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GateHouse News Service National Budget
For 8/26/08 editions
Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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SUBMITTING TO THE NEWS SERVICE: Find out what we're really looking for on ghnewsroom.com.
H.S. FOOTBALL: Ohio group launches FridayNightOhio.com.
OBAMA COVERAGE: Springfield newspaper blogs, offers videos, full speeches and more. http://ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1219634982
LEADERSHIP SERIES: Applications being accepted for October training program. This session will focus on new media and implementing a local project, based on training editors receive at the session.
LABOR DAY RAIL: History and facts about Labor Day and U.S. workers. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x418533629/Labor-Day-rail
HEALTH WATCH: Vaccination fears fuel increase in measles cases - Weekly health rail, with items on a recent surge in measles cases, safety at the mall, and more.
HEALTH PAGE: Rockin' workout.
HEALTH VIDEO: This week, ways to prevent lower back pain.
EQUINE THERAPY: Equine therapy offers physical, mental, emotional benefits
WAYNE WESTCOTT: What somatotype are you?
WRESTLING GENIUS: Women in wrestling - The inherent issue seems to be matches involving women actually wrestling seem not to draw as much money for promoters as matches involving women looking good and tearing their clothes off do. ALSO IN SPORTS
JAMES POST: It's OK, Microsoft; I already have a Wii
BRITT CARTOON: Obama-Biden rally
BRITT: Toon on John McCain's houses. Will be posted this evening.
JEFF VRABEL: Last thoughts on the Olympics
KENT BUSH: Watch for voter apathy numbers to climb. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/kansas/x2045581760/Kent-Bush-Watch-for-voter-apathy-numbers-to-climb
CHARITA GOSHAY: What's in a word? Plenty
GARY BROWN: Watching Phelps brings back race memories of my own
ROY HARRIS: An unconventional convention
EDITORIAL: Privatized war comes with cost - Out of every $1 the United States spends in Iraq, 20 cents goes not to America's military but to a private contractor. So says a Congressional Budget Office report released this month. The CBO analysis reveals the striking extent to which the Bush administration has privatized the Iraq war. PEORIA
EDITORIAL: Now the going gets tough for Obama, Biden - You've heard it for months now, and if you were among the thousands who packed downtown Springfield on Saturday, you saw it firsthand: The Obama campaign has stirred interest among young voters like no other in recent memory. SPRINGFIELD
CHRISTY MIHOS: The Mitt I know: A warning for McCain and the GOP
FOOTBALL BRIEFS: Features items on Panthers WR Hackett not getting started in Carolina, NFL Whispers on the Steelers, Seahawks and Texans, as well as Fantasy Buzz on Matt Ryan, Matt Leinart and Kevin Curtis.
WRESTLING GENIUS: Women in wrestling - The inherent issue seems to be matches involving women actually wrestling seem not to draw as much money for promoters as matches involving women looking good and tearing their clothes off do. ALSO IN ENTERTAINMENT
KANSAS & KANSAS STATE: Coaches talk about getting ready for the football season. John Curtis, Augusta. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/college/x1311851661/Mangino-Prince-talk-about-preparations-for-season-openers
PAYING WITH PENNIES: An Ohio municipal court official said a man could not use 5,000 pennies thrown into a box with packing peanuts to pay his fine. CANTON, Ohio
BIODIESEL'S ECOFRIENDLY: Biodiesel a tasty-smelling, Environmentally friendly fuel
BACK FROM BEIJING: Reporter shares his Olympic memories - On opening day of the Beijing Olympics, Chairman Mao Zedong gazed sternly from a large portrait looming above Tiananmen Square onto a China he would not recognize today. From the balcony where "The Great Helmsman" proclaimed on Oct. 1, 1949, the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China, there was no sign of the revolutionary zealotry that once fueled the creation of the communist superpower. MetroWest, Bergeron, on wire now
With photos
COSMETIC SURGERY: The new tools of the corporate trade - Your bosses and co-workers can claim diet and exercise all they want. The truth is, that healthy glow might be the result of cosmetic enhancement. And it might put them at a competitive advantage for the next promotion. Plastic surgery, once the dominion of Hollywood starlets, has found a home in the corporate boardroom. ROCKFORD
DIEBOLD: Diebold performing well despite grim economy
FOOD PRICE WOES: Family finds it hard to stomach rising food prices
MAKING CENTS: Many costs with home ownership
CHECKOUT LANE: Kennels and pet-sitters each have advantages (also in pets)
National Budget for 8.26.08
GateHouse News Service National Budget


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endar1077 wrote:Hey Amazzony,
I was wondering how this super league will be structured. I had assumed that we would do the same thing, and just carry on with the same maps that we chose in the other leagues, but I just read in the Lieutenants section that dittoeevee8888 allowed all the players to change their home maps at a certain point. My first thought was, "oh, that's sort of unfair", and then my next one was "what made me assume that we just continued on with the same process?".
So now I'm wondering, since the head post here doesn't actually say, what the game plan will be for crowning the champion.
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Here's the third episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I'll interview one of the makers featured in the magazine.
Our maker this week is Larry Cotton, a long time contributor to MAKE. Larry's a retired engineer and part-time math teacher who lives in New Bern, NC, and likes to listen to, write, and play anything musical. I talked to him about his LED Paper Cutter, Rok-Bak Chair, Spin the Birdie rotating bird feeder, Camp Stove Coffee Roaster, and his project in the current issue of MAKE, a sturdy, multi-position iPad stand called the iStand.
And, at the beginning of the episode, Makezine.com editor-in-chief Gareth Branwyn shares news of some cool things happening on the site.


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Ryoujoku Guerrilla Gari 3 – 10th Anniversary Founding Ver. Gisele Berthier Standard Limited Edition 1/8 PVC figure by Giga Pulse
Giga Pulse is going to release the 10th Anniversary Founding Ver. ( 創業10周年記念ver ) Gisele Berthier ( ジゼル・ベルティエ ) Standard Limited Edition ( 通常 限定版 ) 1/8 PVC figure from the eroge "Ryoujoku Guerrilla Gari 3″ ( 凌辱ゲリラ狩り3 ) published by Liquid. Will be released in October 2013, 6,980 yen.
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get (one's) head together(redirected from get your head together)
get (one's) head together
To organize one's thoughts, often with the aim of regaining one's calm. I really need to get my head together before I go into the board meeting. A: "Susie seemed really stressed this morning." B: "I think she's fine now—she went for a walk and got her head together."
get one's head together
to get one's thoughts or attitude properly organized. I've got to get my head together and get going. I need to take some time off and get my head together.


