you can deal with the other three factors. This is where Boehringer has a key strength because there is a very, very strong culture, which is built on our BI values of respect, trust, empathy and passion that go back almost to the founder of this company."
Moving forward to 21st century challenges and the Boehringer of today will soon have four generations working within its Ingelheim headquarters, all with their different needs and motivations.
"You have to have what I would call a customised employee experience," Neumann says, "given the fact that there are different generations under your roof, and the needs of those people are going to be very different going forward."
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A full moon – and it's a Supermoon, Blue Moon, AND we have an eclipse too (only viewable in Hawaii).
SO, what does this all mean? Well, it means it's an opportunity to return to love… to you … to YOUR GREATNESS.
1. Get clarity on/Focus on the vision of what you WOULD love.
2. Be clear and real about where you are in relation to that (sets up 'creative tension' as described in Robert Fritz's amazing book 'The Path of Least Resistance' which I HIGHLY recommend).
3. Be gentle on you and take steps every single day towards manifesting your VISION.
Are you 'In Your Power'?
That is what 'being in your power' actually means – having clarity on your vision, and taking steps towards it! How cool and empowering is that?
So, there you have it in a nutshell. Have clarity that you are simply in this aMAZE-ing place and you are spiralling UPWARDS and moving closer and closer to what you love. You need to stay committed to your vision. If you would like clarity on your vision, then feel free to connect with me and book a slot for a complimentary 'Launch Your Awesome' now breakthrough session – click here to do so. Choose a suitable slot, and I look forward to chatting and breaking YOU through to your higher dimension where your dreams have already manifested. Aloha!
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I don't have a lot of red meat recipes here, especially not beef. The biggest reason for this is that beef is the most expensive cut of meat usually, and I'm all about making bentos that are economical. But I do use beef sometimes, and one of my favorite ways is to treat it as I do in this recipe - quickly stir-fried, salty-sweet and tender strips of beef flavored with sesame oil.
If your piece of beef is more than 1/3 inch / 1 cm or so thick, put it between two sheets of kitchen parchment paper or in a plastic bag and pound it thin with a meat mallet, rolling pin or the side of a heavy knife. This tenderizes an inexpensive cut of meat, and also makes it cook a lot faster.
Slice the beef (after pounding if necessary) across the grain into thin strips. (The grain is the direction in which the meat muscles run - you want to cut the meat perpendicular to that.) Put into a bowl, and add all the other ingredients except for the 1 tsp. of sesame oil. Massage the meat with your hands to rub in the marinade.
You can cook this right away, or leave it for a little while or even overnight.
Heat up a frying pan and add the remaining 1 tsp. of sesame oil. Add the beef to the hot pan and stir-fry for a couple of minutes until done. It should be just a bit syrupy, and an appetizing dark brown.
You can marinate this the night before and cook it in the morning (this is ideal), or cook it the night before.
You can change up the oil to give this a different flavor. For instance, try olive oil, salt, rosemary and a tiny bit of garlic for Mediterranean flavored beef. Massaging in the a little oil serves to make lean cuts more tender and juicy.
Thanks for posting this Maki, I'll definitely try this recipe!
I actually discovered Minute Steak just the other day, when the craving hit for some beef stir fry. I went to my local organic grocer and bought two small slices of Minute Steak—one to cook and one to freeze for later. It amounted to a little less than $5 for about half a pound. Not sure if that is expensive, but the meat was very good quality. And I was able to stretch one Minute Steak into a full meal, by adding tons of delicious veggies and pouring the whole thing over white rice.
My mother's trick for tender beef: stir-fry it twice. Cook the meat first, and then spoon it out and let it "rest" while you're cooking up the vegetables. Then dump the beef back in and pan fry some more. It tastes just like restaurant beef, every time!
I found this web site about 2 months ago and absolutely love it! I enjoy going through the recipes and like what I see. The sad part…. I have yet to cook any of it! I want to of course but just don't have the time(college student). But I will soon. I love the look of this one too! Thanks for keeping up the website, really appreciate it.
When I was growing up, my mom didn't often have a lot of money for beef. But she would often pick up a minute steak. She would cut it in strips (just like in the recipe above), and quickly stir fry it with a little olive oil and a handful of whole garlic cloves. Just whack the cloves enough to break the skin, then peel them and toss into the pan when the steak goes in. We are garlic lovers, so she would usually use a whole head, and we'd eat the hot cooked garlic cloves, too. Usually served with something simple, rice and a vegetable. It remains a comfort food for me even now, and I'm excited to try this variation!
Beef is a little more expensive than chicken in Texas, but it's not cost prohibitive. We can still eat beef as regularly as our health would permit. I just prefer chicken and fish (which is crazy expensive!), so I only eat beef once or twice a week. I tried this recipe, and it's great. I wanted it to have even more sesame flavor (nothing subtle about me), so I sprinkled toasted sesame seeds on top. Delicious… Thanks for the recipe!
We tried this tonight - it was so yummy!
Hi Maki! I love your site. It is chock-full of information and not at all intimidating for newbies to Japanese cooking like me. This looks good. Do you think I could substitute seitan strips successfully?
Seitan should be great with this method. You may want to add a tad more soy sauce and sesame oil.
Hmm…any miso dressing that you can suggest? I know that House Foods/The Curry house make their own that they sell.
I made this tonight and added some renkon slices (cut in half and cooked about halfway before I added them.) Too bad there isn't any left for bento tomorrow, we seem to have that problem in our house! When it's really good, we keep picking at it until it's gone and it's back to going out for lunch the next day! I know you are supposed to cook it fresh in the morning, but that's just not going to happen in our house!
can i substitute mirin with something else? or can i just dont use it?
A dry Riesling or other dry white wine. In the cases of beef and wild game, bourbon or beer are also good. Mirin is mildly sweet and I like dry types of wines for cooking and for drinking.
Thank you for posting this. Beef is a staple of my diet and I'm always looking for new ways to cook it. Beef here is very cheap and I eat it pretty often.
Mon, 2010-02-08 18:39 by anon.
Try this one too for honey beef..
add the mince and fry together. At this point add a generous amount of HONEY and stir in.
The result is a sweet and spicy beef that can be eaten with rice.
Thu, 2010-09-02 04:24 by anon.
It freezes fine, but just be careful when you are defrosting it not to overcook it in the microwave, or the beef may get tough.
Do you drain the marinade from the beef before frying, or do you need it in the pan to make the sauce?


