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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- History lesson: From the past, built to last
ADDRESS: 40 Elwood Drive
NEIGHBORHOOD: Stanardsville
SIZE: 3,114 fin. sq. ft./ 495 unfin.
LAND: 12.9 acres
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Any house hunter with "spec home fatigue" can appreciate this week's offering in the Stanardsville countryside. There's nothing cookie-cutter about this house, because mass production didn't exist when it was built. Features like hand-hewn ceiling beams, doorframes from when any human being over six-two was a freak, and eight-inch-wide pine floors lend character to this more than 200-year-old house.
The McMullen family, whose name adorns modern maps of the area, operated a grist mill nearby and built the original house– probably the middle third of today's structure– in 1790. In that year, George Washington was wrapping up his first year as president, and our nation's first secretary of state– an amateur architect who wouldn't complete his own (local) house until after finishing his presidency in 1809– was a mere 47 years old.
While the place on the nickel gets far more tourists, the McMullen-Melone house does attract its share of pilgrims. Shortly after moving in 13 years ago, the current owners were quite surprised one Sunday morning to find a hundred McMullen and Melone descendants gathered in their yard: every five years, the families return to their ancestral hometown for a reunion. Among their stops are this house, the mill site, and the nearby South River Methodist Church. The sellers promise a heads-up for the next reunion, as well as copies of family history booklets provided to them by the heirs.
Thus it goes without saying that history– and a reverence for history– abounds in and around the house. One of the original millstones rests next to the deck. Six feet in diameter and hundreds of pounds, it serves as a reminder of a time when rivers were superhighways, and flour wasn't found one shelf above the sugar in aisle six. Another millstone was broken up and used in one of five stone fireplaces inside.
Stone provides the bulk of this house's support: there's a basement under the front of the house, but the rest is built into solid rock. The McMullen-Melone house has gotten along just fine without newfangled inventions like concrete and steel, thank you very much. A stone-walled cellar room, the agent points out, would be ideal for wine storage.
Like history, the house has some negatives. The driveway would be tough for a car in winter, and the distance from the area's centers of employment– while a plus for anyone seeking privacy– would be equally hard on a commuter.
White canvas electric fencing marking off a horse paddock mars the front view and what was once probably the original driveway, but the sellers are willing to remove it, as they will be taking the family's three horses with them to a larger homestead. Because the current owners are staying in Greene County, a new owner can expect to see them in the front yard come reunion time– they're now part of the history.
While the house's 200-plus years indicate it's built to last, the kitchen and laundry appliances don't inspire such confidence: all save the refrigerator appear dated.
That said, a brand-new matching washer and dryer mark the sole advantage we can award to today's predictable, marketing- and cost-driven houses, most of which lack the character found in any of this home's four bedrooms.
The first-floor master suite, for example, shares one side of a chimney with the family room and opens to a wraparound deck overlooking the side lawn, where the sellers' daughter was married.
How many of our houses would be able to host our child's wedding? While we may have the space for a rented tent, would we be far enough from our neighbors to ensure our feckless Uncle Billy, the boor Mom guilt-tripped us into inviting because "he's my only brother," didn't pass out in someone's driveway?
With the millstone and a couple of centuries-old sycamore trees bearing witness to the nuptials on the lawn, bride and groom certainly invited history to their wedding.
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The coffee company's EMEA director of communications Meredith Bell recounted last year's episode during a session about managing reputation in the global landscape.
She observed that because everybody has now got a mobile and the ability to be a journalist, stories that are not based on fact can spread around the world rapidly in the social media age.
"We had a very interesting situation when the riots were happening in Turkey," she said, referencing the anti-government protests centred on Istanbul.
"People were coming to our stores and our partners were being incredible and helping people who were being tear-gassed and giving them water and free coffee. At one point our store had to put its shutters down halfway because they were nervous about the tear gas that was coming into the store.
"Someone took a picture of the store with the shutters down and posted it on Facebook and said Starbucks is turning away the protesters. It was amazing how quickly something that was completely untrue spread. But a picture speaks a thousand words as we all know, and that went around the world. We had to be able to get the word out right away.
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Researchers take police lineup studies from the laboratory to the field.
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In 1984, a Cook County, Ill., jury found 27-year-old Ronnie Bullock guilty of raping a 9-year-old girl in Chicago's south side. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Crucial to the prosecution's case was the victim's identification of Bullock in a police lineup. A second rape victim — a 12-year-old girl — also viewed a police lineup and identified Bullock as her attacker.[1]
Maintaining his innocence, Bullock sought relief from the courts. His conviction was upheld on appeal in 1987, and two state postconviction petitions were unsuccessful. Bullock's federal habeas petition was denied in 1991.[2]
In June of 1993, he was granted a motion to have impounded evidence released for DNA testing. Tests revealed that Bullock was not the source of the semen found on the victim's clothing, and a judge dismissed the charges against him in 1994.[3]
Bullock spent 10 and a half years in prison for a crime he did not commit.[4]
Nationwide, mistaken eyewitness identifications have played a role in 75 percent of convictions later overturned because of DNA evidence,[5] and criminal justice practitioners and researchers have a pervasive interest in finding ways to improve the methods used for eyewitness identifications. A good deal of research has focused on the police lineup, in which victims and witnesses attempt to distinguish a suspect from other individuals presented (known as "fillers").
A recent study from the American Judicature Society (AJS) is adding to the body of research by investigating which lineup method results in fewer mistaken identifications:[6]
Past research using controlled laboratory experiments consistently showed that sequential methods yielded fewer mistaken identifications. But in 2006, a field study in Illinois called into question the superiority of the sequential method (and with it, the use of controlled laboratory experiments as approximations for actual eyewitnesses to crimes).
Scientists, however, identified flaws in the Illinois study's design and implementation. As a result, some experts have deemed the results "difficult or impossible to interpret."[7]
To produce more rigorous data using field techniques rather than laboratory techniques, the AJS research team developed an improved research design for its study.
The initial report on the AJS study indicates that sequential lineups significantly reduce the number of filler identifications without significantly reducing the number of accurate positive identifications. Thus, the AJS findings support results from past laboratory experiments.
See "The Supreme Court and Eyewitness Testimony — Perry v. New Hampshire"
Given the vital role of eyewitness testimony in the administration of justice and the inherent risks therein, extensive research has been dedicated to developing lineups that minimize identification of fillers without significantly reducing accurate, positive identifications.
