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With your support, we will bring the Decentralized Dance Party to Seattle!
Please share this Kickstarter page far and wide to ensure the funding goes through and this Party happens! The DDP USA Page and Facebook Event Page have all the details.
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Update! Press Release is now LIVE!
The Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) is a portable, battery-powered Party System. It consists of hundreds of Party people, carrying boomboxes, and a DJ who wears a backpack, containing an FM transmitter. All the boomboxes are tuned into the DJ's master FM broadcast, resulting in a mobile, synchronized sound system!
This Portable Dance Party roams the night, generating complete awesomeness, street by street and block by block, onto buses and subways, into public fountains and beyond. Inevitably interfacing with the public, together we create an infectious epidemic of fun. A Roaming Party Adventure that lasts all night long!
We've now thrown 30 insane DDPs across Canada, and the participants often numbered in the thousands. There's generally been a small police presence keeping an eye on things, but no drinking tickets, fights or any other problems one would expect from such large, wild crowds. That is because the prime objective at a DDP is celebrating life, enjoying music and having fun- not getting drunk and being an idiot.
If a Party is good enough, alcohol isn't required. The atmosphere alone will cause people to lose their inhibitions and freak out and drive the energy to ridiculous heights and create an incredible experience for everyone. Creating a Party like that is very hard to do, but it is our goal every time. This vision is fully outlined in our Party Manifesto.
More than a Party, the DDP has proven to be a very interesting social experiment; clearly demonstrating that thousands of people of all ages, cultures and social groups can come together to celebrate life and get crazy in our public spaces without causing any trouble. That is why the DDP is also known as "The Party Revolution". It is a unique force that has the power to unify and inspire people in ways never before imagined.
The DDP was invented by Tom and Gary, two lifelong friends from Vancouver.
"It started with one boombox, and an idea, to transmit to hundreds more..."
In six short months, DDP attendance exploded from 20 people to 20,000 during Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics. This meteoric growth can be beheld in our "Evolution of the Decentralized Dance Party" video.
Inspired by this massive response,we resolved to take the DDP on the road, and did so during our 2010 "Party Safari", a self-funded adventure that saw us sharing the joy and madness of the DDP with thousands of thrilled Partygoers in seven cities across Canada from coast-to-coast.
And now, we're in the midst of our second Party Safari. This one is called the "Strictly Business Tour" and the plan is to wear only Business Attire while Partying across Canada and the USA.
goal is to further the frontiers of Partying, bring joy to millions of
people and ensure that Partying is respected, legitimized, and forever
enshrined as a spiritual movement of paramount importance.
We plan to take the DDP to Every Single Country On The Face Of The Earth and inspire as many people as possible to create their own DDPs and ensure that this becomes an enduring global movement that touches as many lives as possible.
Once that is complete, we will host a Simultaneous World Dance Party, transmitted to everyone in the world at the same time. It will be fun. You are invited.
From day one, we've been seeking a reliable financing model for the DDP and are very excited to have discovered Kickstarter. The crowdfunding model is something we believe in and want to promote. Being completely decentralized, it's a perfect fit for the DDP!
We just used Kickstarter to raise $1000 for the DDP On Bikes in Vancouver, the First Phase of Party Safari 2011 and $10,000 for Phase Two (Regina, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Victoria).
This 6-city USA tour features stops in Seattle, Portland, LA, Phoenix, Austin, and a FINAL MYSTERY STOP. We need to raise at least $1000 in each city in order to successfully fund the tour!
The funds will be used to rent our motorhome and purchase all the gas, batteries, boomboxes, and everything else required to share the joy and madness of the DDP with the the tens of thousands expected to attend. Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated- thanks for helping us on our quest and supporting the movement!
-Reliable Motorhome Rental (to transport our crew and 200 stereos)= ~$2,500
-Gas ~$2500
-5000 "D" batteries = ~$5000
TOTAL: $10,000 (for 5 Parties in 5 cities)
The total above doesn't include the $$$ spent acquiring the 200 boomboxes we're bringing along, the production costs of the donor rewards, food costs, or the 8% fee deducted by the Kickstarter / credit card payment system.
But as long as we can make it to $1,000 on the Kickstarters for each city, we'll somehow figure it all out, although it would be amazing to exceed the fundraising goals. With your support we will realize our crazy dreams and make Party History!
If we don't reach $1,000, PARTY SAFARI SEATTLE WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Spread the word- it's in your hands :)
We are seeking tour sponsors as well- contact HERE :)
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - No. 3 seed Springfield College defeated No. 2 MIT, 30-27, 21-30, 24-30, 30-26, 15-13, in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Volleyball Tournament semifinal on Friday night. In the loss, Carrie Buchanan tied the Institute record for digs in a match with 38.
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12 CFR 543.3 - "De novo" applications for a Federal savings association charter.
(a)Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term "de novo association" means any Federal savings association chartered by the Office, the business of which has not been conducted previously under any charter or conducted in the previous three years in substantially the same form as is proposed by the de novo association. A "de novo applicant" means any person or persons who apply to establish a de novo association.
(b)Minimum initial capitalization.
(1) A de novo association must have at least two million dollars in initial capital stock (stock institutions) or initial pledged savings or cash (mutual institutions), except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section. The minimum initial capitalization is the amount of proceeds net of all incurred and anticipated securities issuance expenses, organization expenses, pre-opening expenses, or any expenses paid (or funds advanced) by organizers that are to be reimbursed from the proceeds of a securities offering. In securities offerings for a de novo association, all securities of a particular class in the initial offering shall be sold at the same price.
(2) On a case by case basis, the Director may, for good cause, approve a de novo association that has less than two million dollars in initial capital or may require a de novo association to have more than two million dollars in initial capital.
(c)Business and investment plans of de novo associations.
(1) To assist the Office in making the determinations required under section 5(e) of the Home Owners' Loan Act, a de novo applicant shall submit a business plan describing, for the first three years of operation of the de novo association, the major areas of operation, including:
(i) Lending, leasing and investment activity, including plans for meeting Qualified Thrift Lender requirements;
(ii) Deposit, savings and borrowing activity;
(iii) Interest-rate risk management;
(iv) Internal controls and procedures;
(v) Plans for meeting the credit needs of the proposed de novo association's community (including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods);
(vi) Projected statements of condition;
(vii) Projected statements of operations; and
(viii) Any other information requested by the Office.