The scheduling of production processes should be exact, flexible and easy to configure. The Production & Facility Scheduler (PFS) is fully integrated into zenon. This factory calendar controls equipment and production processes precisely, depending on the date, time, event and production status. For equipment with heavy consumption, considerable savings (for example, in energy consumption) can be achieved using it.
The PFS executes user-defined actions at fixed or relative switching times. For example, it can call up a function or set target values. These actions are executed once or cyclically, depending on their definition. They are carried out at a fixed point in time or are defined relatively. Relative times such as start/end of production, pauses or start/end of shift are combined with the zenon time models (for example, a 40 hour week). The execution times are then calculated from this. Which time-related actions are linked and the manner in which they are linked is specified in the schedules. Subschedules automatically contain the times of the superordinate schedule and can be expanded with their own time model. The calendar links the time models with the schedules and displays them in a clear form.
zenon makes it very easy to control an entire factory with the PFS. For this, units belonging together are grouped to the equipment: e.g. the buildings of a production facility. Constructional or production-related situations are logically replicated in this way.
Basic functions of the PFS are already included as standard in zenon as the "zenon Scheduler". The scheduler offers a clearly structured overview, in calendar form, via a comfortable user interface. The scheduler is network capable and fully integrated into the redundancy concept.


I never tasted a macaron until a couple of years ago – but then I was hooked because my-oh-my are they delicious! These little cookies would be great for a party, special dessert, in a gift, or plenty of other occasions. If you're in the mood for this tasty treat, give one of these 15 Must Make Macaron Recipes a try and see which one is your favorite!
Maybe the cotton candy one catches your eye, or you're more of a lemon fan. I know many would love the pumpkin spice macaron recipe, and I'm eager to give the Star Wars ones a try! Whatever you choose, I'm sure it'll be a great little snack for the everyone!
Which macaron recipe is your favorite?
I want to try the lemon macarons! Yum!


