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Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot: Halloween,' we sit down with those 'classic' horror movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment.
Confession: Last year, RedEye staffers discussed their favorite scary moments from horror and Halloween movies. One in particular, starring Corbin Bernsen among others, generated some animated discussion in the newsroom. Until recently, I had never seen the 1995 horror anthology "Tales from the Hood," executive produced by Spike Lee and featuring four black culture-themed shorts framed by a narrative of three drug dealers trying to buy "found" drugs from a wacky storytelling funeral director.
Had I seen it in 1995 at the age of 8: Grounded immediately. Not only is the language more than salty (I still get a little bit of a shock when I hear the N-word used in a movie as much as it is in this one), but the gory special effects and use of monsters, zombies and inanimate-objects-come-to-life to eat your racist flesh would have quite literally made me shit the bed as an 8-year-old. Also, I grew up in a predominantly white, suburban town in Kansas--what's this about racism, now? Any social messaging aside from "OH MY GOD KILLER DOLLS" would have gone directly over my head.
Now: Anthologies and those centered on social commentary are my favorite kinds of horror films, and this one delivers, both in its execution as a classic horror flick and as a pop culture movie with a message. Stories about realities in the black community such as child abuse, police brutality, gang violence and racist politicians are turned on their heads and repackaged as psychological, supernatural thrillers that imagine what revenge would look like on those who have wronged them, from within the community and outside of it. A man being beaten to death by white cops isn't horrifying enough? Let's turn the guy into a vengeful zombie who comes back from the dead to decapitate and crucify his killers. A racist white politician moves into a former plantation house and disrespects the lives of slaves lost there? Let's set things right and use nightmarish puppetry and animation to send droves of small black dolls to kill him by eating his flesh. What I expected to be a campy 1990s horror comedy, maybe even a parody of others like "Tales from the Crypt" and "Creepshow" for black audiences, is one of the most original and well-executed of the classic horror anthology genre. Some of the stories stand out much more than others--as is often the case in anthologies--but the messaging is consistent, the targets are balanced and the "Twilight Zone"-esque ending wraps it up neatly.
Must be noted: The final story (which leads into the conclusion of the narrative story) in the anthology about psychological, nightmarish experiments done on gang members who have shot and killed innocents, including children, hits a little too close to home with the violence rates in Chicago, almost 20 years later.
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Monday, 10 May 2010
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- h4writer said...
hi, really looks good, but I think the icons don't have enough room in their container. I think it would be better to give them 1px a 2px spacing ...
- 10 May 2010 at 15:00
Just wondering why not just use Cairo-Dock that already exists and is working great.
- 10 May 2010 at 15:12
- Neil J. Patel said...
@h4writer: Right, the design team is working on making that look better. Initially we were working on just framing the icons in a way that will (mostly) make any icon look nice.
Look out for updates when we land in Maverick :)
@anon: This is the first rev of the launcher, and doesn't accurately show all it's features. As mentioned I'll try and do a follow up blog post showing it's technical side and more features, which will hopefully answer your question. Also, the entire UI is in Clutter and uses shaders for effects, which is just not possible with cairo on netbooks in a per formant way (otherwise I'd just use AWN!).
- 10 May 2010 at 15:29
sudo apt-get install unity does not work
bash returns : $ E: paket unity could not be found
Any ieda ?
- 10 May 2010 at 16:21
- bytor4232 said...
You forgot to do "apt-get update" between
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-dx-team/une
sudo apt-get install unity
- 10 May 2010 at 16:26
Is someone working on a "single-window" empathy?
Gajim has such a mode.
Something similar in Empathy would be highly appreciated as I could use it full screen than on different screen-sizes without so much fiddling around.
- 10 May 2010 at 16:28
- hadess said...
You should add a rock pattern for the background, and call it GNOME 1.0:
- 10 May 2010 at 16:43
Look great! The pop-up menu on the "dock" at the left should follow the same color as the standard gtk menu, that would look even better!
- 10 May 2010 at 19:27
- crep4ever said...
Ouch, not still usable on my desktop. Nice flickering btw ;) (ati hd4850) I still keep it in repos, looking forward for updates, good job !
- 10 May 2010 at 20:22
- Jack Hynes said...
Great work so far, my Docky bar is sitting in the exact same place and would be in panel mode too if it didn't cover the top panel. Think it's the only place you can really have a dock with a netbook.
Still I have some small questions. I am kind of confused about the choice of tooltip style. Why doesn't it follow 10.04 style, considering this has only just been added to Ubuntu? In my opinion the unity tooltip is very ugly in comparison.
Also is 'one indicator menu click opens one indicator menu' the new default? I can never open the right menu straight away at the moment because I always manage to move from one menu to the next by accident. So this new behaviour is definitely an improvement.
- 10 May 2010 at 23:56
- Neil J. Patel said...
@anon2: Urgh, thanks.
@anon3: Not that I know of, we hope to use Empathy as it's default in Ubuntu. Maybe we can get some community help to make it netbook friendly.
@hadess: Sounds like a plan, though it doesn't use Javascript, is that okay? :)
@crep4ever: Sorry :( We've been testing on minimum Intel GMA 945 netbooks, however Unity does require good GL support and at least ARB shader support. Feel free to file a bug with your X info, I can ask the graphics dudes to take a look :)
@Jack: Glad it's working well for you. The tooltips are actually meant to morph into the right click menus, hence they share the look-and-feel. We hope to land that animation soon.
Regarding the indicators, yes! What we've wanted from day one was a sane panel and Unity tries to realize this goal. The ability to open a menu and then scrub across opening the others like a standard menubar has been a design goal for indicators. Hopefully we'll get a full complement of indicators on the desktop this cycle too!
- 11 May 2010 at 09:22
- BATi said...
ummm, no luck under VirtualBox... fresh install of 10.04 and UNE but UNE session does not start :(i
- 11 May 2010 at 15:09
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- 12 May 2010 at 03:53
Hmm, after all the bits I have read from Mark about saving vertical space - can I ask why you decided to bring the title bar back, rather than merge it in to the panel the way the current netbook edition does?
- 12 May 2010 at 03:55
Thanks for your great work, it is working awesome already!
I think this is even more usable than GNOME Shell (or 1.0 :P) because of the simple launcher. Especially for netbooks.
Great job!
- 12 May 2010 at 15:32
- Org said...
Lo estoy instalando, veamos los resultados!.. gracias por el trabajo se ve bien..
- 12 May 2010 at 19:12
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Court Rejects Pa. Firm's Health Care Law Challenge
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Friday against the Mennonite owners of a central Pennsylvania furniture manufacturing company who claimed new health insurance requirements that they pay for employees' contraceptive services violated their First Amendment rights.
The 2-1 decision issued by a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court decision that Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. does not qualify for the exemption because it is a forprofit company making a secular product with no formal ties to a church or other religious group.
"The law has long recognized the distinction between the owners of a corporation and the corporation itself,'' the ruling said. "A holding to the contrary – that a for-profit corporation can engage in religious exercise – would eviscerate the fundamental principle that a corporation is a legally distinct entity from its owners.''
