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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Baking with whole-grain flours: Chocolate Chip Cookies
One of my recent cookbook acquisitions is Kim Boyce's Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Wheat Flours. Kim Boyce is a former pastry chef, who has been experimenting with using much more whole-grain flours instead of refined white flours/wheat flours. The book is divided into 13 chapters, each focusing on one grain/ingredient - whole-wheat flour, amaranth flour, barley flour, buckwheat flour, corn flour, kamut flour, multigrain flour, oat flour, quinoa flour, rye flour, spelt flour, teff flour, as well as a chapter on jams and compotes. Plenty of good stuff in there to keep me busy baking over the summer!
The first recipe I tried was for chocolate chip cookies. Way too sweet for my Estonian tastebuds (as most American cake recipes out there), but delicious enough for me to give it another go just a few days later. I've changed the quantities into metric, and used only about 2/5th of the amount of white sugar in Kim's recipe. This had no effect to the flavour - these were still very sweet and delicious cookies. My cookies were much smaller - one heaped Tbsp of cookie dough yields one large cookie. If you want to follow Kim Boyle's advice, take three Tbsp of dough per cookie :)
These stay nice and crisp for about three days in a air-tight cookie jar.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Šokolaadiküpsised täisterajahust)
Yields about 30 cookies
Wet mixture:
225 g cold unsalted butter, cut into 1 cm cubes
150 g dark brown sugar (dark muscovado)
100 g caster sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
Dry mixture:
420 g whole-wheat flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
0.5 tsp finely ground sea salt
200 g dark chocolate chips or finely chopped dark chocolate (I used Callebaut)
Preheat the oven to 180 C. Line a baking sheet with a parchment paper.
Place butter and sugar into the mixing bowl fitted with the beater blade or paddle attachment. Mix until just combined.
Add eggs, one at the time, mixing until each egg is fully incorporated. Add the vanilla extract.
Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl, mix and then stir quickly into the egg-butter-sugar mixture.
Finally, add all the chocolate and stir until combined.
Take tablespoonfuls of the cookie dough and place heaps on the baking sheet. Leave plenty of room between the heaps of dough, as it spreads during baking. (I baked about 8 cookies at a time, 4 baking sheets in total).
Bake in a pre-heated oven for about 15 minutes, until the cookies are nicely golden brown on top.
Take out of the oven, let cool for a minute, then carefully transfer the cookies to a metal rack to cool completely (they'll crisp up during the cooling process).
11 comments:
- Joanna said...
Thanks for the link to past buckwheat recipes, they are going to come in very useful in the months ahead as we have just planted a small field with buckwheat and hope to at least be able to harvest something from it.
You mention buckwheat porridge, how do you usually make this? We have found that buckwheat on its own is a bit strong for our tastes and so mix it with rice. We got put off buckwheat partly because we were fed buckwheat rather too many times one year when we visited Latvia and we couldn't quite face much of it since but I would certainly like to give your recipes a go.
- 10:28 pm, June 29, 2011
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
Now this is my kind of choco chip cookie. I love buckwheat and the flavor it gives to baked goods. Will definitely try this one!
- 2:41 pm, June 30, 2011
- Agnes said...
I love those cookies, too. I have made them once and can't even remember having used caster sugar - maybe I omitted it altogether? (I, like you, find most american desserts too sweet). I'll see waht I think next time...
The cookies are delicious, and I imagine them at a late summer picnic with coffe and fruits...yum!
- 4:07 pm, June 30, 2011
- Jeanne said...
Oh I love this idea! Yo ucould even convince yourself you are eating a health food ;o)
- 6:58 pm, June 30, 2011
- Pille said...
Joanna- buckwheat is such an exciting crop to grow - hope it works out for you! When I make buckwheat porridge, I first fry the groats in some butter/oil, season with salt and add water. Simmer until done. But I use ready-roasted broken buckwheat groats.
Meeta - I must agree with the author - wholewheat flour and chocolate work really well together!
Agnes - how cool!!! Have you tried - and can recommend - anything else from the book?
Jeanne - I know!!! Replace white flour with wholewheat flour and immediately a choc chip cookie becomes a healthy snack :D
- 9:14 pm, June 30, 2011
- Joanna said...
Thanks, will give it a go
- 10:31 pm, June 30, 2011
- Agnes said...
@Pille: I made the oatmeal pancakes several times and love the way the gentle oat flavor shines through. But I don't have the book myself yet, so I anticipate many more wonderful baked goods coming in the future (once I get it)! It seems that Kim Boyce has a real gift for making the different whole grains show their best and add complexity and flavor, and the book is a definite musthave for me. I would love to hear what you think of some of the other recipes when you try them - especially regarding their sweetness!
- 11:00 pm, June 30, 2011
- Sara said...
I got this book nearly a year ago for my birthday and I love it! I almost made the barley scones tonight. Next time I'll try your version. Must be because I am American, but I did not find them to be too sweet. However, I'd love to try a lower sugar version!
- 5:37 am, July 02, 2011
- Pille said...
Joanna - please do!
Agnes -thanks for the tip re: oatmeal pancakes. Have got all the ingredients, so I can make them soon. And I'll keep you posted about my future recipe trials from this book (esp. re: the sweetness ;))
Sara - that's the thing with sugar. Of course they're even crispier with more sugar, but you'll get perfectly - and actually very - good cookies with A LOT let sugar. (I find it especially hard with cakes - many of the recipes are just cloyingly too sweet. On the other hand, American readers have commented that they loved my cakes, but they would add more sugar next time :D)
- 5:07 pm, July 03, 2011
- Pange said...
just baked these, but i only made half the recipe and did smallish sized cookies. delicious!
(and i'm american but married to finn so i added just a *little* more sugar)
- 3:53 pm, September 07, 2011
- Pille said...
Pange, I'm so glad you liked them - even if you cheekily Americanized the amount of sugar ;)
- 4:51 pm, September 09, 2011


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Wasp (Ultimate Avengers) – Cosplay of the Week
This installment of Cosplay of the Week is a little different since we're featuring a comic book/animated film character, namely Wasp from 'Ultimate Avengers.' But the costume and the look was so spot on that we had to feature her.
Wasp was one of the original Avengers and is featured with a new look in the film, 'Ultimate Avengers.' She's got the power to shrink her size and fly around thanks to the use of her wings.
Here's Phoenix-based cosplayer Sara Moni in her very striking portrayal of Wasp. She describes Marvel as being her first love, so it's not a surprise that she'd choose to cosplay as characters such as Wasp, Polaris and Psylocke. With regard to her decision to cosplay Wasp, she said, "I chose to cosplay Miss Janet because she is smart, sassy, and one of the original Avengers. The ultimate version of Wasp is my absolute favorite character design and because I think she looks a lot like me, I had to represent her and do the costume justice!"
Sara Moni opted for strapless wings after messing around with a harness in the original design, which included part of masonry ladder that was welded to some metal and secured with a strap. She said that it looked nice, but was ultimately too heavy. Luckily, she was able to find some cold rolled steel of a smaller gauge and used that instead.