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Campus Reform | Free speech advocates slam Princeton's 'ideologically motivated' faculty committee to monitor for 'racist' research
Free speech advocates slam Princeton's 'ideologically motivated' faculty committee to monitor for 'racist' research
In addition, the letter also demands a committee to monitor and discipline "racist behaviors, incidents, research, and publication," causing freedom of speech concerns.
A recent letter signed by hundreds of Princeton faculty called for sweeping campus reforms, including the tearing down of its monuments, discouraging the use of the SAT as an admittance tool, and disproportionate pay for faculty of color.
Andrew Covert | Arizona Campus Correspondent
Friday, July 10, 2020 12:51 PM
A letter that has been signed by hundreds of professors, alumni, and students at Princeton University is calling for a systemic change to the way that Princeton evaluates and publishes its research, one that focuses on eliminating supposed "racist behavior" from the academic sphere.
The open letter, which has so far amassed more than 375 signatures, specifically calls for the creation of a committee that would be responsible for authoring, "Guidelines on what counts as racist behavior, incidents, research, and publication." In addition, the committee is also granted the power to "oversee the investigation and discipline of racist behaviors, incidents, research, and publication on the part of faculty."
The letter does not outline any conditions for defining what constitutes "racist behavior," nor if the committee will have any sort of oversight governing its decision-making process.
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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education senior fellow and Princeton alumna Samantha Harris spoke out against the letter, calling the idea of an "ideologically motivated" committee having control of an academic environment an "anti-intellectual, frontal assault on free speech and academic freedom at Princeton that would shut down entire avenues of inquiry, research, and discussion."
"Honestly, I view the fact that a large group of faculty at one of the nation's top universities even thinks that such a committee would be appropriate as a threat to academic freedom," Harris told Campus Reform. "To me, it demonstrates that a large number of people who should believe in the unfettered pursuit of knowledge are willing to shut down entire lines of research and inquiry to advance their political agenda -- and that is something that should frighten anyone who believes in free speech, freedom of inquiry, academic freedom, and the search for truth."
Harris voiced her concerns that a restriction of free speech could be "detrimental" to the rights of those the program would claim to benefit. She continued to point out that the irony of these restrictions. "Freedom of speech is critically important for minority rights -- it has been at the core of all of the important civil rights movements of this century. Any action that undermines freedom of speech will, I believe, ultimately be detrimental to the rights of those who, in this instance, it is ostensibly supposed to benefit."
[RELATED: Seattle-area college students still can't go to class, but are encouraged to join BLM protests]
While advocates of freedom of speech on college campuses and universities may find these developments sobering, Harris offered a path forward for those looking to preserve their rights. She cautioned those who are afraid of "falling victim to the 'cancel culture'" telling them, "the biggest thing that students and faculty can do to fight back against the imposition of official orthodoxies on campus is to simply have the courage to say openly what they really believe."
One Princeton professor, however, is condemning the effort.
In an op-ed for Quillette, Joshua Katz says he is "embarrassed for" his colleagues who signed the letter.
Katz explained that while many signatories might believe in the content of the letter completely, he believes that most who signed it did so because "they agree with some of the demands and felt it was good to act as 'allies' and bring up the numbers even though they do not assent to everything themselves." Others, he argues, probably signed it out of "peer pressure," while some may have "signed without reading it."
Katz warned against the contents of the letter, arguing that many of its stipulations "would lead to civil war on campus and erode even further public confidence in how elite institutions of higher education operate."
The letter comes on the back of a nationwide push by campuses and cities alike, such as Seattle, where Black Lives Matter organizers are pushing for "anti-racist" policies to be implemented. It is unclear how the Princeton leaders are planning to proceed, or if they will implement any of the suggestions currently outlined in the letter.
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Andrew Covert is an Arizona Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on campus for Campus Reform. He is a junior at Grand Canyon University studying both Business Administration and Pre-Law. He is also involved with the on-campus TedX program as well as the local GOP party.


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Ма́ркус Ла́рссон (, род. , Кил) — шведский горнолыжник, двукратный призёр чемпионата мира. Специалист слаломных дисциплин.

В Кубке мира Ларссон дебютировал в 1999 году, в марте 2006 года одержал свою первую победу на этапе Кубка мира в слаломе. Всего на сегодняшний день имеет 2 победы на этапах Кубка мира, обе в слаломе. Лучшим достижением в общем зачёте Кубка мира является для Ларссона 22-е место в сезоне 2006-07.