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On Tuesday, the LA Galaxy kicked off their commemorative match day poster series by revealing the artwork for the April 12th fixture against Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
The first poster in the series celebrates Jaime Penedo's miraculous save against the Whitecaps on August 25, 2013 that helped seal a 1-0 Galaxy win over Vancouver at BC Place. The Galaxy will release a new poster for each regular season home match in the 2014 season featuring designs by local and national artists.
Designed by LA Galaxy graphic designer, Brad Saiki, a limited run of the Penedo posters will be available for purchase for $25 at Saturday's match against Vancouver at StubHub Center. An additional three posters will be signed by Penedo himself and available in a silent auction at the Foundation Booth.
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Well there's no "culture" thread so I create it here.
I don't know about you but nostalgia is something I see more often on the internet than before.Not only with the humoristic bashing that some people do in video (I don't even need to name them^^) but with the share of the old movies/games/music than you can find with some research.
So, what you ppl are nostalgic with? (in the video game/movie/series/music domain?)
(As this forum is a little multicultural, with different ages, we can see for exemple if you grew up with captain planet or pokemon )


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Canada has declared its annual seal cull - which this year will see off more than 280,000 seals - as "humane, sustainable and responsible", despite protestors' claims to the contrary.
Canadians are expected to go out clubbing in force* in the next few days in the Gulf of St Lawrence and around Newfoundland to reduce the 5.5 million harp seal population by 275,000 and the 600,000 head count of the hooded seal by 8,200, the Telegraph reports. It last year authorised the extermination of 224,000 individuals - of which 98 per cent were pups under the age of three months, according to cull opponents.
While Harp seals have" never been considered endangered", Robbie Marsland of the International Fund for Animal Welfare claimed the slaughter of so many pups will "inevitably have serious consequences for the future of the harp seal population".
He elaborated: "Scientists predict that annual hunts at this level could reduce the population by 70 per cent in the next 15 years."
Protestors have launched a combined thespo-maritime assault on the cull, throwing Brit actress Alison Steadman into the fray backed by direct intervention by ecowarriors Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
The former was in Canada ealier this month to "raise awareness about the impact of the fur trade on seal populations". Having seen seal mums nursing pups on ice sheets off Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Steadman declared: "It is tragic that Canada's pristine ice floes are now remembered as the place where millions of seal pups are bludgeoned to death, where the largest most brutal marine mammal hunt in the world continues to take place every year."
The latter, meanwhile, says its vessel the Farley Mowat will sail to the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland to "intervene directly in the hunt". Canada has warned any such action would be in contravention of international maritime law. ®
*As the Telegraph explains, the commercial seal hunting season "lasts from mid-November to mid-May but most of it occurs in late March and the beginning of April".


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Yeah, I realized I keep forgetting to post anything I do up here. Usually I just upload new fanart to the wiki and forget about it.
Anyway. Eve Valerian.
I feel like she looks way too Asian, but I'm not sure how to rectify it with someone who's looking down like that.
Anyway. The fanart forum is not dead. I'll...try and remember to post things.


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It has now been rated R. The reason:
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Discuss this movie. Filmed April 29-June 30, 2008
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It has now been rated R. The reason:
Sexual content including strong dialogue, and language
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o man i am sad =(
COMEON!!! i wanted to see that movie SO BAD
i am sad and o well i wiil just get it o DVD mabey
I'm in LOVE with him and I Feel Fine
Re: o man i am sad =(
I remember those days! Not being able to see a rated R Jim movie. That's how it was for me when The Number 23 came out. Not to rub it in but I'll be 17 by then so I should be able to see it. (HOPEFULLY!)
But really, we all knew it was gonna be rated R. It has gay intercourse in it.
i am only
well my age is 13 you know why i love DVD is bacause just bacause it has rated R you can still get it no matter what your age is
when i love youPhillip Morris comes out i might get it on DVD
remaber what horton said he said
I'm in LOVE with him and I Feel Fine
That's a silly thing btw, you can show boobs, half naked women or men and people having sex in ways it doesn't end up "Rated R", but as soon as the word 'gay' is in it, you have the "R" right there. But okay, I can imagine this movie deserves the "R".
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T-Dog (DC's Own) - I Got That Blow / Money And Power [Unsigned Hype]
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Wedding cake - rich dark chocolate cake
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal274
- fat16g
- saturates9g
- carbs30g
- sugars20g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.23g
- 650g unsalted butter
- 650g plain chocolate (70% cocoa)
- 100ml very strong coffee- espresso is ideal
- 3 tsp vanilla essence
The sun-dried seed pod of a type of climbing orchid, vanilla has an inimitable soft, sweet…
- 650g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
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Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
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- 10 eggs
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- 2 x 284ml/9½ fl oz soured cream
Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Butter, double-line and wrap the sides of the 30cm deep-round cake tin as before. Put the butter and chocolate into a medium saucepan, then stir over a low heat until melted and smooth. Stir in the coffee and vanilla.
Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into the biggest bowl you have. Add the sugar, breaking down any lumps with your fingertips if necessary. Beat the eggs and soured cream together in a jug or bowl and pour into the flour mix. Pour in the melted chocolate mix as well, then stir with a wooden spoon until you have a thick, even chocolaty batter.
Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 2½ hrs – don't open the oven door before 2 hrs is up, as this will cause the cake to sink. Once cooked, leave in the tin to cool completely. The unfilled cake will keep for up to four days, wrapped as before, or frozen for a month.


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This Blog is a journey through all 88 episodes of the 80's TV show Scarecrow and Mrs King. I will be working my way through each episode in their original airing order [mostly! but may deviate from time to time with explanation! 😉 ]
I am walking through the episodes with the aim of not jumping ahead with Lee and Amanda's story- but focusing on where Lee, Amanda and the story are at in each episode as we go along.
Up until the end of Season 4, Episode 4 'It's in the Water' – the walk was publishing regularly more or less, taking a long time to walk through an episode at a slow pace..
From Season 4, Episode 5 'Nightcrawler' the blog will switch to more of an 'event based' format – posts will be less frequent – and when the next episode is written up and ready to go – I'll announce when the walk through the next episode will start. Then, we'll walk through that episode consistently for a week or two. Then, there will be another (likely long) break till the next episode is ready to go. Make sense? I'll keep you updated – so be sure to subscribe to receive the update posts.
I hope you will join me and share your own thoughts on Lee Stetson, Amanda King… and the world of SMK! 🙂
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Students with substandard grades who are not repeating the same course(s) may petition for Academic Renewal action in order to alleviate substandard academic performance under the following conditions:
Granted, academic renewal shall result in:
Note: Withdrawals or "W"s remain permanently on a student's records, and cannot be removed by either policy.