(2) The business plan shall:
(i) Provide for the continuation or succession of competent management subject to the approval of the Regional Director;
(ii) Provide that any material change in, or deviation from, the business plan must receive the prior approval of the Regional Director;
(iii) Demonstrate the de novo association's ability to maintain required minimum regulatory capital under 12 CFR parts 565 and 567 for the duration of the plan.
(d)Composition of the board of directors.
(1) A majority of a de novo association's board of directors must be representative of the state in which the savings association is located. The Office generally will consider a director to be representative of the state if the director resides, works or maintains a place of business in the state in which the savings association is located. If the association is located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) or Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) that incorporates portions of more than one state, a director will be considered representative of the association's state if he or she resides, works or maintains a place of business in the MSA, PMSA or CMSA in which the association is located.
(2) The de novo association's board of directors must be diversified and composed of individuals with varied business and professional experience. In addition, except in the case of a de novo association that is wholly-owned by a holding company, no more than one-third of a board of directors may be in closely related businesses. The background of each director must reflect a history of responsibility and personal integrity, and must show a level of competence and experience sufficient to demonstrate that such individual has the ability to direct the policies of the association in a safe and sound manner. Where a de novo association is owned by a holding company that does not have substantial independent economic substance, the foregoing standards will be applied to the board of directors of the holding company.
(e)Management Officials. Proposed stockholders of ten percent or more of the stock of a de novo association will be considered management officials of the association for the purpose of the Office's evaluation of the character and qualifications of the management of the association. In connection with the Office's consideration of an application for permission to organize and subsequent to issuance of a Federal savings association charter to the association by the Office, any individual or group of individuals acting in concert under 12 CFR part 574, who owns or proposes to acquire, directly or indirectly, ten percent or more of the stock of an association subject to this section, shall submit a Biographical and Financial Report, on forms prescribed by the Office, to the Regional Director.
(f)Supervisory transactions. This section does not apply to any application for a Federal savings association charter submitted in connection with a transfer or an acquisition of the business or accounts of a savings association if the Office determines that such transfer or acquisition is instituted for supervisory purposes, or in connection with applications for Federal charters for interim de novo associations chartered for the purpose of facilitating mergers, holding company reorganizations, or similar transactions.


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With old crop cotton futures topping 80 cents and new crop futures hanging around the mid-70 cent range, cotton producers everywhere are asking the same question, "Should I hold out for bigger bucks?"
Market analysts are quick to cite an old marketing adage that seems apropos for the situation — if you like the price enough to increase your plantings, then you should like the price enough to lock it in.
They advise farmers to at least lock in a portion of their crop at current prices. One reason is simple and time-proven — good prices usually don't last very long.
"There is a strong seasonal tendency for prices to work lower from the middle of March until the middle of May," said Mike Stevens with Swiss Financial Services. "While we've been above 80 cents a number of times over the last decade, we usually don't stay there for very long. I don't look for a repeat of the February (2010) bull run because of that historical tendency to trade lower."
Another reason is that there is a lot of pressure being applied at the high end of the price range for cotton. Noted Stevens, "I do think the market could rally up to 83 cents, but a lot of the buying now is taking place at 76 cents."
History also suggests that now is a good time for producers to start putting in price floors. Texas A&M University Extension professor emeritus Carl Anderson points out that the 10-year average high for the December contract is about 74 cents. "We are now above or at 74 cents. It's time to watch this market and figure out how you want to price your cotton crop. We're not sure if we're going to get this market through the 79-80 cent barrier."
The signals from the market are very clear to economist and market analyst O.A. Cleveland. "The current market does need to back off to get some export business done. But it does look like we're going to have a two to three year market that we're going to be very pleased with. My position hasn't changed from last month. Plant cotton, plant cotton, plant cotton. But you need to become fairly aggressive on your pricing at 75 cents and above."
While King Cotton may be in for a wild ride this season, remember that the price chart for cotton is more likely to resemble a roller coaster than a launching ramp. The experts say cotton futures could trade in a range from 65 cents to 85 cents.
And the experts say don't let runaway optimism get in the way of good sense. As to reports that cotton could reach that magic number that is music to the bull's ear, Cleveland was firm in his response. "Dollar cotton, it's not going to happen. Period."
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- 3 Tbsp of balsamic vinegar
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- 1 ¼ cup large curd cottage cheese
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What an unbelievable season so far. I honestly think my computer was even so shocked at how well the season is going, it put its self on the DL. Back up and running now though…good times.
29-8 at home. 3 1/2 games up in the Central. A bunch of players up for potentially starting in the All-Star game. Kendall who? Fukudome's #1 taking on a whole new meaning with the second major injury to Soriano this season. This season just keeps getting more and more interesting with Zambrano now experiencing some pain and will miss his next start. It's one thing to lose Soriano for 6+ weeks, but losing him and Zambrano?? I don't know if we can handle that honestly. Hopefully Zambrano doesn't miss too much time. While Dempster is having a great year and the rest of the rotation is holding it's own, to lose our ace and our leadoff hitter could be too much. The last thing we need to see is the Cubs in a great place in mid-June and then struggle through the Summer because of injury. As soon as I saw Soriano get hit by that pitch, my first thought was 'did that hit him in the face?' Then I couldn't believe it ended up being 6 weeks because it broke his hand. I'm glad he didn't suffer a serious head injury, but this broken hand…I know I'm harping on the injuries and may be making too much of it, but come on…this isn't good.
I love Fukudome and think he'll be great in the leadoff spot but Soriano was finally coming around to having a great season performing like he should up top. Hitting home runs, getting on base and adding that much needed speed to the lineup that Piniella has mentioned a few times. In the Spring I thought it was a shame some of the guys I felt were deserving of sticking with the club had to be sent down as there only so many outfield positions to fill but getting them up here like this isn't what I had in mind. Edmonds, Johnson, Fukudome and Derosa when necessary. Edmonds has a foot problem and Johnson is having back spasms. Maybe being still interested in Coco Crisp isn't such a bad idea. Who would we give up for him? Middle-tier pitching, I guess.