Принимал участие на Олимпиаде-2002 в Солт-Лейк-Сити, где занял 7-е место в слаломе.

На Олимпиаде-2006 в Турине, стал 11-м в комбинации, кроме того стартовал в слаломе, но не смог добраться до финиша.

На Олимпиаде-2010 в Ванкувере, стал 43-м в скоростном спуске, 16-м в комбинации и 27-м в гигантском слаломе.

На Олимпийских играх 2014 года в Сочи занял седьмое место в слаломе, как и 12 годами ранее на Играх в Солт-Лейк-Сити.

За свою карьеру участвовал в шести чемпионатах мира (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015), завоевал серебряную медаль в командных соревнованиях на чемпионате мира 2007 года в Оре и бронзовую в аналогичной дисциплине на чемпионате мира 2015 года в Вейле. На чемпионате мира 2005 года в Бормио занял четвёртое место в слаломе.

Использовал лыжи и ботинки производства фирмы Head.

Завершил карьеру в январе 2016 года после травмы, полученной в Адельбодене.

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Горнолыжники на зимних Олимпийских играх 2002 года
Горнолыжники на зимних Олимпийских играх 2006 года
Горнолыжники на зимних Олимпийских играх 2010 года
Горнолыжники на зимних Олимпийских играх 2014 года

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We will continue with unsettled weather for the rest of the weekend and the start of your workweek. Plan on mostly cloudy skies with showers at times on Sunday. Some of those showers will be intense, but short lived. We will also get some sunbreaks.
Highs on Sunday will be on the cool side, only getting to the mid to upper 60s. Areas in the north Sound and along the coast will be in the upper 50s to low 60s.
The large area of low pressure off the coast of Oregon will continue spinning showers up our direction on Monday and Tuesday. The sun will peek through at times as well. Highs will stay about 5 degrees below normal.
That low will shift to the east starting on Tuesday with high pressure moving in on Wednesday. If you are waiting of sunny skies, Wednesday and Thursday look like your best bet, with highs jumping to the low to mid 70s.


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Waldemar Chełkowski (ur. 22 lipca 1975 w Brodnicy) – polski motocyklista wyścigowy. Startował w klasie Fiat Yamaha Cup R1, Pucharze BMW, w klasie Superstock 1000, a w sezonie 2012 oraz 2013–2015 w klasie Superbike w Wyścigowych Międzynarodowych Motocyklowych Mistrzostwach Polski oraz Mistrzostwach Europy – Alpe Adria Motorcycle Union. Jego numer startowy to 50. Ściga się od 2007 r. Jeździł na motorze R1'03 i R1'08. Obecnie startuje na motocyklu BMW S1000RR. W latach 2009–2012 razem z Aleksandrem Ostrowskim nakręcił prawie 60 odcinków "Monośladu" – programu motoryzacyjnego o tematyce motocyklowej, który ukazuje się na łamach PolsatPlay. Trzykrotnie zdobył tytuł najlepszego sportowca roku - 2007,2008 oraz 2009 Brodnicy (swojej rodzinnej miejscowości). Plebiscyt przeprowadzany jest na łamach Czasu Brodnicy (Agora SA) .

W połowie 2016r zakończył karierę wyścigową. W 2017r pomyślnie zdał egzamin i został COACH'em (trenerem) w najbardziej elitarnej szkole nauki techniki, jazdy motocyklowej na świecie - California Superbike School.

W 2018 r. ukończył kurs oraz zdał egzamin zostając Instruktorem Sportu Motocyklowego w Polskim Związku Motorowym.

Ma żonę oraz dwójkę dzieci (córkę i syna).

Obecnie zamieszkały w Warszawie.