However, many of the variables that may affect the accuracy of eyewitness identification are out of the control of the criminal justice system.[8] These include lighting of the crime scene; length of time a witness was exposed to the perpetrator; severity of the crime; and characteristics of the witness and perpetrator, such as race, age and sex. These variables are helpful in estimating the likely accuracy of eyewitness identification, but they cannot be controlled in actual criminal cases.[9]
Several renowned eyewitness researchers have focused studies on variables that the criminal justice system could control, such as who administers the lineup, how the lineup is administered, lineup compositions and instructions given to witnesses.[10]
By focusing on these controllable variables, researchers have produced findings from laboratory experiments that shape investigative practices and procedures.[11] These science-based practices include:
Laboratory tests also show that sequential lineups offer a better ratio of accurate to mistaken identifications than simultaneous lineups. Sequential lineups require witnesses to compare each individual they see to their recollection of the suspect.[13] This increases accuracy and reduces the risk that witnesses will make a judgment based on a relative comparison of who among the group looks most like the perpetrator relative to the other lineup members. In fact, when a double-blind lineup was administered using the sequential technique in laboratory testing, identifications were twice as reliable as those from traditional lineups.[14]
Although laboratory results were promising, proposed changes in investigative practices needed to be field tested before they could be used to support widespread procedural overhauls. In 2003, the Illinois state legislature charged the Illinois State Police with conducting a yearlong field test of the effectiveness of the sequential, double-blind lineup compared with the traditional (non-blind, simultaneous) lineup.[15]
The results were surprising. In 2006, the Illinois State Police released a report (often referred to as The Mecklenberg Report after its author, Sheri Mecklenberg) showing that, in two of the three jurisdictions participating in the study, double-blind, sequential lineups produced a higher rate of identification of innocent fillers and a lower rate of identification of suspects.[16] In other words, this report contradicted what laboratory experiments had shown for years, and it recommended against instituting changes based solely on laboratory science.[17] The report, which was widely publicized, drew resolute support and severe criticism, particularly regarding the design and implementation of the study.[18]
First and foremost, critics stressed that the study confounded the simultaneous/sequential and non-blind/double-blind variables, rendering results largely uninterpretable. It was impossible to determine whether the better outcome using the simultaneous lineups was partly or entirely attributable to the influence of the non-blind administrator.[19] Notably, some proponents of the study felt that confounding these variables did not color the results, citing research that compared double-blind conditions to non-blind conditions and finding no effects.[20]
Additionally, critics cited the fact that cases were not randomly assigned to either group, and cases thought to be "tougher," such as cross-race identifications or those in which the lineup took place after a delay, were more likely to be assigned to the sequential group, thus negatively skewing the sequential results.[21] Critics also noted that some filler identifications were not recorded in simultaneous lineups, thus positively skewing the simultaneous results.[22]
To address critiques of The Mecklenberg Report, the AJS convened scientists, lawyers, prosecutors and police in Greensboro, N.C., to develop a set of guidelines for conducting field experiments testing the simultaneous/sequential variable. The group was committed to conducting field research that would gather reliable data on the administration of the lineup and witness and event variables. Data determined to be essential for a scientifically sound field experiment included time between crime and lineup, type of crime, whether a weapon was present, viewing conditions, sobriety of the witness, certainty of the witness, and whether it was a cross-race identification.[23]
The "Greensboro Protocols" emphasized the importance of true random assignment of lineups into the sequential or simultaneous groups, and the consistent use of double-blind lineups in both groups was also deemed essential for conducting a scientifically sound field experiment.
The protocols also highlighted the importance of using computers — both for administering the lineups and for recording witness responses — to ensure that procedures were fairly conducted in accordance with best practices. Computers were deemed especially important because they could ensure uniform administration of lineups according to protocol, randomly assign lineups as either sequential or simultaneous, and randomly order the photos within a lineup. Computers would also allow for uniform, reliable and complete recordings of witness responses, including the time it took for witnesses to make a determination.
Relying on the Greensboro Protocols, the AJS developed a field experiment that compensated for the deficiencies of the 2006 Illinois study. The field experiment was conducted at four sites: the Austin Police Department (Texas), the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (N.C.), the San Diego Police Department (Calif.) and the Tucson Police Department (Ariz.).
The AJS research team excluded lineups that were not conducted using a double-blind procedure, as well as lineups in which the eyewitness had prior knowledge of the suspect through a previous acquaintance. This left researchers with 497 protocol-consistent lineups for crimes, ranging from simple assault to murder.
There were no significant differences in a witness's ability to identify the suspect between the simultaneous and sequential techniques. Witnesses identified the suspect 25.5 percent of the time in simultaneous lineups and 27.3 percent of the time in sequential lineups. This small difference in identification rates falls within the margin of error and should not be considered a meaningful difference.
However, simultaneous lineups resulted in 18.1 percent identification of fillers, whereas sequential lineups resulted in 12.2 percent identification of fillers. This 5.9 percent difference in filler identifications was found to be statistically significant.
The AJS study results are consistent with the results of decades of laboratory tests showing that sequential lineups reduce mistaken identifications without significantly reducing accurate identifications.
Researchers plan to conduct additional analyses of the data to determine:
Additionally, although identifications of fillers are clearly erroneous, identifications of the suspect are not necessarily accurate because the suspect is not always the perpetrator. The Police Foundation is leading a second phase of research to follow up on this area.
The police lineup is an inherently human process, and therefore inherently flawed. Although no single study can lead to the development of a procedure guaranteeing consistently accurate identifications, a well-designed field study can be an important step in developing best practices for lineups and other identification practices.
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[note 1] Conners, Edward, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller and Tom McEwen,
"Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial" (pdf, 117 pages), Final report to the National Institute of Justice, grant number OJP-95-215, June 1996, NCJ 161258.
[note 2] Garrett, Brandon L., "Judging Innocence",
Columbia Law Review 108 (2008): 65.
[note 3] Conners, "Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science," 40.
[note 4] Ibid.
[note 5] The Innocence Project, "Eyewitness Misidentification".
[note 6] One of the four study sites, Tucson, Ariz., was initially funded as a standalone field study by NIJ. The results of that site analysis were included in the AJS Field Study after the NIJ study received funding to use laptop computers.
[note 7] Schacter, Daniel L., Robin Dawes, Larry L. Jacoby, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Lempert, Henry L. Roediger and Robert Rosenthal, "Policy Forum: Studying Eyewitness Investigations in the Field,"
Law and Human Behavior 32 (2008): 3–5; see generally Conners, "Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science."
[note 8] Wells, Gary L.,
"Applied Eyewitness-Testimony Research: System Variables and Estimator Variables",
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36 (1978): 1546–1557.
[note 9] Ibid., 1548.
[note 10] See, for example, Doyle, James M.,
"Learning From Error in American Criminal Justice" (pdf, 40 pages),
The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 100 (2010): 109–148.
[note 11] Ibid., 116.
[note 12] Ibid., 17.
[note 13] Schacter, "Policy Forum."