Conestoga's health plan had excluded coverage for contraceptives and morning-after drugs, citing Mennonite Church teaching that terminating a fertilized embryo "is an intrinsic evil and a sin against God.'' The company's owners argued that the health care law's requirement to pay for birth control violated their religion, while disobeying it would subject them to crippling fines.
During arguments before the 3rd Circuit panel last month, Conestoga attorney Charles W. Proctor III told the court that the Lancaster County cabinetmaking firm was complying with the federal health insurance mandate because it could not afford potential penalties of $100 a day for each affected employee.
Proctor said Friday he planned to file a request next week to have the case heard by the full 3rd Circuit.
Conestoga employs about 950 people and is owned by Anthony Hahn and his family, who are Mennonite. The employer requirement under the new rules applies to companies with 50 or more fulltime workers.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, praised Friday's ruling.
"While the Constitution ensures that we are entitled to our religious beliefs, it also safeguards against having someone else's beliefs imposed upon us,'' ACLU deputy legal director Louise Melling said in a statement. "Businesses cannot deny women coverage for something as fundamental as contraception by using the owners' personal beliefs as an excuse for discrimination.''
The Pennsylvania case is among dozens nationwide addressing contraception coverage under the new health care rules. Friday's decision contradicts a ruling made by another federal appeals court in a similar case, increasing the chance that the Supreme Court could eventually intervene to address the issue.


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Mrs. Gentieu retired in 1986 as librarian at the Conwell Middle School in Kensington after a long career as a high school English teacher in Philadelphia and suburban schools. After starting her teaching career in Lewes, Del., she went on to teach at Yeadon High School and John Bartram High School.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Comic 520: My Little Cuttle-Muffin
First: this is one of those comics that, during XKCD's high points, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about. It would have been unremarkable--not that funny, but not so bad that it merits attention. But we are past those days. You come here expecting me to mock and criticize--and YOU WILL HAVE IT, my friends! You will have it.
Okay, so, it is not exactly a new concept: cephalopods are scary. We all read Dinosaur Comics. I read Ryan North's news feed, I saw the video. I'm not going to say 'Ryan North does it better, so this one isn't good,' despite that being true. No, I am going to say 'this joke has been made before, so this one had better be clever.'
And it... wasn't.
There is actual art in this one, which is a plus. But the humor is lacking. I could go into this, but really I just feel like it is robbing the cuttlefish of its terror by making it something which can be trained by mere humans. I mean, the point is these are freakish alien monstrosities that can learn things on their own. Not that they are killer attack monsters that you can train.
And I am not much nourished by the whole 'scientist fight' thing, anyway. I mean, I have laughed at science fights before. But only when they were real. And if bio majors are going to take over the world, wouldn't they use some sort of horrible deathplague and not cuttlefish? I mean, haven't... hundreds of speculative fiction stories been written with that exact plot?
Basically, this was dull and not very well executed. Where are the cephalopods turning on their masters? Or, you know, doing creepy things besides killing physicists? Come on, Randall. Step it up a notch.
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I thought this was cute. Though not funny.ReplyDelete
Since it's so utterly unremarkable, I'd like to direct your attention to something else: the Palm contest finalists are out. Scroll down the page. You'll notice a common theme with them, namely that they mostly suck.
Frankly though, Randall is not at fault.
this type of science fight shit really pisses me of. it's not like there is one type of uber-science that will magically give me flying cars or anything. it's gong to take all kinds of scientists (physicists, chemists, computer scientists, etc.) to even make a simple hoverboard, nevermind flying cars. and seriously, it's two thousand fucking eight; WE WERE PROMISED FLYING CARS, ASSHOLES!!!!ReplyDelete
I liked this one. It wasn't great, but good enough. I've missed this side of xkcd. When was the last time we heard of the raptors? This time Randall wants us to believe that he dreamed about cuttlefish and got so scared he is prepared to join a war on the chemists. Over a dream. I do find that somewhat funny, and very in character. If the cuttlefish will be the new raptor I won't complain.ReplyDelete
As a person with one foot in hard science and one foot in soft science, I have to say that jokes about rivalries between different fields can be pretty amusing in a brief-slightly-witty-situational-humour sort of way. For instance, the Impostor one made me laugh, and the Sokal affair gives me something of a smug smile when I describe it. But this wasn't even a joke about any field of study. It was just the comic equivalent of a comedian saying, "Hey, guys, [insert subject] - what about that, huh? Pretty weird? Amirite?"ReplyDelete
Quite honestly, it would bother me if cuttlefish are the new raptors, because it'd be the same jokes recycled again and again. Someone just needs to write a program which randomly generates xkcd jokes, because he hasn't done a completely new joke in ages. "Hat guy is wacky!" "Aww nerd love!" "4chan reference!" Sure, they were fine to begin with, but it gets old after the twentieth time. To quote (out of context) the linguist Geoff Pullum, "to call [it] formulaic is an insult to the beauty and diversity of formulae."
This one is fan service of the highest degree. Randall knows some of his readers are science people, so he crafted this one solely for them. Expect to see shirts and posters of this made, and in the case of the latter, posted on cubicles and in offices all around the country.ReplyDelete
I'm not kidding.
I was hoping they had trained the cuttlefish to display "PHYSICISTS SUCK COCK" on their colour-changing bodies.ReplyDelete
- B.F. SkinnerDecember 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM
Since when does the Bio department study animal learning? The Bio students didn't train those cuttlefish, that was the Psych department.ReplyDelete
That was definitely the Psych department...
But hey, those impure sciences are all the same, right? right?
Re the Palm Finalists: They're all completely awful, with one exception:ReplyDelete
"If you'd kept up on my Facebook profile, this wouldn't have been such a surprise..."
This one's not great. I thought some of Carl's were better, but this is clearly better than the rest of the finalists:
"80% of my calls are to your mom because the other 20% are to your sister! They both have Palm Centros and we always stay connected."
Still puzzled as to where cuttlefish gained the powers of electrical eels.ReplyDelete
On the last panel there's a chemist casually drinking from his erlenmeyer flask. Even if the cephalopod joke wasn't that funny, suicidal chemists make it all much much better.ReplyDelete
What I don't like about the cephalopods is their levitation and death rays. Biologists suck at making organisms do these things (levitate and zap).
Generally, I think it's a pretty alright comic for now.
BTW, there's this reiteration of this biological uplift trope which is SO MUCH better:
I'm going to echo B.F. Skinner on this one. At least the comic wasn't about how math is purer than all the sciences. And a science rivalry at least requires inside jokes across several fields and not just listing computer references, so I'm satisfied.ReplyDelete
Although Randall feels the need to explain cuttlefish and not his usual physics/CS, so he must be aware of his audience's focii.
Foci, not focii.ReplyDelete
Okay, so first: science fights!
Does anyone remember when Pluto stopped being a planet and astronomers were like 'we can call it a pluton!' and geologists were like 'uh, no, we already have something called a pluton' and the astronomers were like 'well apparently it WASN'T AT ALL IMPORTANT so we are using it anyway'? That was awesome and hilarious and totally really happened. This is just 'haha chemists vs. biologists.'