Continuing with the wings, there's wire welded to a metal pieced that is secured to the rest of the construct thanks to some acrylic backing, which in turn is covered in industrial Velcro. Sounds pretty heavy-duty. The entire thing is sewn into the suit and is covered with reinforced spandex in order to hold it up while still remaining lightweight. She also said that the S.H.I.E.L.D. logos were laser-cut by a friend of hers from Skull Fracture Designs.
You can check out her work and the rest of her cosplay outfits on her Facebook page. Show some love for an amazing cosplayer! All images were shot by Ryan Leasure, whose portfolio you can find here.

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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
he residents of southern Israel continued life under siege over the weekend as Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists launched an additional 20 rockets and medium-range missiles in their direction. The weekend attacks came after southern Israel was pounded by more than 120 rockets and mortars last week.
In one weekend attack, a school in the southern town of Sderot suffered a direct hit from a Palestinian rocket. Fortunately, the school was empty and no one was hurt. Two more rockets landed near a public beach in the coastal town of Ashkelon, again causing no injuries.
A 50-year-old resident of the southern town of Netivot was not so fortunate, and suffered shrapnel wounds to the neck when a Palestinian rocket hit a local factory.
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system managed to intercept five missiles fired at Ashkelon.
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Here's what I learned very quickly-
*I'm not in my 20's anymore and my riding skills have diminished significantly over the last few years.
*New bike with new tires that are not scuffed in can increase the pucker factor on already high pucker roads.
*I made my riding buddies very nervous but they did a fantastic job of monitoring my slowness as I tried to keep up.
*I have a bad tendency to turn in too soon on the entry to corners.
*I have another bad tendency to chop the throttle in corners if I feel my line is terrible.
*The brakes on the FJR are awesome!
*The weight of the FJR is a handful when dicing through really fast sweepers trying to keep up with CBR's and Buells.
*I think I would fit in better with the EOM crowd than the sportbike crowd.(I hope)
*I'm really understanding and bonding with my Harley.
Here are some pics, I am the old guy in the back with the grey tour jacket.
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Today I'm celebrating . . . Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Well, actually the official day was yesterday but as usual I'm running a tad behind.
Now who can forget those great country music ditties like "Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart" by Johnny Cash? Or "Everytime I Itch I Wind Up Scratching You" by the one and only Glen Campbell? Or how about Kenny Chesney's "Being Drunk's a Lot Like Loving You and It's Sending Me Straight to Rehab!."
Is there a spring in your step when you hear "Did I Shave My Legs For This?" from Deana Carter or Cledus T Judd's "Did I Shave My Back For This!"
Ahh the memories! And whats up with hairy country singers anyway?
So load up your iPod today and enjoy those quirky country music songs like…
Tim McGraw's "Do You Want Fries With That?"
Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"
The Dixie Chicks' "White Trash Wedding"
Tim McGraw again with "Refried Dreams"
Kenny Chesney's "Someone Else's Hog"
and of course my personal favorite "Too Much Month (At The End of The Money)" from Marty Stuart.


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Dancing Near the Stars
Little more than a year ago, Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino was just another knucklehead partying away his summer on the Jersey Shore whose biggest priorities were GTL (that's gym, tan, and laundry). And of course smushing. Lots of smushing. Now he's walking red carpets, selling vitamin supplements, and taking meetings in Hollywood. Can anything stop him and his $5 million abs?
The situation with the Situation is as follows:
For the past few weeks, the Situation and his retinue have been staying in Los Angeles, in a furnished apartment across the street from an open-air mall. The stucco exterior of the apartment complex is a rich tanning-bed tangerine-brown. (This is probably a coincidence.)
The Situation is in town to compete on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, a deeply weird and massively popular television show in which public figures of varying renown pair up with chipper, long-suffering choreographer-instructors to perform ballroom-dancing routines in costumes of varying spangliness while a cruise-ship-style band cheerfully declaws the popular songs of the day. The American people vote for their favorite couple each week via phone or text; at the end, somebody wins a trophy.
For eleven seasons, Dancing with the Stars has been a magnet for inveterate spotlight-hounds (Wayne Newton) and egomaniacal competition-aholics (Mark Cuban). But a lot of public figures do it because they've lost access to the platform that made them public figures. They're former sitcom stars, retired athletes, between-hits musicians, or (once, memorably) disgraced ex–majority leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives, and dancing the fox-trot and the cha-cha on national TV represents an opportunity to (a) get back out in front of an audience, and (b) reveal themselves to that audience as multitalented, multifaceted (or just talented and faceted, depending), and eager to leave it all on the floor in an attempt to entertain you, the home viewer. It's a two-nights-a-week pageant of neediness that literalizes the trained-seal aspect of famousness and routinely brings in around 17 million viewers, even when Monday Night Football is on.
The difference, with the Situation, is that he still has a platform: Up until five days before DWTS premiered, he was in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, taping the third season of Jersey Shore, the MTV reality show that made him and his laser-chiseled abdominal muscles—which, in a masterstroke of personal-brand integration, are also called "the Situation"—sort of famous. But the Situation would not be the Situation today if he were willing to settle for being "sort of" anything. Reality got him this far, but DWTS is his chance to level up. To reach the kind of people who watch Desperate Housewives. People who know him, if they know him at all, know him as some kind of vague mediascape pest, lurking Tila Tequila-like on the fringe of their awareness. People who would ordinarily be unwilling to have foisted upon them as a household name the guy from a reality show about self-proclaimed "guidos" and "guidettes" whose principal interests include drinking, tanning, sport-fucking, ultratrashy violence, and house music.
In other words, the Situation wants to introduce himself to your mom, and maybe your grandmother, too. And he wants them to see him as a good guy—sweet and humble, and grateful for the opportunities he's been presented, and totally dedicated to the job of being a famous person.
Like most reality-TV people, the Situation believes that being filmed twenty-four hours a day by a reality-TV crew failed to fully capture his nuances and complexities; we will see a less cocky, more humble Situation on Dancing with the Stars, he says. The Situation believes that this softer Situation is something people will want to see, because if the Situation believes in anything, he believes in the Situation.
"I always had dreams," he says, "my whole life, of being somebody special. Someone out in the world that everybody knew of and everybody liked. Somebody unique. Even when I was down on my luck, in my head I still had those dreams. Sometimes in people's lives, when bad stuff happens, their dreams just die, and they end up settling. I guess that's their decision, maybe, because they didn't believe in their dreams or forgot their dreams. My dreams never died."
Up in his apartment, the Situation rises around 11:30 a.m., emerges from his bedroom sleep-clammy, clamps his light blue Yankees cap on backward, over the shooting star shaved into the side of his peanut-shaped head, bends down over the kitchen stove to spark the first of the countless Marlboro Lights with which he'll punctuate the day, and launches, unprompted, into a digressive, stem-winding stream-of-consciousness rap about what he's up to right this minute, jumping from topic to topic as if he's expecting a reality-TV editor to organize his thoughts in post.
The gist: At every turn, since Jersey Shore happened, people have warned him that none of this will last, and at every turn these people have been proved wrong. As soon as the show started airing and delivering some of MTV's best ratings in years, the Situation says, "things went fairy-tale."