Kariera sportowa
 zdobywca pierwszych i drugich miejsc w wyścigach motocyklowych w ramach Międzynarodowych Mistrzostw Polski
 1. miejsce w plebiscycie na najpopularniejszego sportowca seniora powiatu brodnickiego w 2007 r.
 5. miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej klasy R1 (97 pkt.) Fiat Yamaha Cup w 2008 r.
 1. miejsce w plebiscycie na najpopularniejszego sportowca seniora powiatu brodnickiego w 2008 r.
 3. miejsce w klasyfikacji generalnej klasy R1 (160 pkt.) Fiat Yamaha Cup w 2009 r.
 1. miejsce w plebiscycie na najpopularniejszego sportowca seniora powiatu brodnickiego w 2009 r.
  – zdobywca BMW RR Cup w 2010 r.
  – Wicemistrz Polski (WMMP) w klasie SuperStock 1000 w 2010 r.

Bibliografia
 http://www.scigacz.pl/Waldemar,Chelkowski,4948.html
 http://www.scigacz.pl/Waldek,Chelkowski,sportowcem,roku,w,Brodnicy,4833.html
 http://www.scigacz.pl/Wojciech,Manczak,i,Marcin,Malecki,8211;,zwyciezcy,Fiat,Yamaha,Cup,2009,10714.html
 http://www.czasbrodnicy.pl/czasbrodnicy/1,93191,6947145,Chelkowski_odrabia_straty.html
 http://www.czasbrodnicy.pl/czasbrodnicy/1,93191,7483638,Wybieramy_sportowca_i_trenera.html
 http://www.czasbrodnicy.pl/czasbrodnicy/1,93191,7600796,Laureaci_odebrali_nagrody.html

Przypisy

Ludzie urodzeni w Brodnicy
Polscy motocykliści wyścigowi
Urodzeni w 1975


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Lincolnshire mental health services open doors to BBC
As part of a week-long look at the services provided by a modern NHS mental health service, BBC Radio Lincolnshire is featuring NHS staff talking about working on the mental health frontline and service users' sharing their experiences of living with a mental illness and road towards recovery.
The series, Picking up the Pieces, will run until Saturday [March 6] on the breakfast, mid-morning and drive-time shows. In between interviews with staff and service users there will be opportunities for listeners to pose questions live on air to clinicians employed by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and participate in a psychological therapy exercise.
Each day will feature different services provided by the Trust, starting with housing support, psychological therapies (talking therapies), and an interview with the Trust's chief executive, Dr John Brewin.
Dr Brewin said: "This is a great opportunity for local people to hear more about the services available to them from the voices of the people that work there and from the people in our care.
"We hope this series of interviews and emotive case studies will go some way to help increase public understanding of mental health and reduce stigma. It is only through improving education and knowledge that we can really change peoples' attitudes and behaviour around mental health.
"Mental illness can happen to anyone at any time; in fact one in four will experience it in their lifetime and sadly many of those will also be affected by stigma and discrimination. I hope that this mental health series will raise sufficient awareness and understanding to encourage people to talk openly about mental health issues and seek the help they need."
Later in the week the focus will be on the work of: the county's only sexual assault referral unit, inpatient teams, children and adolescent mental health services, eating disorder services and crisis services.
The series will also celebrate the recent success of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which has been rated better than the majority of mental health trusts in the country for the percentage of staff (91%) who believe their role makes a difference to patients, experience job satisfaction and feel motivated at work.
The results of the annual NHS Staff Survey 2014 show positive and much improved results for the Trust, both year-on-year and in comparison with other mental health trusts. 25 of the Trust's scores – out of 29 – were above the mental health trust average.
Read the full schedule and listen to BBC Lincolnshire at: www.bbc.co.uk/radiolincolnshire


Products/services for wire preparation and wire harness. Directory listing are sorted alphabetically.
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Milan Milanović (; born 10 January 1963) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Playing career
After coming through the youth system of Partizan, Milanović played for Zemun in the Yugoslav Second League. He later spent multiple years in Germany, playing for five clubs in the lower leagues. In 1997, Milanović moved to the Faroe Islands and served as player-manager of VB Vágur for two seasons.

Managerial career
After returning to his homeland, Milanović was manager of Zemun in the First League of FR Yugoslavia. He later served as an assistant manager to Boško Đurovski at Rad, before replacing him in May 2003. After the club suffered relegation from the top flight, Milanović continued managing the team in the Second League until January 2004.

In June 2009, Milanović was named as new manager of Laktaši in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but left the club before the end of the year. He later moved to Moldova and became an assistant to Vitali Rashkevich at Sheriff Tiraspol. In May 2012, Milanović replaced Rashkevich as manager.