[note 14] Steblay, Nancy, Jennifer Dysart, Solomon Fulero and R.C.L. Lindsay, "Eyewitness Accuracy Rates in Sequential and Simultaneous Lineup Presentations: A Meta-Analytic Comparison,", aw and Human Behavior 25 (2001): 459–473.
[note 15] Mecklenberg, Sheri H.,
Report to the Legislature of the State of Illinois: The Illinois Pilot Program on Sequential Double-Blind Identification Procedures, Springfield, IL: Illinois State Police, 2006.
[note 16] Ibid.
[note 17] Schacter, "Policy Forum."
[note 18] Ibid., 2.
[note 19] Ibid.
[note 20] Malpass, Roy S., "Notes on the Illinois Pilot Program on Sequential Double-Blind Lineup Procedures,"
Public Interest Law Reporter 2006: 5–8, 39–47; See also Ebbesen, Ebbe B., "Comments on IL Simultaneous v. Sequential Lineup Field Test," 2006.
[note 21] Wells, Gary L., Nancy K. Steblay and Jennifer E. Dysart,
A Test of the Simultaneous vs. Sequential Lineup Methods: An Initial Report of the AJS National Eyewitness Identification Field Studies (pdf, 28 pages), Des Moines, IA: American Judicature Society, 2011.
[note 22] Ibid.
[note 23] Ibid., ix.
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Here's a video of the inside workings of a Roman bakery that I think many here will enjoy. Just click on "New! Video" on the left-hand side of the page.
Here's a video of the inside workings of a Roman bakery that I think many here will enjoy. Just click on "New! Video" on the left-hand side of the page.
Double wow! They sure do it all. Great video - thanks, Steve.
I cannot imagine going there and having to make a choice. Maybe one of each?
One cannot help but be hungry (and a bit dizzy) after watching that rather fascinating video.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for posting it.
David G
Thanx Steve, the video brought back great memories of a time I spent in Rome working at Campo de Fiore(midnite-7) for 2 mos. about 10 yrs ago. I was a little surprised Marco didn't mention it. Every morning the square would awaken to the smell of that bread and a beautiful farmers market w/ fresh flowers and produce from the farms outside Rome.
thnx again, Chip
P.S. it's the only square in Rome w/o a religeous statue.
always alive ... fantastic produce market by day, clothes and novelties at night, five minutes from the Piazza Navona, two minutes walk from the Tiber and Trastevere in a section of Rome dating back to the Empire ... right out of a Piranesi print. whenever i'm in Rome, i stay close by.
fantastic video, btw ... i smiled all the way through it.
Stan Ginsberg
PS ... they don't need a religious statue ... there's a church there and a hostel for pilgrims to the Vatican -- the Foresteria del Pellegrino -- that was, and may still be, a youth hostel.
Once you look at this video you know why I did not go into baking. I love doing it now but that was a whole lot of work and unbelievable hours. My dad did most of what these guys do and did it with just 2 people helping in the bakery not counting the clerks and the decorator. He could not imagine doing anything else but I just could not see myself doing that for the rest of my life. It is far from being recreational baking. If you have the money and the location and the population to justify hiring a lot of people, that is one thing. When you are the only baker in a town of 10K people, that is entirely different. Doesn't matter how good you are, and he was excellent, there is still a upper limit to what you can afford.
I just love those squash blossoms on the pizza/foccacia and in the panini. I use them in quesadillas, I'll have to use them like that this summer!
Thanks so much for posting this. Great bakery, great video production.
In the bakery, that is. :P
Thanks for posting this - I actually downloaded the video. Sad to say, I've never been to Italy. Hopefully one day I'll be able to visit - when I do, I will visit this remarkable place.
Chip C - I envy you (and I don't). I fully realize what a grueling business this is - watching this video made me realize it all the more. Yet, probably because of the flour in my veins :D, I want to be able to make everything I saw on the video.
Sigh... my hips can't take it, though...(the calories - but I could also say that this type of work would wear down my aging hips, too, lol, and all the other joints in my body.)
There is an Italian deli and bakery here in Phoenix and the gentleman who owns it does all of this every day. I love going there.
The video moved pretty fast and I was wondering the name of those sandwiches at the end.. and were they made with what kind of bread?
My husband heard me oohing and aahing..."What are you watching?" he asked.
The vid is on the way to him..
Thanks, Steve
I thought at first it was way too fast paced, but it soon became evident it had to be in order to get in all the activity they actually do there every day. I have no idea what half those products are, but I want to try them all.
Thanks for posting. Very enlightening.
Thanks to that video, I may have cemented my plans for a vacation in Italy.. we've already picked out what we're having for lunch.. mwahahaha! Thank you Steve.. you're a real pal! Ha!
I was in Rome, Italy recently and I remembered this great video SteveB posted. I decided to visit the place. I went there on a Sunday the first time round and it was closed unfortunately. There was so much to cover in Rome that we didn't get to visit Campo di Fiori on Tuesday, the day before I left for Florence. I didn't regret it at all. The bread was wonderful, there was so much to choose from, I didn't know what to do, staring at the bread for a full 10 minutes. I think the lady at the counter must have thought I was mad or something, kept asking me what I would like in Italian. A kind man, spoke to us in English, and recommended that we try their pizza bainco (seems like plain pizza without any sauce), one of their famous bake, and the lady behind the counter gave us a free sampling. It was so good, I bought it and a plain pane.
In fact, the best that I've tasted so far in Italy - from Rome to Florence, to Venice to Milan. This is the best. It was fresh, and I took it along on my train ride, I didn't have them until the following day, they still tasted good.
I have some photos that I took while the workers were loading and unloading the long pizza from the oven. will upload and show you all. They were so kind to even pose and allow me to take a picture. You got to be there to try it!


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Senators: Block Singapore funds for Shane Todd evidence
As Senate debates a resolution to fund the government, Montana Democrats Max Baucus and Jon Tester pitch an amendment to help ramp up the investigation into the American's mysterious death.
Montana's senators want U.S. research funds withheld from Shane Todd's Singaporean employer until the FBI has full access to evidence in the American's death investigation.
Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, both Democrats, have introduced an amendment to the continuing resolution to fund the government that is being debated on the Senate floor this week that would block Defense Department funds from the employer, the Institute of Microelectronics (IME).
The move comes a day after Singapore's foreign minister, Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, met with Secretary of State John Kerry and two days after Shanmugam met with Baucus. Shanmugam said his country's police would share evidence with the FBI and conduct an audit of IME's dealings with the Chinese company Huawei.
"Singapore's promise to share all evidence with the FBI is a significant step forward, and I appreciate the minister's time and attention to Shane's case," Baucus said. "Now we have to keep the pressure on to ensure that commitment is fulfilled."