In this fairy tale, a former mortgage broker named Mike Sorrentino, born in 1981 on the Fourth of July, hits a personal low—unemployed after the collapse of the housing market, abandoned by the girlfriend he had planned to marry, back living in his father's house on Staten Island, at the age of 25. He has vague unfulfilled dreams of being an entertainer, but so far the closest he's come has been a job as a shirtless waiter in a strip club. (He says he wasn't an actual stripper, then admits he did it once, wearing "like, a red-white-and-blue thong and maybe, like, an Uncle Sam hat." He quit the gig after a few months: "I didn't mind the attention from pretty girls. But then if I got attention from unattractive girls, it just felt kind of cheap." Logic!)
And yet he dreams, still, of walking into a room with his fist held high, like Rocky, while people scream. He pictures this when he works out, to drive himself harder. All he has in the world is this vision—this vision, and his abs. They do not yet have a name, but people tell him they're ridiculous. People tell him that they have an incredible structure to them, these abs. They tell him they've never seen abs like that.
So he bets on these abs. He sends pictures—Polaroids of himself, in his underwear, taken by an ex-girlfriend—to a couple of New York modeling agencies. He lands a modeling contract—fitness and underwear. He and a couple of buddies go out to celebrate. He's just come from a go-see, he's looking his best—"dried out and very lean," he remembers. They're at a beach bar in Jersey. He's shirtless. He walks by a girl. She's holding her boyfriend's hand, but when she sees him she can't help herself. She says, Oh, my God, honey. She says, Look at his abs. This breaks his buddies up. They say, Oh man, Mike. That's a situation, man—because you don't do that when you're strolling with your boyfriend. And Mike starts laughing. Mike says, "Nah, man—that's the situation," and points to his abs.
Lightning strikes. Fireworks pop. Oontz-oontz house music explodes on the soundtrack. Headlines spin toward the camera in montage. All the greats have a moment like this. It's the bat flying through Bruce Wayne's window. It's Eddie Adams from Torrance christening himself Dirk Diggler. Watson, come here—check out how ripped I am. Two weeks later, on his birthday, he goes to a casting call for what, at the time, is going to be a VH1 reality show about the leisure-time activities of young people from the Garden State, and he gets a callback, instantly, and in the subsequent tell-me-about-yourself interview, the TV-show people ask him if he has any nicknames.
He thinks, Should I say it? He wonders if it sounds right. Maybe he should say something else. Maybe he's "Mike Abs." He says to the TV-show people, "Do you really want me to say it?" And the TV people lean forward, they say yes, they do, and Mike says, "You know what? I'm the Situation."
The TV people flip out. They say this is the greatest thing they've ever heard.
They shoot some stuff. It's a rough draft. Many of the things that will make Jersey Shore Jersey Shore are not yet in place—the cast living together in a share house; working some summertime-blues drag of a job; Snooki. There's no Snooki because there's a whole different cast, apart from the Situation, who ends up being the only person asked back months later when a producer named SallyAnn Salsano, whose previous credits include A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila and Tool Academy, takes over the project, reboots the casting process—turning the original Jersey Shore kids into fist-pumping Pete Bests, left to wonder why they missed out on being in the guido Beatles—and creates the Jersey Shore that becomes a cultural phenomenon, which is the kind of turn of events that makes you believe in destiny, if, like the Situation, you think of yourself as a "destiny dude."
Jersey Shore becomes infamous before it becomes famous. In the first season, the Situation's housemate Snooki—born Nicole Polizzi, an irrepressible orange-skinned Gidget in search of a beach-party movie—gets punched in the face at a bar by a 24-year-old gym teacher. Feminists accuse MTV of promoting violence against women as entertainment, and when the episode airs, MTV cuts to black before the punch, like it's 9/11 footage. The incident feeds a larger flap about the show's depiction of Italian-American culture—at least at first, Jersey Shore is promoted as an anthropological study of a world we're encouraged to view as tacky, and while many of the people in the cast aren't full-blooded Italian-Americans or New Jerseyites, they all self-identify as "guidos," which means they're sort of spiritually Italian and spiritually Jersey, and Italian-American organizations object so vehemently to the way the show depicts them, you'd think MTV had decided to air "The Sacco and Vanzetti We Rob-a da Bank Variety Hour." Advertisers defect, including the stalwart defenders of Italian-American tradition at Domino's Pizza.
There's a fundamentally generation-gappish tone to the whole controversy. The first Italian-American group to call for Jersey Shore's cancellation is UNICO National, founded way back in 1922 to further the image of Italian-Americans as community-spirited patriots whose loyalties lie with the United States, not their former homeland; on some level the whole thing was really about the children of immigrant strivers decrying MTV for exposing the way the grandchildren of immigrant strivers take their freedom for granted by acting like total jerk-offs, which is basically the story of American youth culture. UNICO expressing agita over Jersey Shore was no different from Bill Cosby grumbling about hip-hop or Barack Obama exhorting African-American youth to pull up their damn pants.
In fairness, though, there was something a little bit Animal Planet about Jersey Shore in the beginning. The Situation says it was described to him, during casting, as "The Hills for New York and New Jersey, what the cool kids in New York and New Jersey do," and it probably was, but that's bullshit. The Hills was an aspirational, semiscripted soap opera about beautiful teenagers eating brunch on sun-kissed patios before moving on to dream careers in fashion design and event planning. Jersey Shore explicitly exoticized the world it depicted, highlighting its cast's earring-ripping catfights, their cavalier hookups, their gaudy Gothic-lettered T-shirts, their rampant hair-gel abuse, and their shitty taste in dance music; they even treated half the footage with an old-timey-newsreel filter that made the show resemble a snuff film.
Then something weird happened: America got to know these kids, and America grew to love them a little. "Pauly D" DelVecchio, the DJ with the bombproof Gotti Boys tape-up, turned out to be hilariously funny; Jenni "JWOWW" Farley turned out to be a gruff den mother with a heart as big as her implants; Snooki turned out to be a goddamn national treasure.
Sure, they all got shithouse drunk and screamed bleeped curse words in one another's faces and flashed their thongs and referred to girls who didn't meet their rigorous physical-attractiveness standards as "grenades" and generally embodied every negative stereotype associated with Italian-American culture you can embody without murdering someone for control of a gambling syndicate. But they never seemed less than totally genuine, something you can't say about the last ten years of Real World fuckbots, and they lived, for the most part, by a bro code, and they kept each other in line, and they always said grace at dinner. They were less like the Sopranos and more like the Simpsons—irascible cartoons with skin tones not found in nature, accused of contributing to the decline of family values while actually reaffirming those values. And over the course of two seasons, they've grown into the most charismatic characters on TV.
It was hard to imagine MTV not finding a way to ruin it; when it was announced that season two would shoot in tony, Kardashian-y Miami, a lot of people figured that the cast would leave their innocence back in Seaside Heights. Instead, they were even more themselves. Angelina Pivarnick, who left the show in season one under a cloud of "reality"-meets-reality drama involving her boyfriend, a married police officer, came back in a crucial straw-that-stirs-the-Sex-on-the-Beach house-bitch role. JWOWW and Snooki hatched a cockamamie plan to expose Ronnie's infidelity to long-suffering Sammi via anonymous letter, a plotline that ended up playing itself out over the course of three tension-packed episodes. And the Situation was filmed eating a sandwich while watching Pauly D have sex. All of it was amazing television; only the fact that it wasn't, y'know, written kept it from being the best-written show of the year.