Students who have completed prerequisite courses within the LACCD can go directly to Admissions and Records prerequisite window for clearance. Students who have completed equivalent prerequisite courses outside the LACCD must see a counselor in a 10-minute same-day appointment for a "Prerequisite Waiver" which--once signed by a counselor--they may take to Admissions & Records for clearance. Students whose course equivalency is unclear to the counselor or if they want to challenge the published prerequisite(s) must see the Dept. Chair for a "Prerequisite Challenge" which they take to Admissions & Records for clearance.
LAVC Registered Nursing (R.N.) Program accepts applications twice a year (Sept. for Spring, April for Fall). Prior to applying for the R.N. program, students must have the program prerequisites completed and evaluated by a counselor in an appointment. Official transcripts from college(s) outside the LACCD must be sent in by mail (not hand delivered) and processed by Admissions & Records before an evaluation appointment can be made. All courses must be completed with grade C or higher.
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The Prescription Discount Card is made available to residents by the City of Palm Springs in collaboration with the National League of Cities (NLC) and is made possible through City of Palm Springs membership in NLC.
The card is FREE to all City of Palm Springs residents, regardless of age, income or existing health insurance. By using this card you may save an average of 23% off the regular retail price of prescription drugs at participating pharmacies.
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The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Scientists use it as a tool to unlock the secrets of the universe and search for new physics and phenomenon. In 2012, it gave us the Higgs boson. And now, engineers and physicists are looking towards the future—what will we discover next?
FAQ: Frequently asked questions about the Large Hadron Collider research program


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The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies.
The print volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States are located on the third floor of the Main Library in the Government Publications department. Call Number: KX233.A3.
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Below are the presentations currently scheduled for Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010. We'll continue to schedule new talks until all time slots are filled. Note that the schedule is subject to change.
Create your own Web 2.0 Expo New York schedule using the personal scheduler function. Mark the tutorials, sessions, keynotes, and events you want to attend by clicking on the calendar icon next to each listing. Then click on "personal schedule" below and get your own customized schedule generated.
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Ididit Tilt Column Upgrade
Improve the convenience of your GM A-body by installing a tilt steering column from ididit
Back when driver ergonomics were an afterthought at best, tilt columns were a luxury that was rarely seen in pedestrian level cars. For the most part, cars had a straight stick of a column with a set angle from the dash, and if the stock steering angle happened to create an uncomfortable driving position or be inconvenient for viewing the dash, well tough luck.
It's even worse if you happen to be taller or shorter than average, since vintage cars with minimal driving position adjustments in the seat and column were designed to kinda hit down the middle of stature and size. If you're over 6 feet tall or under 5 feet 4 inches, it's a definite problem. More seat adjustment from custom sliders helps, but what most of us really need is a tilt column to set things right.
You could dig around at swap meets, junkyards, or eBay to find an original, but you'll likely pay too much for a used column that will need a surprisingly expensive rebuild. It can easily cost a few hundred to bring a worn original back to spec, and you'll still have a less-than-ideal setup that uses rag joints. Those things hate big sticky tires and hard driving; we can attest to that.
The real solution is to step up to a modern replacement tilt column like the slick unit we're dropping into Project Olds right here. These new ididit columns are bolt-in for any GM A-body like Chevy Chevelle and Malibu, Buick Special and GS, Pontiac Tempest and GTO, and, of course, Olds Cutlass and 442. It's a super simple swap that will make a huge difference in your driving experience. Check out how Kevin Tully and his crew at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle made it happen in an afternoon for Project Olds.


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SportsNet LA to produce record number of Dodger games in Spanish
Dodger legend Manny Mota and broadcast veteran Jorge Jarrín to call 75 Dodger games in Spanish for the network
LOS ANGELES, CA - SportsNet LA launched February 25 as the exclusive new 24/7 TV home of the Los Angeles Dodgers that takes fans behind-the-scenes of the team and offers in-depth access into the organization, providing an immersive experience with never-before-seen content and thousands of hours of comprehensive Dodger programming. Today SportsNet LA has announced that the network will produce a record-setting 75 games in Spanish this season, in addition to a full season of Dodger games in English, giving Spanish-speaking Dodger fans more access to their favorite team than they've ever had before through expert analysis and innovative game telecasts. In 2015, SportsNet LA will increase the number of Spanish-language telecasts to 150. In addition, the network announced that Dodger legend and longtime coach Manny Mota and broadcast veteran Jorge Jarrín will return to call Dodger games in Spanish on TV together for a third season.
"The Dodgers have an incredible Spanish-speaking fan base and we are ecstatic to be able to provide them with more live games in their language than they've ever had before because of our new television network, SportsNet LA," said Stan Kasten, President and CEO, Los Angeles Dodgers. "It's fantastic that Manny Mota and Jorge Jarrín, who we're so excited to have calling Dodger games once again, will be able to speak directly to even more Dodger fans this season."
The inaugural Spanish-language telecast will be the Dodgers' home opener on Friday, April 4 as Los Angeles takes on the San Francisco Giants. SportsNet LA's Spanish-language productions will be called on-site at Dodger Stadium specifically for a Spanish-speaking audience, featuring distinct graphics and audio.
Mota, who will provide Spanish-language color commentary, enters his fifth season as a Dodger Spanish-language TV announcer. He also serves as a Dodger coach and enters his 46th season with the Dodgers and 35th straight year instructing the team, making him the longest-tenured coach in Los Angeles Dodgers' history. The former outfielder and pinch-hitter played 13 seasons for the Dodgers, winning one World Series, during a 20-year Major League career and ranks third on MLB's all-time pinch-hits list. He has participated in five World Series with the Dodgers as a player or coach and also operates the Manny Mota International Foundation, a non-profit organization which has raised money to help baseball and education in the Dominican Republic and United States.
Jarrín will call play-by-play, returning to the Spanish-language TV booth for the third year. In addition to his broadcasting duties, Jarrin oversees the Spanish-language Dodger radio broadcasts, was responsible for expanding the Dodger Spanish Radio Network and is directly involved in the Dodgers' Latino marketing initiatives. His father Jaime Jarrín is the Dodgers' Hall of Fame Spanish-language radio broadcaster and his son Stefan was drafted and signed by the Dodgers in the 2011 MLB Draft. The seasoned broadcaster previously worked at KABC Talk Radio as "Captain Jorge," covering traffic from 1985-2011.
Time Warner Cable customers can watch live Spanish-language Dodger game telecasts in high definition on channel 382 in Los Angeles, 324 in the Desert Cities and 664 in Barstow. More information about SportsNet LA's Spanish-language games and standard definition channel numbers, visit the "ESPAÑOL" tab on www.sportsnetla.com. SportsNet LA's Spanish-language telecasts are available to all satellite, cable and telco multichannel providers, subject to agreements with each provider.
Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have carried SportsNet LA since launch and we are in negotiations with all other providers. For more information about SportsNet LA or to demand the network, visit www.ineedmydodgers.com or www.quieromisdodgers.com. Follow the network on Twitter at @SportsNetLA, Facebook at www.Facebook.com/SportsNetLA and Instagram at @SportsNetLA.


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CW500:Future Gazing 2020 (I)
CW500:Future Gazing 2020 (I)
Andrew Drazin, founding partner of c-level recruitment specialist,Theron LLP, gives his take on the future of the IT department in 2020.
In this presentation, given to Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders, Drazin draws on his own experience and the findings of an in-depth series of interview with leading CIOs in the UK.
Full report of the meeting: here.
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Eng Returns to Kent State in Biostat Teaching Position
Dr. Abbey L. Eng, new assistant professor of social and behavioral science, has come home to Kent State after a spending just over a year at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Eng is coordinating and teaching the undergraduate biostatistics course. She taught online sections of Public Health Research this past spring and summer, and she also taught the Seminar in Public Health Prevention last spring. "I love statistics, which is the core of public health," Eng says. Her previous Kent State role was research assistant in the Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence, where she was responsible for data collection, cleaning and analysis and for report preparation, among other duties. She performed similar work at the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Education and Research in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at CWRU. "I've always been interested in social problems and have worked on a lot of research projects involving violence and mental health and the mental health of adolescents and their families," she says.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The president and CEO of NPR is stepping down after less than two years to take a similar position at the National Geographic Society, the public radio organization's board of directors announced Monday.
Gary Knell said he plans to stay on the job at Washington-based National Public Radio until November while the board works to find a successor, serving out most, if not all, of his initial contract.
Knell, who spent 11 years as CEO of Sesame Workshop, took over NPR in December 2011 after a difficult period. He succeeded Vivian Schiller, who resigned under pressure after a former NPR fundraiser was caught on camera calling the tea party racist. The episode led some conservatives to call for an end to federal funding for NPR, which receives some grant money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its member stations also get CPB funding.
"We've calmed some of the waters politically. I've done a lot of outreach to members on both sides of the aisle to put NPR into a better context," Knell told The Associated Press. "I think we've set in motion a strategy and an economic trajectory that will make it easier for the next CEO to carry on the work."
Knell said the offer to become president and CEO of the National Geographic Society was unsolicited and that the decision to accept it was difficult. He had planned to seek a renewal of his contract.
"We wish Gary the very best. He was a stellar CEO, and we certainly understand why other people want him," board chair Kit Jensen said. "He's put us on a very good footing for the future."
During Knell's tenure, NPR has improved its digital presence, strengthened relationships with its member stations and bolstered philanthropic and corporate support, the organization said in a news release.
NPR distributes news, information and music programming to 975 public radio stations, reaching 27 million listeners a week.
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Victory celebrates official launch of its Parkesburg brewery
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Victory Brewing Company founders Bill Covalski and Ron Barchet give a tour of the new brewing facility in Parkesburg.
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Moonglow Weizenbock, Baltic Thunder and Golden Monkey now have a new home.
On Feb. 27, welcoming 30 members of the local media, Victory Brewing Company proudly showed off their highly anticipated 140,000-square-foot brewery in Parkesburg. The site of the facility was chosen because of its similarities to Victory's home in Downingtown, 20 minutes away. Both share the headwaters of the east and west branches of the Brandywine Creek.
The Parkesburg brewery is equipped with top-of-the-line brewing technology and tools, including a German-built ROLEC brewhouse with production capacity of up to 200 barrels per batch, as well as a proprietary hop separator called the HopVIC, and a hard-piped fermentation cellar featuring 16 1,000-barrel fermenters. At full capacity, the brewery will able to turn out 225,000 barrels a year – more than doubling the current capability in Downingtown.
"Another one of the really exciting new features in this brewery is the state-of–the-art biological acidification system, which will allow our brewers to naturally optimize pH values throughout the brewing process, yielding cleaner and fresher tasting beer," explained Ron Barchet, Victory's CEO and co-founder/brewmaster.
"In the last two years, we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what our plan would be, and
whether we could stretch what we were doing in Downingtown," said Adam Bartles, director of brewery operations. "We looked at every option and stood fast to our commitment to100 percent quality, instead of watering down our expansion. In 2012, we hit the ceiling and by 2013, we were operating in Downingtown 24 hours a day, every day of the year and even on the holidays, making as much beer as we possibly could. This new facility allows us to have so much more potential."
"Environmental impact and water quality were major considerations for this expansion," said Bill Covaleski, Victory's president and co-founder/brewmaster. "Nearly eight months of water-quality research found that the mineral composition of the west branch water is nearly identical to the east branch. Now the beer is flowing and we couldn't be more pleased with the result."
Soon, the public will be able to peek inside the operations of Victory's expansion. Beginning on April 5, tours of the Parkesburg facility will be offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and 3 to 6:30 p.m. The tours will depart from Victory's Downingtown brewpub, and upon arrival, visitors will get a welcome beer in the catering hall, followed by a guided tour of the brewery from the production floor. Then everyone will meet back in the hall to enjoy a food and beer pairing.
Each session is limited to 40 people and all tour guests must be 21 years or older to participate. Tickets must be purchased in advance and will be available on Victory's website beginning on March 3.
Construction will continue on the 10,000 square feet of space where a full-service brewpub and beer garden are scheduled to near completion by the start of 2015. In the meantime, the facility will be available for private catered events.
"We share the anticipation our fans have expressed over having the opportunity to enjoy the
brewpub and tour experience in Parkesburg," Barchet said. "While there are still a number of hurdles to cross until that can happen entirely, we're excited to offer an enjoyable package option that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the brewery, as well as food and beer component in the meantime."
"Our idea is to take this company globally," Bartles said. "I think we're proud enough of what we do that we want everyone to be a part of it, wherever people are looking for good beer. We also have maintained our commitment to Chester County. In this expansion, we could have gone anywhere, but we're proud of being from Chester County.
"We're proud of the Brandywine River being our water source," Bartles added. "So while I see us trying to get our beer out to as many new places as we can, our home will always be here."


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Global Knowledge Expands Networking Curriculum to Include SDN
Students discover how dramatic re-architecture of networking and cloud will transform businesses
CARY, N.C. - Global Knowledge, the world's leading IT and business skills training provider, today announced two new, exclusive courses about Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The addition of learning solutions around the next evolution of the networking and cloud landscape provides students with a fundamental understanding of the complexities of SDN, implications for business practices and efficiencies that will drive IT job role changes.