In July 2014, Milanović took charge as manager of Serbian SuperLiga side Rad, returning to the club after a decade elsewhere. He was discharged from his position in April 2016. In August 2016, Milanović became manager of Serbian First League side Zemun for the second time, guiding them to promotion to the top flight after 10 seasons. He decided to leave the club in August 2018.

In June 2019, Milanović was appointed as manager of Kazakhstan Premier League side Irtysh Pavlodar.

On 26 September 2021, Milanović was appointed as Head Coach of Alashkert, leaving the role during the winter break when his contract expired.

On 20 May 2022, Milanović was appointed as the new Head Coach of Kazakhstan Premier League club Tobol.

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from .. import BaseApi, NamedEndpoint
from .urls import AccountApiUrls

class AccountApi(NamedEndpoint):
    """
    This class wraps the Account-v1 Api calls provided by the Riot API.

    See https://developer.riotgames.com/apis#account-v1 for more detailed information
    """

    def __init__(self, base_api: BaseApi):
        """
        Initialize a new AccountApi which uses the provided base_api

        :param BaseApi base_api: the root API object to use for making all requests.
        """
        super().__init__(base_api, self.__class__.__name__)

    def by_puuid(self, region: str, puuid: str):
        """
        Get account by puuid

        :returns: AcountDto
        """
        return self._request_endpoint(
            self.by_puuid.__name__, region, AccountApiUrls.by_puuid, puuid=puuid
        )

    def by_riot_id(self, region: str, game_name: str, tag_line: str):
        """
        Get account by riot id

        :returns: AccountDto
        """
        return self._request_endpoint(
            self.by_riot_id.__name__,
            region,
            AccountApiUrls.by_riot_id,
            game_name=game_name,
            tag_line=tag_line,
        )

    def active_shard(self, region: str, game: str, puuid: str):
        """
        Get active shard for a player

        :returns: ActiveShardDto
        """
        return self._request_endpoint(
            self.active_shard.__name__,
            region,
            AccountApiUrls.active_shard,
            game=game,
            puuid=puuid,
        )