The cast held up MTV for more money between seasons one and two; the Situation was reportedly the first one to settle, after MTV agreed to pay him $10,000 per episode. In July, the New York Post reported that he, Farley, DelVecchio, and Snooki will make $30,000 per show for season three; that same month, TMZ .com obtained a leaked MTV memo offering the Situation a ratings-based bonus of up to $180,000. (Jersey Shore remains a runaway hit for MTV—the September 30 episode earned a 3.4 rating among adults between 18 and 49, beating out the 10 p.m. offerings on all four broadcast networks.)
They will presumably ask for more next time, for eff-you money, for Seinfeld money, and they will most likely get it, because by now everyone involved on both sides has to know you can't just grow another Situation or Snooki in a lab.
And while most of the housemates have typical pseudo-celebritous side hustles going—Pauly D spins at the Palms in Las Vegas, and JWOWW has a clothing line, Filthy Couture, and a licensing deal with a tanning-lotion company—nobody has worked harder to monetize their post– Jersey Shore infamy than the Situation.
"Before the show even came out, man," Marc Sorrentino, the Situation's older brother and business manager, tells me, "he told everybody-"
"I told everybody, 'Trademark this, trademark that,'" the Situation says.
"I thought it would do well," Marc says, "but you can't predict this type of success. I don't think Bill Gates thought that Microsoft was going to be a worldwide conglomerate. But Mike was dead-on. He was like, 'Yo, I killed it. This is going to be crazy.'"
He started trademarking his catchphrases immediately, with an eye toward merchandising. His portfolio does not include "the Situation"—somebody beat him to that. But he does own "GTL," which began on the show as shorthand for "gym, tan, laundry," his daily routine, but has become a kind of all-purpose mantra for the Situation lifestyle, to the point that when the Situation met Leonardo DiCaprio at a club not long ago, the first thing DiCaprio said to him was "GTL all day, baby."
He's got applications in for "Fresh to Death," "Grenade Free Foundation," and "Sitch." He owns "Situation Nation." He owns "If hating is your occupation, I got a full-time job for you." That last one, the Situation says, is DiCaprio's favorite.
His asking price for a personal appearance at a club—he sits in a booth, people freak out—is $10,000. "I used to pay $10 to get in," he says. "Now I get $10,000 to come. It's funny how quick it goes from 'Five grand, that's so sick' to that being shit money. Five grand's shitty money now. It's like, 'Seriously?'"
He's appeared in online promotional videos for Reebok and Vitaminwater. He's the face, and the abs, of Nox Edge, the world's first chewable preworkout supplement, and Devotion, the world's first protein-infused vodka. His first attempt at multimedia crossover—a clumsy club-banger called "The Situation," which featured Fatman Scoop and a crapload of AutoTune—did not set the world on fire. But his iPhone app sold like crazy. And even though it's hard to imagine anyone actually reading his forthcoming self-help-book-autobiography, Here's the Situation, there's no way it won't be the greatest audiobook since Kenny Powers's You're Fucking Out. The only endorsement deal he can remember turning down is a line of Situation condoms. They had a great tagline—"Protect your situation, in every situation"—but he worried about his young fans getting the wrong idea, possibly while jacked up on protein vodka and Nox Edge's "proprietary creatine blend."
In August a source quoted in The Hollywood Reporter said he stood to make $5 million in 2010; Marc and the Situation don't dispute that number, but they say they're putting most of it back into the business. The Situation is a corporation now—MPS Entertainment, LLC.
"I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for Jersey Shore," he says. "What I'm trying to do is build a castle, so that when that shelf life falls off, I'll be able to move forward in this field in an efficient and positive way. We're fortunate enough that the business is a multimillion-dollar enterprise, but we would like to make it grow. At the end of next year, I want it to be a billion-dollar brand."
"Losing is not a- wait, let me do it over. Losing is not an option for me."
The Situation's back at his apartment, taping interview segments that will be blended into this week's episode. He's sitting in the living room area of a model apartment that the building keeps to show prospective renters. The DWTS production team—they're the ones putting the Situation up in this place, along with other season-eleven contestants like Bristol Palin—has commandeered it for the day. A microphone shaped like a Colt .45 hangs over his head, just outside the frame. There's a three-person crew, all internishly young. Ryan, hair cropped close like a hipster priest, faces the Situation in a chair, asks him questions, and feeds his answers back to him as sound bites.
It should be easy, but the Situation's fading. He's hungry. We took a little too long leaving the Situation's apartment earlier—he had to find his rosary necklace, his styptic pencil, his spiking gel. Then we got in a rented black Escalade and drove to a healthy-chicken joint on Melrose Avenue while the Situation told me about his next reality-TV project, a show that will be called either Situation Inc. or A Family Situation and will follow the Situation (along with the rest of the crew, including the Situation's childhood friend Jonny Manfre, who goes by "the Unit" or "the Inception"—"because I'm in girls' dreams"—and is supposedly the only person to whom the Situation has imparted his ab-definition secrets) to business meetings, rehearsals, and personal appearances: "All the Entourage-y stuff that we do," the Situation said.
The restaurant turned out to be packed; the Situation took one look and suggested that we go find a Cheesecake Factory. Then he and Marc and Jonny Manfre charged back across Melrose to the car, striding boldly into traffic the way you don't do in L.A. unless you think you're indestructible. "We're not from around here," the Situation said with a grin. It was pretty Entourage-y.
We never found that Cheesecake Factory. We missed the lunch window. Every minute of the Situation's day is double-booked. So now he's up in this apartment, trying his best to be a gracious pseudocelebrity.
Ryan asks the Situation to name some competitive activities he's been involved in. The Situation rattles it off—martial arts from 6 to 16, football and baseball. "I've competed my whole life," he says. "Okay, great, let's do that," Ryan says. "'I've been competitive since day one...'"
"I've been competitive since day one," the Situation repeats, then recites the list again. You can see him tensing up, trying to give the cameras what they want; his answers get less focused the harder he tries.
"How do you mentally prepare yourself for competition?" Ryan asks.
"I actually envision victory," the Situation says. "I envision myself doing perfect moves. I envision the roar of the crowd. I envision unbelievable victory."
"Great bite," Ryan says after every take, like he's impressed. He tries to elicit some friendly smack-talk about the other contestants. The Situation hesitates. Ryan tells him that everybody's doing it, reads him something Kurt Warner said about last week's winner, Jennifer Grey:
"'I know you're on top,'" he says, "'but I'm ready to put you back in the corner.'"
In the back of the room, a sound technician says "Jesus" derisively, goes back to reading a thick book about terrorism. The Situation furrows his brow, says, "I never trash-talk or talk smack."
He tries one out—"Jennifer Grey used to dirty dance, but I'm sure you know what I used to do"—and everybody loves it, but the Situation decides not to say it for the cameras. "Because everyone's saying I was a stripper when I was younger," he explains.
Moving on. Ryan asks the Situation some questions about how hard he's practicing.
"All I do is dance, eat, and go to sleep," the Situation says. "That's all I do."
Ryan loves this. "Dance, eat, sleep. D-E-S. That's your new thing now," he says, "Dance, eat, sleep. 'I used to be GTL, now I'm DES.' " The Situation laughs, says, "DES—dance, eat, sleep" to himself, swishes water, then says, "You know what? I used to be GTL, but now all I do is DES—dance, eat, sleep!"