Big weekend this weekend taking on the White Sox. Both teams lead their respective divisions, first time for interleague play. The city is going to be locked in all weekend as many experts are saying it could be a preview to the '08 Series. That would be crazy. What's even crazier though…they were saying the same thing about our series with the Rays. THE RAYS! (How do you give up seven runs in one inning to the RAYS?!? I don't care how good they are…c'mon Marmol! It's Tampa Bay!!! That certainly couldn't have been the homecoming Lou was looking for…swept?? Home Sweep Home for Lou unfortunately).
Lilly's looking strong as of late and he'll kick off the weekend today against a guy who has never faced the Cubs before. Let's hope Danks' day is as bad as Zambrano's is good as his shoulder is being looked at today. We definitely can't lose Big Z for any extended period of time if we're going to do this this year. Just can't. That is of course unless…how's Fukudome's fastball?
Well, regardless, I suppose when something as serious as your ace's shoulder could possibly be coming up lame on you, you can always focus on something far less serious yet, nearly as interesting: one of the most interesting articles about the Cubs' uni's I've ever read. Enjoy the game, enjoy the article. Beat the Sox…Go Cubs Go!


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Professionals the world-over describe themselves as gregarious, energetic, and customer service savvy.
At Aquent, we're looking for Account Directors with those qualities and then some.
Specifically, we are in need of client service gurus who can keep multiple plates spinning while making it look effortless (we mean metaphorical plates, but if you can spin actual plates, that we would like to see)!
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Not only is Aquent a company that provides marketing and design staffing solutions to much of the Fortune 500, it's a place where work sometimes feels like play, and where you'll meet tons of motivated and forward-thinking people.
We're consistently rated best in the industry because of our results-oriented service, and we want to keep the accolades coming!
As Aquent continues to expand, we're seeking individuals to join our team of Account Directors who have a knack for seeking out new clients as well as fostering relationships with the existing ones.
This is a position where innovative ideas are valued, efforts applauded, and achievements recognized.
We prioritize a work-life balance, and support one another so that when it's time to take it easy we know we can do just that.
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Bonjour, Kim Kardashian!
The new mom hit Paris Fashion Week with beau Kanye West to take in the haute runway shows in the French capital, reportedly leaving their baby girl back home in Los Angeles.
"Kim was sad to say goodbye," a source told Us Weekly. "This is the first time she's been away from the baby."
The reality TV starlet, 32, was all pre-baby glam in Par-eeh as she showed off her slimmed-down figure and new blond 'do in a few Instagram pics. That's besides the hotly...


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For Pete Sessions, election night ended with yet another resounding send-off to Washington.
He won a ninth term, with 58 percent of the vote. But an analysis by The Dallas Morning News raises questions about how long the swath of Dallas and Collin counties that makes up Sessions' 32nd Congressional District will remain safely Republican.
And more broadly, the 32nd is a microcosm of the challenges Republicans face maintaining control in congressional and legislative districts as the Hispanic population, which favors Democrats, continues to grow.
The district's Hispanic-origin population will grow from 25.6 percent to 29.7 percent by 2016 and will only continue in years to come, according to population projections from Esri, a leading provider of demographic software and data. The percentage of registered voters in the district with Spanish surnames grew from 7.3 percent of eligible voters in 2002 to 8.8 percent in 2010.
Experts said that while changes are coming, Sessions should be safe for the next few elections.
"The big takeaway, looking at the last couple of elections in Texas, is that things are changing demographically — and that certainly has political implications," SMU political scientist Matthew Wilson said. "But the partisan levels of those implications aren't rising as quickly as the Democrats had hoped for.
"Change is slow, and looking at 2014 or 2016 as a tipping point might be getting ahead of the game a little bit."
Sessions, a GOP leader in Congress, has enjoyed strong support in the district, and that will help him fend off challengers.
Since 2002, he has averaged more than 60 percent of the vote, winning by an average of more than 21 points. His closest race in that span came in 2004, when he defeated longtime U.S. Rep. Martin Frost by 10 percentage points. Their heated contest was the most expensive U.S. House campaign of that year.
Incumbent advantage
North Texas' congressional districts are drawn to ensure that one party wins them, and incumbents routinely cruise to re-election.
The 2012 elections marked the first since districts were redrawn to create four more seats that the state gained after the 2010 U.S. census, thanks to its booming population growth.
The boundary lines for Sessions' 32nd District changed substantially. Dropped from the district were parts of Oak Cliff, Irving and northwest Dallas, and added in their place were parts of Garland and Rowlett, and portions of Collin County.
But the level of Republican support in the district has waned in the last decade. In 2002, voters in what is now the 32nd District gave Republican candidates 69 percent of their votes. By 2012, that had dropped to 58.3 percent for Sessions.
Matt Angle, founder of the Democratic Lone Star Project and Frost's former chief of staff, said it's not certain that the existing boundaries will be in place for the 2014 elections. He said the interim, court-ordered maps that were used for this year's election either must be redrawn by the Texas Legislature or by the courts.
Angle said chances are favorable that Sessions still would prevail in a redrawn district.
"This district is drawn to absorb a large number of Hispanic residents but not so many that they are likely to threaten the election of a Republican," Angle said. "Given time, of course, the Hispanic population will continue to grow and Democratic performance will increase. It is certainly possible that by the end of the decade [if the district remains unchanged] that Sessions might be threatened, but I doubt it."
Torrie Miller, Sessions' spokeswoman, said demographics alone can't be considered the sole arbiter.
"Congressman Sessions' election record proves that voter's decisions are determined more by a candidate's strength of ideas and ability to communicate those ideas, and less by demographics," Miller said. "Sessions' commitment to rebuilding the American dream has historically drawn support from Hispanic voters in his district."
Boundary issues
More than 38 percent of Dallas County residents are Hispanic, and the county accounted for 9.6 percent of Texas' Hispanic population in the 2010 census.
But thanks to partisan motives for drawing congressional districts, those numbers don't guarantee Hispanic representation. Of the six legislators whose districts include parts of Dallas County, four are white and two are black.
If Hispanics want to make inroads at this level in the coming years, a prime opportunity could come in the 32nd District.
What remains to be seen, however, is if voting-age Hispanics in the district are mobilized to vote. Hispanics in Texas tend to vote at lower rates than other population groups.
And there's no guarantee Hispanic voters will stay as strongly with Democrats as they have in recent elections. Republicans recognize they need to appeal to the demographic, and Texas Republicans tend to do better drawing Hispanic voters than their counterparts nationwide.