Tester called Todd "a brilliant young scientist who cared for his work and for his country."
The amendment "is a way to hold Singapore accountable and let them know we're serious" about getting the answers that the Todd family deserves, Tester said.
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Todd was found hanging in his apartment in Singapore in June after his last day of work at Singapore's IME, which in 2010 received $500,000 from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which develops new technologies for the U.S. military.
The amendment would block taxpayer dollars from reaching IME until the U.S. attorney general certifies that the FBI has full access to all evidence and records in the case. Tester is a co-sponsor of the amendment.
Singapore's police initially classified Shane Todd's a suicide. But Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd of Marion, Mont., believe the death was a murder to hide the illegal transfer of sensitive technology by IME to a Chinese telecommunications company, Huawei, that U.S. intelligence officials say has ties to China's military and intelligence services.
Shane's apartment didn't match the police description of the death scene, the Todds said. And evidence found on a hard drive that the parents found in Shane's apartment shows that IME had planned to share Shane's work on technology that can be used for civilian or military purposes with Huawei, they said.
Rick and Mary Todd met in Washington with Baucus and other U.S. officials March 1.
Shanmugam's visit to Washington left the Todds "100% unsatisfied" with Singapore's response, Rick Todd said.


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IIn Master of the Senate, the third volume of his massive, still-unfinished biography of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro devotes a memorable paragraph to the great man's fondness for exhibiting his sexual equipment, which, with characteristic humility, he called "Jumbo."
If he was urinating in a bathroom of the House Office Building and a colleague came in, Johnson, finishing, would sometimes turn to him with his penis in his hand. Without putting it back in his pants, he would begin a conversation, still holding it, "and shaking it, as if he was showing off," says one man with whom he did this. He asked another man, "Have you ever seen anything as big as this?"
Now, I don't know the slightest thing about Governor Rick Perry's endowment or whether he's endowed it with a nickname, but when he entered the Republican presidential race in mid-August, he did so in the same spirit as a Method actor auditioning for the lead in Hung. Flaunting his broad shoulders and the overbearing smile of a man who jogs carrying a laser-sighted pistol, he swaggered onto the campaign trail reeking of what we might call Texastosterone, the time-honored Lone Star hormone that not only enhances the feeling of being manlier than other men but positively compels you to brag on it.
Perry instantly went to the front of the pack, much to the baffled horror of liberals. In a sane world, surely the presidency of George W. Bush would have accomplished one positive thing—inoculating even Republicans against voting for another provincial, evangelical Texas governor eager to pass himself off as a tough hombre. Especially when Perry soon showed all the symptoms of Bushean maladroitness, flubbing his attempts to label Mitt Romney a flip-flopper and calling Pakistan "the Pakistani country" much as Bush once delightfully termed Greeks "the Grecians."
But if Perry's fluffs were seized on by a media eager to write him off as unready for the national stage, his personal style—the strut, the cocky smile, the inflammatory words, the evident lack of concern over getting things wrong—remains one that tens of millions of Americans still find hugely attractive. Even as it gives liberals the heebie-jeebies, such barroom braggadocio is catnip to the right, which sees it as an antidote to the weaseling effeteness of the Democratic elite. Republicans love the idea of their candidate—be it Perry or the lamented no-show Chris Christie—debating Professor, er, President Obama and pulverizing his pedantry with straight talk. After all, what they loved most about Reagan wasn't all that Morning in America shinola, it was Dutch snapping, "I paid for this microphone," or intoning, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" (which, if we're being honest, really was a rousing line).
Once vain about being more cultured than the left—think of William F. Buckley and his Latinisms, George F. Will and his Bartlett's—today's conservatives are happier with machismo, even when it comes from women: Sarah Palin blasting wolves from her chopper, Michele Bachmann telling Obama to "man up" about Israel. Naturally, this doesn't mean that they actually want a woman to be president. That's one reason the right-wing base was so stoked when Perry first entered the race. It wasn't only that he's on their side ideologically and theologically, brazenly saying the scary stuff that Bush kept hidden when he first ran in 2000. Perry fits their fantasy of what their side should look and sound like. He's not an unelectable oddball like Ron Paul, an overreaching Sunday-school teacher like Google-tormented Rick Santorum, or a publicity-loving flash in the pan like Herman Cain, who, rather like his former company's pizza, specializes in crustiness smothered with cheese. Above all, Perry isn't the staggeringly synthetic Romney, who may look like a hologram of the perfect president but sounds like that old line from Groucho Marx: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them … well, I have others."
In truth, Perry is himself far more opportunistic than his backers may think—he endorsed Al Gore's 1988 primary campaign in Texas before shifting with the political winds. Yet what matters here is that he embodies a form of primal masculinity that has itself become a political stance. Ever since the feminist heyday of the 1970s, our culture has seen the whittling away of traditional male power, especially the power of white men, a process that, with almost Newtonian certainty, has produced a counterreaction in the culture wars—be it the fight over abortion (which is about women controlling their own bodies) or gay marriage (which is shot through with panic that familiar ideas of maleness are being replaced by unsettling new ones). The strapping Perry doesn't need to say which side of these debates he's on—although he does so all the time—because his body language and manner of speaking assert the prerogatives of white male control. The very qualities that cause many of us to squirm are what make him a force to be reckoned with. It's not for nothing that, three decades after his death, America's third most popular movie star is still John Wayne.
If any modern-day candidate would seem born to fill Duke's saddle, it's surely Perry, who is indisputably a true son of Texas. In this, he's far different from Dubya, an Ivy League–educated country-club boy who always had to try too hard to establish his Lone Star bona fides—you know, pretending to enjoy being on that ranch he bought as a prop for the 2000 campaign. Hell, any real Texan knows that you don't go on vacation and clear brush. Clearing brush is what you take a vacation from.
You wouldn't need to tell that to Perry, who—from his country roots to actually doing his duty with the U.S. Air Force—is the authentic version of what Bush only pretended to be. (What could be more authentic than "Niggerhead"?) Perry grew up near Paint Creek in the West Texas plains just 250 miles from the birthplace of Lyndon Johnson. But while both Perry and Johnson were sons of struggling farmers, the lessons they took from their childhood could hardly be more different. Where Johnson believed that government had a duty to better people's lives—he did more than any man since Franklin Roosevelt to help the poor—Perry sees government as an impediment, if not an enemy. If you read his overwrought book On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For—a far more naked look at his psyche than the better-known Fed Up!—you quickly grasp that here is a man who couldn't possibly imagine, let alone try to create, a Great Society.