Cow: Those aren't suicidal chemists; those are people drinking alcohol out of novelty flasks. That is probably meant to be champagne or at least wine. It is Randall's way of saying 'a toast to you, sirs!'
I thought this one was alright, you can't always take xkcd (or any webcomic for that matter) too seriously. It's like watching the latest Indiana Jones movie, if you tried to take it seriously you'd hate it.ReplyDelete
Oh, and for the record, I don't read Ryan North's news feed or comic, tried it a few times and it hasn't taken my fancy.
This was not cute. This was not funny. This was just bad.ReplyDelete
It's not a comic. It's a short story with a terrible plot. Which is also a dream sequence. With an unfunny punchline. And shameless pandering.
Being the attention whore that I am, I usually try to be funny or witty in my comments here to garner laughs of my own and the passing adulation of the Internet pseudo-masses, but for once I have forgone this option because I have spent all my energy HATING TODAY'S XKCD.
I actually thought this one was ok. It still had a little bit of "only scientists matter" with only caring about physicists, chemists and biologists. I think a few social scientists might be bad enemies. Or at least there are some other professions worth fearing. Other minor quibbles are that the last line ("if we join you") would have worked far better as an alt-text, leaving the "XKCD Salutes Bio Majors" as the last line. Also, lame that he would mention the display screens without using them for anything.ReplyDelete
Other than that though, it really didn't bother me too much.
Jay: I've got a post on the Palm contest, which I'll put up in a second. I wanted Rob's post to have some time at the top.
M- Yeah, you would have expected raptors here. Much more inherent terror than a fish that sounds like "Cuddlefish"
<3 cuddlefishReplyDelete
Here's another reiteration of that science vs. science trope. It's made of one panel with a monochrome drawing of some woman chemist and some text. Do you think it funnier?ReplyDelete
Carl I am appreciating the idea of the social scientists team vs. physicists-chemists-biologists team. I believe I would enjoy this!ReplyDelete
OMG "cuddlefish"! It's an odd sort of pet name. Perhaps we can refer to Randall or one of the Anons as "cuddlefish."
Amanda, Carl: The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov.ReplyDelete
Cuddlefish is a nice cute pet name I'd call someone I like... It has been a while since I felt something good towards Randall.
BTW, does anyone else, when seeing Randall, thinks of Stephen King's Randall Flagg?
I second the motion to refer to the Anons on this site as "cuddlefish."ReplyDelete
I second it A LOT.
Ahaha. All in favor, be a human being.ReplyDelete
YAY now I wish we could find a way to make the comment form say "cuddlefish" rather than "anonymous."ReplyDelete
I have recently found your blog and I was curios as to why you would criticise something as awesome as xkcd. I read your faqs (both of them) and I started to understand. I agree that lately there are a lot of copypasta jokes on xkcd and even when I disagreed with some of your opinions on certain strips at least you had a point. Most of the time I found that you criticised something that was unimportant and thus not destroying the humor for me but that you still had a point. But this I time I got, for the first time, the idea that you just wanted to criticise this strip and that you hadn´t even understood it.ReplyDelete
So now is the time that I have to say, your blog is overdone. You stopped being usefull and now only sustain yourself. What a shame...
To be fair: this was written by guest poster Rob, and not I, Carl Wheeler, the proprieter of this blog.ReplyDelete
On the other hand, I agree with everything he wrote. So....
- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 7:55 AM
The insinuation that the divers scientific disciplines are at war with one another (much like vampires, werewolves, pirates and ninjas are) is hilarious. Do you not understand this?ReplyDelete


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11th August 2011, 05:06 PM
We are in the middle of training Toby. So far we are giving little stars and blue buffalo training treats. Our trainer says that its good to have High value snacks too for distractions. I'm not sure what would be a good high value snack that is not high in grease, fat, calories and good for a dog. The trainer had us use cooked hot dogs, cheese and dog snacks. To tell you the truth the baggy smelled so bad that I actually felt sick. I'm not sure what kind of cheese he used or what form of hot dog but something was stinky. Trainer said he put it all together about 1/2 hr before class so it was fresh and refrigerated. Toby does get gas with high fatty treats especially moist treats.
Any ideas of what to use during training?
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A freight train slammed into a big rig that was stuck on railroad tracks in Sugar Land late Monday morning. The truck had a cargo of two cars, one of them an antique Rolls Royce limousine.
The collision occurred about 11:30 a.m. on Brooks St. near U.S. 90A, said Doug Adolph, spokesman for the Sugar Land Police Department.
Adolph said no injuries were reported.
The trucker was trying to cross the railroad tracks when his low-profile auto-hauling trailer got struck on the raised rail bed, Adolph said. The trucker called 911 and climbed out of the truck's cab. Then he saw the train barreling toward his 18-wheeler.
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How the horse's stomach works
To understand why horses are prone to ulcers, it is helpful to know some horse anatomy. Holding only about 4 gallons, the horse's stomach is small compared to humans. It is divided into two distinct parts. The non-glandular portion (also called the esophageal region) is lined by tissue similar to the lining of the esophagus. The glandular portion is lined with glandular tissue, which produces hydrochloric acid and pepsin, an enzyme needed for the digestion of food. This part of the digestive system also produces substances to protect the stomach from the effects of the acid and enzymes. In humans, eating stimulates the production of hydrochloric acid. In the horse, however, hydrochloric acid is constantly being produced. So, if a horse does not eat, the acid accumulates in the stomach, and can start to irritate the stomach, especially the non-glandular portion.
Causes of gastric ulcers in horses
There are multiple factors that can increase the risk of ulcers in horses, including:
Signs of gastric ulcers in horses
In foals, signs of gastric ulcers include:
In adult horses, signs of gastric ulcers include:
If a gastric ulcer is suspected, a veterinarian will use a combination of medical history, clinical signs, laboratory tests, and special examinations to make the diagnosis. Gastric ulcers can be life-threatening. If your horse or foal is showing signs of gastric ulcers, contact your veterinarian immediately.
Treatment of gastric ulcers in horses
Medications and changes in management practices are the cornerstones of therapy for equine gastric ulcers. Different medications are used for three purposes: (1) to decrease acid production, (2) to buffer the acid that is produced, and (3) to protect the lining of the stomach from the effects of the acid.
In addition to medications, changes in management are almost always necessary including:
Many ulcers in foals heal without treatment. In adults, the clinical signs may improve within 1-2 days of starting treatment, but it takes far longer for the ulcer to actually heal. Be sure to follow your veterinarian's treatment recommendations. If you stop the treatment earlier than your veterinarian suggests, the ulcer may not completely heal.


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A Baby Moose Is On The Loose!
When I watch rookie free agent fullback #44 Chris Gronkowski I see a young Moose.
He has his size and build, and he seems to have the same heart and determination that Daryl Johnston had.
Gronkowski seems to be fitting into the offensive unit very nicely. He blocks well and as we saw in his first start against the Chicago Bears he can get open for a touchdown. Actually, that is really amazing – his first NFL start and he gets a touchdown. Not to shabby for a undrafted free agent that had to fight to get onto the 53 man roster.