"Do you have a motto in competition?" Ryan asks.
"Um, for competition," the Situation says, "I'll do anything to win. For this competition, if I need to change my hair or my outfit, or try different moves—I'm very daring. I understand that it's possible that I won't pull it off. But I'll try."
The Situation has a meeting at a movie studio—I've agreed not to say which one—at three o'clock. We're in a rented gold Mustang convertible. The Situation's manager, Mike Petolino, is driving. We're elbowing our way through afternoon traffic on La Cienega. On the radio, Eminem gives way to a celebrity-dirt break with gossip imp Perez Hilton, who talks, coincidentally enough, about intra-Guidette acrimony in the Jersey Shore house during the filming of season three, occasioned by the arrival of new cast member Deena Nicole.
"Deena and Snooki used to be BFFs," Perez says, "but now that Deena's been spending a lot of time with Sammi, Snooki's not very happy about that.
Mike snorts knowingly, if you can conceive of what that sounds like, and says, "Imagine that."
The Situation doesn't react. He's poking at his iPad like a kid with an Etch A Sketch. He takes his iPad everywhere with him, cranks aggressive rap songs by Waka Flocka Flame when he walks in and out of places, like it's a ghetto blaster. Theme music.
"And if you were able to understand what I just said," Perez says, "you watch too much Jersey Shore. GTL, baby!"
We ease onto the 10 freeway. The Situation puts his feet up on the dashboard. There is star-shaped bling—part of a Situation-endorsed shoe-jewelry line, Luxury Laces—on the eyelets of his toothpaste-white sneakers. He tells me more about Situation Inc., says he likes the idea of turning his team into stars; he sees it as a way to give them a little credit for their role in his success. But he's not sure they're ready for what's going to happen to them once they're on TV.
"I told Jonny, I said, 'Listen, man, you're going to get a little taste of the limelight, but it's not as easy as it looks,'" he says. "The scrutiny. And the microscope. Obviously it's a blessing—the women and the money and the fame, but at the same time it's—it's actually very lonely. Very lonely."
It's interesting that "lonely" is the adjective you go to, I say.
"When you're doing so well, when you have the year that I had," the Situation says, "it's hard to talk to people about it, because they think you're being cocky. Plus, when it comes to women, y'know, obviously, they're throwing themselves at you—but for what reasons, you know what I mean?"
Totally! Did having a camera crew following you around all the time make it easier to get girls or harder? "There's certain women you can tell right off the bat don't care," the Situation says. "They just want to get the limelight. You can see that from a mile away. And there's other girls that immediately shy away, like, 'I don't want to be on-camera.' And then there's the middle-of-the-road girls that will come over to you, but they're like, 'Yo, I can't do this on-camera, because my mom will kill me.'"
During the first season, the idea that you couldn't close the deal with any of the girls at the club was a running subplot, I say. Is that why? Did the cameras scare them off?
"Well," the Situation says, clearly taking exception, "if you saw the [season-one reunion] special, I hooked up with, like, forty girls that summer. But it's not easy or comfortable, knowing that people are watching you have sex. Even though you're under the covers—it's still uncomfortable. And it's uncomfortable for the girl. You have to be so on point with your game to even get with a girl on-camera, let alone have sex."
This is one of the great mysteries of Jersey Shore: It's hard to imagine any woman who's seen the show—in which every grunt and comforter-wiggle of every hookup is captured by an unblinking ceiling-mounted night-vision camera, not to mention discussed by everyone in the house the next day—wanting to smush with any of these dudes. Particularly the Situation, who comes off, it has to be said, as kind of a pig when it comes to women—pulling Night at the Roury personal-space-invader moves at the club, rushing his conquests into taxicabs once the deed is done, and living up to every cliché about the Italian-American male and the virgin-whore complex by regularly calling boyfriend-juggling roommate Angelina a slut while simultaneously trying to sleep with everything on two heels.
And yet he gets results. Girls come home with him from the club; they answer his booty calls. It's like watching the Fonz work.
I ask if it's ever possible to ditch the crew for a private hookup.
"It's very hard," the Situation says. "I tried to get away from them at times, but they catch up with you. They got PAs chasing you. They have to keep a special eye on me, because they know I'm pretty slick. They'll put an extra two people on me, or they'll put the fastest person on me. And also, y'know, they have high expectations for me, as well."
I have to keep pushing him to talk about Jersey Shore; he's clearly reluctant to share this moment with his castmates. When he does discuss the show, though, he's quick to characterize his role as paterfamilial.
"I felt like I was doing a little bit of the structuring, as per what we were doing and how we were doing it," he says. "I put
a lot of effort into that show."
He cooked Sunday dinners, he says, because it brought the cast closer together and gave them an opportunity to get their issues out in the open—and when this didn't happen naturally, he saw it as his job to help the process along. "If somebody's arguing, it's negative energy in the house. So I'm trying to get that fight over with, make up, and move on. Sometimes that came across as instigation, but I didn't mind being that villain, because I was confident enough to stand by myself if nobody liked me. I didn't think some of the others could do that. You gotta be that villain sometimes. People love me and I'm that villain; they hated me, but they all watched."
Toward the end of the second season, particularly after Angelina re-quit the show, you could see the Situation starting to embrace that villain role and the screen time that came with it. He makes this shift in his relationship to his housemates sound deliberate, as if he perceived a need for a post-Angelina antagonist and filled it, like a WWF wrestler turning heel, but he also talks about Jersey Shore like it's his old job. At no point during our day together does he mention any of his castmates by name.
The Situation asks Mike if we're going to stop for food on the way to the meeting. Mike tells him we're already late, and the guy we're meeting is going to leave if we don't make it there.
"You see what's going on?" the Situation says to me. "I'm sacrificing food right now."
He starts rummaging in the compartment between the front seats, looking for something to eat.
"I just got a car," he says, either because he wants to change the subject or because he's forgotten what we were talking about.
I read about this, I say. The Bentley. You bought a gently used Bentley. That seems like the most fiscally responsible way to buy yourself a Bentley.
"Yeah," he says, "It has 'THE SITUATION' in chrome on the back. I wanted something that would remind me that I did something special this year. It's beautiful, unbelievable, expensive—almost like something you don't even drive. I haven't even shipped it out here. Because I want to win [Dancing with the Stars], but I understand that I possibly could lose, so what if I ship it out here, boom, and then I gotta bounce, y'know? Hey—we got Gummi Bears!"
He holds the bag up. The heat has fused the Gummi Bears into a single rainbow-colored mass. "Great," the Situation says.
"Food after this," Mike says to the Situation. "I promise."
A few minutes later, we're in the producer's office. Mike and the Situation sit on the couch; the producer swivels in his desk chair. The producer's in his late thirties, wearing corduroys, Converse slip-ons, and a green polo shirt. He tells the Situation that his wife got obsessed with Jersey Shore first and then got him obsessed with it. He tells the Situation a little bit about the kind of movies they make here. He asks the Situation what he's looking to do in this business.
"Not just to be in TV and film, but to be awesome in TV and film," the Situation says. He talks about how the Rock started out in projects tailored to him and then moved into other stuff.
"So are you thinking, like, comedy," the producer says, "or action...?"