Of course, the more you know about the actual West, the less apt you are to be wowed by conservatives' ritualized evocations of the cowboy virtues. Life on the range was far from the stuff of heroic, Marlboro-smoking individualism. Cowboys were exploited workers, poorly paid and prone to physical collapse in their thirties. Even in fiction, the myth of the cowboy doesn't exactly jibe with today's Koch brothers–dominated Republican politics. The great movie Westerns are shot through with mistrust of the rich and powerful. Big ranchers and oilmen are often the villains, cruel and greedy tyrants who use their money and hired gunslingers to control the lives of decent, God-fearing citizens. I can't remember a single film in which Wayne, Gary Cooper, or Randolph Scott—whose characters take pride in their cussed independence and integrity—takes money from somebody powerful.
The same can hardly be said of Perry, one of whose strengths as a candidate is that he has rich donors ready to give his campaign plenty of dough—and did so to the tune of $17 million in the third quarter. Still, his close ties to the super-wealthy don't stop him from playing the cowboy. He tells the press about shooting a coyote that menaced his dog. (One can imagine Wayne killing a dangerous animal, but not riding into town later to boast about it.) He has overseen 236 executions and basks in the applause when this unpleasant fact comes up in the Republican debates. And he takes pride in saying what he thinks even if what he thinks shows no evident signs of thinking—like calling Ben Bernanke "almost treasonous."
Shooting from the hip does, of course, have its dangers, as Perry learned when he uttered the line that may well cost him the nomination—telling a debate audience that if you don't want to help the children of illegal immigrants, "you don't have a heart." Although this was one of the few times I've ever liked him, I understood what bugged the conservative base. Not only did such a sentiment cut against Perry's reputation for toughness but the notion of giving in-state tuition to undocumented kids suggested that social policy might actually be, you know, kinda complex.
That Perry should make such a tactical mistake was startling, for it's central to his persona that he disdains egghead complexities in favor of talismanic bromides. In fact, part of what makes Fed Up! such a worthless manifesto isn't merely its thoughtless stridency but the lazy way it assumes that, say, cutting off money to public schools will somehow lead to a system of mixed public and private education that's better than what we now have. Reading Perry flail away at government, I kept thinking of my favorite Texas governor (fictional, alas), Arthur "Goddamn" Fenstemaker, the looming center of Billy Lee Brammer's great 1961 novel, The Gay Place. At one point, Fenstemaker (based on LBJ) gives a young liberal politician some advice: "You want to overturn the existin' institution, that's fine. But you got to be sure you know how to build a better one."
Perry clearly doesn't and doesn't even care that he doesn't. This would be enough for me to write him off as a clown—except for two things. First, despite his lackluster debate performances, he may well be facing Obama next November. He's still much closer to the Republican base than Romney, and the president's advisers are foolish to see him as their dream opponent—a bad economy is demagogue time. Second, Perry's way of walking and talking points to one of the Democratic Party's—indeed, the whole left's—ongoing problems. The Democrats lack a visceral connection with white blue-collar voters, especially men, in an era when unions no longer provide a solid institutional connection and Democrats are thought to be as deep in Wall Street's pocket as Republicans.
Style matters as much as ideology, and right-wingers like Perry and Chris Christie exude the aggressive, slightly grumpy bravado that's been a proud part of the working-class attitude for decades. In contrast, the left tries to avoid the macho style, partly for proper reasons (including its official embrace of the women's movement) and partly for snobbish ones: It has long preferred the erudite wit of an Adlai Stevenson or even the pulse-free blandness of a Harry Reid to the hearty, sometimes coarse good sense of an Ed Rendell. In particular, the big national Democrats—Obama, Kerry, Gore—not only smack of Ivy League privilege but surround themselves with faces that only highlight the point. Tim Geithner, anyone? The one recent exception is Bill Clinton, not only in his ability to feel our pain but in his obvious pleasure at feeling other things as well. Although millions of white working guys still didn't vote for him, they got him. He was a man with manly appetites, not some sort of alien.
Curiously enough, it's no longer only conservatives and disgruntled working-class dudes who find themselves drawn to politicians who exhibit an old--fashioned, two-fisted virility. These days, so do many on the left. A few months ago at a party, I met a lifelong Democrat who despaired of the president's endless willingness to negotiate on the other side's terms.
"Carter, Clinton, and now Obama," he said, shaking his head. "That's the last time I'm ever going to vote for a brainy Democrat. We need a fighter, not the smartest guy in the room."
He's hardly alone. Over the last year, it's amazing how often I've heard liberals pillory Obama for being too remote, too intellectual, too harmless—like a Mr. Spock who doesn't know the Vulcan Death Grip. Almost inevitably, such criticisms are followed by the wish that, just for once, our side could elect a president who'd rather be feared than loved, a politically astute ass-kicker who would not only do what it takes to win but then govern as if our side had won, the way those fanatics on the right always seem to.
Which is to say, I keep meeting people who dream of another Lyndon Johnson.
If you'd told anyone in 1968 that the left might one day be filled with nostalgia for LBJ, they would have thought you were tripping—and back then, they didn't even know about Jumbo.


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Monday, April 11, 2011
Floating World's exuberant comics-art magazine DIAMOND drops this week, I did the cover design for this, the 6th issue. It looks like a great line up.
The image was made for the upcoming THEE HYPNOTICS music documentary, coming later this year. My mate Phil from Thee Hypnotics tells this story about a Spanish stripper in Madrid who did an act with a boa constrictor...I was watching Masks Of Fu Manchu at the time I drew this (released 1932, with Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy) (if you see it, see the uncensored version), and researching Native American portraits for another project...all these things blended and out came this...
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More is less in "BearCity 2: The Proposal," Douglas Langway's sequel to his 2010 gay indie comedy. That original was split between charms and minuses, suffering primarily from careless scripting. Here, those faults are indulged wholesale, with so little attention paid to overall narrative development or individual scene-shaping that the bloated pic often suggests a crowd-funded venture existing solely to pay back (and showcase) the crowd. Theatrically launched via self-distribution Sept. 28, "Proposal" will access its niche aud in home formats, but auds won't be clamoring for further chapters without some future quality control.
"BearCity" had several appealing performers and a few good plot elements, despite the first-time writer-helmer's hazy grasp of pacing and story focus. Unfortunately, "Proposal" is even less disciplined, largely wasting the efforts of likable returning cast members and some ill-used new ones.
The three central couples are back, each suffering some relationship crisis. Aspiring young actor Tyler (Joe Conti) has now been cohabiting for a while with Roger (Gerald McCulloch), the been-around hunk at least twice his age. Roger is eager to get married, but Tyler balks at first. Once they've decided to go ahead with nuptials in Provincetown, each finds himself distracted by other options — Roger by sexy ex Nate (Aaron Tone), size-fixated Tyler by one Big Dan (T. Doyle Leverett).