So how much do the Cowboys love Chris Gronkowski? Well, just before the start of Sunday's game, the Cowboys released fullback Deon Anderson to make room for tight end Scott Chandler. See ya, Deon…
Rookie Chris Gronkowski in now firmly entrenched into the starting fullback role.
Chris was born in Buffalo, New York December 26, 1986. Chris's family have football running through their veins. His younger brother Rob and older brother Dan both play tight end for the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos.
Chris played High School football at Williamsville North, where he lettered for three years in football and baseball. Chris then continued playing ball when Maryland recruited him to play fullback, but red-shirted his freshman year. Chris had the eighth highest strength index on the team which was the best among running backs.
In 2007 he transferred to Arizona where he played linebacker. He went back to the starting fullback position in 2008.
Chris did not attend the NFL Scouting Combine in 2010. He declared for the 2010 NFL Draft and was thought to be a high 4th round selection, but instead went undrafted. Chris signed with the Cowboys one day later. He started his first game September 19, 2010 to catch a one yard pass from Tony Romo for his first NFL touchdown.
The Cowboys have always been good at picking up talented undrafted free agents and making them a big part of the team. I think they have found another jewel in Gronkowski.
Chris loves the game of football and gives 110% every play. So you see… We really do have another Moose!
On a personal thank you all for all the concern over my health issues. I am feeling much better and LSS readers I am back. Hugs to all of you!


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Monday, December 10, 2007
Roast your own tea
1, small commercial operation to change flavor, prepare for storage and/or aging.
2, home roasting using rice cooker to reduce moisture for storage and/or aging
3, roasting before brewing for flavor enhancement
I speak of what I know, and what I know is not the only way, nor it is precise. However it's a learning process, it serves the purpose of what I try to achieve at this point. Of course my expectation of end result will raise as experience accumulates and that my skill improves along time.
There isn't an exact way or formula to roast tea. The basics are temperature and time control.
Small commercial operation:
My way for initial roasting is using a semi commercial electric tea roaster, 80 C for 1 hr to warm up, depending on the type of tea (maturity and shape of the leaves, original roast and fermentation) and the final taste you want, turn up temp for actual roasting for any where between 30 min to 1 hr, temp can be anywhere between 90 to 110 c, then turn down temp to 70 to 80 for 5 to 8 hrs. It's now time to taste. I usually put aside some of it at this point if I am not satisfied with the result and proceed to another session of roasting. It's trial and error from this point on. I have burn some batches, under roasted some, and some came out quite nice but I still wonder if it could get even better. The key is as long as you did not mess up (burn) a batch, you can manage to make it better.
Highest temp for re-roasting tea is not to exceed 110 c, unless you like charcoal flavor tea. Patience is virtue my tea friends. Bear in mind the bottom line is to decrease moisture for better aging, flavor is second to it. For fisted oolong, longer it takes at lower temp, because you do not want to burn the exterior while the interior still contain moisture.
Green tea in bamboo container above. Breathing hole in the middle for air circulation. I just started this batch today, will be stored away in sealed container for the next 10 yrs. If you remember this in 10 years, ask me for some sample of aged Mao Jian. :P
Roaster does not come with cover, I use layers of paper to cover opening. I will look for a bamboo cover soon.
Above picture shows before and after roasting. Left is before, right is after. This is TGY of 07 which Will acquired from China in Oct. One of the medium grade TGY with typical green grassy flavor before roasting. Roasted TGY is slightly more brown than the original, but the difference is rather small. However the taste is much different. Roasted TGY lost most of the grassy taste, sweet roasted rice aroma is the new transformed flavor, much more palatable than the original flavor. The whole duration of roasting went on for about a week, with initial roasting (low, high then low temp) about 7 hours, another 4 hours (low) the next day, rested for 2 days, 1 hr (low) every other day for the rest of the week.
Home roasting using rice cooker:
Rice cooker must have "keep warm" function. You can roast 1 to 2 lbs at a time depending on the shape of leaves. Loose strands take up more space, hence less tea can fit in rice cooker pot. "keep warm" for 8 hours if you just want to loose excess moisture. To change flavor, "keep warm" for 1 hour, "cook" for 30 min to 2 hours depends on original roast, shape of leaves and how you like the resulting flavor, then "keep warm" for 6 hrs. Test result with tasting, repeat if desired more roasting. Do not cover with lid when roasting, cover entire pot with a few layers of clean paper free of odor. Moisture can escape through paper is the purpose. For greener teas, leave center open by creating a hole in the middle of the pile.
If you try to change the flavor of tea by using high heat, please do beware the flavor will continue to transform for months after roasting.
Roasting before brewing:
Here is an article I wrote a while back using a Yixing roaster.
Happy roasting guys!
13 comments:
- Dave said...
Wow, thanks for the info. I plan on some experiments soon.
What do you think about trying to roast in a crock pot (set to low, obviously).
- Imen said...
Not a problem.
I never experiment with a crock pot. As long as it can maintain/keep up with the temperature, it should be fine.
- Dave said...
It can certainly maintain the temp. I'm going to conduct a few experiments and get back to you.
- Ren said...
Thanks for the great post. Can you provide any more information on the electric roaster you used?
- Imen said...
What kinda info are you looking for regarding the electric roaster?
- Walter said...
Nice, What about something like a food dehydrator? Has anyone tried this...?
- Imen said...
I do not know how a dehydrator works in terms of the heating element. When roasting tea, dehydration is not the only issue, it requires heat to modify composition of sugar and other substances of the leaves.
It's worth trying by all means. :)
- Eliah said...
I would like to buy one of those large bamboo roasters. Do you know where I could purchase one?
thank you. Eliah
- Imen said...
Mine was hand carried from Taiwan by my friend. I don't think you can find it in the US.
- Sherri Nester said...
i have planted some seeds of camelia cinesis, (hope i have the right spelling). non has germinated yet after several months. but i do have several mature sasanqua, could they be used as tea? hope someone out there will know.
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When or if wisdom teeth come through, many people's mouths do not have the room for the tooth to develop normally. This causes the tooth to develop irregularly or in an awkward direction. Many people experience serious pain when this happens, which results in the necessity for the wisdom tooth/teeth to be removed.
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Can my dentist remove my wisdom teeth?
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WASHINGTON (AP) � President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric in Yemen a "major blow" to al-Qaida's most active affiliate, and vowed a vigorous U.S. campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.
Anwar al-Awlaki, and a second American, Samir Khan, were killed by a joint CIA-U.S. military air strike on their convoy in Yemen early Friday, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters. Both men played key roles in inspiring attacks against the U.S., and their killings are a devastating double blow to al-Qaida's most dangerous franchise.
Seeking to justify the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen, Obama outlined al-Awlaki's involvement in planning and directing attempts to murder Americans.
"He directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009. He directed the failed attempt to blow up U.S. cargo planes in 2010," Obama said. "And he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda."
Yemeni intelligence pinpointed al-Awlaki's hideout in the town of Al Khasaf, a Yemeni official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence. "He was closely monitored ever since," by Yemeni intelligence on the ground, backed by U.S. satellite and drones from the sky, the official said.