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Home » Spanish Vaccine Can Be Adapted To New Strains In Just Four Months
Spanish Vaccine Can Be Adapted To New Strains In Just Four Months
August 17, 2021 Gene Parker
Vaccination against Covid-19 continues to advance rapidly in our country, but the creation of a new Spain-brand vaccine is also advancing. The Girona-based pharmaceutical multinational Hipra announced this week that the vaccine it is developing for SARS-CoV2 has been approved by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) for testing in humans .
The keys to this new vaccine, among many others, is that it can " reform " before the appearance of new strains of the virus. The director of Hipra's Human Health Division, Toni Maneu , explained to elEconomista that "in a period of four months, more or less, we could readjust the configuration to fight against future variants that may arise from Covid-19."
This is an element that adds value to this new serum that the Minister of Science, Diana Morant , described in an interview for Cadena Ser as "an improved vaccine" . In this sense, the minister also refers to the form of preservation of the drug. Unlike those already on the market, the Hipra vaccine can be stored between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius.
To get an idea, the refrigerator in our homes must be at a temperature between 4 and 6 ºC , therefore, this vaccine "can be kept in a conventional refrigerator" , they point out from the company.
This aspect facilitates "its logistics and distribution" , since a large infrastructure to transport it is not essential, so costs will be lowered "and may have a lower price than the rest of vaccines", they assure from the laboratory. Although they still cannot advance a specific price since they have not started with production.
According to Hipra's forecasts, if these first clinical trials of Spanish serum in humans give good results and the AEMPS issues the appropriate authorizations, they will begin with the manufacture of the vials from October at its facilities in Girona and each of them released on the market will contain a total of ten doses to be injected without the need to mix it with any other serum for inoculation.
In the first information, the company set the objective of manufacturing 400 million doses during the year 2022. But company sources have informed elEconomista that this forecast is doubled and will be around 600 to 900 million vials manufactured in next year, but with an eye to 2023, when they expect to meet the figure of around 1.2 billion doses put on the market.
In its development, the scenarios that have been raised are two, explains Maneu . The first is to "serve as a souvenir, as with the flu." This scenario would be for countries that are already immunizing. The other scenario they propose is that of total immunity with two doses, because "there are countries that are not vaccinating yet," recalled the director.
Human trials
These trials will start in mid-August at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and at the Hospital Joseph Trueta in Girona with a group of volunteers between 18 and 39 years old who have not had the disease or who have not received any doses of the others. vaccines available for Covid-19 .
As explained by Toni Maneu , in this first trial they already have 30 candidates but, after knowing the news of the tests, "we have received a barrage of applications," he said.
If everything goes as expected, the next phase of trials "will already be with thousands of people", for which between 10 and 15 hospitals in Spain will be added and they have spoken with others in Portugal and Italy . Maneu predicts that "in an optimistic scenario" the drug may be on the market in early 2022.
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United Ag has two cotton gin locations in Danevang and Hillje to better service farmers along the Gulf Coast of Texas. Between the two gins, we have nine Lummus 170 Gin Stands with Model 700 Feeders with the capability of handling over 2,200 bales of cotton per day. Both gins utilize the latest in technology and machinery, serving as industry leaders in preventing contamination and preserving cotton quality. United Ag operates with the IntelliGin system allowing for real time cotton classification along with the "Moisture Mirror" system to ensure proper moisture levels. United Ag has and continues to invest in our gins to remain the leader in cotton on the Gulf Coast of Texas for our producers.
United Ag takes pride in being able to assist local farmers in the selling of their cotton. There are many different ways we are able to help producers market their crop. Our most popular marketing avenue is the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) Marketing Pool. The PCCA's Marketing Division is responsible for selling pool cotton with guidance and oversight from the Marketing Pool Committees. These committees consist of representatives from each PCCA district. Their goal is to receive a good average price, have a successful marketing team, minimize risk, and be less vulnerable to market fluctuations. With their focus on local operations, the farmer can benefit from a global sales network and easy payment distribution. The "sign in" date for the PCCA Marketing Pool is November 15th through December 15th of each year. The agreement remains in effect from year to year unless it is cancelled by the grower-owner.
Cotton that is delivered to a Cooperative Compress can also be sold on The Seam. This cotton marketing system is designed to make trading safe and secure. Once cotton is placed on the system for sale, the producer will receive bids by text from Seam buyers. The producer can notify us if they are interested in the bid(s) or if they would like to send the buyer a counteroffer. This system has proven to be a very successful form of selling cotton for our producers.
United Ag also has many valuable relationships with other pools. We work diligently throughout the season to get producers the best contract available for their cotton. We have buyers who offer bale and/or acreage contracts. If interested in pricing your cotton, please contact the cotton division.
United Ag uses the highly effective TELCOT Scale Ticket Software available from PCCA. Farmers can view their cotton information by logging onto www.pcca.com, where they can easily set up "Member Access Login". This allows farmers to see module and bale information as well as classing data. They can also access the status of their cotton, receive market updates, view scale tickets, and classing information as soon as it is available to us. In addition, the system retains a history of previous cotton years ginned at our facilities.
Using this same login, producers can download the PCCA Member Access App onto their smart phone. Through this app, module locations can be reported by sending United Ag a "pin" location. Utilizing this tracking system, the truck can be dispatched to the precise location of cotton modules. After "pinning" the module, a text will be sent containing module numbers and ginning order. This system has been very successful. Our drivers are equipped with electronic devices that notify them when a module is ready and where to go to pick it up. The cotton is then taken straight to one of our gin locations.
Many buyers have preferences as to where they would like their cotton to be delivered. United Ag has the ability to transport cotton to various warehouses, as such please notify us prior to picking with any special requests regarding your cotton. In most cases, cotton is taken to United Ag warehouses or Gulf Compress.
United Ag is always striving for new ways to help our producers and members. Throughout the years new cotton varieties are constantly developed and made available. United Ag prepares a variety recap at the end of each season regarding these new varieties, based on the information received at planting, or when modules are pinned during harvest. The variety recaps allows producers to make informative decisions when planting future varieties.
OUR CURRENT VARIETY RECAP CAN BE SEEN BY CLICKING HERE.
In 1992, United Ag opened our first cotton warehouse after seeing the need for a local storage location for our farmers. Previously, cotton bales were hauled from our area to Corpus Christi and then later delivered to Houston for shipment. We now have three warehouse buildings that have the ability to store a total of 30,000 bales. Our United Ag Cotton Warehouses are known to ship out cotton within a week of receiving an order and never being late on our orders. When the warehouses are full, we immediately ship out bales in an effort to have room for more cotton prior to the end of the ginning season. United Ag takes pride in our warehouses, because of our small size, we strive for efficiency and productivity at all times to better benefit our members.