Meantime, longer-term duo Fred (Brian Keane) and Brent (Stephen Guarino) are shooting a documentary — about gay male "bears," what else — while avoiding their own commitment issues. Elsewhere, proportioned theatrical maven Michael (Gregory Gunter) is a workaholic and his trim lover, Carlos (James Martinez), spends hours on gay-hookup app "Scruff," causing hiccups in their generally happy domestic union.
These strands are poorly advanced, however, with little real character insight apart from a surprising, admirable if abrupt climactic development that would be more potent if the lead figures didn't constantly contradict their alleged deep feelings with shallow behavior. Instead of developing narrative involvement, Langway gets distracted by anything and everything, including seldom-funny roles for Kathy Najimy as a B&B owner, comedian Jason Stuart as an obnoxious filmmaking collaborator, and Richard Riehle and Susan Mosher as Tyler's parents. Plus there are gratuitous gay micro-celebrity cameos, scenes that exist only to take advantage of Provincetown parties, etc.
Particularly given the six minutes of end credits devoted solely to donors, sponsors, investors and "background talent" (many of whom get their photos displayed), one suspects far more attention was paid to social networking than to finessing the film's content. For lack of any standard organizing principal, like a solid script, "BearCity 2: The Proposal" begins to feel like a movie usurped by its product placements, except here the placements are of people who wanted to be part of it.
Guarino and Martinez in particular bring snap even to weak material; one wonders what they could do with halfway decent writing. Beyond the regulars, thesping is often as wobbly as the packaging, with lots of bad music (one Magnetic Fields track excluded).


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If you've ever used Lightroom v1.0 to present a slideshow directly from the application, and had to interrupt your presentation, you probably know that it does not necessarily pick up where it left off. You might have also noticed that Slideshow (like Web) does not honor the selection in the FilmStrip. It always uses all of the photos in the FilmStrip. So if you're presenting live slideshows, here are a couple of tips that may help you out.
Holding down the shift key when you click the Play button will cause Slideshow to start with the active photo, but will still play all photos, regardless of how many photos are selected.
Holding down shift + command (control on the PC) when you click the Play button will cause Slideshow to start with the active photo, and only play the selected photos, repeating when it gets to the end.
Finally… if the selection thing drives you crazy, you're not the only one. This selection logic (at least for Slideshow) is slated to change in the next release. 🙂


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Current harvest reports indicate corn yields may be higher than most people expected, says Informa's chief market analyst.
The "run rate" on crop yields reported so far points to a national yield in the low-to-mid 160s, said Rob Westmoreland, executive vice president of Informa Economics. By comparison, USDA's latest report forecasts a yield of 155.3 bu/acre.
"This is the type of year where you have positive surprises," said Westmoreland, speaking at the organization's outlook conference in Memphis. "We're within range of popping 160 by a 'notable' amount. What's in seed bags today has a tremendous amount of horsepower in it."
U.S. farmers dodged a bullet with respect to weather conditions this year, the analyst added. Higher water temperatures in the North Atlantic persist and may lead to higher mainland temperatures next year. But this year crops could deal with temperatures that were slightly higher than normal.
"We've got some really special crops this year," said Westmoreland, based on early combine readings. "We'll have yields well above what's being built into most peoples' plans."
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Improved yields, coupled with lower prices, should help U.S. growers regain some lost world market share.
Already, some Brazilian producers are getting prices for their corn below their cost of production, Westmoreland reported. South American countries will need to make infrastructure improvements to remain competitive in a lower-price environment.
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Westmoreland is bullish on the prospects for soybeans for next year--and the next ten years. He forecasts that margins on soybeans will be better than ones on corn next year. "The economics are very clear," he said, adding that many farmers continue to view soybeans as a sideline.
China will import close to 70 million tonnes of soybeans and meal this year, and by the turn of the decade that number may rise to 100 million, Westmoreland said. "The question is whether they can handle that kind of [import] volume on their end," he said, adding that indications are that they can.
Westmoreland expects world soybean production to set a record next year, putting further downward pressure on prices. He sees soy futures prices dropping from $12 in the 2013/14 crop year to $9.50 in the 2014/15 year. Meanwhile, stocks will rise even in the face of higher demand. "Even if we ship as much as possible to China, we still increase our carryout to 393 [in 2014/15]," he said.
Meanwhile, Informa's data points to continued low corn prices. The group forecasts that corn futures prices will fall slightly from $4.35 per bushel in the 2013/14 crop year to $4.20 per bushel the following year. Price declines, it expects, will be coupled with a rise in carryovers, from 1.8 billion bushels for the 2013 crop to 2.1 billion for 2014.
Demand for U.S. grain and soybean exports, on the other hand, looks good out to 2022. China and other smaller Asian countries will be big soybean buyers as a greater percentage of their population shift into the middle class. "We think consumption continues at a very smooth pace," Westmoreland said, "though weather variations will create exceptions."
Westmoreland also forecast that:
- EPA will relax the ethanol mandate for next year, holding it flat.
- The explosion in farmland values has run its course, thanks in part to relaxation of the ethanol mandate, which bid up land prices. "The upward marginal pressure is over," he said.
- The big surge of institutional money going into crop farming seems to be coming to an end.
- Corn yields will continue to increase through 2022 thanks to GMOs.
- Corn acreage will be down 3 million acres next year.
- Soybean acres will be up 6.8 million acres.
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Hi All,
In this newsletter:
1. New to Perl, use another language?
2. Workshops and events
3. Further call for speakers
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1. New to Programming, new to Perl, use another language?
If you are new to the Perl language, or are a practitioner of another programming language then we would love to welcome you to the London Perl Workshop this year. The London Perl Workshop is a free event held on Saturday, November 12th, at the University of Westminster, Cavendish Campus, London. And when we say "free' we do mean "free as in Beer". There are: free attendance, free sponsor goodies, free coffee/cakes in the morning, free presentations by world-renowned speakers and new speakers, free workshops (see next section) and then free beer (usually 1-3+ rounds dependent on number of attendees) and food at the social event after the conference.
We would also like to welcome those of you taking your first steps into the higher languages and to programming, come along to a conference that embraces newbies, be prepared for spirited debate and to have your understanding stretched, but in a friendly way with a beer and a cake of choice :).
The reason we would especially like to welcome you this year (you are welcome any time) is that there is a glut of companies in the Perlverse seeking new programmers, some of these companies seek experienced Perl personnel, but many of them also seek experienced polyglot programmers as experience of more than one language brings benefits and they have on the job training where you can use your existing skills while learning new ones, there are also companies seeking graduates and have graduate internship programs so this is the right time to brush up your skills in Perl and see what has changed, and trust me a lot has. So take the plunge, at the very least you can see some of the new things in a rival/new language and get a free drink.