"Comedy, action—that's me all the way, bro," the Situation says. "I can do comedy. I could do, like, a bad guy. Or something with women. I can be charming. But I can also get my body in really incredible shape for action, like a G.I. Joe dude."
At the beginning, I'm convinced this is just a social call—that the producer just wanted this meeting so he could tell his wife he met the Situation. They've had a few meetings like that, Mike tells me later. But apparently it isn't; by the time the meeting's over, the producer has offered the Situation a small part in the movie adaptation of a recent nonfiction best seller—again, I can't tell you what it is, but it's an opportunity for the Situation to play a Situation-type guy without actually playing the Situation—if they can make it work around his Jersey Shore shooting schedule.
"You definitely have a star quality," the producer says, and the Situation beams, and everything goes a little more fairy-tale.
So here's something: The Situation can't dance. Like, at all. He's learning the steps, but every time you see him hit that Dancing with the Stars stage, he mostly looks like he's trying very hard not to fist-pump. At the end of the first episode—which, granted, he only had five days to rehearse for—he found himself in a three-way tie for last with David Hasselhoff and Margaret Cho. "There is a spark there somewhere," said judge Bruno Tonioli, who turns every critique into a bombastic Roberto Benigni–esque outburst. "A very, very faint thing that may or may not be talent. Only time will tell."
The other problem, right now, is that the Situation and Karina Smirnoff, his dance partner–mentor, aren't getting along, exactly. Things came to a head the other night.
"Two hot personalities, y'know," Mike Petolino says, as we're speeding to the rehearsal studio. "It's not his fault. It was late at night, two people bumping heads, different ways of getting things done."
"It was late," the Situation says. "Two fiery personalities. And it fucking blew up."
You can see how the problem developed. The Situation is overscheduled and more than a little bit ADD, and as bad as he wants this, his dancing needs more work than he's got time to do. Plus, he doesn't seem like somebody who deals with a lot of women who aren't potential smush objects or members of his immediate family; being bossed around the studio by a woman probably takes some getting used to.
"The problem," Karina tells me, "is that he can't handle a strong Russian woman. He wants me to follow him everywhere."
She's tiny, in a beaded snood, loose striped T-shirt, Ed Hardy sweats. She's limbering up while a camera crew from Entertainment Tonight prepares to tape a backstage-with-the-Situation segment in the rehearsal room. She's complaining about her hip, saying she needs a cortisone shot.
"I must have hit it a little too hard last night," the Situation leers. Karina ignores him.
They goof around for the ET cameras, pretending to interview each other, and then the crew shoots them dancing. The Situation looks vulnerable, ecuting a tentative quick-step, trying as hard as he can not to blow it with people watching.
I've agreed to leave them alone once the rehearsal starts. The Situation has invited me to join him in Vegas tomorrow night; he's doing a personal appearance at the Hard Rock. I have been assured that things will be crazy, like Beatlemania crazy, and it'll be good material for my article. "You might even walk out of there with a new girlfriend," Mike Petolino told me. ("Hell, yeah," the Situation said, as if already picturing the fine ladies he will re-gift me.)
So I catch a flight, and when I land, I get an e-mail from Mike Petolino:
_We are not coming
Last minute, mike realized he didn't have the dance down and he made the call to stay and dance tonight, tomor morn and night-_
_So sry brother
He does not want to fail in this competition so he had to make the call_
I walk around the Strip for a night. Having heard that there's a Vegas line on Dancing with the Stars, I will consider finding a sports book that takes reality-TV action and placing a spiteful bet on Rick Fox, but I don't. It still seems, at the time, like a mistake to bet against the Situation.
As it turns out, it wouldn't have been. A few weeks later, the Situation shanks the Argentine tango—he basically just bench-presses Smirnoff's body while she does the lion's share of the actual dancing. He takes the judges' criticism hard—Tonioli describes his performance as "a terrible mess"—and storms off the set.
"I was upset," he tells an US Weekly reporter who corners him while he's out in the parking lot, smoking and seething. "I tried so hard. I really did. I changed my haircut; I don't know." In a pretaped interview that airs twenty-four hours later, during the results show, he declares himself "done with this" and complains that the judges are "so unpositive," both of which are probably un-good moves. That same night, he stands for elimination opposite Bristol Palin, and America votes to send him home.
Before this happens, I schedule a follow-up phone interview with the Situation. He misses the appointment. In a way, this is for the best. I spent the day with the Situation and never actually saw his abs in person, but I still had a characteristically Situationesque experience: He fucked me (over) and never called me again.


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SANTA CLARA — Alex Smith's near-perfect passing showing Monday night earned him his first career NFC offensive player of the week honor, the NFL announced Wednesday morning.
Smith completed 18 of 19 passes for 232 yards and three touchdowns in the first-place 49ers' 24-3 win at Arizona.
The last 49ers offensive player to earn such NFL-issued honors was Frank Gore, doing so twice in the 2009 season.
Three weeks ago, Smith was nominated for the award after passing for 303 yards and three touchdowns in a 45-3 rout of the Buffalo Bills. Smith had to settle instead for the FedEx Air Player of the Week honor.
Smith's 18-of-19 effort came one attempt shy of qualifying for the NFL record for single-game completion percentage. The 49ers have submitted a play for league review to see if a fourth-quarter rushing attempt by Michael Crabtree actually could have been a completion.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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A day has been set. Tuesday, Dec. 10, will be the day so many have been waiting for. The "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" will air on CBS at 10 p.m. This event is a highly anticipated day in the fashion world. Last year more than 10.3 million viewers watched it.
Which models have made the cut for 2013? Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge, Candice Swanepoel, Lindsay Ellingson, Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes and Behati Prinsloo will definitely be appearing this year in the show. A source from CBS has also stated that "the lingerie runway show will include musical performances, pink carpet interviews, model profiles and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the world's most celebrated fashion show." Casting director John Pfeiffer, collection creative director Sophia Neophitou, and executive producers Ed Razek and Monica Mitro have spent time choosing what will go into the 2013 show, along with director Hamish Hamilton.
This years' show will be held in New York City at the Lexington Armory on Lexington Avenue, which is a beautiful building known for its noble events and high-profile entertainment.
Many of us are wondering what the show's performances will look like this year. It has been confirmed Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy will perform. Last year, the bar was set high with Rihanna singing her hit "Diamonds" in memorable outfits and white sunglasses, while Justin Bieber sat and sang an acoustic version of "As Long As You Love Me" to the Angels. This all contributed to the high ratings. The Angels wore some stunning pieces, including the "12 months of the year," which was quite memorable. Miranda Kerr, Lima and Ambrosio - a few of the most popular Angels - strutted their stuff for the 2012 show. We can expect the 2013 show to be larger than life.
Many socialites and celebrities will attend the show. It will be a very elaborate, glamorous event. "One Concierge," a service that helps with the show, states many celebs will be seated in the audience. In previous years, the guest list included Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Orlando Bloom, Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor, Kings of Leon, Mark Wahlberg, Sting, Alex Rodriguez, Martha Stewart, Eva Longoria, Ryan Seacrest, Denzel Washington, P. Diddy, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz, Serena Williams and Gabrielle Union. Previous performers at the event included Kanye West, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Akon, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Seal, Justin Timberlake, The Spice Girls, Ricky Martin, Sting, will.i.am, Mary J. Blige and Destiny's Child. The event is a true highlight in the celebrity, fashion and news world. It is huge.