After three weeks of tracking the targets, U.S. armed drones and fighter jets shadowed al-Awlaki's convoy early Friday, then drones launched their lethal strike. The strike killed four operatives in all, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.
Al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, who had not been charged with any crime. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government's authority to kill an American without trial.
Al-Awlaki was targeted in the killing, but Khan, who edited a slick Jihadi Internet magazine, apparently was not targeted directly. The identity of the other two al-Qaida suspects is not known, the Yemeni official said.
Khan, who was from North Carolina, wasn't considered an operational leader but had published seven issues online of Inspire Magazine, a widely read Jihadi site offering advice on how to make bombs and the use of weapons.
Obama praised Yemen's government and security forces for its close cooperation with the U.S. in fighting Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, arguably the terror network's most dangerous affiliate. With al-Awlaki's death, Obama said the affiliate remains "a dangerous but weakened terrorist organization."
Following the strike, a U.S. official outlined new details of al-Awlaki's involvement in anti-U.S. operations, including the attempted Christmas 2009 bombing of a Detroit-bound aircraft. The official said that al-Awlaki specifically directed the man accused of trying to bomb the airliner to detonate an explosive device over U.S. airspace to maximize casualties.
The official also said al-Awlaki had a direct role in supervising and directing a failed attempt to bring down two U.S. cargo aircraft by detonating explosives concealed inside two packages mailed to the U.S. The U.S. also believes al-Awlaki had sought to use poisons, including cyanide and ricin, to attack Westerners.
Al-Awlaki was killed by the CIA working in concert with the same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden � the elite counterterrorism unit known as the Joint Special Operations Command.
Counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and Yemen has improved in recent weeks, allowing better intelligence-gathering on al-Awlaki's movements, U.S. officials said.
Al-Awlaki is the most prominent al-Qaida figure to be killed since bin Laden's death in May. But the killing raises questions that the death of other al-Qaida leaders, including bin Laden, did not. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government's authority to kill an American without trial.
U.S. officials have said they believe al-Awlaki inspired the actions of Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the attack at Fort Hood, Texas.
In New York, the Pakistani-American man who pleaded guilty to the May 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt said he was inspired by al-Awlaki after making contact over the Internet.
Al-Awlaki also is believed to have had a hand in mail bombs addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, the air cargo packages intercepted in Dubai and Europe in October 2010.
The senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee, C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, said that al-Awlaki's most dangerous operational role was his continual involvement in recruiting Americans willing to carry out terror attacks inside the U.S.
"His whole strategy was to go after individual jihadists inside the U.S. who were willing to go out and attack Americans," Ruppersberger said, citing the Fort Hood shooting as an example.
Al-Awlaki wrote an article in the latest issue of the terror group's Internet magazine, justifying attacking civilians in the West. It's titled "Targeting the Populations of Countries that Are at War with the Muslims."
Al-Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki of Yemen, had sued Obama and other administration officials 13 months ago to try to stop them from targeting his son for death. The father, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, argued that international law and the Constitution prevented the administration from assassinating his son unless he presented a specific imminent threat to life or physical safety and there were no other means to stop him.
But U.S. District Judge John Bates threw out the lawsuit in December, saying a judge does not have authority to review the president's military decisions and that al-Awlaki's father did not have the legal right to sue on behalf of his son.
Al-Awlaki served as imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., a Washington suburb, for about a year in 2001.
The mosque's outreach director, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, has said that mosque members never saw al-Awlaki espousing radical ideology while he was there and that he believes Awlaki's views changed after he left the U.S.
Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Julie Pace, Lolita C. Baldor, Adam Goldman, Stephen Braun and Nedra Pickler contributed to this report.


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Improve mental illness treatment to prevent crimes
Following the school shootings in December, the nation's gun laws seemed the obvious place to look to prevent future attacks in schools, malls, theaters and workplaces. But another key theme that emerged - and deserves a great deal of attention as well - is the question of how to help the mentally ill.
That it takes a mass shooting for us to consider in depth the needs of the mentally ill is a tragedy in itself. Perhaps this topic is uncomfortable to us because mental health is such an imprecise science; human beings are vastly more complicated than a metal barrel with a trigger. Or maybe it's the specter of the growing costs to treat the mentally ill. Help for them is not something we can throw more money at because there isn't more money to throw.
Of course, only a small proportion of gun violence comes at the hands of those with a mental illness, and it may not seem fair to point fingers at people who in reality are more likely to become victims of crime than perpetrators. Still, the shocking impact of these attacks in our minds and hearts leave us searching for any solution, and many see dealing with mental illness as the basis for prevention.
What should be done? While lawmakers weigh funding issues, an important piece of any solution must be education and awareness at all levels. Until the public has a better understanding of the signs and best treatment of mental illness - and erases the stigma attached to it - progress will lag.
As for prevention of future tragedies or mass shootings, we can do a better job of learning the signs in someone at risk of committing an act of violence. If we turn our backs, we all will suffer. The loss of 28 lives in Connecticut has rekindled the debate about mental illness. We must not let the conversation stop.
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The way of the world: from the dawn of civilizations to the eve of the twenty-first century
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As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trouble us as much as those that concern our future. How did we get here? Where--and how--did Homo sapiens originate? How did we, precariously bipedal, come to dominate the animal kingdom, direct the flow of the Euphrates, fly a rocket to the moon?
David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critic Circle Award, provides an arrestingly cogent answer in The Way of the World. With insight and sound scholarship, he reveals how human culture has evolved according to the principles of self-determination--from the footsteps of the first hominids 3.5 million years ago to the efforts of contemporary democracies' to establish a global, lasting peace. Here is a world history wherein early forms of Christianity give way to rationalism, the tyranny of kings crumbles to the merits of representative government, and modern science presents us with the master key to the future. Refreshingly positive, David Fromkin reminds us of the astounding record of human achievement, and the potential in each of us to improve the way of our world.
"Mr. Fromkin recounts 'the greatest story ever told' exceedingly well, aided by a deep knowledge and an elegant prose style."--The Wall Street Journal
"The Way of the World is worldly, civilized, genial."--The Boston Globe
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The Lumière (Template:IPA-fr) brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Template:IPA-fr (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean Template:IPA-fr (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol),[1][2] were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph, which in contrast to Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. Their first film, Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon, shot in 1894, is considered the first true motion picture.[3]
The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France to Claude-Antoine Lumière and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière. They moved to Lyon in 1870, where both attended La Martiniere, the largest technical school in Lyon.[4] Their father, Claude-Antoine Lumière (1840–1911), ran a photographic firm where both brothers worked for him: Louis as a physicist and Auguste as a manager. Louis had made some improvements to the still-photograph process, the most notable being the dry-plate process, which was a major step towards moving images.
It was not until their father retired in 1892 that the brothers began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes leading up to their film camera, most notably film perforations (originally implemented by Emile Reynaud) as a means of advancing the film through the camera and projector. The original cinématographe had been patented by Léon Guillaume Bouly on 12 February 1892.[5] The brothers patented their own version on 13 February 1895.[6] The first footage ever to be recorded using it was recorded on March 19, 1895. This first film shows workers leaving the Lumière factory.