Developed to explore the advantages of SDN and provide context for the strategic planning for multi-departmental interdependencies and impacts that organizations must prepare for, these SDN courses will round out foundational networking and virtualization training. Global Knowledge meticulously designed courses that explain SDN's role in the networking environment, including SDN's relationship with the cloud for seamless provisioning and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) for automated load balancing - and realizing the potential benefits. New SDN training also includes a planning workshop that helps students explore the vendor solutions for SDN.
"We work with organizations across various disciplines and industries, as well as professionals with roles that span the breadth and depth of their companies. Similar to the transformative nature of cloud and practice changes aligned to security and privacy requirements, SDN is a game changer," said Michael Fox, SVP, Enterprise Solutions for Global Knowledge. "We understand that this will revolutionize the way that businesses provision networking, compute and storage resources, how they shape teams and what skills they recruit and develop. Empowering organizations to appropriately plan for this technology so they can truly benefit from the efficiencies of increased automation and maximized flexibility in hardware provisioning is something we take great pride in. We want to help our customers be proactive and facilitate the growth that can be a competitive advantage for them."
New Global Knowledge SDN courses include:
- SDN Essentials: The Future of Networking that enables students to discover what SDN is and how it changes network services, applications and roles within an organization.
- SDN Planning Workshop: Demystifying Vendor Solutions that provides students with the tools and techniques to discern vendor solutions and to begin creating an SDN strategy.
As with much of the company's expansive catalog, these exclusive Global Knowledge SDN courses are delivered by expert instructors with real-world applicable experience. SDN courses are offered in the learner's choice of classroom or virtual instructor led training, as well as via private group professional development that can be delivered onsite at the customer organization. Global Knowledge's learning support services can also assist organizations with developing tailored training and career-pathing solutions aligned with recruiting, professional development and retention, capital expenditure and growth objectives.
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Washington, D.C. -- Nineteen conservation and animal welfare groups, representing tens of millions of U.S. citizens, today called on the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior to impose trade sanctions against Iceland for its escalating defiance of international conservation agreements on commercial whaling.
A petition filed by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) on behalf of the 'Whales Need US' coalition and Species Survival Network, urges Secretaries Locke and Salazar to invoke U.S. conservation legislation known as the Pelly Amendment against Iceland, a move that could deal a death blow to Iceland's out of control whaling industry.
The conservation and welfare groups have identified specific Icelandic companies as potential targets for trade sanctions; these include major seafood industry players that are directly tied to Iceland's whaling industry. At the center is Icelandic fin whaling company, Hvalur, Sue Fisher of WDCS explains.
"Iceland's actions meet the conditions for Pelly sanctions, and we've provided the U.S. government with the information necessary to carry out sanctions by identifying the 'Hvalur Group', and its associated companies, including HB Grandi, Iceland's biggest fishing company."
The Pelly Amendment authorizes the President to impose trade sanctions against another country for "diminishing the effectiveness" of conservation agreements; in Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which prohibits international commercial trade in whale products.
Kitty Block, vice president of Humane Society International, is optimistic that the Obama administration will impose sanctions: "we are greatly encouraged to hear that the administration has serious concerns with Iceland's whaling and trade and is 'considering its options'. Imposing trade measures will provide the U.S. with the opportunity to demonstrate the kind of leadership on whale conservation that the U.S. public demands".
"We applaud the U.S. for recognizing that more must be done to stop this senseless killing," said D.J. Schubert, wildlife biologist for the Animal Welfare Institute. "This petition provides the government with the evidence it needs to act urgently and decisively to impose significantly stronger measures against Iceland and its whaling industry."
"Now is the time for the U.S. to take robust measures against Iceland for its continued defiance of international law," said Taryn Kiekow, staff attorney for the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "Iceland's commercial whaling policy is considered archaic and cruel by the rest of the world and we ask the U.S. to impose trade sanctions against it."
- In 1982, the IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling, effective from 1986/7. Iceland did not formally object to the moratorium, but left the IWC in 1992. In 2002, it rejoined the IWC and its accession documents included a reservation to the commercial whaling moratorium.
- Under international law, a party seeking to accede to a convention cannot take a reservation to a measure that is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. The IWC's convention does, however, allow objections to Schedule amendments by its members within a proscribed period after the adoption of the amendment. Iceland chose not to file an objection to the 1982 adoption of the moratorium and therefore became bound by it. By including a reservation in its accession notification, Iceland tried to change its previous acceptance of the moratorium. Eighteen countries, including the United States, registered a formal objection to Iceland's reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling, and Mexico, New Zealand and Italy do not recognise Iceland's membership of the IWC.
- Iceland's continued, and expanding, commercial whaling (including on an endangered species) under its reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling is conducted without IWC supervision and control of the whaling operation. Iceland's catch limits are not calculated in accordance with the IWC's agreed procedures, and the fin whale quota far exceeds what the Scientific Committee would consider sustainable. Its commercial whaling is conducted in defiance of objections to its reservation recorded by eighteen contracting governments. These actions clearly diminish the effectiveness of the ICRW/IWC.
- CITES responded to the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling by transferring all whales species to its Appendix I, thereby prohibiting international commercial trade in whale products. Japan, Norway and Iceland lodged reservations that exempted them from the Appendix I listings. Iceland's escalating exports of whale products under reservation, to non-Parties, and illegally, diminishes the effectiveness of CITES' trade controls and are grounds for Pelly certification and sanctions.
- Iceland imported eight tonnes of minke whale meat and blubber from Norway in two shipments in 2002, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland exported 846,046 kg of "frozen whale meat and other products to Japan since 2008 (over 90% in 2010) under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kg, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1309 kg of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.
- 2002: Iceland rejoined the IWC with a reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling.
- 2003: U.S. objected to the objected to the reservation contained in Iceland's instrument of adherence. Iceland resumed special permit whaling, taking 36 minke whales.
- 2004: Iceland took 25 minke whales under special permit. The U.S. certified Iceland under Pelly for its special permit whaling but opted not to pursue trade sanctions.
- 2005: Iceland took 39 minke whales under special permit.
- 2006: Iceland took 60 minke whales under special permit and resumed commercial whaling under its reservation to the IWC's moratorium; it took seven fin whales out of a self-allocated quota of nine and one out of 30 minkes under its reservation.
- 2007: Iceland took no fin whales and six minke whales under its reservation, and 36 minke whales in the last year of its special permit whaling.
- 2008: Iceland took 38 minke whales out of a quota of 40 and no fin whales under its reservation.
- 2009: Iceland dramatically increased its annual whaling quotas to 150 fin and 150 minke whales for 2009-2013. It took 125 fin and 81 minke whales.
- 2010: Iceland killed 148 fin and 60 minke whales.
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Attention "Twilight" fans: Kellan Lutz does not bite.