There are high hopes for the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Who else will be appearing? Which models will walk? What will they be wearing? The show annually kicks off the holiday season in an attempt to promote Victoria's Secret's latest projects, styles and fashions. Do not miss out on this fabulous, infamous event. Tune in with the rest of the world at 10 p.m. on Dec. 10.


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Irving Schneider, dedicated trustee, dies at 93
Support of the Heller School helped turn it into a nationally known center for health-care research
Irving Schneider, P'75, H'83, a Brandeis trustee for nearly a quarter-century whose generous support of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management helped turn it into a nationally known center for health-care research, died on Nov. 23 in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 93.
Schneider was a member of the Brandeis Board of Trustees from 1970-94, served as vice chair from 1971-83 and 1987-93, and was made a trustee emeritus in 1995. He also helped organize Brandeis fundraising activities in Palm Beach for many years. Schneider joined the Heller Board of Overseers in 1991.
One of the University's most generous supporters, he funded construction of the $15 million Irving Schneider and Family Building at the Heller School, which opened in 2006. He also established the school's Schneider Institutes for Health Policy (Institute for Behavioral Health, Institute on Healthcare Systems and Institute for Global Health and Development).
In honor of his extraordinary service to Brandeis, the University presented him with an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 1983.
"Irving Schneider was passionate about Brandeis University in general and the Heller School in particular," Brandeis President Fred Lawrence said. "He embraced the Heller School's mission – knowledge advancing social justice – and generously supported the pioneering work being done there. May his memory be a blessing."
Brandeis President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz, PhD'72, who worked closely with Schneider during his time as Brandeis provost (1991-94) and president (1994-2010), called him a "tough guy on the outside with a heart of gold." They first met in 1983 when Reinharz and his wife, Shula Reinharz, MA'69, PhD'77, the Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology, served as Schneider's hosts when he received an honorary degree from Brandeis.
"Irving was enormously generous to Brandeis, as he was to a multitude of causes in New York and Israel," Reinharz recalled. "He was interested in health issues and helping people. Irving was enormously proud of the fact that the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, which he built in Petach Tikvah, served all children of the Middle East. Jewish children lay in beds side by side with Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian and other children from the entire region, and all received the same superior care."
At Schneider's urging, Reinharz visited the hospital and discovered that the doctors there had saved the life of his wife's cousin. "I remember when I came back and told Irving the story that he cried," Reinharz said.
Reinharz was hiking Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain (3,209 feet), when Schneider informed him that he would be funding construction of the Schneider building, one of the largest gifts in Brandeis history. "He found me on the top of the mountain," Reinharz remembered. "It was extremely appropriate because I was very high already even before I heard the wonderful news."
Stuart Altman, P'92, H'91, the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and Heller's former dean, said Schneider believed strongly in the research being conducted at the school.
"His passion really was for healthcare, and he was very pleased with the activities we were doing to improve the quality and efficiency of the health-care system," said Altman, who first met Schneider about 30 years ago. "Without him, we would not be one of the premier institutions in our country."
Schneider was born in Brooklyn, graduated from Boys High School and received his degree from the City College of New York in 1939. He was a leader in the real estate industry in New York and served as co-chair and chief operating officer at Helmsley-Spear, where he worked for more than 50 years.
In addition to Brandeis and the hospital in Israel, his philanthropic affiliations included the Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y.; the Long Island Jewish Medical Center; UJA-Federation of New York; City College; the Jewish Communal Fund and United Israel Appeal.
His daughters, Mindy '75 and Lynn, are actively involved with Brandeis. Mindy has been a member of the Brandeis Arts Council since 2008 and has served on her class Reunion committees; Lynn sits on the Heller Board of Overseers. Both generously support Brandeis.
In addition to his daughters, Schneider leaves four grandchildren, Jeremiah, Max, Katie and Jake. His wife, Helen, P '75, died in 2001.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 26 at Central Synagogue, 652 Lexington Ave. at East 55th Street, New York.
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The Erebus voyage
Hooker's passions for botany and travel were combined when he was appointed assistant surgeon aboard HMS Erebus, which – commanded by Sir James Clark Ross, and accompanied by its sister ship, the Terror – was to spend four years exploring the southern oceans. The ships took shelter from Antarctica's winters in places such as New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and also visited the numerous tiny islands around Antarctica. These included Kerguelen's Land, where Hooker was finally able to gratify his desire to knock penguins on the head (an ambition held since childhood, his grandfather having shown him an account of one of Cook's sailors killing penguins on the same distant rock). More importantly, the sojourns ashore allowed him to collect plants in relatively unexplored regions.
No future botanist will probably ever visit the countries whither I am going, and that is a great attraction.
Before he set sail, Charles Lyell of Kinnordy (father of the geologist) gave Hooker the proofs of Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. As he waited to set sail, Joseph read Darwin's words eagerly, excited but a little overwhelmed at the 'variety of acquirements, mental and physical, required in a naturalist who should follow in Darwin's footsteps' (Darwin 1888: 19–20).
Hooker was not the only one who saw Darwin as a role model; Ross wanted 'such a person as Mr. Darwin' as the expedition's naturalist, but felt that Hooker had not yet proved himself of Darwin's calibre. After Ross appointed him to the inferior position of expedition's botanist, Hooker complained to his father, 'what was Mr. D. before he went out? he, I daresay, knew his subject better than I now do, but did the world know him? the voyage with FitzRoy was the making of him (as I hoped this exped. would me)' (Huxley 1918: 41).
Travel was a major way in which aspiring men of science like Hooker and Darwin could establish themselves. In the absence of established scientific career paths, the long years onboard ship were the first step in crafting careers for themselves. Although Ross was a friend of William Hooker, and encouraged Joseph's botanical work during the voyage, William's income would not allow Joseph to travel as a self-financed, gentlemanly companion to the captain – as Darwin had done. Instead, Joseph sailed as a lowly assistant surgeon, subject to naval discipline and with many shipboard duties to perform.
When HMS Erebus returned to England in 1843, Hooker needed to establish his reputation and find paid, botanical employment. Two years earlier, his father had been appointed first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which had just been brought under government control. However, while the prestigious appointment brought William Hooker to the centres of scientific life in London, it reduced his income and he was still unable to give his son much financial support. Fortunately William's influence was sufficient to secure an Admiralty grant of £1000 to cover the cost of the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage's plates, and Joseph received his Assistant Surgeon's pay while he worked on it. The book eventually formed six large volumes: two each for theFlora Antarctica, 1844–47; the Flora Novae-Zelandiae, 1851–53; and the Flora Tasmaniae, 1853–59.
Nonetheless, Hooker's Antarctic publications never made any money and much of his time in the 1840s was taken up with searching for paid employment. In 1845, he was a candidate for the chair of botany at the University of Edinburgh. After failing to win the professorship, his father's contacts helped him secure work at the Geological Survey from 1847–48, but he still had no permanent position.
Text by Dr Jim Endersby. Reproduced with the permission of the author and Oxford University Press. Full biography also available free online on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website.