Republicans are also aiming to compete by recruiting Hispanic candidates. SMU's Wilson pointed to political newcomer Jason Villalba, a resident of the 32nd District who was elected to the Texas House from a North Dallas-based district this year, though any leap to Congress could take years.
"It would be very unlikely and really unwise" for Villalba to directly challenge Sessions, Wilson said. "He would have to defeat Sessions in a Republican primary. Very few Latino voters come out for primary elections, so Villalba's being Hispanic would be negated in that arena."
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Godsmack Frontman Sully Erna Announces 2012 Solo Tour Dates
Shortly before the release of his 'Avalon Live' box set, Godsmack frontman Sully Erna will take his solo act on the road for a series of east coast shows starting this March.
This is a good year to be a Godsmack fan. The band has a live album currently in the mixing phase, a special retail release planned, a covers EP coming soon, and a co-headlining spring tour with Staind featuring Halestorm. Before the 'Mass Chaos' tour gets under way, frontman Sully Erna will embark on a brief tour of the East Coast beginning March 30 in Sayreville, N.J.
Details of Erna's upcoming tour were released today and, although only four dates have been announced, more will be unveiled in the coming weeks. There will likely only be a few more shows added to Erna's itinerary, as Godsmack's 'Mass Chaos' tour kicks off on April 13.
Sully Erna recently announced plans to release a concert DVD — filmed during his solo tour — as part of the 'Avalon Live' box set, which, among other things, includes three DVDs, a poster, guitar pick, t-shirt, and a Sully engraved metal box. The DVD was filmed at his Dec. 16 show in Boston, where performed songs from his 2010 debut solo album 'Avalon.' The limited edition box set has a tentative late April release date.
Sully Erna Solo Tour Dates:
03/30 – Sayreville, NJ – The Starland Ballroom
04/01 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
04/06 – North Tonawanda, NY – Riviera Theater
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APPLE VALLEY — An Apple Valley probationer and reported white supremacist was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly robbing a High Desert liquor store, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.
Michael Wade Rhea, 23, was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery at an apartment in the 20300 block of Zuni Road Wednesday, according to booking logs. According to authorities, Rhea is a member of the High Desert Peckerwoods white supremacist gang.
Shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday, deputies received a 911 call from the High Desert Liquor Store on Bear Valley Road just east of Pawnee Road reporting an armed robbery, according to a sheriff's news release. Deputies arrived less than a minute after the call was placed, but because the caller had hesitated in making the emergency call by only a few minutes, the robber had already fled the scene, officials said.
Apple Valley Detective Brian Roper was able to identify the alleged robber as Rhea and soon learned the 23-year-old had been placed on community supervision through California's Prison Realignment Plan or AB 109, officials said.
Through AB 109, those convicted of a non-violent, non-sexual, non-serious crime may be eligible for community supervision through their local probation office instead of being supervised by state parole agents. In accordance with the law, Rhea was placed on community supervision due to a grand theft conviction in 2010 which is considered a lower-level crime, authorities stated.
Rhea was found and arrested at the Zuni Road apartment and is currently awaiting trial at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Court records show since Rhea was placed on community supervision, probation officers have sent him back to jail for violating the terms of his community supervision probation not including this latest alleged violation due to Wednesday's arrest.
Rhea's younger brother, Tommy Lee Rhea, 22, is a parolee-at-large who is currently being sought by Hesperia detectives for his alleged involvement in the violent beating of a Hesperia couple as they slept in their bed late last year, according to sheriff's reports.
Tommy Lee Rhea is believed to be one of five men who entered the couple's home in November and reportedly beat the couple with baseball bats.
Both Rhea brothers are members of the same white supremacist gang, sheriff's officials confirmed Wednesday.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Tommy Lee Rhea is asked to contact the Hesperia station at 760-947-1500.


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General Motors (NYSE:GM) skipped the Super Bowl ad blitz this season, but one of its cars was close to making an appearance during the big game's half-time show.
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The auto maker confirmed to The Detroit News Wednesday that it was working with half-time show organizers on a possible role for the 2014 Corvette Stingray.
Yahoo Autos first reported about the plans to include the new Corvette, unveiled at last month's North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The site quoted style blogger Lauren Craig, who won a trip to participate in the event. Craig said singer Beyonce was to exit a Stingray during her performance.
But the plans were scrapped after Beyonce eliminated the car's role, according to Yahoo Autos.
"We worked with all the parties involved on a variety of possibilities, including one scenario that would have included the new Corvette Stingray as part of the show," Pat Morrissey, GM's director of product and brand communications, told the Detroit News in a statement. "In the end, it did not work out, but we were honored to be asked to be involved and pleased the Corvette was the vehicle of choice."
The original plans to put a Corvette Stingray front and center during half-time would have given GM some Super Bowl publicity it lacked this year. GM announced last May that it did not plan to advertise during Sunday's Super Bowl, citing the increased cost for ad time. CBS (NYSE:CBS), which aired the NFL championship, received about $3.8 million for a 30-second spot.
Meanwhile, competitors such as Chrysler made a big play for ad time. Chrysler had two notable commercials, one for its Jeep brand and the other for Dodge Ram trucks.
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HTC Desire 200
This is a phenomenal device. The screen is lovely, the design is slick and processor makes everything happen in a flash. The HTC Desire 200 is one of the compact and simple smart phones for users who want to discover the platform of Android without having to make a major pay out on mobile.
This device has a 3.5 inch touch screen to manage the various menus simply platform Google. In addition, the other highlight of this phone is found in its rear camera, which features a medium resolution 5 megapixels and a function to automatically detect smiles when taking the pictures. In short, a simple mobile to enjoy the functions of a smart phone, browse through the net or chat with friends via Whatsapp. The HTC Desire 200 comes with our highest quality in-ear headset and Beats Audio for immersive music. HTC keyboard is fast and accurate and has adaptive learning capability. Media player is decent.
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The camera is probably the best that one can ever have from HTC series of phones. Overall experience is fast and shrewd. The HTC Desire is a feature-rammed phone with the hardware to support it. It is got a huge screen with the 1GHz processor underneath, and the Sense UI is a system that keeps getting better with every iteration. HTC Desire it just works as you want it to as a phone and an internet tablet pc at the same time. An awesome customization option on the home screen makes it even more personal. It has smooth edges that are comfortable for long phone calls. It has 3.7 inch AMOLED screen is bright and vivid. Internet Browsing is most satisfying than on any other phones.