First film screenings
The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895.[7] Their first public screening of films at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.[8] This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).[9] Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.[10] with Léon Bouly's cinématographe device, which was patented the previous year. The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières.
The public debut at the Grand Café came a few months later and consisted of the following ten short films (in order of presentation):[11]
- La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon (literally, "the exit from the Lumière factory in Lyon", or, under its more common English title, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory), 46 seconds
- Le Jardinier (l'Arroseur Arrosé) ("The Gardener", or "The Sprinkler Sprinkled"), 49 seconds
- Le Débarquement du Congrès de Photographie à Lyon ("the disembarkment of the Congress of Photographers in Lyon"), 48 seconds
- La Voltige ("Horse Trick Riders"), 46 seconds
- La Pêche aux poissons rouges ("fishing for goldfish"), 42 seconds
- Les Forgerons ("Blacksmiths"), 49 seconds
- Repas de bébé ("Baby's Breakfast" (lit. "baby's meal")), 41 seconds
- Le Saut à la couverture ("Jumping Onto the Blanket"), 41 seconds
- La Places des Cordeliers à Lyon ("Cordeliers Square in Lyon"—a street scene), 44 seconds
- La Mer (Baignade en mer) ("the sea [bathing in the sea]"), 38 seconds
The Lumières went on tour with the cinématographe in 1896, visiting Brussels (the first place a movie was played outside Paris on the Galleries Saint-Hubert on March 1. 1896), Bombay, London, Montreal, New York and Buenos Aires.
The moving images had an immediate and significant influence on popular culture with L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat (literally, "the arrival of a train at La Ciotat", but more commonly known as Arrival of a Train at a Station) and Carmaux, défournage du coke (Drawing out the coke). Their actuality films, or actualités, are often cited as the first, primitive documentaries. They also made the first steps towards comedy film with the slapstick of L'Arroseur Arrosé.
Early color photography
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The brothers stated that "the cinema is an invention without any future" and declined to sell their camera to other filmmakers such as Georges Méliès. This made many film makers upset. Consequently, their role in the history of film was exceedingly brief. In parallel with their cinema work they experimented with colour photography. They worked on a number of colour photographic processes in the 1890s including the Lippmann process (interference heliochromy) and their own 'bichromated glue' process,[12] a subtractive colour process, examples of which were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. This last process was commercialised by the Lumieres but commercial success had to wait for their next colour process. In 1903 they patented a colour photographic process, the "Autochrome Lumière", which was launched on the market in 1907. Throughout much of the 20th century, the Lumière company was a major producer of photographic products in Europe, but the brand name, Lumière, disappeared from the marketplace following merger with Ilford.[13] They also invented the color plate which really got photography on the road.
Other early cinematographers
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The Lumière Brothers were not the only ones to claim the title of the first cinematographers. The scientific chronophotography devices developed by Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey and Ottomar Anschütz in the 1880s were able to produce moving photographs, as was William Friese-Greene's 'chronophotographic' system, demonstrated in 1890, and Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope (developed by W K-L Dickson), premiered in 1891. Since 1892, the projected drawings of Émile Reynaud's Théâtre Optique were attracting Paris crowds to the Museé Grevin. Louis Le Prince and Claude Mechant had been shooting moving picture sequences on paper film as soon as 1888, but had never performed a public demonstration. Polish inventor, Kazimierz Prószyński had built his camera and projecting device, called Pleograph, in 1894. Max and Emil Skladanowsky, inventors of the Bioscop, had offered projected moving images to a paying public one month earlier (November 1, 1895, in Berlin). Nevertheless, film historians consider the Grand Café screening to be the true birth of the cinema as a commercial medium, because the Skladanowsky brothers' screening used an extremely impractical dual system motion picture projector that was immediately supplanted by the Lumiere cinematographe.
Although the Lumière brothers were not the first inventors to develop techniques to create motion pictures, they are often credited as among the first inventors of the technology for Cinema as a mass medium, and are among the first who understood how to use it.
See also
- 1895 in film
- 1896 in film
- 19th century in film
- History of film
- L'Idéal Cinéma Jacques Tati in Aniche the oldest still-active cinéma in the world, though not continuously, since November 23, 1905.
- List of works by Louis Botinelly
- ^ "Louis Lumière, 83, A Screen Pioneer. Credited in France With The Invention of Motion Picture.". New York Times. 7 June 1948. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
- ^ "Died.". Time (magazine). 14 June 1948. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
Louis Lumière, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France.
- ^ "Lumière". Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2007. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ Gina De Angelis (2003). Motion Pictures. The Oliver Press. ISBN 978-1-881508-78-6.
- ^ "Brevet FR 219.350". Cinematographes. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "Brevet FR 245.032". Cinematographes. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ Chardère (1985), p.71. This first screening on March 22, 1895 took place in Paris, at the "Society for the Development of the National Industry", in front of an audience of 200 people – among which Léon Gaumont, then director of the Comptoir de la photographie. The main focus of this conference by Louis Lumière were the recent developments in the photograph industry, mainly the research on polychromy (color photography). It was much to Lumière's surprise that the moving black-and-white images retained more attention than the colored stills photographs.
- ^ December 28, 1895.
- ^ "La première séance publique payante", Institut Lumière
- ^ Chardère (1987), p.70: The date of the recording of their first film is in dispute. In an interview with Georges Sadoul given in 1948, Louis Lumière tells that he shot the film in August 1894. This is questioned by historians (Sadoul, Pinel, Chardère) who consider that a functional Lumière camera didn't exist before the end of 1894, and that their first film was recorded March 19th 1895, and then publicly projected March 22nd at the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in Paris.
- ^ Bienvenue sur Adobe GoLive 4. Institut-lumiere.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-16.
- ^ [1]
- ^ City of Lyon Document
Further reading
- Chardère, B.; Borgé, G. and M. (1985). Les Lumière, Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts. ISBN 2-85047-068-6 (Language: French)
- Chardère, B. (1995). Les images des Lumière, Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 2-07-011462-7 (Language: French)
- Cook, David (2004). A History of Narrative Film (4th ed. ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-97868-0.
- Lavédrine, Bertrand and Gandolfo, Jean-Paul. (2013). The Lumière Autochrome: History, Technology, and Preservation, Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-125-1
- Rittaud-Hutinet, Jacques. (1985). Le cinéma des origines, Seyssel: Champ Vallon. ISBN 2-903528-43-8 (Language: French)
- Mast, Gerald; Bruce F. Kawin (2006). A Short History of the Movies (9th ed. ed.). New York: Pearson Longman. ISBN 0-321-26232-8.
External links
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- Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale
- Louis Lumière at Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- Auguste Lumière at Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- The films shown at the first public screening (QuickTime format) — December 28, 1895. Also includes a program for the event.