Visit: www.londonperlworkshop.org.uk and register today ;).
2. Workshops and events
To continue from previous announcements I can now confirm that we have three workshops/training sessions planned and accepted and two more in the pipeline.
Ian Norton will be inviting all newcomers to Perl to come along to a training session intended to give you a first taste in how to use the language.
Dave Cross will be teaching us what has changed in Perl since 5.10 up until 5.14 (and 5.15.3) and what the future holds for 5.16 and beyond.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa will be presenting a workshop on Plack, CPANM and more (there are other great modules that spiral from this man's mind).
There are two other workshops under negotiation one on Dancer and one on Dependency Injection, Test::Spec/Test::BDD::Cucumber, more information will be announced as these are all clarified and scheduled.
3. Further call for speakers
I must note that it is only four weeks until the call for papers closes for this year and so I expect a flurried rush of activity as you all now scramble to submit to make sure your presentation is in well before the deadline so that we can come to appreciate it for the gem of magnificence it truly is. In other words, please submit earlier rather than later as it helps us to start building up a picture of the day. Thanks.
4. Before and after conference events
As always the Wiki is up and running and I will fill in the details of the after event as soon as they are finalised. We will be attending the same public house as we did last year and I expect they will put on the same level of fabulous beers and food as they did then, we have received generous contributions from sponsors and are open to more if other sponsors wish to come forward. The principal sponsor for the evening however has been selected.
If someone wishes to organise the pre-conference event then please choose somewhere central London that we can attend and chew over the following days activities. I realise that London.pm has a drinks tzar but i don't expect to push this onerous charge onto him unless he truly wishes it.
5. Conference flyers
I have created a conference flyer and would like your help, please print off some copies and place them in appropriate locations at work, colleges, universities as soon as you can, I would love to see a lot of new faces at LPW this year as there is a real surge of people needed in our growing job market and community.
The flyer already prepared is A4 (though can be reduced to A5) and is suitable to print on a home/small office printer in either colour or black and white. Please find a pdf at:
6. Facebook Page
The London Perl Workshop now has a Facebook Page to be promoted using that virulent and expansive social medium, so if you are a FB member please remember to "like" the page so that we can grab the name and spam you in another medium (though you can stop it doing this in the preferences IIRC).
7. DuckDuckGo t-Shirts and DuckDuckgo logo on the day
DuckDuckGo will be providing a free t-shirt to any speaker willing to wear it during their talk on the day, make sure you state if this is a preference for you and your t-shirt size somewhere in the body of your proposal/in your Act preferences, or by email directly to Mark.
For the day we have had assurance from DuckDuckGo that they will exchange their site logo with a special LPW DDG logo, more info on what this will be given once the details are finalised.
8. Sponsors and Jobs
We already have a full complement of sponsors for the London Perl Workshop for all our necessary sponsored events, but if you still wish your company to be involved then please contact Mark as soon as possible to discuss this. The closing date for Sponsors to be included in all printed media is 30th September, though some submissions will be allowed later than that date.
We are also seeking Sponsors to come along and present themselves if they are seeking new employees or to promote a community specific service or resource, again please contact Mark at your earliest convenience to see what is available.
The address to contact mark is m.keating(at)shadowcat.co.uk.
Please feel free to forward this mail to any mailing list or forum that seems appropriate. Thanks and I look forward to the next newsletter when we will confirm some more of the details of the day.
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While the primary function of meetings is to build relationships with customers, some 89 percent of EIU survey respondents say communications where the parties can see and respond to each other benefit internal business functions such as employee coaching and training as well as communications with partners and customers.
An additional 43 percent of respondents use meetings to discuss and resolve major issues with customers such as a service or product failure or dissatisfaction with the partnership. Motivations for expanding these meetings also include contract renewals, brainstorming sessions and being introduced to other clients or customers within the organization.
This EIU survey, sponsored by Cisco, explores the challenges of global enterprise collaboration and the perceived value of different types of business communications -- including telephone, instant messaging, email and conferencing.
Survey respondents were also asked their views on what business processes can be most impacted through in-person interaction as well as on potential productivity gains through these efforts.
The 862 global senior executives surveyed identified a number of key trends in business communications. These insightful findings include:
Face time is a priority -- When it comes to different stakeholders, business leaders attach greater importance to in-person meetings with customers than with colleagues, partners or suppliers. More than half (54%) of respondents to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey said they see meetings with customers as having the greatest impact on their business. This need for face time relates to how most respondents (56%) ranked the most important aspect of business collaboration: determining audience engagement and focus.
Email is getting in the way -- Business leaders in all categories cite email as the primary tool used in collaborating with colleagues, partners and customers (as much as 66% for senior managers) with the telephone identified as the second most-used business communication tool (25%). However, neither text nor voice alone was cited as the best option in communicating critical information in a global business.
Motivations for more meetings differ regionally -- Asked to pick their strongest motivation for meetings with colleagues outside of their own office, respondents from Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are most interested in resolving a problem quickly. However, U.S. business leaders are motivated more by cost reductions in meetings with colleagues. Non-U.S. respondents are also more interested in generating better long-term relationships during their meetings with partners and customers.
Industry dictates motivations as well -- In meeting with business partners or suppliers, respondents in the consumer goods industry are most likely to meet face to face to give or receive direction, while business leaders in energy/transportation, technology and services are most likely to meet to generate better long-term relationships. Respondents in other industries are most likely to meet with partners to be motivated or inspired.
To supplement the survey, the EIU hosted a roundtable discussion with two industry leaders, Joan Parsons, head of U.S. banking for Silicon Valley Bank, and Morten Hansen, a management professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Information and co-author of the book, Great by Choice, about their perspectives on business communications.
An analysis of the findings will be included as part of a EIU video webcast on April 24th, sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.


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The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association, dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. Run by an elected, volunteer Board of Directors, PASS serves a community of passionate SQL Server users around the world.
PASS' mandate is to help fellow SQL Server users to connect, share and learn. Central to this goal are PASS-run conferences, ranging from free PASS SQLSaturday one-day training events to the annual PASS Summit, the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world.
PASS is now introducing a new level of conference to its event mix – PASS SQLRally – and requires an engaging, exciting logo for this new regional event.
Brand character: Leading-edge, super-smart but very approachable, welcoming and helpful. Geek cool. Passionate about technology and about sharing information with others in the community.
Primary target market: IT Professionals who use Microsoft SQL Server Database and/or Business Intelligence products & services. Job titles include database administrators, database developers, data and data warehouse architects, system administrators, business intelligence specialists, IT Managers, IT Directors, CTO/CIO (Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officers) and consultants.
65/35 male/female, typically early 30s-mid/late 50s. Passionate about SQL Server and technology in general. Proud geeks. Analytical, problem-solvers, committed to their community.