Battery life
Well its battery life is depending on how you plan to use this phone, the battery will either be garbage, or it will last for few hours or for a day with active use. HTC Sense widget auto-refresh time can drain battery easily.
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Let me be honest there is not a lot wrong with this phone. Just found out that the Bluetooth music playback is a little patchy and the battery will drop a little easily if you leave everything updating in the background. It has limited application storage. The screen is less visible under the direct sunlight. It has no HD video recording but it's not really a big deal.


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Telegraph Avenue
A Novel
Michael Chabon
Harper: 480 pp, $27.99
"Telegraph Avenue" is so exuberant, it's as if Michael Chabon has pulled joy from the air and squeezed it into the shape of words. A vibrant affection for a place, time and culture — 1970s Oakland/Berkeley, blaxploitation films and funky jazz — feeds that energy, but there's more. His sentences spring, bounce, set off sparklers, even when dwelling on mundane details: A palm tree "hikes its green slattern skirts"; a street cut off by a freeway "had a dazed feel, a man who had taken a blow to the head staggering hatless down from Telegraph, face-planting at the overpass."
Telegraph Avenue, the dividing line between hippie-progressive Berkeley and historically black Oakland, home of the Black Panthers, is where Brokeland Records is located.
The novel turns around the store's owners — "moonfaced, mountainous, moderately stoned" Archy Stallings, who is black, and high-strung musician Nat Jaffe, who is white — and their families. Much to Archy's displeasure, his father, Luther Stallings, has just resurfaced; he was briefly a blaxploitation star before drugs got the better of him.
The store, which specializes in jazz from John Coltrane to Charles Kynard and those less well known, is a neighborhood place where an aging keyboard player, an undertaker-slash-city councilman and a dorky white lawyer regularly stop to shoot the breeze. But it's in trouble. Since the story is set in 2004, it's not online downloads that threaten Brokeland's future but the coming of a new entertainment complex developed by Gordon Goode, an ex-NFL star turned music mogul businessman (think Magic Johnson plus Dr. Dre).
Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," a novel that borrowed from the real history of early comics. "Telegraph Avenue" is grounded in a very different but equally specific artistic moment — the music and films of black America in the 1970s — which Chabon approaches with all-embracing fandom.
Does it matter that Chabon is a white baby boomer writing about a predominantly black culture? His white lawyer speaks in awful, trying-too-hard ghetto clichés, something Chabon avoids when writing about black families, music and movies. As a white book reviewer I don't feel qualified to say he gets it documentarily right, but as far as the closed universe of "Telegraph Avenue" is concerned, he's on solid ground.
Like Archy and Nat, wives Gwen and Aviva work together as a top Bay Area midwife team. Gwen comes from a long line of high-achieving African American women, and Aviva is "the Alice Waters of midwives" (praise not to be taken lightly in Berkeley). Early in the novel, a home birth goes off the rails and Gwen lashes out at the hospital establishment that fails to give them enough respect. Her outburst puts their practice in jeopardy.
Chabon comes at the plot obliquely, jumping into a moment of action before explaining who or how or why. The book opens with two teenage boys flying down the street, one on a bicycle, black, and the other, white, behind him on a skateboard. It's beautiful, poetic and serves as a prelude while also foreshadowing the partnership between Archy and Nat. Later we realize those weren't just any boys, they were part of the story all along.
The boy on the skateboard, Julius, is Nat and Aviva's artistic, eclectic son; he goes by Julie. He's enamored with Titus Joyner, the boy on the bike, who makes a late appearance. Titus is handsome, close-mouthed and sometimes aggressive, and turns out to be Archy's long-neglected son.
The novel often pairs hard and soft: Gwen is fiery, Archy is a sweetheart; Aviva is strong, Nat is neurotic. The relationships are nuanced, with trade-offs, cruelties and sudden acts of forgiveness. It is full of real emotion, fractured tempers, canyons of regret and big-hearted men breaking into tears.
All the way along, Chabon plays with words. His characters' surnames are playfully packed with information: Archy Stallings is a 36-year-old who can't grow up. Walter Bankwell has made some money. Gibson Goode is ironically named — he's so bad he soars a wildly expensive custom black zeppelin over Oakland like Darth Vader.
There are allusions to Thomas Pynchon, the fictional African nation in the Marvel Comics universe called Wakanda, the music of dozens of jazz artists, B-movies; the piles of cultural references include an appearance by Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama. These flourishes emphasize that the novel, while realistic, is a creative work existing in conversation with — sampling, even — other works of art.
Describing the way a soundtrack runs constantly in the background for Nat, Chabon points out the homonym: "Gnat. In his ear, born with it. Hearing the current of his own blood, neural crackle, the omnipresent pulse of the worldwide electro-industrial power and information grid, the unheard music. His head a dish to pull down cosmic background radiation, sines and signals, diminished sevenths coming through the wires of time and space to vibrate secret membranes. Hearing something." The play on words — Nat/gnat — turns into a description of creativity, for musicians directly and for writers too.
As there are parallels between making music and writing, there are clear parallels between the predicament faced by Brokeland Records and the challenges that currently confront independent bookstores. How does a store that everyone says is outdated survive? How do the choices we make affect the communities in which we live? And how can creative people continue to do and celebrate the work they love?
Fans have been waiting five years since Chabon's bestselling novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," an alternative-history detective story set in a Jewish community that settled in Alaska after WWII. That book's world was so distant from our own that it won major science fiction prizes, the Hugo and the Nebula. "Telegraph Avenue" is fantastic but in a different way: It returns to the realism of his earliest novels, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys," with dizzying language, a delight in process and paragraph after paragraph of word-drunk riffs.


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Memories from the Missing Room
Listening to The Missing Room, the latest album from the Franco-American band Moriarty, director Marc Lainé decided to transform it into a full-length play. From hypnotic ballads ('Isabella') to sung stories ('I Will Do'), Lainé was inspired to create a show that straddles music, theatre and art. Three actors play out frequently dramatic and often macabre crime scenes, eerily narrated by the voice of Rosemary Stanley. The fluid setting expertly, superbly mixes projections of drawings by Philippe Dupuy with music and drama. The magic of the theatre is contained in this dialogue between artistic forms as they ebb and flow. Sumptuous.