- Le musée Lumière — Lumière Museum
- autochrome color still of the Lumiere Brothers, 1907
- 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere – The first real motion picture ever made on YouTube
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Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the United States
Out of concern for public health, the U.S. government bans the sale of cheese made from unpasteurized milk if it is aged fewer than 60 days. But while the FDA views raw-milk cheese as a potential biohazard, riddled with pathogenic microbes, aficionados see it as the reverse: as a traditional food processed for safety by the action of good microbes. This article offers a theoretical frame for understanding the recent rise in American artisan raw-milk cheese production, as well as wider debates over food localism, nutrition, and safety. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with cheese makers and purveyors and on participant-labor conducted on a Vermont sheep dairy farm, I develop the concept of microbiopolitics to analyze how farmer–cheese makers, industry consultants, retailers, and consumers negotiate Pasteurian (hygienic) and post-Pasteurian (probiotic) attitudes about the microbial agents at the heart of raw-milk cheese and controversies about this nature–culture hybrid.
Editorial Footnotes
Cultural Anthropology has published several essays on food and the politics of food. See, for example, Benjamin Orlove's (1997) article on food riots in Santiago, Chile, "Meat and Strength: the Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot", Mark Liechty's (2005) "Carnal Economies: The Commodification of Food and Sex in Kathmandu", or Judith Farquhar's "Eating Chinese Medicine" (1994) on the intersection of food and health.
Scientific culture and science in action have also been important sites of inquiry in Cultural Anthropology. Of particular relevance are Karen-Sue Taussig's "Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands" (2004) and Sarah Pinto's "Development without Institutions: Ersatz Medicine and the Politics of Everyday Life in Rural North India" (2004).
About the Author
Heather Paxson is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at MIT's Anthropology Program.
UC Davis Interview with Paxson, April 8, 2008
Heather Paxson Receives Belasco Prize
Interview with Heather Paxson
EL: Would you relate your previous research into motherhood and reproduction to your artisanal-cheese research at all?
Heather Paxson: Both projects explore arenas where people confront and even welcome ethical questions in their everyday lives and where they struggle to negotiate as sense of moral personhood.
EL: If 'terroir' exists in France as a concept that links taste and place, how does that term compare to ways in which American artisanal cheese farmers discuss place? Why could that term not apply to industrially produced cheeses?
HP: Well, I've written an article about this very question (Fall 2010 American Anthropologist). Here's a short answer: in France, terroir is a concept that links people and place through narrative reference to a collective agrarian past; in the U.S., where innovation trumps tradition as a source of value, terroir is future-oriented. American artisan cheesemakers are working to reverse-engineer terroir as a set of relationships between land, landscape, animals, artisan practice, and cheese as a means of revitalizing rural ecologies and economies and (re)making place. In the U.S., terroir is prescriptive rather than descriptive.
Industrially produced cheese can arguably create place, too, by providing jobs and the basis of a regional identity, say, but this is a different sort of place-making. Terroir talk calls attention to the productive agencies of pastureland, dairy animals, and even microorganisms in helping to create cheese whose flavor profile might be said to reflect and thus represent the place of manufacture: this is a large part of how terror discourse makes "place." Terroir is all about distinctiveness and distinction. Industrial cheese fabrication, in contrast, is predicated upon removing 'place' from the milk that becomes cheese through standardization, homogenization, and pasteurization. Standardized placelessness is the goal of industrial fabrication, which is quite at odds with the very idea of terroir.
EL: How do the terms and ideas of 'germ' and 'micro-organism' work for the different groups and sub-groups of people involved in this discourse?
HP: Colloquially, germ is a pejorative term for a pathogenic microorganism.
EL: What expert roles are part of this type of cheese making? What expert (and inexpert) roles might part of industrial cheese making? Is the expertise located somewhere different?
HP: That question is too large to answer simply. In both sites, expertise is multiple and multiply located; these overlap some but by no means completely.
Editorial Overview
For the growing number of its U.S. producers and consumers, raw milk cheese is a traditional food processed safely by the action of good microorganisms in milk proteins; for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) it is a potential biohazard riddled with bad germs. Heather Paxson draws out the cultural, economic, and political stakes of artisanal cheeses in a February 2008 essay in Cultural Anthropology, "Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw Milk Cheese in the United States," underscoring the idea that dissent over how to live with microorganisms reflects disagreements about how humans ought to live with one another.
Paxon's essay examine the gustatory and nutritional value, safety and political dimensions of raw milk cheese production, regulation and consumption in the United States, extending commodity network analyses in agro-food studies beyond global-local studies into the body and its gastrointestinal system. Drawing on interviews, policy analysis and participant-labor on a Vermont farm where raw milk cheese is made, Paxson describes how raw cheese aficionados think about the microbial agents at the heart of raw milk cheese, and negotiate "Pasteurian (hygienic) and post-Pasteurian (probiotic) attitudes. To support her analysis, Paxson coins the term 'microbiopolitics', after Foucault's 'biopolitics', to draw out what microscopic biological agents mean, within food ethics and governance in particular, and for cultural analysis.
In a refreshing style, Paxson interleaves a step-by-step account of cheese production with "exegeses of key microbiopolitical moments" in the coming into being of raw milk cheese. Taking up the case of pregnant women, for example, she extends feminist critiques of the medical moralization of pregnancy to explore how raw milk cheese figures in American risk culture. The framework that Paxson uses for her analysis – revolving around "microbiopolitics" – convincingly demonstrates what cultural analysis misses when it neglects the microbial, and how what it means to be human is worked out alongside companions species on whose interactions we depend.
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Hypothermia is dangerously low body temperature, below 95 °F (35 °C).
Alternative Names
Low body temperature; Cold exposure
Persons most likely to experience hypothermia include those who are:
- Very old or very young
- Chronically ill, especially who have heart or blood flow problems
- Malnourished
- Overly tired
- Under the influence of alcohol or drugs
Hypothermia occurs when more heat is lost than the body can generate. It is usually caused by extended exposure to the cold.
Common causes include:
- Being outside without enough protective clothing in winter
- Falling overboard from a boat into cold water
- Wearing wet clothing in windy or cold weather
- Heavy exertion, not drinking enough fluids, or not eating enough in cold weather
As people develop hypothermia, they slowly lose the ability to think and move. In fact, they may even be unaware that they need emergency treatment. Someone with hypothermia also is likely to have
The symptoms include:
- Drowsiness
- Weakness and loss of coordination
- Pale and cold skin
- Confusion
- Uncontrollable shivering (although at extremely low body temperatures, shivering may stop)
- Slowed breathing or heart rate
Lethargy, cardiac arrest,
First Aid
- If any symptoms of hypothermia are present, especially confusion or changes in mental status, immediately call 911.
If the person is
unconscious, check airway, breathing, and circulation. If necessary, begin rescue breathing or CPR. If the victim is breathing fewer than 6 breaths per minute, begin rescue breathing.
Take the person inside to room temperature and cover him or her with warm blankets. If going indoors is not possible, get the person out of the wind and use a blanket to provide insulation from the cold ground. Cover the person's head and neck to help retain body heat.
Once inside, remove any wet or constricting clothes and replace them with dry clothing.