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Ride The Bullet
Label: Ben Popp Records Release Date: 17/06/2002
by [redacted] June 10th, 2002
It pops and it rocks. "We're just a poprock band," she announced onstage one night. Like, no pigeonhole for the New Mexico-born singer/songwriter – Antonia simply writes great songs with great, big, radio-friendly choruses, and you can't help but love it all.
'Ride The Bullet' blends in some spiky guitars into this super powerpop song which will GET IN YOUR HEAD. Oh yes it will. So unless you are a postrock bore or own every single record ever released on Warp, you will love this. The hidden gem is 'Reservoir', tucked away as the third track, and is a lovely ballad with string section provided by Joe from Goldrush.
Factoids: Antonia self-released records and toured with southwestern states in "a dodgy converted school bus" (rock 'n' roll!), has played with Cheap Trick, The Cult, and appeared on VH1's 'Band On The Run' as well as Play UK's 'Nu Music' (the one that Mani presents). Expect appearances at Guildford and Truck festivals this year. Oh yeah, last factoid: she is a star in the making and totally fucking rocks. RARRR!!!
Out now via Ben Popp Records / Shellshock Distribution. Go get some.
[redacted]'s Score
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Afternoon Bites: Robert Macfarlane and Adam Scovell, Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Long List, Writers on Secrets, and More
In our afternoon reading: Robert Macfarlane and Adam Scovell in conversation, Kimberly King Parsons and Melissa Duclos in conversation, and more.
Morning Bites: David Burr Gerrard Fiction, Rich Cohen, Ben Loory Interviewed, Deanne Stillman, and More
In our morning reading: new writing from David Burr Gerrard, interviews with Ben Loory and Deanne Stillman, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tom Petty Remembered, Deirdre Coyle Fiction, Rich Cohen, and More
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Mid-Year 2016: The Year's Best Nonfiction (So Far)
It's been a great year for nonfiction so far, with work that's encompassed everything from memorable and harrowing true-life stories to formally bold takes on everyday topics. What follows is a look at some of the nonfiction books that have gotten our attention in the first half of this year.
Afternoon Bites: Kat Howard Interviewed, Amy Rose Spiegel, Rich Cohen on "In Patagonia," and More
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Kat Howard, an excerpt of Amy Rose Spiegel's new book, thoughts on Rivka Galchen's latest, and more.
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Vol.1 Brooklyn's May 2016 Book Preview
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May brings with it a host of noteworthy books that have caught our eye. Some are the latest works from authors who have become favorites over the years; others are structurally bold, socially relevant, or intensely disconcerting. (In some cases, they may be some combination of the above.) It's going to be a good month for books, whether you're looking for an illuminating take on music or an unsettling ghost story. Here are some of the books due out in […]
Morning Bites: Booksellers' Fall Preview, Wordstock, Rich Cohen on Lake Michigan, Alice Bag, and More
In our morning reading: booksellers on the fall's most anticipated books, new nonfiction from Rich Cohen, literary Finland, a look at Portland's Wordstock, and more.
Weekend Bites: Banana Man Code, Food Writing, Lou Reed's Poetry, BAM, and More
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Lou Reed writes poetry for his teacher, Rich Cohen on his new book, BAM's history, Melissa Broder interviews herself, and more.
Six Ridiculous Questions: Chris Campanioni
Towards a Definition of Ecological Fiction: An Interview With Marian Womack
Sitting Shiva for Elizabeth Wurtzel
Chocolate : The Heat of Our Thoughts — An Excerpt From Lance Olsen's "My Red Heaven"
Sunday Stories: "Waiting For The Angels"
Sunday Stories: "Auntland"
Sunday Stories: "44. 'You've Got So Far to Go' by Alkaline Trio"
Why You Should Write With a Cat
A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession
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