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4. SAID Principle
Your muscles and their respective subcellular components will adapt in highly specific ways to the demands (adaptive stress) you impose upon them in your training. This applies as well to various bodily systems and tissues other than your muscles. This is the SAID Principle, the acronym for "Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands." If your training objectives include becoming more explosive, then you have to train explosively. If you desire greater limit strength (primarily from an increase in the cross section of myofibrils), you must use heavier weights than if you were training, for example, local muscular endurance (capillarization and mitochondrial adaptations). If your objectives include deriving cardiovascular benefits, then you must tax the heart muscle as well as the oxygen-using abilities of the working muscles.
In fact, the SAID principle is so uncompromising in its highly researched tenet of training "specifically" that problems frequently arise if one possesses more than one training objective at a time. The specific training required for one will frequently detract from the expected gains in the other. For example, training for aerobic strength endurance (aerobic power) will severely limit the level of limit strength one can attain. Similarly, stressing one's ATP/CP energy system calls for different training methods than does training one's glycolytic (lactic acid) or aerobic (oxidative) energy systems.
Your specific adaptive responses to exercise can change dramatically over time. This is particularly true as you age. But it is also true if you have successfully improved your body's recovery abilities. Clearly, this can be accomplished through the use of (illegal and often dangerous) drugs or through the use of certain nutritional supplements. Simply, with improved recovery ability, your body has become a different body, so the adaptation mechanisms have changed.


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Virginia and Tom Hessler of McGuirk Street in East Hampton were alarmed when they saw a Long Island Power Authority stake on their front lawn. Rumor had it, so said their neighbors, that a pole was to be installed there.
So, when they heard that LIPA was planning to build a new and improved electrical system in town and was holding a meeting to discuss it, the couple showed up last Thursday at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street. The power authority had about a dozen personnel and several tripods at the meeting, with maps indicating the proposed location of poles, fuses, and the like.
Officials explained that the authority plans not only to expand much of its distribution system but also to upgrade it. Power usage on the South Fork, according to its charts, is the highest on Long Island, having increased more than three times as much in every year since 2004 as the rest of the island.
The $16 million project would construct a new transmission grid, to go east for 6.2 miles from the East Hampton substation behind Cove Hollow Road, up Buell Lane Extension to Toilsome Lane, to King Street, along McGuirk Street, Cooper Lane, Cedar Street, Collins Avenue, and Accabonac Highway onto Town Lane, where roughly two-thirds of the line will be hung, ending at the Amagansett substation on Old Stone Highway, near the intersection of Route 27 and the railroad tracks.
Some 250 utility poles will be replaced in the process, affecting about 4,000 customers of the utility. The new ones will withstand winds of up to 130 miles an hour, said LIPA officials.
The "targeted path" was mapped out to "be the least obtrusive and avoid the commercial area as much as we could," said Nicholas Lizanich, a LIPA vice president. Thinking ahead to possible "catastrophic storms in the future," he said, the utility "wants to be in the position to handle it." Mr. Lizanich called the existing poles "flimsy," saying that "I can't guarantee they aren't going to fall during hurricanes." The new ones will be both taller and thicker — 40, 50, or 55 feet high depending on location.
There was some discussion of burying the lines, but officials said the cost — more than twice the cost of replacing the poles — would be prohibitive.
Ms. Hessler and other residents present appeared more than satisfied at the end of the forum, which was over in about an hour thanks to a light turnout. "I think it's a great thing for the majority of people," she said.
East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. was on hand with Richard Lawler and Albert Edwards of the village board to get feedback. "We've had a lot of back-and-forth with the citizens," said the mayor. "This was a vehicle of transparency to let the residents affected know" LIPA's plans.
The power authority, which is still in the process of getting approvals, hopes to begin construction by early January or possibly December, and to finish by June in time for the summer influx.


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Creating Article Categories in PHP-Fusion
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Articles are one of the content areas in PHP Fusion, but they will require that Article Categories be created before you can actually compose any article content. The following article shows how to quickly and easily add an article category using the PHP-Fusion back end interface.
Adding Article Categories in PHP-Fusioni
- Login to the PHP-Fusion Admin Panel.
- Click on the Admin Panel Link.
- By default, you will be in the CONTENT ADMIN section. In the left hand side, look for the ARTICLE CATEGORIES icon and click on it.
- You will then see the main area for adding ARTICLE CATEGORIES. Click on the CATEGORY NAME field at the top and type in a name for the category you are creating.
- The next field is CATEGORY DESCRIPTION. Click on this field and type in a short description of the category.
- You can then select how you wish to sort the articles on the next line. This section is typically only used when you have a number of article categories already created and you wish to sort them. You can skip this section if you're simply creating a new article category.
- The last option is for CATEGORY ACCESS. Access to different areas of PHP-Fusion website are typically divided into four groups: public, members, administrators and super administrators. Click on the drop-down arrow and select the appropriate access for this article category.
- Click on the SAVE CATEGORY button in order to save your category.
This completes the tutorial for adding an Article Category. When you have created a category, you can see that immediately below the SAVE CATEGORY button you will see the list of added categories:
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Twenty-five years ago, Wing Lam's hair was shorter and the fish taco restaurant he co-founded was brand new.
These days, however, Wahoo's Fish Taco is a household brand, with 64 stores in seven states, that continues to spread its fins.
All that started in 1988 in Costa Mesa's Westside. The founders of the first Wahoo's restaurant at 1862 Placentia Ave. had an idea: Combine Mexican, Brazilian and Asian cuisine, give it all a North Shore vibe, and get a hungry surf community involved.
And while the challenges today are maintaining consistency within the restaurant empire, 25 years ago one challenge was on a smaller scale: finding a better way to slice and dice the fish and vegetables.
"I can't even tell you how many days there were slicing and dicing fish and tomatoes," Lam said. "Back in the day, we didn't have all the commercial equipment that would be able to cut faster.... If you walked in here 25 years ago, I'd be wheeling around a 250-pound tuna that I'd be cutting by hand."
But brothers Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee, as well as their business partner Steve Karfaridis, knew soon enough the idea would work. A year and a half after opening in the Westside, a second Wahoo's opened in Laguna Beach, followed by a third on Bristol Street in Costa Mesa.
The rest, as they say, is history.