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Heritage Trails Park District (HTPD) officials announced Tuesday their intent to place a property levy on the primary ballot to fund programming and expansion of the Auglaize County park district into the next decade.
Heritage Trails Park District Commissioner Dave Stillwell explained the park district commissioners agreed to place a seven-year, 0.6-mill property tax levy on the primary ballot in May 2014 in Auglaize County. The levy would generate approximately $300,000 for the park district formed in 1996.
"We've known all along we would have to take that next step that we need funding and we need the support of the residents in the county," Stillwell said, explaining the millage came about after an analysis of their budget and the number of years was determined from a belief of what would be needed to establish a "good park district." "We are going to ask the residents of Auglaize County to spend a minute amount of their money — just the cost of a movie.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — More than a dozen people have testified against a measure to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, an effort to undermine any black market when sale of state-taxed recreational marijuana starts at the end of this year. The bill would hit dispensaries with a tax equal to 25 percent of their sales of pot and cannabis-infused products. The bill sponsors have said they're trying to avoid a dual market — one taxed, one not. Many of those testifying against the bill are medical marijuana patients or providers.


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(Medical Xpress)—University of Sydney researchers have found a 40 percent improvement in the mental health of people with both depression and cardiovascular disease after using e-couch - a free online program that helps depression or anxiety sufferers regain control of mood to improve their lives.
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Not running for governor has made Dustin McDaniel a better attorney general.
That's written in response to an opinion issued last week by his office saying that schools cannot be licensed as their own private security firms so they can arm and train selected staff members.
I don't like the opinion. I think schools should be able to decide whether or not to do that, but McDaniel's job isn't to decide good policy from bad. It's to interpret the law. According to his office, the law — and it looks pretty black and white — says schools can't be their own private security firms, and no one can take a gun on campus unless they are a law enforcement officer or security guard.
The practice of arming staff members made national news recently when Clarksville started doing it, but Lake Hamilton has had this policy for decades, and other schools are beginning to do so as well. The idea is to be able to respond to some crazy shooter in those critical moments before the police arrive.
McDaniel was asked by a state legislator for an opinion, and while it's nonbinding, it will carry a lot of weight. The superintendent of Clarksville still plans to enact the policy if its license is granted by the Arkansas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies.
Let's repeat: Schools should have the option of arming and training staff members. While the ideal solution is to employ full-time security personnel on every campus, many schools simply can't afford that, and it can take precious minutes for law enforcement personnel to arrive at a rural campus. School administrators are not walking into teacher's lounges and passing out assault weapons; staff members are carefully selected and trained, and then the guns are locked up. Besides, Americans have a long tradition of deputizing and training citizens to respond effectively to emergencies, including volunteer firefighters and the National Guard. At the very least, this ought to be a local decision made by local school districts.
But it would be very bad if a staff member, accidentally or not, shot someone and it turned out that McDaniel was right and that the whole practice was against state law. So the solution isn't to play politics with the issue. It's for the Legislature to change the law.
You'll recall that McDaniel was the Democrats' frontrunner for governor until he left the race early this year after admitting to – well, let's not dredge up the details. Google it if you're still interested. Were he still in the governor's race, his office's opinion would have made him look soft on crime and insufficiently protective of kids.
True, he might very well have issued the same opinion were he still in the race. But as the writers of the book "Freakonomics" explained, people respond to incentives, and the incentives would have encouraged McDaniel, or anyone else in his position, to ignore the legislator's request for an opinion, or to finesse the law.
Meanwhile, McDaniel has been arguing publicly that Arkansas' death penalty process is so broken that it must be either fixed or abolished. Considering the state has been unable to execute anyone since 2005, these are the only two viable options, unless we prefer to continue making a mockery of the system. There needs to be a discussion that leads to a solution, but for that to happen, somebody has to bring up the subject. Would McDaniel have done that were he still running for governor? Doubt it.
When Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller was running for governor back in 2005, he intended, though he didn't say it publicly, to remain in office only one term if elected. He planned to spend four years doing only what he thought was best for the state without worrying about the implications for re-election. He didn't want to try for two terms because he didn't like the incentives he would face.
Because he's not worried about the next election, McDaniel's main incentive is to do his job. That reality made it easier for him, or anyone else who might have been in his position, to interpret the law instead of finesse it, or ignore it.
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Saturday Night Dance Party with Wayne R. Miller
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Just like Ted Baxter, it all began at a 5000-watt Midwestern radio station. Actually, that is true. Wayne was 13 when he first cracked a mic on WHOW in his hometown of Clinton Illinois. He loved the engineering part of the business, but even the 13-year-old, jocks got the girls.
From there it was off to college and WLBH in Mattoon and his first chance at top 40 on WEIC (RIP) in Charleston. In the fall of 1973, at the tender age of 18, he got the call to head for Peoria and WIRL and WSWT! Big time!
Wayne turned down a shot at Milwaukee in 1974 and spent the next few years opposite Robin Weaver doing afternoons on WIRL. Management and money called to him and he took over WTAZ (now G102.3).
Next was WXCL and WKQA. Then back to WIRL and WSWT as a sales rep. He worked his way up to Sales Manager and General Manager before he got tossed for "making too much money." Yes, that was the reason. Dang it!
Wayne spent the next 9 months with WYZZ channel 43 TV and then got the call from "The Home of Rock and Roll" WWCT. He hung around until they sold the station in 2000. That told him it was time to get back to his love of engineering, and the rest is radio history. He is now the chief engineer for most of the stations he has worked for over the years and loves making this stuff work.
He also loves hosting the Official Saturday Night Dance Party on Superhits WIRL from 7pm to midnight along with the occasional fill in on WMBD.
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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Semhar: Not Your Winner
Semhar Tadesse is a 24 year old "spoken word artist". Translated, that means she's unemployed and sometimes talks all angry like on open mic nights. Semhar is obsessed with Oprah which is odd because I think Oprah's first piece of advice to Semhar would be "Get a job!" I saw Semhar on that TV Guide special and she's a major pain in the ass so I'm writing this post with all sorts of preconceived notions.
On her CBS.com bio, Semhar compares herself to Fabio because she's "silly". The only thing silly about Semhar is the fact that she thinks "spoken word artist" is an occupation. This chick isn't winning and she definitely isn't making it to the merge. That's my prediction. Here's her video:
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The only way she won't be the first is because her tribe wins Immunity, but I am sure she'll be second.ReplyDelete
Is she crazy? Does she know she applied for SURVIVOR? You know the one without electricity?ReplyDelete
Poor little lamb. She has no idea what she's gotten herself into. She won't last more than 2 weeks. She'll be the first one crying as soon as it starts raining.
- DiabolicalSeptember 14, 2011 at 6:02 AM
Did I only just notice this or is she the only person to have an action shot in her intro? What the fuck is it with the prance down the beach shot? Sit in your chair and impress me, that's all I ask.ReplyDelete
Alas, you failed.
I'm going to enjoy watching that smirk wiped off your face when you hit the reality of Survivor.
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 12:43 AM
"me, me, me" Blech! Not proud I come from where she was born.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 10:20 AM
I do believe the smirk was wiped off her face last night or should I say snuffed?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 11:32 AM
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lol i think her glowing review of herself lasted longer than her stay on the island.ReplyDelete