Many but not all of our target audience will have heard of PASS or may already be PASS members. As PASS SQLRally is a new event, they will have minimal knowledge of this brand, other than what they may have read on blog posts, Twitter or on the PASS association website.
• Name: PASS SQLRally
• Logo to be used on website (we will be creating a new event site, ideally with the logo designer), conference name badges, simple onsite signage, possibly on bag or tshirt
• Consideration to racetrack/car rally imagery
• Require both one color (B&W) and color versions
• Future requirements include website design. Preference will be given to the logo designer to bid on future design extensions.
• Should give some consideration to the existing PASS organization color palette/font however not at all restricted to using existing:
o Black and White PASS logo used primarily in print applications
o Grey: 70% Black
o PASS Red: Pantone 1795 C, CMYK 0, 94, 100, 0
o PASS Blue: Pantone 294 C, CMYK 100, 58, 0, 21
o Light Blue: CMYK, 100, 30, 0, 0
o Font: Helvetica Neue
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on eating burgers again.
i have a long and storied history with hamburgers.
as a child the joke was always that if there was a burger to be had, i'd be the girl to have it.
and then as a girl-in-the-throws-of-womanhood there was this one particular burger shared with this one particular boy growing ever so nicely into manhood. for months thereafter i refused to have another burger--afraid that it'd somehow negate or erase or make less sacred that day and that burger that would never again be.
i think there's this false notion that people recovering from eating disorders turn to a vegetarian or vegan diet because it's about control or restriction or just another way to lose weight.
about this i want to say several things:
1. for some people, i'm quite sure this is true. this is exactly why they turn to it. but not everyone. not even the majority.
2. those who think eliminating meat will lead to weight loss have quite another thing coming. {beef patties are not usually the thing a person binges on}.
3. a vegan diet still allows for the consumption of a lot of crap (over-processed foods, stuff high in sugar) and it does not promise thinness any more than anything else.
4. until you've tried a vegetarian or vegan diet you don't really get to judge either. from the inside of it, it's not about restriction so much as a restructuring--a second look at what we've been taught to believe about food. and it becomes not about what you can't have, but all of the possibilities from within the defined parameters.
in the process of recovering from a knock-down-drag-out fight with a version of bulimia i began reading as much as i could about food and it's meaning and it's place in our culture. i was unwittingly, unknowingly searching for a food culture--a value system because i wasn't sure we have one in this country. and if we did it came from a place of what-we-can't-have.
still to this day i believe the food culture of this country is mostly one of weight-loss (which obviously isn't working because people are getting fatter--though i don't think the point is for it to work so much as it is for people to spend money). and if there is a value system it has little to do with food and everything to do with fat versus thin--versus being the operative word.
and then we've got women versus other women--demonizing large bodies and small bodies alike.
for me the reason i turned to vegetarianism was always one of environmental concern. it was very clear to me that it was the single easiest thing i could do on a daily basis that would positively effect the environment. to say that we should be able to eat whatever we want whenever we want it is an unbelievably selfish notion and in turn, practice. what we eat affects our health and the health of the planet--it affects our limited natural resources, the consumption of oil, the lives of the animals we're consuming.
i went on a first date recently where i asked the guy: who am i to say that my life is more important than the that of the chicken i want to consume? and he responded with: because you're human and the chicken is not. it's as simple as that. maybe it would be that simple if i had to eat that chicken to survive or the chicken was my only option or i knew that chicken hadn't been born and bred for a 28 day life that was nothing but unbearable suffering.
okay, i'm getting off topic.
this is all to say, that i've started to eat meat again, in small amounts. not in moderation (let me be very clear and say small amounts, not in moderation because people who hear or read that word {moderation} interpret it to mean the exact amount that they're consuming something, so small amounts it is).
i am not against eating meat. but i am for local farmers. i am for sourcing food locally.
i was searching for a food culture and eliminating meat gave me one. each and every day the choices i made regarding food felt bigger than me and my vain and false concerns regarding calories and carbs and counting points. but that choice to abstain from meat was made while i was still very much in the throws of coming out of an eating disorder.
and i'm not anymore. and i've come to learn that food culture and its associated value system isn't so black and white. it is not simply to eat meat or not to eat it. it has to be about more than that. it has to be about nourishing ourselves as we nourish the earth. it has to be about investing in local food systems and eating seasonally. it has to be about making more food ourselves and teaching the next generation what food is and where it comes from and why it's important.
so yes, i've started to eat meat again. and the hamburger i had last week at the farm-to-table restaurant just across the street was worth the wait. the best part of it? the juicy, red tomato that tasted like candy (once you've had a tomato that's in season and ripe, how you can ever have another tomato in the dead of winter again is beyond me).
it occurs to me that at some point last week i wrote about how the desire to change my body was the least interesting thing abut me and every other woman i've ever known. in moments like this i become very aware of semantics. what i said holds true, and i will defend that statement until the end. but, it should be noted, that the desire to eat healthier, be healthier, live a more active lifestyle--the desire to seek out a food culture, the endeavor to nourish ourselves with food and information are endlessly interesting and not to be underestimated.
that's all, i really just meant to say the hamburger was damn good.
{the burger was had at prime meats}. if you ever you find yourself in carroll gardens... or anywhere close, go.


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On 5 December 2017, the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco organized lovers of cryptocurrency in suits, hoodies and everything in between. Token Summit II, presented by William Mougayar, author of "The Business Blockchain," and Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, was a hub for cohesion and problem solving in the blockchain space. Experts from across the industry gathered to discuss government regulation, cryptocurrency initiatives and the future of blockchain technology.
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Part of what makes staying in hotels a cost effective choice is that there are many bonuses that come along with your nightly rate.
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When it comes to the design, Garmin Nuvi looks pretty sleek and stylish with its gloss-black frame and chrome trim. The 4.3-inch touch screen gives you a clear view of the streets and maps. The touch screen is a tad unresponsive at some times.
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You may not know this yet, but unlike what the designers may tell you, a website is not an artwork. It is a platform designed to fulfill a specific function. If you have not settled on the function of the website, How To Start Online Business
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Here's a glimpse into President Obama's weekend gig (because he needs something to keep him occupied) where he acts as coach to daughter Sasha's basketball team. Obama is a strong supporter of women's sports in general, saying, "I am a huge believer that sports ends up being good for kids and especially good for girls. It gives them confidence, it gives them a sense of what it means to compete."
From the looks of it, the President seems to take his on-court duties as seriously as he does his off-court ones. What do you think his pregame pep talks are like? A bit of the Bill Pullman's Independence Day speech peppered with Coach Taylor inspiration? Clear eyes, full hearts, am I right?


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