Warm the person. If necessary, use your own body heat to aid the warming. Apply warm compresses to the neck, chest wall, and groin. If the person is alert and can easily swallow, give warm, sweetened, nonalcoholic fluids to aid the warming.
Stay with the person until medical help arrives.
Do Not
- Do NOT assume that someone found lying motionless in the cold is already dead.
- Do NOT use direct heat (such as hot water, a heating pad, or a heat lamp) to warm the person.
- Do NOT give the person alcohol!
Call immediately for emergency medical assistance if
Call 911 anytime you suspect someone has hypothermia. Give first aid while awaiting emergency assistance.
Before you spend time outside in the cold, do NOT drink alcohol or smoke. Drink plenty of fluids and get adequate food and rest.
Wear proper clothing in cold temperatures to protect your body. These include:
- Mittens (not gloves)
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- Two pairs of socks (avoid cotton)
- Scarf and hat that cover the ears (to avoid major heat loss through the top of your head)
- Extremely cold temperature, especially with high winds
- Wet clothes
- Poor circulation, which is more likely from age, tight clothing or boots, cramped positions, fatigue, certain medications, smoking, and alcohol
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2008-12-25 / Community Bulletin Board
Pork And Sauerkraut Dinner Fulton County Community Christian School, Needmore, will hold a pork and sauerkraut dinner Saturday, January 3, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The menu will consist of pork and sauerkraut, mashed potates, baked beans, muffins, dessert table and beverages. Eat in or carry out. There is no charge, but donations are gratefully accepted.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's tennis team fell 5-2 in their Atlantic Sun Conference opener Saturday against rival Belmont.
Head coach Andrew Harris accredited Belmont's tough competition to the loss.
"Much of the great goes to Belmont today," Harris said. "In both matches, they played better in the big points and were able to sustain momentum where it counted. Our biggest challenge moving forward is making sure we can continue to get better in critical situations. We will address it this week and get ready for KSU and Mercer."
The Bison started off slowly when they dropped the doubles point 2-1.
Junior Oliver Strecker and sophomore Miguel Cortez were defeated 8-4 at the No. 1 spot by Renato Antun and Rafal Matos.
At No. 2, freshman Stuart Tierney and junior Tanner Brown also fell 8-4 to Rodringo Amaral and Henrique Norbiato.
The Bison's only doubles win came at No. 3, where junior Colby Shaw and sophomore David Salazar defeated Fernando Mussolini and Bruno Silva 8-5.
As the teams moved into singles competition, the Bison were only able to secure two of the six wins.
At No. 5, Brown came back after dropping the first set to post a three-set win over Matos, winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
The Bison's only other point came at No. 6, where Cortez took down Silva 6-4, 6-1.
The Bruins took the remaining four singles points.
Strecker was defeated at No. 1 by Antun 7-5, 6-0, while Salazar fell at No. 2 to Norbiato 6-2, 6-0.
At No. 3, freshman Daniel Hernandez fell in three sets to Amaral, losing 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Tierney was defeated by Mussolini at No. 4 in three sets, falling 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
The loss hands the Bison a 0-1 A-Sun record heading into the thick of conference play and an overall record of 5-6.
The Bison will travel to Kennesaw, Ga. on Friday to face Kennesaw State. Match play will begin at Noon.
1. Renato Antun/Rafael Matos (BELM) def. Oliver Strecker/Miguel Cortez (LIP) 8-4
2. Rodrigo Amaral/Henrique Norbiato (BELM) def. Stuart Tierney/Tanner Brown (LIP) 8-4
3. Colby Shaw/David Salazar (LIP) def. Fernando Mussolini/Bruno Silva (BELM) 8-5
Singles competition
1. Renato Antun (BELM) def. Oliver Strecker (LIP) 7-5, 6-0
2. Henrique Norbiato (BELM) def. David Salazar (LIP) 6-2, 6-0
3. Rodrigo Amaral (BELM) def. Daniel Hernandez (LIP) 3-6, 6-0, 6-4
4. Fernando Mussolini (BELM) def. Stuart Tierney (LIP) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
5. Tanner Brown (LIP) def. Rafael Matos (BELM) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4
6. Miguel Cortez (LIP) def. Bruno Silva (BELM) 6-4, 6-1


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by Tom Utescher
After being on a downward spiral for the past several years, the Hatboro Horsham Summer Basketball League has finally disappeared altogether, leaving Mount St. Joseph Academy to focus all of its attention on the Lou Cappiella League, in which games are played outdoors at Roxborough's Kenrick Recreation Center.
In prior years, Mount St. Joe sent only JV players and incoming freshmen to Kenrick until the Hatboro league was finished, but with more varsity athletes participating from the get-go this summer, the Magic will certainly be favored to retain their 2011 league title.
Their Cappiello opener last Wednesday evening was a case in point, as the Mounties uprooted Little Flower Catholic High School, 50-3. A new member of the league should make things more competitive for the Magic; one of their own Catholic Academies rivals, Villa Joseph Marie, has joined the ranks in Roxborough.
In addition, former Cappiello participant Nazareth, another Catholic Academies outfit, has returned to Kenrick after sitting out in 2011. The girls of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, who played together in the league for several years, are not participating this summer, largely due to commitments to their AAU club teams.
Mount St. Joe started last Wednesday's game without its two returning starters, rising juniors Alex Louin and Carly Monzo, and the Magic's sixth man from last year (and a starter when Monzo was injured), senior Meg Geatens, was off playing AAU ball.
A free throw by Colleen Steinmetz and field goals by fellow junior Gen Hagedorn and sophomore Katie Maransky got the Magic off to a 5-0 start before Little Flower made a mark on the scoreboard with a lone foul shot. Junior Regan Gallagher and senior Adrienne Cellucci joined in on the scoring, and the count was 15-1 when Louin arrived on the scene.
Things didn't get much better for the Sentinels, although they did score a field goal off of a rebound in the final minute of the first half, making it 26-3 at the intermission.
As in the first half, Steinmetz opened the scoring for Mount St. Joe when the second period got underway. This time there would be no scoring by Little Flower to punctuate the series of MSJ points. The Sentinels actually rebounded decently, especially on the offensive end, but they kept coming away empty on their put-backs.
Hagedorn finished with 11 points and Louin had 10 for the winners, who got seven apiece from Cellucci and Maransky. The Magic also marked down six points for junior Jenny Geatens (Meg's sister), five for Steinmetz, and four for Gallagher.


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It seems that 2009 is the year that shoppers really warmed to LED lights. According to iSuppli Corp., LED revenue will expand by 10.9 percent in 2009 to reach $7.4 billion. That's up from $6.7 billion in 2008. This includes the use of LEDs for general home lighting, as well as for decorative use.
"The LED industry is on the threshold of a new expansion phase--a phase that will be characterized by growth rates in the high double digits during the next three years," said Dr. Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst at iSuppli.
LEDs aren't just gaining ground in the home, says iSuppli, but are increasingly used in automotive, traffic, and street lighting. They're also present in backlit LCDs for mobile devices, GPS navigators, and large TVs. While LED bulbs still cost more than traditional incandescents, customers are becoming more aware of the power savings and lifelong benefits of solid-state LED lights.