It's a saga the Santa Ana-based chain is celebrating throughout 2013. During a press event Wednesday at the Placentia location, company officials unveiled some of Wahoo's monthly 25th anniversary plans.
On Jan. 25 the company will sell tacos for 25 cents. In February, Wahoo's will distribute scratch cards for free food and other prizes. In March, customers can submit their ideas to name a new chicken burrito. The winner will receive Wahoo's food for a year.
"Our overall theme this year is basically new and exciting things are happening all the time at Wahoo's," said Tom Orbe, Wahoo's chief operating officer of marketing. "Whether it's food, a contest, or connection with the customers especially, we got something going every month. It's going to build and build and build."
Orbe said the company has maintained a loyal customer base, as well many longtime employees.
Mayor Jim Righeimer presented all four Wahoo's founders with a proclamation declaring Jan. 9, 2013, as Wahoo's Fish Taco Day in Costa Mesa. He said the eclectic nature of the city and its surfing culture helped bring everything together for Wahoo's.
"It wouldn't have happened in Irvine," he said. "It happens over here."
Through the decades of change and adding more products, Orbe said many Wahoo's aspects stay the same: They still serve their food with metal flatware and plates to avoid the waste from disposable paper and plastic; they still serve the same fish tacos as in 1988; and even the Placentia building hasn't changed much since the early days.
"What I thought was only going to be one little restaurant became this little cult movement that eventually grew into 60-some stores," Lam said.
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In 2011, comet Lovejoy traveled through the sun's corona and lived to tell the tale. But its tail was the most telling. Reporting in the journal Science, Cooper Downs, an astrophysicist at Predictive Science Inc., says that the wiggly path of the comet's tail helps explain the sun's magnetic field.


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PIERRE - The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service are hosting three pine beetle spraying workshops in the Black Hills over the next few weeks.
The workshops will focus on the benefits and methods of treating trees to protect them from mountain pine beetles. Attendees will learn about spraying techniques and chemicals used.
The first workshop is Friday at Hudson Hall in Spearfish from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The second workshop is Saturday at the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks Department's Outdoor Campus West in Rapid City from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The Crazy Horse Memorial near Custer will be the site of the third workshop on March 9 from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Turning Art for TV into Art for Print
Not wanting to miss out on an emerging market, the Eagle Pencil Company jumped on the bandwagon by extolling the virtues of its coloured pencils for creating presentation - quality storyboard drawings.
Here's an interesting article from the October 1953 issue of Art Director & Studio News.
Not only does it reference the growing significance of the storyboard as a visual aid in the process of making TV commercials...
... it highlights a trend in print advertising design that began to appear in the early '50s: the story board as print ad.
Its a trend I noticed over the years as I looked through thousands of pages of mid-century ads and articles in my old magazine collection. But I never really put two and two together until this latest series of posts.
In the introduction to the Television section of the 1952 NY Art Director's Annual, William Strosahl writes, "The quality of commercials is improving constantly and Art Directors are a big factor in raising the standards of TV advertising. It is big business and may well represent 65% of total billings in the next two years."
That's a massive chunk of revenue for a medium so new that it was, in 1952, only being included as a category in the NYAD Annual for the third time. It made me think, if agencies and their clients were beginning to devote the majority of their time, money and creative effort to producing television commercials, wouldn't they want to reinforce their broadcast message in print? The AD&SN article seems to confirm this strategy...
So it shouldn't be surprising to see print ads that look like a comic strip version of a TV commercial -- right down to the curved corners of the classic cathode ray television tube. Though the general public was undoubtably unfamiliar with the term, they were - half a century ago - seeing their first television storyboards.
Was new artwork created for these print ads...
... or did agencies simply reuse the illustrations commissioned for the TV commercial? I'm really not sure.
But the AD&SN article suggests at least some reuse. In the commercial cited in the article the author mentions that "the little superimposed figure of the baker, which was created for the TV commercials, and actually bakes bread in them, is also used in printed advertising and there again is an advantageous tie-up as well as a double use of art."
I don't want to suggest that the TV-storyboard-as-print-ad became a huge component of all print advertising - far from it - but its existence (and persistence) simply once again underscores how the game had changed. For the ad business... for the advertiser... and very definitely for the illustrator.
A final quote from the article to conclude the thought ( and this latest series of posts):
* My Art for Tv Flickr set.
* Also, Bruce Hettema has a new post up about illustrator Frank Hoffman on his P&H Creative blog
* And if you've yet to visit (and perhaps participate in) Toby Neighbors' fabulous "collaborative illustration" blog, illostribute.com, this might be a great time to jump in: Toby's latest 'tribute' is to pulp artist Norm Saunders - what fun!
* Finally, be sure to drop by the NCS blog for the latest NCS Spotlight on... Eric Gurney!
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Geez, I remember trying to draw in those little pads. Now with Flash and other digital software the boards are turned into animatics with color, motion and effects. Most are so tight they are broadcast quality.ReplyDelete
- Toby Thane Neighbors1:13 PM
Hey Leif, Thanks for the note on illostribute! GreatReplyDelete
work too–Toby
Gasp! The figure drawings on the ad for Contour Sheets are just breathtaking. Thanks for sharing all this great artwork.ReplyDelete
I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know much about the history of illustration. Very cool!! Thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
Those drawings are by an illustrator named Jane
Miller. You're not alone in admiring them... they were selected for inclusion in the 1952 New york Art Directors Show and annual. :^)
My pleasure, Kristen. If you want to learn more just dig through the archives. There's a ton of art and information here about the 'golden age' of our industry.ReplyDelete
I never liked the pads. (still there in the 80s!) We usually used one of the cut out 5x8 frames, traced it off on tracing paper,then sketched with maybe 1 clean-up drawing, then B&W copier, then markers for color. Before alcohol markers (about '85, as I recall) you had to ink your drawings on marker paper and then color with the old xylene (toxic) markers to keep the linework from bleeding. Fun fun.ReplyDelete
- Wes11:11 PM
Leif, One of the pleasures of your website -- apart from the great art -- is your particular appreciation of the "prosaic" art that we all have seen, experienced, enjoyed and loved even as we considered it in service to commerce. Many people still consider illustration as a lesser form of real art, and do not take it as seriously as the art that hangs unseen in mostly empty museums. Your particular appreciation of commercial art is unique and extremely intelligent. Even those of us that are not illustrators can learn much from your musings. This last series was very insightful. I was reminded of the experience of reading Simon Schama's works while reading these last few posts. Keep up the good work and keep bringing us the remarkable art you find. Very inspirational. thanksReplyDelete
Wow, many thanks, Wes - I don't feel worthy of such fine compliments... but I'll certainly continue to do my best to present mid-century art and stories that everyone will hopefully find both interesting and inspiring. :^)ReplyDelete
Let alone the illustrations and drawings, i just can't get enough of the LAYOUT of the spots -there is something about the arrangement of space that NAILS the time period. Everyone raves about the work of the Eames and other big deal designers form the sixties, but it is present, IN SPADES, in even these "prosaic" ( great term!) examples..ReplyDelete
We tried to get some of that into Incredibles, but I don't think we nailed it.