Lutz, who's risen to fame playing the vampire Emmett Cullen in the film adaptations of author Stephanie Meyer's beloved saga, tells PopcornBiz he can't get enough of the feedbacks, mementos and snapshots he shares with the Twi-Hards, and he's always ready for a memorable fan encounter.
"I'm so, so blessed to have such amazing fans and for them to be so supportive and to enjoy what I'm doing for them and for myself," says Lutz. "I love art and all the scrap books and all the letters that they send…If I can make a phone call when it'd make their day, their month, their year, just to say hi or play games with them or do anything like that, I'm all for it."
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The actor, who stars in the new indie film "Meskada," says he really appreciates it when fans send their scrapbooks around the world for their fellow Cullen clan enthusiasts to contribute to and the projects ultimately make their way into his hands. "I had a fan bring one to Atlantic City when I was over there, " he says. "It means so much that people would spend so much time. I'm terrible with taking pictures, and so for these fans to give me something that I can hold onto forever and cherish and show my grandkids one day, it's really special."
Lutz says he's especially excited to have roles in several new films on the way – including playing a newlywed in the rom-com "Love, Wedding, Marriage" with Mandy Moore and the Greek god of the sea Poseidon in "The Immortals" –to demonstrate his range beyond his supporting stint in the "Twilight" firmament.
"In the 'Twilight' movies we're playing these characters that are from a book, so people already have a notion about how the characters should look and act. Doing movies for 'The Man,' so to speak, now I can choose to do other movies where I can try out different things. It's great to have the chance to show that you can do different things."
He was drawn to "Meskada," a bleak tale about a killing of a young boy during a home robbery that ignites both an investigation and potboiling small-town politics, because "it's kind of like a snapshot of small town America. I grew up in North Dakota and Iowa and I saw firsthand how kind of economically, the farming industry was on a decline, so people had to go to extra measures. They had to drive further to farm or to get jobs or to pick up other jobs. It's kind of an issue that a lot of the United States and the world doesn't really see too often or know really what's going on or how hard the living is. "
And while shooting in the Catskills, there was no shortage of encounters with "his admirers. "They never really have actors come up there, let alone shoot something there," he says, "so working and having the towns people be extras and hanging out with them and getting to meet them and them bringing cookies to set…I'm just a normal person. I'm Kellan inside and out, and it's just funny when they have that look in your eyes, like, 'Oh, my gosh, Kellan! You're real!' It just kind of warms your heart."


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To have a secret plan, idea, or advantage that can be utilized if and when it is required. A reference to cheating at a card game by hiding a favorable card up one's sleeve. I've got a few tricks up my sleeve if he decides to pursue legal action against me.


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smart alec(k)
One who makes jokes and uses sarcasm in an attempt to seem witty, but instead is deemed annoying. I'd had enough of that smart aleck's wisecracks, so I left the party early. Don't be such a smart alec, Sally.
See also: smart
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An impudent or obnoxiously self-assertive individual, a wise guy, as in New teachers often have a hard time coping with the smart alecks in their classes. This expression, dating from the mid-1800s, probably alluded to a person of this description who was named Alec or Alexander, but his identity has been lost.
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a smart aleck
A smart alec or a smart aleck is someone who is very clever and who is often able to answer questions in a clever way. Note: People sometimes spell `alec' and `aleck' with capital initials, as names. They've got some smart alec of a lawyer from London to oppose bail. Note: You can use smart alec and smart aleck before a noun. I hate smart-aleck kids who talk like dictionaries. Note: You use this expression to show that you find someone annoying. Note: Alec or Aleck is a shortened form of the name Alexander.
smart alec (or aleck)a person considered irritating because they know a great deal or always have a clever answer to a question.
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To sip a Pink Poodle is to experience serious liquid seduction: to fall a little in love with the magnolia gleam in the fluted glass, the pretty fizz that tickles your nose, the burst of floral sweetness that trips across your tongue. I've never encountered a drink quite like this—but then again, this isn't exactly my usual watering hole. Perched on the edge of a burnished chrome stool at the Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, I've temporarily traded swizzle sticks for straws, gin for ginger ale and martinis for malteds—all in the hope of better understanding the world of a beloved, if increasingly endangered, American icon: the soda fountain.
Peter Freeman is my local soda jerk, and the Pink Poodle is one of his original creations—a riff on the soda float, carefully composed of a puddle of small-batch hibiscus syrup, a coarse stream of carbonated water straight from a gleaming wall-mounted spigot, and top-hatted with a tight, white scoop of vanilla ice cream. And in its restrained balance of sweet and tart, carbonated and creamy, the Poodle harkens back to the glory days of the American fountain, when complex drinks rooted in botanicals, bitters and fresh fruits were served as a counterpoint to that other great Yankee invention—the cocktail—and seen as emblems of a soda jerk's inventiveness, not just a vehicle for corn syrup and artificial coloring.
The building where we're sitting, on a quiet corner on the fringes of brownstone Brooklyn, has housed a drugstore continuously since 1890—though this incarnation was christened only last summer, after a complete restoration during which Freeman and his big sister, Gia, unearthed more than five decades of pharmaceutical flotsam and jetsam. (Think hand-laid mosaic tile, turn-of-the-century pressed tin ceilings, antique apothecary jars, yards of polished shoe box-sized oak drawers, and an oversized enamel scale that pinpoints your weight and horoscope for 5 cents.)
Becoming a soda jerk at age 33 hadn't always been part of his plan, but Freeman has taken to the role with passion and more than a soupçon of mad-scientist flair, tinkering with recipes (next up: the hybrid soda/shake!), schooling kindergartners in the art of the Brooklyn egg cream (Fox's U-Bet syrup, please!), stocking the bar with period glassware, scouring old pharmacy manuals for inspiration, and hunting for local ingredients, like Adirondack ice cream and all-natural P&H syrups, to spotlight in the shop. And happily, the community has responded to him—and his anachronistic concoctions—with equal enthusiasm. "Families come in, sit at the counter and know your name. And it does make you feel like you're serving a purpose," he says, flashing a sideways grin. "I don't know when this kind of place became old school. It just seems like the way things should be."
Bubbly Beginnings
Old school, indeed. While for some people the phrase "soda fountain" may conjure up a mid-century malt shop tableaux—part Archie comic, part Happy Days—the roots of the American soda fountain run much deeper, and much darker. Carbonated water has been prized for its curative properties for millennia, but commercial fountains, which claimed to artificially reproduce the benefits of spring waters, didn't become widespread until the first quarter of the 19th century—and then were marketed primarily for their medicinal, not pleasure-giving properties. (In fact, it was because of soda water's perceived therapeutic benefits that drugstores became the main stage upon which the development of the fountain played out.)
It would be almost impossible to overstate the popularity of the soda fountain during its turn-of-the-century heyday: by the end of the 1800s, most U.S. towns contained at least one soda fountain (New York City alone is estimated to have had more than 670), and by 1920 their ranks had swelled well upwards of 125,000. Along the way, the forces of competition and fashion utterly transformed what began as a utilitarian apparatus—a plain gooseneck pump that dispensed CO2-infused water—into an ostentatious art form. In hopes of attracting customers, pharmacists invested in extravagant fountains, some costing north of $50,000, standing more than six feet tall and stretching the length of a wall. John Matthews, the British-born inventor whose company came to dominate fountain manufacturing in the mid-1800s (earning him the nickname "Neptune of the trade") offered a catalog featuring hundreds of options for shopkeepers to choose from, including models wrought from steel, copper and bronze, trimmed with gold gilt and six different kinds of marble, punctuated by leaded glass Tiffany lamps, beveled mirrors, peaked and dormered roofs and bas-relief backsplashes depicting gods and goddesses, waterfalls and nymphs. At the same time, savvy pharmacists began to realize that just as they could spiff up their fountains with stained glass, they could set their drinks apart by dressing up plain soda with a spritz of flavored syrup, a spoonful of fruit, or a dose of bitters. Owners guarded the proprietary recipes for their popular drinks fiercely to keep patrons coming back.
Of course, creating a craving for your fountain's drinks was fairly simple if you had addictive drugs at your disposal. And indeed, in the early, unregulated days of the soda trade, pharmacists—who were schooled in chemistry, after all—drew upon a shocking roster of additives and ingredients while composing their recipes, including strychnine, radium, morphine, heroin, cannabis and cocaine, not to mention a hefty dose of booze. What's more, because such "tonics" were untaxed, they could be sold for much cheaper than a jigger of gin. Naturally, as temperance reform gathered speed, soda fountains became the preferred refuge of folks looking for a fix without the stigma of the saloon. (Or, as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle put it in February 1886: "In Disguise! Drug Store Beverages … The Safe Haven of the Belated Tippler and Thirsty Early Riser on Sunday … Respectability Cloaking its Weakness with the Foam of Soda …!")
The Sweet Science
The link between the soda fountain and the bar didn't end with intoxicants: in their roles behind the counter as well as in their arsenal of tools—ice picks, citrus reamers, shakers, strainers, corkscrews and straws—soda jerks were close kin to bartenders. In fact, when the passage of Prohibition put scores of bartenders out of work, many transitioned into positions behind the pharmacy pumps. "When I started reading up on it, I was really surprised by the creativity and complex techniques used by the people who ran fountains," says Darcy O'Neil, the bartender and blogger behind the popular spirits website Art of Drink.
Indeed, for O'Neil, what began strictly as idle curiosity about the class of fountain drinks known as "phosphates" snowballed into a full-blown fascination with the soda fountain once he realized he'd stumbled on a rich and largely unexplored bit of liquid history. Now, in a volume titled Fix The Pumps, O'Neil has published the results of that research, along with an intriguing collection of recipes for acid phosphates, lactarts, hot fizzes, nogs, bracers and scads of other nearly-lost-to-time concoctions culled from vintage beverage manuals like The Dispenser's Formulary, circa 1915. (Note: The entire text of The Dispenser's Formulary is also available on Google Books—and is a surefire way to fritter away an afternoon.) Next to a root beer float or a chocolate shake, the terms lactart and phosphate may not sound familiar—let alone appealing—to
today's soda drinkers. But as O'Neil explains, tart acid-based beverages like cherry phosphates and cranberry lactarts were a wildly popular subset of fountain menus well into the 20th century. Made with phosphoric acid, phosphate salts and lactic acid (which had the benefit of being both more neutral tasting and less perishable than natural citric acids), they were first marketed as tonics with powers to boost the libido and strengthen the nervous system—though consumers soon sought them out primarily for their power to refresh.
The rise of mass-marketed bottled pop and the declining numbers of soda fountains in the 1950s and '60s eventually put phosphates and lactarts on the endangered species list—but if O'Neil has a say in the matter, they may soon enjoy a revival. In fact, after growing frustrated trying to source such old fountain ingredients, he decided to draw upon his training as a chemist and manufacture his own. Now, operating under the moniker Extinct Chemical Company, O'Neil sells his mixtures to curious drink tinkerers all over the country, including Eben Freeman, the cocktail mastermind and director of bar operations for the Altamarea restaurant group in New York. "It's exciting—lactart seems to boost a drink, bringing out the character and flavors the way salt can in food," says Freeman.
Inspired, he now offers diners at Ai Fiori an aperitif combining lactart, absinthe, saffron-infused gin and dry vermouth, topped off with a spritz of tart Lurisia Gazzosa Italian soda. So far the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. "They're just really versatile ingredients," O'Neil says of the acids. They're simple ones too—one of O'Neil's preferred preparations, the Angostura Phosphate, calls for bitters, lemon syrup, a few drops of phosphoric acid and a cold stream of soda.
Soda Survivors
If you're intent on enjoying phosphate at one of the marble counters that were once its native habitat, however, chances are you'll have to do some searching. After World War II, America's increasingly suburban, car-obsessed culture began to abandon the local fountain for the novelty of drive-thrus and fast food chains. Anne Cooper Funderberg, author of Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains, estimates that by 1965, only a third of city drugstores still contained a fountain—and of those that did, many let go of their soda jerks and discarded antique gilt and marble models for automated, stainless steel, soft-drink dispensers. Today Americans consume more than 13 billion gallons of soda a year, yet by most estimates, fewer than 125 traditional soda fountains remain in the entire country.
Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the establishments that have endured are beloved by their loyal patrons with a fierceness approaching the fanatical. For 70-plus years, patrons of the Pitt Street Pharmacy in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, have been ordering pimento cheese sandwiches along with their vanilla malts. Since 1899, the fountain at Watson Drugs in Orange, California, has been a civic landmark. Fountain lovers still lament the passage of the once-great Jahn's empire in New York City (now dwindled to a single location in Jackson Heights, Queens). At Zaharakos in Columbus, Indiana, the jaw-dropping gilded age décor and onyx fountain (not to mention its famous Green River float) draws tourists to this day. At Lagomarcino's in Moline, Illinois, the fourth generation of that clan still prepares candies and sodas in a shop featuring original Tiffany lamps and Rock Island terrazzo floors. Regulars can still run a tab at Nau's Enfield Drug in Austin, Texas. At Miller's Pharmacy in Cooper, Texas, outside Dallas, the fourth generation of Millers still serves a chocolate soda named after former governor Ann Richards, and a quarter will buy you five songs on the jukebox; and in east Texas, at San Augustine Drug, the signature drink is the grapefruit highball, a secret recipe invented there in 1928 and passed down from soda jerk to soda jerk ever since.