Thank you for posting such a useful, impressive and a wicked article./Wow.. looking good!ReplyDelete
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I was like "Hold on... I haven't had a good victory in a serious game as Blitz doctrine since a while!" as I actually have to admit all my recent victories were either achieved by US Airborne or CW RAF doctrines.
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I have always wanted to have a physical space where I could go and have interesting discussions with people and learn from amazing projects touching a wide range of disciplines, and finally I have it at 091labs.
Tomorrow something really cool is going to happen at the hackerspace: it's the day when a truly diverse, eclectic mix of people will come together to learn from each other, and everything kicks off at 1 pm.
Emma Creighton's Jogo project struck me when I first saw it at 3DCamp in Dublin. She built it in a desire to explore different ways that an interactive platform could stimulate physical and social play between adults and children, instead of through the screens of video games. She is coming along and bringing Jogo with her to talk about the process behind it, and how it works.
Dave McKeown from robots.ie spoke twice at Ignite Dublin. He is passionate about exploring the human sense of achievement that comes from creating and making things. He is coming to talk, and he is bringing super cool solar powered robot kits with him, for 10 lucky folk to piece together in the true spirit of people coming together to make things. Make night by day.
If that wasn't enough, after all that there will be an art performance by local artists and a poetry smack down to top off the evenings events.
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It's a dilemma: How do we choose our food and balance the demands of our palate against the reality of our checkbook? Should lowest possible price always be the yardstick by which we measure value? Does it matter where our food is raised or how far it has traveled to get to our plates? Is it important to us that we eat food that is seasonal versus exotic foods from faraway places? How about comfort, ease, efficiency, and economy? How do we balance these considerations against what we know to be healthy, wholesome, and sustainable practices?
And whose pocket do you want your food money to go into? Giant corporations that probably could get along just fine without your dollars, or local farmers whose livelihood very much depends on selling to the same community in which the food was raised?
Then there's the freshness factor: the farther away something is grown, the longer time it will have spent being transported. A cross-country trek on the back of an 18-wheeler or in a railway car means diminished returns on freshness. Time takes its toll on your food, in taste as well as in nutrition. What is freshness worth?
But there's good news. And it happens every Saturday morning at the Cortez Farmers Market on the corner of Main and Elm. Local farmers – people you know – get up early enough when most of us are still asleep, pick their produce, and transport it a few short miles into town where they present it to us fresh and crisp and bursting with flavor and nutrition. Out of the ground and on to your plate could be the motto of the Cortez Farmer's Market.
We're still in early summer, so the vendors are offering an abundance of early summer produce: rhubarb, snap peas, spinach, green beans, rainbow explosions of chard, herbs, a wide array of greens, scallions, even salad turnips. There is a salad green for every taste at the marketplace. Peppery arugula, spinach, mixed lettuces, soft purple and green butterhead lettuce. More substantial cooking greens such as the flat-leafed, ruffled, and curly kale and rainbow chard are also widely available; the ladies at the Garden of Weedin' alone offer seven different kale varieties.
Garlic scallions and those cheeky pink and red radishes, so delicious when they're young and tender, are offered at a few different stands. Bunches and bags of carrots are sprouting up too alongside the occasional fennel bulb. There was even a kohlrabi sighting last Saturday.
And while you're at it, dress up your table with a spray of fresh flowers. Battle Rock Farms has sprigs of yarrow, larkspur, goldenrod and mint already arranged to take home. Flowers will appear more frequently and in greater abundance at the market as summer deepens.
One of the more colorful testimonials to the official advent of summer is rhubarb, second cousin to chard and celery. Plain and sturdy like its unglamorous name, it is a short-lived vegetable that can withstand cold, even snow, but hates heat, which causes it to bolt and go to seed. Rhubarb is treated as a fruit, which makes it perfect in pies and jams, especially when paired with in-season strawberries. You can find homemade strawberry-rhubarb jam at the Wilson Farms stand and at Mammy's Jams. Shani at the Pie Maker stand will custom bake just about any pie you want, including strawberry-rhubarb topped with crusts made with organic butter and flour from the Cortez Mill. Half a dozen other stands offered both the red and green varieties raw and ready to cook up.
Rhubarb is a bit limited in its culinary scope because its tart and zingy flavor is enough to make any mouth pucker. And although biting into a raw stalk can make your whole face squinch, it can be heavenly when balanced with some sweetener.
I was looking for an easy summer rhubarb dessert recipe that didn't heat up my kitchen and came up with this variation of rhubarb sauce transformed into a bright and heat-quenching sorbet which can be ready to eat in the time it takes to freeze. You can make this recipe with or without an ice cream maker. And because rhubarb has such an intense flavor, I find it helps when balanced against something with earthy undertones. A couple pieces of dark chocolate served up next to the crazy red of the sorbet makes a successful pairing. Or try it with a fresh baked brownie.
And speaking of chocolate, a new vendor is featured this year. Rose Russell, a local gal who recently returned to the area, has opened up Coco Rose, offering organic chocolate made with organic unrefined coconut oil and raw cacao, and pure maple syrup. Packaged in lovely brown boxes festooned with flowers, it is a delightful addition to the market.
In the weeks ahead, there will be pie cherries from at least one vendor and garlic scapes from another. Baby zucchini are also about ready to make an appearance along with plenty of green beans. All healthy affordable choices.
The Parsnippet and its roving paleate will be appearing biweekly throughout the summer. It is meant to tantalize and motivate you into joining the parade of locals who love to eat and who congregate every Saturday morning in the name of homegrown food.