For most surviving fountains, the business is simply in the blood. For instance, Ray Klavon's grandparents, James and Mary, opened their eponymous pharmacy and fountain two blocks from the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh in 1923. They raised kids and grandkids there, survived wars, floods, and the flight of industry from their city before closing the doors in 1979 following James' death. By then, Ray was living in the apartment upstairs. "The entire place was installed by the Knight Company in 1923, complete with the solid marble fountain, art deco chandeliers and 10 counter stools in the shape of bottle caps. There were just so many beautiful things in the store and so many memories, none of us wanted to touch it, and we didn't dare rent it out," he says. Instead, they boarded it up and Ray bided his time until, when he retired from his career as an elementary-art teacher in the late '80s, he could pick up where his family had left off.
Now, joined by his siblings, Ray mans the shop with pride and maintains the homemade touches Klavon's customers have come to expect over the decades, like floats heaped with fresh whipped cream in flavors rotated according to the seasons (amaretto in fall, peach in summer, vanilla anytime), meticulously layered banana splits and real phosphates, prepared with syrup, soda, and an ancient cache of acid phosphate kept in a medicine dropper behind the counter.
Ray is frank about the very non-Norman Rockwell realities of running such a business ("I couldn't make a living at it") but chooses not to dwell on them. "A man came in a while back, gestured to one of the booths over on the wall, and told me 'During the war my girlfriend would sneak down here and have a soda with me because her parents wouldn't let me go to the house. Now we've been married 65 years.' " There's a smile in his voice. "I know kids and teenagers have seen this kind of place in movies, but it feels good to be able to still be here and still be the real thing. This is our history."
Jack Lerner agrees. By way of explaining the enduring appeal of Model Pharmacy, the soda fountain and pharmacy he's owned for more than 25 years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he simply says: "Old folks come in and they're happy to see something they thought they'd lost, and young people come in and just see something different, something they like." Lerner, a second-generation pharmacist and native of Birmingham, Alabama, has been in New Mexico since the early 1970s, when what began as a stop-over during a cross-country motorcycle trip turned permanent. New to town, he befriended the Model's original owner, an aging local pharmacist named Delbert Swindle, and in 1974, when Swindle expressed interest in selling the store, Lerner took it off his hands.
The low-slung adobe building, topped with a playful cursive pink and blue neon sign, is now a bona fide landmark. Yes, there have been some rough patches—like when a sprawling Walgreens first opened across the street—but, with his soft drawl, Lerner doesn't sound much troubled. "I had no clue how to be a soda jerk when I started, but it's been a good run. And as far as the big chains go, I figure we have much better egg creams and tuna sandwiches than they do," he says with a chuckle. If there's a secret to his success, he'd swear its reliability: "I'm a stickler for consistency," Lerner laughs. "The sandwiches we serve are made with my mother's Passover bris
ket recipe; the milkshakes and floats and sodas are measured precisely, and we always use fresh ingredients. I don't like surprises. It's got to be all the same, all the time!"
Some call it consistency, some call it tradition. At Crown Candy Kitchen, in a brick storefront on a corner of northern St. Louis, Missouri, that seems frozen in time, the Karandzieff family, immigrants from Macedonia, have been turning out the same handmade confections and premium fountain creations since before the Wilson administration. Even the menu remains largely original, leaning heavily on malts and ice-cream sodas in flavors—like pineapple and maple—that peaked in popularity between the wars. But customers keep coming back because they know what they like, and they also know that year after year, there are fewer places to find it.
Back to the Future
But can an industry that's so defined by the past have an innovative future? For Eric and Ryan Berley, the brothers behind Franklin Fountain—a meticulously rebuilt turn-of-the-century fountain whose opening in 2004 in Philadelphia was greeted excitedly by locals and food cognoscenti as the start of a new age for the American soda shop—that's a question that must be asked and answered everyday. The Berley's take authenticity seriously: behind the counter of Franklin Fountain, the jerks sport crisp, white period clothes and the menu is free of any flavors that wouldn't appeal to an Edwardian. (You heard right: no cookie dough.)
"We were pretty surprised when we started looking into old fountain recipes to see how dramatically tastes changed over time, how popular raw egg drinks used to be, and how little people seemed to care about chocolate," admits Eric. "People in the industry definitely thought we were crazy to be so faithful to the past."
Still, the brothers Berley like to think of their approach as an homage to the golden era of the soda fountain, not a performance piece. As such, some allowances have been made: on the menu, exotic offerings, like the Japanese Thirst Killer Phosphate—a vintage blended soda of orgeat and grape syrups, Angostura bitters, and phosphate—are balanced by more approachable options, like the Cherry Bomb, a scoop of homemade chocolate ice cream floated in a flute of cherry soda. "At the end of the day, we're just regular people, trying to run a business and make a good product right now," says Ryan.
Indeed, in the end, the survival of the American soda fountain might balance on an idea as simple as that: demand for a quality product. After all, over the last decade, bartenders, writers and tinkerers like O'Neil have witnessed another remarkable renaissance: the resurrection and celebration of that other great American art form, the cocktail. Drinkers who once settled for Seagram's and Sprite now brew their own bitters and barrel-age Negronis. Shouldn't it stand to reason that eventually they'll insist on better sodas, too?
Until then, Ray Klavon and Jack Lerner and their countless anonymous compatriots will carry the torch. Ambassadors of deliciousness, repositories of history, and touchstones of their community, we're lucky to still have them. Or, as Anna, Peter Freeman's mother sums up so well: "Some moms say, 'Look at my son the lawyer, my son the doctor,' but I'm so proud to say 'my son, the jerk.' "


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Charles Darwin wrote that,
It is not the strongest nor the most intelligent of the species that survive, it is the one most adaptable to change.Many oral traditions have stories about those most adaptable characters – tricksters. American Indian cultures have Coyote, a trickster character characterized by paradox, duality, cleverness, shape-shifting, duplicity, and a knack for survival. Islamic cultures have the wise fool, Mulla Nasreddin.
Tricksters teach essential truths and survival skills using an array of indirect methods.
Canadian artist Franke James gives reign to her inner trickster to produce delightful visual essays that advocate for action to address climate change. Here are some of her images.
Are humans up to the job? Can we adapt to the changing climate in time? Or are we stuck in a Businss as Usual framework?
Perhaps we can take heart from news that Toyota Prius was the the world's third best-selling car line in the first quarter of 2012. A sign of adaptation?
Take a minute to soak in the wonderfully creative visual essays of Franke James. And commune with your inner trickster to find ways that you can adapt.
Image Credit: All images are the work of Franke James.